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where I hope to be the latter end of May Next; and shall then
cleere all things soe as may fully Satisfie the Lords of his
maiesties most Honorable Privy Councill of my Right to
Delaware; that part I mean w^ch Lyeth in the Southward of the
degree of forty Northerly Lattitude And if my unkind Neigh-
bor William Penn, or his Agents are able to make out, that
there were Dutch seated at Delaware afore my Pattent for
Maryland was granted (w^ch will be some what hard to prove)
I will then make it plainely appeare that such Dutch were
usurpers and were utterly disowned by the States of Holland;
of this I have undeniable testimonies such as M^r Penn will not
with stand and possibly then I shall be able to produce some-
thing under Penns hand to the same purpose S^r I am soe
well armed and provided with proofes of this kind that I only
begg a personall hearing and that you will become a Sollicitor
for me therein is the favour and kindness I beg at your hands;
which I will gratefully owne as becomes one that already is
Good S^r
Coppy Y^r faithfull and
obliged Ser^vt
C Baltemore
(Endorsed)
7 Decemb 1683.
From my L^d Baltemore concerning
M^r Penn
Rec^d 16 Feb
1683/4
[Addressed] For M^r William Blathwait
att
White Hall

[Baltemore to Sir Lionell Jenkins.]

Honored S^r
I know it is to great a boldness I take in giving you the
trouble so often as I doe with my Letters, which I should not
presume to doe did not a very great Concerne of mine lye
afore the Councill of which you are; It is S^r about a grant which
I am assured my ill neighbor, William Penn is endeavouring
by his Agents in England to gett past the great Seale of noe
lesse then one third of my Province; I meane that part which
lyeth to the Eastward of Chesapeake bay and is on Delaware
river to the Southward of 40^th degree Northerly Latitude,
which he pretends was Seated by some Dutch afore my
Pattent for Maryland was granted, which Neither he nor his
agents are as yet able to prove and when ever they doe it will
Signifie little to my preiudice for I will sufficiently make it evi-
dent that if any Dutch were there at that time seated, they

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