452 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1684-89.

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with such orders and Instructions as they have or shall from
time to time receive from the said Comm^rs Given at our
Court at Windsor the 10^th day of August 1685. in the first year
of our reign.
By His Majesty's Command
Sunderland.

To the Lords of Plantation
the humble Petition of
Will^m Penn.
Sheweth,
That your Petitioner have long waited the decision of the
difference depending before you between the Lord Baltemore
and your Petitioner about a Tract of Land in America, he re-
ceived of the present King when Duke.
He humbly prays for a short day for the hearing and issuing
the said difference, and if the Lords please, that it may be this
day se'night.
And your Petitioner shall pray etc.

Petition of Will^m Penn.
Read 18^th August 1685.

To the King's Majesty

The Petition of Will^m Penn, with all
humility.
Sheweth,
That his Petitioner hath long waited to his great detriment,
the decision of the matters in difference between the Lord
Baltemore and himselfe, under the King's name and gracious
protection about the bounds of the Lands which he received
from the King when Duke, and though he has been referred
to the issue of the Quo-warranto upon the L^d Baltemore's
Patent, yet since this stay is of the greatest prejudice to his
Majesty's Province and a ruin to his Petitioner, and his family,
as he is ready to evince, and that it is about a Title of Land
and not of Powr, and so not the Question the Quo-warranto
goes upon, for that dispute would remain tho' the King's suit
about Powr, were issued.
His Pet^r most humbly prays his Case may be recommended
to the Lords of Plantations, and a short day sett to hear and
determine the business, and his Pet^r shall
Ever heartily pray
W^m Penn.
Petition of M^r Penn.
Rec^d from the Earl of Midleton
18^th August 1685.
Read the same day.