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and Instructions needfull for the negotiation, to them you may

please to give all faith and Credence, and I hope will afford
them what necessary furtherance aid and Assistance in the
prosecution thereof they may reasonably request and to you
may seeme expedient for the future Safeguard and Security
of all his Maj^ties Subjects within this Province and our neigh-
bouring Collony of Virginia, in procureing for us and our
Provinciall and ffriend Indians a firm and lasting peace with all
the severall nations of Northern Indians in league with you
according to such propositions and Tearmes as shall by our
Agents be offered and made in pursuance to their s^d Commis-
sion and instructions, in all which shall not onely acknowledge
the Obligation, but also assure you and the Governm^t thereof
the like kind Civill neighbourly and Christian treatem^t on all
occasions Offered to and within the power of
To the hon^ble Cap^t Anthony S^r
Brockholls Comand^r in Your humble Serv^tt
Chiefe or other Commander C: Baltemore
in Chiefe for the tyme being at
New York
Present

The foregoeing Commission and Instructions Letter of
Creditt and Letter to the Governo^r of New Yorke together
with the Originalls of the last peace made at Albany by Coll
Coursey with the Northern Indians were all delivered into the
hands of Coll Lloyd at Mattapony Sewall the 15^th Day of May
1682:

Charles Absolute Lord and Prop^ry of the Provinces of
Maryland & Avalon Lord Baron of Baltemore &c^a
To all persons to whom these presents shall come greeteing
in our Lord God Everlasting. Whereas his Sacred Maj^tie our
dread Sovraigne the King of England &c^a hath by his Letters
Pattents lately granted unto William Penn Esq^r a certain tract
of Land in these parts of America by the name of Pensilvania
to beginn and take its Originall or first Departure from the
ffourtieth Degree of Northern Latitude the bounds and con-
fines of this our Province of Maryland, And whereas his said
Maj^tie at the humble suite & request of the said William Penn
hath vouchsafed to write unto us. Requiring us by our Self
or our Sufficient constitutes to joine with some others Autho-
rised by the said William Penn in the due observing and
ascertaineing the said ffourtieth Degree of Northern Latitude
to the end that the s^d William Penn might be the better
Enabled to know and Distinguish the true precincts, meetes
and bounds of the part or Province Assigned him and granted