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Skullkill at Delaware, not particularly to the west side of it ;
And there to make his demand, his Comission leauing him at
liberty to goe to which side he found an East line would Carry
him; The L; B concludeing, that Coll Talbot might meete with
Gouernor Penn somewhat neere that part; soe that Crossing
the Skullkill was not Contrary to Comission.
4^thly Prop^r Penn tells us he was absent when that Comiss
came, that he [neuer did nor neuer will Conlissionate any
Deputy to treate and Conclude away his Inheritance: without
his Particular direction, and Comand; Tho If I were to goe
for England (he most profoundly adds) I would not disowne
the Lawes he should make in my absence for Publick good,
when I came back.] Here is a notable reflection, as M^r Penn
Conceives, on the L: B: but in his seauenth Section he has
made it a Reflection with much truth on himselfe, as shall be
obserued when we come to that Section, and now we will
proceed to his fifth.
5^thly Where he takes notice Coll Talbott was directed by
his Comission to make the Demand according to a Line runn
in obedience to his Majesties Cofnands in a Letter of the 2^d of
Aprill 1681 [But I Say] (marke well here M^r Penn's words)
That noe line is yet runn in obedience to his Maj^ties comands
for (he goes on) The Letter Expressely Saith, that the L: B: or
his Agents shall together with my Agents agree the Lattitude,
and then run the Line, and bound the Prouinces accordingly,
which is not yet done for (saith he) Those obseruations and

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the Line runn by them are performd by the L: B: and his
Agents onely and therefore not according to his Maj^ties
Cofnand in the Letter of the 2^d of Aprill.] What an obliga-
tion doth the L: B: Lye under for M^r Penns kindnesse in own-
ing vnder his hand, that the L. B. did in obedience to his
Maiestys Comands, exprest in the above Letter, Act and per-
forme his part when others stood out in contempt of the same
Comands: Now if M^r Penn would be soe Ingenuous as to
Lett the world know why he has Approued of his Agents not
loineing with those appointed by the L: B: according to those
comands in his Maiesties said Letter, (M^r Penn being as
deeply Concerned therein as the L: B:; it being chiefely in his
fauor granted, and by a letter from M^r Penn to the L: B: of
the 10^th of the second month, Aprill 1681, the L: B: being also
prest by him that his Maiesties Cofnands in the Letter of the
2^d Aprill might be speedily Executed (Viz^t) That the L. B.
would giue his Cosen and Deputy all the dispatch possible in
the buisnes of the Bounds] I say would Prop^r Penn be soe
much a Gentleman, and a Professor of the truth, and Satisfie
us why his Agents durst presume to slight and Contemn
those positiue comands of his Maiesties, as alsoe why they

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