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shewed that Vnkindnesse, and rudenes to the L: B: Comis-
sioners first, and him afterwards (who were ready at the times
and places appointed to have agreed the Lattitude, and run
the Line together with Prop^r Penns agents, as was required of
M^r Penn as well as the L: B by that letter of the 2^d of Aprill)
M^r Penn would then performe Suitable to the great Profes-
sions of the truth, which he pre.tendeth to preach to his
friends: But it is to be feared he will not think fitt to declare
truly upon this point; Therefore I shall be forc't, for once, to
hold forth, and plainely declare the reasons why M^r Penns
Agents did not give that obedience to his Majesties Comands,
as the T. R rlid; And in this T will he as shnrf as T can. When

Prop^r Penn was sending ouer that Gentleman his Cosen Captⁿ
William Markham, to be his Deputy in Pensiluania, it was
Confidently reported by the Quakers in England, as well as
those here, that the 40^th degree Northerly Lattitude would
reach as Low as Pooles Island in the Bay of Chesepeake, and
that there would fall soe much of the said Bay into Pensiluania.
Prop^r Penn haueing bin for some time flattered with the
hopes and Expectations of this (being a person uery suscep-
tible of such truths, and readily beleeuing any thing tending to
his aduantage) dispatches away his Cosen to his Territory newly
granted him: who arriueing some time in July 1681 at
Delaware came August following with Letters to the L: B:
(Viz.) one from his most sacred Maiestie being that soe often
already mentioned, and another from M^r Penn. That from his
Maiestie Comanding the L. B. first to aid and assist the Depu-
ties of M^r Penn in a friendly manner, and to doe them all the
offices of good Neighborhood, and amicable Correspondence,
tending to the mutual benefit of his Maj^ties Subiects in both
these Provinces; which the L. B: to his Power, Endeavored to
doe, His Majestic further comanding the L. B: to appoint
with all Conuenient speed some persons, who might in Con-
junction with the Agents of Prop' Penn make a true diuision
and Separation of the Provinces of Maryland, and Pensiluania
according to the bounds, and degree of Northerly Lattitude
Exprest in his Maiesties Letters Pattents But M^r Penn fear-
ing the Kings Letter might not quicken the L: B: enough to
a Speedy Compliance in the buisnes of the bounds (which at
that time he Couetted to have determined, being confident of
takeing in a Considerable part of Chesepeake Bay as is aboue
mentioned) in his Letter of the 10^th 2ⁿ in our English Aprill,
He writes to the L. B. Thus [The Bearer is a Gentleman, and
my Kinsman to whome I haue left the Mannage of my
affaires] and in another part Thus [I only begg one thing, 'tis

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short But the text of all that can be said, doe to me, as thou
wouldest be done to, I am a Stranger in the affaires of the