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Countrey, he can haue Little Light from me; I doe soe much
depend vpon the Influence, and preualence the Kings Good-
ness will haue vpon thee, that I omitt to be any further Soli-
cituos; Beleeueing that a great, and prudent man will alwaies
act with caution and obedience to the mind of his Prince] By
this part of the said Letter the L: B has a rule giuen him ;
Being the Golden rule; Though not Current in Pensiluania;
He is Likewise told the Danger if he should not Comply with
those Comands of his Maiestie, aduiseing him to [Act with
caution and obedience to the mind of his Prince.] Though
he and his Agents resolued to Slight and Reiect the Kings
fauour therein; and in the close of the said Letter Thus
[I conclude with this request, that it would please thee to giue
my Cosen and Deputy all the dispatch possible in the buisnes
of the Bounds]; Giveing the L B: to Vnderstand there were
many waies by w^ch he was able to serue him. The reason of
reciteing soe much of his Maiesties Letter, As also of M^r
Penns deliuered the same time to the L B:, is to Satisfie how
positiue the Kings Comands for the speedy Determineing the
buisnes of the bounds were in the first; And how pressing
the said Penn was in the Latter; Being then Confident to
gaine one third of Chesepeake Bay by the degree of 40 North-
erly Lattitude. As his Maj^ties said Letter was receiued by the
L: B. with all respect, reuerence, and regard imaginable, soe
was that other Letter from M^r Penn with all the Satisfacon
Capt. William Markham, or M^r Penn himselfe (had he bin
present) could desire; ffor since it had pleased the King to
make M^r Penn a Prop^r, and a neighbor to Maryland, The L B
concluded there could not be that faire Corespondence, as was
Comanded by his Maiestie, and by the L: B: intended, betwixt
his Maj^ties Subiects of the two Prouinces, Vntill there was a
Diuision, and Separation by the Line of 40 Northerly Lattitude,
as his Maiestie required. In order hereunto the L. B. and
Captⁿ William Markham agreed, that the 16^th of October follow-
ing should be the time of meeting to agree the Lattitude, and
run out the Diuisionall line; But Captⁿ Markham Relapsing
into a fitt of Sicknes he had bin afflicted with at the L: B^s
house, it was deferr'd till the 26^th of the same month; And
then other affaires, and Capt Markhams Continued Indisposi-
tion occasioned the delaying the buisnes of the bounds till the
Spring; afore which time Came M^r William Haige, an officer
of M^r Penns, to the L. B. house, and desired the Bounds
might be agreed, and determined, to which the L: B.answerd,
that Captⁿ Markham's Sicknesse had till then hindered it.
Shortly after the L B. writ to Markham; acquainting him,

that precisely the 10^th of June next following, there should be

Comiss^rs to attend at the head of Chesepeake Bay, there to

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