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uania, and from those obseruations the quakers found they
should not only be shutt out of Chesepeake Bay, but that the
riuer of Delaware would be taken in as high as Skullkill, if
not higher, with the degree of 40 North Lattitude. Vpon
this knowledge of theires, Captⁿ Markham was aduized to be
out of the way the first and second time, and vpon noe acc^t
whatsoeuer to come to any Determination about the bounds ;
Vntill Prop^r Penn could be acquainted with the great mistake
they had layne vnder soe Long, and that he could send in his
further orders about it; This was the returne made to his
Maj^tie for that gracious Letter writ in M^r Penn's fauor, which
Markham brought, and which M^r Penn soe Earnestly prest to
be complyed with. But it not serueing M^r Penns purpose
and designe, Little regard was had to it; And then M^r Penn
vpon misinformacon to some Lords of his Majestys most
honn^ble Priuy Councell procures a Letter from his Maiestie for
an admeasurement of two degrees, as if the L B'^s charter gaue
him onely two degrees. .But M^r Penn was soe modest as not to
insist long upon the two degrees; Tho' still he is for an
admeasurement, in Case the L B: refuses him Susquehanno
Riuer upon Gentile termes. This is the true account why
neither M^r Penns agents, nor himselfe thought fitt to giue
obedience to his Mai^ties Comands in the letter of the 2^d of
Aprill 1681; And soe the L. B. was forc't to act alone, which
his L^opp is sure he can Answer; what others can doe upon the
score of the great and Costly merits they boast of, he knows
not, and now to the Sixth Section.
6^thly Wherein Prop^r Penn declares [Tis hard for. him to
say his Comiss" refus'd to Comply with the said Letter, since
the Chiefest of them brought in his fauor]. Here is some
Modesty, and truth together; Tis hard, I Confesse, for M^r
Penn to own it, for the reason he giues; and yet he will be
brought to owne his Comiss^rs refuseall; and theire rudeness
to the L. B, when such Lett^rs as his L^opp has to produce, are
laid afore his Maiestie in Councill; But he goes on with more
Resolution, and tells us [The truth is, if they say true, and
circumstances fauor them, the thing is improbable, for the
L: B. would haue had them agreed to take an observation
upon the Riuer Delaware]. It is confest, That when the L: B:
was forc' t to goe up as high as Vpland to meete with Mark-
ham, he moued to haue an obseruation taken there; His L^opp
inform'd, that Robert Wades Plantation lay in 40 Degrees,
and one minute; but the thing was not soe much prest, or if it
had bin prest, and that an obseruation had bin taken, how
would that haue bin, as our friend tells us, a Violation of the
Kings Letter; for as I take it, his Majesties Letter Cofnands
to make a true diuision, and Seperation of the Prouince of

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