162 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1681-85/6.

Calvert
Papers.

soe that my L B: was at that time, Vnder great disaduantages,
and therefore not fitting (himselfe being ill) to giue answer
readily in writeing to what M^r Penn with the well bred Gen-
tlemen of his Councill might in theire deepe Wisedoms haue
drawne vp. His L^opp howeuer assured his friend Penn; That
if he and his Councill would draw vp any thing in writeing, to
which his answer might be Expected, he would stay soe long
at New Castle, and at his returne to the head of the Bay, after
a day or Twos rest, he would send his Answer; Vpon this M^r
Penn went to write, and the L B. waited neere an houre in the
hott sun for the memoriall; but after all that stay, M^r Penn
had thought of little; for he came out, and told the L. B: he
had not time then, but would send a paper after him, and that
paper appeared afterwards to be only a Letter, which he sent
by Major Peeter Sawyer, wherein he vrged the L B: to accept
of the proposealls he had made at New Castle (Viz) to sett a
Gentleman's price at soe much a mile for what land an obser-
uation might giue the L. B: on Susquehanna Riuer; otherwise

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he would Imediately goe for England; Especially If the L. B.
should think of Claimeing any Lands on Delaware Riuer This
is the Truth, and whole Truth of that pretended great matter
for Memorials [To be sent Vnder our hands &^c]. In the
same Section M^r Penn saith thus [nor doth it Looke Very Just
to make the Caution or neglect of an Agent in the Absence of
his Principall a reason to proceed against his Principall, when
present] The great Contempt, and Slight shewne by Captⁿ
Markham to his Maj^ties Letter of the 2^d of Aprill is here men-
tioned by the soft Expressions of [Caution and neglect] By
the word Caution It may be vnderstood there were some
priuate Instructions giuen by M^r Penn to his Cosen Markham ;
that in Case at his Arriueall at Delaware it should appeare to
him, by priuate obseruations, that the 40^th degree Northerly
Lattitude did not take into Pensiluania the head of Chesepeake
Bay, as M^r Penn had bin informed it would, and as he still
Endeauors right or wrong, to gett from the L B; Then his
Majesties Letter of the 2^d of Aprill was to be throwne by, as
a thing vselesse. And there is some what more, that seemes
to Confirme this, ffor not long since Coll George Talbot
hapened to haue some discourse with M^r Penn about the
Comission Captⁿ Markham brought with him. Coll Talbott
being told by M^r Penn that the L B: tooke aduantage of his
Agents proceedings, in his Absence, which he said, was not
faire, without Enquireing further into his Instructions, wherein
the L B might be better Satisfied what his Agents could doe
and what not. This seeming to Coll Talbott some what
strange, and odd; he presumed to ask M^r Penn whether
Captⁿ Markhams Comission was Plenipotentiary, or not; and