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

Calvert
Papers.

What a here of his when not long
since; by what Spirit moued (I know not) he writ to the L B:
that he was a faithlesse person, and not fit to be trusted;
which he licenseth the friends at Philadelphia to publish in
theire comon discourses.
The L. B. Therefore will haue a care (I hope) of his honor,
and Safety; for it very highly Concernes him, whilst some
such are soe nigh Neighbors to him; 'Tis wonderfull that soe
Loyall a person as M^r Penn accounts himselfe, should seeme to
doubt whether Delaware was vnder the English Soueraignty,
which if soe (saith our friend) then [how could the L. B. suffer
that part of his Prouince to remaine vnder a strange and for-
raigne Soveraignty to that, under which he held.] None but
a States man could haue thought of Throwing such a dan-
gerous block in his L^opps way; Howeuer the L. B. is beholding
to M^r Penn for the timely notice giuen him to prepare to
defend his honnor and secure himselfe against this dangerous
point. And soe to the twelfth.
12^ly Where M^r Penn seemes to Speake, great things; first
telling us that if Subiects loose, or be kept out of theire Rights
by a forraigne power, and that the King recouer such rights
from that forraigne power; That then they become the Kings

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by Conquest, and this accompanied with a rare example; for
saith [If any of our English Mer^ts ships be taken and Possest
but 24 howres by an Enemie, if retaken by the Crown they,
are prize] How Excellently the Comparison holds with the
Subiect matter of his paper, is worth some serious thoughts.
M^r Penn should haue reserued those strong arguments for the
Tryall; But haueing a mind to be a noble Enemie, he pro-
ceeds and says, the L. B: [Is not in the Condition of an ordi-
nary Subject] And 'tis to be feared that if friend Penn might
haue his will, he should not be long euen in such a Condition.)
[He has Regalia, Principality, and soe bound to keepe his
Dominions or else loose them, and if lost to a forreigner, and
taken by the Soueraign, the Soueraign hath the right another
Conqueror could plead]. And this M^r Penn stiles, Jus Gen-
tium. Here he appeares a great Civilian, and to haue read
that, which not any Ciuilian, perhapps, besides himselfe euer
met with. An answer therefore to all this will require some
time and it will be best to referr it to the time of hearing
before his Maj^ty and the Lords of his Maiesties, most honnor-
able Priuy Councill. It now remaines to View his 13^th Section.
13^ly Where he thus Concludes, that his Maiestie, is now
allowed the Soueraignty of all that Territory in America, once
called New Netherlands, to which the States of Holland (as
some say) neuer pretended to any. That his Maiestie hath
granted that part, Claimed by the L B:, to his Royall High-