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    expectest my letter besides thou shalt have it. But to be very B. M.

    plain I doe expect another sort of correspondence, and tht Vol. zj.

    those which have been the Instruments of raising this smoake

    agst my Province will quench tht fire which feeds it, or I must

    fling away my scabbard and openly detect and impeach too, and

    I neither fear my matter nor my interest to back it. For that

    a man and his Family and his Friends should be smothered in

    a Dust malice has raised and aggravated only to dispossess

    us (as I am able to prove) by the parties concerned in the

    plot, is scandalous to all tht love truth more than trick. And

    I expect if we are to live good Friends, tht Thou wilt here, as

    well as there, do thy utmost to lay these things before thou

    goest; which, as it will shew a reality, will oblige one tht

    dares be just to Friendship and tht on these terms will shew

    himself thy assured friend

                        Will Pen.

      I intend to write again before thou goest.

      To Edward Randolph Esq. at the Custom House, London.

    The Original of this Copy I left in the hands or Mr Henley

    Commissioner of the Customs.     E. Randolph.

        [Signed] True Copy, Fr. Nicholson.

      Mem: after I had attended Sir Thomas Trever the Atturney

    Genll where were by his Order also attending Mr Pen, Col.

    Winthrop, Mr Basse, in behalfe of themselves and other the

    proprietors about his Majestys appointing Atturneys Genll in

    the several proprietorys, Mr Pen and Col. Winthrop came to

    me on the 19th of October 1696 not far from the Atturneys

    Chamber and told me the Act for preventing Frauds &c. was

    made to ensnare honest people.

       That he had the Regalia, & did not value the Act. 20th of

    of October, Col. Winthrop told me the introducing tht Act

    was a barbarous thing.           E. Randolph.

     Annapolis. January i8. 1697

    True copy,

        [Signed] Fr. Nicholson.

       [Endorsed by Nicholson:] Pensilvania. Copys of Mr

    Randolph's letters.

              [Wm. Penn to Gov. Nicholson]

                             Warminghurst, 22 9ber, 97

    Col. Nicholson,

       I am sorry tht any man tht values himself upon his character,

    should so much forget it as to act an unneighbourly part,