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Cause Lines to be run & Boundaries to be marked by Persons Ap-
pointed by themselves without the knowledge of the Lord Baltimore
or any Body concerned in the management of his Affairs & gave
out that they would maintain the Limits made & Boundaries so
marked at all events This Conduct may it please your Majesty
Occasioned new Incroachments which were supported by Force and
Violence such as the Imprisonment & ruin of some of your Majestys
Subjects who had the Misfortune of Selling on the northern parts
of Maryland bordering on Pennsylvania to the great Terror of such
others who had the good Fortune to escape such severities to prevent
which Violences and to secure the Peace and Property of your
Majestys Subjects until the Bounds of the two Provinces could be
settled so as to end all disputes Concerning them this Government
offered to Joyn with the Government of Pennsilvania in an humble
Address to your Majesty for the fixing Our Limits and determining

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Lib. No. 33

our Differences and to prohibit any Person from Settling & inchroach-
ing in the mean time further to the northward or Southward of
the then respective Settlements in each Province but the Government
of Pennsylvania was not pleased to concurr in such measures which
must have Greatly added to the happiness of all & saved the Lives
of some of your Majestys Subjects
Then may it please your Majesty the Lord Proprietary of this
Province became apprehensive of the Consequences of such Un-
willingness in the Government of Pennsylvania to that Peace and
Good will which your Majesty so Gloriously defends and preserves
to your Subjects and most justly respects & Comm^ds should be
Observed amongst them and in Compliance with his Duty to your
Majesty in the Safety and Preservation of us your Majestys Sub-
jects under his Government as well as in maintenance of his own
right and Property his Lordship our Lord Proprietary did by his
most humble petition to your Majesty set forth his Title to this
Province under the said Charter and for the Reasons in the said
Petition mentioned his Lordship most humbly prayed your Majestys
further Charter or Letters Pattent to Confirm the whole of the Tract
of Land called a Peninsula in the said Charter to his Lordship which
petition your Majesty was most Graciously pleased to refer to
the Consideration of your Majestys Lords Commissioners for Trade
& Plantations upon which their Lordships having made their Report
to your Majesty your Majesty was most Graciously pleased to refer
the same to the right Honble the Lords of Committee of Council for
Plantation affairs and their Lordships were pleased to report to
your Majesty that your Maj^y having been pleased to refer unto that
Committee a Report made by the Lords Commissioners for trade
and Plantations upon the Petition of Charles Lord Baltimore pray-
ing for a Grant of Confirmation of such Part of a Peninsula in
America as is Contained within the Limits of the Charter granted

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