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The Capital and the Bay: Narratives of Washington and the Chesapeake Bay Region, ca. 1600-1925
The Calvert papers, Vol INo. 18. WILLIAM PENN TO CHARLES, LORD BALTIMORE.
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[Indorsement.]
Wm Pens Letter to my Lord
Baltemore of the 10th of Aprill
1681
[Superscription.]
For my Honord
Freind the Lord
Baltimore
Govr & Proprtr of Maryland
Westminster 10th 2mo Ap. 1681--
It haueing graciously pleas'd the King vpon divers good considerations to make me a neighbour to Mary-land, I thought it necessary to make some offer of Freindship, & give a fitt rise for a future good correspondence. I omitt the Perticulers of my pretentions, they are so kindly & amply exprest in the Kings letter & to a man of good sense, 'tis enough to be once told of the matter.
The Bearer is a Gentleman & my Kinsman, to whom I haue left the manage of my affaires; as his integrety will insist vpon my right, his prudence & experience will always guide him from an indecent thing. I only begg one thing 'tis short but the text of all tht can be said, do to me as thou wouldest be done to. I am a strainger in the affaires of the Country, he can haue little light from me, I do so much depend vpon the influence & prevalence The Kings goodness will haue vpon thee, tht I omitt to be any further solicitous, belieueing tht a great & prudent man, will always act wth caution & obedience to the mind of his Prince; so tht this
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lettr was rather to be civil, then to pass so ill a complemt vpon the Lord Baltimore, or the Kings letter, as to think it could giue any aide to the one, or light to the other.
I shall conclude wth this request that It would please thee to giue my Cousen & Deputy all the dispatch possible in the business of the bounds tht obserueing our just limitts in tht & all other things we may begin & mantaine our Just & freindly intercourse wch I do here promess to endeavour & obserue on my part wth all the truth & care Imaginable; & whateuer favours he receiues, I shall place to my account; & perhaps there are many ways by wch I may discharge them, wch may giue the Lord Baltimore reason to belieue I do not undeserue the usage & quality of his
Very true Freind
My Respects to thy lady WM Penn.
My Kinsmans name is William Markham.
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