OF LANCASTER COUNTY. 45 



*' This great God liatli written his law in our hearts, by which avc are 

 taught and commanded to love and help, and do good to one another. 

 Now this great God hath been pleased to make me concerned in your 

 part of the world ; and the King of the country where I live, hath given 

 me a great province therein ; but I desire to enjoy it icitli your love and 

 consent ; that we may always live together, as neighbors and friends; 

 else what would the great God do to us, who hath made us, not to devour 

 and destroy one another, but to live soberly and kindly together, in the 

 world? now I would have you well observe, that I am very sensible of 

 the unkindness and injustice that have been too much exercised towards 

 you, by the people of these parts of the world; who have sought them- 

 selves, and to make great advantages by you, rather than to be examples 

 of goodness and patience unto you; which I hear hath been a matter of 

 trouble to you, and caused great grudging and animosities, sometimes to 

 the shedding of blood ; Avhich hath made the great God angry. But I 

 am not such a man ; as is well known in my own country. I have great 

 love and regard towards you ; and desire to win and gain your love and 

 friendship, by a kind, just and peaceable life ; and the people I send are 

 of the same mind, and shall, in all things, behave themselves accord- 

 ingly; and, if in anything any shall offend you, or your people, you 

 shall have a full and speedy satisfaction for the same, by an equal num- 

 ber of just men, on both sides; that by no means you inay have just 

 occasion of being offended against them. 



"I shall shortly come to you myself; at which time we may more 

 largely and freely confer and discourse of these matters ; in the mean- 

 time I have sent ni}'- commissioners to treat with you about land, and a 

 firm league of peace '; let me desire you to be kind to them, and the 

 people, and receive these 'jj^'^sents and tokens Avhich I have sent you, as a 

 testimony of my good will to you, and my resolution to live justly, 

 peaceably and friendly with you. 



"I am your loving friend, 



William Penn. 



- •' In the beginning of the year 1(382 William. Penn published his frame 

 of government, and certain laws, agreed on in England by himself and 

 the purchasers under him, entitled ' The frame of the government of the 

 Province of Pennsylvania^ in America; together zuith certain laws, agreed 

 upon in England by the Governor, and divers freemen of the aforesaid j^ro- 

 vince. To he further explained and confirmed there, by the first Provincial 

 Council that sliall beheld, if they see Tneet^ Y^hioh. frame, &c. may be 

 seen in Division X, No. 3. 



"South of the province lay the territories or counties on Delaware, 

 stretching one hundred and fifty miles along the bay, to the Atlantic 

 ocean. The possessor of this country, commanding the entrance and 



