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u declaration, sliowing Penii's title, and such other requisites as were 

 thought most likely to pi-event such illegal proceedings in future.^ 



The important interests involved in this controversy and other weighty 

 matters requiring Penn's presence in England, he provided for the admin- 

 istration of the government. The executive power was lodged with the 

 Provincial Council, of which Thomas Lloyd, a Quaker from Wales, was 

 made president — to whom the charge of the great seal was specially com- 

 mitted. }k[arkhani was created secretary of the province and the territo- 

 ries; Thomas Holmes, suryeyor general; Thomas Lloyd, James Clay- 

 poole, and Robert Turner, commissioners of the land office ; and Nicholas 

 Moore, William Welsh, William Wood, Robert Turner, and John Eck- 

 ley, provincial judges for two years. The proprietary sailed for Europe 

 on the 12th of June. 



At his departure, the province and territories were divided into twenty- 

 two townships, containing seven thousand inhabitants, of whom two thou- 

 sand five hundred resided in Philadelphia, which comprised already 

 three hundred houses.^ 



From Penn's farewell letter to his colony, written on board the Ketch 

 Endeavour, avc make the following extract, which Avill be read not with- 

 out emotion: 



^'^ Dear Friends: My love and life is to 3'ou, and with 3'ou; and no 

 water can quench it, nor distance wear it out, or bring it to end : I 

 liave been with you, cared over you, and served you with unfeigned love ; 

 and you are beloved of me, and near to me, beyond utterance. I bless 

 you, in the name and power of the Lord; and my God bless 3'Ou with his 

 righteousness, peace and plenty, all the land over. Oh, that you would 

 eye him, in all, through all, and above all the works of 3^our hands ; and 

 let it be your first care how you may glorify God in your undertakings : 

 for to a blessed end are you brought hither; and if you see and keep but 

 in the sense of that Providence, your coming, staying and improving will 

 be sanctified; hut if any forget Ood^ and call not n2Jon his navie, in truth, 

 he ivill 2>our out his plagues upon theui and they shall hnoiv tcho it is that 

 judgeth the children of men And, thou, Philadel- 

 phia, the virgin settlement of this province, named before thou wert 

 born, what love, what care, what service, and what travail has there been 

 to bring thee forth, and preserve thee from such as would abuse and 

 defile thee ! 



"Oh, that thou mayst be kept from the evil that Avould overwhelm 

 thee ; that, faithful to the God of thy mercies, in the life of righteousness, 

 thou mayst be preserved to the end. :My soul prays to God for thee, 

 that thou mayst stand in the day of tryal, that thy children may be 

 blessed of the Lord, and thy people saved by his power; my love to 

 1 Proud. 2 Proud. Gordon. 



