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charity "to feed the liimgry and clothe the naked," b}^ supplying the 

 Indian nations with such necessaries as might influence them to continue 

 their friendship to the province. But even these instances proved pow- 

 erless. For, although another tax, similar to the last, was voted, no part 

 of it was appropriated to the war or relief of the Indians. As a con- 

 siderable sum had been given to Fletcher, justice demanded that the 

 services of the proprietary deputies should also be rewarded. The House, 

 therefore, directed two hundred pounds each should be given to Mark- 

 ham and Lloyd, and that the balance to be raised by the bill should 

 defray the general expenses of the government. Fletcher rejected their 

 bill, because the whole sum was not granted to their majesties, Avith a 

 request that they would appropriate it to the use of the deputies, and to 

 the defence of New York and Albany; and the house, refusing to modify 

 it, and asserting their right to appropriate their money at their pleasure, 

 was dissolved. The proprietary, whose political views were rarely ob- 

 scured by his religious principles, reprehended strongly this resolute 

 refusal; nor was he blind to the eftects which such opposition to the 

 wishes of the crown might have upon his particular interests." 



"The clouds of suspicion, Avhich had long enveloped AVilliam Penn, 

 were at length broken. He had many friends among the nobles who 

 surrounded the king, and his true character Avas at last made known to 

 William. He was heard before the privy council, and was honourably 

 acquitted; and was restored to his proprietary rights by patent, dated 

 August, 1694, in which the disorders in the province were ascribed 

 solely to his absence." 



Shortly before his re-instatement, Penn lost his Avife, Gulielma Maria, 

 in the twelfth month of the preceding year. 



Penn appointed William Markham his Lieutenant Governor of Penn- 

 sylvania and territories, on Ninth-month 24th, 1694. 



The restoration of the former government did not bring with it con- 

 tentment and a good understanding between the different branches of the 

 Legislature. Fletcher was disliked because he had innovated upon the 

 legislative forms, but the Assembly summoned by Markham, in Septem- 

 ber, 1695, was as much dissatisfied with him, although he had summoned 

 them according to forms prescribed by the charter. The great bone of 

 contention still being the subsidy to be granted to the King. Penn's 

 letter shows that he disapproved of their conduct. Markham presented 

 to the Assembly a new act of settlement, which was readily agreed to, 

 but not finally adopted until the following year, because the Governor, 

 no doubt on account of their obstinancy in refusing to pass the subsidy 

 act, unexpectedly dissolved the assembly. The next legislature was 

 more complying, perhaps because the Governor after the example of 

 Fletcher, and conformably to the new form of government, summoned a 



