AUTHENTIC HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY. 



neglect, permitted by the said William Penn^ his heirs or assigns, against 

 the laws of trade and navigation ; and after it shall be ascertained, in any 

 of our courts, what damages we, or our heirs, or successors, shall have 

 sustained by such default, or neglect, the said William Penn^ his heirs, 

 or assigns, shall pay the same within one year, after such taxation, and 

 demand thereof from such attorney; or in case there shall be no such 

 attorney by the space of one year, or such attorney shall not make pay- 

 ment of such damages, within the space of a year, and answer such other 

 forfeitures and penalties, within the said time, as by acts of Parliament, 

 in England,! are and shall be provided according to the true intent and 

 meaning of these presents; then it shall be lawful for us, our heirs and 

 successors, to seize and resume the government of the said province or 

 country, and the same to retain, until payment shall be made thereof: 

 but notwithstanding any such seizure, or resumption of the government, 

 nothing concerning the propriety, or ownership, of any lands, tenements, 

 or other hereditaments, goods or chattels of any of the adventurers, 

 planters or owners, other than the respective offenders there, shall any 

 ways be affected or molested thereby. 



SECTION XV. 



"Provided always, and our will and pleasure is, that neither the said 

 William Penn^i nor his heirs, nor any other, the inhabitants of the said 

 province, shall, at any time hereafter, have or maintain, any correspond- 

 ence with any other king, prince or state, or with any of their subjects, 

 who shall then be in war against us, our heirs and successors ; nor shall 

 the said William Penn^ or his heirs or any other inhabitants of the said 

 province, make war, or do any act of hostility against any other king, 

 prince, or ^state, or any of their subjects, who shall then be in league or 

 amity with us, our heirs and successors. 



SECTION XVI. 



"And because, in so remote a country, and situate near many barbar- 

 ous nations, the incursions as well of the savages themselves, as of other 

 enemies, pirates and robbers, may probably be feared ; Therefore, we 

 have given, and, for us, our heirs and successors, do give power, by these 

 presents, to the said William Pen^i, his heirs and assigns, by themselves, 

 or their captains, or other their officers, to levy, muster and train all 

 sorts of men, of what condition soever, or wheresoever born, in the said 

 Province of Pennsylvania.! for the time being, and to make war, and to 

 pursue the enemies and robbers aforesaid, as well by sea as by land, 

 even, without the limits of the said province, and, by God's assistance, to 

 vanquish and take them; and being taken, to put them to death, by the 

 law of war, or to save them ; at their pleasure, and to do all and every 

 other thing, which unto the charge and office of a captain general of an 



