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UN-PUBLISHED LETTEES OF WILLIAM PENK 

 By EEV. E. H. MUEEAY, Litt.D. 



Kend June 26. Published August 10, 1916. 



Through the kindness of Mr. Neale, of Dublin, I have been able to secure 

 copies of the following unpublished letters of William Penn. The first is 

 unsigned but addressed, while the second is signed but unaddressed. They 

 were written after the final return of the great Quaker to England, and 

 deal, inter alia, with his financial embarrassments. The colonies had no 

 proper defensive force, and the establishment of such a force occupied the 

 attention of the province of Pennsylvania. The agent of Penn, James Logan, 

 became involved in the interminable disputes between the province and the 

 territories. Governor John Evans, to whom the first letter is addressed, took 

 an active part in these local squabbles. One matter of importance was the 

 proposal to convert Pennsylvania and the territories into Crown colonies. In 

 1701 a bill had been introduced into Parliament with this very purpose in 

 view. The " D. L." of the letters is David Lloyd, a leading Quaker lawyer. 

 There were serious personal differences between him and Penn. So long as 

 the latter remained in the colony he found he was able, on the whole, to beat 

 Lloyd: the election of 1700 is a case in point. Colonel Quarry proposed 

 the impeachment of Lloyd, but the Council voted only to suspend him. Penn 

 was to find out the difficulty of defeating a rival, especially when the rival 

 was on the spot, and he was living in the suburbs of London. 



London, 30.7.1705. 

 Coll. Evans & 



Esteemed Frd. 



Thy last was of the 5th month last, in hast, so short, chiefly intimating the 

 hasty coming over of Coll. Quarry. I hope he has no commission from our 

 ungrateful crew on that side of the water, the unwearied tronbler of our poor 

 Israel, and here are our Pennsylvania Company and Lumbys that await upon 

 him, and I fancy next Coll. Nicholsons and perhaps Ld. Corn.' affaires, those Law 

 Suits may go a good way to engage him upon this Voyage : However I hope the 



' This is Loid Cornbury (1638-1709), afterwards second Earl of Clarendon. 



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