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A54104 A brief account of the province of Pennsylvania, lately granted by the King, under the great seal of England to William Penn and his heirs and assigns Penn, William, 1644-1718. 1681 (1681) Wing P1255; ESTC R18857 7,574 11

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A brief Account of the Province of Pennsylvania Lately Granted by the KING Under the GREAT Seal of England TO WILLIAM PENN AND HIS Heirs and Assigns SInce by the good Providence of God and the Favour of the King a Country in America is fallen to my Lot I thought it not less my Duty then my Honest Interest to give some publick notice of it to the World that those of our own or other Nations that are inclin'd to Transport Themselves or Families beyond the Seas may find another Country added to their Choice that if they shall happen to like the Place Conditions and Government so far as the present Infancy of things will allow us any prospect they may if they please fix with me in the Province hereafter described I. The KING'S Title to this Country before he granted it It is the Jus Gentium or Law of Nations that what ever Waste or unculted Country is the Discovery of any Prince it is the right of that Prince that was at the Charge of the Discovery Now this Province is a Member of that part of America which the King of Englands Ancestors have been at the Charge of Discovering and which they and he have taken great care to preserve and Improve A Map of Some of the South and east bounds of PENNSYLVANIA in America being par●ly Inhabited Sold by John Thornton at the Signe of England Scotland and Ireland in the Minories and by John Setler at his Shop in Popes head Alley in Cornhill LONDON II. William Penn's Title from the KING An Abstract of the Patent GRANTED BY THE KING To VVilliam Penn. c. The Fourth of March 1681. I. VVE do Give and Grant upon divers considerations to William Penn his Heirs and Assigns for ever all that Tract of Land in America with all Islands thereunto belonging That is to say from the beginning of the fortieth degree of North Latitude unto the forty third Degree of North Latitude whose Eastern bounds from Twelve English Miles above New-Castle alias Delaware Town runs all along upon the side of Delaware River II. Free and undisturb'd use and passage into and out of all Harbours Bays Waters Rivers Isles and Inlets belonging to or leading to the same Together with the Soyl Fields Woods Vnderwoods Mountains Hills Fenns Isles Lake Rivers Waters Rivulets Bays and Inlets Scituate in or belonging unto the Limits and Bounds aforesaid Together with all sorts of Fish Mines Mettles c. To have and to hold to the only behoof of the said William Penn his Heirs and Assigns for ever To be holden of us as of our Castle of Windsor in free and common soccage paying only two Beaver skins yearly III. And of our further Grace we have thought it fit to erect and we do hereby erect the aforesaid Countrey and Islands into a Province and Seigniory and do call it Pennsilvania and so from henceforth we will have it call'd IV. That reposing special confidence in the wisdom and justice of the said William Penn we do grant to him and his Heirs and their Deputies for the good and happy Government thereof to ordain and enact and under his and their seals to publish any Laws whatever for the publick uses of the said Province by and with the Advice and Approbation of the Free-holders of the said Countrey or their delegates so as they be not repugnant to the Law of this Realm and to the Faith and Allegiance due unto us by the legal Government thereof V. Full power to the said William Penn c. to appoint Iudges Leiutenants Iustices Magistrates and Officers for what causes soever and with what Power and in such Form as to him seems convenient also to be able to Pardon and Abolish Crimes and Offences and to do all and every other thing that to the compleat Establishment of Iustice unto Courts and Tribunals forms of Iudicature and manner of proceedings do belong and our pleasure is and so we enjoyn and require that such Laws and Proceedings shall be most absolute and available in Law and that all the Leige People of us our Heirs and Successors inviolably keep the same in those parts saving to us smal appeals VI. That the Laws for regulating Property as well for the discent of Lands as enjoyment of Goods and Chattels and likewise as to Felonies shall be the same there as here in England until they shall be altered by the said William Penn his Heirs or Assigns and by the Freemen of the said Province or their Delegates or Deputies or the greater part of them VII Furthermore that this new Colony may the more happily encrease by the multitude of People resorting thither therefore we for us our Heirs and Successors do hereby grant License to all the Leige People present and future of us c. excepting such as shall be specially forbidden to Transport themselves and Families into the said Country there to Inhabit and Plant for the publick and their private Good VIII Liberty to Transport what Goods or Commodities are not forbidden paying here the Legal Customs due to us c. IX Power to divide the Countey into Counties Hundreds and Towns to Incorporate Towns into Burroughs and Burroughs into Cities to make Fairs and Markets with convenient Priviledges according to the merit of the Inhabitants or the fitness of the place And to do all other thing or things touching the premises which to the said William Penn his Heirs or Assigns shall seem meet and requisite albeit they be such as of their own nature might otherwise require a more special commandment and warrant then in those presents is express'd X. Liberty to Import the Growth or Manufactures of that Province into England paying here the Legal duty XI Power to erect Ports Harbours Creeks Havens Keys and other places for Merchandizes with such Iurisdiction and Priviledges as to the said William Penn c. shall seem expedient XII Not to break the Acts of Navigation neither Governour nor Inhabitants upon the penaltys contained in the said Acts. XIII Not to be in League with any Prince or Country that is in War against us our Heirs and Successors XIV Power of safety and defence in such way and manner as to the said William Penn c. seems meet XV. Full power to Assign Alien Grant Demise or Enfeoff of the premises so many and such parts and parcels to those that are willing to purchase the same as the said William Penn thinks fit to have and to hold to them the said Persons their Heirs or Successors in fee Simple or fee Tail or for term of Life or Lives or years to be held of the said William Penn c. as of the said Seigniory of Windsor by such Services Customs and Rents as shall seem fit to the said William Penn his Heirs and Assigns and not immediately of us our Heirs or Successors and that the said Persons may take the premisses or any Parcel thereof of the said William Penn c.