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A54106	A brief account of the province of Pennsilvania lately granted by the King, under the great seal of England, to William Penn, and his heirs and assigns.	Penn, William, 1644-1718.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II). Proclamations. 1681-04-02.	1682 (1682)	Wing P1256A; ESTC R220390	7,626	16

Successours and that the said persons may take the premisses or any parcel thereof of the said William Penn c. and the same hold to themselves their Heirs and Assigns the Statute Quia emptores Terrarum in any wise notwithstanding XVI We give and grant License to any of those persons to whom the said William Penn c. has granted any Estate of Inheritance as aforesaid with the consent of the said William Penn to Erect any parcel of Lands within the said Province into Mannors to hold Courts Baron and view of Franck-pledge c. by Themselves or Stewards XVII Power to those persons to Grant others the same Tenures in Fee Simple or otherwise to be held of the said Mannors respectively and upon all further Alienations the Land to be held of the Mannor that it held of before the Alienation XVIII We do Covenant and Grant to and with the said William Penn his Heirs and Assigns that we will not set or make any Custon or other Taxation upon the Inhabitants of the said Province upon Lands Houses Goods Chattels or Merchandizes except with the consent of the Inhabitants and Governour XIX Power to the Bishop of London to send over a Minister if desired by any Twenty Persons Inhabiting in that Province XX. A charge that no Officers nor Ministers of us our Heirs and Successors do presume at any time to attempt any thing to the contrary of the premises or in any sort withstand the same but that they be at all times aiding to the said William Penn and his Heirs and to the Inhabitants and Merchants their Factors and Assigns in the full use and benefit of this our Charter XXI And if any doubts or questions shall hereafter arise about the true sense or meaning of any Word Clause or Sentence contained in this our Charter We will Ordain and Command that at all times and in all things such Interpretation be made thereof and allowed in any of our Courts whatsoever as shall be adjudged most advantageous and favourable unto the said William Penn his Heirs and Assigns so as it be not against the Faith and Allegiance due to Vs our Heirs and Successors In Witness whereof we have caused our Letters to be made Patents Witness our self at Westminister c. The KING'S Declaration to the Inhabitants and Planters of the Province of PENNSILVANIA CHAREES R. VVHereas His Majesty in consideration of the great merit and faithful services of Sir William Penn deceased and for divers other good Causes Him thereunto moving hath been graciously pleased by Letters Patents bearing Date the Fourth day of March last past to Give and Grant unto William Penn Esquire Son and Heir of the said Sir William Penn all that Tract of Land in America called by the Name of Pennsilvania as the same is Bounded on the East by Delaware River from Twelve miles distance Northwards of New-Castle Town unto the three and fortieth Degree of Northern Latitude if the said River doth extend so far Northwards and if the said River shall not extend so far Northward then by the said River so far as it doth extend And from the Head of the said River the Eastern Bounds to be determined by a Meridian Line to be drawn from the Head of the said River unto the said Three and fortieth Degree the said Province to extend Westward Five Degrees in Longitude to be Computed from the said Eastern Bounds and to be bounded on the North by the Beginning of the Three and fortieth Degree of Northern Latitude and on the South by a Circle drawn at Twelve Miles distance from New-Castle Northwards and Westwards unto the beginning of the fortieth Degree of Northern Latitude and then by a straight Line Westwards to the limit of Longitude above mentioned together with all powers Preheminences and Iurisdictions necessary for the Government of the said Province as by the said Letters Parents Reference being thereunto had doth more at large appear His Maiesty doth therefore hereby publish and Declare his Royal Will and Pleasure That all persons Setled or Inhabiting within the Limits of the said Province do yield all Due Obedience to the said William Penn His Heirs and Assigns as absolute Proprietaries and Governours thereof as also to the Deputy or Deputies Agents or Lieutenants Lawfully Commissionated by him or them according to the Powers and Authorities Granted by the said Letters Patents Wherewith his Majesty Expects and Requites a ready Complyance from all persons whom it may concern as they tender his Majesties Displeasure Given at the Court at White-Hall the Second day of April 1681. In the Three and thirrieth year of Our Reign By His Majesties Command Conway III. The Reason of the Grant The reason and ground of this Grant from the King to Him and his Heirs c. Was his Petition to the King in which he set forth His Fathers Services his own Sufferings and Losses in relation to his Fathers Estate And lastly His long and costly Attendance without success In right and consideration of which the King was graciously pleased to make the aforesaid Grant to which Title the said William Penn adds that of the Natives by purchase from them IV. Of the Country and its Produce It lies 600. Miles South of the Latitude of England and as it is of the same side of the Line so it is about the same degree with Mompellier in France or Naples in Italy The Air is generally clear and sweet the Summer is longer and Hotter and Winter shorter and sometimes Colder than in England The Soil is said to be as good as any in those parts It commonly produceth Oak Cedar Mulbery Chesnut Walnut Firr Cyprus Ash Beech Popaler Saxafras Medaler Plumbs Grapes Peaches Strawberries Huckleberries Cranberries Hopps c. English Fruit takes kindly and produceth suddainly and plentifully The Woods are furnished with Store of Wild Fowl as Turkeys Pheasants Heath Cocks Patridges Pidgeons c. The Earth well Watered with Springs and Rivers and the Rivers stored with Fish as Sturgions Sheepsheads Drums Cat-fish Eeles and abundance more With Fowl as Swans Gray and White Geese Duck Mallard c. The Corn of the Country used by the Indians produceth four hundred fold is Good and Hearty both in Milk and made into Bread the price two Shillings six pence the Bushel There is also good English Corn as Wheat Barly Rye and Oates Wheat under four Shillings the Bushel Barly and Rye under three Shillings the Bushel Oates about two Shillings the Bushel There are also very good Pease and Beans of several sorts The Beef is good but Pork is very Sweet The Beef at three pence the Pork at two pence half-penny the pound Butter at six pence a pound Peaches to Eat or make Drink of at eight pence the Bushel a Cow and Calf about the Spring of the Year at five pounds a pair of Oxen at ten pounds a good Breeding Sow at thirty Shillings a Young good Breeding Mare at eight pounds But it is

A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE PROVINCE OF Pennsilvania Lately Granted by the KING Under the GREAT Seal of England TO WILLIAM PENN AND HIS HEIRS and ASSIGNS LONDON Printed for Benjamin Clark in George-Yard in Lombard-street Bookseller MDCLXXXII A brief Account of the Province of PENNSILVANIA 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 than my Honest Interest to give some publick notice of it to the World that those of our own and 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 whatever 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 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 for Vs Our Heirs and Successours 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 understurb'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 Soyle Fields Woods Vnderwoods Mountains Hills Fenns Isles Lakes Rivers Waters Rivulets Bays and Inlets Scituate in or belonging unto the Limits and Bounds afore said Together with all sorts of Fish Mines Mettals 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 Vs 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 Country 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 Iustice 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 Country 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 and that he and they may call the said Free-holders or Deligates in such manner as to him and them seemeth best V. Full power to the said William Penn c. to appoint Iudges Leiutenants Iustices Magistrates a●d Offcers 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 Liege people of us our Heirs and Successors inviolably keep the same in those parts saving to us final Appeals VI. That the Laws for regulating property as well for the descent 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 Country 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 than in these presents is expressed 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 Jurisdiction 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 penalties 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 Successours 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