LETTERS OF WILLIAM PENN Originais n the Manuscript Department of the Historical Society af Pennsylvania. My dear & unfined love suites you & y* desireing ally wellfire, here & hereater the Bearer is one John Saxby a bred Scheller, capable of teaching the latin, Greek writing & Arethmatick very well, so y' either by himselfe if room or as instructer & M of learning under Christopher whoe own business will rather be Superintendency of manners & hous Goverm' I desire you to encourage & employ him, he has an accurate short way of teaching the ladin w is very valuable he has a good name, & is an honest man, & t'will be wisdom as well as kindness & charity to indulge & encourage him; hous room gratis, ye first winter will do something, there way because for that & if he be soon in employ he will do well enough, he also has a son an excellent Scribe to learn writeing assuredly y Man has useful abilitys & a simplicity no more, but ye Lord be w you w his fear & blessings KENSINGTON 7th 6m 85 For my esteemed Frds. T. Loyd, FRIENDS: Your true frd WM. PENN LONDON 24 2 Mo 1686 With hearty good will and good wishes for you & the people under your care know, I have writt to you severall times on occassion to which I never had any answear, nor the least respect or Salute or testemony of it since my leaveing of you, I hope it is from the little want you have of me, which would be an exceeding joy to me, for if it should be from forgettfulness of me or remissness in y° duty to Goverm' I should be not a little Greived. I cannot, I dare not commend my skill, but my good will I am bold to say has been towards you with strong desires for y' prosperity. I earnestly press to be with you but much agst my inclinations am kept back, & still may be some months, whatever you do, keep up vertue, punish vice, cherrish the people, be kinde to straingers, & above all lett ye widdow & orphant be your care, & god yt is above man & has all pow'r in his hand, will bless & keep you, & I beseech him to do it. Two things I recommend to you, the demolishing, or rather filling up of those caves, & y° publick supply, ye is debtor enough to my circumstances. The Bearer hereof is a sober and ingeneous man, a lawyer, bred & of use to you, I have commisd him Attorney Genl of y Province may encourage him and as he deserves so preferr him. I say no more but yt I am For the Presid' and Your Friend to love & serve you in y° true end of my place & station. WM. PENN. FRIENDS WORMINGHURST 25th 7mo 1686 My last went by Capt Dymond who I hear is well arrived. I intended you no more, for I resolved to have been the messenger of my own minde, but since the letters from the Province make so great a noise of the slight your neighbours make of the king's order to settle our limitts, tho. I had determined to have come by this ship, I thought it most fitt to have such an express Authority as should overule and silence their objections, for being come on that errand, I did not think it wise to returne without it, least after transporting my famely I should be brought under the necessity of goeing back to finish y dispute. I do not doubt my success since this does but add to their unpleasant censures. This say'd (for there is nothing more desired by me after y life of me & Myne then to be with you) I have this to add, that Insteed of disputes about laws and points of Government, such persons would study quietness & y means of supporting it, for as no govermt. can stand without it, so I will tell you that no interest of my own could have prevaled with me so painfully to have stemed the tyde of Quo warranto's & had not yours done it some busy bodys would have had their mouths stopped for good an all. It is not known to you w I have run through & what time & mony have been expended in the Service of that province which makes me look upon that gross delusion of ye Merchants about the supply with out excuse. I do recommend that again to you, & expect it from you as wise & Just men, lett them be sent for & a due course taken for y' battle is without example and should not be made one now by your neglect. I need not name the Persons to you y came to lay aside y law for a supply, thos are y men at whose door it must be had, for sd vallue promessed which I think was six hundred pounds at least. I hear that Christopher Tayler is deceased, a Just man & a lover of y' Province. I think James Claypole a fitt man for it, and therefore recommended him to be commissioned by you to continue dureing my pleasure, he wronging no body in y' charge. Lastly, I do most earnestly press you to love & peace. I hear the Country thrives but thos in Goverm' apt to fall out, a sorrow to me, a dishonour to the Province, & a shame to themselves-be you Peacemakers, you are the great overseers of the peace, lett none break it & mark them y' are given to contention. I beseech Almighty God to inspire you with the Love of peace & truth, yt he may bless y' with lasting blessings, in whose hands & disposall are all VOL. XXXIII.-20 LETTERS OF WILLIAM PENN. [Originals in the Manuscript Department of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.] DEAR FRIENDS, My dear & unfeined love salutes you & y" desireing all y' wellfaire, here & hereafter the Bearer is one John Saxby a bred Scholler, capable of teaching the latin, Greek writing & Arethmatick very well, so yt either by himselfe if room or as instructer & Mr of learning under Christopher whos own business will rather be Superintendency of manners & hous Goverm I desire you to encourage & employ him, he has an accurate short way of teaching the latin wch is very valuable he has a good name, & is an honest man, & t'will be wisdom as well as kindness & charity to indulge & encourage him; hous room gratis, ye first winter will do something, there way because for that & if he be soon in employ he will do well enough, he also has a son an excellent Scribe to learn writeing assuredly y Man has useful abilitys & a simplicity no more, but ye Lord be with you wth his fear & blessings KENSINGTON 7th 6mo 85 For my esteemed Frds. T. Loyd, FRIENDS: Your true frd WM. PENN. LONDON 24th 2 Mo 1686 With hearty good will and good wishes for you & the people under your care know, I have writt to you severall times on occassion to which I never had any answear, nor |