The Coolidge examiner., 1933-07-14

prevent the patent being granted. But Penn was
a staunch fighter for his rights and he finally
obtained the charter early in 1851.
He at once prepared TO take up the governor
ship and on August 80, 1862, he sailed on the
ship, Welcome. commanded by Capt Robert
Greenway arriving at Newcastle October "a,
1852 Then followed the pronunciation OF his
Great Law" containing the 60 sections which
embodied his Frame OF Government" and the
English laws adapted to It. as the code of gov
ernment for the new colony to which colonists
by the shipload began hocking.
Penn remained in Pennsylvania, until 1854, but
his dispute with Lord Baltimore over the bound
ary (Which incidentally not finally settled
until 1892 and important home affairs required
his presence in England So, appointing Pres
ident, Thomas Lloyd, and a board of commits
sOners to act as governors, he left for England
on June 16, 1854
While in England he was abused and msrep-
resented because he still defended his position
in regard TO his rights under the charter and
because of his membership in the Society of
Friends. However. he was always received at
court and he found in King James II strong
friend. Then in 1858 came the revolution against
James and that monarch deposed. The
Prince OF Orange and Princess Mary, King
James daughter were proclaimed king and
queen of England on February 13, 1855
Penn's friendship for James II made him sus-
pect to the new monarch and on December 10
$685. he was called to Whitehall and made to
give securities for good conduct until the fol
lowing Easter In 1890 he was again summoned
before the Lords of Council and accused of cor
responding with the former king. Penn appealed
to King William who was inclined to acquit
him but his councillors induced him to require
To hofl I'm On Tnlv ho
was charged with treason but no proof to sup
port it could be obtained so he discharged.
Penn now proposed to return to Pennsylvania
but he was prevented by another accusation lev
eled against him by certain "cheat and i'm
postor" named William Fuller, and the machna-
tions Of this man kept him in England three
years longer. In the meantime the colony had
fallen into state of disorder and religious dis
turbance created by a certain George Keith and
it finally ended in PENIS being deprived of the
government of Pennsylvania by King William
III, who granted Benjamin Fletcher, governor
OF New York, authority over Pennsylvania.
Fletcher at once went to Philadelphia and the
government was surrendered to him, hasty ac-
ton which Penn resented bitterly. He wrote a
letter to Fletcher declaring that he had not yet
given up his rights to the province and he set
about making good his word In 1893 he pleaded
that his innocence of the suspicion of treason
against the rulers of England be made clear and
at last King William gave him the reinsurance
as to that and on August 20, 1894, granted him
letters patent reinstating him in the government
of Pennsylvania.
In 1899 Penn revisited Pennsylvania with his
wife and family and in 1701 he granted char
ter to Philadelphia making it a city In Decem
Der of that year he returned to England and
there his declining years were spent In 1712
he suffered a stroke of paralysis from which he
never fully recovered. OF the end of his ca
reer Dobree writes "His wife took him to Rus
combe for a rest, but no sooner had he got
there than the powerful body, the insurgently
active brain, broke down irremediably. He new
er fully recovered his reason. !. For six years
he fingered on happily at Ruscombe, very hap
PLY, the pleased smile he nearly always wore
proved to the wondering visitor. i. At length
almost without warning, in the very early hours
of July go 171S he left the life in which he had
played so continuous, so generous and opt-
mstic part, life to which his Unborn simplicity
had been unable to adapt itself and from which
his mind bewildered by disillusion had escaped
some years before him"
(G by Western Newspaper Union1