The King having no heart for persecuion, and the Duke of York, who was a firm riend, contrived to have the prisoner reeased on the 4th of August and turned over co his father to be transported to some spot where he would be less troublesome. This plan was not seriously carried out. Indeed the Admiral's days were numbered. He died after a year's illness, on the 16th of September, 1670. Penn's prominence and influence increased with the death of his father. It was plain that no ordinary mind directed his actions. Respect followed. He took much part in public matters and as umpire in a dispute between Fenwick and Byllinge, two Quakers, over some land rights in New Jersey, he developed an interest in the New World and planned to found in it a place of refuge for those persecuted in Old and New England for opinion's sake. This desire was readily carried out. By fortunate nnual tribute of two beaver skins, to aid for ninety-nine years. ere the idealist created his elysium and as close to making one as the curious al he sought to benefit would permit. King set forth in writing the Grant that is due "the memory and merits of Sir iam Penn in divers services, and pararly his conduct, courage and discreunder our dearest brother, James, Duke Tork, in that signal battle and victory ht and obtained against the Dutch fleet nanded by the Heer Van Opdam, in ot to be outdone by his Royal brother, es threw in the Province of Delaware hich he held the fee, "out of a special rd to the memory and many faithful eminent services heretofore performed ne said Sir William Penn to his Majesty Royal Highness." This under date of ust 21st, 1682. Vam, but or nis valiant rainer. Charles II was an able politician and understood human nature. Often accused of ingratitude and seldom deserving the charge, with a willingness to perform a good action as readily as a bad one, he acted perhaps in languid memory of the mistake made by his heedless father when he stayed the departure of Cromwell for the New World, where he had resolved to go "and never see England more," - determining that there should be no repetition of history so far as he was concerned by repressing a zealot in narrow quarters near home. Thus Charles for once at least, belied the couplet scrawled upon his chamber door by the ribald Earl of Rochester: Here lies our sovereign lord the King He never says a foolish thing Nor ever does a wise one. ds beyond the Alleghanies. With Penn's ture we need have no more to do than recall that so long as his control lasted his wishes extended, the Pennsylvania dians and their cousins of New York and io, were at peace with the whites; that words and those of his agents were sted; that Pennsylvania sheltered the secuted Palatines and that the Liberty 11 first rang in the city he had named iladelphia — the City of Brotherly Love! The Trial here recited began in London, the first of September, 1670, a fortnight fore his father's death, while the disbance of which it was the outgrowth, curred on the fourth of August preceding. The text is repeated from the report bedded in the second volume of the ir great folios, comprising "A Compleat llection of State Tryals," covering the iod of English justice and injustice from reign of King Henry the Fourth to y the same token to vindicate it. Reorted by the accused, it no less reads air. The "Observer" whose comments terlard and conclude the "Tryal" was 'enn. It was a rare proceeding in which oth prisoners and jury ended up in jail for heir obduracy in maintaining that right to peak as we may, which is still one of the nost difficult to maintain, and yet remains the foundation of human liberty. COS COB, CONN., D. C. S. |