By his Majesties Command,
CONWAY.
London, Printed by the Assigns of John Bill, Thomas Newcomb, and Henry Hills, Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty. 1681.
1 p. folio. Copy in B. M. Printed in "Charter to William Penn, and Laws of the Province of Pennsylvania," 1879, p. 466, from original in Land Office at Harrisburg. Reproduced in lithograph fac-simile in J. J. Smith's "American Historical and Literary Curiosities," 1860, series 2, pl. 43.
FOOTNOTE:
[1] The charter of Pennsylvania, March 4, 1681, is printed in the Charter to William Penn, and Laws of the Province of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, 1879, where a fac-simile of the original document is also reproduced. In the Public Record Office is a draft of the charter, dated February 28, 1681, and signed by the clerk of the Chapel of the Rolls (Cal. State Papers, Colonial, 1681-1685, p. 14; see also Acts of Privy Council, ii, 17). For the founding of Pennsylvania, see Shepherd's History of Proprietary Government in Pennsylvania.
[1685, February 6.]
[Continuing Officers in the Colonies.]
BY THE KING.