poſition of their neighbours, came in crowds to William Pen, and beſought him to admit them into the number of his vaſſals. 'Twas very rare and uncommon for a ſovereign to be Thee'd and Thou'd by the meaneſt of his ſubjec͡ts, who never took their hats off when they came into his preſence; and as ſingular for a government to be without one prieſt in it, and for a people to be without arms, either offenſive or defenſive; for a body of citizens to be abſolutely undiſtinguiſh'd but by the publick employments, and for neighbours not to entertain the leaſt jealousy one against the other.
William Pen might glory in having brought down upon earth the ſo much boaſted golden age, which in all probability never exiſted but in Penſilvania. He return'd to England to ſettle ſome affairs relating to his new dominions. After the death of king Charles the ſecond, king James, who had lov'd the father, indulg'd the ſame affection to the ſon, and no longer conſider'd him as an obſcure Sec͡tary, but as a very great
