The Life of William Penn With Selections From His Correspondence And Autobiogr
The Life of William Penn With Selections From His Correspondence And Autobiogr
Samuel Macpherson Janney
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" * * * * He adds, "in a little after, a great temptation attended me, which was a commission from the king to be one of the aldermen of the city of London. VINDICATION FKOM CHAEGES OF MACAULAT. 317 I used all the means I could to be excused, both by some lords near the king, and also by Sir Nicholas Butler and William Penn, but all in vain ; they said they knew I had an interest that would serve the king, and although they knew that my suffer- ings had been great, by the cutting off of my two ...grandsons and losing their estates, yet it should be made up to me, both as to their estates and also in what honour or advantage I could rea- sonably desire for myself. "* This language affords no evidence to substantiate Macaulay's inference ; it implies nothing more than that "some lords near the king, as well as Sir N. Butler and William Penn, were requested by Kiffin to make his excuse to the king for declining the office, on which they expressed their sense of his ability to be of use to his sovereign, and their belief that some reparation would be made for the wrongs he had suffered.
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