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CONTENTS OF VOLUME II.—The Funding of Penn's Debts; Agreement to Sell the Government to the Crown; The Germans; The Final Struggle for Judicial Rights; The Irish and Their Kirk; Confusion at the Death of Penn; Paper Money; Frontier and Metropolis; John Thomas and Richard Penn; Quaker Control of the Assembly; Unitas Fratrum and Attempted Church Unity; The War of the Austrian Succession, Final Chapter. Over two centuries and a quarter have elapsed since Penn and his colonists on the Welcome, anchored off his Province, and still no authentic and comprehensive history of the Commonwealth he founded has been written. Much of what has been published in so-called standard works, monographs and other writings, are so generally marred by a display of partisanship, that it is a difficult task for the investigator to judge what of justice was in the contentions, much less those who controlled the political and financial affairs of successive administrations, their achievements or failures. 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