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William Penn, the founder and governor of the province of
Pennsylvania, was born in London, in the year 1644, and died at his
country-seat at Rushcomb, in 1718. He was the only surviving son of
the British Admiral, Sir William Penn, who distinguished himself in
the naval wars of the Dutch and English in the time of Oliver
Cromwell, and Charles the Second. Sir William was the confidential
friend and favourite of the Duke of York, afterwards King James the
Second; and amongst other tokens of his regard, he stood sponsor
for his son William at his baptism, and after the admiral's death
he continued his friendship for him until he abdicated the British
throne in 1688. William Penn was of a thoughtful and religious turn
of mind from his youth, and when he had made considerable progress
in his education at school, his father sent him at the age of
fifteen, to the University of Oxford. Here he was remarked, not
only for a strict attention to his studies, but for the sedateness
of his conduct and freedom from the follies of his contemporaries,
preferring, for his companions, a few of his fellow-students of the
same serious turn ofmind as himself. These young men were in the
practice of meeting together, privately, for religious edification,
which having come to the knowledge of the heads of the college,
they were at first admonished, and then fined for nonconformity;
but, at length, having, in their zeal, resisted the introduction of
some new innovations in religious practice, they were expelled the
University. William Penn's father received him coldly, being
displeased at the public disgrace which he had thus incurred: but
that which vexed him most, was the change in his son's habits, for
he had begun to abandon the fashionable world, and to associate
with serious and religious people. ...
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