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Pennell (MRS ELIZABETH)

MRS. ELIZABETH with Pennsylvania's expected greatness. magazines, she published Joseph .

For many years she resided in Penn's family was in England. Hearing books, illustrated by her husband, and in Europe. Besides contributions to the Algernon Sidney had perished on the him, the best known being: "A Canterscaffold, he sailed for England. During bury Pilgrimage" The overthrow of James was in more ually at court. James had been his to the Hebrides" (1889); father's friend, and he had always been ence" (1891); "To Gipsyland" (1892); scale commensurate that his wife was ill and that his friend glad and prompt to help Penn himself.

The overthrow of James was in more than one respect a misfortune for Penn.

In the spring of 1690 he was arrested on the charge of holding treasonable correspondence with the dethroned monarch. The absurdity of the charge being swiftly and glaringly evident Penn was set at liberty. Yet, though his conduct continued to be blameless, he was, by an order in council, stripped, March 14, 1692, of his title to the Pennsylvanian government-a tyrannical act involving his utter ruin; for, besides that he had risked his whole substance in the Pennsylvania experiment, his estates, both in England his whole substance in the Pennsylvania and in Ireland, had been grievously mismanaged by incompetent or dishonest overseers. An order in council capriciously restored to Penn, in 1694, the Pennsylvania government. But the ownership of territories so extensive was almost barren to him. His agents were fuse in expressions of regard, were in fuse in expressions of reality ungrateful and grasping. A visit to his Irish estates preluded Penn's second expedition to the New World.

His family went with him to America, second expedition to the New World. visit to his Irish estates preluded Penn's reality ungrateful and grasping. A though rather from necessity than choice.

Penn's residence in the colony was more beneficial to the colonists than to himself. He branded as iniquitous negro slavery, and to the aged, the sick, and the destitute he was a bountiful almoner.

In 1701 he returned to England, and endeavored to negotiate the sale of Pennsylvania to the crown for $60,000. This negotiation was interrupted in 1712, through his being attacked by an apoplectic fit, which, happening twice afterward, greatly impaired his mental faculties. He survived for six years longer, quite unfitted for any serious employment. Penn died July 29, 1718; and was buried at the village of Jordan, Buckment. Penn died July 29, 1718; and was of regard, were in numerous some cases written in collaboration with "Feasts of Autolycus" (1896); "Our (1917).

Philadelphia" (1914); "The Lovers" ge" (1885); ss" (1886); ; "Our "O Journey "Two Pil- "Play in Provlustrator and author; born in Philadelphia, Pa., July 4, 1860. Besides works written in collaboration with his wife, he published: "Pen Drawings and Pen