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Show for Himself the final punishment, slow and unseen but none the less [sic] inevitable, yet He appoints to intervene in human affairs two judges whom the luckiest of sinners does not escape, namely, Conscience, or the innate estimation of oneself, and Public Opinion, or the estimation of others. II The English kings were reported to have been somewhat reckless in their use of grants of "wild land" in America to reward favorites for public services. "It was an easy way to pay debts, for it cost the king nothing, and all the labour and expense of making the grant valuable fell upon the grantee" (John Fiske, Old Virginia and Her Neighbors, Vol. 2 [1902], p. 61). Roger Williams, a competent individual who received educational guidance under Sir Edward Coke, stirred up some controversy by writing a pamphlet holding that the soil belonged to the Indians, that the King was actually an "intruder," and that the only way to secure a valid title was to purchase the land from the true owners, a position not very different from that taken by Francisco de Vitoria in 1532. In the Narratives of the Indian Wars, 1675-1699 (Charles H. Lincoln, ed. [1966 reprint], p. 26), it was reported that "the English took not a Foot of Land from the Indians, but Bought all and although they bought for an inconsiderable Value; yet they did Buy it." Again, the point is not what they paid, or whether they actually did buy all of it, but that they felt compelled to make the claim. The good relations of William Penn with the Indians in the Pennsylvania region always comes to mind, and John Fiske in The |