After his landing Penn changed the name of Upland to Chester in honor of the English city. There he summoned the freeholders to meet, and they adopted the “Frame of Government” and ratified “The Laws agreed upon in England“. The former instrument provided for a Provincial Council of ...
The remaining trust, I recall being told, still owns the freeholds of their various former churches which it lets to various Christian denominations. The lovely Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Camberwell South London is one of theirs and I suspect they still have the freehold of Christ the King. ...