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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 39: (search)
single shilling to the exchequer; the money is all eaten up by the officers who collect it.—Your measures, cried Phipps after an admirable statement, are more calculated to raise than to quell a rebellion. It is our duty to stand between the victim and the altar.—The statute of the thirty-fifth year of Henry the Eighth, observed Frederic Montagu, was passed in the worst times of the worst reign, when the taste of blood had inflamed the savage disposition of Henry. The Act, declared Sir William Meredith, does not extend to America; and were I an American I would not submit to it. On the other side little was Chap. XXXIX.} 1769. Feb. urged, except that concession would endanger the Act of Navigation; and the British Parliament after long deliberation, by a great majority, refusing to consider the redress of American grievances, requested the King to make inquisition at Boston for Treason, and to bring over the accused for trial before a Special Commission, away from their country,