George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition.

[156] every assistance, and weighed more than the honest

chap. VIII.} 1763 Sept.

and independent Jackson. Grenville therefore adopted¹ the measure which was ‘devolved upon him,’ and his memory must consent, as he himself consented, that it should be ‘christened by his name.’² It was certainly Grenville, ‘who first brought this scheme into form.’³ He doubted the propriety of taxing colonies, without allowing them representatives;⁴ but he loved power, and placed his chief hopes on the favor of parliament; and the parliament of that day contemplated the increased debt of England with terror, knew not that the resources of the country were increasing in a still greater proportion, and insisted on throwing a part of the public burdens upon America.