...es II., a tax of a penny in the pound, and a poll-tax of twenty pence, with a subsequent increase of duties, were laid by Andros and his council. The towns generally refused payment. Wilbore, of Taunton , was imprisoned for writing a protest. To the people of Ipswich, in town-meeting, John Wise, the minister who used to assert, Democracy is Christ's government in church and state, advised resistan...