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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 9: (search)
money at the fixed rate of two pence for the pound of tobacco. All but the clergy acquiesced in the law. At their instance its ratification was opposed by the Bishop of chap. IX.} 1763. Dec. London, who remarked on the great change in the temper of the people of Virginia in the compass of a few years, and the diminution of the prerogative of the crown. The rights of the clergy and the authority of the king, said he, must stand or fall together. Bishop of London to Board of Trade, January, 1759. And the Act was negatived by the king in council. The Two-penny Act became, therefore, null and void from the beginning; and in the Virginia courts of law it remained only to inquire by a jury into the amount of damages which the complainants had sustained. Compare Lieutenant-Governor Fauquier to Board of Trade, 30 June, 1760. Patrick Henry was one of those engaged to plead against the parsons, whose cause was become a contest between the prerogative and the people of Virginia.