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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition. 1 1 Browse Search
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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. When a boy, he had learned something of Latin; of Greek, the letters; but nothing methodically. It had been his delight to wander alone with the gun or the angling-rod; or by some sequestered stream to enjoy the ecstasy of meditative idleness. He married at eighteen; attempted trade; toiled unsuccessfully as a farmer; then with