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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)
minent and advantageous a post in the law; and Grenville felt himself so strong as to dare to slight him. Even Charles Townshend was ready to renounce the friendship of Pitt, and his manifest desire of taking office passed unheeded. Nothing was feared from the opposition in England. Who could look, then, for resistance from America? or forbode danger from a cause on trial in a county court in Virginia? Tobacco was the legalized currency of Virginia. In 1755, Rev. James Maury to John Fontaine, 15 June, 1756, from the collections of Peter Force. a year of war and consequent interruption of agricultural pursuits, and again in 1758, Rev. James Maury, in 1763: The act of 1758. Wirt's Life of Patrick Henry, 39. a year of the utmost distress, the legislature indulged the people in the alternative of paying their public dues, including the dues to the established clergy, in money at the fixed rate of two pence for the pound of tobacco. All but the clergy acquiesced in the law.