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.—Prerogative is not above law, said the inflexible Hawthorne, ever the advocate of popular liberty. Mass. Hist. Coll. XVIII. 98. After much argument, obedience was refused. We have already—such was the reply of the general court—furnished our views in writing, so that the ablest persons among us could not declare our case more fully. This decision of disobedience was made at a time when the ambition of Louis XIV. of France, eager to grasp at the Spanish Netherlands, and united with De Witt by a treaty of partition, had, in consequence of his Dutch alliance, declared war against England. It was on this occasion, that the idea of the conquest of Canada was first distinctly proposed to New England. It was proposed only to be rejected as impossible. A land march of four hundred miles, over rocky mountains and howling deserts, was too terrible an obstacle. But Boston equipped several privateers, and Chap XII.} not without success. Mass. Hist. Coll. XVIII. 109. At the <