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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 12: (search)
hout some visible force to keep the people of New Hampshire under, it would be a difficult or impossible thing to execute his majesty's commands, or the laws of trade. But the yeomanry were not terrified; illegal taxes could not be gathered; associations were formed for mutual support in resisting their collection. At Exeter, the sheriff was driven off with clubs, and the farmers' wives had prepared hot water to scald his officer, if he had attempted to attach property in the house. At Hampton, he was beaten, robbed of his sword, seated upon a horse, with a rope round his neck, and conveyed out of the province. If rioters Chap XII.} 1684 were committed, they were rescued by a new riot, if the troop of horse of the militia were ordered out, not a man obeyed the summons. Cranfield, in despair, wrote imploringly to the government in England, I shall esteem it the greatest happiness in the world to be allowed to remove from these unreasonable people. They cavil at the royal co