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[252] Unless stamps were used, marriages would be null,
chap. XI.} 1765. April.
notes of hand valueless, ships at sea prizes to the first captors, suits at law impossible, transfers of real estate invalid, inheritances irreclaimable. Of all who acted with Grenville in the government, he never heard one prophesy that the tax would be resisted.1 ‘He did not foresee the opposition to the measure, and would have staked his life for obedience.’2

1 Grenville's Speech of 26 Jan. 1769, in Cavendish, i. 202.

2 Grenville's Speech, 5 March, 1770, in Cavendish, i. 496.

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