George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 36: , page 206

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Chap. XXXVI.} 1768. Sept.

delay. Indiscreet men murmured; but the intelligent perceived the greatness of the result. When the Attorney and Solicitor-General of England were called upon to find traces of high treason in what had been done, De Grey as well as Dunning declared, none¹ had been committed. ‘Look into the papers,’ said De Grey, ‘and see how well these Americans are versed in the crown law; I doubt whether they have been guilty of an overt act of treason, but I am sure they have come within a hair's breadth of it.’²

1 Opinion of De Grey and Dunning on the Papers submitted to them, Nov. 1768.

2 The Attorney General in the Debate of 26 Jan. 1769; Cavendish, i. 196.

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