EVENTS OF 1768.--PROTESTS AND LOYAL PETITIONS OF THE
COLONISTS AGAINST THE ENGLISH PARLIAMENTARY ACTS FOR
RAISING REVENUES IN THE COLONIES. 337-352
Petition to the King 337
Noble circular of the Massachusetts Legislative
Assembly to the Assemblies of the other Colonies, on
the unconstitutional and oppressive Acts of the British
Parliament 338
This circular displeasing to the British Ministry, and
strongly condemned by it in a circular from the Earl of
Hillsborough 341
Admirable and patriotic reply of the Virginia House of
Burgesses to the Massachusetts circular 342
Similar replies from the Legislative Assemblies of
other Colonies 343
Excellent answer of the General Assembly of Maryland to
a message of the Governor on the same subject 344
The effects of Lord Hillsborough's circular letter to the
Colonial Governors 345
Experiment of the newly asserted power of Parliament to
tax and rule the Colonies, commended at Boston and in
Massachusetts 348
Three causes for popular irritation; seizures; riotous
resistance; seven hundred soldiers landed, and required to
be provided for, which was refused; the Provincial Assembly
and its proceedings; ships of war in Boston Harbour 348