f 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

CHAPTER XV.

EVENTS OF 1769.--UNJUST IMPUTATIONS OF PARLIAMENT ON
THE LOYALTY OF THE COLONISTS, AND MISREPRESENTATIONS OF
THEIR JUST AND LOYAL PETITIONS. 353-363

Manly response to these imputations on the part of the
Colonists, and their assertion of British constitutional
rights, led by the General Assembly of Virginia 355

Dissolution of Colonial Assemblies; agreements for the
non-importation of British manufactured goods entered
into by the Colonists 356

The General Assembly of Massachusetts refuse to legislate
under the guns of a land and naval force; Governor
Barnard's reply 357

Proceedings of the Governor and House of Assembly on
quartering troops in Boston 358

Governor Barnard's recall and character (in a note) 359

Origin of the non-importation agreement in New York;
sanctioned by persons in the highest stations; union of
the Colonies planned 360

Sons of Governors Barnard and Hutchinson refuse to enter
into the non-importation agreement 360

They were at length compelled to yield; humiliating
position of the soldiers in Boston; successful resistance
of the importation of British goods 360

Joy in the Colonies by a despatch from Lord Hillsborough
promising to repeal the obnoxious Revenue Acts, and to
impose no more taxes on the Colonies 361

The duty of threepence per pound on tea excepted 363

CHAPTER XVI.