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394. His resolution for address to the King, 1775, endorsing the coercive policy, and denouncing Colonial complaints as "rebellion;" debates on it. i. 426-429. Second great debate in the Commons on his warlike resolution. i. 430. His address made the joint address of both Houses of Parliament; the King's reply. i. 431. Lord North's proposed resignation and preparations for it. ii. 8. Defeat of his Administration. ii. 51. Opinions of Lords Macaulay and Mahon on the success of a Commission recommended by the Earl of Chatham. ii. 8. Origin of non-importation agreement in New York; sanctioned by persons in the highest stations. i. 360. Origin of republicanism and hatred of monarchy in America. ii. 66. Paine (Tom)--His appeal to the Colonists, called _Common Sense_, the first publication in America against monarchy. i. 450. Author of republicanism and hatred of monarchy in America; his character and writings, and their effects. ii. 66-72. Palfrey's and other New England historians' unfair statements and unjust imputations against the British Government of that time. i. 190, 211. Parliament--Its authority over the Colonies. i. 317. Three Bills passed by, to raise a revenue in the Colonies. i. 331. Parliament passes an Act (1775) to punish the Colonies for countenancing Massachusetts. i. 433. Parliament passes oppressive Acts in 1775 and 1776, with measures for employing foreign soldiers, Indians, and slaves against the complaining Colonists. i. 459. Parliament passes no Act to authorize peace with America for three months after the accession of the new Ministry. ii. 54. Parliament votes L115,000 sterling to compensate the Colonies for expenses incurred by them. i. 252. Parties--Origin of political parties at Massachusetts Bay. i. 209. Petitions and representations to the King from Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Baptists, etc., in Massachusetts Bay, on their persecutions and disfranchisement by the local Government. i. 137. Petitions from various towns in England, Scotland, and Ireland against Lord North's coercive American policy. i. 425. Pilgrim Fathers--who. i. 2. Their settlement, and residence of 12 years in Holland. i. 3. Long to be under the English Government. i. 3. Cross the Atlantic in the _Mayflower_. i. 3. Where intended to settle in America, i. 4 What known of Cape Cod before the Pilgrims landed
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