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Abstract of Proceedings in 1676 and 1677 in the case of Bacon's Rebellion

1766/02-04 ca.

GLC07654.20

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Manuscript document

Considerations continued no. 2

1766/03 ca.

Knox, William, 1756-1795

Discussion of the plausibility of a "drawback," or export tariff on goods before they left England so that the final price in the colonies would be slightly higher but a tax would not be added on in the colonies, in an effort to lessen opposition to...

GLC07654.21

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Lords protest re: repeal of the Stamp Act

1766/03/17

Great Britain. Parliament.

Response from the House of Lords, in dissension to the Bill of Appeal of the Stamp Act. "If we give our Consent to it without a full Conviction that is right . . . we in effect annihilate this Branch of Legislature, & vote ourselves useless."...

GLC07654.22