CHAPTER XIV.
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.