| Henry Clay Watson - 1854 - 1012 страници
...information of the passage of the act, declaring the right to tax the colonies, prepared an address to the king, a memorial to the House of Lords, and a remonstrance to the House of Commons. The increase of smuggling, consequent upon acts restricting commerce, had become so prejudicial' to... | |
| Levi Carroll Judson - 1854 - 532 страници
...early as 1764 he was on the committee in the House of Burgesses that prepared an address to the crown, a memorial to the House of Lords and a remonstrance to the House of Commons of Great Britain predicated upon the Virginia Resolutions anticipating the odious Stamp Act. These... | |
| Levi Carroll Judson - 1854 - 496 страници
...was on the committee in the House of Burgesses that prepared an address to the •crown, a.memorial to the House of Lords and a remonstrance to the House of Commons of Great Britain predicated upon the Virginia Resolutions anticipating the odious Stamp Act. These... | |
| George Bancroft - 1855 - 420 страници
...they were unanimously confirmed. A committee of twelve, including Bland and Archibald Cary, prepared a petition to the king, a memorial to the House of...Lords, and a remonstrance to the House of Commons, which, after being carefully considered and amended, were unanimously adopted. On Friday, the 15th,... | |
| Charles Wilkins Webber - 1855 - 600 страници
...distinguished lawyers and leaders of the colonial aristocracy, were appointed a committee to draw up a petition to the king, a memorial to the House of Lords, and a remonstrance to the Commons. These papers claimed for the colony, the privilege of self-taxation ; but their tone was very... | |
| John Stetson Barry - 1856 - 538 страници
...New York, at which resolutions were passed, based upon the inalienable rights of man, and an address to the king, a memorial to the House of Lords, and a petition to the House of Commons were draughted and signed by the " commissioners, or the major part... | |
| 1857 - 656 страници
...The General Assembly of the Province of New York, in their Sessions last winter, determined to send a Petition to the King, a Memorial to the House of...Lords, and a Remonstrance to the House of Commons, upon the subject of American grievances ; and the members of the House, at least many of them, as your... | |
| GEORGE BANCROFT - 1857 - 558 страници
...they were unanimously confirmed. A committee of twelve, including Bland and Archibald Gary, prepared a Petition to the King, a Memorial to the House of...Lords, and a Remonstrance to the House of Commons, which, after being carefully considered and amended, were unanimously adopted. On Friday, the fifteenth,... | |
| 1857 - 654 страници
...The General Assembly of the Province of New York, in their Sessions last winter, determined to send a Petition to the King, a Memorial to the House of...Lords, and a Remonstrance to the House of Commons, upon the subject of American grievances ; and the members of the House, at least many of them, as your... | |
| 1890 - 880 страници
...Wythe, Edmund Pendleton, Benjamin Harrison, Richard Bland, and Peyton Randolph. They reported an address to the king, a memorial to the House of Lords, and a remonstrance to the House of Commons. These papers, of which the first two were written by Lee. denied, in clear and decided terms, the claim... | |
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