An Impartial History of the Present War in America: Containing an Account of Its Rise and Progress, the Political Springs Thereof, with Its Various Successes and Disappointments, on Both Sides. By the Rev. James Murray, ...T. Robson, Head of the Groat-Market, R. Baldwin, No. 47, Pater-noster-Row, London, N. Frobisher, York, C. Elliot, Edinburgh, and Dunlop and Wilson, Glasgow, 1780 - United States - 575 pages |
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... Petitions , bills , anfwers , claims , pleas , replications , rejoinders , demurrers , & c . in the courts of chancery , Is . 6d . per fheet . ( 4 ) Copies of petitions , bills , & c . in the faid courts . 3d . per fheet . ( 5 ) ...
... Petitions , bills , anfwers , claims , pleas , replications , rejoinders , demurrers , & c . in the courts of chancery , Is . 6d . per fheet . ( 4 ) Copies of petitions , bills , & c . in the faid courts . 3d . per fheet . ( 5 ) ...
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... petition was offered to the Commons by Edward Montague , agent for the province of Virginia , praying to take their unhappy circumftances into confideration ; and that their house of burgeffes might be continued in the rights and pri ...
... petition was offered to the Commons by Edward Montague , agent for the province of Virginia , praying to take their unhappy circumftances into confideration ; and that their house of burgeffes might be continued in the rights and pri ...
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... petition in behalf of themselves , and the reft of the inhabitants , owners ' of property , in his Majefty's ... petitions should not be heard . The bill , after going through all its stages and forms , was at laft paffed , and received ...
... petition in behalf of themselves , and the reft of the inhabitants , owners ' of property , in his Majefty's ... petitions should not be heard . The bill , after going through all its stages and forms , was at laft paffed , and received ...
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... petition the legislature of Britain against the stamp act , and pleaded their incapacity to pay any fuch tax as was now impofed upon them ; but at the fame time they afked the favour , they did not acknowledge that they were dependent ...
... petition the legislature of Britain against the stamp act , and pleaded their incapacity to pay any fuch tax as was now impofed upon them ; but at the fame time they afked the favour , they did not acknowledge that they were dependent ...
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... petition offenfive to the majority of the legislature . From the manner of their proceed- ings , fome wife men forefaw what would be the con- fequence of the mother country's afferting a right of legislation over the colonists ; they ...
... petition offenfive to the majority of the legislature . From the manner of their proceed- ings , fome wife men forefaw what would be the con- fequence of the mother country's afferting a right of legislation over the colonists ; they ...
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