| 1925 - 474 pages
...Hamilton Eaton, Boston, 1914. Plan offered by the Earl of Chatham, to the House of Lords, entitled, a Provisional Act, for settling the Troubles in America,...Superintending Power of Great Britain over the Colonies. Which was rejected, and not suffered to lie upon the Table, London, 1775. The Life of Peter Van Schaack,... | |
| John Phillip Reid - 2003 - 398 pages
...Conway, Peace Speech, pp. 47, 44-45. Conway would have repealed nine statutes (listed in ibid., p. 48). 8 "A Provisional Act for settling the Troubles in America,...superintending power of Great Britain over the Colonies," Parliamentary History 18:199-200, 202, 202-3; Speech of Earl Gower, Lords Debates, 1 February 1775,... | |
| Peter David Garner Thomas - 1991 - 372 pages
...wisdom of the House. Despite this disclaimer, they were already in the form of a draft Bill entitled 'A Provisional Act for settling the Troubles in America...superintending Power of Great Britain over the Colonies'. Thomas Hutchinson termed it 'a stringe Bill, more like a Newspaper or Declamatory Speech, as I heard... | |
| John Phillip Reid - 2003 - 398 pages
...Conway, Peace Speech, pp. 47, 44-45. Conway would have repealed nine statutes (listed in ibid., p. 48). 8 "A Provisional Act for settling the Troubles in America,...superintending power of Great Britain over the Colonies," Parliamentary History 18:199-200, 202, 202-3; Speech of Earl Gower, Lords Debates, 1 February 1775,... | |
| Jerome R. Reich - 1997 - 206 pages
...embrace and support their brethren." 5 day's notice to Rockingham, presented a bill to the House of Lords "for settling the Troubles in America, and for asserting...superintending Power of Great Britain over the Colonies." He pictured Great Britain and America on the brink of warfare, from which "ruin and destruction must... | |
| Samuel B. Griffith - 2002 - 780 pages
...following day he again went to the House of Lords as Chatham's guest to hear the earl introduce his "Provisional Act for settling the Troubles in America...superintending power of Great Britain over the Colonies." Members of Administration and Opposition "drawn up in martial array" awaited "the signal to engage... | |
| Boston Public Library - 1907 - 482 pages
...Acts and Laws. American Colonies. Plan offered by the Earl of Chatham to the House of Lords, entitled, A provisional act, for settling the troubles in America,...superintending power of Great Britain over the Colonies . . . Which was rejected and not suffered to lie upon the table. London, 1775. Massachusetts. By His... | |
| 1775 - 780 pages
...fir afftrting thefupremi legislative authority and Superintending poTiicr of Great Britain aver tfu Colonies. WHEREAS by an act 6" Geo. III. it is declared,...parliament has full power and authority to make laws and ftatutes to bind the people of the colonies in all cafes whatfoever [xxviii. 1 1 8.] ; and whereas... | |
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