| Alexander Charles Ewald - 1884 - 668 pages
...hostilities, Chatham used all his persuasive powers to prevent the outbreak of civil war. He introduced a bill entitled " A provisional Act for settling the troubles...and superintending power of Great Britain over the colonies." In this measure the claim of the crown to tax the colonies was abandoned, the British troops... | |
| John Gorham Palfrey - New England - 1890 - 718 pages
...occasioned a Protest of eighteen Peers. ,775 The Earl of Chatham presented to the House Feb' of Lords a Bill entitled "A Provisional Act for settling the Troubles...and Superintending Power of Great Britain over the Colonies." After referring to the Declaratory Act of Lord Rockingham's administration, 1 Josiah Quincy,... | |
| John Gorham Palfrey - New England - 1890 - 702 pages
...a Protest of eighteen Peers. 1775 The Earl of Chatham presented to the House Feb - of Lords a Bill entitled " A Provisional Act for settling the Troubles...and Superintending Power of Great Britain over the Colonies." After referring to the Declaratory Act of Lord Buckingham's administration, and to the obstinate... | |
| Autographs - 1927 - 848 pages
...passed in the beginning of the Year 1778. London, .T. Almon, 1778. 41o. Sewed, unc. KL(2i4)$i2.oo. Plan offered by the Earl of Chatham, to the House...Provisional Act for settling the Troubles in America, etc." London, 1775. 41o. Hf. cf. UV(i96)$i7.oo. PLACE (CA). Charles Bulfinch, Architect and Citizen.... | |
| Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts - Great Britain - 1895 - 704 pages
...governments in America to the Crown, 487. (a provisional) for settling the troubles in America and asserting the supreme legislative authority and superintending power of Great Britain over the Colonies, 265. Sugar Act, 12,24. for secaring the dependency of the Colonies, 38, 39. with reference... | |
| Alpheus Henry Snow - Colonies - 1902 - 672 pages
...was based on the theory that the British Empire was a federal organism. It was entitled "A Bill for a Provisional Act for Settling the Troubles in America...and Superintending Power of Great Britain over the Colonies." The authority and power over the Colonies, according to this title, was vested in the State... | |
| Library of Congress. Manuscript Division - Bibliography - 1905 - 334 pages
...5, 340. 1775 [Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham.] A Provisional Act for FED. l settling the troubles of America and for asserting the Supreme Legislative...and Superintending Power of Great Britain over the Colonies. Contemporary cop}' by Franklin with his note of the fate of the bill and analysis of the... | |
| Luther Samuel Livingston - America - 1905 - 596 pages
...Apr., '90. (1440) £119s. Rus., ge, Soth., May 21, '97. (153) £llls. PITT (WILLIAM). Plan Offered to the House of Lords, entitled a Provisional Act, for Settling the Troubles in America. Lond., 1775. 4to. Hf. cf.. Bell, Mar., '02. (79) £112s. 4to. PITT PITT (WILLIAM). History of Staf.... | |
| Boston Public Library - Boston (Mass.) - 1907 - 482 pages
...Personal recollections of the war of 1861. Sherburne, NY, 1906. Portrait. = *"20th".S3.3l8 Great Britain. Plan offered by the Earl of Chatham, to the House...and superintending power of Great Britain over the Colonies. Which was rejected, and not suffered to lie upon the table. London, M.DCC.LXXV. 14 pp. **H.8i.i2... | |
| Albert von Ruville - Great Britain - 1907 - 468 pages
...that of calm, conciliatory negotiation. This bill 1 bore a title suggestive of Chatham's standpoint (' A Provisional Act for settling the Troubles in America,...and superintending power of Great Britain over the colonies '), and expressed in the clumsy form of an Act the conclusions he had arrived at respecting... | |
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