[14] Parton's Life of Franklin, i, 451, 452.

[15] See, for example, Franklin's Works, iii. 361, 362.

[16] Bancroft, Hist. U. S. iv. 28.

[17] Bancroft, Hist. U. S. iv. 155.

[18] Grenville had laid down the proposition that England was "the sovereign, the supreme legislative power over America," and that "taxation is a part of that sovereign power."

[19] Bancroft, Hist. U. S. v. 385-387.

[20] Bancroft, Hist. U. S. v. 417.

[21] To same purport, see also Works, iv. 300.

[22] Concerning this theory, see Fiske's The Beginnings of New England, 266.

[23] To same purport, see letter to Evans, May 9, 1766, Works, iii. 464.