[42] Greene, The Provincial Governor, passim.

[43] Barry, Hist. of Mass., I, 288–295.

[44] For a detailed study of this subject, see Howard, Preliminaries of the Revolution (American Nation, VIII).

[45] 5 George III., chap. xii, given in Macdonald, Select Charters, 281.

[46] Beer, Commercial Policy of England, 10–13.

[47] For details and exact references to laws, see Channing, The Navigation Laws, in Amer. Antiq. Soc., Proceedings, new series, VI. For discussion, see Andrews, Colonial Self-Government, chap. i; Greene, Colonial Commonwealths (American Nation, V, VI).

[48] Beer, Commercial Policy of England, chap. vii.

[49] 6 George II., chap. xiii.

[50] Macdonald, Select Charters, 259.

[51] Lecky, American Revolution (Woodburn’s ed.), 48.