[111] He was created a baronet March 20, 1769 (Gordon, History, i. 275).
[112] An unpublished letter of this date, from Charles Lloyd to George Grenville, giving an account of the affair, is in the possession of the writer.
[113] W. S. Johnson, Trumbull Papers, 423.
[114] May, 1770. "Agreeably to a vote of the town of Boston, Capt. Scott sailed from thence this month for London, with the cargo of goods he had brought from thence, contrary to the non-importation agreement; to give evidence, on the other side the water, of the sincerity of said agreement" (Mass. Hist. Coll., ii 44).
[115] W. S. Johnson, Trumbull Papers, 421. The Minute of the Cabinet, May 1, 1769, by which Hillsborough was authorized to make the promise contained in his circular letter, may be seen in Mahon's History of England, v. Appendix, xxxvii.; and the reasons upon which the minute rests are both interesting and significant—"upon consideration of such duties having been laid contrary to the true principles of commerce."
[116] Parliamentary History, xvi. 855, 979
[117] W. S. Johnson, Trumbull Papers, 430.
[118] W. S. Johnson, Trumbull Papers, 435.
[119] Parliamentary History, xvi. 981
[120] Ibid., 1006.