[257] Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., xvi. 43; R. C. Winthrop's Speeches, 1878-1886, p. 1.
[258] Cf. Bancroft's United States, orig. ed., vi. 435; Almon's Biog., lit., and polit. anecdotes (Lond., 1797); Wells's Sam. Adams (ii. 74); Barry's Mass., ii. 462. Hutchinson's own account of the transactions is given in his third volume (pp. 400-418), which may be supplemented by sundry references in P. O. Hutchinson's Governor Hutchinson (pp. 82-93, 577; ii. 79), part of which refer to that editor's own views. C. F. Adams (Adams's Works, ii. 319) thinks the evidence nearly conclusive that John Temple was the person who gave the letters to Franklin. (Cf. P. O. Hutchinson, pp. 205, 210, 221, 222, 232, 353.) Cf. statement in Mass. Archives, "Miscellaneous", i. 386.
[259] Sparks's Franklin, iv. 426; Sparks MSS., xlviii.
[260] Sparks's Franklin, iv. 430. Cf. Ibid., viii. 93, 103, 110. Cf. Bigelow's Life of Franklin, ii. 189.
[261] An account of it is given in Israel Mauduit's edition of The letters of Gov. Hutchinson, etc. (London, 1774), with an abstract of Wedderburn's speech. There is a description of this scene in Bowring's Memoir of Jeremy Bentham (p. 59; cf. Monthly Mag., Nov. 10, 1802, and Sparks's Franklin, iv. 451). Gage wrote from London to Hutchinson, Feb. 2, 1774, that no man's conduct was ever so abused for so vile a transaction as Franklin's. There is a letter of Burke on the hearing (Sparks MSS., xlix. ii.). There is a contemporary double-folio print, Proceedings of his majesty's Privy Council on the address of the Assembly of Mass. Bay to remove the Governor and Lieutenant Governor, with the substance of Mr. Wedderburn's speech (Mass. Hist. Soc.). The whole proceedings are given in Franklin before the Privy Council in behalf of the Province of Mass. Bay, to advocate the removal of Hutchinson and Oliver (Philad., privately printed, 1859). Arthur Lee has a word to say on the scene (Life of A. Lee, i. 240, 273). Franklin is said to have worn a suit of Manchester velvet during this castigation from Wedderburn, which he did not put on again till he signed the treaty of alliance with France in 1778 (Mahon, v. 328).
[262] In 1772 the town of Boston had sent a printed circular to the neighboring towns, asking their advice as to the course best to be pursued in consequence of the crown's assuming to regulate the judges' salaries. Hutchinson (History, iii. 545, 546) gives the report of the committee of the Assembly on the grant of the governor's salary from the crown, and the governor's answer (July, 1772). For John Adams's controversy with Brattle on this point, see Adams's Works, iii. 513. On Oliver's impeachment, see Hutchinson (iii. 443, 445), and P. O. Hutchinson (i. 133, 142), and papers in the MS. collection of Letters and Papers, 1761-1776, in Mass. Hist. Soc. cabinet.
A portrait of Chief Justice Peter Oliver, by Copley, painted in England in 1772 (Perkins, p. 89), belongs to Dr. F. E. Oliver of Boston. Cf. photograph in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., July, 1886, with a memoir which was issued separately as Peter Oliver, the last chief-justice of the Superior Court of Judicature of the Province of Mass. Bay. A sketch by Thomas Weston, Jr. (Boston, 1886).
Something of the Boston spirit appears in various letters from her patriots which are printed in Leake's Lamb. The Familiar Letters of John and Abigail Adams begin at this time. Cf. summary in Sargent's Andre, ch. 4. Lecky finds (Eighteenth Century, iii. 379) in the talk of the hour the "exaggerated and declamatory rhetoric peculiarly popular at Boston." Isaac Royal's letter to Dartmouth, Jan. 18, 1774, is in Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., Dec., 1873. There is a letter to the British officers at Boston attributed to General Prescott (Sabin, x. 40,316).
[263] The action of Parliament can be readily traced in Force, 4th ser., i. 35. The bill was immediately sent in print to this country, and it can be found in Force, in the N. H. Prov. Papers, vii. 402, and elsewhere.
[264] There are in the Boston Archives sundry record-books of this time: list of donations; records of Donation Committee; list of persons aided; cash-book of the Donation Committee. The House of Representatives at Salem, June 18, 1774, passed resolutions commending Boston to the aid of all, and sent these resolutions through the country in broadsides. The provincial congress at Cambridge, Dec. 6, 1774, recorded their vote and similarly scattered it. (Cf. Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., xiii. 182.) For the gifts which came to Boston, and the attendant records and correspondence, see Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., xix. 158, and vol. xxxiv.; Frothingham's Rise of the Republic, 382; Col. A. H. Hoyt's paper in the N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., July, 1876. For the help from Virginia, see Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., iii. 259.