...budget in the House of Commons ; and gave notice that, towards defraying the expenses of the late war in America, " it may be proper to charge certain Stamp duties in the said colonies." On the same day the watchful agent of Connecticut in Lon don notified the Governor of this threatened...

...Securing the British Colonies & Plantations in America, it may be proper to charge certain Stamp duties; it is His Majesty's Pleasure, that you should transmit to me, without delay, a b'st of all instruments made use of in public transactions, law proceedings, Grants, Conveyances, Securities...

...towards defraying the necessary expences of defending, protecting and Securing the British Colonies & Plantations in America, it may be proper to charge certain Stamp duties; it is His Majesty's Pleasure, that you should transmit to me, without delay, a list of all instruments...

...articles of American commerce were carried without any resistance, as well as a vague resolution that ' it may be proper to charge certain stamp duties in the said colonies and plantations ' (Journal of the House of Commons, xxix. 935). On 7 Feb. 1766 a series of fifty-five resolutions,...

...and grant unto your Majesty, &c. " This was followed by a resolution of the English Parliament, "that it may be proper to charge certain stamp duties in the said colonies and plantations." When intelligence of this resolution reached America, the colonists were filled with alarm, and petitions...

...passed by the House of Commons, which read as follows : " That towards defraying the said expenses it may be proper to charge certain stamp duties in the said colonies and plantations." This was the first muttering of an approaching storm. Its significance was seen by Franklin and other...

...to America ; one of which stated that for further defraying the expense of protecting the Colonies it may be proper to charge certain stamp duties in the said Colonies. Further measures were put off for a year, in order that the Colonies might have the opportunity themselves...

...carried a resolution asserting that ' for further defraying the expense of protecting the colonies it may be proper to charge certain stamp duties in the said colonies.' Further measures were postponed for a year, in order to ascertain fully the sentiments of the colonies,...

...1764, he carried a motion declaring that " for further defraying the expense of protecting the colonies it may be proper to charge certain stamp duties in the said colonies." This resolution, of so momentous import, attracted little attention in England at the time, but it...

...the whole House the I7th day of March last, it was resolved that towards defending, protecting and securing the British Colonies and plantations in America, it may be proper to change Stamp Duties in the said colonies and plantations; and that it being apprehended that the same...