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The Virginia Gazette
Richmond, Williamsburg, Richmond County, Virginia
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Boston residents emphasize their charters from the Crown, questioning Parliament's right to annul them, while Patriots oppose the Crown's decision to make governors independent of assemblies, voting English ministers as traitors.
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The Boston Patriots are again amusing themselves in fomenting a Quarrel with the Mother Country; the Crown has, it seems, lately made its Governours judiciously independent on the American Assemblies. This has greatly nettled the Fabii and Decii of the Massachusetts Bay; they insist that the King's maintaining the Governour's Establishment is an Inversion of their Constitution, and they have spiritedly voted the English Ministers who gave that Advice little less than Traitors to the Crown and Enemies to the People.
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Boston
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they have spiritedly voted the english ministers who gave that advice little less than traitors to the crown and enemies to the people
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The People of Boston lay great Stress on their Charters derived from the Crown, as if a British Parliament had not a legal Right to annul all Charters prejudicial to the Interests of England. If the King's Acts are to bind this Nation, the Pope may lay a Claim with as much Propriety to the Crown of England, for it was solemnly surrendered to him by our John, and received again as the gracious Donative only of the Papacy. The Boston Patriots are again amusing themselves in fomenting a Quarrel with the Mother Country; the Crown has, it seems, lately made its Governours judiciously independent on the American Assemblies. This has greatly nettled the Fabii and Decii of the Massachusetts Bay; they insist that the King's maintaining the Governour's Establishment is an Inversion of their Constitution.