The Cantos Project - LXVI

LXVI

Could not let us bring their sugar to Europe
wd/ lessen the number of French and of Spanish seamen
Generally rode twice a day till made master
of this curious forest (Bois de Boulogne)
view of Issy and the castle of Meudon
game is not very plentiful. Dined at Amiens
put up at Abbeville. Dover view. Mr Johnson
Gt Tower Hill who informs me
that a vessel with one thousand hogshead of tobacco
is passed by in the Channel from Congress
to Messrs Willincks 27 Oct ‘83
Hague June 22, ’84
So there is No drop not American
Aye we have noticed that said the Ambassador
Sends to Morocco no marine stores
sends ‘em glaces and other things of rich value
Said Lord Carmathen wd/ present me
but that I shd/ do business with Mr Pitt very often
Posts not surrendered
are Presq’ isle , Sandusky etc/ Detroit Michilimakinac
St Joseph St Mary’s.
daughter married less prudently
and they were thinking of sending her to America
Presented
Mr Hamilton to the Queen at the drawing room
Mr Jefferson
and I went in a post chaise
Woburn Farm, Stowe, Stratford
Stourbridge, Woodstock, High Wycombe and back to
Grosvenor Sq
A national debt of
274 million stg/
accumulated by jobs contracts salaries pensions in
the course of a century
might easily produce all this magnificence
Pope’s pavilion and Thompson’s seat made the excursion poetic
Shenstone's the most rural of all
19th, Wednesday, anniversary of the battle of Lexington
and of my reception in Holland
which latter is considered of no importance
to view the seat of the banker Child
three houses, in fact, round a square
blowing roses, ripe strawberries plums cherries etc
deer sheep wood-doves guinea-hens peacocks etc
Dr. Grey speaks very lightly of Buffon
Mr H. prefers the architecture of
this house because it
reminds him of Palladio
windows with mahogany columns
there are two stoves but at neither of them
could a student be comfortable in cold weather
July 18th , yesterday, moved all the grass in Stony Hill field
this day my new barn was raised
their songs never more various than this morning
Corn by two sorts of worm
Hessian fly menaces wheat
Where T. has been trimming red cedars
with team of 5 cattle brought back 22 cedars
Otis full of election: Henry, Jefferson, Burr
T. cutting trees and leaves of white oaks
To barley and black grass at the beach
said one thing wd/ make Rhode Island unanimous
---meaning funding---
they wanted Hamilton for vice president
I said nothing.
WHERETOWARD THE ARGUMENTS HAD BEEN
as renouncing the transactions of Runing Mede?
Prince of Orange , King William by the people
that their rights be inviolable
which drove out James Second ... IS still active
Nothing less than this seems to have been meditated for us
by somebody or other in Britain
reprinted by Thos. Hollis
seventeen sixty-five
OB PECUNIAE SCARSISATEM
this act, the Stamp Act, wd/ drain cash out of the country
and is, further, UNconstitutional
yr / humanity
yr/ liberty cankered with simulation
Earl Clarendon to Bill Pym in the Baastun Gazette
Jan 17th 1768
Danegeld emptied the land of all coin
what are powers of these new admiralty courts in America
per pares et legem terrae
is there any grand jury to bring an indictment
to find presentments
any petit for fact
IS this trial per legem terrae
or by Institutes Digests Roman ?
Become attentive to their liberties
counties, towns, private clubs and sodalities
most accurate judgement
about the real constitution
which is not of wind and weather
what is said there
is rather a character
than a true
ching
ming
definition. It is a just observation.
Jury answers questions of fact
thus guarding the subject ...
pompous rituals theatrical ceremonies
so successfully used to
delude to terrify men out of virtue and liberty
Elizabeth tried , James First put out Goodwin
and the Commons reversed it
(London Chronicle)
By this course, said one member, free election is taken away
common rights our ancestors have left us
By this course, said another, the Chancellor
could call a parliament of only such as he please
After repeal of American Stamp Act
we have mortification to see one Act of Parliament after another,
money collecting from us continually without our consent
by an authority
in the constitution of which we have no share
and see the little coin that remained among us
transmitted to distance
with no hope of return
RESOLUTION to maintain duty and loyalty to our sovreign
and to Parliament as legislative in all cases of necessity
to preserve the Empire as a whole
17 June, 1768
Instructions to Braintree’s representatives
We mean by 6 Anne chap. 37, sec. 9
IT IS ENACTED
no mariner
be retained on any privateer ship or vessel
in any part of America ...be impressed on any ship of
Her Majesty’s any time after St Valentine’s day
on pain of L 20. per man
Small field pieces happened, said Governor Hutchinson,
to point at the door of the Court House
To the Hnbl James Otis and Thos Cushing Esquires
Mr Sam Adams and John Hancock Esquire
; ; ; ; . . . . . demands yr/ fortitude virtue and wisdom
to remove anything that may appear to awe or intimidate
late attack flagrant and formal
on the constitution itself
and the immunities of our charters
Unnecessary to repeat our known sentiments on the revenue
41st section repeals MAGNA
CHARTA the 29th chapter
as follows the words: NO FREEMAN ... to ... by his peers
and the law of the land
Whereon said Lord Coke, speaking of Empson and Dudley,
the end of these two oppressors
shd/ deter others from committing the like
that they bring not in absolute and partial trials by direction
... by every legal measure, sirs, we recommend you ...
Natural tendency of the legal profession to side with authority
freeholders and other inhabitants (Cambridge 21 Dec. ’72
Constitutional
means for redress ... natural rights ... charter right
money extorted from us, appropriated to the augmentation of
burdens upon us
independent of grants of our commons.
attest
Andrew Boardman town clerk
Judges salaries shd/ be independent both of the king
and of the people
great danger if commission hang upon either
a civil commission gives no new powers
tyranny in them to assume it
common lay of England, BIRTHRIGHT of every man here
and at home
‘not look on my self as in state of nature
and is pity that other man shd/’
Wm/Brattle
It is the wish of almost all good men, replied Adams
that what Brattle states were good law.
But from Edward First’s time to the present letters patent
are otherwise worded
sic: beneplacitu nostro
Ad regis nutum duratura
says Fortescue
chancellor
will it be shown that by ‘judges’ Genl Brattle
means barons of Exchequer?
custos rotolorum and clerk of the peace
were created by statute not erected by common law
Sir Edward Coke, who being in King's displeasure,
was removed from his place by writ of the King
reciting that whereas etc /// ... appointed to desist from ...
timid jurors and judges who held during pleasure
never failed to second the views of the Crown
he, James Second, was obliged before he brought Hales’s case
to displace 4 of his judges
By concerts between King James and Sir Edward ...
his coachman was employed to bring action ...
Jones had the integrity to tell the King to his face
that he might make 12 judges but wd/ scarce find 12 lawyers
of his opinion.
‘Wishing Genl Brattle success in his researches’
J. Adams
By another clause (in our Charter)
that the great and general court or assembly
shd/ have power
to erect judicatories courts of record
and other courts
to determine pleas processes plaints actions etc/
whereby a law (2 William III have established etc/
and in Edward IV this Beauchamps
was, for the uncertainty, VOID
By letters patent and under great seal
in all shires, counties palatine and in Wales
and any other dominions

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