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VIRGINIA, COLONY. The Petition to His Majesty. To the King's Most Excellent Majesty. Most Gracious Sovereign. Your Majesty's most loyal and Dutiful Subjects, the Council, and the Burgesses of Virginia, now met in General Assembly....[p.7:] The Remonstrance to the House of Commons.... [Colophon:] Williamsburg: William Rind: Printer to the Colony 1769. Folio, 313 x 209 mm. (12 3/8 x 8 1/4 in.), pp. 1-11 [1]. Collation: A-C2, stabbed and sewn, uncut, as issued, last page slightly dusty. Not in Evans or Bristol; not in Williamsburg Imprints and apparently unrecorded. DAVID HARTLEY'S COPY. Signed at top of first page in a bold eighteenth-century hand: "G.W. Fairfax" (apparently George William Fairfax (1725-1787), neighbor of George Washington, who went to England on business in 1773 and remained there until his death, although sympathetic to the Revolution.
VIRGINIA PROTESTS THE TOWNSHEND ACTS: AN UNRECORDED WILLIAMSBURG IMPRINT, 1764
The top of the first page prints a notice signed in type by George Wythe, Clerk of the House of Burgesses: "The following Petition, Memorial and Remonstrance, were ordered by the House of Burgesses not to be published with the Journals until the 15th of December, before which Time it was supposed they would be laid before his Majesty, and both Houses of Parliament." Its text consist of three documents: "The Petition to His Majesty" (pp.1-3) "The Memorial to the House of Lords" (pp.3-7) and "The Remonstrance to the House of Commons" (pp.7-11), both presenting in forceful but deferential terms American grievances over the Stamp Act. The first section is signed in type: "The Council, and the Burgesses and Representatives of the People of Virginia."
In its memorial to the House of Lords, Virginia acknowledges "the Wisdom and Justice of Parliament, in repealing the late oppressive Stamp-Act, though they must consider several recent acts of the British Legislature as equally subversive to those constitutional Principles of Liberty and Freedom, which they and their ancestors have ever esteemed their indisputable Birthrights....[N]o Power on Earth has a Right to impose Taxes upon the People, or to take the smallest portion of their Property, without their Consent, given by their Representatives in Parliament; this has ever been esteemed the chief Pillar of their Constitution.... Let not your Memorialists, my Lords, be misunderstood...they do not wish an Independency of their Parent Kingdom...." Further on, the petition refers to the Townshend Acts and to Townshend's bill for the suspension of the New York Assembly (15 June 1767) to enforce compliance with the Quartering Act: "If the Parliament has the Right to compel the Colonies to furnish a single Article for the Troops sent over to America, by the same Rule, they may oblige them to furnish Cloaths, Arms, and every other Thing, even the Pay of Officers and Soldiers, a Doctrine replete with every Kind of Mischief, and utterly subversive of every Thing dear and valuable to us...." The repeal of the acts in question is urged to secure "the full Enjoyment of all our natural Rights and Constitutional Privileges."
VIRGINIA PROTESTS THE TOWNSHEND ACTS: AN UNRECORDED WILLIAMSBURG IMPRINT, 1764
The top of the first page prints a notice signed in type by George Wythe, Clerk of the House of Burgesses: "The following Petition, Memorial and Remonstrance, were ordered by the House of Burgesses not to be published with the Journals until the 15th of December, before which Time it was supposed they would be laid before his Majesty, and both Houses of Parliament." Its text consist of three documents: "The Petition to His Majesty" (pp.1-3) "The Memorial to the House of Lords" (pp.3-7) and "The Remonstrance to the House of Commons" (pp.7-11), both presenting in forceful but deferential terms American grievances over the Stamp Act. The first section is signed in type: "The Council, and the Burgesses and Representatives of the People of Virginia."
In its memorial to the House of Lords, Virginia acknowledges "the Wisdom and Justice of Parliament, in repealing the late oppressive Stamp-Act, though they must consider several recent acts of the British Legislature as equally subversive to those constitutional Principles of Liberty and Freedom, which they and their ancestors have ever esteemed their indisputable Birthrights....[N]o Power on Earth has a Right to impose Taxes upon the People, or to take the smallest portion of their Property, without their Consent, given by their Representatives in Parliament; this has ever been esteemed the chief Pillar of their Constitution.... Let not your Memorialists, my Lords, be misunderstood...they do not wish an Independency of their Parent Kingdom...." Further on, the petition refers to the Townshend Acts and to Townshend's bill for the suspension of the New York Assembly (15 June 1767) to enforce compliance with the Quartering Act: "If the Parliament has the Right to compel the Colonies to furnish a single Article for the Troops sent over to America, by the same Rule, they may oblige them to furnish Cloaths, Arms, and every other Thing, even the Pay of Officers and Soldiers, a Doctrine replete with every Kind of Mischief, and utterly subversive of every Thing dear and valuable to us...." The repeal of the acts in question is urged to secure "the full Enjoyment of all our natural Rights and Constitutional Privileges."