Note 19 — Ballads of the Revolution.[1]
Reading edition
March, 1763, “it became lawful ... for each ... armed vessel to stop and examine and, in case of suspicion, to seize each merchant ship approaching the colonies, while avarice was stimulated by hope of large emoluments to make as many seizures ... as possible.”—Idem., vol. v., ch. 5, p. 92.