Note 44 — Ballads of the Revolution.[1]
Reading edition
“The council questioned” (i.e., the colony’s council) “his authority to distribute the stamps, and unanimously advised him to declare that he would do nothing in relation to them, but await the arrival of the new governor, and his declaration to that effect ... was immediately published. But the confidence of the people was shaken.”—Idem., vol. v., ch. 19, p. 356.