Note 7 — Ballads of the Revolution.[1]

See the Representations of the General Assembly at New York to the King, concerning the administration of justice in that province, 1762, mentioned in Idem., vol. v., ch. 5, p. 84. “By the laws of nature and of nations, the voice of universal reason and of God, by the statute law and the common law, this memorial claimed for the colonists the absolute rights of Englishmen, ... such were the views of Otis sent by Massachusetts” in 1764 “to its agent in London.”—Idem., vol. v., ch. 10, pp. 198-9.