Note 8 — Ballads of the Revolution.[1]

“Less than forty were willing to receive the petition of Virginia. A third from South Carolina, a fourth from Connecticut, ... a fifth from Massachusetts, ... shared the same refusal. That from New York, no one could be prevailed upon to offer.... The House of Commons would neither receive petitions nor hear council.”—Idem., vol. v., ch. 11, p. 246. This was in Feb., 1765.