Note 10 — Ballads of the Revolution.[1]
Reading edition
“The continued refusal ... to receive tea ... had brought distress upon the East India Company.... Praying ... to export teas, free of all duties, to America ... Lord North proposed to give to the company itself the right of exporting its teas ... the ministry would not listen to the thought of relieving America from taxation.”—Idem, ch. 49, pp. 457, 458.