Note 228 — Chapter I · (continued 2)

The principal later English accounts are in Stedman, Mahon (v. 268), Grahame (iv. 310), Ryerson's Loyalists (i. ch. 16). Lecky (England in the Eighteenth Century, iii. 369, 401) thinks Bancroft shows violent partisanship, and says that "few things contributed more to the American Revolution than this unfortunate affray. Skilful agitators perceived the advantage it gave them, and the most fantastic exaggerations were dexterously diffused."