Note 268 — Chapter I · (continued 2)

There are in the Mass. Hist. Soc. cabinet two early, apparently official copies of the act for regulating the government. Cf. Ramsay's Revolution in South Carolina (i. 204); Frothingham's Rise of the Republic, p.347, where are various references. Hutchinson wrote from London that he was opposed to these acts (Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., Jan., 1862, p. 301). A letter from Jos. Wood, in London, April 18, 1774, makes note of the efforts of the Americans in London to prevent Parliament committing itself so hastily to the Regulating Act (Penna. Mag. of Hist., x. 265). Something of the spirit of these protests can be seen in Bishop Shipley's Speech intended to have been spoken on the bill for altering the charters of the colony of Massachusetts Bay (London, 1774). Cf. in reply A speech never intended to be spoken in answer to a speech intended, etc. (London, 1774). Cf., on Shipley, Franklin's Works, viii. 40. The bishop's views are also expressed in his Sermon before the Soc. for the propagation of the Gospel in foreign parts (London, 1773; Norwich, Conn., 1773). There is a portrait of Shipley in the European Mag., April, 1788.