Note 7 — THE HANCOCK HOUSE AND ITS FOUNDER.
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"At length wearied with the altercation and persuaded of the justness of their cause," (in refusing to settle a fixed salary on Gov. Burnet,) "the House resolved to apply to his Majesty for redress, and Mr. Francis-Wilkes, a New-England merchant, then resident in London, was selected as their agent."—Barry's History of the Provincial Period of Massachusetts, p. 126.