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For the resolution see, Van Schreeven and Scribner, Revolutionary Virginia, I, 89-92. Also note that this committee consists of men who ware on opposite sides of the fence in the Stamp Act debate in 1765. The Boston Tea Party and the Intolerable Acts Reaction to the Tea Act was nearly unanimous. The tax should not be paid and a boycott on tea imposed. A boycott developed in Virginia.
This coarse and intemperate lecture was not calculated to make a convert of a young and spirited prince. State Papers, iii. App. 89-92. Carte's Letters, i. 323. Whitelock, 439. The address of the kirk was composed by Mr. Wood, and disapproved by the more moderate. Their present scarcely differed from their former demands; nor were they less unpalatable to the king.
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