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EJMP.774.105
16 Nov 1774:13,21 (1/48)
From a late London paper. To the People. I will follow the
Quebec bill to the throne, as I would the framer of it to a
scaffold. I have told the King that if he assents to the
bill he will break his coronation oath; and a breach of an
oath, whether in a King or a peasant, I call Perjury. . .
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. . . If I know any thing of the spirit of Englishmen, the
scaffold would be crouded with heroes, the Abbey with
children, for the sake of a raree-show; whilst thus would
run the general shout of the people--off with the head that
pays no regard to the sacredness of an oath! [signed] A
Scotchman.
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