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1774-1776
THE BOSTON TEA SHIPS
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involved in an altercation almost as violent with the Archbishop of York, who in a charge to his clergy had attacked the fair character of Lord Rockingham.[1] It would, however, be difficult perhaps to draw any real distinction between the violence of Lord Shelburne and that of many other speakers. As the Duke of Grafton observes in his Memoirs, the debates at this period "were unusually frequent and warm," and few readers of them will be inclined to disagree with the opinion of so competent a judge.[2]

  1. Autobiography of the Duke of Grafton, 296.
  2. Ibid. 298.

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