"The bitter struggle between the popular or county party of the Lower House an the Proprietary and conservative interests as represented by the Governor and the Upper House, which has been narrated in former volumes of these Archives, reached a high water mark in the four sessions here recorded. In control of the purse strings of the Province, the Lower House at a time when money was desperately needed to provide men and supplies to prosecute the war, (between Great Britain and France for control of Canada and the Mississippi Valley) used this weapon in an attempt to extort political concessions from the Lord Proprietary, even to the extent of jeopardizing the defence of its own frontiers." The introduction summarizes the proceedings of the four sessions of the Upper and Lower Houses, and then discusses the controversial questions of political, legislative, legal, administrative, and military importance. The appendix contains a number of old records which, although not part of the official proceedings of either house, have a direct bearing on Assembly affairs for this period.
J. Hall Pleasants
(1938), 2007, CD-ROM, Graphic Images, Searchable, Adobe v6, PC or Mac, 826 pp.
ISBN: 9780788445408
101-CD4540
