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...altogether. The selections are drawn from letters, essays, critiques and talks on the BBC, plus a frail, touching, ninetyish farewell to all on British TV. The evening moves chronologically from Shaw's arrival in London and includes reminiscences of his early family life, his courtship of Charlotte Payne-Townshend, a millionairess, his epistolary romancing of Ellen Terry, the famed actress, and his meeting with Isadora Duncan at which, to his acute distress, she propositioned...
April 12. Townshend Act repealed, except for tax on tea, symbolic of Parliament's insistence on right to impose taxes...
...considerable experience in public affairs and the law. Their arguments are therefore based solidly on that American experience. As a matter of practical politics, the Colonists for the past decade directed their complaints against Parliament or the King's ministers, not against George himself. They attacked the Townshend Revenue Act, the so-called "Intolerable Acts" and other impositions as being the unconstitutional measures of a misguided Parliament, but not as the illegitimate usurpations of a ruler. In fact, the Colonists before 1764 enjoyed a freedom from parliamentary control that was denied to Englishmen at home. The English, for example, have...
...Massachusetts legislature asks other colonies to join in resisting Townshend duties. British threaten to dissolve any legislature that answers call. On May 16, 1769, Virginia House of Burgesses issues resolutions rejecting Parliament's right to tax colonies. Virginia Governor dissolves Burgesses, but members meet privately to declare boycott on dutiable goods...
...June 29. Townshend Revenue Act (named after Chancellor of the Exchequer Charles Townshend) requires colonists to pay import duties on tea, glass, paints, oil, lead and paper. Expected revenue: ?40,000 per year...