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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 11: (search)
Walpole to Hertford, 26 March, 1765. At one time pains were taken to secrete him from all intercourse with his court. His physician hinted the propriety of his retiring to one of his palaces in the country. Walpole's George III., 83. To a few only was the nature of his illness known. Be every sentiment of anger towards the king absorbed in pity. At the moment of passing the Stamp Act, George the Third was crazed. Adolphus's History of England, i. 175. London Quarterly Review for June, 1840. So, on the twenty-second of March, it received the royal assent by a commission. The sovereign of Great Britain, whose soul was wholly bent on exalting the prerogative, taught the world that a bit of parchment bearing the sign of his hand, scrawled in the flickering light of clouded reason, could, under the British constitution, do the full legislative office of the king. Had he been a private man, his commission could have given validity to no instrument whatever. It was Grenville's