[Robinson, Matthew, Baron Rokeby]:

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CONSIDERATIONS ON THE MEASURES CARRYING ON WITH RESPECT TO THE BRITISH COLONIES IN NORTH-AMERICA. The first Boston edition, following the London edition of the same year. This is one of six American editions (three in Boston alone) published in 1774. Robinson was very sympathetic to the cause of the American colonists, and his pamphlet was certainly popular with the more radical element in the colonies. The author is highly critical of Lord North's administration, but Franklin is taken to task as troublemaker. The Monthly Review described the author, Baron Rokeby, as "one of the most candid and best informed of any of the late writers on the interests of Great Britain and her colonies."

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