A Narrative of the Proceedings upon the Complaint against Governor Melvill
- Anonymous Pamphleteer 1770 (author)
- Jack P. Greene (collection editor)
“A Narrative of the Proceedings upon the Complaint against Governor Melvill” is an 18th-century pamphlet documenting a formal dispute over the conduct of Governor Robert Melville. The work serves as a protest against the Committee for Trade and Foreign Plantations' decision to acquit Melville following a controversy that arose from his attempts to implement laws permitting Roman Catholics to participate in the government of Grenada. As a piece of colonial administrative and legal history, it offers insight into the political and religious tensions surrounding governance in Britain’s Caribbean territories in the late 1760s and early 1770s.
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