Two Chapters of the Lost Book of Chronicles: Six Letters to the Good People of England; and Several Other Pieces, Relative to the Dispute between Englishmen in Europe and in America. By an Old English Merchant, and a Friend to the King
- Anonymous Pamphleteer 1774 (author)
- Jack P. Greene (collection editor)
This pamphlet addresses the political dispute between Britain and its American colonies in the years leading up to the American Revolution. It combines a mock-biblical satire (framed as missing chapters of the Book of Chronicles) with a series of open letters to the British public, using both parody and direct argument to weigh in on questions of colonial rights, imperial authority, and reconciliation between “Englishmen in Europe and in America.”
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