postrēmō, multīs dētrimentīs frāctī, pācem petiārunt; quam mox adeptī sunt, Canadā aliīsque regiōnibus Britannīs trāditīs.
Vasingtō interim ab exercitū domum redierat, ubi in mātrimōnium dūxit mātrōnam quandam, quae Marta appellabātur tum annos paucos in praediō suō mānsit ōtiōsus.
Nunc mihi dīcendum est dē bellō, quod colōnī paucīs post annīs cum Britannīs ipsīs gessērunt.
Diū rēx senātusque Britannōrum ā prōvinciīs vectīgālia quaedam exigere erant cōnātī, etsī hae lēgēs lātae erant in conciliō, in quō suffrāgium ferre Americanō nullī licēbat. Id colōnī molestē ferēbant ac postrēmō, cum iam tanta iniūria nōn diūtius ferenda vidērētur, omnibus ex prōvinciīs in unum locum virī delectī, in eīs Vasingtō, ad cōnsilium commūne capiendum convocātī sunt. Hī, conciliō habitō, litterās ad rēgem Britannōrum mīsērunt, quibus postulābant ut colonīs iūra eadem concēderentur, quae domī cīvēs reliquī obtinēbant. Quibus litterīs acceptīs, rēx īrātus nōn sōlum iūra concēdere
1.
2.
6.
i.e.
petierunt:
quam: p. 37,
petiverunt.
adept! sunt cf. the note on 8. Britannis: dat. case.
1.
translate
by an-
ferenda bearable; lit. what ? with convocati
13.
unum locum:
in
this (noun).
otiosus
sunt,
1.
14.
consilium
other part of speech.
trast
vectlgalia N., taxes.
words.
9.
10.
leges
vectlgalia, -ium,
15.
lex, legis, F.,
meas-
ure, or law. 11.
(state
the
.
.
-i,
of affairs).
ferre: N.).
cast Mb',
a
this
26, concilio
in, p. .
meaning
litteras
for
of the
17.
joyed.
obtinebant:
1.
7.
con-
two
the force of
the plural, see the Vocab. 16. quibus in which ; abl. of means.
suffragium
vote (suffragium,
15.
in els: cf.
strictly,
freely,
en-
