Parsons cause tried at Hanover Court House December 1st 1763, Re-enacted and re-tried December 1st 1957. Address of Hon. Peter Lyons [manuscript], 1957.

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Parsons cause tried at Hanover Court House December 1st 1763, Re-enacted and re-tried December 1st 1957. Address of Hon. Peter Lyons [manuscript], 1957.

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In a re-enactment of the famous Parsons Cause trial sponsored by the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, Haw "prepared and delivered the address which in his opinion should have been delivered by Mr. Lyons," representative for the Reverend James Maury in answer to Patrick Henry, counsel for the defendant. Reenactment and retrial scripts of the Parson's Cause trial, in which James Maury sued for receipt of his parson's salary at the higher inflated rate of tobacco prices. Parsons salaries had been readjusted for inflation by the Two-penny Act of 1758.

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