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PARSON'S CAUSE PARSON'S CAUSE, refers to conflict over ministers' salaries in the 1750s and 1760s. Ministers' salaries had been fixed (1748) at 17,200 pounds of tobacco a year, and laws in 1755 and 1758 sought to limit price fluctuations by allowing payment in paper money at two pence per pound. Because tobacco sold for sixpence a pound, ministers assailed the law, obtaining a royal veto in 1759. In court battles in the 1760s, Patrick Henry defended Virginia against claims for back wages, assailing vetoes of laws for the public good and securing a jury award of one penny damages. After a series of further setbacks, the ministers ceased their agitation after 1767.
BIBLIOGRAPHY Christie, I. R. Crisis of Empire. New York: Norton, 1966.
Parson's Cause
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