The king, he said, had no right to veto a Virginia law that was for the good of the people.

To do so was an act of tyranny, and the people owed no obedience to a tyrant.

The case was decided for the clergyman.

For the law was clearly on his side.
But the jurymen agreed with Henry.

They gave the clergyman only one farthing damages, and no more clergymen brought cases into the court.
The king's veto was openly disobeyed.
[Sidenote: Proclamation of 1763.