7/25 In this way the colonists would get their tea cheaper than the people of England. But the colonists were not to be bribed into paying the tax in any such way. The East India Company sent over ship-loads of tea. The tea ships were either sent back again or the tea was stored in some safe place where no one could get it. _Higginson_, 171-173; _Eggleston_, 165; _Source-Book_, 137.] 123. |