The Sugar Act of 1764 imposed a duty of 2 pounds, 19 shillings, and 9 pence on every hundredweight of foreign coffee sold in the colonies. This is even more egregious when you consider that the ...

In 1764 he published The Rights of the British ... political tracts published in the year between the passage of the Sugar Act and the passage of the Stamp Act, approval was far from universal.