Jack Hitt
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849 appearances
5 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 3 Jul
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That's the assistance part.
You command it.
I mean, if they stop you, if one of these customs agents stops you and says, you have to help me, you have to help them.
And so you have this like little mob practically coming into people's places and searching and looking for smuggled goods and everything.
Oh, yeah.
These writs are executed, you know, by authority from London by the court in Massachusetts.
Got it.
So you really have this sort of like wonderful...
Tempest in a teapot where you have, you know, the authorities are angry because duties are definitely being avoided.
Right.
Taxes are not being collected.
Money is not going into the king's coffers.
So you have that.
And then you have the merchants and they're also furious about, you know, the abuse of these blanket warrants.
So, you know, everybody's like ready for a courtroom battle.
And so the merchants bring a lawsuit and charge that, you know, these writs of assistance are illegal.
OK, OK.
So now now it's February 1761.
We're in the town hall that's now called the old state house in Boston.
And there were five British judges sitting in wigs and red robes at the front.
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