tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post201636279630199160..comments2024-03-28T04:26:30.557-05:00Comments on Boston 1775: Lord Bute, Meserve, and the DevilUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-573090341785960282010-11-07T20:10:53.945-05:002010-11-07T20:10:53.945-05:00Sorry I wasn’t clear. There seem to have been usua...Sorry I wasn’t clear. There seem to have been usually two effigies hanged together—in this case, Bute and Meserve. At the first Stamp Act protest in Boston in August 1765, they were Bute and Andrew Oliver. At another protest on 1 November, they were Grenville and John Huske. In March 1768, they were Charles Paxton and John Williams, two Customs officials.<br /><br />The Devil and Pope effigies were never hanged, so far as I can tell, though they were burned on the evening of 5 November. The Devil’s effigy shows up at these political protests, but never the Pope’s.J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-25866178228022053792010-11-07T09:46:07.529-05:002010-11-07T09:46:07.529-05:00Two effigies - the devil and the pope, here substi...Two effigies - the devil and the pope, here substitued with Meserve?Deb Hollandnoreply@blogger.com