Amid the political upheaval following the French and Indian War, the British government's attempts to tax the American colonies draw both colonist Jack Frake and aristocrat Hugh Kenrick into struggles against tyranny and injustice.

"The time is 1766, the Stamp Act has been introduced, and discontent is again running rampant. News of the unrest reaches the British Parliament as merchants successfully plead with the government to repeal the act before the nation is ruined. Although the act is repealed, Parliament is not going to relinquish powers to the colonies that easily, and Jack Frake and Hugh Kenrick are forced to stand up against a new wave of taxes and censorship imposed in the colonies"--Publisher description.

Third in the historical fiction series, this episode follows the continuing adventures of Jack Frake and Hugh Kenrick.

The figure of William Cecil dominates the court of Elizabeth I, and next to the queen herself, no one did more to shape the political, religious and economic landscape of late sixteenth century England. Nowhere is this influence more evident than in the ecclesiastical settlements that Elizabeth imposed on a country wracked by religious divisions and uncertainty. At the very heart of this settlement lay the question of the role of the bishops, and it is to this problem that Cecil was to devote much time and energy. Broadening our understanding of the Elizabethan Church, this study utilises a number of hitherto underused primary sources to re-examine the vexed issue of the role of bishops. It addresses the question of why certain men were appointed bishops whilst others, often seemingly better qualified, were passed over. Taking a broadly chronological approach, this book argues that Cecil, a committed protestant, hoped to remodel espiscopacy along 'reformed' continental lines. Rather than great princes of the church, Cecil envisaged 'superintendents' shorn of much of their traditional temporal power and wealth. Charting the first two decades of Elizabeth's reign it is shown how Cecil tried to convince the queen to abandon the established economic foundations of 'prelacy' in favour of a properly funded superintendency. In this he failed. Yet as long as Cecil remained a dominating voice at the council table the Church of England, through the mediation of a bench of conscientious and hard-working (if often hard-pressed) bishops, was assured of a broad base and an evangelical future. The remainder of Cecil's career, from 1577 to 1598, will be dealt with in a subsequent volume Lord Burghley and Episcopacy.