| Description | The tea was sent back to England from Philadelphia by order of the mob as soon as it arrived, enclosing a report of a meeting of the inhabitants of Boston and Philadelphia, and declaring the consignees to have forfeited the protection to which every good citizen is entitled, and also a protest signed by forty of the inhabitants of the same town, protesting against the foregoing report and declaring their loyalty to the King For full description see HMC Calendar (11th Report Appendix 5), 1887, available for consultation at the Staffordshire Record Office and at the William Salt Library, Stafford |