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 INTRODUCTION. 277 of six thousand pounds sterling, incurred in chap.vil the expedition against St. Augustine. An 1704. additional sum of eight thousand pounds was JJSdf^f * issued on account of the expenses of this in- vasion; and the act, imposing a duty on furs, skins and liquors, was continued for the pur- pose of redeeming it. The effect of this mea- sure was an actual depreciation of the currency, under the form of a rise in the price of com- modities, and of exchange. In a short time, one hundred and fifty pounds paper currency were given for one hundred pounds sterling* About the year 1707, died lord Granville, the palatine, a bigoted churchman, under whose influence very violent measures had been taken for the establishment of religious conformity in Carolina. He was succeeded by lord Cravan who, though of the same re- ligious tenets, was moderate in support of them, and mild in his temper. His disposition to indulge and thereby mollify the dissenters, was considered by the established church as endangering their religion ; and the legislature of South Carolina, which was elected under the influence of the opinions of the late pala- tine, and of the governor appointed by him, expecting a change in the administration, adopted the very extraordinary measure of continuing itself " for two years and for the time and term of eighteen months after the change of government, whether by the death of the present governor, or the succession of