In the 1760s William Blackstone ( 1979: 41 ) described the thesis:

According to the great treatise of the 1760s by William Blackstone entitled Commentaries on the Laws of England:

Following Restoration of the monarchy in 1660 the issue of parliamentary reform lay dormant until it was revived in the 1760s by the Whig Prime Minister William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (" Pitt the Elder "), who called borough representation " the rotten part of our Constitution " ( hence the term " rotten borough ").

Social scientist William Baillie Hamilton notes that Captain James Cook and his assistant Michael Lane, who mapped Newfoundland in the 1760s, often displayed a sense of humour in the place names they chose, and were not above selecting names that might offend overly sensitive readers.

William Shirley ( 2 December 1694 – 24 March 1771 ) was a British colonial administrator who served as governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay ( 1741 – 1749 and 1753 – 1756 ) and as Governor of the Bahamas in the 1760s.

John and William Bastard rebuilt the town over the following 30 years and the town centre features Georgian architecture from the 1730s to 1760s.

The current project ( 2011-) is the restoration of Dublin's 1760s City Assembly House in South William Street.

The current Royal Mews was built to designs by John Nash and were completed in 1825 ( though the Riding School, thought to be by William Chambers, dates from the 1760s ).

The resulting correspondence between the leading church elders, Glas and Sandeman, and English pastors, Samuel Pike, John Barnard, and William Cudworth among others, led to the adoption of this primitive form of Christianity for their London congregations beginning in the early 1760s.

In the 1760s William Blackstone described the Fundamental Laws of England in Commentaries on the Laws of England, Book the First – Chapter the First: Of the Absolute Rights of Individuals

Marske was sold to a Ringwood farmer for 20 guineas on the death of Prince William, Duke of Cumberland, and was used to breed with " country mares " in the 1760s.

He was co-author, with George Colman, of Ode to Obscurity and Ode to Oblivion, both published in the early 1760s, and both satires on the works of the poets William Mason and Thomas Gray.

She enjoyed a long friendship with Joseph Priestley and William Enfield, starting from their years together at the Warrington Academy in the 1760s, where her father was tutor.

However, it appears that remodelling was not undertaken until the 1760s when his son William Constable commissioned a number of architects for designs.

The Dining Room was substantially remodelled by William Constable in the 1760s, who commissioned designs from Robert Adam, Thomas Atkinson, and Timothy Lightoler ( who won the commission ).

After graduating, he moved first to Virginia in the 1760s, then settled in Charleston, South Carolina ( which had been settled from Bermuda in 1670, under the leadership of William Sayle, and which had a large community of expatriate Bermudians ) and opened a practice.

In the early 1760s, Guyasuta sought peace with the British Army.

They called themselves Regulators, a reference to the Regulator movement of North Carolina that sought to reform corrupt practices in the late 1760s.

In these private letters, written between 1767 and 1769 to Thomas Whately, a then-retired leading member of the British government in the 1760s, Hutchinson, among other inflammatory statements, recommended that popular government be taken away from the people " by degrees ", and that there should be " abridgement of what are called English liberties ".

Alton Towers grew into a collection of gardens: a Swiss Cottage, a Stonehenge, a Dutch garden, a Pagoda Fountain, said to be based on the To Ho pagoda in Canton, Lysicrates ' Choragic Monument from Athens ( a feature in English gardens since the 1760s ), domed glasshouses ( originally gilded ), even a fairly large Matterhorn as a backing to one of England's earliest Alpine gardens.

The title track is drawn from Thomas Pynchon's novel about Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, the two English surveyors who established the border between Pennsylvania and Maryland, Delaware and Virginia in the 1760s.

In the 1760s Spain, because of encroachments of the French from Louisiana and the English along the Gulf coast, decided that they would have to complete the conquest of the Seno Mexicano ( the Gulf coast, especially Tamaulipas and Texas ).

The period from the early 1760s through to the 1800s was a time of massive expansion of the English canal network-the motorway system of the day.

By the 1760s the English, both at home and in the American colonies, applied the term “ cracker ” to Scots-Irish and English American settlers of the remote southern back country, as noted in a passage from a letter to the Earl of Dartmouth: " I should explain to your Lordship what is meant by Crackers ; a name they have got from being great boasters ; they are a lawless set of rascalls on the frontiers of Virginia, Maryland, the Carolinas, and Georgia, who often change their places of abode.

" Knife urns " placed on pedestals flanking a dining-room sideboard were an English innovation for high-style dining rooms of the late 1760s.

In The Fallon Blood, escaping brutal English overlords, 1760s Irishman Michael Fallon becomes an indentured servant to Charleston, South Carolina merchant Thomas Carver, where his infatuation with Carver's sensual daughter Elizabeth causes life-changing complications.

From the late 1760s, Matthew Boulton ( 1728 – 1809 ) of Birmingham produced English ormolu vases and perfume-burners in the latest Neoclassical style.

Richard " Dick " Nyren ( c. 1734, Eartham, Sussex – 25 April 1797, Bromley-by-Bow ) was an English professional cricketer who played first-class cricket during the 1760s and 1770s in the heyday of the Hambledon Club.

During the 1760s and 1770s it became common to pitch the ball through the air, rather than roll it along the ground.

Personal factors may also have played a role in Bowdoin's shift in views: John Temple, the local customs commissioner and Bowdoin's son in law, was embroiled in nasty disputes with Governor Francis Bernard in the 1760s.

Les Danaïdes followed in the tradition of reform that Gluck had begun in the 1760s and that Salieri had emulated in his earlier opera Armida.

As a vice-Kapellmeister and later Kapellmeister, his output expanded: he composed over forty symphonies in the 1760s alone.

Cuba failed to prosper before the 1760s due to Spanish trade regulations.

In the late 1760s he became interested in the New Hampshire Grants, buying land there and becoming embroiled in the legal disputes surrounding the territory.

In the 1760s, after some pirates were hanged from one of the island's scrubby trees, it became known as Gibbet Island.

This step took place during the 1760s – 1770s.

" By the 1760s he was good enough on the harpsichord to play with professional musicians in concerts.

Washington began to pull himself out of debt in the mid 1760s by diversifying his previously tobacco-centric business interests into other ventures and paying more attention to his affairs.

It was the gradual infringement on the rights of the colonies starting in the 1760s that would lead to the American War of Independence.

The town became a watering place in the 1760s, and then, with the coming of the railway, a seaside resort.

Coeurdoux made a thorough comparison of Sanskrit, Latin and Greek conjugations in the late 1760s to suggest a relationship between them.

Cook's aptitude for surveying was put to good use mapping the jagged coast of Newfoundland in the 1760s, aboard the HMS Grenville.

Euler wrote over 200 letters to her in the early 1760s, which were later compiled into a best-selling volume entitled Letters of Euler on different Subjects in Natural Philosophy Addressed to a German Princess.

In the late 1760s, two Methodist lay preachers emigrated to America and formed societies.

From 1760s to the 1860s, local militia units were used to support British Army units stationed in Canada.

In the mid 1760s, the government requested the Huron and Delaware to return runaway slaves, but there was no record of slaves having been returned.

Opera seria was the most prestigious form of Italian opera, until Gluck reacted against its artificiality with his " reform " operas in the 1760s.

By the 1760s hymns had become an established feature of religious devotion in the Evangelical church, where early ( post-Reformation ) hymns were versifications ( producing song-like verses from the original words of the psalms ) of the biblical text of the psalms, known as metrical psalms.

Economic relations were distinguished by the reducciones ( reductions or townships ) that were established by Jesuit missionaries from the early seventeenth century until the 1760s.

His account is based upon a letter written by Obadiah Poundage ( who had worked for decades in the London brewing trade ) in the 1760s.

" George Grenville, Prime Minister in the 1760s, said it was " an odious title " and never used it.

" Gradually the colonial governments expanded the policy of religious toleration, but then, between the 1760s and the 1780s, they replaced it with " something that is usually called religious liberty.

* Julius Soubise was a freed Afro-Caribbean slave who became a well-known fop in the UK during the 1760s and 1770s.

The Burmese, who had taken control of Lanna and had also unified their kingdom under the powerful Konbaung Dynasty, launched several blows against Ayutthaya in the 1750s and 1760s.