On December 16, 1773, at Boston Harbor in Massachusetts, a group of "Sons of Liberty" disguised as Indians boarded a cargo ship and dumped its tea, along with the stamp tax documents transported with it, into the sea.
The incident began because Britain, seeking to sell off the British East India Company's tea, passed the East India Company Relief Act. This act not only granted the East India Company the right to be exempt from high tariffs, but also explicitly banned the colonies from selling "smuggled tea" while imposing a modest "tea tax."
Even the straw that broke the camel's back had weight, though the tea sold off by the East India Company cost half as much as the colonies' "smuggled tea" in the Americas.
The East India Company Relief Act was passed by Parliament. The difference between this sort of parliamentary charter and a royal charter lay in its "time limit." Generally speaking, royal charters lasted "forever." Aside from property requirements, if one's ancestors had received a charter, their descendants could continue to be voters. Such people were often loyal supporters of the royal family.
In 1853, an aristocrat engaged in charitable work proposed that railway companies must designate demolition zones before constructing routes, so as to avoid affecting too many poor people. Unable to prevail in their arguments, the railway companies could only go back and redraw their plans, waiting for approval before they could build the railways.
Everyone at the time knew that land along railway lines would rise in value. The same was true in America, except the two railway companies building railways there had no plans, nor did they have time to make any, because whoever reached the contract first got it.
Cokeworth had probably risen around that time. It was merely one of the