>After publication of the Declaration of Independence in America in July 1776, Huchinson published anonymously in London the following November a point-by-point rebuttal called Strictures Upon the Declaration, defending King George III. Hutchinson's argument was that the Declaration was a series of "wilful misrepresentations," "imaginary grievances," and "brutal insults" as incitements to rebellion; further, that "if no taxes or duties had been laid upon the colonies, other pretences would have been found for exception to the authority of Parliament."[87]