An American history . ffled by the localpatriots in both colonies. Ex-asperated by resistance, An-dros made his hand doublyheavy upon the Massachu-setts colony, which the Stuartsrightly looked upon as thestronghold of democratic sen-timent in America. He dis-missed the MassachusettsAssembly, abolished the colo-nial courts, dispensed justicehimself, charging exorbitantfees, established a strict cen-sorship of the press, intro-duced the Episcopal worship in Boston, denied the colonists fair and speedy trials, and levieda land tax on them without the consent of their deputies. The patience of the
An American history . ffled by the localpatriots in both colonies. Ex-asperated by resistance, An-dros made his hand doublyheavy upon the Massachu-setts colony, which the Stuartsrightly looked upon as thestronghold of democratic sen-timent in America. He dis-missed the MassachusettsAssembly, abolished the colo-nial courts, dispensed justicehimself, charging exorbitantfees, established a strict cen-sorship of the press, intro-duced the Episcopal worship in Boston, denied the colonists fair and speedy trials, and levieda land tax on them without the consent of their deputies. The patience of the colony was about exhausted when the 59. Thewelcome news arrived, in April, 1689, that James II had been oiuWon^o?driven from the English throne. The inhabitants of Boston ^f^^j^^Mas-immediately responded by a popular rising against Jamessodious servant. Andros tried, like his master, to flee from thevengeance of the people he had so grievously provoked, but hewas seized and imprisoned, and later sent back to ^^v# ^ ^-^ Governor Edmund Andros 5 2 The Establishment of the English The town meeting of Boston assumed the government, ap-pointed a committee of safety, and sent envoys to London tolearn the will of the new king, William of Orange. Thus the Glorious Revolution of 1689 in Massachusetts was truly apart of the English Revolution of 1688, and a foreshadowingof the greater Revolution begun eighty-six years later by thedescendants of the men who expelled Andros in defense of theprinciples of the men who expelled James The new King William granted a new charter to Massachusetts insetts*charter 1691, while Connecticut and Rhode Island quietly resumedHi 1691 government under their old charters, retaining them as state constitutions well into the nineteenth century. The new Mas-sachusetts charter provided for the union of Plymouth withthe Bay colony under a royal governor, and broke down theold Puritan rdgime by guaranteeing freedom of worship to allProtestant se
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