An American history . n of their trade. When he sent commissioners in 1664to investigate these conditions, they were insulted by a con-stable in a Boston tavern. Their chairman wrote back, Ourtime is lost upon men puffed up with the spirit of independ-ence. Edmond Ran-dolph sent over a fewyears later as a collectorof revenues, complainedthat the kings lettersare of no more accountin Massachusetts thanan old number of theLondon Gazette.^ Fi-nally, Charles II, pro-voked beyond patience,had the Massachusettscharter annulled in hiscourt (1684), and thecolony became a royalprovince. But before the
An American history . n of their trade. When he sent commissioners in 1664to investigate these conditions, they were insulted by a con-stable in a Boston tavern. Their chairman wrote back, Ourtime is lost upon men puffed up with the spirit of independ-ence. Edmond Ran-dolph sent over a fewyears later as a collectorof revenues, complainedthat the kings lettersare of no more accountin Massachusetts thanan old number of theLondon Gazette.^ Fi-nally, Charles II, pro-voked beyond patience,had the Massachusettscharter annulled in hiscourt (1684), and thecolony became a royalprovince. But before the greatPuritan colony enteredon its checkered careerof the eighteenth centuryunder royal governors,it bore a conspicuous part in the overthrow of that tyranny which the last Stuart king,James II, made unendurable for freeborn Englishmen. In 1686James united New York, New Jersey, and all New Englandinto one great province, which should be a solid bulwark againstthe danger of French and Indian invasion from the north, and. The Puritan (By Augustus St. Gaudens) 1 Randolph came at just the moment when Massachusetts was elated at havingled the New England colonies victoriously through the severe war with KingPhilip, 1676 (see note, p. 39). The English Colonies 51 where his governor should rule absolutely, unhampered by colo-nial charters or assemblies. He sent over Sir Edmund Androsas governor of this huge province extending from DelawareBay to Nova Scotia. Andros was a faithful servant, an uprightman, without guile or trickery, but a harsh, narrow, unbendinggovernor, determined that the instructions of his royal be carried out to the letter. In pursuance of theseinstructions he attempted toseize the charters of Con-necticut and Rhode Island,but was baffled 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 Am
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