Annals of King's Chapel from the Puritan age of New England to the present day . ueens Chapel in Boston. Before the decease of King William, Colonel Joseph Dudleyhad succeeded in obtaining his long-coveted appointment to thehigh office of Governor. Hated for his desertion of the popularparty, a sharer in the downfall of Andros, as in all his mostoppressive measures, ten years had passed since he went fromthe prison which he shared with the companions of Andros toa varied life in English employment. But his heart yearned forhis native New England, and perhaps he hoped to efface mensblame of him
Annals of King's Chapel from the Puritan age of New England to the present day . ueens Chapel in Boston. Before the decease of King William, Colonel Joseph Dudleyhad succeeded in obtaining his long-coveted appointment to thehigh office of Governor. Hated for his desertion of the popularparty, a sharer in the downfall of Andros, as in all his mostoppressive measures, ten years had passed since he went fromthe prison which he shared with the companions of Andros toa varied life in English employment. But his heart yearned forhis native New England, and perhaps he hoped to efface mensblame of him by a worthy administration. He may have hadhard measure in judgment from his contemporaries, which hasalso been repeated by our historians. But it is to be remem-bered that he came back from England as governor to enforcethe very measures which, as agent of Massachusetts, he hadbeen sent there to thwart. His townsmen and former friends 1 Secretary of the Province. 3 English Church in the Eighteenth 2 Sewalls Diary. Century, i. 59, 62, 277. GOVERNOR DUDLEY AND THE CHURCH. I49. could not find an explanation for his course consistent with sim-plicity, unselfishness, and integrity. The providence was a darkone, as some one said, requiring, like the Hebrew letters, to beread backwards. 1 Of him Randolph had writ-ten in 1682: If he finds things resolutelymanaged, he will cringe and bow to hath his fortune to make in the man was thought by the people here tohave been more trusted, or more in New England he had been a Con-gregationalism but now his attitude was to bemore dubious. As Governor of the Isle ofWight, and member of parliament, Dudley dudley have conformed to the Church of England. His uncer-tain relation to its representative chapel here will appear as ournarrative proceeds. Increase Mather significantly preached: — There is more of the Divine Glory in New England than in allAmerica besides; we have the greater cause no
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