Annals of King's Chapel from the Puritan age of New England to the present day . d recross and mutually support each other. The government of Andros lasted two years and four out implicitly the orders of the royal master who hadchosen him for his trusted instrument,2 he sought to make un-mistakably clear the doctrine of the absolute dependence uponthe Crown of every person in New England. The English lawof the time held that in the forfeiture of the charter all rightsunder it lapsed to the Crown, as the original owner of the terri-tory. Neither college, town, nor landowner had
Annals of King's Chapel from the Puritan age of New England to the present day . d recross and mutually support each other. The government of Andros lasted two years and four out implicitly the orders of the royal master who hadchosen him for his trusted instrument,2 he sought to make un-mistakably clear the doctrine of the absolute dependence uponthe Crown of every person in New England. The English lawof the time held that in the forfeiture of the charter all rightsunder it lapsed to the Crown, as the original owner of the terri-tory. Neither college, town, nor landowner had any rightswhich were not dependent on the kings sole pleasure. 1 4 Mass. Hist Coll., viii. 517. The Schoolhouse on Lords Days. I supreme authority of the Governor in used it until 1715. such matters is recognized by a petition 2 I lis character is well summed np in the Mass. Archives, addressed to Sir by Mr. Whitmore. 1 Andros by the French congregation, ix, x, and J. B. Brodh< Oct. 25, 1687, for the use of the Latin eminent of Sir L. And p» -o. 84 ANNALS OF KINGS ARMS OF ANDROS. Accordingly, while in England the last Stuart king was hasten-ing toward his destruction in a course which is unrolled beforeus in the splendors of Macaulays statelypage, Andros was making it clear to everyNew Englander that the sixty years of vig-orous growth in independent life were an-nulled, and that the colony which had beentreated by Cromwell almost as an indepen-dent State was only a Proprietary people had heretofore taxed themselvesby act of their legislative assembly: nowthe Governor and his Council laid rates andduties. They had heretofore made their own laws : the Governorand Council relieved them of that responsibility. They haddeemed themselves owners of the land they lived on: they nowfound that it would be necessary to pay for new grants to theCrown as proprietor of the farms they or their fathers beforethem had cleared. And the hungry office-holders who camewith
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