An American history . Island and Connecticut. If strongMassachusetts could not cope with Andros, what could weaklittle Rhode Island do ? Nothing. An-dros extended histyranny over RhodeIsland without op-position. Connecti-cut gave him moretrouble. When hecommanded theConnecticut author-ities to surrendertheir charter, theyevaded doing so andAndros went toHartford to compelthe surrender. There is a tradition that he met the colonialofficials in a conference by candle light with the charter in astrong box on a table between them; suddenly the candleswere blown out, and when they were relit, the b
An American history . Island and Connecticut. If strongMassachusetts could not cope with Andros, what could weaklittle Rhode Island do ? Nothing. An-dros extended histyranny over RhodeIsland without op-position. Connecti-cut gave him moretrouble. When hecommanded theConnecticut author-ities to surrendertheir charter, theyevaded doing so andAndros went toHartford to compelthe surrender. There is a tradition that he met the colonialofficials in a conference by candle light with the charter in astrong box on a table between them; suddenly the candleswere blown out, and when they were relit, the box with thecharter had disappeared; the precious document had beencarried off and liidden in a hollow tree known ever after asthe charter oak. However, this did not keep Andros frombecoming master of Connecticut. 150. The Great Province. The power of the kings rep-resentative was now very great. James increased it byadding to the Dominion two colonies outside NewEngland. In 1688 New York was added to the jurisdiction. THE CHARTER OAK io6 AMERICAN HISTORY of Andros. New Jersey was also annexed by royal the territory ruled despotically extended from the lowerDelaware to Nova Scotia. James seemed to be in a fairway to accomplish his end and combine all his Americandominions into one great province with a single despoticgovernor. 151. James defeats his own End. The king, in his devo-tion to absolutism, was determined to thrust upon hissubjects his own religion, which happened to be the RomanCatholic. In this he had the example of his cousin the kingof France, who was the very embodiment of England was in a situation far different from that ofFrance. Though many of her people believed in absolutism,almost none believed in Roman Catholicism. It has beenestimated that only three per cent of the population be-longed to the Church of Rome. The nonconformists werealso weak. As we have seen, great numbers of them hademigrated to America. It is doubtful if Engla
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