Annals of King's Chapel from the Puritan age of New England to the present day . one of the officers, The Generalis drunk. No, answered the officer,he never drinks any strong Indian replied, I do not mean thathe is drunk with rum. He was borndrunk. (N. Y. Hist. Soc. Proc, 1868, — CHURCH AND STATE UNDER ANDROS. 61 His name will appear again in our narrative, and his escutcheon was with reason hung in gratitudeon a pillar in the little The capable instrument of a des-potic cause, himself imperious, quick-tempered, alien in every feeling fromthe Puritan ways, Andros had been a
Annals of King's Chapel from the Puritan age of New England to the present day . one of the officers, The Generalis drunk. No, answered the officer,he never drinks any strong Indian replied, I do not mean thathe is drunk with rum. He was borndrunk. (N. Y. Hist. Soc. Proc, 1868, — CHURCH AND STATE UNDER ANDROS. 61 His name will appear again in our narrative, and his escutcheon was with reason hung in gratitudeon a pillar in the little The capable instrument of a des-potic cause, himself imperious, quick-tempered, alien in every feeling fromthe Puritan ways, Andros had been apage in his boyhood in the RoyalHousehold, and had shared the exileof the Stuarts. They knew him well,and found him faithful and an ablesoldier in Dutch and American ser-vice. His earlier career in New York,and later in Virginia after New Eng-land had done with him, does not fallwithin our story. But it is worthnoting, that, whereas here he made hisbitterest enemies by his zeal for theChurch, in Virginia he found thechurchmen his greatest His portrait represents a. ARMS OF SIR FRANCIS NICH-OLSON, 1693. Colden Letters). The Council of Vir-ginia petitioned the Queen, May 20, 1703, for relief of our selves and other yourMajestys good and Loyall Subjects ofthis country from the many great griev-ances and pressures we lie under by rea-son of the unusuall, insolent, and arbi-trary methods of Government as well aswicked and scandalous examples of lifewhich have been now for divers yearspast put in practice by his ExcellencyFrancis Nicholson, etc. Vet not longbefore, the Society for Propagating theGospel, etc., had voted: That thethanks of this Society be given to ColonelFrancis Nicholson, Governor of Virginia,for the great service he has done towardsthe propagation of the Christian Religionand the establishment of the Church ofEngland in the Plantations, and particu-larly for his having contributed so largelytowards the foundation of many churchesalong the continent of Nor
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