The history and antiquities of Boston .. . reason for believing it to be the work of the f Neal, Hist. N. Eng., ii. 486 ANDROS AND OTHERS IMPRISONED. [1689. Country, being on horseback, the regiment of the Town, and many com-panies of horse and foot from the Country, appearing in arms ; a grandentertainment was prepared in the Town-house, and wine w^as served outto the sohliers.* Fears of being called to account by the Government in England werenow at an end, and the Council proposed to the Deputies to exhibit Ar-ticles against Sir Edmund Andros, and the other prisoners, orto set them a
The history and antiquities of Boston .. . reason for believing it to be the work of the f Neal, Hist. N. Eng., ii. 486 ANDROS AND OTHERS IMPRISONED. [1689. Country, being on horseback, the regiment of the Town, and many com-panies of horse and foot from the Country, appearing in arms ; a grandentertainment was prepared in the Town-house, and wine w^as served outto the sohliers.* Fears of being called to account by the Government in England werenow at an end, and the Council proposed to the Deputies to exhibit Ar-ticles against Sir Edmund Andros, and the other prisoners, orto set them at liberty upon security. This was not agreed after Andros was encouraged to demand his release and the releaseof those concerned with him, then in prison. But the Deputies re-^^ solved that Mr. Joseph Dudley, Sir Edmund Andros, Mr. Ed-ward Randolph, Mr. John Palmer, Mr. John West, Mr. JamesGraham, Mr. George Farwell, and Mr. James Sherlock, were not bail-able, and sent up several heads of charges against them. The summer and autumn passed away, and Sir Edmund and hiscompanions were still prisoners to the Bost
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