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to have been in the latter's possession at the time of his 

 death. W 



In 1671 Edmund returned to England, and on Sept. 1st 

 was given a commission in the newly constructed " Bar Dadoes 

 Regiment of Foot." (2) He was then staying with his old 

 friend Lord Craven, at Drury House in Drury Lane. Drury 

 Lane was in those days an avenue of lovely elms leading to 

 one of the best kept gardens in London, within the gates of 

 which Drury House, an Elizabethan mansion, was situated. (3) 



Lord Craven and Edmund Andros must often have 

 served together both at the Hague and in London, as both 

 were attaches at the court of the Queen of Bohemia ; so it is 

 not surprising to find that in February 1672 Edmund married 

 Mary Craven, kinswoman of Lord Craven, and aunt of the 

 William Craven who afterwards inherited his title. 



The month following Mr. Lyttleton wrote to our Governor 

 Lord Hatton, thanking him for " ye noble present of ormers " 

 and going on to say " Prince Rupert is about raising a 

 regiment, Sir John Talbot, Lt. Colonel, and Andrews, Major, 

 Sam Morris, Ensigne. The four companies come from 

 Barbadoes are in that regiment and six more." (4) Accordingly 

 on March 30th, 1672, Major Andros received yet another 

 commission from King Charles, namely as " Major of Our 

 Barbadoes Regiment of Dragoons, to consist of twelve troops, 

 and each troop of eighty men . . . under the command of Our 

 dear Cousin Prince Rupert." (5) It was this regiment which 

 was the first among the British Army to " have and carry a 

 bayonet or great knife " <6) which had been named after the 

 town of Bayonne, and introduced into the French Army the 

 previous year. In 1663 Chailes II. had granted his Province 

 of Carolina in America to the Earl of Clarendon, Lord 

 Berkeley, Lord Craven, the Duke of Albemarle, the Earl of 

 Shaftesbury, Sir George Carteret, Sir James Colleton and 

 Sir William Berkeley, with power to create and confer titles 

 of honour ; and a constitution had been founded by which 

 two classes of hereditary nobility with the titles of Landgraves 

 and Caciques were created and granted possessions pro- 

 portioned to their respective dignities. At this juncture these 

 Proprietors exercised their Prerogatives in favour of Edmund 

 Andros, and on April 23rd, 1672, they granted him a Patent 

 under their hand and seal, conferring on him and his heirs, in 



(1) See Guille MSS. " A Manuscript List of Sir Edmond Andros' Pictures." 



(2) Guille MSS. 



(3> Lives of the Queens of Scotland, &c, by Stickland, Vol. VIII. , p. 273. 



(4) Hatton Correspondence, Camden Series, Vol. I., p. 82. 



(5) Guille MSS. 



(6) Mackintosh's Origin of the Coldstream Guards, pp. 185-6. 



