50 AMIAS ANDROS AND 



Edmund Andros evidently remained in Europe for the 

 first year of his married life, for in the autumn of 1672 he 

 was sent on a diplomatic mission to Sweden. In the British 

 Museum is another letter (1) written by Mr. James de 

 Havilland of Guernsey to Lord Hatton, dated from London 

 on Dec. oth, 1672. In it he says : — "This day came newes 

 from Major Andros from Stockholme, whoe writes that he did 

 hope to be here as soone as his letters, for that he is expected 

 here this weeke, the wind being large to come from Gotten- 

 bourgh. It is reported at Court that he hath spedd well and 

 performed his business very well ; what it is, is not certainly 

 known, onely some conjecture that it is about ye marriage of 

 his R-oyall Highness the Duke of Yorke with the Princesse 

 of Holstein, a near relation of the King of Sweden's." 



Edmund then returned to Barbadoes, where he remained 

 until the Treaty of Westminster, dated 19th of February, 1674, 

 by which treaty Peace between England and the Netherlands 

 was concluded, one of the principal provisions being that the 

 Colony of Surinam was ceded to the Dutch in exchange for 

 the Province of New York. 



Four days later Charles II. issued this fresh commission 

 to Andros. ® 



" Whereas wee have resolved to send the four remaining Companies 

 of our Barbadoes regiment into Our Kingdome of Ireland to be 

 entertained in our Service there ; and we being pleased as a particular 

 mark of Our Gracious acceptance of the Good Service performed by the 

 said Regiment to continue the same : Wee, therefore, reposing especiall 

 Trust and Confidence in your Loyalty, Courage and prudent Conduct, 

 doe hereby constitute and appoint you to be Major and Captaine of our 

 said Barbadoes Regiment of Foot . . . Whitehall, 23 Feb., 1673-4.'* 



Meanwhile Amias Andros was in failing health, and 

 Edmund, taking time by the forelock applied to the King for 

 a reversion of his father's office of Bailiff of Guernsey. 

 This was granted to him in January 1674, and Amias Andros 

 died in the Spring. (3) 



(1) Add. MSS. 29, 553, f. 231. 



(2) Guille MSS. 



(3) Inscription in St. Martin's Church :— 



•'lei repose le Corps d'Amice Andros Ecuyer, Seigneur de Sausmarez et 

 Chatelain de Jerbourg, Echanson hereditaire du Roy d'Angleterre en cette Isle de 

 Guernesey, Lieutenant de Ceremonies a la Cour des Rois Charles ler et Charles 2me 

 de Glorieuse Memoire, Bailly de la Cour Royale, Major General des forces en cette 

 ditte Isle. 



Decedee au Seigneur le 7me jour de Mois d'avril, l'an 1674, aage de 64 ans. 



This date does not seem to be correct, as we see by a letter addressed by five 

 of the Jurats to Lord Hatton (Brit. Mus., Add. MSS., 29554, f. 262), dated Guernsey, 

 29th March, 1674, which says :— " The sudden death of Mr. Baily, who died 

 last night at Sausmarez, about nine or tenne of the clocke at night, as he 

 sat in his chair in his study is ye cause we have this daye dispatched a 

 boat on purpose to give your Lordship . . notice of it . . [having] . . a due regard 

 to your Lordship's Prerogative of Nominating to y e Office of Baily granted to you 

 by his Maties Letters Patent ; and to beseeche that he may have ye due and fitt 



