52 AMIAS ANDROS AND 



transubstantiation. He also produced a certificate, signed by 

 Mr. Peter de Jersey, Vice Dean of Guernsey, and by 

 Nicholas Tourtel and Peter Manger, Churchwardens of St. 

 Martin's, and witnessed on oath by Messrs. William Andros 

 and Peter Dobree, that on the previous Sunday he had par- 

 taken of Holy Communion in St. Martin's Church according 

 to the rites of the Church of England. 



Of course this appointment was merely a sinecure and 

 Edmund knew it, for four months before this (March 30th, 

 1674), King Charles had written to the States General at the 

 Hague, desiring them that they would " order the dispatch 

 as early as possible of the necessary instructions to your 

 Governor or Commandant of the place called New York in 

 the West Indies {sic), to surrender it to Sieur Edmond 

 Andros." « 



Two months later (May 30th) he had been made Captain 

 " of a Company of Foot to be in garrison in New York in 

 America." < 2) His subordinate officers being " Anthony Brock- 

 holes, 1st Lieut., Christopher Billop, Lieut., and his own 

 brother-in-law, Caesar Knapton, Enseigne." (3) 



Meanwhile King Charles had renewed the gift of his 

 American dominions to his brother the Duke of York, and he 

 it was who granted Edmund Andros the Patent, dated July 1st, 

 1674, of the Governorship of New York. In it the Duke 

 says : — " Whereas I have conceived a good opinion of the 

 integrity, prudence, ability and fitness of Major Edmund 

 Andros ... I have therefore thought fitt ... to constitute 

 him my Lieut** and Governor." ^ 



On August 6th, 1674, before sailing for America, Edmund 

 Andros did homage to the King in person for his Seigneurie 

 of Sausmarez, as his father had done before him ; and on the 

 17th of the month he made the following provisions for the 

 Civic Government of Guernsey : 



"Know all men by these presents — That whereas I have 

 constituted Charles Andros, Esq., D'Anuille to be my Lieut. 

 Bayliffe of his Ma*i£S Court Royall in his Island of G-arnsey. 

 And being commanded by his Mati£2 and Royal Highnesses' 

 service to New York in America. Doe hereby constitute and 

 appoint John de Sausmares, Esq., now one of the Juratts of 

 the said Court to succeed the said Charles Andros as my Lieut*- 

 in case of death, and alsoe to supply his place as my Lieut*- 

 if the said Charles Andros shall happen to be necessarily absent 

 or incapacitated by sicknesse or otherwise during such absence 



(1) Documents relative to the Coloniai History of the State of New York, 

 Vol. II. , p. 544. 



(2) and (3) Guille MSS. 

 (4) Guille MSS. 



