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" harbouring pyrates " and stopped their even more profitable 

 recreation of sending out privateers to plunder the West Indies. 



Sir Edmund being quite restored to favour, now em- 

 barked on a second marriage ; in August, 1691, he married 

 Elizabeth Crispe, (1) daughter and co-heiress of Thomas Crispe 

 of Quekes, in Kent, and widow of Sir Christopher Clapham, of 

 Clapham, Yorkshire. The brother of Sir Edmund's first 

 wife — Sir William Craven — had married a daughter of Sir 

 Christopher Clapham, so that Sir Edmund probably met his 

 second wife while staying with the relations of his first. 



In July, 1692, undaunted by memories of ancient wrongs, 

 he returned to America, as William HI. had made him 

 Governor of Virginia, and subsequently added Maryland to 

 his jurisdiction. 



King William was a far cleverer statesman than the 

 Stuarts had ever been, and therefore did not hamper his 

 officials with a multitude of irritating orders and regulations 

 as his predecessors had done. Therefore Sir Edmund, having 

 more or less a free hand, was much more popular in this 

 new appointment than he had been before. 



He arrived in Virginia on October 16th, 1693, and 

 brought out with him the Charter of William and Mary 

 College, of which he laid the foundation stone. He honestly 

 devoted himself to the interests of the colony, encouraged 

 the cultivation of cotton, improved the methods of adminis- 

 tration, and stimulated the life of the people by his own 

 eager and adventurous spirit. His innate habits of order 

 and method were exemplified in his care of the early records 

 of Virginia. He found them in utter confusion, torn, soiled 

 and neglected. He at once ordered steps to be taken for 

 their re-arrangement and better preservation, and when the 

 States House was burnt down had them carefully sorted out 

 and registered. By these acts and his genuine interest in 

 the welfare of the people he would have succeeded in gaining 

 general esteem and affection, had he not unfortunately fallen 

 foul of Dr. James Blair, Principal of William and Mary 

 College. Dr. Blair was as hot-tempered as Sir Edmund, and 

 spoke his mind in as choleric and outspoken a way. He was 

 the representative of the Colonial Church authorities under 

 the supremacy of the Bishop of London and the English 

 Church ; and through their united influence Sir Edmund 

 was recalled to England in 1698. 



(1) Marriage License— Faculty Office. Archbishop of Canterbury, Andrews, 

 Sir Edmund Andros, Knight, of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Co. Middlesex, widower, 

 and Elizabeth Clapham of St. Paul's, Covent Garden, Middlesex, widow. Alleged 

 by Ralph Marshall of St. Paul's aforesaid, Esq., at St. Margeret's, Westminster. 

 3rd August, 1691. 



