“The above said Mr. Philip French further declared that being on board the ‘Prudent Sarah,’ Benjamin Gillem Mast^r coming from England in company with Sir Will^m Fips. heard him speak severall times the words following to this effect, ‘that he did say the first fishing boat he mett he would hire and goe privately ashore and rise a company without beating of drum, and that he would take the packets sent to S^r Edmund and not deliver them to him, except he appeared in Councill, and there would secure him.’ “That about the same time upon the said voyage he heard S^r Will^m Fips say that he appeared before the Lords, and one of them starting up asked him whether they would stand by the rights of their Charter, or for the abuses they had received from Sir Edmund Andros; it was answered, by the right of their charter. “And about the same time this Deponant heard him say, that they (which this Deponant supposes were the Lords or the Cômons assembled in Parliament) told him, that if they did give them trouble to hang Sir Edmund, they deserved noe funds.” [143] _Conn. Col. Rec._ (1678–89), 250, 455–460. [144] _N. Y. Col. Doc._, iii. 723. Whitmore, _Andros Tracts_, iii. 22, 23, 41–43 (for his escape and capture, 95–102). [145] Hutchinson, i. 394. [146] Beverly, _History of Virginia_, i. 37. C. W. (Charles Wolley), A. M., _A Two Years’ Journal in New York_. For an unfavorable account, _Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc._, v. 124–166, “_An Account of the Present State and Government of Virginia_.” The Sainsbury Papers, in the State Library at Richmond, Va., are transcripts and abstracts from the London originals, of all official papers of this period, relating to Virginia, and an examination of them made in 1892, through the kindness of the State Librarian, gave strong corroboration of the view of Andros’s administration presented by Wolley and Beverly, and presented Blair and his friends in a less amiable light than they have presented themselves. _Cf._ Meade, _Old Churches and Families of Virginia_, i. 107, 108. Perry, _History of the American Episcopal Church_, vol. i. chapter vii. [147] Perry, _Historical Collections of the American Colonial Church: Virginia_. [148] Whitmore, I. xxxiv. Duncan, 130, 131, 589. “In 1704, under Queen Anne, he was extraordinarily distinguished by having the lieutenant-governorship of Guernsey bestowed on him, whilst he also continued bailiff, his duties, as such, being dispensed with for the time, he having power given to him to appoint his lieutenant-bailiff, who was likewise authorized to name a deputy.” [149] Whitmore, I. xxxv.