5:A]

FOOTNOTES:

[349:A] First Series, v. 124.

[351:A] The council, in the time of Governor Andros, consisted of Ralph
Wormley, collector and naval officer of Rappahannock River; Colonel
Richard Lee, collector and naval officer of upper district of Potomac
River--these two having been appointed while Sir William Berkley was
governor; Colonel William Byrd, who was appointed auditor during Lord
Culpepper's administration; Colonel Christopher Wormley, collector and
naval officer of the lower district of the Potomac River, appointed
while Lord Effingham was governor; Colonel Edward Hill, collector and
naval officer of upper district of James River; Colonel Edmund Jennings,
collector and naval officer of York River--these two being appointed in
Lord Effingham's time; Colonel Daniel Parke, collector and naval officer
of the lower district of James River, and escheator between York and
Rappahannock Rivers; Colonel Charles Scarburgh, collector and naval
officer on the Eastern Shore, and Mr. John Lightfoot, who had lately
arrived in the country--these last four appointed while Sir Edmund
Andros was governor.

[355:A] Account of Va., in Mass. Hist. Coll., first series.

CHAPTER XLIV.

1698-1702.

Administration of Andros--Controversy with Blair--The Rev.
Hugo Jones' Account of Maryland--Andros succeeded by Nicholson
--Alteration in his Conduct--Supposed Cause--Williamsburg made
the Seat of Government--His tyrannical Proceedings--Prejudice
of Beverley, the Historian--Act against Pirates--Offices of
Speaker and Treasurer combined--Capture of a piratical Vessel--
Death of Edward Hill--Commencement at William and Mary--Demise
of William the Third--Succeeded by Anne--Nicholson's Description
of the People of Virginia.

GOVERNOR ANDROS took singular pains in arranging and preserving the
public records; and when, in 1698, the State-house was burned, he caused
the papers that survived to be arranged with more exactness than before.
He ordered that all the English statutes should be law in Virginia; this
preposterous rule gave great dissatisfaction. He was a patron of
manufactures; but the acts for establishing fulling-mills were rejected
by the board of trade. He encouraged the culture of cotton, which,
however, fell into disuse.

By royal instructions, Andros was invested with the powers of ordinary,
or representative of the king and the bishop of London, in the affairs