[166] The charges against Andros were by this time practically abandoned, and he was commissioned governor of Virginia (see post, ch. iv.), while Joseph Dudley was made a councillor of New York.
[167] The charter was at once printed in Boston by Benj. Harris, 1692. It was reprinted by Neal in his New England, 2d ed. ii. App., and is included in various editions of the Charter and Laws, published since. The original parchment is at the State House, and a heliotype of its appearance, as it hangs in a glass case on the walls of the Secretary’s office, is given in the Memorial Hist. of Boston, vol. ii. The explanatory charter of a later year is similarly cared for. The boxes in which they originally came over are also preserved.
[168] Diary, i. 360. Printed copies of a proclamation by the General Court have come down to us, expressing joy at their arrival. F. S. Drake sale, no. 1126, bought by C. H. Kalbfleisch, of New York.
[169] May 31, 1693. The Great Blessing of primitive Counsellors; an appendix “To the inhabitants of the Province, &c.,” containing the vindication. It is reprinted in the Andros Tracts, ii. 301. Cf. Sibley, Harvard Graduates, i. p. 452.
[170] Sibley’s Grad. of H. Univ., i.
[171] This story is doubted. Cf. Conn. Col. Rec. 1689-1706. Their majesties’ letter touching the command of the militia (1694) is in the Trumbull Papers, p. 176.
[172] Sewall Papers, i. p. 386.
[173] His will is given in the N. E. H. & G. Reg., 1884, p. 205. Cotton Mather published in 1697 his life of Phips, as Pietas in Patriam; it was subsequently included in his Magnalia, after it had passed a second edition separately in 1699. Sibley’s Harvard Graduates, iii. p. 64.
[174] Diary, i. 404.
[175] The occasion was his tract Truth held forth, published in New York in 1695, for which he was tried at Salem in 1696. His success did not soften him, and he again assailed them in New England Persecutors mauled with their own Weapons (1697). Cf. A. C. Goodell in Essex Institute Collections, iii.; Sewall Papers, i. 414-16; Dexter’s Bibliog., nos. 2458, 2472; Maule Genealogy, Philad. 1868.