In short the Dutch Church was acknowledged in its existence, confirmed in its creed, discipline, and worship, maintained in the possession of its property, and guaranteed in its rights in every respect and in every way. Nothing was altered, nothing abrogated, except its position as the Established Church of New Netherland. That was determined by the fall of the Dutch Province. Both were ended by the surrender to England. The new Province of New York had during its whole existence no connexion officially, with the Dutch Church, or any other church, except "the Church of England as by law established."

When the Province was recaptured hy the Dutch on the 8th of August 1673 the Dutch Church was reestablished in all her rights, privileges, and powers, as she originally possessed them. And when the second surrender to the English was made pursuant to the treaty of Westminster in September 1674, all were guaranteed to her again precisely as in 1664, except, of course, her position as an establishment; and she was also permitted to keep up her ecclesiastical connexion with, and subjection to, the ecclesiastical bodies of the Established Church of Holland, a connexion and dependence which continued unimpaired until the close of the American Revolution more than a century later. The position of the Dutch Church as an Established Church, was the reason why it was so particularly guarded, and provided for, in the Articles of Capitulation of 1664, and again in the special articles of surrender formulated by Governor Colve, and carried into effect by the English Governor Andross, in 1674, no other church being mentioned or referred to in either. And to this circumstance is owing the fact, that it was in consequence of these provisions in both sets of articles, that during the entire existence of New York as an English Province, the Dutch Church was ever treated with greater favor than any other church dissenting from the Church of