This course was followed in New York, and the other British-American colonies in which the church of England existed. But as there was no Bishop at that time in this country, the Ordinary was either the Governor, by virtue of his Commission, or the Bishop of London's Commissary, who was a clergyman appointed by the Bishop to perform certain administrative duties here, and one or the other acted in the Bishop's place. The Governor of the Province usually issued the mandate of, and appointed a proper person to perform the ceremony of. Induction.

This right of advowson and church patronage was specifically granted in express terms to four out of the six manors in Westchester County, and is set forth specifically in the Manor Grants of ' Cortlandt,' ' Philipseburgh,' 'Pelliam,' and ' Morrisania.' In that of Scarsdale it is not granted, nor in that of Fordham, a proof of the statement made above that Manor franchises varied in difl'ercnt Manor Grants.

At the beginning, the instruments of Presentation and Induction in New York were in Latin, and many of them are recorded in the public offices of the older Counties, in that tongue. Later they were in English. The following is a complete sequence of these curious and instructive documents showing the Collation and Induction into the "Parish of Rye,

HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

Mamaroneck, and Bedford," of tlie Rev. Ebenezer Punderson, as its incumbent in the year 1763, the whole being in English. The originals are in the possession of John C. Jay, M.D., of Rye. They are printed in Bolton's History of the Church in the County of Westchester, page 300, etc. Tlie headings do not appear in the originals. In this case the right of Patronage was vested in the Wardens and Vestry of the Parish itself, as was often the case.