the County of Westchester." ^ The " Parish of Rye" included the Manor of Scar&dale, and the non-manorial lands of Rye and Bedford.

Later Yonkers was taken from Westchester, and made a Parish by itself. It M'as the only Parish €ntirely embraced within the limits of a Manor, being wholly included within the boundaries of Philii^seburgh as they are described in the Manor-Grant of that Manor. New Rochelle was taken out of the Manor of Pelham and eventually made a Parish by itself, though it long continued a Precinct of the Parish of Westchester.

These were the Parishes in Westchester County, one of the four Counties of New York, in which, the Church of England became, under the legal action of the Crown of England in its conquered Province, the Established Church ; the others being the Counties of i New York, Richmond, and Queens.

A misconception has existed in relation to the origin and establishment of the Church of England in the part of the territory of New York, comprising the four Counties that have been named. It has been owing mainly to the little attention bestowed on the subject, both by those who are now the successors in belief of the Church of England since the American Revolution, and those of the dissenting ecclesiastical organizations. The few writers who have referred to the subject at all, have taken for granted, and honestly believed, that no such establishment ever existed, and, of course, have written in that belief and with that idea. But some attention to the Authorities, and the then law, bearing upon the subject, will show that the current popular opinion is not as well founded as has been supposed.