And y('U are to take especial care that Books of Homilys & Books of the 39 Articles of y'' Church of England bee disposed of to every of y'' .said churches, and that they bee only kept and used therein.

" 38. And wee doe further direct that noe Schoolmaster bee henceforth permitted to come from England & to keep school within our Province of New York, without the license of the said Archbishop of Canterbury ; And that noe other person now there, or that shall come from other parts, bee admitted to keep school without your license first had."

In the face of these direct, positive " Instructions"' of James II. to Governor Dongan there can be no question that the King in the legal exercise of his power as Kiilg, as soon as it was possible after he came to the throne of England established the Church of England in his former Proprietary, and now Royal, Province of New York, subject only to the articles of surrender of 1664, of 1674, and the treaty of Breda in 1667, which guaranteed the continued existence therein of its former established Church of Holland with all its rights of faith, discipline, and property; and subject also as far as Suffolk County was concerned, to the pre-existing Congregational Church of Connecticut as there practically established under the authority of the General Court of that Colony. If the latter was a legal establishment under the laws or charter of Connecticut prior to the Dutch surrender in 1664 and the treaty of Breda in 1667, then the King of England was legally bound to maintain it as such. He did immediately after the first Dutch surrender, by his commissioners make a change in the civil condition of Suffolk County by deciding that Long Island, of which it was then, as it is now, the eastern end, was not a part of Connecticut, but was a part of New York.