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. He appointed civil officers in Suffolk County, and instituted there the complete civil and military jurisdiction of New York, but made no change whatever in its ecclesiastical condition, which continued
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precisely the same as wheu it claimed to be a part of Counecticut.
The above-cited provisions of the Instructions of King James to Uoveruor Dongan relative to the Church of England in New York were continued by William III., Aune, George I., George II., and George III. in their dilt'erent " lustructions " to the difiereut Governors of New York they successively appointed, with little or no variation in language and none in etl'ect.' Occasionally a new one was added, as in the Instructions to Lord Cornbury when he was appointed Governor by Ciueeii Anne, dated the '2%h of Janary, 1702, in which, clause No. G3, is in these words ; -- "You are to inquire whether there beany minister within yourGovernment who preaches and -administers the Sacrament in any orthodox church or chapel without being in due orders and to give an account thereof to the Bishop of London." The use of the word " Minis- ' ter" in these various Instructions is shown by the context of them, and markedly in this additional one to Cornbury, to mean and to designate clergymen only of the Church of England.