King William, as King, formally apjtroved the Ministry Act of 1()!)8 passed by the Legislature of New York, and as by the law of England he could not acknowledge any other church as orthodox or any other Ministers, as Ministers, except those of the Church of England, it follows that the words and terms of that act referred to the Church of England and only to that church. That this is the sense, and the only legal sense, in which these words were then used, is shown by an opinion of Sir Edward Northey, the Attorney-General, in 1705, asked by the Board of Trade anil Plantations, upon the grant of ecclesiastical power in the Patent of Maryland, which closes with these words, "and the consecrations of chapels ought to be, flw in England, by Orthodox Ministers only." -

No English Governor hiis been more denounced for hisaction in regard to the church of England than Lord Cornbury, and his official acts concerning it have been abused in almost every possible way. His action has been taken as the result of pure bigotry, and he termed a bigot, while he was merely carrying out the Instructions he had sworn to support and maintain. His "Instructions" arc therefore here given at length, taken from the original Instrument which with his Commission under the hand and seal of Queen .\nne, are now in the hands of a geutlemau in New York.

'In the 3d, 4th, 5th and 6th volumes of the "Col. Hist, of N. Y." nearly all of thorn may he founil.