Sundays were only times set apart by them for all manner of vain sports and lewd diversion, and they were grown to such a degree of rudeness that it was intolerable. I liaving then command of the militia, sent an order to all the captains . . . that in case they would not in every town agree among themselves to appoint readers and to pass the Sabbath in the best manner they could . . . that tlie captains should every Sunday call their companies under arms and spend the day in exercise." -

It was a matter of great satisfaction to the many of all parties in the province when the news was received about this time that the King had wisely granted a full pardon to Williams and the others with Leisler, who all this while, though released on bail, yet remained under sentence of death. Their course had awakened no little enthusiasm in their determined refusal " to own their liberty a favor," or depart "from the justification of their crimes." "What they did was for King William and Queen Mary."' It was

1 Baird's Rye.

2DunIap's "History of Xew York," vol. i. p. 217. 3 New York Col. JIans., vol. iv. pp. oo, 83.

determined in England very properly, for the sake of harmony, to waive the point of humility and grant a full release to all concerned.

In 1695 the Assemblymen from Westchester County were Joseph Purdy, of Rye, and Humphrey Underbill; but in April, 1697, Underbill, for non-attendance, was expelled, and Joseph Theale returned in his stead. In 1698 the Earl of Bellamont succeeded Fletcher in the Governorship, and in the new Assembly Joseph Purdy, and John Drake of East Chester, appear for Westchester County. A complaint of undue election was made to the House by Henry Fowler, of East Chester, and Josiah Hunt, of Westchester ; but after thorough consideration Purdy and Drake were unanimously declared to have been duly elected.