He occupied the speaker's chair until 1737, when he lost his seat; but at an election held soon afterward to till a vacancy from the city he was once more returned, although, it was charged, only by means of the "most barefaced villany " practiced in his behalf by the sheriff. He was again chosen speaker in 1739, and remained as such until 1745, when, at the age of eighty, his legislative career was terminated. He died in 1740. He was never married. It is thus seen that Adolph Philipse was one of the most important public characters of his times, being speaker of the assembly for eighteen years. His retirement as a member for Westchester County was in the interest of his nephew, Frederick, who promptly took the seat that he vacated, retaining it without any interruption for twenty-four years. In the memories of the people of Westchester County the name of Philipse is, from the political point of view, identified exclusivelv with the idea of ultra devotion to royal authority in the person of the king's constituted representative. It is hence an extremely curious fact that, six years before the removal of Lewis Morris from the chief justiceship, Adolph Philipse, the senior member of this family, gave his voice and exercised his official power in exactly the same cause as that to which Morris became a martyr-- the cause of opposition to the Court of Chancery as an extra-constitutional organization, none the less (indeed, all the morel illegal and odious because finding its sole warrant for existence in the governor's prerogative. In 1727 we find Governor Burnet bitterly complaining to the Lords of Trade about some " extraordinary resolves " concerning the Court of Chancery, "which," he says, "was all done at the suggestion their speaker, who had lately lost a cause in chancery." Philipse,of he continues, had "the least reason of any man to disown the Court of Chancery, for he himself was a member of council when that court was established by the council and when the Lords of Trade approved that establishment, and he himself three years ago being cast in a suit at common law brought it into chancery and obtained some relief from it." Burnet intimates that the conduct of Speaker Philipse in this matter was not occasioned by any high sense of principle, but was merely personal; and certainly Philipse had no cause in this connection, or regarding any other question of policy, to make himself specially complaisant toward Governor Burnet, who had procured his dismissal from the council.