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governorship of East Jersey. But Carteret was
acquitted, the Assembly of East Jersey sustained
their Governor, and the towns refused to submit.
Meanwhile, charges of corruption had been
brought against Andros in New York, where his
imperious manner and arbitrary conduct had made
enemies. He was recalled to England in 1681 to
answer these charges, and in consequence of the
disaffection which he had stirred up he was re-
moved from office.

Colonel Thomas Dongan, the Governor chosen
to succeed Andros, was a younger son of an Irish
Baronet and a Roman Catholic. The laws of Eng-
land forbade a Catholic to hold office in that coun-
try; but there was not the same barrier in the
province subject to a Lord Proprietor. James,
being of the Catholic faith, was therefore glad to
appoint people of that religion in the New World.
Realizing, however, that the feeling against Catholi-
cism was strong in the colony, the Duke gilded
the pill by granting more liberal laws and a more
popular form of government than had previously
been permitted. At the time of his appointment
Dongan received instructions from the Duke of
York to call a representative Assembly of not more
than eighteen members to be chosen by the