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mutual confidence and regard, but the rude facts
of history hurry us on to quite different scenes.
William Burnet, son of the Bishop of Salisbury,
continued the policy of his predecessor, it is true,
and lived on unusually amicable terms with the
Assembly. He identified himself with the interests
of the province by marrying the daughter of a
prosperous Dutch merchant and by prohibiting
the fur trade between Albany and Canada; yet
even Burnet clashed with the Assembly on occa-
sion. And when after an interval William Cosby
became Governor, the worst abuses of executive
power returned, fomenting quarrels which reached
a climax in the famous Zenger trial.

The truth was that no matter how popular a
governor might be, clashes were bound to occur
between him and the representatives of the people
whom he governed, because they represented
divergent interests. The question of revenue was
an ever-recurring cause of trouble. Without
adequate funds from the home Government, the
Governor looked to the Assembly for his salary as
well as for grants to carry on the administration of
the province. No matter how absolute the au-
thority conferred by his commission and his in-
structions, the Governor must bow to the lower