He made high professions as to the public good and the welfare of the people, both of merchants and planters; directed the judges to administer justice according to the custom of the place; ordered the former established rules to be observed as to rates and taxes, and that all the colony laws not inconsistent with his commission should be in force." (History of Massachusetts Bay, Vol.

I., p.

353).] [Footnote 199: "The complaints against Andros, coolly received by the Privy Council, were dismissed by order of the new King, on the ground that nothing was charged against the late Governor which his instructions would not fully justify." (Hildreth's History of the United States, Vol.II., Chap.xviii., p.

94.)] [Footnote 200: Hildreth's History, etc., Vol.II., Chap.xviii., pp.

83, 93, 94.] [Footnote 201: "As a matter of course, this Church test of citizenship did not work well.