[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] purpose of procuring a judgment in his own favor was an outrage deeply offensive to their sense of decency and right; and the rude expulsion of Chief Justice Morris from the bench, because of his un-willingness to be a party to such a flagrant transaction, was, in their eyes, a deliberate and insolent attempt at despotic power. Mor-ris was universally regarded as a victim of official tyranny, and the people were not slow to find in his personality a rallying point for the effective expression of their feeling. He was urged to stand as a candidate for the assembly at the coming election, a demand to which he willingly acceded, offering himself for the suffrages of the electors of Westchester County, William Willet, one of the members for the county, having retired in his favor. The other representa-tive of the county at that time was Frederick Philipse. Lewis Morris, Jr., son of the chief justice, had been elected the preceding year to sit for the Borough of Westchester. The resulting eiection, held on the 29th of October, on " the Green " at the Town of Eastchester, was probably the most notable one in the whole colonial history of Westchester County. The elaborate and graphic description of it, published in the first number of the famous New York Weekh/ Journal, November 5, 1733, is undoubtedly familiar to many of our readers, having been frequently reproduced.