[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] It is hence an extremely curi-ous 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 oppo-sition to the Court of Chancery as an extra-constitutional organiza-tion, 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 of their speaker, who had lately lost a cause in chancery." Philipse, 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 ap-proved 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 Phil-ipse 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 him-self specially complaisant toward Governor Burnet, who had pro-cured his dismissal from the council.