[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] On the other hand, antago-nism to the Court of Chancery was emphatically a popular cause, only less so in degree (because of the less emergent circumstances) 260 HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY in Burnet's time than in Cosby-s; and whatever personal motives may have influenced Philipse's course, that course could not be sepa-rated from association with the popular feeling. Adolph Philipse, moreover, was never an intense partisan; and his long-continued service as speaker of the assembly is sufficient testimony to the general fairness and acceptability of his political disposition. He always adhered to the simple religious faith in which he had been brought up, that of the Dutch Reformed Church, although the Church of England increasingly claimed the attachment of the rich, powerful, and ambitious; and it occasioned grievous regret to the Episcopalians that a man of his prominence should be so conspicu-\INT JOHNS EPISCOPAL CHURCH, YONKERS. ously unidentified with "the" Church. His public character has been summed up in words of unqualified approval by the eminent patriot and statesman, John Jay. " He was," says Jay, " a man of superior talents, well educated, sedate, highly respected, and popular. Except that he was penurious, I have heard nothing to his disadvantage." Frederick Philipse, 2d, co-heir with his uncle Adolph under the will of the first lord of the manor, was born on the Island of Bar-badoes in 1G95.