The Associated Loyalists [ 127 ] words of one loyalist, "was too much guided by personal Resentment" of the whigs, and had once boasted of his intention to "fire every Committee-man's House" throughout the country.31 The plan he and Franklin submitted reflected their militancy. They proposed that the loyalists within the British lines place themselves under "the immediate Command of Governor Franklin with the Rank of of Provincials and the Title of Director General and Commandant of the Associated Loyalists!' Franklin would have the power to appoint officers, and issue any regulations or orders "subject to the Approbation of the Commander-in-Chief!' Operating from bases in Rhode Island and on Long Island, Staten Island, and Sandy Hook, and furnished with arms, ammunition, camp equipage, and small armed vessels, these "associators" intended to carry out "Enterprises for distressing the Enemy, in any Quarter not expressly forbidden by the Commander-in-Chief!' The associators would be "entitled to the Plunder they take, which is only from Rebels!' No "Excuses, Barbarities, or Irregularities" against the rules of war were to be permitted, although punishment for such abuses was vague. Finally, the associators would keep and exchange their own prisoners of war.82 Franklin and Tryon submitted their plan in July 1779, but heard nothing from headquarters until October. At that time Major John Andre, Clinton's aide-de-camp, returned a list of "Regulations for the Associated Refugees" to Franklin, desiring his comments. Andre's list incorporated many of the elements of the Franklin-Tryon plan but demanded strict accountability of all supplies and money issued by the government. Most importantly, Andre's list demanded full control, by Clinton, of all campaigns undertaken by the Refugees. The associators would retain their own prisoners subject to the approval of a board of officers at headquarters who would decide "the Propriety of Capture at their first Sitting after the Prisoners are brought in!' The regulations also hinted that the Refugees did not always discriminate among those whom they plundered. "No Refugees" the fist states, are "on any Pre- 81 John Vardfll to William Eden, April 11, 1778, quoted in Stevens' Facsimiles, TV, no. 438. 32 Copy of a Plan delivered by Major General Tryon to Sir Henry Clinton, K.B., in July 1779, PROCO, 5/82, 48-49. The term "associators" although not an official title, referred strictly to those loyalists under the direction of Franklin and Tryon and thus included under their plan.