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to obey, on the following grounds, expressed in his letter to the French 
representative designated to receive them :— 
‘ until his Majesty’s Pleasure be further known, both as to the 
Bounds and Limits of Acadia and Nova Scotia, there being no Places men- 
tioned in my Order, but la Héve and Cape Sable, that belong to Atadia; and 
the rest of the Places mentioned, viz., Pentagoet, St. John’s and Port Royal are 
in Nova Scotia, bordering upon New England. 
(Memorials of the English and French Commissaries, 593.) 
This claim of Temple was based of course upon the wording of his 
own grant, already cited (see earlier, page 182), which made this dis- 
tinction between Acadia and Nova Scotia. Doubtless he knew that this 
claim could not hold, but it represented his only chance to save himself 
from ruin. He had staked his all‘upon his grant in Nova Scotia, and 
he doubtless knew enough of the ways of princes, and particularly of the 
Stuart princes, to realize, that his chances of obtaining any compensation 
from the government for his rights to be extinguished by the cession of 
his lands to France would be,very slight, and in fact, though fully 
entitled to compensation, he never received any whatsoever. His claim 
was ineffectual, for in 1669 the King sent him orders to give up without 
delay or difficulty all the above-mentioned places to France (“ Mem- 
orials of the English and French Commissaries,” 743), and this he did. 
Temple’s claim was thus disallowed by King Charles in favour of the 
French, but later when this country was in dispute, the French commis- 
sioners used that very claim to their own advantage. (See page 205, 
208). 
All Acadia, therefore, even to its most extreme limits, from the 
Peninsula to beyond the Penobscot was ceded unmistakably by England 
to France. England in requiring the Forts at St. John and Penobscot to 
be given up, recognized them as in Acadia, as did France in accepting 
them. Thus was an extension of Acadia to the Penobscot given official 
recognition by both nations. 
Under the French, Acadia was peaceful for a few years, and during 
this time some boundaries were established of importance to our present 
subject. The cession of Acadia to France obliterated the rights of Tem- 
ple (including the purchased rights of LaTour), and of the Duke of 
York to the territory of Sagadahock. Nevertheless, in 1674, Charles IT. 
actually granted a confirmation of the latter grant. 
In 1663, when Acadia was considered by France as rightfully hers, 
by an edict of the King of France all grants of earlier'date of lands 
which had not been cleared were revoked. Hence it came about that in 
the part of Acadia now constituting New Brunswick, not a singte grant 
was in force, nor did a single boundary exist when France took full pos- 
