§4 L'ABBE H.-E. CASGEAIN 



ont Decclarey enuoyer Do La part De monsieur Caulfield gouucrneui- Du port Eoyal, et cela jusqu'à 

 Sa majesté très chrestienne, et Sa majesté Brittannique soient convenues ensemble sur les articles quon 

 Leurs a Deub proposer par des personnes qui ont estez Députées pour ce faire Dont nous attendons 

 tous les jours Eeponse, et cela touchant le serment de fidélité que Lon Demande de nous. A Lesgard 

 De La proclamation De Sa majesté Le Eoy George a Laccenement ' De La couronne De La Grande 

 Bretagne, nous certiiBons quelle nous a esté faiste par mes Dits Sieurs Button et Capon, et cela avec 

 les cérémonies ordinnaires. 



A Lesgard Du Bœuf et Du Lard tous les habitans Decclarent ne pouvoir en donner par Eajjport 

 à La saison, mais si nous pouuons Lorsque La Saison le permettra, nous Le ferons de tout nôtre cœur, 

 fait a Beaubassin ce vingt huitième mars De la présente année mil sejit cent quinze 



marque de x michel 



Poirier arbittre 

 marque O de Martin 



Eiehard arbittre 

 marque s de michel 



Bourq arbittre 

 Charles bourgeois 

 marque x de françois 



Doucet arbittre 

 Jean Sire arbittre 



Alexis Cormier 



Endorsed: Nova Scotia — The answer of the inhabitants of Checanectou relating to the Oath of 

 Fidelity required of them. 



rece'd w'" majo' Caulfield's L'' of .Sr" Jan^ 1714-15. 



VI 



Letter from MIaj' Cauldfielb to Col. Vetch.' 



Annapolis Eoyall Nov' the 2, 1115. 



S', 



The arrival of the transport laden with provisions brought me the pleasure of yours ; I am but 

 too seneeable of Co" Nicholsons unpresodented malice, and had his désignes taken their desired effect 

 I am perswaded there had not been att this time an inhabitant of any kind in the country n'or indeed 

 a garrison : when I recollect his declaration to the inhabitants and after-words to the soldiers wherein 

 he told the latter that the french were all rebells and would certainly cut their throats if they went 

 into their houses telling of us that we must have no manner of corresjjondence with them, and ordered 

 the gates of the garrison to be shut tho att the same time he was senceible that we could not subsist 

 the ensuing winter but by their mains there being no other prospect left us; for by his stoping our 

 pay att home and ruining our credit att Boston we were brought to the last extremity; itt would be 

 endless to enter into particulars of a description of his management here, but cannot forbare to relate 

 you, that as he was in his house he observed one of the soldiers comeing into the Garrison with a 

 rotton pallasado one of those j'ou formerly displaced and renewed, upon which he called for all the 

 officers of the garrison and in a very unbecoming manner told us we should loose the Garrison if 



' Sic. 2 p_ g_ Q _ Col Records — Nova Scotia, vol. II. 



