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was doue to render the honour attractive. In a missive of the 17th of November, 1629, 

 the king authorizes " everie one of them and thare heires male to weare and carry about 

 their neckis, in all time coming, ane orange tauney ribbaue, whairou shall hing pendant 

 on a skutchion argent, u saltoire azeiir thereon, ane iuscutcheuue of the armes of Scotland, 

 with ane imperiall croune above the scutchone, and incircled with this motto : " Fax 

 Mentis Honestae Gloria." This was to be proclaimed publicly at the market cross of 

 Edinburgh. And in the same paper there was a threat of fine and imprisonment to any. 

 person who should, " out of neglect or contempt, presume to tak place or precedence of 

 the said baronettes, thare wifes or childring, or to weare thare coguoissance." 



On the 17th of November, 1629, the king, through Alexander as Chief Secretary for 

 Scotland, urged " contractors for baronets " to proceed with their work diligently, " so that 

 the next supplie for Nova Scotia may go out in time." We presume that the supply was 

 sent out in the following spring. 



That season La Tour was in England, whether brought there as a prisoner by Kirk 

 or otherwise, and now, if not before, connected himself with the English cause. He 

 was introduced at court, and, according to Charlevoix, married a maid of honour of the 

 queen. He was a Huguenot, and, probably on that account, more readily fell in with 

 the schemes of his English co-religionists. At all events, he joined with Alexander in 

 his plan for settling Nova Scotia, and on the 30th of November he received his patent as 

 a knight-baronet of Nova Scotia. 



On the 30th of April, 1630, he received from Alexander a grant to himself and his son 

 Charles, who was at the same time created a knight baronet of Nova Scotia, of " all the 

 country, coasts, islands from the cape and river of lugogon (Chegoggin), near unto the 

 cloven cape (Cape Forchu), in the said New Scotland, called the coast and country of 

 Accadye, following the coast and islands of the said countrey towards the east, unto 

 the Port de la Tour, formerly named L'Omeroy (Lomeron), and further beyond the said 

 port, following along the said coast unto Mirliguesche (Lunenburg)," a district embracing 

 about half the present county of Yarmouth, the counties of Shelburne and Queen's, and 

 about half the county of Lunenburg. This was to be divided into two baronies, to be 

 held by the father and son on their " promise to be good and faithful vassals of the sovereiga 

 lord the King of Scotland, and to give unto him all obedience and assistance to the 

 reducing of the people of the country." The father had already made this submission for 

 himself and promised the same for his son, whom he had left in Nova Scotia. On 

 arrival, however, he found his son in possession of a fort at what has since been called 

 Fort La Tour. He appealed to him to join the English, but met with a stern and 

 resolute refusal. The father was accompanied with two armed vessels, with which he 

 made an attack upon the fort for two days, which was unsuccessful. There are different 

 accounts of what followed. According to Charlevoix, he made application to his son for 

 permission to reside in Acadia ; that the young man replied that he did not wish to 

 expose his father to lose his head by going back to England — that he would willingly 

 give him an asylum, but that he could not allow either him or his wife to come to the 

 fort, but that he would not suffer him to want — that the father had no alternative but 

 to accept these terms — that, with the leave of the English commander, he with his wife 

 disembarked with all their effects, and the men of war returned to England — that the 



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