46 FISHERIES OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC 



which is supposed to have been addressed to Madame de 

 Maintenon. 1 De Monseignat says: ''There were seven or 

 eight residents there with a Recollet house and f rial's; six 

 fishing ships were moored there and fished from their boats. 

 They were all taken without resistance. The captains and 

 most of the crews saved themselves in the woods with the 

 residents, and afterwards reached Quebec. The houses were 

 burned and the church of the Eecollets desecrated." 



That the details of the descent of the privateers at Perce 

 was known in Quebec shortly afterwards is shown not only 



DeMonseignat's Autograph. 



by De Monseignat 's Relation, but also by that of Captain 

 Sylvanus Davis, 2 then a prisoner of war at Quebec, who wrote 

 under date of August 10th, 1690, as follows: "News came 

 to town that our English had taken six French ships at the 

 Isle of Perce." 



Frontenac briefly refers to it in his despatch of the 12th 

 November, 1690, to the Minister in Paris, the same that con- 

 tained the official report of Phips' repulse at Quebec. 



Juneau's first efforts on returning to the scene of deso- 

 lation were devoted to the restoration of the crosses that had 



1 Collection de Manuscrits relatifs a la Nouvelle- 



France Quebec, 1883. Vol. I., p. 506. 



2 Captain Davis had been taken prisoner by the Sieur de Port- 

 neuf at Casco Bay. His account of the occurrences of the year in 

 and about Quebec is contained in Vol. I. of the third series of the 

 Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Boston, 1825, 

 p. 110. 



