30 FRONTENAC AND PERROT. [1673. 



minister for a galley, to the benches of which the 

 captive bush-rangers were to be chained as rowers, 

 thus supplying the representative of the king with 

 a means of transportation befitting his dignity, and 

 at the same time giving wholesome warning against 

 the infraction of royal edicts. 1 Accordingly, he 

 sent orders to the judge, at Montreal, to seize 

 every coureur de bois on whom he could lay hands. 



The judge, hearing that two of the most notori- 

 ous were lodged in the house of a lieutenant named 

 Carion, sent a constable to arrest them ; where- 

 upon Carion threatened and maltreated the officer 

 of justice, and helped the men to escape. Perrot 

 took the part of his lieutenant, and told the judge 

 that he would put him in prison, in spite of Fron- 

 tenac, if he ever dared to attempt such an arrest 

 again. 2 



When Frontenac heard what had happened, his 

 ire was doubly kindled. On the one hand, Perrot 

 had violated the authority lodged by the king in 

 the person of his representative ; and, on the 

 other, the mutinous official was a rival in trade, 

 who had made great and illicit profits, while his 

 superior had, thus far, made none. As a governor 

 and as a man, Frontenac was deeply moved ; yet, 

 helpless as he was, he could do no more than send 

 three of his guardsmen, under a lieutenant named 

 Bizard, with orders to arrest Carion and bring 

 him to Quebec. 



The commission was delicate. The arrest was 



1 Frontenac au Ministre, 2 Nov., 1672. 



2 Mimoire des Motifs qui ont oblige' M. le Comte de Frontenac de /aire 

 aireter le Sieur Perrot. 



