1690.] CONDUCT OF PHIPS. 239 



the men nor the money to secure by sufficient 

 garrisons. 



The conduct of the New England commander 

 in this affair does him no credit. It is true that 

 no blood was spilt, and no revenge taken for the 

 repeated butcheries of unoffending and defenceless 

 settlers. It is true, also, that the French appear to 

 have acted in bad faith. But Phips, on the other 

 hand, displayed a scandalous rapacity. Charle- 

 voix says that he robbed Meneval of all his money ; 

 but Meneval himself affirms that he gave it to the 

 English commander for safe keeping, and that 

 Phips and his wife would return neither the money 

 nor various other articles belonging to the captive 

 governor, whereof the following are specified : 

 " Six silver spoons, six silver forks, one silver cup 

 in the shape of a gondola, a pair of pistols, three 

 new wigs, a gray vest, four pair of silk garters, 

 two dozen of shirts, six vests of dimity, four night- 

 caps with lace edgings, all my table service of fine 

 tin, all my kitchen linen," and many other items 

 which give an amusing insight into Meneval's 

 housekeeping. 1 



1 An Account of the Silver and Effects ivhich Mr. Phips keeps bach from 

 Mr. Meneval, in 3 Mass. Hist. Coll., I. 115. 



Monseignat and La Potherie describe briefly this expedition against 

 Port Royal. In the archives of Massachusetts are various papers con- 

 cerning it, among which are Governor Bradstreet's instructions to 

 Phips, and a complete invoice of the plunder. Extracts will be found 

 in Professor Bowen's Life of Phips, in Sparks's American Biography, VII. 

 There is also an order of council, " Whereas the French soldiers lately 

 brought to this place from Port Royal did surrender on capitulation," they 

 shall be set at liberty. Meneval, Lettre au Ministre, 29 Mai, 1690, says 

 that there was a capitulation, and that Phips broke it. Perrot, former 

 governor of Acadia, accuses both Meneval and the priest Petit of being 



