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along the coast. Meneval, the governor, com- 

 plained bitterly of their arrogance. Sometimes, h\ 

 is said, they pretended to be foreign pirates, and 

 plundered vessels and settlements, while the ag- 

 grieved parties could get no redress at Boston. 

 They also carried on a regular trade at Port Koyal 

 and Les Mines or Grand Pre, where many of the 

 inhabitants regarded them with a degree of favor 

 which gave great umbrage to the military authori- 

 ties, who, nevertheless, are themselves accused of 

 seeking their own profit by dealings with the here- 

 tics ; and even French priests, including Petit, the 

 cure of Port Royal, are charged with carrying on 

 this illicit trade in their own behalf, and in that of 

 the seminary of Quebec. The settlers caught from 

 the " Bostonnais " what their governor stigmatizes 

 as English and parliamentary ideas, the chief effect 

 of which was to make them restive under his rule. 

 The Church, moreover, was less successful in ex- 

 cluding heresy from Acadia than from Canada. A 

 number of Huguenots established themselves at 

 Port Royal, and formed sympathetic relations with 

 the Boston Puritans. The bishop at Quebec was 

 much alarmed. " This is dangerous," he writes. 

 " I pray your Majesty to put an end to these dis- 

 orders." 1 



A sort of chronic warfare of aggression and re- 



1 L'J^veque au Roy, 10 Nov., 1683. For the preceding pages, the au- 

 thorities are chiefly the correspondence of Grandfontaine, Marson, La 

 Valliere, Meneval, Bergier, Goutins, Perrot, Talon, Frontenac, and other 

 officials. A large collection of Acadian documents, from the archives of 

 Paris, is in my possession. I have also examined the Acadian collections 

 made for the government of Canada and for that of Massachusetts. 



