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" and carry 'd into France, and her Lading, as if flic had been lawful Prize, Confi* 

 " fcated; whereupon thci^ir^fiirTcr'd lofs, to the value of twelve thoufand Pounds. 

 ic And although the Lord Scudamore, Ambaflador in France, by the King of England* 

 " fpecial Command, and the faid John JQrk being there in Perfon, by the King's 

 '• Command, did often earneftly urge, that the Moneys due to the faid %irks, and 

 " the faid Ship, with her Lading, might be reftor'd, which for no other caufe had 

 u been feiz'd upon and fold, but only for that by the King's Commiffion (he was 

 "found Trading at Canada • yet he could obtain nothing, but after fome years 

 " fruitlefs endeavors return'd into England without accomplifhing his defires. 



7. In the year 1654. Cromwcl, although an unjuft Ufurper of the Government, 

 c yet upon confideration of the Premifes, taking a juft occafion for requiring the 

 " Poffcffion of V Accadie, fends forth feveral Ships under the Command of one 

 * Sedgwick, who by vcrtue of the Authority granted him by Cromwcl, aflaulted and 

 " fubdu'd the aforefaid Forts in Nova Scotia, and reftor'd them into the Pofleffion 

 cc of the Englijl? : And although in the year itfjy. a League of firm Peace and Amity 

 u being concluded between Cromwel and the French King, the French Ambaflador 

 " did often urge the Reftitution to the Pofleffion of the French- yet for the fame cau- 

 " fes aforefaid, which had mov'd Qromwel to feize upon them, it was thought fit ftill 

 * to retain the Pofleffion of them . and although according to the purport of the 

 twenty fifth Article of the Peace, Commiflioners on both fides were to be ap- 

 pointed for the deciding and determining that Controverfie 5 yet nothing was 

 te done therein, neither did the Commiflioners ever meet within three Moneths, as 

 " in the twenty fourth Article of the Treaty was provided and agreed : So that 

 " now the cafe is very clear,that the Pofleffion to the Englijh remains firm and juft, 

 c and that the Forts and Bulwarks before fpecifi'd, are without all peradventure 

 " under the Power and Jurifdi&ion of the King of England. 



Since the Reftauration of his prefent Majefty, tht French Ambaflador reprefent- 

 ing unto the King the Pretenfions of the French unto the feveral Forts and other 

 places in Jccadie , and urging the non-performance of the Articles of Agreement 

 between Oliver Cromwel and the French King, rnov'd the King of England, Js a pro* 

 fefl'd Enemy to all Violence, for a Reftitution of all the Forts and other places which 

 were then in the pofleffion of the Englijh : Not long after which, whether upon the 

 Ambafladors requeft, or upon other important Affairs intervening, or upon what 

 other ground foever it were, the French were fuffer'd to reenter on the forefaid 

 places, and do yet keep Pofleffion of them, till fuch time as the Englifl? claim under 

 the juft Title of the Kjrks, fhall meet with fome fit occafion of being reviv'd. 



That which we fuppofe gives the French fo much the more confidence in their 

 claim of this Country, is their preemption upon the Expedition of James Quartier, 

 whom they will have to be the firft Difcoverer, if not Pofleflbr , not onely of the 

 Ifle of A ffumption, but alfo of this Coaft of Nova Francia, not taking notice it feems 

 of Sehajlian Cabot, under Henry the Seventh. 



The chief places of Note in this Countrey, are, 1. <Port<I(oyal, a Colony of French, 

 faid to have been Planted there by Monfieur de Mont^ in 1604, by report, capable of 

 leceiving a thoufand Ships . and in 1613. (the French being driven out by Sir 6V 

 ntuel Argal, Governor of Virginia, who took Prifoners %ard and Majfe, and demo- 

 lifli'd the Fort at fort fyyal) given by Patent, as aforerjiention'd, to Sir William Alex- 

 ander • afterwards by him fold again to the French • then in the time of Oliver Crom- 

 ml re-taken by Major Sedgwick ; laftly, re-poflefs'd by the French. 2. St. Lukes %, 

 or fortua Mouton. 3. Gafpe, or Gachepe. 4. The Haven offajfepay. 5 Tl?e Say de Toutes 



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