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Sail, which upon nearer approach, prov'd a French Vcffcl, of which Toutrincourt of*™*- 

 was Commander, who receiving his wretched Councrey.men with great joy, took "**" 

 them with him to Tort %pyal, being fent thither on purpofe to fettle a Plantation 

 in Accadie : Meanwhile the Letters Patent granted to Monts, being call'd in, the firft 

 Planters in Tort %oyal were fore'd to defert the fame, and return home > and alfo 

 Toutrincourt returning, came back again three years after to Tort T{oyal, where find- 

 ing the Houfes {landing as he had left them, he Manur'd the Countrcy all about, 

 and endeavoring to Plant Cbriftianity among the Natives, Chriften'd among others 

 an Jccadian Lord, who was above a hundred years old - all which Toutrincourt Sail- 

 ing back to France, related at the Court. 



The Jefuits being alfo inform'd thereof, obtain'd leave of the Queen to fend ^^gfi? 

 Peter Biard and Euemond Majfe thither, on pretence, that Henry the Fourth had him* &£/™* 

 felf promis'd them the fame Priviledge in his Life time. But the Merchants at Viep, V 

 which were concern'd in the, new Plantations with Toutrincourt, oppofing the go- 

 ing over of the foremention'd Jefuits, exprefs'd themfelves very violent againft 

 them, and laid to their charge the Blood of the late King, which they faid was 

 yet reaking in Paris : What ajfurance (allcadg'd they) bad their Goods "which Vere in the 

 Cujlody of Men inclind to the Spaniards ? Muft the Chriftian Religion he promulgated ? 

 There are fo many Orders of Monks -which may eafily produce Wo Men . but if the Queen y>as 

 refolVd to fend Jefuits thither, they defr'd reparation of the Monies -which they had dif- 

 hurs'd : To which Biard and Majfe harkening , gathered up the demanded Mo- 

 nies, under pretence of being requir'd towards the Preaching of the Chriftian flfc/i. 

 gion amongft thefe remote Heathens ; by this means getting great Sums, they bought 

 out the foremention'd Merchants, fo that the new Plantations fell half to the>- 

 fuits, who fetting Sail, and arriving at Tort %oyal, turn'd all things topfiturvy, 

 and fo thwarted Toutrincourt in his defigns, that he was fore'd to complain to the 

 French Court of the Jefuits oppre/fion, whofe aim it was to get all things into their 

 own Poffeffion ; whereupon they Excommunicated Toutrincourt' s Son (who ferv'd 

 in his Father's place at Court, and gain'd the Duke GuereheVille in France to be of 

 their Party, by promifing him, that he (hould (hare in the new Plantations for a 

 contracted Sum of Money : After this they receiv'd all forts of Arms and Ammu- 

 nition, with fcveral Brafs Guns, of the rhen King Lewis the XIII. and other gifts 

 Collected and gather'd out of their feveral Societies, for two new Jccadian App* 

 files. Gilbert du Tint, a fubtile man of the fame Order, tranfported their Necef- 

 faries. 



At this time all things going favorably with the Jefuits, they made 1 themfelves 

 Mafters of Tort Tjyal, and began to raife a Fort on the River Temtagovet ) but there 

 their happy Proceedings were ftop'd, far Captain Argal beforcmention'd, Sailing 

 thither in vindication of the Englijh , was encounter'd by du Thet, (who firing the 

 firft Gun on Argal, was by him taken off with Chain-fhot) and taking Biard and 

 Majfe, carry'd them Prifoners to Virginia, and difmantled the Fort built at TortT(oy* 

 al, after which it was by King James given by Patent to Sir William Alexander, as 

 hath been already related, together with what of mod remarkable hath happen'd 

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