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Others, like Juge Mabane and Baron Maseres, had 

 the advantage of being located in our midst, and acquir- 

 ing, through their official positions, the information 

 they sought. The force of circumstances made them 

 eye-witnesses of our struggles ; they were privileged to 

 study on the spot the varied and exciting phases of this 

 era of transition. 



A well-known antiquary, the Rev. Abbe Louis Bois, 

 has written the biography of the first, the upright and 

 persecuted Judge Mabane, who expired at his villa, 

 Woodfield, Sillery, in 1792. I shall attempt to give a 

 brief sketch of the second, Baron Maseres, attorney- 

 general for this province, from 1766 to 1769. 



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On the 19th of May, 1824, England was mourning 

 the loss of one of her most distinguished sons, Francis 

 Maseres, Baron of the Exchequer, jurist, mathematician, 

 linguist, historian, publicist. The popular voice styled 

 him " The Veteran of Science," while Literature pro- 

 claimed him the Msecenas of men of letters in his town. 

 That year death had closed his well-spent career. 

 Maseres, a fervent Christian, had bid adieu to the world, 

 its pomp and vanity, at the advanced age of 93 years, 

 in his beautiful villa of Reigate, in Surrey. Friendship 

 had inscribed on his marble tomb, " Quando ullum 

 inveniam parem ? " — When shall we see his like ? " 



If Francis Maseres, in spite of his Gallic name, was 

 by his tastes, aspirations, convictions, loyalty, a true 

 son of Albion, one might say, a typical Englishman ; 

 he never forgot, and more than once showed it, that for 

 his ancestors there had been once a loved home beyond 

 the white cliffs of England, that glorious old France, 

 for which they had been ready to shed their blood, and 

 which contained the sacred depot of their ashes. 



It has been said that it takes three generations to 



