^0 An Hijîorical Journal of 



This was without Doubt, .one of the Reafons that engaged 

 Of h R'^htof ^^^^^ XlVth to allow all Nobles and 

 Vf t^e ^ Q^^^fil Gentlemen fettled in Canada, to trade both by 

 / ^/m/^^'-^^j^^^ ^.^j ]^^j2d, njjîthout being liable to be troubled 



men aie a o . this 'Recount, or reputed to ha^oe derogated from 



-^^^ . their Birth and FajniJy. Thefe are the Terms 



of the Order, which vvas made by the Council, the loth of March 

 1685. And further, there are no Lordfhigs in this Country, even 

 of thofe v^^hich give Titles of Honour, to which the Right of 

 Patronage belongs; for upon the Claim of fome Lords, founded 

 upon their having built a Parilh Church, his Majefty being pre- 

 fent in Council declared the fame Year, 1685, that this Right- 

 belonged only to the Billiop, as well becaufe he is more capa- 

 ble than any other of judging who are the fitteft Perfons, as be- 

 caufe, that the proper Allowance of the Curates, is paid out of 

 the Tythes that belong to the Biftiop. The King in the fame 

 Order declares, that the Right of Patronage is not to give any 

 Rank of Honour. 



I departed from Pointe aux Trembles before Day,, with a one 

 eyed Horfe, I changed him afterwards for 

 Of the àttua- ^il^ir.tonQ, and then him fora broken winded 

 Hon cf Becivan- ^^^^ y^-^j^ ^^^^^^ ^^^.^^ Relays, I went feven- 

 teen Leagues in feven or eight Hours, and I 

 arrived early at the Baron de Beckancourt'^s, chief Surveyor 

 of the Highways of Neiv France, who would by no Means 

 fuffer me to go forward. This Gentleman has a Village of 

 Abenaquis, under the Dire6lion of a Jefuit in Mâtters of Re- 

 ligion, to whom I v/as very glad to pay my Refpeds by the Way. 

 The Baron lives at the Entrance of a little River that comes 

 from the South, which runs entirely through his Lordlhip, and 

 bears his Name. The Life which M. de Beckancourt leads in 

 this Defert (for here are no other Freiuh Inhabitants as yet but 

 the Lord) naturally brings to Mind the antient Patriarchs, 

 who; did not difdain to divide with their Servants the Labours of 

 their Country, and lived almoil in as plain a Manner as they. 

 The Advantage which he makes by the Trade with the Savages 

 his Neighbours, by buying Skins of them at the firft Hand, is 

 more than the Profits he could make of Inhabitants, to whom 

 he (hould divide his Land. In Time, it will be his own Fault 

 if he h^no Vaffals, and he will make more advantageous Con- 

 ditions when he has cleared all his Land, The River ^^ri<a:«-- 

 court v/as - formerly called PJ'viere Puante, or the Stinking Ri- 

 ^jer, I enquired the Caufe of this Name, for the Water ap- 

 peared to me very fine, and they affured me that it is very good, 

 and that there is no bad Smell in all this Quarter. Yet fome told 

 '^«î it was fo called on Account of the bad Qualities of the 



Waters- 



