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patronage for on the pretenfion of fome lords, 

 founded on their having built the parifti church, 

 his majefty in council, pronounced the fame year 

 1685, that this right belonged to the bifhop alone, 

 as well becaufe he ought to be better able to judge 

 of the capacity of the candidates, than any other 

 perfon, as becaufe the falaries of the curates are 

 paid out of the tithes, which belong to the biihop. 

 The king in the fame arret further declares, that 

 the right of patronage is not deemed honorary. 



I fet out from Point e aux Trembles on the fourth, 

 before day-break, with a horfe blind of an eye, 

 which I afterwards exchanged for a lame one, and 

 this again for one that was broken- winded. With 

 thefe three relays, 1 travelled feventeen leagues in 

 feven or eight hours, and arrived early at the houfe 

 of the baron de Beckancourt, grand- m after, or in- 

 fpector of the highways of Canada, who would not 

 fuffer me to go any farther. This gentleman too has 

 a village of Abenaquife Indians on his lands, which 

 is governed in fpiritual matters by a Jefuit, to whom 

 I gladly paid my refpecls as I paffed. The baron 

 lives at the mouth of a little river which comes from 

 the fouth, and whofe whole courfe is within his eftate, 

 which is alfo known by his own name. It is not 

 however this large tract which has been erected into a 

 barony, but that on the other fide of the river. 



The life M. de Beckancourt leads in this defart, 

 there being as yet no inhabitant in it befides the 

 lord, recalls naturally enough the way of living of 

 the ancient patriarchs to our memory, who were 

 not above putting their hands to work with their 

 fervants in country- work, and lived almoft in the 

 fame fobriety and temperance with them. The pro- 

 fit to be made by trading with the Indians in his 



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