on ou ils se reduisaient eux-memes par une indolence, et
un aveuglement, qu'on ne pouvoit comprendre et qui n'a peut-etre point
d'exemple dans l'histoire. Ce qui consoloit les pasteurs, c'est qu'ils
les voyoient dans l'occasion braver la mort avec un courage, qui les
animoit eux-memes a mourir en heros Chretiens."--Charlevoix.]

[Footnote 378: The Abbe de Montigny was titular Bishop of Petraea, and
had received from the pope a brief as vicar apostolic. The Church of
Quebec was not erected into a bishop's see until 1670, when its bishop
was no longer called titular Bishop of Petraea, but Bishop of Quebec. "Ce
qui avoit fait trainer la cause si fort en longueur, c'est qu'il y eut
de grandes contestations sur la dependance immediate du Saint Siege,
dont le pape ne voulut point se relacher. Cela n'empeche pourtant pas
que l'Eveche de Quebec ne soit en quelque facon uni au clerge de France,
en la maniere de celui du Puy, lequel releve aussi immediatement de
Rome."--Charlevoix, tom. ii., p. 189; _Petits Droits_, &c., tom. ii., p.
492.

"When the bishopric of Quebec was erected, Louis XIV. endowed it with
the revenue of two abbacies, those of Benevent and L'Estrio. About
thirty years ago, the then bishop, finding it difficult, considering the
distance, to recover the revenues of them, by consent of Louis XV.,
resigned the same to the clergy of France, to be united to a particular
revenue of theirs, styled the economats, applied to the augmentation of
small livings, in consideration of which, the bishop of this see has
ever since received yearly 8000 livres out of the said revenues. A few
years before the late bishop's death, the clergy of France granted him,
for _his_ life only, a further pension of 2000 livres; the bishop had no
estate whatever, except his palace at Quebec, destroyed by our
artillery, a garden, and the ground-rent of two or three houses
adjoining it, and built on some part of the lands."--Governor Murray's
_Report on the Ancient Government and Actual State of the Province of
Quebec in_ 1762.]

[Footnote 379: Charlevoix, tom. ii., p. 120.]

[Footnote 380: "Jusques-la, les gouverneurs generaux avoient assez tenue
la main a faire executer les ordres qu'ils avoient eux-memes donnes, de
ne point vendre d'eau de vie aux sauvages; et le baron d'Avaugour avoit
decerne des peines tres severes contre ceux qui contreviendroient a ses
ordonnances sur ce point capital. Il arriva qu'une femme de Quebec fut
surprise en