time souverain_ sans le secours
d'un missionnaire" (_Deliberations du Conseil de Marine, 23 Mai, 1719_,
in _Le Canada-Francais_). The Intendant Begon highly commends the
efforts of the missionaries to keep the Acadians in the French interest
(_Begon au Ministre, 25 Septembre, 1715_), and Vaudreuil praises their
zeal in the same cause (_Vaudreuil au Ministre, 31 Octobre, 1717_).

[219] _Deliberations du Conseil de Marine, 3 Mai, 1718._

[220] _Record of Council at Annapolis, 11 and 24 October, 1726._

[221] _Armstrong to Saint-Ovide, 17 June, 1732._

[222] _The Acadians to Saint-Ovide, 6 May, 1720_, in _Public Documents
of Nova Scotia_, 25. This letter was evidently written for them,--no
doubt by a missionary.

[223] "They can march off at their leisure, by way of the Baye Verte,
with their effects, without danger of being molested by this garrison,
which scarce suffices to secure the Fort."--_Philipps to Secretary
Craggs, 26 May, 1720._

[224] _The Board of Trade to Philipps, 28 December, 1720._

[225] _Deliberations du Conseil de Marine, Aoust, 1720._ The attempt
against the garrison was probably opposed by the priests, who must have
seen the danger that it would rouse the ministry into sending troops to
the province, which would have been disastrous to their plans.

[226] _Certificat de Charles de la Gaudalie, pretre, cure missionnaire
de la paroisse des Mines, et Noel-Alexandre Noiville, ... cure de
l'Assomption et de la Sainte Famille de Pigiguit_; printed in Rameau,
_Une Colonie Feodale en Amerique_ (ed. 1889), ii. 53.

[227] The preceding chapter is based largely on two collections of
documents relating to Acadia,--the _Nova Scotia Archives_, or
_Selections from the Public Documents of Nova Scotia_, printed in 1869
by the government of that province, and the mass of papers collected by
Rev. H. R. Casgrain and printed in the documentary department of _Le
Canada-Francais_, a review published under direction of Laval University
at Quebec. Abbe Casgrain, with passionate industry, has labored to
gather everything in Europe or America that could tell in favor of the
French and against the English. Mr. Akins, the editor of the _Nova
Scotia Archives_, leans to the other side, so that the two collections
supplement each other. Both are copious and valuable. Besides these, I
have made use of various documents from the archives of Paris not to be
found in either of the above-named collections.

CHAPTER X.