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sorrow that there is to solve the difficulties which are in the large companies
made differ two months, and opiniatreté of the wind of downstream
two other months later than I had not told you the loading for the Company
of New France. But finally the loaded vessel from La Rochelle
arrived to join two others from Morbihan that Commander de Razilly (having
the commission of the King to control in the extent of the country in the
absence of the Cardinal Duke de Richelieu, brought there at the beginning
of this month, charged with all things and three hundred elite men. It
carries the assent of the King of Great Britain to remove the Scots out
of Port Royal and take of it possession in the name of the Company, which
sends to it three Capuchins for the conversion of the people of Acadie,
in addition to five Jesuits that it already sent in the other dwellings
of Cap Breton, the Gulf and the St. Lawrence River. The embarkment
of this noble force returning there illustrates the beginning of colony
which will make an easy passage for to all the French of their religion,
of the honor of their nation and their rest, that it will be from now on
easy for them to assist the intentions of the King, that the great businesses
of its kingdom do not prevent it from carrying across the seas the concepts
to increase the Catholic faith, by a procedure quite distant from that
which was practiced until now in the discovery of the Indies, where one
was satisfied with spoils and to captivate the people."
D'Auray,
lower Bretagne, 16 July 1632
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