When _Peter de Monts_ obtaining Letters Patents to Trade for Furs in the foremention’d Countries, Sail’d with two Ships beyond _Accadie_, up St. _Lawrence Bay_, where he Landed on the Isle St. _Croix_, where of ninety seven Men, with which he staid there a whole Winter, he lost thirty five; but having fresh Supplies sent him from _France_, he remov’d to _Port Royal_, where leaving forty Men, he return’d home; these forty being reduc’d to twenty three, and in great want, walking along the Sea-shore in a despairing condition, espy’d a Ship coming up with full Sail, which upon nearer approach, prov’d a _French_ Vessel, of which _Poutrincourt_ was Commander, who receiving his wretched Countrey-men with great joy, took them with him to _Port Royal_, being sent thither on purpose to settle a Plantation in _Accadie_: Meanwhile the Letters Patent granted to _Monts_, being call’d in, the first Planters in _Port Royal_ were forc’d to desert the same, and return home; and also _Poutrincourt_ returning, came back again three years after to _Port Royal_, where finding the Houses standing as he had left them, he Manur’d the Countrey all about, and endeavoring to Plant _Christianity_ among the Natives, Christen’d among others an _Accadian_ Lord, who was above a hundred years old; all which _Poutrincourt_ Sailing back to France, related at the Court. [Sidenote: Remarkable Transactions of some _Jesuits_.] The _Jesuits_ being also inform’d thereof, obtain’d leave of the Queen to send _Peter Biard_ and _Euemond Masse_ thither, on pretence, that _Henry_ the Fourth had himself promis’d them the same Priviledge in his Life time. But the Merchants at _Diep_, which were concern’d in the new Plantations with _Poutrincourt_, opposing the going over of the foremention’d _Jesuits_, express’d themselves very violent against them, and laid to their charge the Blood of the late King, which they said was yet reaking in _Paris_: _What assurance_ (alleadg’d they) _had their Goods which were in the Custody of Men inclin’d to the_ Spaniards? _Must the_ Christian Religion _be promulgated? There are so many Orders of_ Monks _which may easily produce two Men; but if the Queen was resolv’d to send_ Jesuits _thither, they desir’d restauration of the Monies which they had disburs’d_: To which _Biard_ and _Masse_ harkening, gather’d up the demanded Monies, under pretence of being requir’d towards the Preaching of the _Christian Religion_ amongst these remote _Heathens_; by this means getting great Sums, they bought out the foremention’d Merchants, so that the new Plantations fell half to the _Jesuits_, who setting Sail, and arriving at _Port Royal_, turn’d all things topsiturvy, and so thwarted _Poutrincourt_ in his designs, that he was forc’d to complain to the _French_ Court of the _Jesuits_ oppression, whose aim it was to get all things into their