own Possession; whereupon they Excommunicated _Poutrincourt_’s Son (who serv’d in his Father’s place at Court), and gain’d the Duke _Guereheville_ in _France_ to be of their Party, by promising him, that he should share in the new Plantations for a contracted Sum of Money: After this they receiv’d all sorts of Arms and Ammunition, with several Brass Guns, of the then King _Lewis_ the XIII. and other gifts Collected and gather’d out of their several Societies, for two new _Accadian_ Apostles. _Gilbert du Thet_, a subtile man of the same Order, transported their Necessaries. At this time all things going favorably with the _Jesuits_, they made themselves Masters of _Port Royal_, and began to raise a Fort on the River _Pemtagovet_; but there their happy Proceedings were stop’d, for Captain _Argal_ before-mention’d, Sailing thither in vindication of the _English_, was encounter’d by _du Thet_, (who firing the first Gun on _Argal_, was by him taken off with Chain-shot) and taking _Biard_ and _Masse_, carry’d them Prisoners to _Virginia_, and dismantled the Fort built at _Port Royal_, after which it was by King _James_ given by Patent to Sir _William Alexander_, as hath been already related, together with what of most remarkable hath happen’d since. SECT. VI. Norumbegua. [Sidenote: Whence denominated.] _Norumbegua_, lying between _Nova Scotia_ Northward, and _New England_ Southward, is so utterly not taken notice of by many as a distinct Province, that it might seem to be swallow’d up and lost in the two Countreys between which it lies, or at least to be thought a part of _Virginia_ or _New England_ (for _Virginia_ largely taken is said to contain _New England_, _Novum Belgium_, and _Virginia_, especially so call’d) and that so much the rather, because the _Bessabees_, accounted by _Sanson d’Abbeville_ an ancient People of _New England_, are written to have liv’d near the River _Penobscot_, which is reckon’d to be the same with _Pemtegovet_, or (as some will have it) _Norumbegua_, from which, or from a certain great City of that Name, the Country for fancy’s sake must needs be denominated; but since most commonly we find it nam’d and treated of apart, it will not be improper to follow that method, carrying the Bounds of _New England_ no farther Northward than the River _Quinnebequi_ or _Sagadahoc_, and so determining the main part of this Countrey to that space between the aforesaid River and _Pemtegovet_, excepting a small Southerly portion upon the Banks of the River _Chovacovet_; so that it appears chiefly situate under the forty third Degree of Northern Latitude. [Sidenote: Towns and Cities not certainly known.]