** Lettre de Laval à Queylus, 4 Août, 1661. ***Lettre de Laval a d’Argenson, Ibid. due to him, the vicar apostolic. * At the same time he sent another to the offending abbé, threatening to suspend him from priestly functions if he persisted in his rebellion. ** The incorrigible Queylus, who seems to have lived for some months in a simmer of continual indignation, set at nought the vicar apostolic as he had set at nought the king, took a boat that very night, and set out for Montreal under cover of darkness. Great was the ire of Laval when he heard the news in the morning. He despatched a letter after him, declaring him suspended _ipso facto_, if he did not instantly return and make his submission. *** This letter, like the rest, failed of the desired effect; but the governor, who had received a second mandate from the king to support Laval and prevent a schism, **** now reluctantly interposed the secular arm, and Queylus was again compelled to return to France. (v) His expulsion was a Sulpitian defeat. Laval, always zealous for unity and centralization, had some time before taken steps to repress what he regarded as a tendency to independence at Montreal. In the preceding year he had written to the Pope: “There are some secular priests (_Sulpitians_) at Montreal, whom the Abbé de Queylus brought out with him in 1657, and I have named for the * Lettre de Laval a d’Argenson, 5 Août, 1661. ** Lettre de Laval a Queylus, Ibid. **** Ibid, 6 Août, 1661. **** Lettre du Roi à d’Argenson, 13 Mai, 1660. (v) For the governor’s attitude in this affair, consult the Papiers d'Argentan, containing his despatches.