There are doubtless some omissions in the above roll, which will be supplied in the coming winter, this year. (Signed) TALON. [96] The "_Baie d'Urfé_," in the north of the island, is named after this missionary, who had an Indian settlement there later. CHAPTER XVIII 1671-1672 THE FEUDAL SYSTEM ESTABLISHED THE SEIGNEURS OF THE MONTREAL DISTRICT SUBURBAN GROWTH--THE EARLIEST OUTLYING FIEFS--PRAEDIA MILITARIA--MILITARY SEIGNEURIES OF THE MONTREAL DISTRICT--THE FEUDAL SYSTEM--THE "NOBLESSE"--THE "PARISHES"--"CENS ET RENTES"--"LODS ET VENTES"--TRIBUTE TO THE FEUDALISM OF THE CLERICAL "SEIGNEURS OF MONTREAL"--MUNICIPAL OFFICERS--ORDER IN PROCESSIONS--THE CHURCH WARDENS--THE SOLDIER COLONISTS--CATTLE BREEDING, HORSES, ASSES--AGRICULTURE--NEW CONCESSIONS--LAWS REGULATING OPENING UP THE LAND--FIRST PUBLIC ROADS AND BRIDGES AT MONTREAL--NOTE: FORTS AND REDOUBTS. So far we have kept our attention on the little straggling Village of Montreal, the home of de Maisonneuve and the seigneurs of the island. We have left it occasionally for Quebec, to consider it, as affected in its governmental relations with the headquarters of the governor general, but as we have in view also the greater Montreal of today, we must ask the reader's patience to allow us to record some vital elements in the suburban growth of the latter, the seeds of which are now being sown, and to watch the origins of the Canadian "noblesse" now being manufactured by letters patent in the neighbourhood of Montreal. For years the fear of the Iroquois had huddled the Montrealers within narrow limits, and in the neighbourhood of the fort. There were few outlying stations, save that of the fortified house of Lambert Closse, who had been given on February 5, 1658, the first "noble fief" at Montreal, and the two redoubts or strongholds established by M. de Queylus for the seigneurs of the seminary. On the arrival of the troops the _curé_, M. Souart, had created a second "noble fief" for his nephew M. Hautmesnil between the River St. Lawrence and the Rivière des Prairies, and a third followed on the return of M. Queylus, given to La Salle. Peace enabled the colonists to go further afield, and in 1671 the seigneurs determined to establish seigneurial manors for further protection against Iroquois incursions and to place on them, for the most part, the officers of the regiments left behind. A debt of gratitude was first paid to Sieur Picoté de Bélestre by a concession of land at Pointe aux Trembles, taking in Bout de l'Isle and extending to the Rivière des Prairies. The northern part of the island facing the Rivière des Prairies and Ile Jésus--a dangerous spot--was chosen for two contiguous "noble fiefs" by Dollier de Casson on December 1, 1671 and given to Phillipe de Carion de Fresnoy, lieutenant in Lamothe's company, and Paul de Morel, ensign in the same company.