The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. 4: Acadia and Quebec, 1616-1629
History
The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. 4: Acadia and Quebec, 1616-1629
Canada -- History -- To 1763 (New France); Indians of North America -- Canada; Jesuits -- Missions; Jesuits -- North America
Or en fin, response venant de Londres, on sceut, que Monsieur
l'Ambassadeur de France auoit esté aduerty de l'arriuée de ce nauire,
& en poursuiuoit la reddition, [298 i.e., 300] & particulierement
des Iesuites, ayant eu commandement de ce faire de sa Majesté
tres-Chrestienne. Ce fut vn autre effect de la Prouidence diuine, lors
qu'elle moyenna ce nostre arrest, en la Prouince de Galles, à celle fin
qu'il fust cogneu de tous: car nous auons de grands indices: & vous
en verrez tantost aucuns, que si les Marchands, qui ont surintendance
de la Virginie, en pouuoient faire à leur gré, pas vn estranger, qui
auroit esté en ladicte Virginie, ne reuiendroit iamais en son pays.
When at last an answer came from London, it was learned that the
Ambassador of France[7] had heard about the arrival of this ship,
and was negotiating its surrender, [298 i.e., 300] especially the
surrender of the Jesuits, having had orders to do so from his most
Christian Majesty. This was another effect of divine Providence,
since it caused this our arrest in the Province of Wales to the end
that it might be known to all; for we have strong proofs, and you
will soon see some of them, that if the Merchants in whose hands
lay the administration of Virginia, had been able to have their own
way, not one foreigner who was to be found in Virginia, would ever
have returned to his own country.
Pour tost finir nostre discours, notez que les Iesuites furent conduits
par vn long circuit au Port de Sanduicts; & de là ramenez à Douure par
le commandement du Roy, & de Douure à Calais, où ils rendirent graces
à Dieu pour tant de signalez benefices, [299 i.e., 301] & prouidence
sienne, & en auoyent bien occasion, ayants demeuré neuf mois & demy
entre les mains des Anglois. Le sieur d'Arquien, Gouuerneur dudit
Calais, & Monsieur la Baulaye, Doyen, leur firent de leur grace fort
bon accueil, & leur aumosnerent assez pour se conduire iusques à leur
College d'Amiens.
To finish our story as quickly as possible, note that the Jesuits
were taken by a long roundabout way to the Harbor of Sanduicts
[Sandwich], and from there sent to Dover by order of the King, and
from Dover to Calais, where they rendered thanks to God for such
signal blessings [299 i.e., 301] and providences, for which they
had good cause, having been nine months and a half in the hands of
the English. Sieur d'Arquien, Governor of Calais, and Monsieur la
Baulaye, Dean, gave them a very warm reception and provided them
with means to return to their College at Amiens.
CHAPITRE XXXIV. [i.e., xxxiii.]
LE RETOUR DU SIEUR DE LA MOTE, DU CAPITAINE FLORY, & DE QUELQUES
AUTRES. ET LA REDDITION DU NAUIRE.
PEV apres ceste deliurance des Iesuites, Dieu recueillit encores par sa
misericorde, quasi tout le reste du naufrage en ceste façon.
CHAPTER XXXIV. [i.e., xxxiii.]
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