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Permission of the Reverend Father Provincial.

W.

E, FRANÇOIS ANNAT, Provincial of the

Society of JESUS in the Province of

France, have granted to sieur SEBASTIEN CRAMOISY, Bookseller under Oath in the University of Paris and Printer in ordinary to the King and Queen, Citizen, former Alderman, and former JudgeConsul of this City of Paris, the printing of the Relations of New France. Done at Paris, this ioth of February, 1654.

FRANÇOIS ANNAT.

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DATA: VOL. XL

LXXXIII

For a bibliographical account of this document, see Vol. XXXVIII.

LXXXIV

In presenting the text of the Relation of 1652 - 53 (Paris, 1654), we follow the original Cramoisy edition, from the copy in the Lenox Library. The prefatory epistle of the superior, François le Mercier, is dated on p. 4, “A Quebec ce 29. d'Octobre 1653." The“ Priuilege" is not dated; but the “ Permiffion," signed by the Provincial, François Annat, was “ Fait à Paris ce 10. Feurier 1654.” This annual is no. 101, in Harrisse's Notes.

Collation: Title, with verso blank, i leaf; “ Table des Chapitres," pp. (2); prefatory epistle from Le Mercier to the Provincial, pp. 1-4; text (9 chaps.) pp. 5 - 184; “ Extraict du Priuilege du Roy,” with verso blank, I leaf; “Permission du R. P. Prouincial,” with verso blank, i leaf. Signatures: ã in two, A-L in eights, M in two, N in four.

In the Harvard copy, line 17 of p. 132 ends with “de," and line 18 begins with the same word. This duplication is removed in the Lenox copy. On p. 159, line 15, of the Harvard copy, we find "fa-famille; ' but in in the Lenox

is corrected to "fa famille." The Harvard copy is, therefore, apparently, the earlier impression.

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Copies of this Relation have been sold or priced as follows: Harrassowitz (1882), no. 37, priced at 120 marks; O'Callaghan (1882), no. 1233, sold to Library of Parliament of Canada for $15, and had cost him a like amount; Barlow (1890), no. 1303, sold for $27.50; Dufossé, priced, at different times, between 1891 – 1893, at 200 and 265 francs. Copies are to be found in the following libraries: Lenox, Harvard, Brown (private), Marshall (private), Ayer (private), St. Mary's College (Montreal), Laval University (Quebec), Library of Parliament (Ottawa), British Museum, and Bibliothèque Nationale (Paris).

NOTES TO VOL. XL

(Figures in parentheses, following number of note, refer to pages

of English text.)

1 (p. 25).- Martin, who largely avails himself in the translation of these biographical sketches, of the MS. of 1652, says that this correspondent was Father Leonard Garreau. Bressani here draws freely from the Relation of 1650 (vol. xxxv.).

2 (p. 37).- “An autograph note of Father Paul Ragueneau, appended to the precious MS. of 1652, and affirmed under oath, leaves us no doubt upon this point. This missionary states that he obtained, from most trustworthy witnesses, the following details. The Huron apostate, named Louis Honareenhax, finally avowed that he had killed Father Noël, out of hatred to the faith; for, since he and his family had embraced the faith, all kinds of misfortunes had befallen them.” According to this note, the murderer and his entire family were objects of “the divine vengeance, of which the Iroquois were the instruments.”—Martin's Bressany, p. 276, note.

3 (p. 79). — The Father here mentioned was Joseph du Peron (vol. xxii., note 3); he sailed from Quebec Nov. 10, 1653.

4 (p. 109).— The commandant of Three Rivers at this time was Pierre Boucher (vol. xxviii., note 18). After the death of Duplessis, this post was commanded by Boucher and La Poterie, in irregular alternation, until September, 1667.

5 (p. 111). Platon: a corrupt form of plateau (vol. xix., note 4).

6 (p. 131). — Carr describes the process by which the Indians made bread from corn (as also from beans, acorns, or other vegetable products); it was baked in hot ashes, or on broad stones placed over a fire. The ash-cake, johnny-cake, and pone, still used by whites, are survivals of the aboriginal cuisine.—"Food of American Indians," in Amer. Antiq. Soc. Proc., vol. x., part 1, pp. 181, 182.

7 (p. 143). — Pierre le Petit, a settler upon the Jesuit lands at Beauport, had a wife and two infant children. The boy, Joseph, born in July, 1647, was carried away by the Iroquois when barely three years old (vol. xxxv., p. 43). In the passage here cited, enter.

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