He Fines Us Four
Thousand Pounds To Make A Fort At The Three Rivers, Telling Us For All
Manner Of
Satisfaction that he would give us leave to put our coat of armes
upon it, and moreover 6,000 pounds
For the country, saying that wee should
not take it so strangely and so bad, being wee were inhabitants and did
intend to finish our days in the same country with our Relations and
Friends. But the Bougre did grease his chopps with it, and more, made us
pay a custome which was the 4th part, which came to 14,000 pounds, so that
wee had left but 46,000 pounds, and took away L. 24,000. Was not he a
Tyrant to deal so with us, after wee had so hazarded our lives, & having
brought in lesse then 2 years by that voyage, as the Factors of the said
country said, between 40 and 50,000 pistolls? For they spoke to me in this
manner: "In which country have you been? From whence doe you come? For wee
never saw the like. From whence did come such excellent castors? Since your
arrivall is come into our magazin very near 600,000 pounds Tournois of that
filthy merchandise, which will be prized like gold in France." And them
were the very words that they said to me.
Seeing ourselves so wronged, my brother did resolve to goe and demand
Justice in France. It had been better for him to have been contented with
his losses without going and spend the rest in halfe a year's time in
France, having L. 10,000 that he left with his wife, that was as good a
Houswife as he.
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