THE JESUITS
They possessa large commodious house, handsome Chapel, and a spacious garden, within the Upper Town ; the house and Chapel suffered a good deal from our artillery, but might be easily repaired ; no other place in the town being so proper, it has, and is still made use of as a magazine of provisions ; for this reaeon it was ~ necessary to dislodge the Fathers the first winter, lest their tm'bulent and intriguing genius should prompt them to play some trick which might hâve proved fatal in the then critical situation of affairs, and -; which they could perhaps hâve easily com- ; passed, had they been suffered to réside in the house. After the capitulation of Montréal, they were re-admitted, are conveniently lodged in one wing of it, and hâve freely consented to his Majesty's making use of the remainder. i|
Their particular province is the instructing of youth, and the missions of the Savages ; the King allowed on account of the latter, fifteen thousand three hundred livres.
They had a very large estate in this country, and hold some lands in the Town en Roture^ but are Lords of very large tracts in this Government, and of very considérable ones in the other two.
They possess in that of Québec, the best part of the large and rich parishes of Charlebourg, that of Lorette, and most of Ste. Foy ; by the best account their rev.enues cannot be short of thirty thousand livres per annum, and most probably exceed it, of which they hâve in this Government, about 11,000 livres.
They hâve only two missions hère, one to the Hurons at Jeune Lorette near Québec, the other to the Montagnais at Tadoussac and Chicoutimi.
The whole number in Québec Government, the two missionaries included, is nine; theSuperioris nominatedin France, and hoids his office generally six years
THE REGOLLETS.
This is an order of mendicant Friars, who possess nothing of their own but a ho use and garden in the Upper Tovv^n. Tliey had a pièce of ground in the suburbs of St. Roch, on w^hich they had formely a house and Church vv^hich has been abandoned for some years. A small part of the Intendants buildings is erected upon a pièce of this land, in considération of which, under the French Government, they were paid fifty hvres a year from the Marine by way of charity, as they can receive no rents ; they acted as Gliaplains to the army and at several Forts andK Posts, and in'faihire of regular Clergy, served vacant Cures.
They hâve a provincial Commissary résident hère, who superintends the whole in Canada, sent from France, and changed every three years ; the présent one has discharged it twice on account of the war.
They hâve in this Gouvernment :
Fathers 10
As Servants or Brothers 9
