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 reason it was necessary to dislodge the Fathers the first winter, lest their turbulent andintrizuing genius should prompt them to play some trick which might have proved fatal in the then critical situation of affairs, and whichthey could perhaps have easily compassed, had they been suffered to reside in the house. After the capitulation of Montreal, they were re-admitted, are conveniently lodged in one wing of it, and have freely consented to his Majesty's making use of the remainder.

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 considerable ones in the other two.

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They possess in that of Quebec, the best part of the large and rich parishes of Charlebourg, that of Lorette, and most of Ste. Foy ; by the best account their revenues cannot be short of thirty thousand livres per annum, and most probably exceed it, of which they have in this Government, about 11,000 livres.

They have only two missions here, one to the Hurons at Jeune Lorette near Quebec, the other to the Montagnais at Tadoussac and Chicoutimi.

The whole number in Quebec Government, the two missionaries included, is nine ; theSuperioris nominated in France, and holds his office generally six years