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     not actually possessed by any of the King’s subjects, 
     
     even without title. All others were forbidden to in- 
     
     trude upon this fishery on penalty of confiscation of 
     
     their vessels and merchandise and 3000 livres fine, 
     
     half to go to the Chapel of St. Louis de Chedabouc- 
     
     tou, the other half to Gautier.*® 
     
    

    
     This company had unusually hard luck from the 
     
     beginning. Establishments were set up in all the is- 
     
     lands, but the ship, Le Diligent, sent out in 1686 was 
     
     so badly damaged that it had to put back to France 
     
     empty, and the codfish was spoiled in the storehouse 
     
     at Chedabouctou. Heavily in debt, the Company sent 
     
     out in April, 1688, the St. Lowis, which was lost with 
     
     the entire cargo in Les rades de la Rochelle. Another 
     
     vessel was freighted from the same port with a new 
     
     cargo, but on arriving in Acadia it also was captured 
     
     in August, 1688, by the English, who set out from 
     
     Boston, fell upon Chedabouctou, pillaged, burned, 
     
     and carried off everything. It being a time of peace 
     
     the pretext was put forward that these raiders were 
     
     pirates. 
     
    

    
     A second society was formed under pressure from 
     
     the Sr. de Seignelay, including Perrot, once Gover- 
     
     nor of Acadia, and Lagny. The society raised funds 
     
     to the amount of 60,000 livres and equipped quite a 
     
     fleet of vessels with arms, munitions, merchandise ; 
     
     and proceeded to the site of the first establishment, 
     
     which they found in complete possession of the Eng- 
     
     lish. This expedition also was a dead loss, and the 
     
     society as a result was ruined and dissolved. The only 
     
    
   
   
    
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