APPENDIX E 
     
    
   
   
    
     Loss of the Duke William on the Atlantic 
     
    
   
   
    
     Ocean* 
     
    
   
   
    
     Tur Duke William having proceeded to Halifax ar- 
     
     rived there safe; and from thence went to besiege Louis- 
     
     bonra: «22. 
     
    

    
     On the reduction of Louisbourg, the island of St. 
     
     John, in the entrance to the Gulf of St. Lawrence, fell 
     
     by capitulation, and the inhabitants were to be sent to 
     
     old France. Lord Rollo with a large party were sent on 
     
     board the transports which were ordered thither for 
     
     that purpose. The transports were nine in number, of 
     
     which the Duke William was one. They proceeded under 
     
     conyoy of the Hind sloop of war, Captain Bond, but 
     
     meeting with contrary winds and bad weather had a 
     
     long passage... . 
     
    

    
     A large party of soldiers having been ordered up 
     
     the country to bring the inhabitants down on board the © 
     
     different transports, as the Duke William was the larg- 
     
     est used, the missionary priest (who was the head man 
     
     of the country) with the principal inhabitants, were 
     
     ordered by Lord Rollo, to go to France with Captain 
     
     Nicholls. On his arrival, he requested the favour, that 
     
     the people might come on board to mass and to be 
     
     married. Captain Nicholls told he had no objection on 
     
     condition that he had a fee of every bride. Being asked 
     
     what he demanded as a fee, the captain replied—the 
     
     first after she was married. The priest being a facetious 
     
     man complied; and they had a great many marriages 
     
    
   
   
    
     1 Remarquable Voyages and Shipwrecks, Barrington.