“For the service of the table of the chief:—­Thirty-six dishes, as many bowls and plates, six saltcellars, six ewers, two basins, six pots of six pints each, six pints, six chopines [about half a pint] six demy-septiers, the whole of pewter, two dozen table-cloths, twenty-four dozen napkins.

“For the kitchen:—­A dozen of copper boilers, six pairs andirons, six frying-pans, six gridirons.

“Shall also be taken out:—­Two bulls of one year old, heifers, and as many sheep as convenient; all kinds of seeds for sowing.

“The commander of the settlement shall have charge of the arms and ammunition which are actually there, and of those which shall afterwards be sent, so long as he shall be in command; and the clerk or factor who shall reside there shall take charge of all merchandise; as well as of the furniture and utensils of the company, and shall send a regular account of them, signed by him, by the ships.

“Also shall be sent, a dozen mattresses complete, like those of families, which shall be kept in the magazine for the use of the sick and wounded, etc., etc.

“Signed at Paris December 21st, 1618, and compared with the original [on paper] by the undersigned.”

Champlain submitted this document to the king, who approved it, but nevertheless the associates were afterwards unwilling to fulfil its conditions.  The Prince de Conde having been discharged from prison on October 20th, 1619, the king forwarded to him his commission of viceroy, and the Company of Rouen granted him a thousand ecus.

The prince gave five hundred ecus to the Recollets for the construction of a seminary at Quebec, and this was his only gift to the settlement of New France.  The prince afterwards sold his commission as viceroy to the Duke of Montmorency, Admiral of France, for the sum of thirty thousand ecus.  Dolu, grand almoner of the kingdom, was appointed intendant.  The duke renewed Champlain’s commission as lieutenant of the viceroy, and at the same time advised him to return to Quebec to strengthen his positions everywhere, in order that the country might be secure against invasion.

The patronage of Montmorency greatly encouraged Champlain, for the duke exercised great power.  He therefore resolved to take his young wife to Quebec with him, for she had never been to Canada.  Champlain concluded his private business in France, and took all his effects to the new settlement, as he had determined to take up his residence there.  Before leaving France, all the difficulties in connection with his command were removed, and the king wrote him a very gracious letter, in which His Majesty expressed his esteem for his loyal and faithful subject.