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This in my notion is the bonds of Charity in which we ought to live one towards another.
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I am
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Monsieur
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Your most humble servt
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AnnapoIis Royal
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20th July 1741
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Monsieur Des Enclaves.
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Govr. Mascarene to M. Desenclaves.
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(Govs. Lett. Book.)
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MONSIEUR, —
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I answer yr. letter by ye same oppo. which brot. it to me to make you sensible that your Correspondence is acceptable to me. Whilst ye Missionaries which shall be allowed residence in this Provce. will contain themselves within the Bounds which you acknowledge by yr. Sevl. letters it is requisite they should, & pay the regard they ought to the Government they will not meet with any impediment in their administrating to the people what relates to their Spiritual function. But when they shall pretend to require or to settle themselves by any other authority than what derives from ye King of Great Britain who is the Sovereign Lord of this province they shall not only incur the Displeasure & resentment of this Government but will draw it on ye people whom they may persuade to support them in any such unwarrantable proceeding. I repeat this often to you as it is a point on which ye peace and tranquility of the Inhabitants so much depends, which those who are of your Profession should by all means endeavour to keep them in, rather than make them run the risque of losing. I have referd Monsr. Lobargett to my letter to you on this head & on the behaviour which the Government expects from the Missionary, & Desire you will also communicate them to Monsr. De la Goudalie if he comes to your parts before he reaches these, that those Missionaries may not by some wrong steps bring trouble where their duty shd. oblige them to maintain peace. The affairs in Europe are much embroiled and in case they should occasion a rupture between Great Britain & France the missionaries must expect to fall very naturally under Suspicion, & therefore ought to be the more circumspect in their conduct in regard to themselves & towards the Inhabitants whom they will draw into inevitable 8
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