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Title: A memoir of Jacques Cartier, sieur de Limoilou : his voyages to the St. Lawrence. A bibliography and a facsimile of the manuscript of 1534, with annotations, etc.
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Cartier, Jacques, 1491-1557 Baxter, James Phinney, 1831-1921
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Publisher: New York : Dodd
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ntered into the said country, we have forbidden and doforbid all our subjects meddling with them to navigate by thepassages and straits aforesaid unless they be associated andjoined to our said army and under the obedience of our saidlieutenant, nevertheless permitting them other navigationsand entrances to lands not forbidden by us, to which goingand coming we will and enjoin them in case of encounter byland or by sea, to give all comfort and aid, favor and succor,and to render obedience to our lieutenant, or others hisclerks with the said army ; and if heretofore we have givenany letters or authority to any person contrary to the tenorof his said letters, these we have at present as at the timerevoked and do revoke, cancel, and annul by these saidpresents, except as much and for as long as our said lieu-tenant may wish to tolerate and suffer them ; and forasmuchas for the purpose of the said voyage and settlement of thesaid countries it may be needful to pass several letters and 320
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COLLATERAL DOCUMENTS contracts, we have herein approved and do approve, authen-ticated and do authenticate the signatures and seals of oursaid lieutenant and other officers in this respect by him com-missioned and deputed; and considering that there may-happen to our said lieutenant some sore inconvenience ofsickness, and peradventure the death of the aforesaid, that itwill be necessary on his return to leave one or more our lieu-tenant or lieutenants, we will and intend that he may nomi-nate, create, constitute, and establish one or more of them bywill or otherwise, as shall seem to him good, having equaland like power, authority, and special command, or part of it,which we have given and do give him by these said presents.And because we have not sufficient knowledge of said coun-tries and strange peoples, in order farther to specify thepower which we might desire, and it pleases us that thespecifications here above declared may in no wise derogatefrom the general power which we have

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