The Attorney General, who perceives all the consequences of such a principle

;

who feels how

essential and just it is to preserve to every one his right, is requested to give the Lords Commissioners

of Plantations to understand that however laudable

may be their zeal for the maintainance of the

rights of the Crown, it is carried too far when it unnecessarily tends to the ruin of a private IndiHowever, if they consider for reasons they doubtless foresee, that His Majesty cannot depart vidual.

from the original pretensions He has formed to the country, and that my Titles received may affect them, I am too much attached to His Majesty's Interests to object to any new Titles He shall please to grant me Gratis for the whole of the same objects, and which reintegrate me in all my rights. would supplicate him merely to observe my present situation which does not admit of my remaining

any longer in London, and to order that I be despatched with the greatest possible promptness. I5*h June 1764.

This

GRANT IN FAVOUR OF M. HOCQUART OF A TRACT OF LAND ON LAKE CHAMPLAIN. 1743. This day, twentieth of April One thousand seven hundred and forty three, the King being at Versailles, desirous to treat Sieur

Hocquart Intendant of New France graciously and to bestow on

him a mark of the satisfaction he entertains of his services, His Majesty has granted to him by tenure of Fief and Seigniory, a tract about one league in front by five leagues in depth, situate in the said Colony on Lake Chemplain opposite Fort St. Frederic, bounded on the West by said Lake, east by unconceded lands, North by a line drawn East and West, and South by a line parallel to this, which two lines form the division of lands to be conceded at a quit rent (en censives) in His Majesty's name