An ordinance of October 1, 1682, forbade all
trade except under license. An ordinance in 1684 ordered all fur
traders trading in Hudson Bay to pay one-fourth to Farmers of the
Revenue.
[2] It is hard to tell who this Godefroy was. Of all the famous
Godefroys of Three Rivers (according to Abbe Tanguay) there was only
one, Jean Batiste, born 1658, who might have gone with Radisson; but I
hardly think so. The Godefroys descended from the French nobility and
themselves bore titles from the king, but in spite of this, were the
best canoemen of New France, as ready--according to Mr. Sulte--to
_faire la cuisine_ as to command a fort. Radisson's Godefroy evidently
went in the capacity of a servant, for his name is not mentioned in the
official list of promoters. On the other hand, parish records do not
give the date of Jean Batiste Godefroy's death; so that he may have
gone as a servant and died in the North.
[3] State Papers, 1683, state that Dame Sorel, La Chesnaye, Chaujon,
Gitton, Foret, and others advanced money for the goods.
[4] In 1898, when up the coast of Labrador, I was told by the
superintendent of a northern whaling station--a man who has received
royal decorations for his scientific research of ocean phenomena--that
he has frequently seen icebergs off Labrador that were nine miles long.
[5] Jean was born in 1654 and was, therefore, twenty-eight.
[6] I have written both addresses as the Indians would chant them.
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