. 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, 60 ( j^ Ay^^^^ //(. 314 COLLATERAL DOCUMENTS No. 5 JEHAN FRANCOIS DE LA ROCQUES LETTERS PATENT FROMFRANCIS I, JANUARY 15, 1540 Francis, by the grace of God King of France, to all thosewho these present letters shall behold, greeting. On account of the desire to learn and have knowledgeof several countries, part of which are said to be inhabitedand others possessed by savage and strange peoples livingwithout knowledge of God and wi


. 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, 60 ( j^ Ay^^^^ //(. 314 COLLATERAL DOCUMENTS No. 5 JEHAN FRANCOIS DE LA ROCQUES LETTERS PATENT FROMFRANCIS I, JANUARY 15, 1540 Francis, by the grace of God King of France, to all thosewho these present letters shall behold, greeting. On account of the desire to learn and have knowledgeof several countries, part of which are said to be inhabitedand others possessed by savage and strange peoples livingwithout knowledge of God and without good use of reason,we have heretofore at great expense and outlay sent to dis-cover into several of the said countries, by some good pilotsand others, our subjects of good understanding, knowledgeand experience, who from some of the said countries havebrought to us divers men, and likewise among other thingshave made discovery of a great part of the lands of Canadaand Hochelaga, and other places circumjacent, the whichhave been found, as has been reported to us, furnished withmany good commodities, and the peoples thereof well formedin body and limb and well disposed in di


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