[132] _Monseigneur de Saint-Vallier et l'Hôpital Général de Québec_, 203.
[133] _Dudley to Sunderland, 14 August, 1709._
[134] _Vetch to Sunderland, 2 August, 1709._ The pay of the men was nine shillings a week, with eightpence a day for provisions; and most of them had received an enlistment bounty of £12.
[135] _Vetch to Sunderland, 12 August, 1709._ Dudley writes with equal urgency two days later.
[136] _Letters of Nicholson, Dudley, and Vetch, 20 June to 24 October, 1709._
[137] _Joint Letter of Nicholson, Dudley, Vetch, and Moody to Sunderland, 24 October, 1709_; also _Joint Letter of Dudley, Vetch, and Moody to Sunderland, 25 October, 1709_; _Abstracts of Letters and Papers relating to the Attack of Port Royal, 1709_ (Public Record Office); _Address of ye Inhabitants of Boston and Parts adjacent, 1709_. Moody, named above, was the British naval captain who had consented to attack Port Royal.
[138] _Order of Assembly, 27 October, 1709._ Massachusetts had spent about £22,000 on her futile expedition of 1707, and, with New Hampshire and Rhode Island, a little more than £46,000 on that of 1709, besides continual outlay in guarding her two hundred miles of frontier,--a heavy expense for the place and time.
[139] See J. R. Bartlett, in _Magazine of American History_, March, 1878, and Schuyler, _Colonial New York_, ii. 34-39. The chiefs returned to America in May on board the "Dragon." An elaborate pamphlet appeared in London, giving an account of them and their people. A set of the mezzotint portraits, which are large and well executed, is in the John Carter Brown collection at Providence. For photographic reproductions, see Winsor, _Nar. and Crit. Hist._, v. 107. Compare Smith, _Hist. N. Y._, i. 204 (1830).
[140] _Commission of Colonel Francis Nicholson, 18 May, 1710._ _Instructions to Colonel Nicholson, same date._
[141] _Instructions to Richard Viscount Shannon, July, 1710._ A report of the scheme reached Boston. Hutchinson, ii. 164.
[142] The troops, however, were actually embarked. _True State of the Forces commanded by the Right Honble The Lord Viscount Shannon, as they were Embarkd the 14th of October, 1710._ The total was three thousand two hundred and sixty-five officers and men. Also, _Shannon to Sunderland, 16 October, 1710_. The absurdity of the attempt at so late a season is obvious. Yet the fleet lay some weeks more at Portsmouth, waiting for a fair wind.