The Maseres Letters, 1766-1768

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Excerpt from The Maseres Letters, 1766-1768: Edited With an Introduction, Notes and Appendices The years from 1763 to 1774 were a critical period in Canadian history. The newly conquered province presented a multitude of problems which pressed for solution, and the solution of which was likely to be irrevocable. Chief among these was the vital question as to whether the Protestant anglo-saxon conquerors were to adopt toward the conquered Roman Catholic French the policy of repression which had just been carried through to such tragic consequences in Acadia, or the policy of conciliation which was eventually embodied in the Quebec Act of 1774. The scales tipped at first toward the policy of repression. The Proclamation of 1763, whatever may have been the intention of those who framed it, operated to abolish the old French laws, and to give the colony, with smug anglo-saxon self-complacency, the enjoyment of the benefit of the laws of Our realm of England. The instructions to General Murray, the first civil governor of the province, required him to model the courts of justice on those Of Nova Scotia, a somewhat ominous exemplar, he was to admit of no Eccles iastical Jurisdiction of the See of Rome, and to the End that the Church of England may be established both in Principles and Practice, and that the said inhabitants may by Degrees be induced to embrace the Protestant religion, all possible encouragement was to be given to the erection of Protestant schools and churches. Thus, without any drastic Acadian expulsion, Quebec was to become gradually an English Protestant colony. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.