The Sieur Barbier marries.
When the Sieur Barbier went out a Hunting, I commonly
sent with him some Women and Maids, to help the
Hunters to dress and dry the Flesh; but being inform'd
that he us'd to slip aside from the Company, with a young
Maid he had a Kindness for, and which gave Occasion to
some well-grounded Railleries; the said Barbier being told
I was acquainted with that Affair, came and spoke to me
in private, desiring Leave to marry that young Woman, I
made some Difficulty of it at first, advising him to stay till
Monsieur de la Sale return'd; but at last, considering they
might have anticipated upon Matrimony, I took the Advice
of the Recolet Fathers, and of Monsieur Chedeville
the Priest, and allowed them to marry. Monsieur le Marquis
de la Sabloniere following this Example, ask'd the
same Liberty, being in Love with a young Maid, which I
absolutely refus'd, and forbid them seeing one another.
Accidents concerning the Recolets. Some Time pass'd in which Nothing happen'd to us worth observing; however, I will mention two Things which befell our Recolet Fathers. One was, That Father Anastasius, being a hunting Bullocks with me, and coming too near one I had shot, and was fallen, the Beast, as much hurt as he was, started up, attack'd and threw him down; he had much ado to get off, and I to rescue him, because I durst not shoot for Fear of killing him. The Bullock being weak, fell again; the Father was deliver'd, but lay ill some Months. The other was, That Father Maximus had writ some Memoirs concerning Monsieur de la Sale's Conduct, condemning him upon several Occasions. I was told of it, found Means to get those Memoirs, threw them into the Fire, and so the Father came off.
Duhaut Endeavours to occasion a Mutiny. About the same Time, most of our Men seeing Monsieur de le Sale did not return, began to mutter. The Sieur Duhaut, who perhaps had been the first Fomenter of those Discontents, back'd the Complaints of the disgusted Party, promis'd them great Matters under his Conduct, and offer'd to supply them with such Effects as he had in Possession, endeavouring, as I suppose, by those Means, to
