Richard acknowledges Flaget's letter of April 6 and thanks him for the consolation and advice it contained. If his sins prevent the grace of God from coming to his people, it will be consoling to know that the glory of God has been procured elsewhere by those who serve God better. He asks the bishop's prayers that he persevere. He does not seem to have long the necessary sincerity. He speaks now of the schismatics. He announced on the 3rd Sunday after Easter that he would go on a mission to the chapel of St. Francis of the Riviere aux Huron, 27 miles from there, and that he would give them until his return before pronouncing the 3 denunciations. They became hardened and thought that these were only threats and that Richard would not have the power to put them into effect. On the day after, April 28, they began to renounce the first plan to remove all the bones. They had left on purpose some biers. On Tuesday things were yet worse. Richard hastened to the place and made sure that the Supervisor of the streets had not acted on his own authority but under the direction of Mr. Pierre Chene, one of the seven, and that he had not yet received any official communication of Flaget's pastoral. Richard then read him the 5 declarations on the spot in the presence of several witnesses. Renouncing his trip he announced that the following Sunday he would begin the denunciations against the adherents of the schismatics. As soon as he ordered the Catholics who were arranging the soil above the bones without removing them to open the graves, the good people who had been deceived all obeyed without difficulty the orders of the bishop. Mr. Chene and Mr. Joseph Campeau were terrified and the latter invited Richard to his house. Soon Mr. Benoit Chapoton and Mr. P. Cheverions followed. The lawyer came soon to make the peace and Richard reproached him severely for causing the trouble by advising the persons whom he knew had no right. Richard did not know how to profit by his advantage. The lawyer was the mediator. After telling them that there was no other point of agreement than that they should sign the paper containing the proper words set out by the Bishop in his pastoral. Nevertheless, after an hour's conference, 4 of the 7 signed the agreement of which this is a copy. :: III-2-f Copy of A.L. unsigned French 2pp. 4to., 7