[16] Histoire de l'Hôtel-Dieu de Québec (Mère Juchereau, 511.)
[17] Histoire de l'Hôtel-Dieu, Casgrain, p. 81.
[18] To Let.—That elegant house, No. 6 Port Louis Street, lately occupied by H.R.H. Prince Edward, and at present by the Lord Bishop of Quebec. For particulars, apply to Miss Mabane, or to Munro & Bell, Quebec.—4th March, 1794 (Quebec Gazette, 1794.)
[19] Montgomery's House is now a much frequented stand for the sale of cigars, candies, newspapers, &c., to tourists.
[20] William Brown, uncle to the Neilsons, was a Scotchman from Philadelphia, who had been induced to print a journal in Quebec from the representations and information he had collected from William Laing, a Quebec merchant tailor, whom he had met in Scotland.
[21] Twenty-four years in advance of the London Times, founded in 1778, but twelve years after the Halifax Gazette, published in Halifax, N.S., in March, 1762, by one John Bushnell.
[22] The first books printed in Quebec were:—
"Catéchisme Montagnais," 1767.
"Lettre sur la Ville de Québec," 1774.
"Cantique de Marseilles," 1776.
In Montreal:—
"Réglement de la Confrérie de l'Adoration Perpétuelle du Saint Sacrement
et de la Bonne Mort," Mesplet & Berger, 1776.
"Jonathan and David, a tragedy, a book of 40 pages," Mesplet & Berger,
1776.
"Officium Sacerdotum," Mesplet & Berger, 1777.
—(Montreal Prize Questions in Canadian History.)
[23] The mode of consulting a Roman lawyer was this: the lawyer was placed on an elevated seat, the client, coming up to him said Licet consulere? The lawyer answered, consule. The matter was then proposed, and an answer returned very shortly, thus: Quaero an existimes, vel, id jus est, nec ne? Secundum ea, quae proponuntur, existimo, placet, puto.— (Adams' Roman Antiquities, 201.)
Lawyers gave their opinions either by word of mouth or in writing, commonly without any reasons annexed, but not always.