ix.-xiv., xx.
[24:2] Mr.Bancroft, describing the "sad condition" of La Salle's colony at Matagorda after the wreck of his richly laden store-ship, adds that "even now this colony possessed, from the bounty of Louis XIV., more than was contributed by all the English monarchs together for the twelve English colonies on the Atlantic.

Its number still exceeded that of the colony of Smith in Virginia, or of those who embarked in the 'Mayflower'" (vol.iii., p.

171).
[26:1] Dr.R.F.Littledale, in "Encyclopaedia Britannica," vol.xiii., pp.

649-652.
[27:1] Both these charges are solemnly affirmed by the pope in the bull of suppression of the society (Dr.R.F.Littledale, in "Encyclopaedia Britannica," vol.xiii., p.

655).
[27:2] Bancroft, vol.iii., p.