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The career of the Iroquois was simply terrific. Between 1649 and 1672 they had, as stated, accomplished the ruin of the four tribes of their own blood, containing in the aggregate a population far more numerous than their own.
Under the treaty of 1649 which conceded full civil and religious equality to the Roman Catholics Ormond was once more placed at the head of the government and in command of the royal troops. A few days after the signing of that treaty, news of the execution of Charles I. having reached Ireland, the Viceroy proclaimed the Prince of Wales by the title of Charles II., at Cork and Youghal.
The more public-spirited members of the Parlement soon, however, tired of the folly; Mazarin won over De Retz by the offer of a cardinal's hat, and a compromise was effected with the court, which returned to Paris in April 1649.
The Parliament, who met on the 2d of January, 1649, resolved to enforce the execution of the declaration, which, they pretended, had been infringed in all its articles; and the Queen was resolved to retire from Paris with the King and the whole Court. The Queen was guided by the Cardinal, and the Duc d'Orleans by La Riviere, the most sordid and self-interested man of the age in which he lived.
In 1662, an Act of Indemnity was made law, by which future punishment for the past was adjusted by a scale of fines. Close on the heels of the Act of Indemnity followed one demanding from all persons holding any office of public trust a public abjuration of the Covenant, and another requiring all clergymen who had been appointed since 1649 to receive collation from the bishop of their diocese.
Perhaps the Titanic effort of will with which Brebeuf repressed all show of suffering conspired with the Iroquois knives and firebrands to exhaust his vitality; perhaps his tormentors, enraged at his fortitude, forgot their subtlety, and struck too near the life. Relation des Hurons, 1649, 15.
"Yet soe it is, may it please your Majestie, that after all the resistance they could make, the said usurper, having a great armie by sea and land before the said toune, did on the 9th of October, 1649, soe powerfully assault them, that he entered the toune, and put man, woman, and child, to a very few, to the sword, where among the rest the governor lost his life, and others of the soldiers and inhabitants to the number of 1,500 persons."
"1649 Three soldiers shot to death in Burford Churchyard May 17th." "Pd. to Daniel Muncke for cleansinge the Church when the Levellers were taken 3s. 4d." A walk through the streets of the old town is refreshing to an antiquary's eyes. Vandalism is not, however, quite lacking, even in Burford.
It is worth noting that both these suggestions have been proved practical but they had to wait until modern times to be carried out. In the anonymous A Perfect Description of Virginia, published in 1649, the population is given as 15,000 English and 300 negroes.
It may then be asserted positively that the growth of population between the dates 1649 and 1670 was not due to an influx of Cavaliers. Had many men of note fled to Virginia at this period their arrival would scarcely have escaped being recorded. Their prominence and the circumstances of their coming to the colony would have insured for them a place in the writings of the day.
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