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30 See Ivanhoe Caron, "Les eveques de Quebec, leurs Procureurs et leurs vicaires generaux, a Rome,
a Paris et a Londres (1734-1834)," Memoires de la Societe Royale du Canada, 3rd ser., 29 (May
1935), sec. I, pp. 153-178. On Francis Morrogh, see Jean-Fran~ois Hubert to Antonelli, Quebec,
7 Nov. 1791, SOCG 684. Thomas Douglas, nephew of John Douglas, bishop of Centuria and
vicar apostolic in the London district, was sent to Quebec to work for the Morrogh finn. Hubert
and John Douglas thus established a practical contact, and Douglas offered to forward Hubert's
correspondence to Rome (see Robert Morrogh to John Douglas, Quebec, 10 Aug. 1795, WDA,
A, vol. 46, no. 72). On the roundabout journey to England, see Robert Smelt to John Douglas,
Rome, May 1794, id., vol. 45, no. 44.
31 James Hennesey, American Catholics. A History of the Roman Catholic Community in the United
States, New York: Oxford University Press, 1981, pp. 69-88. On the years 1754-1784, see
Codignola, "L'America del Nord nei documenti della Sacra Congregazione 'de Propaganda Fide'
(1754-1784)," in Spini et al., eds., [talia e America, pp. 127-147.
32 [Guido Bentivoglio] to Alessandro Bichi, Rome, 11 June 1632, Lettere 31; [Propaganda] to Celio
Piccolomini, [Rome], 25 May 1660, Lettere 75; [Propaganda] to Doria Pamphili, Rome, 17 July
1776, Lettere 257.
33 Carlo Francesco Airoldi to Antonio Barberini, Brussels, 11 Oct. 1670, ~ 478; Airoldi to Federico
Baldeschi Colonna, Brussels, 12 Nov. 1672, SOCG 420.
34 On the Avalon colony, see Codignola, The Coldest Harbour of the Land. Simon Stock and Lord
Baltimore's Colony in Newfoundland, 1621-1649, Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press,
1988, p. 45 (1st Italian ed.: 1982). The quotation is from [Propaganda] to Simon Stock, Rome,
17 July 1627, Lettere 14.
35 A comprehensive report commissioned by the Order was heavily edited and reached Propaganda
in an almost incomprehensible fonn. The original report is Bede of the Blessed Sacrament to
Paolo Simone di Gesu e Maria, London, 24 Oct. 1625, General Archives of the Discalced
Carmelites (Rome), Missiones Europa Anglia. P. Beda aSS. Sacr.: Litterae & relationes 1625/27,
271.h, ff. 3rv-4rv. The doctored version is [Bede of the Blessed Sacrament] to [Paolo Simone
di Gesu e Maria], [London, 24 Oct. 1625], SOCG 161. See Codignola, Coldest Harbour, pp. 26-
29.
36 Proceedings of the General Congregation of 3 June 1720, Acta 185; Proceedings of the General
Congregation of 17 March 1721, Acta 186.
37 Proceedings of the General Congregation of 21 July 1625, Acta 5; [Propaganda] to [Muzio
Vitelleschi], [Rome, Fall 1625], SOCG 252 (propaganda's letter includes Vitelleschi's autograph
answer).
38 Vitelleschi to Urban VIII, [Rome, 1637], SOCG 333; [Jer6me Lalemant] to Barberini, [1637-
8], SOCG 334; Proceedings of the General Congregation of 23 March 1637, Acta 44; Proceedings
of the General Congregation of 16 March 1638, Acta 45. See the Jesuit catalogues in ~ 562
(1635); C 564 (1653); Varia 379 (1653); Varia 180 (1657); Varia 205 (1659); Varia 181 (1667);
~ 540 (mid-1760s).
39 Andre Vachon, "Laval, Fran~ois de," in David M. Hayne and Vachon, eds., Dictionary of
Canadian Biography, II: 1701 to 1740, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1969, pp. 360-
362.