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k. For had they not been privy and promoters of the aflafli- 

 nation, they would have fled with fear and abhorrence from 

 a place where lix of their brethren had been lately fo treach- 

 eroufly fliain, and were not yet buried, but their carcafes a- 

 bandoned to the fowls of the air, and the beafts of the field, 

 and where they themfelves, therefore, could have no allu- 

 rance of fafety. 



Thev however pretended, firfl to lay the blame upon the 

 king of Abyffinia, then upon the king of Sennaar, and 

 then they divided it between them both. But Elias, arriv- 

 ed at Gondar, vindicated that prince, as we fhall preiently 

 fee, and the lift of names taken at Sennaar ; and a long fe- 

 ries of correfpondence, which afterwards came out, and a 

 chain of evidence which was made public, inconteftibly 

 prove that the king of Sennaar was but an agent, and in- 

 deed an unwilling one, who two fcveral times repented of 

 his bloody defign, and made M. du Roule return to his own 

 houfe, to evade the execution of it. 



The blood then of this gallant and unfortunate gentleman 

 undoubtedly lies upon the heads of the reformed Francif- 

 can friars, and their brethren, the friars of the Holy Land. 

 The intereilof thefc two bodies, and a bigotted prince, fuch 

 as Louis XIV then was, was more than lufficicnt to Hop all 

 inquiry, and hinder any vengeance to be taken on thofe 

 holy afTafTms. But he who, unperceived, follows deliberate 

 murther through all its concealments and darknefs of its 

 wavs, in a few vears required fatisfadtion for the blood of 

 du Roule, at a tunc and place unforefecn, and imexpedled. 



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