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CO interpret to them, as they undenloodthc Arabic, havings 

 been at Cairo and Jerufalcra. The trial neither was, nor 

 "was intended to be long. The firft quellion put was a veryj 

 dired: one ; Do you, or do you not, receive the council of 

 Ciiakedon as a rule of faith ? and. Do you believe tlmt Leo 

 the pope lawfully and regularly prelidcd an it, and conduc!^^ 

 ed it ? To this the prifoners plainly anfwered, That they looked 

 upon the council of Chalcedon as the fourth general coun- 

 cil, and received it as fuch, and as a rule of faith : that 

 they did believe pope Leo lawfully and : regularly pre- 

 fided at it, as being head of tile Catholic church, fuc^f 

 celfor to St Peter, and Chrift's vicar upon earth. Upon this a 

 general fhout was heard from the whole aflembly ; and the 

 fatal cry, " Stone them." — " Whoever throws not three 

 Hones, he is, aqcurfed, and an enemy to Mary," immediately 

 followed, . 



One prieft only, dillinguiflied for piety and learning a-* 

 mong his countrymen, and one of the chief men in the af- - 

 fembly, with great vehemence declared, they were tried 

 partially and unfairly, and condemned unjuftly. But his 

 voice was not heard amidll the clamours of fuch a multi- 

 tude ; and the monks were accordingly by the judges con- 

 demned to die. Ropes were inftantly thrown about their 

 necks, and they were dragged to a place behind the church 

 of Abbo, in the way to Tedda, where they were, according 

 to their fentence, ftoned to death, fuffering with a patience 

 and refignation equal to the ficft martyrs. . 



The juftice, however, which we owe to the memory of J" 

 the deceafed M. du Roule, mufl always leave a fear in every 

 Chriftian mind, that, fpotted as thefe miilionaries were witli 

 the, horrid crime of the premeditated, unprovoked murder .- 



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