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ic. For had they not been privy and promoters of the afTafil- 

 nation, they would have fled with fear and abhorrence from 

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

 eroufly flain, 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 afTu- 

 rance of fafety. 



They however pretended, firft to lay the blame upon the 

 king of Abyflinia, 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 mall prefently 

 fee, and the lift of names taken at Sennaar ; arid 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 feveral times repented of 

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

 Iioufe, 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 intereftof thefe two bodies, and a bigotted prince, fuch 

 as Louis XIV then was, was more than fufiicient to flop all 

 inquiry, and hinder any vengeance to be taken on thofe 

 holy afTaflins. But he who, unperceived, follows deliberate 

 rnurther through all its concealments and darknefs of its 

 ways, in a few years required fatisfaction for the blood of 

 du Roule, at a time and place unforefeen, and unexpected. 



