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to interpret to them, as they underflood the Arabic, having 

 been at Cairo and Jeruialem. The trial -neither -was, iim 

 was intended to be long. The ftrfl queftion put-w^s- a very 

 direct, one ; Do you, or do you not, receive the council of . 

 Chalcedon as a rule of faith ? and, Do you 'believe that Leo <. 

 the pope lawfully and regularly prefided at it, and-conducfcj 

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

 upon the council of Chaicedon 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 the Catholic church, fuc- 

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

 general iliout was heard from the whole aflembly ; and the 

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

 ftones, he is accurfed, and an enemy to Mary," immediately 

 followed. 



One priefl only, diftinguifTied 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 amidft 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 fenteace, floned to death, fufTering with a patience.: 

 and refignation equal to the firft martyrs, . 



The jufticei however, which we owe to the memory of 

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

 Chriftian mind, that, fpotted as thefe miffionaries were with 

 the horrid crime of the premeditated, unprovoked murder 



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