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♦'•only fix years, was Honed with him. It was iht fourth {on 

 " he had. I made Yafous believe that the religion of the 

 "French was the fame with that of Ethiopia," &c. &c, 



From this letter, we fee a boy of fix years old,.fbn of one 

 of thefe priefts or friars, was Honed to death with them; and 

 his heap of Hones appears with thofe of the others. It was, 

 indeed, a common tell of the people fufpeeted to be priefts, 

 who Hole into Abyffinia, to offer them women, their vows 

 being known, and that they could not marry. I apprehend, 

 to avoid detection, one at leaft of them had broken his vow 

 of celibacy and chaftity, and that this child was the con- 

 fequence, but not the only one, as Enoch fays, in his letter, 

 he had three others ; and this probably was the reafon why 

 the Catholics of thofe times had configned their merit to 

 oblivion, rather than record it with their failings. 



For although we know that there were friars who had 

 been in Ethiopia fince the time of Ouftas, we mould not have 

 been informed who they were, had it not been for a fmall 

 iheet, publifhed at Rome in the year 1774, by a capuchin 

 prieft called Theodofius Volpi, fent to me by my learned 

 and worthy friend the honourable Daines Barrington. From 

 this we find, that thefe three were, Liberato de Wies, apo- 

 ftolical prefect in Auitria; Michael Pius of Zerbe, in the 

 province of Padua ; and Samuel de Beumo, of the Milanefe. 

 The account of their death is the fame as already given, 

 •though the publifher fupprefies the ftoning of the child, 

 find the exiftence of the three other, fruits of the feraphic 

 minion, through the endeavours of father Michael Pius of 

 Zerbe, of the province of Milan. The child, too, ftoned to 

 ileath with his father, was fix years old, and was, as Elias 



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