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BG.731.008
1-8 Mar 1731:11,21 (584)
Paris, Nov. 10. We have a strange story to tell our
friends, the Protestants, from Niort in the Province of
Poitou, where 26 of their brethren went lately sized for
holding unlawfull assemblies; and one of them, named
Brissaut, was condemn'd to be hang'd upon the evidence of
two knights of the post. . .When he went up the ladder [to
the gallows], he sung part of the 51st Psalm; but the
[Executioner?] would not give him time to make an end of it,
but presently turned him off. Many Roman Catholicks [were?]
touched with compassion, that they could not refrain from
tears.
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