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NYG(B.731.007
26 [=29] Mar-5 Apr 1731:22,31 (284) [DU]
Paris, November 10. It is written from Niot in the province
of Poicton, that 26 persons were seized there on suspicion
of holding assemblies for worshipping God in the Protestant
way, one of whom, named Brissant, had been condemned to be
hang'd, after two false witnesses had declared, on oath,
that they had hear him say, "Come, my brethren, God Almighty
will enable us to make mortar with the blood of our enemies
to build up our churches again". . . [1/2 column,
controversy over sentence.] When he got up the ladder, he
began to sing the 51st psalm, but the executioner gave him
not time enough to make an end, but turned him off. Many of
the Roman Catholicks were thereupon so shocked that they
were observed to shed tears.
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