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 Q. What became of Herodias, her dancing daug ter, who required John Baptist's head?

A. It is reported she being forced to pass over frozen river, the ice broke, and her head was cut thereby, without hurting the body, to the admir tion of all the spectators.

Q. What became of Herod Agrippa, who accu ed Herod the tetrareh or governor of Galilee?

A. He having slain James and imprisoned Peter was on a pub'ic assembly of the princes and no 3 at Cesarea, struck from heaven with a inost horrib disease, whereby lis whole body putrified, and h was eaten with worms.

Q. What accomut can you give me, became Pontius Pilate, wlio pronounced sentence agains our Saviour?

A. He falling into disgrace in Judea, went hom to Italy, and there, being reacted and discounte Manced by the emperor, he fell into desperation, an killed hic:self with his own hands.

Q. Who was he that would be worshipped as Go!

A. Caligula, who, in contempt of all divine pow er, would be worshipped as God, was murdered by his own kindred.

Q. Wl:0' was the first emperor that persecute the Cl ristiese, and what became of them?

A. Nero was the first that persecuted tlem, ang after he had put to death Petir and Paul, the apos tles at Rome, and muldered his own mother, lo ther, wife, and 'Seneca his master, was so abhored of all, that the senate condemned nim to be put in to the pillory, and to be whipped to death, which to avoid, he slew himself, coniplaining, that he line neither friend nor foe to dispatch him. The like tragical death, had the Emperors from Tiberiu lo Constantine the Great, who established the