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 misery, abandoned of all men, ended their wretched lives.

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

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

Q. What became of Herod Agrippa, who accused Herod the tetrarch or governor of Galilee?

A. He having slain James and imprisoned Peter, was, in a public assembly of the princes and nobles at Cesarea, struck from heaven with a most horrible disease, whereby his whole body putrefied, and he was eaten with worms.

Q. What account can you give me, became of Pontius Pilate, who pronounced sentence against our Saviour?

A. He falling into disgrace in Judea, went home to Italy, and there, being neglected and discountenanced by the emperor, he fell into desperation, and killed himself with his own hands.

Q. Who was he that would be worshipped as God?

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

Q. Who was the first emperor that persecuted the Christians, and what become of him?

A. Nero was the first that persecuted them, and after he had put to death Peter and Paul the apostles at Rome, and murdered his own mother, brother, wife, and Seneca his master, was so abhorred of all that the senate condemned him to be put into the pillory, and to be whipped to death, which, to avoid, he slew himself, complaining, that he had neither friend nor foe to dispatch him. The like tragical death had