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 cae of aault whether they hould torm with the weapons in their hands, or with the element of fire: for they were reolved to avenge the hame of the virgins and wives, their countrywomen, upon thee candalous gallants, who, on their irruption into the country, had neither repected the anctity of cloiters nor the chatity of venerable matrons and their tender daughters. It availed nothing that the even martyrs might have been innocent of the crime of their countrymen. The evere commiion of chatity condemned them one and all