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 with direful execrations againt the Chritian religion, he was boiled to death in a brazen caldron filled with lead and brimtone; at the ight of whoe death, aswell Pagans as Chritians, with a loud voice cried out, "Long live St. George, the victorious Champion of England, who, by his valiant prowes, hath freed Barbary from their mierable thraldom."

Hereupon the Morocco peers, with bended knees, came to St. George; proffering unto him the imperial crown of Barbary, and promiing to be chritened in the Chritian faith; all which was preently performed by placing the crown upon his head, and abolihing Mahometanim with all the upertitious rites of that fale prophet; whereupon a great alteration uddenly enued, Pagan temples were pulled down, and a Chritian church erected: intead of a tyrannical government, good and wholeome laws were ordained: peace and plenty flourihed every where, and a general rejoicing was throughout the whole kingdom.

But the heroic Champions, not minding to pend their time in the idle bower of peace, and to let their armour hang ruting on the wall, when o much action was to be done in the world; they therefore ummoned their oldiers to re-aume their courage, and to put themelves in an equipage for war. St George leaving the government of the land, in his abence, to four of the principal peers of Morocco; the whole army marched directly to Egypt againt K. Ptolemy, who had confederated with Almidor for ending St. George into Peria.

HE even Champions of Chritendom, with their victorious army, being arrived in Egypt, they