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bute to the Idng, neither they nor their fore* fathers.

3. Neverthelefs, they gave the king every year a free-will offering (not as tributaries) for they were freemen, and were never ia bondage to any;

4. Neither were they seditious to the in- tereft of Caesar, they loved the liing, and meddled not with thofe who were given to change : his enemies were their enemies, and they fought the battles of the idng.

5. And the decree went forth from "^"^'hite-hall (the palace,) and it was sealed with the king's signet.

6. And the governors of the provinces v/ere commanded to make the thing known to the people.

7. Now ^hen the people of the pro- vinces had seen the writing of the decree, gtnd knew that it was sealed v.'ith the king's dgnet, they were sorely grieved, and there wa? a very great murmuring, the sound