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14. Now he had defired that the ufual cere- monies of the dead fhould be omitted, and that he might be privately buried by his own fervants; neverthelefs, the three captains, Burgoyne^ Phillips and Reidesel^ llruck with forrow and indignation at the mournful and humiliating fcene, and feeUng their affedions kindled, they could not refrain from paying the iafl office of love to their deceafed brother.

15. They followed the bier until they came to the burying-place, and lo! while the ob- fequies were performing, and the preacher was executing his office, and the people were attending upon this folemn occafion, they were ihot at by the fervants of the great Sanhedrim!

16. The balls from the deflroying engines raifed clouds of dud that covered the pried and the people; neverthelefs the preacher altered not his voice, neither did his counte- nance change, during the terrific and aweful fcene!