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Rh three of theſe wicked and ſuborned varlets, who bound their accuſations with oath and fearful imprecations upon themſelves: the firſt of theſe, at the cloſe of his teſtimony, added. If I ſay not the truth, I pray God I may periſh by fire: the ſecond ſaid, If I ſpeak any thing of falſehood, I pray God I may be conſumed by ſome filthy and cruel diſeaſe: and ſaid the third, ''If I accuſe him falſely. I pray God I my loſe my ſight, and become blind: this wicked charge, although it was not believed by ſuch as knew the great integrity of the biſhop; yet the good man, partly for grief to lie under ſuch a ſcandal, and partly to retire himſelf from worldly affairs, left his biſhoprick, and lived privately: but his forſworn accuſers eſcaped not the all-ſeeing juſtice of heaven, for the firſt, according to his imprecation, had his houſe ſet on fire (it is unknown how) and was therein himſelf, together with his family, burnt to aſhes; the ſecond languished away under a foul and lothſome diſeaſe: the third ſeeing the woful ends of his companions, confeſſed all the complotted villany; and lamenting his caſe and crime, he continued weeping ſo long, till he utterly loſt his ſight: and thus God ſaid Amen to all that they had wickedly and preſumptuouſly wiſhed upon themſelves—Euſebius lib. 6.''

XLIV. Uladiſlaus, King of Poland and Hungary, had fortunately fought againſt the Turks at the mountain Haemus, and taken Carambey, the general of their army, by means of which victory, he occaſioned Amurath, emperor of the Turks, to ſue for peace, which was agreed to upon honourable and advantageous terms, and was ſolemnly ſworn to by the King of Poland, upon the holy evangeliſts, and by Amurath's ambaſſadors in behalf of their maſter, upon the Turkiſh alcoran. This