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tain, be weakened, and their haughty fpU " rits be humbled."
9. And the fayings of the king pleafed the people; and Bsnjafmn^ Silas, and Arthur^ v/ere forthwith brought into the prelence of the king, and they did obeifance; and the king entreated them kindly, and they partook of his royal favor; and he made a covenant of peace with them, that was to continue to the end of many generations 5 and the cove- nant was figned, and the decree made knov/n, on the fixth day of the eighth month, in the feventeen hundred feventy and eighth year of the Chriftian Hegira.
10. But it came to pafs, that v^hen George the king, heard thereof, he vvas very wroth, and he made war upon the king of Gaul for this thing; becaufe he had taken part with the people of the Provinces.
ir. Now the chief counfellor of the realm of Britain, determined to try foft words; feeing thatthe people of the Provinces, regard*
