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pare; every heretic shall die. El que fuere herege, morira Ensayo Cronologico, 75, 76. It is the account of the apologist and admirer of Melendez. The French fleet, unprepared for action, cut its cables; the Spaniards, for some time, continued an ineffectual chase. It was at the hour of vespers, on the evening pre- Sept 7. ceding the festival of the nativity of Mary, that the Spaniards returned to the harbor of St. Augustine. At noonday of the festival itself, the governor went on Sept. 8. shore, to take possession of the continent in the name of his king. The bigoted Philip II. was proclaimed monarch of all North America. The solemn mass of Our Lady was performed, and the foundation of St. Augustine was immediately laid. Laudonniere. They put their soldiers, victual, and munition, on land. Hakluyt, III. 433. Ensayo Cronologico, 76, 77. Prince Murat, in Am. Q. Rev. II. 216. De Thou, l. XLIV. It is, by more than forty years, the oldest town in the United States. Hou