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AVENGERS, or VENDICATORI

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 53 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AVENGERS, or VENDICATORI  , a secret society formed about 1186 in Sicily to avenge popular wrongs . The society was finally suppressed by King William II., the Norman, who hanged the
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grand master and branded the members with hot irons .

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