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These documents published by Professor Wigmore contain only the regulations issued for the daimiate of Maizuru; but regulations equally minute and vexatious appear to have been enforced throughout the whole country.
Be that as it may, the persecution at last either provoked, or helped to bring about a Christian rebellion in the daimiate of Arima, historically remembered as the Shimabara Revolt. Their banner bore a cross; their leaders were converted samurai. They were soon joined by Christian refugees from every part of the country, until their numbers swelled to thirty or forty thousand.
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