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BjEDA MARIA M. 



From 1468 to 1478. 



Revives the Ban'i/hment of Princes to the Mountain — Waf with Adel-^ 

 Death of the King — Attempts by Portugal to difcover Abyffinia and 

 the Indies. 



EX>h MARIAM fucceeded to the throne (as his hiftorian 

 fays) againft his father s inchnation, after having re- 

 ceived much ill ufage during the earher part of his hfe, of 

 which this was the occafion. His mother took fo violent 

 and irregular a longing to fee her fon king, that fhe formed 

 a fchcme, by the llrength of a party of her relations and 

 friends, trulling to the weakncfs of an old man, to force 

 him into a partnerfliip with his father. Examples of two 

 kings, at the fame time, and even in this degree of relation, 

 were more than once to be foiuid in the Abyflinian annals, 

 but thofe times were now no more. A llrong jealoufy had 

 fucceeded to an unreafonable confidence, and had thrown 

 both the perfon and pretenfions of the heirs-apparent of this 

 age to as great a diilance as was poffible. 



The queen, whofe name was Sion Magafs, or the Grace 

 of Sion, firfl began to tamper with the clergy, who, though 



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