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The x\byilinians immediately transferred the name of this 

 prince into their catalogue of Saints, and he is called St 

 Claudius in that country to this day. Though endowed 

 with every other virtue that entitled him to his place in the 

 kalendar, he feems to have wanted- one — that of dying in; 

 charity with his enemies. 



This battk was fought on. the izd March 1559 ; and the 

 vi(5tory gained by Nur was a complete one.. The king and 

 moft of his principal officers were flain ; great part of the 

 army taken prifoners, the reft difperfed, and the camp plun- 

 dered ; fo that no Moorifh general had ever returned home 

 with the glory that he did. But afterwards, in his beha- 

 viour, he exhibited a fpediacle more memorable, and that 

 did him more honour than the victory itfelf ; for, when he 

 drew near to Adel, he clothed himfelf in poor attire like a 

 common foldier, and bare-headed, mounted on an ordina- 

 ry mule, with an old faddle and tattered accoutrements^ 

 he forbade the fongs and praife with which it is ufual to 

 meet conq^uerors in that country when returning with vic- 

 tory from the i&eld. He declined alfo all fliare in the fuc- 

 cefs of that day, declaring that the whole of it was due to 

 God alone, to whofe mercy and immediate interpofition he 

 owed the deftrudtion of the Chriftian army. 



The unworthy and unfortunate John Bermudes having; 

 arrived in Portugal from India, continued there till his 

 death ; and, in the infcription over his tomb, is called only 

 Patriarch of Alexa7idria. Yet it is clear, from the hiftoiy of thcfe 

 times, that he was firft ordained by the old patriarch Mar- 

 cus ; and that the pope, Paul III. bnly confirmed the ordi- 

 nation of this heretical fchifmatical prelate, though we have 



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