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therefore did mofl: defervedly feal his own condemnation 

 and punifhment, which overtook him in the end, though 

 it did not follow till long afterwards. 



To thefe violent proceedings were added others ftill more 

 violent. A folemn excommunication was pronounced a- 

 gainft all fuch as did not keep that oath, and a proclama- 

 tion was forthwith made, " That all people, in the line of 

 being ordained priefts, fhould firft embrace the Catholic re- 

 ligion upon pain of death ; that all fhould obferve the form 

 of the church of Rome in the celebration of Eafter and Lent, 

 under the fame penalty ; and with that the ceremonies of 

 the day ended. 



Ttempus erit ciivi magna optaverit ernptum^ 

 TniaEfnm Pallanta. 



it was a day ever to be marked with black, not only in the 

 annals of Ethiopia, but in thofe of Rome. 



Although the arrival of the patriarch at Bilur had been 

 happily efFeded, both as to himfelf and thofe that attended 

 him, it was not fo with fome of his brethren fent to affift 

 him in that million. Two Jefuits, Francifco Machado and 

 Bernard Pereira, had received the king's letters in India for 

 their fafe condua to Bilur in Dancali. Whether by malice, 

 or inadvertency, the king's fecretary, inftead of Bilur, had 

 mentioned Zeyla in the letter. 



Zeyla, an ifland belonging to the king of Adel, was of 

 all other places that where the people were moll inveterate 

 againfl the Catholic religion. No fooner did the Shekh know 



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