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ried to two of my daughters, and he has by them two fons^ 

 both good foldiers and horfemen, who a(5lually ride before 

 me, and accompany me in battle. I have therefore pardon- 

 ed him all the affronts and injuries he has done to me. 

 But, were I to take upon myfelf to pardon the affronts and 

 infults he has offered the Divine Majefly, I fhould turn the 

 punifhment of his fms upon myfelf, my family, and king- 

 dom ; and, therefore, I refufe your petition, and order you 

 to return forthwith to Gorgora." 



After the departure of the father, in confideration that 

 Tecla Georgis had again embraced the Catholic religion, 

 the king altered his fentence of being burnt, into that of 

 being hanged privately in the houfe where he was then in 

 prifon ; and, for that purpofe, the executioner had brought 

 with him the cord with which Tecla had ordered the feet of 

 Abba Jacob to be tied. No fooner did he perceive that there 

 were no hopes of pardon, by their beginning to tie his 

 hands, than he again, with a loud voice, renounced his 

 confeffion, declaring that he died an Alexandrian, and that 

 there was but one nature in Chrift. The executioner en- 

 deavoured to flop his further blafphemies, by drawing him 

 up on the beam in the room ; but he refifled fo flrongly, 

 that there was time to inform Socinios of his abjuration : 

 upon which the king ordered that he fliould be hanged pu- 

 blicly upon a pine-tree ; and he was accordingly taken 

 down, half-fttanglcd, from the beam in the houfe, and hung 

 upon the tree before the palace. 



Adera, his fifler, was next examined ; and it being clear- 

 ly proved that fhe had been a very aiflive agent in the mur- 

 der of Abba Jacob, flie iikewife was condemned to be hang- 



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