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and rafli in battle than could have been expe<^ed from a 

 man of fuch mild manners. 



There happened at this time another novelty. The king 

 brought the patriarch from Gorgora to Dancaz this year, at 

 Eafter, to hear that feaft celebrated, with the Ethiopic fervice 

 amended, of which we liave already fpoken abundantly. 

 This countenance, fo unneceffarily given to an innovation 

 that produced every day fuch very bad effe(5ls to the Catho- 

 lic intereft, joined to many other circumllances, feemed clear- 

 ly to indicate a change in that prince's mind. 



The patriarch having made but a Ihort flay at Dancaz^ 

 it was currently reported a difagreement had happened, 

 and that the king had fent him prifoner to Gorgora ; and 

 this falfe report affedted greatly the weight the Catholics were 

 fuppofed before to have had at court. But the tranfacTiion 

 that followed was of a nature to promife much more con^ 

 fequences. 



SociNios had a daughter czlled Ozoro Wengelawit, whicli 

 means the Evangehcal, a name flie certainly deferved not 

 from her manners. This lady was firft married to Bela Chri- 

 flos, a man of rank at court, from whom llie had been di- 

 vorced She was next married to another, and then (her two^ 

 former hulbands being Hill alive) toTecl'a Georgis, who had 

 before married her fifter, another of the king's daughters. 

 During this marriage flie had openly lived in adultery witk 

 ZaChriflos,who had been married to her lifter, a third daugh- 

 ter of the king. Za Chriftos had been happy enough in 

 preferving this lady's efteem longer than any other of her 

 hulbands, and nothing would content her now but a mar- 



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