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SociNios fo far complied, that the aheration made by the 

 lall proclamation was confined to three articles. Firft, that 

 no litm'gy, unlefs amended by the patriarch, was to be ufed 

 in divine fervice. Secondly, that all feafts, excepting Eafter 

 and thofe that depended upon it, fhould be kept according 

 to the ancient computation of time. And, thirdly, that, 

 whoever chofe, might fall on Wednefday, rather than on the 

 Saturday. 



At the fame time, the king cxprelTed himfelf as greatly 

 offended at the freedom of the application of the ftory of 

 Azarias and Uzziah to him. He told the pamarch plainly, 

 that it was not by his fermons, nor thofe of the fathers, nor 

 by the miracles they wrought, nor by the defire of the peo- 

 ple, but by his edicts alone, that the Roman religion was in- 

 troduced into Ethiopia ; and, therefore, that the patriarch 

 had not the leaft reafon to complain of any thing being al- 

 tered by the authority that firft eftablilhcd it. But, from 

 this time, it plainly appears, thatSocinios began to entertain 

 ideas, at leaft of the church difcipline and government, very 

 oppofite to thofe he had when he firft embraced the Romifli 

 religion. 



The king now fet out in his campaign for Lafta with a 

 large army, which he commanded himfelf, and under him 

 his fon, the prince Facilidas. Upon entering the mountain, 

 he divided his army into three divifions. The firft com- 

 manded by the prince, and under him Za Mariam Adebo 

 his mafter of the houfehold, was ordered to attack, fcale, and 

 lodge thcmfelves on the higheft part of the mountain. The 

 fecond he gave to Guebra Chriftos, governor of Begemder ; 

 and in this he placed the regiment, or body of troops, called 



3^ Inaches, 



