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mediately to Fremona, under the conducH: of four people of the 

 firft confideration, Tecla Georgis, brother of Keba Chriftos^ 

 Tecla Saluce, one of the principal perfons in Tigre, and two- 

 Azages, men of great dignity at court. Thefe were joined 

 by a party of foldiers belonging to Claudius, brother of the 

 king, fuppofed to have been in the confpiracy with Sela 

 Chriftos his uncle, to fupplant his brother FaciHdas by the 

 help of the Jefuits and Portuguefe troops from India. But as. 

 foon as the patriarch had fallen into difgrace, and Sela Chri- 

 ftos loft his life, that prince returned to the church of Alex- 

 andria, as did all the other fons of Socinios ; after which,, 

 Claudius feized to his own ufe all the lands and effeds that 

 he found in Gojam, and was now by the king made gover- 

 nor of Begemder. Under this cfcort the patriarch and his 

 company arrived at Fremona in the end of April 1633, after 

 having been often robbed and ill-treated by the way, the 

 o-uards that were given to defend them conniving with the 

 banditti that came to rob them. 



However ftridly the fathers obferved the precepts of 

 fcripture on other occafions, in this they did not follow the 

 line of condud prefcribed by our Saviour—" And whofo- 

 " ever fhall not receive yovi, nor hear your words, when you 

 ^'^ depart out of that houfe or city, fliake off the duft of your 

 " feet." They were not fheep that went patiently and dumb 

 to the flaughter ; and, if their hearts, as they fay, were full 

 of love and charity to Abyllinia, it was ftrangely accompanied 

 with the refolution they had takeu to fend Jerome Lobo,. 

 the n>oft famous, becaufe the moft bigotted Jefuit of the 

 whole band, firft to the viceroy of hidia, and then to Spain, 

 to foHcit an army and lieet which were to lay all this king- 

 dom in blood* 



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