THE SOURCE OF THE NILE. sn 



T I F I L I &. 



From 1706 to 1709. 



D'l/Jsmbks With his Brother s AJfaJJins — Execution of the Regicides — Rs'^ 

 beUion and Death of Tigi^ 



THEOPHILUS, a few days after his coronation, ha- 

 ving called the whole court and clergy together, de- 

 clared to them, that his faith upon the difputable point con- 

 cerning our Saviour's incarnation was different from that of 

 his brother Yafous, or that of his nephew Tecla Haimanout, 

 but in every refpecft conformable to that of the monks of Go- 

 jam, followers of Abba Euftathius, and that of the Iteghe, 

 Malacotawit, Dermin, and Paulus. A violent clamour was in- 

 ilantly raifed againft the king by the priefts of Debra Liba- 

 nos, as having forfaken the religious principles of his pre- 

 deceilbrs. But the king was inflexible; and this ingratiated 

 him more with the inhabitants of Gojam. Not many days 

 after, the king arretted the mailer of the horfe, Johannes Pa- 

 lambaras, the Betwudet Tigi, and feveral others, all fuppo- 

 fed to be concerned in the murder of the late king, and 

 confined them in feveral places and prifons. 



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