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ZA DENGHEL. 



From 1595 to 1604. 



£a Dengbel dethroned — Jacob a Minor fucceeds — Za Denghel is rejlo- 

 red — Banijhes Jacob to Narea — Converted to the Romifh Religion— 

 Battle ofBartcho, and Death of the King, 



SERTZA DENGHEL had feveral daughters, one of whom 

 was married to Kefla Wahad, governor of the province 

 of Tigre, and another to Athanafms, governor of Amhara. 

 Thefe two were the moft powerful men then in the kingdom. 

 The emprefs and her two fons-in-law faw plainly, that the 

 fucceflion of Za Denghel, a man of ripe years, pofTeiTed of 

 every requifite for reigning, was to exclude them from any 

 mare in government but a fubaltern one, for which they 

 were to (land candidates upon their own merits, in common 

 with the reft of the nobility. 



Accordingly, no fooner was Sertza Denghel dead, perhaps 

 fome time before, but a confpiracy was formed to change 

 the order of fucceflion, and this was immediately executed 

 by order of this triumvirate, who fent a body of foldiers 

 and feized Za Denghel, and carried him ciofe prifoner to 



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