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therefore did molt defervedly feal his own condemnation 

 and punifhment, which overtook him in the end, though 

 it did not follow till long afterwards. 



To thefe violent proceedings were added others Hill more 

 violent, A folemn excommunication was pronounced a- 

 gainft all fuch as did not keep that oath, and a proclama- 

 tion was forthwith made, " That all people, in the line of 

 being ordained priefts, mould nrft embrace the Catholic re- 

 ligion upon pain of death ; that all mould obferve the form 

 of the church of Rome in the celebration of Eafter and Lent,, 

 under the fame penalty ; and with that the ceremonies of 

 the day ended. 



Tempus er'it cum magno optaverit emptum^ 

 Intaclum Pallanta.. 



It was a day ever to be marked with black, not only in the- 

 annals of Ethiopia, but in thofe of Rome. 



Although the arrival of the patriarch at Bilur had been 

 happily effected, both as to himfelf and thofe that attended 

 him, it was not fo with fome of his brethren fent to amfl 

 him in that million. Two Jefuits, Francifco Machado and 

 Bernard Pereira, had received the king's letters in India for 

 their fafe conduct to Bilur in Dancali. Whether by malice, 

 or inadvertency, the king's fecretary, inflead of Bilur, had 

 mentioned Zeyla in the letter. 



Zeyla, an ifland belonging to the king of Adel, was of 

 all other places that where the people were mofl inveterate 

 againfl the Catholic religion. No fooner did the Shekh know 



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