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and rafh in battle than could have been expected from a 

 man of fuch mild manners. 



There happened at this time another novelty. The king 

 brought the patriarch from Gorgora to Dancaz this year, at 

 Eafter, to hear that feaft celebrated, with the Ethiopic fervice 

 amended, of which we have already fpoken abundantly. 

 This countenance, fo unnecefTarily given to an innovation 

 that produced every day fuch very bad effects to the Catho*. 

 lie interefl, joined to many other circumftances, feemed clean- 

 ly to indicate a change in that prince's mind. 



The patriarch having made but a fhort Hay at Dancaz, 

 it was currently reported a difagreement had happened, 

 and that the king had fent him prifoner ta Gorgora ; and 

 this falfe report afFected greatly the weight the Catholics were 

 fuppofed before to have had at court. But the tran faction ; 

 that followed was of a nature to prcmife much more con^ 

 fequences. 



Socinios had a daughter called OzoroWengelawh, which; 

 means the Evangelical, a name fhe certainly deferved not : 

 from her manners. This lady was firft married to Bela Chri-r 

 itos, a man of rank at court, from whom flic had been di- 

 vorced. She was next married to another, and then (her two, 

 former hulbands being ft ill alive) to Tecla Georgis, who had-; 

 before married her filter, another of the king's daughters. . 

 During this marriage fhe had, openly lived in adultery with } 

 ZaChrifloSjwho had been married to her filter, a third daugh- . 

 ter of the. king. Za Chriftos had been happy enough in 

 preferring this lady's efteem longer than any other of her > 

 hufbands, and nothing would content her now but a mar-.. 



riage; 



