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Hannes, therefore, defired the patriarch to appoint Abuna 

 Sanuda, a man known to be devoted to the monks of St 

 Euftathius and their tenets ; whereas the other two priefts 

 were fuppofed to be inclined to the monks of Debra Liba- 

 nos. Yafous told his clergy that he would not fufFer Sanu- 

 da to be elected; and the affembly, with little oppofition, con- 

 formed to the fentiments of the king, who fent immedi- 

 ately thereupon to Cairo, demanding .peremptorily that Mar- 

 cus might be appointed Abuna, and declaring his refolu- 

 tion to admit no other. He then ordered the church of Te- 

 cla Haimanout to be confecrated with great folemnity; he 

 repaired and adorned it with much magnificence, and en- 

 dowed it with lands, which increafed its revenue very con- 

 siderably. 



These two circumftances (efpecially the laft) fhewed di- 

 stinctly to the whole kingdom his affection for the high 

 church, as explicitly as any proclamation could have done. 

 And in this he^ continued fleady during his whole life, not- 

 withftanding the many provocations he met with from that 

 refllefs body of men. 



Having thus fettled the affairs of the church, he pro- 

 ceeded to thofe of the Mate, and appointed Anaftafius (then 

 governor of Amhara) to be Ras, or lieutenant-general, in his 

 whole kingdom, allowing him alfo to keep his province of 

 Amhara. In this he fhewed a wifdom and penetration that 

 gained him the good opinion of every one; for Anaftafius 

 was a man advanced in years, of great capacity and expe- 

 rience, and of a moft unblemifhed character among his 

 neighbours, who, in all their own affairs, had recourfe to, 

 and were determined by, his counfels. 



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