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the like in future. Nothing tended fo much to conciliate 

 the minds of the people, to their fovereign as this beha- 

 viour of Yafous. 



In the midft of his relations there now appeared (as rifen* 

 from the dead) Claudius, fon of Socinios, the iiril exile who, 

 was fent to the mountain of Wechne by his brother Facili- 

 das, grandfather of Yafous. This was the prince who, as 

 we have already ftated, was fixed upon by the Jefuits to * 

 fucceed his father, and govern that country when convert- 

 ed to the Romifh religion by their intrigues, and conquered 

 by the arms of the Portuguefe : This was the prince 

 who, to make their enemies appear more odious, thefe 

 Jefuits have ailerted was llain by his brother Facilidas, one- 

 initance by which we may judge of the juftice of the other 

 charges laid againft that humane, wife, and virtuous prince, 

 whofe only crime was an inviolable attachment to the re- 

 ligion and conftitution of his country, and the juft abhor- 

 rence he moil reafonably had, as an independent prince, to 

 fubmit the prerogatives of his crown, and the rights of his: 

 people to the blind controul of a foreign prelate 



There came from the mountain alfo the fons of Facili- 

 das, with their families ;. and likewife his own brothers, 

 Ayto Theophilus, and Ayto Claudius, fons of his father 

 Hatze Hannes. The fight of fo many noble relations, fome 

 advanced in years, fome in the flower of their youth, and 

 fome yet children ; all, however, in tatters, and almoft. naked,, 

 made fueh an imprellion on the young king that he buril, 

 into tears. Nor was his behaviour to the refpeelive degrees 

 of them lefs proper or engaging. To the old he paid that- 

 reverence and refpect due to parents; to. thofe about his<: 



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