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T X F I L I S.. 



From 1706 to 1709. 



I^Janbles with his Brothers AJfaffins — Execution of the Regicides— Re- 

 bellion and Death of Tigi. 



TH E O P H I L U S, a few days after his coronation, ha* 

 ving called the whole court and clergy together, de* 

 clared to them, that his faith upon the difputable point con- 

 cerning our Saviour's incarnation was different from that of 

 his brother Yafous, or that of mV nephew Tecla Haimanout, 

 but in every refpecl conformable to that of the monks of Go- 

 jam, followers of Abba Euftathius, and that of the Iteghe* 9 

 Malacotawit, Dermin, and Paulus. A violent clamour was in- 

 ftantly raifed againfl the king by the priefts of Debra Liba- 

 nos, as having forfaken the religious principles of his pre^ 

 decenors. But the king was inflexible ; and this ingratiated 

 him more with the inhabitants of Goj am. Not many days 

 after, the king arretted the mailer of thehorfe, Johannes Pa- 

 lambaras, the Betwudet Tigi, and feveral others, all fuppo- 

 fed to be concerned in the murder of the late king, and 

 confined them in feveral places and prifons. 



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