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A67490	A brief account of the rebellions and bloudshed occasioned by the anti-Christian practices of the Jesuits and other popish emissaries in the empire of Ethiopia collected out of a manuscript history written in Latin by Jo. Michael Wansleben, a learned papist.	Wansleben, Johann Michael, 1635-1679.	1679 (1679)	Wing W710; ESTC R15140	23,426	44

Order not long before instituted to be employed on that occasion but the Father of the Jesuits with a Deliberation suitable to his Gravity gave him no reply till the year 1555. and then he recommended Johannes Nunnius Barretta and Melchior Carnerius both Portugueses and Andreas Oviedus a Castilian as persons throughly accomplished for such a purpose And that a plenary power and qualification from the See Apostolick might add the more Honour and Authority to their Mission Nunnius was ordained Patriarch of Ethiopia by Pope Julius the III d. and afterwards confirmed by Pope Paul the IVth and of his two Co-adjutors the first was made Bishop of Nicoea the later Bishop of Hierapolis Thus were they fitted to reconcile the Abissin Church to the Roman Faith and to prevent dissention among them it was ordered and agreed that upon the death of Nunnius Oviedus should succeed in the Charge and Dignity of Patriarch On this occasion the King of Portugal wrote to Claudius and so did Ignatius Loyola whose Epistle may be seen in the History of the Jesuits However these Letters were not sent by the three above named but being conveyed to Petrus Mascarenius then Vice-Roy of India he transmitted them to the Ethiopian Court by the hands of three other persons that they might sound the Emperors Inclinations before the Patriarchs arrival But Claudius having already received the aids he desired had changed his mind in the matter of Religion intending nothing less than to admit of the Alteration he had proposed so that when the Roman Fathers came to press for Audience he sent them word he had neither Need to receive the Instruction nor Will to obey the Authority of the Church of Rome nay so averse were his Nobles to their Admission that some of them openly affirmed they would sooner submit to the Turkish than the Roman yoke Nevertheless that so high an enterprise might not fall under the blemish of an utter frustration Oviedus now become principal of the Mission in the absence of Nunnus who proceeded not with them boldly prosecutes his Journey with five Fathers more and so wrought his way through all the Obstacles which threatned his disappointment that on the third day of Pentecost in the year 1557. they were admitted into the Emperor's presence who seemed to promise them a favorable Reception at the first but having read their Letters his Countenance was quickly changed the Contents thereof being no way correspondent to his Humor or Interest as he afterwards sufficiently expressed in his frequent disputes with the Bishop concerning Religion whereby he gave them to understand he would not easily relinquish the receiv'd Opinions and Customs of the Abissin Church Hereupon Oviedus wrote a confutation of their Errors and presented it to the Emperor who made him no other reply thereunto than what might suffice to signifie his firm Resolution of adhering to the Principles of his Forefathers But these repeated altercations having rendred the Bishop's presence ingrateful at Court he sound it high time to retire with his Companions to some place of greater privacy where they omitted not their usual Industry and utmost endeavours to reduce the Abissin Christians to the Doctrine and Rites of the Roman Church whereupon the Emperor not only sent him a severe check and prohibition but had not some of the Nobles interpos'd their interest and Arguments would have proceeded to put him to death but being disswaded from inflicting any Sanguinary punishment he at last with great fury injoyned the Roman Bishop never to see his face more This was transacted in January 1559. and Claudius ended his days in a battle against the Saracens in the moneth of March next following * Who in another Tract published by my Author is also named Minas Adamas Saghed his brother succeeded him both in the Throne and in the Resolute Affection he had for the Abissin Church as then established by the ancient Laws and Constitutions of the Empire being a man so inveterate against the Promoters of the Roman Cause that upon some bold reply made by Oviedus when admitted to a Conference he could scarce forbear laying violent hands upon him nay his Fury carried him so far as to tear the Gown from his back Nor was his wrath thus appeased but when he was become Patriarch in the room of Nunnius Barretta who dyed at Goa in the year 1562. he banished him into an horrid and desolate Mountain together with his Complices where they were confined for the space of six moneths till released upon the Intercession of some Lords He also revoked the Liberty which Claudius his Predecessor had formerly granted That such Abissin women as were married to Portugueses might observe the Roman Institutions without incurring any penalty and forbad all his Subjects on severe penalties to profess the Roman Religion or so much as be present at the Popish Mass or any Portuguess meeting whereupon divers were imprisoned tortured and put to death for transgressing the Imperial Edict By this rigor and strict severity which he used for the suppression of the Roman Interest now set on foot by the Fathers in his Territories many of his Subjects were so ‖ Not without the concurrent Instigation of the Jesuits who led the Portugal Faction exasperated that in the year 1560. Isaac Barnagassi who drew a considerable part of the Nobles into the Conspiracy plotted with thirty ‖ Not without the concurrent Instigation of the Jesuits who led the Portugal Faction Portugueses how they might destroy him And finding no sit Opportunity for the private Assassination of his person the more plausibly to effect it by open War they pretend to vindicate the Right of Bencon * or Zarcar Tarcar the Son of his deceased Elder Brother Claudius for whose advancement to the Throne they take up Arms. But Adamas justly apprehensive of the danger soon levied an Army to suppress the * One Rebellion occasioned by the Pope's Agents Rebellion and to re-ingratiate himself with the Portuguese party he invitos Oviedus and the rest of his Co-adjutors by an amicable message to his Camp not being ignorant from what quarter the Storm arose However the Fire being blown up so far already as not to be quenched without Effusion of blond they came to blows with various success For in the first conflict Adamas was driven from his Trenches with some loss in the second he had the good fortune to take Tarcar alive and in hopes his Trouble might dye with him caused him to be beheaded on the 2d of July 1561. But in a third Battel Isaac the Traiterous Vice-Roy of Midrebahr having set up another Brother of the deceased Tarcar and called in the Turks to his Aid so terrified Adamas and his Army with their great Guns that he left his Camp in confused haste and fled on the 20th of April 1562. and in the moneth of February the year following he ended his Days and Troubles together leaving his Son ‖ Whom