What  did  it  now  signify,  if  the  King's  oflScials,  at  the  desire
•of  the  Jesuits,  sought  to  overcome  this  opposition  of  the  people
fby  means  of  cudgelling  and  sword-cuts  ?  What  did  it  matter
now  that  some  of  the  governors,  and  among  them  one  especially,
•called  Zela,  and  bearing  the  nickname  of  Christ,  distinguished
himself  by  consigning  to  the  gallows  all  those  priests  who  pre-
ferred that  alternative  to  conversion  ?  The  people  rose  in
xebellion,  the  storm  broke  loose,  and  the  agitation  became  so
universal,  that,  in  order  that  all  might  not  be  lost,  King  Socinius
was  compelled  to  abdicate  in  favour  of  his  son  Facilidas,  who,  at
■once  turning  completely  round,  reverted  to  the  old  religion,  and
drove  the  Portuguese,  along  with  the  Jesuits,  entirely  out  of  the
country.  He  caused,  indeed,  some  of  the  Fathers,  who  endea-
voured to  raise  a  counter  revolution,  to  be  publicly  executed,  and
promulgated  a  decree,  by  which  all  the  Black  Cloaks  were  pro-
hibited for  the  future  from  crossing  the  frontiers,  under  pain  of
death.
