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Satrael, The Twenty Sixth King.
ETHODIVS being thus slain, when he had Reigned Three and Thirty years, and his Son being not of Age, fit to Govern, his Brother Satrael was elected King; this Man being of a naughty, yet cunning, Disposition, endeavoured to establish the Kingdom in his own Family, and so to destroy the Sons of Ethodius: In order where∣unto, those Nobles, who were most dear to Ethodius, were, by Ca∣lumnies purposely devised, suppressed and slain by him. Afterwards, because the Commons did much regret the slaughter of their Nobles, he began to oppress them also; which matter, in a little time, did so increase the Hatred conceived against him, and so diminish his Authority, that Tumults and Seditions did thereupon arise. He durst not go forth to suppress them, because, he knew, he lay under a pub∣lick Odium, so that he was sculkingly q 1.1 slain at home by his own Men, in the Night, when he had Reigned Four years.