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 were several) he would not suffer them to make their solemnities on their own usual day, nor to exercise such offices of De­votion, as their Religion required. The Magi­strate likewise fined several of them, upon an in­formation, That they had eaten the Paschal Lamb, as a thing contrary to the Laws of that State.

I know a thousand Crimes of this nature, which I could charge upon Justinian, but I pass them over in silence, because it is time to finish my History which is already too long, and I think has sufficiently discovered the temper of that Tyrant: Nevertheless, I shall add two words to show his Falshood and Hypocrisie.

He turned Liberius (of whom I have spoke before) out of his Government, and put an Egyptian called Laxarion into his place; which coming to the ears of Pelagius the Pope, who was a great friend to Liberius, he went to Justi­nian to know, if what was reported of Laxa­rion, was true. Justinian denied there was any such thing, and to convince his Holiness, that he had no intention to remove Liberius, he put into his Holiness his hand a new Commission, confirming the said Liberius in his Government, and requiring him not to quit it, without new orders from him. There was at that time in Constantinople, an Uncle of Johns called Eude­mon, a rich man, who had been Consul, and had then the charge of the Emperors Demesns. This Eudemon having heard what had passed betwixt the Emperor, and the Pope, went to the