Now when Ieſus was boꝛne in Bethlehem of Iudea, in the dayes of Herod the king, behold, there came Wiſe men from the Eaſt to Hierusalem,

The society consists of a number of matricians which, as each is exogamous, are linked together by ties of kinship and marriage. This sort of society is very common throughout the islands off the mainland.

He […] retired himself, his wife, and children into a forest.

When they started jeering at him again, it was not so much at his northernsouthern claims, but at his supposed Christo-Muslim identity.