victory that Tirhakah succe[e]ding Sethon, carried his arms westward
as far as through Libya & Afric to the straits mouth, & was
I think \perhaps succeeded/ by Merres or Ammerres, tho Herodotus tells us that
the Priests of Egypt recconed Sethon the last king of Egypt
who reigned before the division of Egypt into twelve contem-
porary kingdoms, & by consequence before the invasion of
Egypt by the Assyrians.

For Asserhadon king of Assyria in the 67^th or 68^th year
of Nabonasser, after he had reigned about 30 years over Assyria,
invaded & |t|he kingdom of Babylon, & then carried into captivity many
people from Babylon & Cutha & Ava  & Hamath & Sepharvaim
placing them in the regions of Samaria & Damascus. And from
thence they carried into Babylonia & Assyria the remainder
of the people of Israel & Syria which had been left there
by Tiglathpileser. This captivity was [6]5 years after the
first year of Ahar (Isa. 7.1, 8 & 2 King. 15.37 & 16.5) & by
consequence in the twentieth year of Manasses, Anno Nabo-
nass. 69. And then Tar[t]an was se[n]t by Asserhadon with
an army against Ashdod or Azoth, (a town at that tim[e]
subject to Iudea [2] Chron. 26.6) & took it. (Isa. 20.1.) And
this post being secured, the Assyrians beat the Iews & capti-
vated Manasses, & subdued Iudea. And in these wars Isaiah
was sawn asunder by the command of Manasses for pro-
phesying against him. Then the Assyrians invaded & sub-
dued [Æ] |E|gypt & Ethiopia, & carried th[e] Egyptians & Ethi[o]pians
into captivity, & thereby put an end to \the/ reign of the E[th]i-
opians over Egypt . | (| Isa. 7.18 & 8.7 & 10.11, 12 & 2 |1|9. [4] | [2] | ) |3| & 20.4.) In
this war the City N[o–]Ammon or Thebes which had hiterto continu[ed]
in a flourishing condition was misesrably wasted & l[e]d into capt[ivi]ty
as is described by Nah[um], ( chap. 3.8, 9, 10. ) . For Nahum wrote
after the last invasion of Iudea by the Assyrians , | (| chap. 1.15.) &
therefore describes this captivity as fresh in memory. And this
& other following invasions of Egypt \under Nebuchadnezzar & Ca[m]byses/ put an end to the glory
of that city. Asserhadon reigned over the Assyrians Egypti[a] s |n|s
& Ethiopians three years (Isa 20.3, 4) that is untill his death
w^ch was in the year of Na[b]onassar 81, & then \ [as] / Egypt became \remained/
subject to twelve contemporary princes Kings who s[ha]red the
kingdom between them & reigned together fifteen ye[ar]s, (including| , I think, |
| perhaps | the three years of Asserhadon whom \bec[a]use/ the Egyptians \do no[t] / re[c]con not
among their kings,) & then were conquered by Psam[mi]ticus \Psammiti[c]us who was one of them conquere[d] all the rest/. He
built the last Portico of the Temple of Vulcan founded by ~
Menes about 260 years before, & reigned 54 years including
the 15 years of the twelve kings. For he was one of them.
Then reigned his son Nechaoh or Nechus 17 years, Psammis
six years, Vaphres \Apries, Eraphius, / or Ho[p]hra 25 years, Amasis 44 years
& Psammin |t|it |c|us six months. Egypt was subdued by Nebuchadnez-
zar in the last year but one of Hophra, Ann[ , |o| ] Nabon [illeg] | [a] |ss. 178,
& remained in subjection to babylon 40 years, (Ier. [ 4 |3|  |  3 |4| ].30 &
Ezek. 19.12, 13, 14, 17, 19.) that is, almost all the reign of Amasis
a plebeian set over Israel Egypt by the conqueror. The 40
years ended with the death of Cyrus: f[o]r he reigned over
Egypt & Ethiopia according to Xenophon. At that time therefore
those nations recovered their libert[y], but after four years
more they were invaded & conquered by Cambyses, anno Nabon-
ass. 223, & have ever since remained in servitude, as was
predicted by th[e] Prophets.

The division of Egypt into more kingdoms then one both
before & after the war with \of/ Sennacherib, \& th[e conquest of Egypt] by the Assyrians/ the Prophet Isaias 1 seems
to allude unto in the[se] words. I will set, saith he, the Egyptians
against the Egyptians, & they shall fight every one agai[n]st hi[s]
neighbour, city [a]gainst city & kingdom against kingdom, & the