Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

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book_n	woman_n	write_v	yield_v	22	3	7.0782	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00440	The auncient ecclesiasticall histories of the first six hundred yeares after Christ, wrytten in the Greeke tongue by three learned historiographers, Eusebius, Socrates, and Euagrius. Eusebius Pamphilus Bishop of Cæsarea in Palæstina vvrote 10 bookes. Socrates Scholasticus of Constantinople vvrote 7 bookes. Euagrius Scholasticus of Antioch vvrote 6 bookes. VVhereunto is annexed Dorotheus Bishop of Tyrus, of the liues of the prophetes, apostles and 70 disciples. All which authors are faithfully translated out of the Greeke tongue by Meredith Hanmer, Maister of Arte and student in diuinitie. Last of all herein is contayned a profitable chronographie collected by the sayd translator, the title whereof is to be seene in the ende of this volume, with a copious index of the principall matters throughout all the histories; Ecclesiastical history. English	Eusebius, of Caesarea, Bishop of Caesarea, ca. 260-ca. 340.; Hanmer, Meredith, 1543-1604.; Socrates, Scholasticus, ca. 379-ca. 440. Ecclesiastical history. English. aut; Evagrius, Scholasticus, b. 536? Ecclesiastical history. English. aut; Dorotheus, Saint, 255-362, attributed name. aut	1577 (1577)	STC 10572; ESTC S121374	989,961	618

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of_o arian_n at_o constantinople_n pa._n 291._o the_o council_n of_o arian_n at_o antioch_n pa._n 293._o the_o council_n of_o alexandria_n call_v the_o 2._o pa._n 300._o 301._o the_o council_n of_o antioch_n call_v the_o 2._o pa._n 316._o 317._o the_o council_n of_o lampsacum_fw-la pa._n 319._o the_o council_n of_o sicilia_n pa._n 325._o the_o council_n of_o constantinople_n summon_v by_o theodosius_n magnus_fw-la pa._n 344._o the_o council_n of_o angaris_fw-la pa._n 352._o the_o council_n of_o cyprus_n pa._n 368._o the_o council_n of_o ephesus_n pa._n 3●●_n 41●_n 413._o the_o council_n of_o ephesus_n call_v the_o 2._o pa._n 417._o the_o council_n of_o chalcedon_n pag._n 420._o 426._o 427._o 428._o 429._o 430._o 438._o etc._n etc._n the_o council_n of_o constantinople_n in_o the_o time_n of_o justinian_n pa._n 487._o 488._o the_o counsel_n be_v summon_v by_o the_o emperor_n pa._n 341._o the_o