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A17967	The thre bokes of cronicles, whyche Iohn Carion (a man syngularly well sene in the mathematycall sciences) gathered wyth great diligence of the beste authours that haue written in Hebrue, Greke or Latine Whervnto is added an appendix, conteynyng all such notable thynges as be mentyoned in cronicles to haue chaunced in sundry partes of the worlde from the yeare of Christ. 1532. to thys present yeare of. 1550. Gathered by Iohn Funcke of Nurenborough. Whyche was neuer afore prynted in Englysh. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum.; Cronica. English	Carion, Johannes, 1499-1537 or 8.; Funck, Johann, 1518-1566.; Lynne, Walter.	1550 (1550)	STC 4626; ESTC S107499	318,133	586

the commaundement of God geuen they fell into the daunger of synne and death But forasmuch as all this is clearly written in the holy Bible out of the whiche they oughte to be learned it is invaine to speake thereof here it is sufficient onelye to aduertish the reader that the worlde standeth by these beginninges and that Adam and Heua are created of God whyche are the ofspringe of all mankinde Moreouer about the very time of creation dyd God institute the ciuyll adminystratyon when he gaue Adam power ouer all those thynges that are in the earth and sea that he shoulde vse them and should sett a good order in all those thinges that are exteriour That commaundemente of God is the springe and beginninge of all lawes and whatsoeuer ciuile ordinaunces there are are begonne of it the whiche are approued and alowed of God by reason of this commaundemente geuen to Adam The churche hath her begynnynge here also For the commaundemente wherein they shoulde exercyse theyr fayeth and feare before God was here geuen but whan they began to synne hath God disclosed the power of Sathan and against it hath promysed the Gospell or glad tydynge of the womans sede that is of Christe that Christe shoulde come and wayst Sathans kyngdome and shoulde delyuer vs from synne and death into liberte Thys was the fyrst preachinge of the Gospell whiche beganne the churche and Christus kyngdome For in the churche muste not onely be preached the commaundementes of good workes but also the forgeuenesse of synnes by Christ for thereby onelye are we reconciled to God and endure agaynst death and all maner of temtation whan by fayth we take the promyse of forgeuenesse of synnes And of thys wyse toke Adam and Heua consolacion out of the word that Christe was promysed and of these two persons is the churche fyrste begonnne Besyde thys was it necessary also they should suffer temporall afflictions for they were dryuen out of paradyse that is they were subiecte to death and all maner of other myseries and so lyued theyr dayes in laboure and trauayl in that lande which the Iewes possessed afterwarde For it is written that they were created by the cytye Damascus Of Cain and Abel SCrypture sayth that Adam and Heua broughte forth children and that Cain slewe hys brother Abel And here begynneth the persecution of the sayntes of the wicked men and is and example very dredefull For thys manslaughter happened for none other cause than for y ● seruice of god the which whan it is done purely Sathan can not abyde it for the whyche cause he sturreth Cain to slaye his brother that the worde of God and syncere doctrine maye be quenched And this dede sheweth howe vehement is the ire of Sathan and rage also what mannes fraylnesse and blindnesse is There are by the waye rehearsed in this history weyghty and graue preachinges of the iudgement of Christ to come of the dredefull vengeaunce for sheddinge of bloude the whiche to rehearse here were to longe Cain after that he fled hys fathers sight he began to buylde the citye called Enoch Hys chyldren inuented all maner of handycraftes and sciences Finally for the manslaughter was he punished for he dyed a lyke kynde of death Of Seth. AFter this was Seth boren to Adam thys man beynge famous and renomed for his endeuour of honest and godlynesse enforced after Abel to auaunce and augment Gods kyngdome Of this Seth were afterward engendred holy fathers and the remnaunt of thys kynred remayned But the posterytie of Cain was whole drowned in the floude Iosephus wytnesseth that Adam and Seth made two tables the one of brasse the other of stone and that in them wer grauen the worde of God and prophesyes by the whiche the worde of God was kepte He wryteth moreouer that they diuided the yeare into twelue monethes and that they obserued fyrste the course of starres and taught it For it had not bene possible that the minde of man coulde haue attayned to the searching of so high and wounderfull things without God had opened them the knowledge of them Wherfore to Adam and Seth we must ascribe the word of god the figures of the letters and the greatest sciences Ther are also many witnesses among the Grekes that the writinge and all sciences are come of the Iewes aunceters For Herodotus writeth in his fyfte boke that the Grekes haue receaued theyr sciences and letters of the Phenices The age of Adam was nyne hundreth and thirty yeares and reached vntill the time of Noes father but he dieth hundreth and. 26. yeares before Noe was borne But in this tyme is written to be happened nothinge worthy of rehearsall vntyll Noes tyme saue only genealogy that in the meane whyle we maye know surelye of whom it behoued Christ to be borne But neuerthelesse by the waye maketh scripture mention of the death of Enoch that he be taken vp by God the whiche dede God hath sett before the worldes eyen that it mighte know and beleue that there is immortalitie after thys lyfe and that God shall iudge and saue the good truely but punish the wycked Of the Floud THE scripture maketh mention that the worlde was punished of God and ioyneth therto the occasions thereof namely that it begann to peier and amonge the chefest of the euels are named the despisynge of God aduoutry and tyranny in the which is vsed all maner of wylfulnesse and wantonnesse For of this wyse saieth the text The childeren of holy men beganne to become tyrauntes vpon earth by the which is signified that whan Gods worde was despised and hys worshyp they liued vnmaneredly and an vnbrydeled lyfe they oppressed the weake and poore accordinge to their pleasure and vsed wylfulnesse of rulinge as they would For cause of these thinges did God threaten the worlde wyth the floude and before the same should come he wylled Noe to preach it an hundreth yeare before that some beynge conuerted mighte be saued Whan Noe was sixe hundreth yeare olde came the floude and accordinge to Goddes commaundement went he into the arcke with his wyfe and his thre sonnes Sem Cham and Iaphet taking with them their wiues and was saued The residue of men and beastes hath the floude taken awaye and destroied And are from the creation of the world vntyll the tyme of the floude thousand sixe hundreth and sixe and fiftye yeares Of the tyme after the Floude WHan Noe had now ben aboue an half yeare in the arcke and that the floud mynyshed the arcke rested vpon the hyghesthyl of Armenia and after the yeres ende whan the earth beganne to drye Noe was commaunded of God to leaue the arcke wherein he had now ben a whole yeare Than dyd God ordeine as it were a new worlde agayne For fyrst he gaue hys worde by the which he promysed not to drowne the world agayne and in token of certayntye he gaue the Raynebowe which shulde admonysh

vttermost part of Italy which bendeth to Sicilia and was sometyme Grece In the tyme of Pythagoras raigned at Rome Seruius Tullius his scole was not occupied in Phisick and Astronomy as the other but in Arithmetick Geometry Musick Pythagoras liued a very solytary lyfe wyth his disciples and vsed sundry ceremonies taught many inconuenient thinges of the soules nature that mens soules remoue into beastes to be punyshed The Pythagorians taughte their doctrines priuatly amonge themselues and it was commaunded amonges them that noman shoulde publishe them lest by reason of a doctryne not accustomed the commune sort of men mighte be sturred ether to discorde or to a despisynge of good maners But such kynde of phylosophers dured not longe nother is it now necessary to speake more of the begynnyng of philosophers I would onely shewe i● here lest any man might be ignoraunt what tyme the connyng of sciences began and encreased wee shall hereafter in hys due place speake of them whych haue before all other garnyshed and had in reuerence Philosophye whereof there is not so great nomber For very few are ther that be worthy to be called wyth so excellent a name Phylosopher and therfore shall we not rehearse so many of them Of Solon THough wee studye to be brefe here yet wyll not I passeouer Solon vnrehearsed for of hym hath the ciuyll lawe of the Romanes whych is yet in vse his oryginall begynnynge Thys Solon lyued about thys tyme and was very familyar wyth Thales But whan at Athenes were spronge great debates because that the greatest of the citye had made bonde men of theyr creditours that were not able to pay them euen of pryuate wylfulnesse the whole citye of Athenes dyd agree to Solon that he shoulde take order and correcte thys wyllynglye of the greatestmen and the other misvses of the commune wealth Solon toke thys wyllynglye vpon hym and set forth manye excellente constitutions and lawes the whych are yet manyfest Now was Draco the law geuer by the Athenians before Solons lawes were not ordered with anye mercye at all for he ordeyned that all transgressions and trespasses shoulde be punished wyth the swearde and for thys cause sayde one that Dracons lawes were wrytten wyth bloude and not wyth y●●k So hard and cruell constitucions were in the worlde at the begynnynge But nothyng can be durable that is to extreme and is not mitigate with the temperaunce of mercy or iustice As for Solon made a difference in these thynges or degrees and ordeined that some synnes shoulde accordynge to reason be punyshed greueously and other more mercyfullye ordeined also of geuinge trybute of weyghtes and of the seasōs of the whole yeare And specially is this lawe praysed in the whiche he ordeined that euery man should certyfy the higher officers once in the yeare how great his substaunce were and of what maner crafte he were where with he gat hys lyuynge and if there were any ydle fellow or vagabounde too dryue the same out of the cytie Of Cambyses CAmbyses began to raygne whan hys father Cyrus went to warre agaynst the Scythians He ioyned the kyngdome of the Egiptians to his fathers domynion But he was greatly vnlyke his father in vertues Whan Prexaspes one of hys chefe counselers had admonyshed hym somewhat boldelye and sayde that the Perses dyd alow hym greatly but that the same myslyked them that he was geuen to dronkennesse He caused the Peeres of hys realme to be called together and demaunded whether he might worthely be blamed in any thynge But they answered No but that he also surmounted hys father Cyrus in vertue for by hys actiuenesse was Egypte also ioyned to his kyngdome But Cresus to whom Cyrus had chefely commended his sonne Cambyses to be taughte nortured in honesty sayd the cōtrary Cābyses quod he can not yet be compared to hys father Cyrus for he hath not left such a sonne of his begettinge as Cirus hath left Cambyses This delectable sayenge pleased Cambises at that tyme. But as the counsel departed whan none of the princes had blamed ought in him he commaunded Prexaspes to be called to him and bad him bringe his yongest sonne to him For he woulde declare howe sobre he myghte seme to be euen whan he were droncken For he woulde shute wyth a bowe at his chylde whan he was droncken and if he coulde hyt his harte with the darte than he might thynke that in drinkynge he were not besyde the capacite of his reason but if not ▪ than he might worthely be sayde to be geuen to dronkennesse But what nedeth many wordes Whan Cambyses had well dronken he shott at the chylde as at a marke and as the darte was pearced thoroughe he caused it to be rypt vp and shewed to hys father Prexaspes that the harte was shot thorough a ryght sayenge that thereby he might haue euydence that he was not dronken So barbarous cruel and tyrannicall maners bringeth dronkennesse into mens mindes though they be well taught before euen as no doute was that kynge Cambyses was from hys youth brought vp in moost honest nourture And though a dronken man can hytt a right in shoutinge yet in the meane whyle can he not vse the ryght counsels of reason and wanteth those vertues whiche communely steare men to modestye and auancement of glory Such lyke examples ought to be shewed to yonge men whiche sometyme be enclyned and geuen to dronkennesse for what ende folowed of these shall we shewe shortely hereafter He slew also hys own brother Smerdis whome he caused priuely to be put to death lest he shuld raygne at any tyme. He maryed also hys owne syster where neuerthelesse nature doth abhorre such kynde of maryage It fortuned vpon a tyme that whan kynge Cambyses sat at borde wyth the quene at y ● meale tyme set he a lyons whelpe and a strong dogge together to make a game and whan the lyon had the ouerhande by reason of hys fearcenesse strength another dogge of no lesse fearcenesse brake wyth great strength the bandes y ● he was bounde withal and holpe his brother the dogge and so was the lyon ouercome The kyng had great delyte at that game because of the faythfulnesse of the dogges But the quene moued wyth the same dede began to wepe very bytterly and whan the kynge toke that sorowfully and asked the cause of her weping she answered To my brother happened nothynge lesse than such faythfulnesse as I haue sene in these dogges helping eche other The kyng taking this answere wrothfully caused her strayght waye t● be had out of hys syght and ●lew her But such co●dicions can not longe prosper For God sayeth in the scryptures The bloud thyrsty and deceatfull shall not lyue oute halfe theyr dayes vpon earth Wherfore God stroke hym not longe after wyth a greueous and heauy vengeaunce For as he should come out of Egypte into Persia as he sat vpon

boughes of ether of the trees and than lettynge the trees louse dressynge themselues agayne shulde wyth a greate violence teare the yonge man in peces Thys Aurelianus was also a greate persecutor of the Christians Of the Manicheis the heretykes STrayghte waye after the Gospell was preached rose sectes and dissensyous among Christen men But I am not minded to rehearse y ● erronious opinions of euery one in this treatise I wyll only recyte the moost greatest which haue infect and troubled many and greate cityes and contryes wyth theyr ven●m that the reader maye knowe nothynge to be more venimous in this commune lyfe of man than false doctrine and that all heretikes are desyrous of vproure nether couet ought els but that they maye defende and spreade abrode theyr erroure by vprour and commune ryot For Sathan their chefe doer is both a lyar and manslayer Ether of thē truely is euident in all scismatickes which both teache false and are wonte to rayse manslaughter through sedysyon and per●urbatyon of commune welthes In the tyme of Aurelyanus beganne fyrst the Manycheis and one Manes borne in Persya was begynner of them Thyssame spred hys venim abrod largely fyrst by y ● Arabians afterward in Africa the which went so spedely on that it coulde not be swaged the space of two hundreth yeares afterwarde ▪ The chefe of theyr doctryne was that ther were two goddes ▪ the one good the other euel and both lyke euerlastynge This doctrine semed vnto mans reason alowable For seynge God is good by nature and that in the meane season the euell hath such power it is necessary there be also a peculiar God ▪ which is author and doer of euels equall to the other God wyth power and euerlastyngnesse Besyde these had they other opinions that they taught namely that Christe was no true God nether receaued they the bokes of the Apostles but fayned there seuerall doctrines the which they called Christes Gospel also they boasted also of seuerall illuminations of heauen and sayde they gaue the holy ghost They ordeyned sundrye ceremonies they vsed also choyse of meates they forbadde wedlocke ▪ sayenge that thereby is optayned the holy ghost They taught also to reiect ciuil power For matrimony and gouernaunce of communwelth they sayde to haue theyr ofspringe from the euell God and not to be ordeined of the good God Thomas Monetarius or mynter at Thuringen was playnly fallē into the same heresy in our daies The yeare of Christ CC. lxxx TAcitus y ● .xxxij. Emperour raigned vi monethes Probus y ● .xxxiii. Emperour ruled syxe yeares and foure monethes Thissame is rekened among the most worthiest princes he was chosen by the souldiours and confirmed by the Senate He was the cause that peace was made both in the lower and hygher Germany He ouercame y ● Frankes them of Thuringen ▪ in the histories of thys Emperour is the fyrst mencion made of the nacio● of Thuringen Felix the .xxv. bysh of Rome succeded Dionis●us Eutichianus the .xxvi. succeded Felix Caius the .xxvij. succeded Eutichianus in the byshopryke The yeare of Christ CC. lxxxvii LArus the .xxxiiij. Emperoure raygned two yeare He made hys sonnes Carinus and Numerianus emperours wyth hym Numerianus was excellent in honestye and learninge But Carinus was equall wyth Nero for his wickednesse The yeare of Christ CC. lxxxviij DIocletianus the .xxxv. Emperoure raygned twenty yeare He was a prince of rype wysedome and garnished wyth manye noble dedes He restored Egypt to the Empyre But he was a very fearce enemy to Christes religion For be endeuoured to restore the olde state of the empyre and olde fashyon of the commune welth And for as muche as he dyd all thynges by the iudgement of reason he woulde not suffre the opinions of religion that were disagreynge And whan he perceaued that in so greate trouble of warres he coulde not entertayne alone the largenesse of so great an empyre besydes that that it had oft fortuned other to couet the empyre by vproure and to ben made Emperours he willingly willed Maximianus to raygne wyth hym and to be of lyke power and the same warred in Gallia As for these two were a lyke called Augusti in the empire These two Augusti chose other two ▪ which were not egall of power but were as successors nether were they called Augusti but Cesares Diocletianus chose Galerius Maximianus chose Constantius But ether of them both Diocletianus and Maximianus were called Augustus Afterwarde layenge aparte the gouernaunce of the empyre they returned both to the quietnesse of a pryuate lyfe But Maximianus woulde fayne haue returned to the gouernaunce that by thesame occasion he myght haue promoted hys sonne Maxentius to the gouernaunce and for that cause dyd Constancius hys brother in lawe cause hym to be slayn Communely doth it so befal that whan great empyres shall decaye all shalbe fyrste fylled wyth vproures and inwarde debates the whyche thys example doth wytnesse Diocletianus lyued manye yeares priuate or withoute rule at the last dyd he slaye hym selfe whan he was afearde for Licinius and Constantinus whyche suspected hym that he woulde take Maxentius theyr enemyes parte The yeare of Christ CCC viij COnstantius the .xxxvi. Emperoure wyth Galerius Maximinus and was ether of them Emperoure wyth greate prayse After Diocletianus death raygned Constantius foure yeares The contryes of Fraunce and Germany were subiect to hym and he set them at quiet He ouercame the Frankes and Almaynes For of thys wise is Germany diuided The Frankes toke that part of Germany to them which is about y e Rene They that be called Alemanni are y e hygher Germanes Constantius dyed in England in whose stead was ordeined for to rule the empyre Constantinus hys sonne The yeare of Christ .iij. C. xij COnstantinus the .xxxvij. Emperoure raigned thyrty yeares He restored the empyre to his former rest and tranquillitye For whan Maxentius had cruelly vsed tyranny at Rome beynge ouercome by Constantinus he was in a flyghte drouned in the ryuer Tybur and receaued worthy punishment for hys tyranny the whyche he vsed both agaynst other men and speciallye agaynst Christen men And so dyd Constantinus and Licinius gouerne the empyre together certayne yeres wyth greate concorde and Constantinus wedded hys syster to Licinius But we see somtyme to befall in a great empyre such causes wherin two doo seldom agree It is saide that the cause of the disagremente betwene Constantinus and Licinius shoulde thence haue spronge that Licinius shoulde haue ben enemy to the Christians and to haue oft required Constantinus to enterprise such thynges nomore Finallye Constantinus beynge compelled wyth great necessitye ouercame Licinius howbeit left him alyue vpon this condicion that he layenge awaye the rule of the empyre should lyue pryuately Wherfore Constantinus gouerned the empyre afterwarde alone and broughte all thynges into peace and honeste lawes The emperour was the