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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

Epist ad philem ● Tim. 4. Act. 20. 21. 2. Tim. 4. 67. Pudas Pudens The Apostle remembred Pudas also Pudens   68. Trophinus Trophimus S. Paule likewise made mention of this Trophimus these three last were partakers w t Paule in all his afflictions his dayly companions last of all they were beheaded together with him at Rome vnder Nero crowned martyrs Trophimus These three were partakers of y ● Apostles persecutions and beheaded at Rome after him   69. Marke the Euangelist Marke the Euangelist who receaued at the mouth of Peter the Gospell as he preached at Rome   70. Luke the Euangelist These two also are numbred in the catalogue of the seuentie Disciples the Eunuch likwise of Candace Queene of the Aethiopians preached the Gospell of our Lord Iesus Christ in Arabia Felix the Isle Taprobana and throughout all Erythra It is reported also he was there gloriously martyred and buried that his tumbe is an inuincible bulwerke for the faithfull discomfeiting the wicked Barbarians and curing diseases vnto this day The Eunuch   The ende of DOROTHEVS Faultes escaped in the Printing Page 9. line 10. for maner read man page 9. in the marge for 3963 read 3970. page 10. liue 6. for consepuently read consequently page 14. line 17. for Velerius read Valcrius page 14. line 53. for thy read they page 17. line 34. for fortwith read forthwith page 22. line 51. the parenthesis should be after Christ page 23. line 2. for Olimp●ades read Olympiades page 31. line 17. for thirteeneth ▪ read thirteene page 56. line 6. for they read the. page 94. line 41. for ah read an page 103. line 46. for and other read an other page 111. in the marge for Nazianzē read Neocaesariens page 122. line 26. for darned read darkened page 131. in the marge for Gregorie Nazianzen reade Neocaesariens pag. 140. line 51. for depart read departed page 139 in the marge for Gregorie Nazianzen reade Neocaesariens page 150. line 11. for frendas read friendes page 150. line 40. for the and read and the. page 159. line 35. for violent read violently page 175. line 16. for permoited read permitted page 187. line 53. for alloweded read allowed page 189. line 2. for berewed read bereaued page 189. line 15. for wih read with page 202. line 2. for beloued God read beloued of God page 213. line 18. for two hundreth eight and twentie read three hundred and fift page 236. line 12. for cause read clause page 240. line 16. for leage read league page 242. line 51. for sonne read sunne page 246. line 43. for Mu●son read Mursa page 248. line 40. for Is●hyas read Ischyras page 256. line 2. for Constantinus read Constantius page 284. line 24. for our read your page 303. line 37. for not read to page 383. line 32. for Alexander read Alexandria page 411. line 48. for neither read either page 427. line 32. for cogeled read congealed The rest which thou findest gentle reader correct them thy selfe A CRONOGRAPHIE CONTINEVVED FROM THE BIRTH OF CHRIST WHERE EVSEBIVS SOCRATES EVAGRIVS AND DOROTHEVS BEGINNE TO WRITE VNTO THE TWELF YEARE OF THE raygne of Mauricius the Emperour beinge the full time of six hundred wantinge onely fiue yeares after Christ and the purest age containing the Acts of Christ the yeares of the incarnation the famous men with the martyrs and fauorers of the trueth in all those times the raygne of the Emperours the kinges of Iudaea the succession of high priestes in Ierusalem as longe as they lasted after them the succession of Bishops specially in the moste famous Churches as Ierusalem Antioch Rome Alexandria with others The Councells within this time summoned and the heretickes condemned All which are faithfully collected chiefly out of Eusebius Socrates Euagrius and where they seeme vnperfect out of other auncient writers by M. H. Imprinted at London by Thomas Vautroullier dwelling in the Blackefriers 1576. THE PREFACE OF THE AVTOR to the Reader toutching his Chronographie SEeing that hitherto gentle Reader in the translation of these auncient Historiographers Eusebius Socrates Euagrius and Dorotheus I haue imployed great labour and industrie referring the paynes to myne owne person and the profit to the furtherance of thy studie knowledge I haue determined yet once agayne to gratifie thy louing minde with this Chronographie followinge a worke which with more ease thou mayest runne ouer and peruse and the sooner committe to memorie then the former though my paynes herein were nothinge aslaked but aequiualent with the other trauayle I hope the treatise will be acceptable insomuch the Englishe tongue hath not at this day extant any Ecclesiasticall Chronographie continewed from so long a tyme. Well we may haue catalogues of kings recitall of Bishops pedegrewes of our gentries ▪ with other priuate particular summaries seuerally handled by sundry men yet the generall Antiquitie the ioynte contriuing the relatiō to the foūtaine the searching of the original out of farr foraigne countreyes seeing the Gospell vvas not first preached heere in England I find not extant in our mother tongue Therefore orderly to proceede as the aforesayd learned vvriters haue layd dovvne their example I vvill beginne vvith the birth of Christ pēning in the first colume such vvorthy actes as the Euangelists haue recorded of him during his abode here on earth aftervvardes the yeares of his incarnation The next rovvme is an abridgement of the raygne of ▪ the Emperours Luke the Euangeliste thought good euen in the very entrance of his discourse to laye dovvne the birth of Christ in the raygne of Augustus the Emperour and the preaching of Iohn the baptist to haue begonne the fifteenth yeare of Tiberius Caesar Socrates in the fift booke of his ecclesiastical history tooke the catalogue of the Emperours to be one of his principall drifts his reason vvas because the ecclesiastical affayres seemed alvvayes to depende very much of the Emperours and Princes The thirde place contayneth the famous men vvith the fauorers of the trueth ▪ the Martyrs and Sayncts of God The gladsome tidings of the glorious Gospell vvas not first reuealed vnto Princes Presidents vnto the mighty vvise of this vvorld for God needed not their ayd povver but vnto the vveake simple ignorant foolish and contemptible in the sighte of men such as were sheperds fishermen tolegatherers and tentmakers The fourth riglet contineweth the raigne of the kings of Iudaea Mathevv and Luke beganne their Gospells vvith the raigne of Herode But they lasted not very long In the dayes of Herode Christ vvas borne in the flesh after him came Archelaus the third was Herod the tetrach vvhich beheaded Iohn the baptist the fourth vvas Herode Agrippa vvhich beheaded Iames the brother of Iohn vvith the svvord and dyed miserably him selfe The last vvas Agrippa minor before vvhome Paul pleaded in the Actes of the Apostles in vvhose dayes Ierusalem vvas destroyed Anno Dom. 73. Iosephus vvriteth that vvithin the compasse of

prognosticatinge the destruction thereof thou maist see gentle reader in the Euangelists and in Euseb eccle hist li. 3. cap. 7. 8. alleadged partly out of the Gospell and partly also out of Iosephus a Iewe vvho vvas present at the vvarres all vvhich signes vvere in number many and in shevve most terrible and dreadfull yet the Ievves had not the grace to repent VVherefore the lamentable ouerthrovv the vtter ruyne the ransacking of the citie the burning of the temple the prophaning of the sacred scriptures the slaughter of the Priestes the dissention of the people the death of all the famine vvorse then death it selfe thou maist revve and reade vvith vvett cheekes and vvatrish eyes layde dovvne at large by Iosephus and Eusebius eccle hist lib. 3. cap. 5. 6. 7. 8. c. Novve therefore the tēple being spoyled and ouerthrovven their highpriestes ceased the contrey also being subdued ouerrunne their Kinges fayled as many Ievves as vvere left vvere dispersed Their vvickednesse no doubt hath deserued that from the passion of Christ vnto this day the name of a Ievve is become very odious               The Heretickes   Vespasian the Emperour after the ouerthrowe of Ierusalem commaunded that all suche as were of the lyne of Dauid should diligently be sought out He raygned 10. yeares and dyed of a laske in the 69. yeare of his age Euseb lib. 3. ca. 12. 13. Eutrop. lib. 7. Euseb chronic D●ONYSIVS AREOPAGITA was by S. Paul placed bishop of Athēs There are extant sundry workes vnder his name but suspected not to be his and sundry epistles of the which one to Iohn the Euangeliste beinge in the Isle Patmos an other vnto Polycarpus he was martyred as Tritemius writeth Anno. Dom. 96. Act. 17. Euse lib. 3. cap. 4. lib. 4. cap. 22.   Cerinthus or Merinthus beinge a Iewe taught throughout Asia wicked doctrine he preached circumcision he taught that the prophetes and the lawe was geuen by Angells and that the worlde was made by them Cerinthus moreouer sayd that Iesus was not borne of a virgine which was impossible but of Marie Ioseph that Iesus was not Christ but that Christ came vpon him in the forme of a Doue that Iesus suffred rose againe but not Christ For Christ sayd he did flie away from him before his passion Epiph. haeres 28. Irenaeus lib. 1. cap. 25. He dreamed that the kingdome o● Christ shoulde become earthly that after the resurrection Christ should raygne oue● vs heere on earth one thousand yeares H● lusted after the satisfying of the bellie an 〈◊〉 the thinges vnder the belly with meate drinke mariage Iohn the Apostle is said to haue abhorred the presence of Cerinthus Euseb lib. 3. cap. 25. lib. 4. cap. 14. lib. 7. cap. 24. Epipha haeres 51. sayth that certaine heretickes called Alogoi affirmed Cerinthus to haue bene the autor of the reuelation Anno Domini T●e raygne of the Emperours The Fathers of the Church The Coūcells The bishops of Ierusalem The Bishops of Antioche The Bishops of Rome The Bishops of Alexandria The Heretickes 81. Titus the sonne of Vespasian succeded his father in the empire he raigned 2. yeares and 2. moneths died the 42. yeare of his age leauing his brother Domitian to succeed Euseb li. 3. cap. 13. in chro Europ lib. 7. IOSEPH of Arimathra together with his companions came into Englande and there preached Polydor. lib. 2.       3. Anacletus was b. of Rōe after Linus in the 2. yeare of Titus the Emperour Anno Domi. 81. he continewed there 12. yeares Eu seb lib. 3. cap. 13. 14. 19. in chronic There be sōe which next vnto Linus doe place Clemens so Cletus thē Anacletus some other before Clemens doe place Cletus but we following the aunciēt wryters next vnto the Apostles to wete Irenaeus Euse bius Epiphanius do place thē thus Peter Linus Anacletus Clemens yet Epipha nius calleth this Anacletus Cletus   Menander a sorcerer and the disciple of Simon Magus a Samaritane sayde that he was the great power of God come downe from heauen that the worlde was made by Angels he called him selfe a Sauiour he sayd saluation was to be purchased by his baptisme that such as wer therewith baptized should neuer die no not in this worlde Euseb lib. 3. cap. 23 Irenaeus lib. 1. cap. 21. Epiphan haeres 22. Saturninus of Antioch cal led also Saturnilius budded out of Menander and preached throughout Syria in maner the like doctrine as Menander did before him he sayd moreouer that mariage and procreation was of the deuill Ireneus lib. 1. cap. 22. Euse lib. 4. cap. 6. 83. Domitian the sonne of Vespasian succeded Titus he was the seconde after Nero which persecuted the Christiās he exiled ma ny noble per sonages in the ende he was slayne in his pallace and after his death ignominiously vsed whē that he had raigned 15. yeares Euseb lib. 3. cap. 13. 15. 16. 17. 18 Eutrop lib. 7. IOHN the Euangehst preached in Asia he was banished into the Isle Patmos in the time of Domitian where he wrote his Reuelation In the first yeare of Nerua he returned from Patmos and dwelt agayne at Ephesus He ruled the churches of Asia after the death of Domitian Euse lib. 3. ca. 16. 18. Iren●us lib. 2. cap. 39. lib. 3. cap. 3. Of him is reported a notable historie in Euseb lib. 3. cap. 20. Iohn saw the three Gospells of the Euangelists published and allowed of them afterwards wrote his owne to the consutation of Cerinthus Menander Ebion the heretiks Euseb lib. 3. cap. 21. Abdias sayeth he was throwen into a tunne of hot scalding oyle yet toke no harme Ierome sayeth he dyed the 68. yeare after the passion of Christ. anno Dom. 99. Dorotheus sayeth he went aliue into his graue there dyed being 120. yeare olde       Clemens was b. of Rome af ter Anacletus in the 12. yea re of Domitiā Anno Domini 93. he wrote from Rome a worthy epi stle vnto the Corinthians the which was vsed to be read in the church he was thought to haue translated the epistle vnto the Hebrewes frō hebrew in to the grek tongue there is fathered vpō him an other epistle with certaine dialogues tou tching Peter and Ap pion he go uerned the church 9. yeares Euseb lib. 3. cap. 14. 19. 31. 33. Abilius was b. of Alexandria after Anianus in the 4. yeare of Domitian Euseb lib. 3. cap. 13. Basilides where of Basilidia ni agree in diuerse pointes with Simon Menander and Saturninus he blased thro oughout Aegypt that there were 365. heauens he sayd that Simon of Cyren suffered in steade of Christ and not Christ him selfe that Christ taking the forme of Simon laughed them to scorne Irenaeus lib. 1. cap. 23. Epiphan haeres 24. Basilides the heretick wrot 24. bookes vpon the Gospell he fayned vnto him selfe Prophets whome he called Barcabus Barcoph he taught that thinges

Alexandria Meletius b. of Pontus florished at one time Euseb lib. 7. cap. 5.     Paulus Samosatenus the heretick succeeded Demetrianus he was excommunicated depriued by the 2. synode helde at Antioche in the time of Valerianus Eus lib. 7. cap. 26. 29. Dionysius was b. of Rome after Xystus An. Do. 265. cōtinewed 9. yeares Euseb lib. 7. cap. 26. 29.     273. Aurelianus was emperor after Quintilius in the beginninge of his raigne he was well affectioned towards Christian religiō so that the hereticke Samosatenus was through his helpe banished the churche but in the end he persecuted the church of God whē as he went about to subscribe vnto an edict against the Christians the crampe tooke him so that he was not able to holde penne in hande ▪ he raygned 6. yeares Euseb lib. 7. cap. 28. 29. Malchion in open disputation confuted Samosatenus the heretick at Antioch Euseb lib. 7. cap. 28. A seconde synod was held at Antioch vnder Aurelianus wher Samosatenus the hereticke was cōdēned depriued the church Euseb lib. 7. cap. 28. 29. Zambdas b. Ierusalem Euseb li. 7. cap. 31. Domnus the sonne of Demetrianus was by the 2. held synod at Antioch appoīted to succeede Samosatenus in the seae of Antioch Euseb lib. 7. cap. 29. Felix was b. of Rome after Dionysius continewed 5. yeare Euseb lib. 7. cap. 29. 31.   Origeniani were hereticks called after one Origen not he that was the great clarke of Alexandria they condemned mariage yet liued they beastly their maner was to haue among them religious women like Nunnes whom they defiled yet vsed meanes to keepe them from swellinge Epiphan haeres 63. From Christ vnto the ende of Au relianus the Emp●roure when Manes the heretick liued there are 276. reares after Epiphan hare 66. Ta●itus was Emperour 6. moneths Eutro lib. 9. Euseb chron             Origeniani againe were hereticks which so called thē selues of Origen Adamantius the greate clerke of Alexandria they taught as Epiphan sayeth haeres 64. that there was no resurrection that Christ was a creature the holy ghost a like that the soules were suste in heauen came downe into the bodyes as it were into prison that in the ende the deuells shoulde be saued Epiphanius as I reade in Socrates eccle hist ▪ lib. 6. cap. 11. was become the enemie of Origē through the spite malice of Theophilus bishop of Alexandria The deuell bare Origen a displeasure he procured heretickes to father vpon him lewde opinions He complayneth him selfe in a certain epistle how that hereticks corrupted his works Pāphilus Martyr the great friende familiar of Eusebius wrot an Apologie in his behalfe Euseb lib. 6. cap. 3. 18. 20. 26. reporteth of the famous men that fauoured Origen Socrates eccle hist lib. 6. cap. 12. writeth in his commendation Athanasius gaue of him a notable testimonie Chrysostome woulde in no wyse be brought to condēne either Origē o● his works Socrat. li. 6. ca. 11. 12. 13. Buddas otherwise called Terebinthus was a litle before Manes the hereticke he taught about Babylon that he him selfe was borne of a virgine that he was bred and brought vp in the Mountaynes He wrote 4 bookes one of mysteries 2. intitled the gospell 3. Thesaurus the 4. a summarie Through witchcraft he tooke his flight into the a●r to offer sacrifice but the deuell threwe him downe broke his necke so that he dyed miserably Socrat. lib. 1. cap. 17. 279. ●lorianus was Emperoure 80. dayes Eutrop li. 9. Euseb chron Probus was emperour 6. yeres Euseb lib. 7. cap. 29. Anatolius b. of Laodiceaslorished vnder Probus Carus Ierō catalog   Hermon b. of Ierusalem the last before the persecution vnder Dioletiam Euse lib. 7. ca. 31 Tim. eus was b. of Antioche after Domnus Euseb lib. 7. cap. 31. Eusychianus was bishop of Rome scarce 10. moneths Euseb lib. 7. cap. 31. Gaius was b. of Rome an Dom. 283. 15 yeares Euse lib. 7. cap. 31.     285. Carus was Emperour scarse 3. yeares Euse lib. 7. cap. 29. The infiite number of martyrs which suffred in the persecutiō vnder Dio●letian are to be scene throughout the 8. booke of Eusebius ecclesiasticall history   These a of Ierusalem was alwayes honored and the succession contine wed vnto the daies of Eusebius him selfe Euseb lib. 7. ca. 18. Cyrillus b. of Antioche Euseb li. 7. cap. 31   Theônas was b. of Alexādria after Maximinus cōtinewed 11. yeares Euseb li. 7. cap. 31.   287. Dio●letian was Emperour and persecuted the church of god In the 19. yeare of his ●aigne he began to ouerthrow the churches burne the bibles persecute the Christians When he had raygned together with Maximianus who persecuted with him 20 yeares he deposed him selfe voluntarily and lyued a priuate life Frō that tyme vnto his ende he pyned and wasted away with diseases But Maximinia hanged him selfe Euseb lib. 7. cap. 29. lib. 8. cap. 2. 3. 14. 19 Socrates lib. 1. cap. 2. Arnobius florished in the time of Diocletian Ierom. catalog There was a councell of 300. bishops called together at Siunessa where Marcellinus b. of Rome was condemned for de nyig Christ and sacrificing to Idols tom 1. concil   Dorotheus b. of Antioche Marcellinus was bishop of Rome about the 10. yeare of Diocletian Anno Dom. 295. Euseb li. 7. cap. 31. He denied Christ offered sacrifice vnto Idols in the persecution vnder Diocletian was condemned of 3. hundred bishops 30. priests afterwardes he repented him and was martyred vnder Diocletian tom 1. concil     307.         Tyrranus b. of Antioch Euseb lib. 7. cap. 31.       Constantius and Maximinus ruled the empire after the deposition of Diocletian Constantius dyeth at yorke in Englande when he had ruled 16. yeares Anno Do. 310. Euseb lib. 8. ca. 14. in chronic Lactātius the disciple of Arnobius florished in the time of Diocletian in his olde age he was the maister of Crispus the sōne of Constantius Ierom. A councel was helde at Ancyra in Galatia in the time of Vitalis wher with certaine conditions such as sacrificed were receaued and the deacons that can not containe suffred to Marie tom 1. concil     Aboute this time Licinia an holie mayde of Rome dying made Marcellus b. of that seae her heire and executor gaue him al her great substance from that time forth sayth Polydor lib. 6. de inuent cap. vlt. the bishops of Rome wer greatly enriched Peter was b. of Alexandria about the 7 yeare of Diocletian where he cōtinewed 12. yeares he was beheaded crowned a martyr in the persecution vnder Diocletian Euseb lib. 7. ca. 31. Socrat. lib. 1. cap. 3. Manes the hereticke whereof the Maniches haue theyr appellation had his originall in persia as Epiphan haeres 66 wryteth about the 4. yeare of Aurelianus he called him self Christ the comsorter Hechose vnto himselfe 12. Apostles He sayd that Christ was