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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

THE AVNCIENT ECCLESIASTICALL HISTORIES OF THE FIRST SIX HVNDRED YEARES AFTER CHRIST wrytten in the Greeke tongue by three learned Historiographers Eusebius Socrates and Euagrius EVSEBIVS PAMPHILVS Bishop of Caesarea in Palaestina vvrote 10 bookes SOCRATES SCHOLASTICVS of Constantinople vvrote 7 bookes EVAGRIVS SCHOLASTICVS of Antioch vvrote 6 bookes VVhereunto is annexed DOROTHEVS 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 ANCHORA SPEI Imprinted at London by Thomas Vautroullier dwelling in the Blackefriers by Ludgate 1577. TO THE RIGHTE HONORABLE THE GODLY WISE AND VERTVOVS LADIE ELIZABETH COVNTESSE OF LYNCOLNE vvife to the right noble Edvvarde Earle of Lyncolne Lorde highe Admirall of England one of the Queenes Maiesties priuie counsail and Knight of the most honorable order of the Garter MEREDITH HANMER vvisheth encrease of honor continewance of Godly zeale perfection of wisedome and health in Christ Iesus THE holy Apostle and Euangelist Sainct Iohn one that leaned on our Sauiours breaste right honorable Ladie when he sawe a noble woman whome he tearmeth a Lady walking in the way of trueth and willingly embracing the gladsome tidmges of the Gospell reioyced exceedingly and wrote vnto her an Epistle wherein he commendeth her vertues exhorting her to obserue the olde commaundement of louing one an other and to take heede of deceauers though in all poynctes I am founde farre inferior nay in nothing comparable at all vnto the blessed Apostle yet your honors vertues doe counteruaile or rather surpasse the other Ladies Godlinesse seeinge the seede of Christianity was in her but newely sowen and true zeale of religion firmely rooted these many yeares in your Ladiships mind Notwithstanding my inferior condition be it lawfull though not of worthinesse at least wise of fauour for me to imitate the blessed Apostle to wryte vnto your honor not any exhortation of myne owne whiche peraduenture woulde be very simple but the exhortation of the Apostles and Disciples of our Sauiour the martyrdomes of Saynctes and such as serued God in trueth and vpright conuersation the inuincible courage and constancie of zealous Christians the Godly sayinges and sentences of true professors the wise and politicke gouernemente of common weales by Catholicke Emperours and Christian princes the carefull ouersight of the flocke of Christ by reuerend Bishops and learned Prelats the confutation and ouerthrowe of heretickes with the confirmation of the trueth ●y holy councells and sacred assemblies and to say the wholl in one worde as the principall drifte of myne Epistle to presente vnto your Ladiship these auncient Ecclesiasticall Historiographers to wit Eusebius Socrates Euagrius Dorotheus Whose histories are so replenished with such godly doctrine that I may very well say of their all as a learned wryter reporteth of Eusebius that they are able to perswade any man be his mind neuer so farre alienated from the trueth to become a zealous Christian Wherefore my good Lady seeing that as Plato sayth running witts are delighted with poetrie as Aristotle wryteth effeminate persons are rauished with musicke and as Socrates telleth vs histories agree beste with staide heades I present vnto your honor these histories agreeing very well with your disposition and beinge the frutes of my trauell and studie Ruffinus sayth that he wrote his historie to delight the reader to occupie the time and to remoue the remembrance of the calamities meaning the persecution which then lately had happened As for Christian pleasure and Godly delightes what can be more pleasaunt then the reading of the Ecclesiasticall histories toutching the time I knowe it full well you spende it as it beseemeth your calling to speake of calamitie vnlesse we beholde the miserie and lamentable estate of other Realmes and dominions presentlye there is geuen no suche occasion for it can not be remembred that the subiectes within this realme of Englande had the Gospell so freely preached Clerkes so profoundely learned Nobility so wise and politicke all successes so prosperous as in this happie raygne of our most vertuous noble Princesse Queene Elizabeth and therefore are we greatly bounde to praise God for it Yet if ye call to memorie the corruption of late dayes the blindnes of such as woulde be called Gods people the lamentable persecution of the English Church then may ye reade them after calamitie But notwithstandinge the premises it is not my drifte to salue such sores neither to prouide medicens for such Maladies God of his prouidence hath continewally bene so carefull ouer his Church that his seruants were neuer left desolate Though Elias complayned that he was left alone yet were there thousandes vvhich bovved not their knees to Baal S. Paul telleth vs there is of Israel a remnant left Our Sauiour speaking of his Church though it be not of the greatest multitudes yet is it accordinge vnto his Epitheton a litle flocke And sure I am there may be found a righteous Abraham in Chaldaea a iust Lot in Sodome a godly Daniel in Babylon a deuout Tobias in Niniue a paciente Iob in Husse and a zealous Nehemias in Damasco There is found wheate among tares graine in the huske corne among chaffe a kearnel within the shale marrow within the bone a pearle within the cockle and a rose amonge the thornes There was a Ionathas in the court of Saul to fauour Dauid there was an Obadia in the Court of Achab to entertayne the Prophets there was an Abedmelech in the Court of Sedechias to entreate for Ieremie and in the Court of Diocletian there were many yonge Gentlemen namely Petrus Dorotheus Gorgonius with many others which embraced the Christians suffred death for the testimony of Christ as your honor may reade in these Ecclesiastical histories which I haue not therfore commended vnto you for the remembrance of any calamitie at all But as for the Court of our most gracious Queene a sight both ioyfull and comfortable where there resortes so many learned Clerkes so many Godly persons so many graue Matrons so many vertuous Ladies so many honorable personages hauinge so noble a heade to gouerne them all There the Christian is no Phoenix the godly is no blacke swanne for the Gospell is freely preached and the professors thereof had in honor and estimation Wherefore in so godly a place to be so vertuously disposed at vacant times as to reade these auncient histories wil be a commendation vnto your honor an encrease of knowledge a confirmation of the faith a maintenance of zeale and a liuely beholdinge of Christ Iesus in his members Here you may see the modesty and shamefastnes of Christian maydens the constancie of zealous women the chast mindes of

insulte and inueye against a man vvhich receaued dew for his desert His impietie grew to that passe and so preuayled that he lead Theônas bishop of Marmarica and Secundus of Ptolemais together vvith him into perdition for they vvere partakers of the same punishment vvith him After that the grace of God had deliuered vs from that peruerse opinion from that impietie and blasphemie and from such people as presumed to sowe discorde and debate in the middest of such as leade a peaceable and quiet life there remained as yet toutching the cōtumacie of Meletius and such as he had aduaunced vnto ecclesiastical orders to be determined of vs and vvhat the councell decreed toutchinge him thus vnderstande vvelbeloued brethren The councell beyng bent to deale vvith more clemencie tovvardes Meletius then he deserued for by iust iudgement he was worthy of no pardon decreed that he should remaine in his proper city that he should haue no authoritie to make ministers no authoritie to aduaūce any vnto the ecclesiasticall function neither to appeare or present him selfe in any other region or in any other citie for that purpose but onely to retayne the bare name and title of his office and dignitie they decreed farther toutching such as were entred into holy orders by his laying on of hāds that they after confirmation vvith more mysticall laying on of handes should be admitted into the fellovvship of the church with this condition that they shoulde enioye their dignitie degree of the ministerie yet that they be inferiour vnto all the pastors throughout euery prouince and churche the vvhich the most honorable man and our college Alexander hath ordayned Moreouer that they haue no authoritie to elect the ministers approued by their censures no not so much as to nominate thē which are to execute the ecclesiasticall function nor to intermedle with any thing toutching thē that are within Alexanders iurisdiction without the cōsent of the bishop of the catholicke church But they who through the grace of God the meanes of your praiers were found no maintayners of schisme but cōtained thē selues within the bounds of the Catholicke Apostolicke churche voyd of all erroneous blemishe let these haue authoritie to consecrate ministers to nominate such as shal be thought vvorthie of the cleargie and in fine freely to do all according vnto the rule canon of the church If in case that one of them which presently enioye the ecclesiasticall dignitie chaunce to finishe his mortall race thē one of them lately admitted into the church so that he be found worthy the people chose him so that the bishop of Alexandria consent thervnto and confirme his election may succeede in the place of the deseased our will is also that that liberty be graūted vnto all others But of Meletius namely it is otherwise decreede to wete that both for his insolent boldnes wherewith heretofore he molested the quiet estate of the church and also for his temeritie and wilfull ignorance openly shewed he shoulde haue neither power neither authoritie geuen him for in that he is a man he may agayne vexe the churche with the like disorder And these decrees properly and seuerally do concerne Aegypt and the most holy churche of Alexandria But if any other thinge besides this be decreed and concluded vpon vvhylest that the most honorable lorde our fellovve minister and brother Alexander is present vvith vs he beynge both president and priuye to our doinges vvyll in presence of you all more exactly recite the vvhole vnto you VVe sende you gladde tydinges of the vniforme consent and agreement toutching the celebration of the most sacred feaste of Easter that by the meanes of your prayers the sturre raysed in that behalfe vvas quietly appeased so that all the brethren vvhich inhabite the East obseruinge heretofore the maner of the Ievves novve vvith vniforme consent do follovve the Romaines and vs and you vvhich of olde tyme haue retayned vvith vs the selfe same order and maner of celebration VVherfore reioyce partly because of these prosperous affaires and partly for the peace and vniforme agreement of all partly also that all heresies are abādoned plucked vp by the rootes and embrace vvith greater honor more feruent loue our fellow minister Alexander but your bishop whose presence was a great pleasure vnto vs who in those yeares tooke great paynes labored exceedingly to reduce the affaires of your church vnto a quiet peaceable state powre vnto God harty prayers for vs all that the things rightly decreede established may continewe for firme inuiolable through God the father almighty our Lord Iesus Christ together with the holy ghost to whome be glorie for euer euer Amen It is euident by this Synodicall epistle that they accursed not onely Arius and his complices but also the sentences of his peruerse opinion moreouer that they agreed among thē selues toutching y ● celebration of Easter that they receaued y ● graūd hereticke Meletius graūting him licence to retaine his episcopall dignitie yet depriuing him of all authoritie to execute the functiō as a bishop vseth for which cause I suppose the Meletians in Aegypt vnto this day to haue bene seuered from the church because that the councell tooke away from Meletius all authoritie We haue moreouer to vnderstād that Arius wrote a booke of his opinion the which he intituled Thalia the style phrase of the booke is both wanton and dissolute resembling in all poynts the bawdy ballets and rymes of the wanton poet Sotades the which booke also the councell then dyd condemne Neyther was the councell onely carefull by writinge to certifie of the peace established but the Emperour also signified the same by his letters vnto the church of Alexandria Constantinus the Emperour vnto the Catholicke church of Alexandria VVe wishe you health in the Lord welbeloued brethren A great a singular benefite of the deuine prouidence of God is conferred on vs in that all errour and deceate beinge quite put to slight we acknowledge one the selfe same faith For henceforth there remayneth no refuge for the sleyghts of the deuill intended agaynst vs vvhatsoeuer through fraude he pretended the same is vvholly taken avvay The bright beames of the trueth according vnto the commaundement of Christ ouercame those dissentions schismes those tumults as I may so terme it that deadly poyson of discorde one God therfore all we both in name do adore and in faith do beleue to be And to the end the same through the forewarning of god might be brought to passe I haue called together a great cōpany of bishops vnto the city of Nice with whome I also beīg one of your n●ber most willingly addictīg my selfe wholly together with you vnto the same busines haue endeuored that the trueth then in cōtrouersy might throughly be tried out wherfore all things that seemed to breede occasion of discord or dissention vvere narrovvly sifted

kneeled the souldiers of Theodosius came and stroke his heade of his shoulders These thinges were done the sixt of Septembre in the thirde Consulship of Arcadius and the seconde of Honorius Arbogastes the autor of so great a slaughter two dayes after the ende of the battell seeing that by flight there was no way possible for him to saue his life ranne vpon a naked sworde and dispatched him selfe CAP. XXV How immediatly after this battell the Emperour Theodosius sickned and departed this life afore the triumphes were fully ended THe Emperour Theodosius by reason of the trauell and great toyle he had taken about those warres beganne to be very ill at ease And when that his disease gaue him to vnderstande that the mortall race of his naturall life was then to be finished care and doubts appertayning vnto the gouernment of the common weale troubled him more then the frayle departure or the feare of death yea when he considered with him selfe how many calamities do commonly happen vnto the empire when the Emperour and the scepter be parted asunder Wherefore he sent in post hast for his sonne Honorius to Constantinople purposing to establish through him peace and tranquilitie in the West partes of the worlde At the comming of the sonne to Millayne the father was somewhat recouered and beganne to celebrate exercise of triumphe for ioye of the victory gotten of the tyrant In the morning he felt him selfe so well that he honored the triumphe with his presence In the afternoone he was so sodainly taken with his disease that he was not able to goe beholde the solemnitie but charged his sonne to see all the royaltie accomplished the night following he departed this life It was when Olybrius and Probinus were Consuls the seuenteneth of Ianuary the first yeare of the two hundreth nynety and fourth Olympiad This Theodosius the Emperour liued three score yeares and raygned sixteene This booke contayneth the history of sixteene yeares and eyght moneths The ende of the fift booke of Socrates THE SIXT BOOKE OF THE ECCLESIASTICALL HISTORYE OF SOCRATES SCHOLASTICVS The proeme of Socrates signifying that nowe he beginneth the history of his tyme. I Haue performed most holy Theodorus in the former fiue bookes the promise I made and the taske you haue enioyned me as touching the continewing of the ecclesiasticall history from the raygne of Constantine vnto these our dayes after my sclender skill and the simple talente bestowed vpon me But I woulde haue you knowe afore ye reade them that I haue not curiously addicted my selfe vnto lofty stile neither vnto a glorious shewe of gay sentences for so peraduenture in running after words and phrases I might haue mist of my matter and fayled of my purpose and intent had I attayned yet was it not in my reache to laye downe that forcible kinde of stile vsed of auncient wryters wherewith they amplifie and diminish they extoll and debase at their pleasure Agayne such a penning profiteth very litle the vulgare and ignorant sorte of people who desire not so much the sine and elegant phrase as the furtherance of their knowledg and the trueth of the history Wherfore lest that our story shoulde halt of both sides and displease the learned in that it doth not counteruade the artificiall skill and profounde knowledge of auncient wryters the vnlearned in that their capacitie can not comprehende the substance of the matter by reason of the paynted Rhetorick and picked sentences I haue tyed my selfe vnto such a meane for all the handling is simple the trueth is soone founde and the effect quickly vnderstoode Furthermore nowe entring into discourse of our sixt booke I must needes tell you the trueth that I am euen in maner dismayed when I take penne in hande to paynt for the vnto the posteritie the famous acts of these our florishinge dayes lest it fall out that we laye downe in writinge such thinges as may offende some kinde of men or as commonly we saye lest trueth be constrayned to trye her friendes when as we publishe not with prayses and commendations the names of such as they like well of or extoll not vnto the skies the fame of their noble and famous acts The fauorers of Prelats and patrons of clergy men will blame vs for not intitling the Bishops moste godly moste holy and such like epithetons Other sortes of men somewhat more curious then the rest will misconstrewe our meaning for not calling the Emperours Lordes and most vertuous with other such like honorable titles vsually geuen them of men But seeing that I am able to proue and iustifie out of auncient wryters that the seruant in their bookes hath called his Lorde and Maister no otherwise then after his christened name I will laye aside these lofty titles and tye my selfe as my bounden duety requireth vnto the trueth of the history and keepinge my selfe within the compasse and limites of faythfull Historiographers which couet a simple and a playne kinde of stile I will nowe to the matter and write of such thinges as I haue partly seene and partly learned of such as sawe them with their eyes the which I haue better liking of because the reporters varied not amonge them selues I had much adoe and greate labour in sifting out the trueth because that sundry men of diuers fortes made relation thereof vnto me wherof some affirmed that they had bene present some other that they had occasion to searche out all circumstances CAP. I. Howe that after the death of Theodosius the Emperour his sonnes parted the empire Of the Bishops then florishing and howe that Arcadius meeting the army at the gates of the citie had Russinus a Magistrate of his slayne at his feete by the souldiers WHen y ● Emperour Theodosius had departed this life in y ● Consulship of Olybrius Probinus y ● seuententh of Ianuary his sonnes tooke in hand the gouernment of the Romaine empire Arcadius ruled the East Honorius the West then was Damasus bishop of the princely citie of Rome Theophilus of Alexandria Iohn of Ierusalem Flauianus of Antioch and of Constantinople otherwise called newe Rome Nectarius was Bishop as I remembred in the former booke The eyght of Nouembre he being Consul him selfe the corps of Theodosius was brought to his resting graue and solemnely interred with noble funerall by his sonne Arcadius Shortly after being the eyght and twentieth day of the same moneth the Emperour Theodosius army which ouerthrewe Eugenius with all his host was come thither When the Emperour Arcadius went forth as the maner is vnto the gates of the citie to meete the army the souldiers presently layd hands vpon Russinus the Emperours Embassadour and beheaded him for he was suspected of treason and the report went of him that he procured the Hunnes a barbarous nation to inuade y ● Romaine dominions at the same time also they destroied Armenia with other contreyes of the East The same day when Russinus was beheaded

relations for the most part are in the person of Gregorie byshop of Antioche for the which I was preferred vnto two honorable offices Tiberius Constantinus made me Quaestor Mauricius Tiberius made me maister of the Rolles where the noble men and magistrates were registred The autor endeth his historie about the yeare of our Lord 595. wanting onely fiue yeares of sixe hundred There are many odde thinges in this historie whereby the reader may note the chaunge and diuersitie of times how abuses creepe in by a litle and a litle ▪ who so euer he be that is so disposed to settle his minde and rest vpon the plaine trueth by perusing of these histories he may haue great furtherance In Eusebius he may behold the estate of the primitiue church from the Apostles vnto his time three hundred odd years In Socrates although it follow immediatly he shal find great chaunge his historie is of a hundred and forty years after but in Euagrius being but a hundred forty yeares after him ye shall see farre greater alteration Lastof all if ye weye the thinges which happened since the sixte hundred yeares after Christe then as it is written Qui legit intelligat then came in the Pope then came in the Turke and then came in the deuell for altogether For after the raygne of this Mauricius came in Phocas to be Emperour which first graunted vnto the byshoppe of Rome to be called vniuersall byshoppe This Phocas murthered the Emperour Mauricius obtayned the Empire through treason a fitte man to be founder of so worthie an acte Note I beseeche you howe that in his time God seemed vtterly to withdrawe his blessing Fraunce Spaine Germanie Lumbardie and the greatest part of the east fell from the Empire for euer such a wrecke to the state as neuer had bene sene before Not onely this but there ensued in the temporaltie no feare of God no shame of the worlde no loue towardes the brethren no care of the Churche no consideration of cleargie men in the spiritualtie pryde of prelates pampering of their panches fleshly pleasure they turned deuotion into superstition fayth into fained workes plaine dealing into hypocrisie careful zeale into carelesse securitie in stead of the Bible they brought into the Church legendes of lyes in steade of the true and pure seruice of God they brought in peeuishe and pelting ceremonies wherefore the season requireth that we watche and pray and continewally wayte for the Lords comminge All is nowe in the extreme Nullum violentum perpetuum T. V. THE FIRST BOOKE OF THE ECCLESIASTICALL HISTORIE OF EVAGRIVS SCHOLASTICVS CAP. I. The proëme of Euagrius to his historie EVsebius syrnamed Pamphilus a man without all peraduenture as in other thinges profounde so in penninge excellent is of such efficacie in his works y ● although he can not make the readers perfect christians yet can he so draw them by perswasion that with prompt and willing mindes they will embrace the Christian fayth Eusebius Socrates Sozomenus Theodoret haue written most exquisitly of the incarnation of our most louing sauiour of his ascention into the heauens of the famous acts of the Apostles of the combats and persecutions of y ● holy martyrs what other thing so euer was thought worthy the noting or otherwise vnto some part of Theodosius iunior his raigne In so much therefore such thinges as ensued after seeme nothing inferior vnto the rest and haue bene hitherto recorded in no perfect order although also I my selfe seeme vnfitt by reason of my smale habilitie to take so great an enterprise in hand yet I take it to be my duetie to imploy what labour and industrie lieth in me for the compyling of this worke and to put my whole trust and confidence in him which indued the fishermen with heauenly wisedome and filed the rough tongue for readie deliuerie and soundinge of euery syllable to th end I may reuiue the famous actes which nowe doe slumber in the duste of forgetfulnesse so sturre them with my penne and print them to immortall memory that not onely euerie man may know what hath happened vntill this our age when where in what sort against whome by what men but also that no worthie act through rechelesse securitie and languishinge slouthfulnesse the sister of obliuion be cleane put out of remembrance Wherefore by the helpe of almightie God there will I beginne to write where the aforesaide writers made an end of their histories when the outragious crueltie of Iulian had sucked his fill of the blessed sainctes and martyres blood when the mad furie of Arius false and counterfeit doctrine was bridled with the sounde canons of the Nicene councell when both Eunomius and Macedonius were sore pricked at Bosphorus with the power of the holy Ghoste and vtterly foyled at the famous Cytye of Constantinople when the holy Churche had purged her of her filthe and infection the whiche she lately receiued and now recouered her former glorie being as it were all layde ouer with glistering golde and gorgeously araid for her louer and bridegrome Satan the sworne aduersarie to all godlinesse because he could not away with these graces and benefites bestowed from aboue raised against vs a straunge battaile contrarie to the course of nature And when he sawe the idolatrie of pagans was trode in the puddle of contempt that the seruile and abiect opinion of Arius was quite banished the Churche although he staggered and staide openly from oppugninge the christian faith specially seeing it was confirmed and fortified by so many auncient and godly fathers for in besieging and assaulting of it his power was very muche diminished secretly and by stelth he wrought his feates he deuised certaine obiections and resolutions and laboured to conueigh the errour after his newe founde inuention vnto the Iewishe superstition forgetting like a wretche as he is that in partaking with them he was lately foyled and ouerthrowen Whereas a foretime he had one aduersarie now craftely he seemed to reuerence and in maner to embrace the same his deuise and endeuour was not to withdrawe the Church generally from the whole faith but to see whether he might possibly corrupt one worde or syllable comprised therein Wherefore being wrapped in his owne malice he craftely went about to alter yea one letter which seemed to appertaine vnto the sense and vnderstanding of the sentence ▪ but how in pronunciation he seuered the tongue from the trueth of the worde so that the sounde and sense of the phrase might not iointly laude God and extoll him with diuine prayses moreouer into what issue neither of them did growe and what ende they enioyed I will declare when I come to entreate of them I will also adde there vnto what other thing so euer may be thought worthie of memorie though therein I may seeme to digresse and there will I ceasse to write where God of his goodnesse will haue the historie ended CAP. II. Howe Nestorius