Here begynneth a shorte and abreue table on the Cronycles ...

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¶Anno mundi .iii.M.iii.C.iiii. Et ante xp̄i natiuitatē .M.vii.C.lxxxxix.

IVdas son̄e of Iacob descēded of hym / & of this trybe of Iudas came the kynges progeny / & at last Cryst our lorde. Iudas gate Phares / & Phares Esron / & of these men lytel is had inscrypture / but Math reherseth them. ¶Beleus in this Pares dayes was kynge of Assurio{rum} / or of Babylon & he was the .x. kyng vnder whom ysaac decessed. ¶Athlas the gre¦te astronymyer was also the whiche is sayd to bere vp heuen on his sholdre / for y^e very know¦ledge of the sterres. ¶Sarapis was y^e thyrde kyng of Arguio{rum} or of Greco{rum} & this Sarap{is} was called otherwyse Apis / & he came in to E¦gypte with a myghty nauy / & there decessed & was made of y^e blynde gentyles y^e egypcyens the gretest god amonge them. Aand that tyme began a meruaylous superstycyon in ydolatry of a calfe of two coloure whiche they called A∣pē / & that calfe dyed / y^e deuylles procured a ly¦ke calfe to that / for to be made / that they myʒt deceyue the rude peple / & aft{er} that it came that the chyldrē of Israel dyd on the same wyse (vt pʐ) And what thynge coude be more wretched or folysshe ī mā hauyng reasō. ¶Argus was the fourthe kynge of Grekis / after whom the noble cyte of Argus toke his name. Cyeropis edefyed Athenes ī Grecia / & this ••••te was the nou••yssher of lyberal scyēce •• & of many phylo¦sophers / yet they were deceyued by deuylles / & grete superstycyosyte in the cyte was made (vi¦de aug{us} et mirabilē fabulā reperies (¶Omo∣gires the fyrste man put oxen to the ploughe. ¶Belus this tyme was kyng of Babylon / & he was the .x. kynge of the regyon / & vnd hym deyed ysaac: ¶Pharao was kynge of Egypt whiche receyued Ioseph / & exalted hym for the interpretacyon of his dremes (vide scientiam palcherrimā{que} historiam. gen̄. xlii. &c. ¶Ami¦thus was the .xii. kynge of Babylon / vnder whom dyed Ioseph a blessyd man in chastyte. ¶Pharao Emonophis aboute Esdroms day¦es was kynge of Egypt / & this Pharao know not Ioseph ne none of his lygnage & he cōmaū¦ded y^e chyldn of Israel to be drowned / as it is had (Exodi .i.) ye clerkes may loke that booke and we laye wyl loke to cronycles / but aboute this tyme the story of Exodi began.