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

¶Circa annū mundi .v.M.xxxiiii. Et ante xp̄i natiuitatem .C.lxv.

ELeazar of the lyne of cryst was aboute this tyme. Of hym no thyng wryten in scrypture: but that Mathe nombreth hī (vt pʐ pri^o) ¶Onias Pius was to the bysshop thys tyme an holy man: & well beloued with god & man And not alonely with good men but euyl men also. At the last vnryght wysly was slay∣ne of Adronito (vt pʐ .ii. machabeo{rum}) ¶Pau∣lus Tereneius Scipio Affricanus: these we∣re Senatours at rome. These two erected an hoste ayenst Hanyba••l: & there almost the Ro∣mayns hope dyed· For there was slayne. xl••iii.M. Romayns. And this noble Scipio affri∣canus brought ayen y^e state of the Romayns people the whyche stode in a distpayre euer to haue recouered. For he fought with Hanybal manly & dyscōfyted hym. All Spayne ••e ouer came All Affrica he subdued: gre•• Antiochus he brought to be his seruaunt. All Asie he ma∣de trybutary to the Romayns: this man so no¦ble & so victoryus by his owne vnkynde coū∣tree was outlawde: & there he deyed. ¶Philo∣metor the sone Epiphanes of Cleopatra reg∣ned in Egypt .xxxv. yere. This kyng ye•• a chil¦de / noble Antioch{us} gretly oppressyd with ma∣ny dysceytes but the Romaynes sent Legates the whiche cōmaūded Antiochus that he shold cesse of his tyranny ayenst him. And Marcus Publius made a cercle to Antiochus thus sa∣ynge. The Senatours of rome & the peple cō∣maūde y^t that thou go not out of thys cercle ••yl thou haue answered to this mater This Anti¦och{us} seynge that he myght not contynue••h•• ty∣ranny sayd yf it be thus cōmaūded me of the Senatours & Romayns peple I muste nedes tourne ayē & so wood āgry he was that he lost the sege of Alexandre / & tourned to y^e poore re∣leues of y^e Iewes / vengynge hym vpon them by cause he myghte not venge hym on a more myghtyer people (vt pʐ iii li^o Machabeo{rum} .ii.

MAthachias an holy man / and of all lo∣uynge moost worthy hated in hys her∣te the conuersecyon of all synners / alonly tru∣stynge in our lord god of Israell (vt pʐ primo macha. ii.) And thys man had .v. sones of the same loue vnto god. Thys man was not by∣shop

in Israell / but his thre sones were. ¶Iu¦das Machabeus was bysshop .iii. yere / & he was sone to Mathathias. This Machabeus was the moost named man that euer was ī Is¦raell / the whiche had neuer none lyke hym afo¦re ne after. He was in batayll a myghty man & offred hym to deye a martyr for the lawes of god. ¶Ionatas his brother succeded him .xix yere. The whyche grewe in vertue and gouer∣ned & stode stedfaste in the lawes of god / & af∣ter falsely was slayne of Cryphone & two of his sones (Plura vide Iuda et frēm ei{us} li. ma∣cha. Antiochus Epiphanes sone to Antioch{us} the myghty this tyme was kynge of Syrry, This man from the heed vnto the feet within & without all was cursed / And therfore he was fygured to Antecryst. Many martyrs cruelly he made & falsely he dyspose hym to entre in to Egypt as his fader dyde / but he opteyned not for the Romayns letted hym. His moost vn∣happy werke / & how he was in hastage at Ro∣me / and howe the prophecy of Danyell was completed in hym / ye maye see in the boke of Machabeo{rum}. ¶Quintus Flaminius. Mar∣chus Cato. Thiberius Gracius were Sena∣tours of Rome. This tyme was soo contynu¦all and so moche bataylle / that lerned men of Gentyles and of the true fayth both were we∣ry for to wryte the actes or to haue thē in myn¦de. In the whiche bataylles men meruaylled gretly on the stedfastnesse of the Romayns / that no trybulacyon / no drede no hardenesse myght not fere them / but euer contynued in batayll. And certaynly these Romayns after the worldes honeste / they were the moost wy∣sest men that were. And therfore the Macha∣bees desyred ther company.