CAP. XV.
Howe the Emperour Valens put many to death whose names beganne with TH,* 1.1 by reason of certaine Necromancie whereunto he gaue some credit.
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
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- 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
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A00440.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 1, 2024.
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ABout that time a certaine pestilent spirite vsed the tyrannicall crueltye of the Emperour to yt satisfieng of his deuelish lust & pleasing mind. For he allured certain fond & curious kind of people to search and sift out by Necromancie who should succeede Valens in the Empire. The deuell after his wonted guise gaue no perfect and plaine but a very darke & doubtfull answere vnto the coniurers, that his name beganne of foure letters Th, E, O, D, which should succeede Valēs in the Empire, & that his name was compound. The fame thereof was spred so farre that it came to the Emperours eares. He as it fell out neither attributed casualties, neither referred the know∣ledge of things to come, neither admitted y• bestowing of scepters to lie in y• power of God whose prouidence ruleth all things: but laying aside the principles of Christian religion the which colo∣rably he pretended, executed diuers whome he suspected after him should enioy y• Emperial scep∣ter. So yt he dispatched out of the way as many as were called Theodorus, Theodotus, Theodosius, Theodulus, or after any such like names. Of which nūber was Theodosiolus a noble man, y• sonne of a Senator, being brought vnto Valens from Spayne, who lost his heade. Many for feare chaunged their names which theyr parents had geuen them at theyr comminge into y• world & denied them∣selues & theyr owne names being in great perill & daunger of their liues. But of this matter thus much shal suffice.
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* 1.1
Ca. 19. in the Greeke.