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

CAP. V.

Of the sturre at Antioch by reason of Paulinus & Meletius, how that Gregory Bishop of Nazianzum by the consent of all the Catholick Bishops was translated vnto the seae of Constantinople.

AT Antioch in Syria about that time there was raised a great tumult and seditiō about Me∣letius, the occasiō was as followeth. We sayd before howe that Paulinus Bishop of Antioch because he was a graue and a godly father was not exiled: y^• Meletius was first called home from banishment in the raigne of Iulian, afterwards being exiled by Ʋalens returned in the time of Gratian. After his returne into Antioch he founde Paulinus so olde y^• he seemed ready to lye in his graue. Immediatly all y^• friends of Meletius endeuored to ioyne him felow bishop w^t Paulinus. whē Paulinus affirmed it to be contrary vnto the canons of the Church that any being created of A••ian Bishops should be made college in any Bishoprick: the people endeuored to compasse it by force. In the ende they make preparation to stall him Bishop in a certaine church of the suburbs. Whē it was done all the citie was on an vprore. In processe of time the people were reconciled vpon such cōditions as followe. All that stoode for the Bishopricke were six in number whereof one was Flauianus, being called together they deposed them vpon a booke that none of them shoulde aspire vnto the Bishopricke during the liues of Paulinus and Meletius, and when ether of them departed this life, the Bishopricke to remaine vnto the suruiuer of them both. When the oth was ministred the people were quiete and thenceforth made no sturre at all. The fauorers of Lucifer were offen∣ded with this maner of dealing and fell from the church because that Meletius being ordered of the Arians was admitted to the gouernemente of that seae. At that time when the affaires of Antioch were thus out of frame Gregorie by vniforme consent of all the Catholick Bishops was translated from the Bishopricke of Nazianzum vnto the seae of Cōstantinople. Then Meletius gott him in all the hast to Constantinople.