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. XVII.

Howe that after the deposition of Iohn, Arsacius was made byshop of Constantinople.* 1.1 of Cyrinus byshop of Chalcedon, that was payned with the sore foote, and of the death of Eudoxia the Empresse.

ARsacius an old man aboue the age of fourescore yeares, who sometime gouerned the bishop∣ricke of Constantinople before the dayes of Iohn, was shortly after made byshop of that seae. In his time when as the church enioyed greate ease and quietnesse, by reason of his singular modestie and meeke behauiour: Cyrinus bishop of Chalcedon, whose foote Maruthas bishop of Mesopotamia had trode on and hutt against his will, had such infortunate successe, y^t his foote rotted of the broise, and therfore of necessitie he was cōstrained to saw it of. Neither suffred he that once, but twise and oftenner toe. For the putrefaction ranne ouer his whole bodie, and fell at length into his other foote: then was he fayne to lose both. I haue therefore remembred these

thinges because it was rife in euery mans mouth that Cyrinus suffered this plague or punishment* 1.2 for reuiling of Iohn, and terming him (as I sayd before a stuburne Bishop. Againe when as great haile (the bignesse whereof was not remembred to haue bene seene before) fell in the suburbes of Constantinople y^• thirtieth day of Septembre & the aforesayd Consulship: y^• report likewise went that it was a token of Gods wrath for the deposition and banishment of Iohn. The death of the Em∣presse which followed immediatly after confirmed this rumor, for she departed this life the fourth day after the fall of this haile. Some there were also which sayd that Iohn was iustly deposed: be∣cause that in the voyage when he made Heraclides Bishop of Ephesus, he thrust many out of their Churches, namely the Nouatians, and such as celebrated the feast of Easter the fourteeneth day of the moneth with many others both in Asia and in Lydia. But whether Iohn was iustly deposed as they said which bare him ill will: whether Cyrinus was plagued for his opprobrious langua∣ges and sclaunderous reports: last of all whether the haile and the death of the Empresse were si∣gnes of Gods high displeasure for banishing of Iohn: or whether they happened for some other causes God alone knoweth which searcheth the secrets of mans hart, and pronounceth here of the right sentence of iust iudgement. I of myne owne parte committed to writing such things as then were rife in euery mans mouth.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Cap. 19. in the Greeke.
• * 1.2

  Cyrinus was plagued for reuiling of Chrylo∣stome. Great haile in token of Gods wrath.