CAP. XXI.
Of the death of Arcadius the Emperour.
SHortly after the death of Iohn, the Emperour Arcadius departed this life, a quiet and a cur∣teous man he was, who in the latter ende of his life was thought to be a very godly man, vp∣on such an occasion as foloweth. In Constantinople ther is a great pallace called Carya, & in the porche there stands a hazell on the whiche, report goeth that Acacius the Martyr was han∣ged. Wherefore there was a Church erected at that tree: the Emperour passing by was desirous to see it, went in, and after he had sayd his prayers came forth againe. All the parish ranne forth to see the Emperour: some left their houses and tooke vp their standing in the open streete, thinking verily to see the Emperours face as he passed by with all his port and trayne: other some follow∣ed the Emperour out of the Church vntill that both men, women and children had all gone out of the house which adioyned vnto the Churche. they were no sooner gone but the house where they had flocked together fell downe. Immediatly the fame of the Emperour was spred abroad with great admiration that so great a multitude of people was saued by the meanes of his prayers. the* 1.1 end of that was in this sort. Arcadius leauing behinde him his sonne Theodosius of the age of eyght yeares departed this life, in the Consulship of Bassus and Philip, the first of May, the seconde yeare of the two hundreth nynety and seuenth Olympiad. He raygned together with his father Theodo∣sius the space of thirteene yeares, and beginning with the one and thirty yeares of his age, he ray∣gned foureteene yeares after the desease of his father. This booke conteyneth ye history of twelue yeares and six moneths.