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. XXX.

Howe that in the raygne of Theodosius the yonger the Burgonions receaued the fayth in Christ.

NOwe am I about to declare a worthy historie which happened at that time. there is a cer∣taine barbarous nation inhabiting beyond the riuer Rheyne whome we commonly do call Burgonions. these people leade a life farre frō magistracy & gouernment of y^• cōmō weale, for they are all carpenters and thereby get their liuinge. The people called Hunni breaking often

tymes into their regions, haue destroyed their contrey and dispatched very many at sundry tymes out of the way. Wherefore they determine w^t them selues not to fly for refuge and succour vnto any mortall man or liuing creature, but to yeld themselues wholly vnto some god or other. And when they called to mind y^• the God of the Romaines neuer sayled such as feared his name and put their affiance in him, ioyntly with one hart and minde they turned them selues to embrace the fayth in Christ: they tooke their voyage into a certayne citie of Fraunce, and there they require of the Bi∣shop to baptize them in the Christian faith. The Bishop hauing enioyned them to fast seuen daies, and instructed them in the principles of Christian profession, did baptize them the eyght day fol∣lowing and bid them farewell. They put on valtant courage and went on boldly to encounter with the tyrants, neither was their hope frustrate neither did it fayle them in the ende. For the Burgo∣nians (when Ʋptarus King of the Hunni crommed him selfe with vittaills on a certayne night vn∣till he burst in the midle) set vpon the Hunni nowe wanting a heade and captaine, fewe of them a∣gainst many of the other, to witt three thousande against tenne thousande, they fought valiantly & gott the victory. From that time forth the sayd nation was a zealous maintayner of the Christian fayth. About that tyme Barbas the Arian Bishop died, it was the thirtienth Consulship of Theodo∣sius. the thirde of ••alentinianus, and the foure and twentieth of lune, in whose rowme Sabbatius suc∣ceeded. So farre of these thinges.