CAP. IX.
Howe after the deceasse of Basiliscus, the Bishops of Asia going about to pacisie Acacius who stomached them for condemning the councell of Chal∣cedon, sent vnto him theyr recantation.
THe Bishops of Asia to the ende they might auoyde the displeasure Acacius had conceaued against them, acknowledged theyr faultes and craued pardon: sent vnto him theyr recanta∣tiō and repentance. where they protested that they had subscribed not of theyr owne accord but by constraint and compulsion vnto the generall letters of Basiliscus, and confirmed with an oth that it was euen so and that they beleeued no otherwise then the coūcell of Chalcedon did beleue. The recantation was thus.
The Epistle or recantation sent by the Bishops of Asia vnto Acacius Bishop of Constantinople.
VNto Acacius the most holy and most religious Patriarch of Constantinople. After a fewe lines. VVe haue sente vnto you as it was very meete, one for to supplye our rowme. In a while after this againe. By these our letters we doe protest that not of our owne accord, but by compulsion we were brought to subscribe vnto Basiliscus letters: and that we haue geuē thereunto our consents not with hart, but only in word. For by the grace of almighty God who louingelye accepteth of our prayers we beleue no otherwise then we learned of the three hun∣dred and eighteene famous men, and lightes of the wholl worlde and besides them of the hun∣dred & fifty holy fathers. VVe hold moreouer with the holy acts decreed by the godly fathers at Chalcedon.
As for the report Zacharie Rhetor made of these bishops whether he sclaundered thē or whether they lyed thē selues that they had subscribed against their wills vnto Basiliscus letters, I am not able certenly to auoutch.