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. XXXII.

How Macedonius byshop of Constantinople and Flauianus byshop of Antioch were exiled.

THe thinges which secretly vexed the minde of Anastasius were farre otherwise. For when Ariadne purposed to present Anastasius with the Emperiall robe, Euphemius the Byshop would in no wise cōsent to his coronation vntill y^• Anastasius deliuered him his hand writing confirmed with an othe, where he plainely declared if he were Emperour, he would maintaine the true faith, & bringe no nouelty into the Church of God, whiche hand writinge he gaue Macedoni∣us the treasurer to keping. Euphemius did this because Anastasius was suspected to be a Manichee. When Macedonius was aduaunced to the reuerende office of priesthood, Anastasius called for his hand writing, It is (saith he) a great discredit vnto our scepter, that our hand should be kept to te∣stifie against vs, or that we shoulde be tyed to penne and paper. But Macedonius denyed him very stoutly, and affirmed plainely it shoulde neuer be saide of him that he betrayed the fayth: therefore Anastasius the Emperour deuised howe to worke him mischiefe, to thende he might colourablye depose him. At length there came forth yonge men sclaunderinge both them selues and Macedo∣nius also of an haynous offence: they founde him to haue wanted the member of generation, then proceded they to espy other holes in his coat, neither rested they vntil at length through y^• fetches of Celer maister of y^• hauliers, they had priuely wrought his depriuation. There ensued after this conspiracy against Flauianus, other troublesome businesse. For we our selues haue learned of olde* 1.1 men, who remembred very wel such aduentures as befell vnto Flauianus, how the monks of Cy∣negica, which inhabited the chiefest countrey of Syria, being perswaded by Xenaias byshop of Hie∣rapolis bordering vpon Antioch, & syrnamed after the grecians Philoxenus, made an insurrection, came all vpon a heade to Antioch, purposinge to force Flauianus, both to accurse the councell of Chalcedon and Leos decree of the faith. When Flauianus tooke the matter verye grieuouslye, and the monkes vrged him wyth violence: The citizens by reason of that greate sturre and sediti∣on, made suche a slaughter of the monks, that manye of them, naye an infinit number in steede of quiet earth and still graue, were buryed in the swifte waues of the riuer Orontes. There happe∣ned an other thinge that was no lesse lamentable then the former. The monkes whiche inhabi∣ted Caelosyria nowe called Syria Minor, bearinge singuler good will and affection vnto Flauia∣mes,

who some tyme leade a Monasticall lyfe in the Abbeye of Tilmognum, came in all the ••aste to Antioch for to assiste Flauianus, so that there ensued thereof great mischiefe. Wherefore Flauianus, whether it were for the former slaughter, or the later calamitie, or peraduenture for both, was banished the prouince, and inioyned to inhabite the craggie deserts in the furthest part of Palaestina.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Hereticall monks, idle braines, all set vpon con¦tention, wer•• slaine like dogs at An¦tioch and throwen int•• the riuer O¦rontes.