CAP. XVIII.
How Iohn the deposed byshop of Alexandria counselled Felix byshop of Rome to depose Acacius byshop of Constantinople.
IOhn who fledde to Rome, after Zeno had deposed him, certified Felix the successor of Simplici∣us in the Byshopricke of Rome, of Peters doinges: exhorted him (as Zacharie writeth) to send Acacius a depriuation, because he had communicated with Peter, the whiche act of Felix being contrary to the canons of the Church Acacius would not approue. The messengers that brought this Epistle vnto Acacius were the paynefull and vigilant monks called Acoimetoi. Zacharie is the* 1.1 autor of the premises, who as farre as I can see, knewe nothinge of the whole circumstance per∣fectly, but hearde it onely as it were ouer the shoulder, and so reported it. Wherefore I my selfe will now write the stories as they were in deede. When Iohn had exhibited accusations and bills against Acacius vnto Felix, that contrary vnto the Canon of the Churche, he had communicated with Peter and of other haynous offences which he had done against the decrees of the Churche: Felix sent Ʋitalius and Misinus two byshops, vnto the Emperour Zeno, partly to confirme with his autoritie the councell of Chalcedon, partly also to depose Peter of his Byshoprick as an here∣ticke, and last of all to sende Acacius vnto him for to render an accompt, and to purge him selfe of such crimes as Iohn (of whom we made often mention before) layd to his charge.