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

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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
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Eusebius, of Caesarea, Bishop of Caesarea, ca. 260-ca. 340.
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1577.
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Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 -- Early works to 1800.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A00440.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 2, 2024.

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CAP. XVIII.

Nerua succeedeth Domitian, and Traian succeedeth Nerua in the empire. Cerdo succeedeth Abilius, in the Churche of Alexandria.

AFter that Domitianus had raygned fiftene yeares, and Nerua had succeeded him: the Hi∣storiographers of that tyme do write, that the Romayne Senate decreed, that the honors exhibited vnto Domitian shoulde cease, and such as were iniuriously exiled, shoulde returne vnto their natiue soyle, and receaue their substance agayne. it is also amonge the auncient traditi∣ons, that then Iohn the Apostle returned from banishment, and dwelt agayne at Ephesus. When Nerua had raigned a litle aboue a yeare: Traian succeeded him. In the first yeare of whose raigne, Cerdo succeeded Abilius, which was Bishop of Alexandria, the space of thirtene yeares. This is the thirde after Anianus of that Churche.

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  • Cap. 21. after the greeke.

  • Nerua crea∣ted Empe∣rour Anno Domini 99. Traian crea∣ted Empe∣rour Anno Domini 100. The 3. perse∣cution of the 10. famous persecutions was vnder this Traian. Cerdo. Cap. 22. after the greeke. Peter. Linus. Anacletus. Clemens. Euodius. Ignatius. Simeon. Cap. 23. after the Greeke▪

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