Fabyans cronycle newly prynted, wyth the cronycle, actes, and dedes done in the tyme of the reygne of the moste excellent prynce kynge Henry the vii. father vnto our most drad souerayne lord kynge Henry the .viii. To whom be all honour, reuere[n]ce, and ioyfull contynaunce of his prosperous reygne, to the pleasure of god and weale of this his realme amen

Anno domini .M.CC.xliiii.		Anno domini .M.CC.xlv.
	Rafe Spycer.
Mychael Tony.		Anno .xxviii.
	Nycholas Batte.

IN thys .xxviii. yere of kynge Henry as testyfyeth Polycro∣nycon / a Iew dygged the grounde in a place in Spayn called Tholeet, to the entent to make him a more lar¦ger vyne yerde. where in tyme of his dyggynge he fande a stone closyd on all partyes. But for he perceyued yt to be holowe he brake the stone / and founde therein a boke as bygge as a sawter, wyth leuys all of tree. This boke was wryte in nthre dyuers lan∣guagys, in greke, in ebrewe, and in latyne / and the mater therof was of

thre worldes that shuld come. Of the whyche he poyntyd the commynge of Cryste to the begynnynge of the thyrde worlde, whyche was expressyd in thys maner of wyse. In the begyn¦nynge of the thyrde worlde, goddes son shall be borne of a mayde. when the Iewe had well beholden the con∣tentys of the boke, and sawe that yt conteyned so longe tyme as from A∣dam to Anticriste, and shewyd many prophecyes that were fulfyllyd and paste / he anon renouncyd hys iuda∣isme or Moysen lawe, and was cry∣styned, and lyued after as a crysten man.