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OCtauianus Augustus bygan to regne in marche / In the begynnyng of his xlij yere in the yere of herodes / xxxj / in the thyrdde yere of the Olimpias nyne score and ten after the buyldyng of the Cyte of Rome / vij C / yere & fyue af∣ter the concepcion of Iohan baptist the sixth moneth the xxv day of marche in a frydaye the tenth day of the mone the twelue in∣diction at nazareth in galylee crist was conceyued of the virgi∣ne marie Iosephs spouse Treuisa The grekes vsed somtyme turnemences dedes of myghte and of strengthe atte fote of the h••l¦mons olimpus ones in fyue yere and named suche dedes & pla∣yes olimpias And also the first fiue yere of suche playes they na¦med the first olimpias And the second fyue yere of suche dedes & playes the second olimpias And the third fiue yere the thyrdde olimpias / & soo forth of al other And for crist was conceyued in the twelfthe indiction that is the menyng in twelue yere of the indiction. therfor take hede that the indiction is the tyme of fyften yere for whan the Romaynes had wonne many prouin¦ces and londes they had of eueryche londe that they had wonne thre maner trybute in fyften yere and clepyd the xv yere indicti∣on and the fyrst / v / yere of the indiction the Romaynes had bras¦se to trybute for to make armour & the second / v / yere they hadde siluer for to pay knyghtes & the thirdde & the last fyue yere of in¦diccion they had gold to the tresory of rome / Petrus / Criste was conceyued ful man in soule and in flesshe soo that the shappe of his lymmes and of his body myght not be seen with mānes eye & so endeth the / v· age of y^e world as it were the age oft greued with care & with wo from the transmigraciō of iewes vnto crist that is frō march bifore brēning of the tēple that was don in ha¦ruest vnto march in y^e xlij yere of august{us} vnder xiiij gnaciōs & & cōteyneth / v.C yere & xlj so seith bede· Is••d seith v C yere & xlv Elporicius seith· v.C four score & ix· But the veryest acoūtes of all saith v C yere lxxx & xj / for Isidre in cronike of his v booke hath one leped ptholomeus filometor bitwene tholome{us} epipha∣nes & tholomeus eugetes the second / & ofte he ou{er}lepith tholome{us} Sother in the second•• ordre of his regnynge that regned after that his moder was slayne eyghte yere and the sixthe age of the world beginneth from crist the age is not certaine of generaciōs nowther of yeres but it shal be ended as it were by deth the last age of all the world Sōme wol mene that the sixthe age of the world bigan at the incarnacion of crist by the which incarnaciō

criste vysyted vs and cam doune from heuen / Somme acounten the sixth age of the world from the byrth of crist. & for that auc¦toryte of the apostle whan plente of tyme come god sende his so∣ne born of a woman / Somme acounte from the cristnyng of crist for the vertu that was yeuē vnto the water to bryng forth chil¦dren goostly whan the circumsicion bygan to cease. Sōme acoūte from cristes passion for thanne was opened the yate of paradyse Than the yeres from the begynnyng of the world that was the xiiij daye of Apryl in the whiche daye the world began vnto the incarnacion of crist were fyue thousand and two honderd yere soo seith orocius / But the comyn calculyng seyth fyue thousand & C yere four score and sixtene / Marcius seyth fyue thousasand an / C yere and nyne / the fyrste Adam synned in a friday and dyed in the same fryday after nyne honderd yere and xxx. and in suche a fryday the second Adam that is crist toke flesshe & bloode and en∣ded his fastynge and suffred dethe for mankynde / & in the same houre of the fryday that adam was put oute of paradyse right in such an houre the theef was brought in paradise / Marianus libro secundo· It is nought ayenst this that holy chirche holdeth that the fyrste adam was made of erthe in the ix daye byfore apryl. & crist conceyuid the vij day to fore Apryl ffor the nyght of the ix / day bifore the first day of apryl that come after the day that adā was made ynne is now made by cristes passion the nyght of the viij / day of april that goth byfore the day / ffor the / viij / day bifore april of his first partye is made the ix daye byfore april & of his last partye that is the nyght in the whiche crist was holden and buffeted and scorned. is made the vij day a fore apryll / than it fo∣loweth that crist suffred the ix day / the viij / day & the vij· day afo¦re Apryl. that maye be shewed by another reson / For euery yere the letter of the day chaungeth in the kalender / for ther is one let¦tre more than / lij / wekys. ¶It is no wonder though the fryday that was in the begynnynge of the worlde the nynethe day afore Apryll Whan Adam was made fylle after so many yeres the seuenth day afore Apryl whan Criste suffryd dethe that holdeth and approueth loore of greete men Auctoryte of hooly Chirche. and certayne essaye of calcalers 3 ¶ But as seynt Austyne sayth aboue / Ayenst reson no sobre man demeth noo Cristen man demeth ayenste holy wrytte / noo possible man demeth ayenst holy chirche Also here take hede that seynt Austyn sayth that criste laye in the herte of the erthe thre dayes and thre nyghtes / but

not all fulle and hoole thre dayes and thre nyghtes / For Criste laye in his graue· but fourty houres / So that he laye in his gra∣ue in the laste ende of the fyrste day for to acounte the first daye of four and twenty houres with the nyght that was to the ffry∣daye that criste deyd ynne. And crist laye in his graue hooly all the seconde daye and in the first partye of the thyrdde day And so seynt austyn sayth that yche of these thre dayes had his nyght Soe that the nyght passed a fore the daye / therby it semeth that the mayster of the storyes sholde not be folewyde / there he sayth that the nyght that was bitwene the saterday and the sonday of the resurection was come bothe to the saterday and also to the son¦day ¶Lucas and beda Thanne marie aroos after that she had conceyued and come in to Zacharyes cyte four myle oute of Ie∣rusalem and was there thre monthes and serued her cosyn ely¦zabeth tyl that she had a childe. And than mary wente ayene in to her owne hows in to nazareth ¶Lucas Than wold not her spouse Ioseph̄ take her sekerly to his wyf for she was founde with child til the aungel charged hym in his slepe that he shold take her withoute drede ¶Lucas / That tyme come out a maunde¦ment from cesar augustus for to descryue all the worlde Petrus Cesar wold wete the nōbre of londes of the world that were sub¦vet to rome & also the cytees of euery londe & the nombre of pol¦lys of euery cite & bad that out of subarbes of cit••es of smal tou¦nes & grete & oute of euery countray & kyth euery man shold de¦parte home to his owne cyte that he come of & had of his byrth / & euery man shold take a penny of siluer of the valewe of the ten pens that were tho vsed to the styward of the prouynce & knowli¦che him self. subget to themperour of rome· Lucas / Therfor ioseph̄ went oute of nazareth in to bethlehem that was his cite with his wyfe mary that was with childe for to knowleche there / & there mary was deliud & had a childe. Petrus / Than in the ende of xlij yere of august{us} the saterday at nyght that than folowyd the day the xiiij yere of age of mary y^e vij / day afore ianiuere crist was born at bethlem. & than the viij day after he was circumcided in a sonday / the xij day after the byrth was the epyphany & fell in a friday the vj day of Ianiuere than come the kinges & worshipped crist & after that xl dayes after the natiuite in a thursday the se¦cond day of feuerere crist was presented in the tēple inmind therof is candelmasse day / After that by warnyng of the Angel that warned ioseph in his sleep he fledde in to egypte with his moder

And Ioseph was there six yere vnto herodes deth Herodes cast for to slee alle the children by cause of crist. for he wold be seker of hym amonge other ¶ Whan Criste entred in to egypte the mawmettes ouerthrew and fille doun R ¶ Than to the seuēth day afore apryll that was the fryday in the whiche criste was conceyued to the nyght of the sondaye in whiche crist was borne / were to honderd dayes thre score and sixtene the whiche nombre of dayes maketh nyne monethes of the mone and six dayes / So that euery moneth be of thyrtty dayes as men acounted in old tyme These nyne monethes and six dayes ben assigned to wo∣men that goth with childe as yet were ten monethes though not all women goo with child to this sixte day / As yet was sothe of seynt Iohan baptiste and of seynt mary that had one daye lasse than crist in the moder wombe R ¶And for of the comyng to gyders of yeres of criste and of kynges the begynnyngys and the endes ben vncerteyn and ful oft falle grete doutes in acoun∣tynge of yeres. And also of the yeres of our lord / what yere he was baptysed· what yere crist suffred deth ¶ Auctors speken dyuersly / therfor for to put away al maner doute take hede by be¦das loore libro de temporibus. that the Romaynes byfore numa pompilius tyme bygan the yere in marche as the hebrewes don But from numaes tyme that put two monethes to the yere Ia∣nyuere and feueryere / the Romaynes bygynne the yere in the be¦gynnyng of Ianyuere / Holy chirche in the west londes folowith them in the comyn kalender and in the yere that is moost vsed

But the grekes that brought vp olimpias begynnen the yere from the shortest day of the wynter ¶But the hebrewes beginnē the yere in marche whan the day and the nyght ben lyke long / for that tyme the world was firste made ¶ But the Egypcians by∣gynnen the yere from heruest ¶ Men of the eeste londes as Ara∣bes and caldeis begynnen the yere after the gadrynge of wyne and corne and of fruyte whan the tethenges ben brought in to the temple in the begynnynge of october whan the day and the nyght ben y lyke longe in heruest tyme as yet semeth ••zechie¦lis vision theer he speketh of the fourth moneth and the fyfthe day of the moneth amonge them october was the firste moneth & Ianyuere the fourth R / ¶It is sayd that dyuerse men haue dyuerse begynnynge of yeres and yet ouer that cometh dyuerse yeres by some happe that ther falleth and begynneth in dyuerse tymes of the yere that we moost vse as yet is of yeres of kingis

that begynnen to regne in dyuerse tyme of the yere that we most vse yet we acounte the yeres of oure lord in twey maner wyse / other by his byrthe or by his age. ¶ And also while crist was born in the ende of the yere that we vse by the sonne / he had of the first yere of his byrthe but seuen dayes from the natyuy••e to yeres daye But the fyrst yere of his age of twelue monethes by his cours from the fyue and twenty day of december to the sa¦me day twelue monethes is fulfilled the second yere of his birth And soo in the fyrst yere of his age he fulfylled almoste two yere of his byrth / And the second yere of his byrth is the fyrste yere of his age therfor yet is that the yeres of the byrth of our lorde by the cours of the sonne be nygh four and thyrtty yere & an half and the yeres of his age nyghe thre and thyrtty yere & an half and he was baptysed in his / xxx / yere of age and the xxxj yere of his byrthe for to acounte that yere with the last par¦tye that was almoost an half yere It is sothe that criste prechid four yere and specially thre yere and an half by the Gospel of seynt Iohan· And so crist suffred deth in the xxxiij yere of his age and in the xxxiiij yere of his byrth ¶ R Than in the two and fourty yere of Octauianus in the which yere crist was born bygan in marche and endeth in marche Therfor that yere bygan in the thirdde yere of Olimpias nyne score and fourten & endeth in the fourthe yere of the same olimpias in the moneth of marche And fo•• the wysedome of our lord ordeyned his byrth there the grekes begynnen the yere with the olimpias / therfor the yeres of oure lord bygynne and ende with ••he Olimpias But the yeres of kynges and of Emperours begynne and ende certaynly but right selde· therfor it is hard to acounte them with olimpias owther with yeres of oure lord for they begynne ofte in one yere of the olimpias and ende in another Than the king¦dome of Augustus is acounted in march ¶And crist beginneth his first yere of his byrthe in the ende of augustus two & four∣ty yere / than the xlij yere of Augustus bigynneth in the fyrst ye¦re of the age of criste and the xliij yere of Augustus in the se∣cond of the age of crist and is xliiij yere in the thyrdde and soo forthe