Capitulum 22
ORosius sayth that decius was Emperoroure thre yere ••ud thre monethes / But eusebius beda and cassiodorus tellen that he bygan to regne the yere after the buyldynge of Rom••a thousend yere and four and by eusebius cronyque it semeth that this decius regned eyght yere / and by the martilogye it semeth that he regned sixten yere / It semeth that ••llys it myght not stō¦de that so many pop•••• as fabian cornelius lucius stephen & sixt{us} were martred in decius tyme as it is wreton and radde Ther¦for somme men wold suppose / that these sixtene yere and two yere of galerius shal restore the eyghten yere that lacken in the croni¦kes of eusebius and of beda fro the fyften yere of tiberius cesar vnto our tyme / Here among take hede that the elder decius that slough philip and was emperour after hym / he was Emperour as it is here sayde But the other decius the yonger was Cesar & not emperour· And so bytwene these two decius were bothe em∣perours and popes as gallus and volusianus After hem reg¦ned valerius with his sone galyenus fyften yere In her tyme were martryd fyue popes and laurencius the dekene & ypolitus with al his hows It semeth by this that galyenus had two na¦mes for he was callyd decius also 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Other men suppose that it was al one decius that was made cesa•• by philip and thylke de∣cius vnder whome laurence was martred / ¶ And therfor it is nowther y redde in laurence legende decius emperour but decius cesar It happeth oftyme that somme were cesars and not Au∣gustes ne emperours For somme were fyrst cesars and thenne