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¶The order of tymes.

The yeres of the Emperours of Rome.	The yeres of the Presidentes of the Iewes.	The yeres of the Herodians.	The yeres of Christes incarna∣tion.	The yeres of Saint Paul the Apostle.
Tiberius.	Pilate.	Herode.	Christe.	Paul.
xviii.	vi.	xviii.	xxxiii.
In this yere Christe suffered, arose from the dead, ascended into heauen, from thence he sendeth vnto his Apostles the holy ghost. The Apostles do assemble and gather a con∣gregation vnto the Lorde Christe, and do continue in prayer, and suffer persecution.
xix.	vii.	xix.	xxxiiii.	i.
Samaria doth receaue the doctrine of Christe. Saint Steuen was stoned. Saint Paul also is conuerted vnto Christe as he iourneyed towarde Damascus, and frōthence he departed into Arabia, to preache the Gospell.
xx.	viii.	xx.	xxxv.	ii.
Philip doth preache the Gospel vnto the cities by the sea syde, and doth conuert a man of Ethiopia, an Eunuch, and of great auctoritie with Candace Queene of the Ethio∣pians.
xxi.	ix.	xxi.	xxxvi.	iii.
The Gospell is preached to the Sirians and Phenitians, of those that were dispear∣sed and fledde from Hierusalem.
xxii.	x.	xxii.	xxxvii.	iiii.
Saint Paul commeth to Hierusalem to see Peter, from thence he goeth into Syria, Cilicia. &c. Saint Peter commeth vnto Lidda. After that, he was called of Cornelius to come vnto Cesarea, where he dyd baptize, and from thence he went to Hierusalem, geuyng aunswere to eche one that entred in question with hym.
xxiii.	Marcel.	xxiii.	xxxviii.	v.
Antioche in Syria is conuerted vnto Christe, the Apostles sende thyther Barnabas. Barnabas bryngeth Paul out of Tarsa to Antioche, whyther also Agabus came, spea∣king of dearth that was to come. Paul and Barnabas did succour them of Hierusalem.

〈◊〉〈◊〉	A••ppa.	xxiii.	xx••••••.	vi.
Paule and Barnabas, by the commaundement of the holy ghost, were sent from An∣tioche, to preache the Gospell vnto the Heathens.
ii.	ii.	Herode Agrippa.	xl.	vii.
Paul and Barnabas sayled from Paphus to Perga, a Citie of Pamphylia. From Perga vnto Antioche, a citie of Pisidia: From whence, by a commotion stirred by the Iewes, they were expelled out of their coastes.
iii.	iii.		xli.	viii.
Paul and Barnabas thus dryuen from Antioche, come to Iconium, where they abode a long tyme.
iiii.	iiii.		xlii.	ix.
Claudius.	v.		xliii.	x.
ii.	vi.		xliiii.	xi.
iii.	vii.		xlv.	xii.
This yere was Iames the elder beheaded of Herode Agrippa, and Peter was caste in pryson, and was deliuered by the angell of the Lorde. This kyng also dyed in his se∣uenth yere.
iiii.	Fadus.	dearth.	xlvi.	xiii.
Paul and Barnabas (after their preachyng) returned vnto Antioch, where they con¦tinued many dayes with the congregation.
v.	ii.	Felix about this	xlvii.	xiiii.
vi.	iii.	time came into	xlviii.	xv.
		Syria.
About the begynnyng of this yere, Paul and Barnabas toke their iourney through Phenitia and Samaria, vnto Hierusalem, to the sinode or counsell. After that, they returned vnto Antioche, where they remayned a yere, whyther commeth Peter, whom Paul rebuketh. Galath. ii. Then Paul goeth vnto Cilicia and Licaonia.
vii.	Tiberius Alex.		xlix.	xvi.
viii.	ii		l.	xvii.
In these yeres were conuerted the countreys of Phrigia, Galatia, Misia. Frō Troade he went by water into Macedonia, and conuerted the cities, namely Philippos, Appo∣lonia, Amphipolis, Thessalonia, Athens.
ix.	iii.		li.	xviii.
x.	Cumanus.	Agrippa ye yonger	lii.	xix.
Paul goeth by sea vnto Hierusalem, from thence he commeth agayne vnto Antioche, from Antioche he visiteth the congregations of him in time past constituted in Galacia, and Phrigia.
xi.	Eelix	ii.	liii.	xx.
xii.	ii.	iii.	liiii.	xxi.
xiii.	iii.	iiii.	lv.	xxii.
xiiii.	iiii.	v.	lvi.	xxiii.
Paul ferieth ouer into Grecia. From thence about Easter in his .xii. yere he goeth by sea into Syria, not a strayght course, because of the Iewes, but firste vnto Phylippa a citie of Macedonia, and commeth about Pentecost vnto Hierusalem: there he is im∣prisoned of the Iewes, set at libertie immediatly of Claudius Lisia tribunus, and is sent vnto Cesarea to Felix, is kept in custodie of Felix two yeres.
Nero	v.	vi.	lvii.	xxiiii.
Festus commeth about May into Iudea, before whom he pleadeth his matter: After that, before Festus and Agrippa the kyng. He is sent vnto Rome in Italie, the seconde yere of Nero.
ii.	Festus Portius	vii.	lviii.	xxv.
iii.	ii.	viii.	lix.	xxvi.
iiii.	iii.	ix.	lx.	xxvii.
v.	iiii.	x.	lxi.	xxviii.
vi.	Albinus.	xi.	lxii.	xxix.
vii.	ii.	xii.	lxiii.	xxx.
viii.	iii.	xiii.	lxiiii.	xxxi.
ix.	iiii.	xiiii.	lxv.	xxxii.
x.	Florus.	xv.	lxvi.	xxxiii.
xi.	ii.	xvi.	lxvii.	xxiiii.
xii.	iii.	xvii.	lxviii.	xxxv.
xiii.	iiii.	xviii.	lxix.	xxxvi.
xiiii.	Vaspasianus dux.	xix.	lxx.	xxxvii.
After that Saint Paul had preached the Gospell of Christe, both in the east and west, about xxxvii. yeres, he was in the last yere of Nero the Emperour, beheaded at Rome with the sworde.

Notes

• Herodes An∣••ipas. Math. viii. Mark. vi. Luke. ix.
• Steuen was stoned this yere. Eusebius. Carion.
• Pilate was president full ten yeres. Iosephus.
• In this yere all thyngs per¦tayninge to this former¦mer Her d••, was geuen to this Herode Agrippa: Of whom reade Actes xii. Iosephus, Eusebius.
• In these yee∣res were Ci∣pers, Pam∣phylia, Pisi∣dia, and Lica∣on•• conuer∣ted.
• Prophesied by Agabus was y^t death this yere, as Eusebius, Orosius and Beda affir∣meth,
• Iosephus saith, that the dea••th was in this yere.
• He commeth to Corinth.
• Agrippa, of whom reade Actes. xxvi.
• He commeth to Eph••••i••s.
• Two yeres he remayneth in free pryson▪
• The begyn∣nyng of the first vniuersal persecution of Christians, the••r yere of ••er••.