The thre bokes of cronicles, whyche Iohn Carion (a man syngularly well sene in the mathematycall sciences) gathered wyth great diligence of the beste authours that haue written in Hebrue, Greke or Latine Whervnto is added an appendix, conteynyng all such notable thynges as be mentyoned in cronicles to haue chaunced in sundry partes of the worlde from the yeare of Christ. 1532. to thys present yeare of. 1550. Gathered by Iohn Funcke of Nurenborough. Whyche was neuer afore prynted in Englysh. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum.

Of the Iewes.

WE haue sayde before that the superio¦rytie of gouernaunce remayned by the posteritie of Dauid, after the re∣turne of the Iewes oute of Babylon, only that they wanted the dignitie of the kynges name, and were only cal∣led Prynces. And the same rayned tyll the tyme of Antiochus, S. Luke doeth also make mencion of them in the genealogye of Christe.

i.	Zorobabel	lviij. yeares.
ii.	Resa Miseolam	lxvi
iii.	Iohanna Ben Resa	liij
iiii	Iudas the fyrst Hircanus.	xiiij. in the tyme of Alexander.

After Alexander.

v.	Ioseph the fyrst	vij.
vi.	Abner Semei	xi.
vii.	Eli Matathia	xii.
viii.	Aser Maath	ix.
ix.	Nagid Artaxat	x.
x.	Hagai Eli	viij.
xi.	Maslot Naum	vii
xii.	Amos Syrah	xiiij
xiij.	Matathia Siloa	xviij
xiiij	Ioseph the yonger	l.

The same had greate familiarite wyth Ptolo∣meus Euergetes, and by Eusebius is he called Arses.

xv. Iaanna the seconde Hircanus xvi.* 1.1

He had greate warres agaynst the Arabi∣ans, and had oft victory. But whan he was besie∣ged in a castell by Antiochus Epiphanes, nether coulde he defend hymself any lenger wyth his gar∣nyson, yet woulde he not yelde him selfe, but wyth∣stode his enemies valiauntly fightynge in battayl, tyll he was slayne. This was the laste prince a∣monge the Iewes of kyng Dauids bloude. After hym ruled the Machabees, whyche were of the priestly kynred.

But after these was the kyngdome of the Iewes

translated to Herods kynred, whyche was a Gen∣tyle, but he was circumcised. Thys thynge truely had God prophecyed before, that the ceptre and ro∣yall maiestye shoulde be taken from Iuda, and Da∣uids successors before the comminge of the promy∣sed* 1.2 Christe. Nether was the kyngdome altered from Dauids posteritye aboue an hundreth & thre score yeare, before Christe was borne: so that it ex∣ceded not mens memory what kinred had raigned. Of this wyse doeth Lucas rehearse the princes of the Iewes, vntyll the last Ianna Hircanus, and af∣ter the same doth he counte the residue also, which ruled not, vntyll Christe. Wherefore I wyll brefe∣ly adde of the Machabees and Herodes kynred.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Ianna .ij. Hircanus.
• * 1.2

  Christes cō∣minge.