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.
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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.
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Carion, Johannes, 1499-1537 or 8.
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[Imprynted at London :: [By S. Mierdman] for Gwalter Lynne, dwellynge on Somers Keye, by Byllinges gate. In the yeare of our Lord M.D.L. And they are to be solde in Paules church yarde, nexte the great Schole, at the sygne of the sprede Egle,
[1550]]
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A17967.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 18, 2025.
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The yeare of Christ .CCCCC. xxv.
IVustinianus the .lii. Emperour reigned eight* 1.1 and thirty yeares. The same set his mynde to repaire the Empire. He was the syster sonne of the former Iustine, & by a syngular gift of God had* 1.2 he two captains or marshals, Bellisarius & Narses by whose aide he hath brought to passe most renow¦med thinges. Bellisarius ouercame y• Perses, & sa∣ued Syria, & restored Aphrica to ye empire: beside y• had he also great victories in Italy against the Got¦thies, whose power was afterwarde vtterly brou∣ght to nought by Narses. Iustinianus made peace
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and amitie with the Frankes that were in Fraunce and graunted them frely to haue parte of Fraunce, as writeth Procopius the historyographer.* 1.3
When euery where was peace made, Iustinia∣nus caused also the auncient lawes of the Romans to be gathered in bookes called Digesta, that is, bo∣kes appoynted in order: but the same bookes were darkened not long after Iustinianus, through la∣wes of the Lombardes and Frankes: neuerthelesse after a good season, were they brought too lyght agayne by. Lotharius a Saxon Emperour, of whō we shall speake hereafter. Howbeit, it were to long to reherse here how greatly this wysdome is to bee praysed in the Emperoure, who wylled that iustice and these lawes to be commonly executed, as by the iudgement of all sage and good men can nothynge be more honest, holy and more profitable.