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 24, 2025.

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The yeare of Christe .CC. lxxij.

Flauius Claudius the xxx. Emperoure raig∣ned* 1.1 two yeares. Thyssame deserued mooste greatest prayses. For hys notable and very princely vertues. Wherfore was the empire offred vnto hym both by Galyenus before hys death▪ af∣ter that of the hooste and senate wyth one consente of them all. Agaynst the Gotthyes foughte he in Hungary and Macedonya aboue mans thynkyng, and euer had the victorye. He ouercame also the Germanes that were fallen into Italy. He resto∣red Egypt to the Empyre. But Claudius deste∣ny suffred hym to lyue no longer, happely because the Romanes were not whorthy of suche a prin∣ce. For it behoued the empyre of Rome now to be∣gynn to decay, the which was somwhat repared &

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restored by Claudius, and thre or foure of hys suc∣cessors. Constantinus the great was of thys Clau∣dius* 1.2 kynred, which we shall shewe hereafter.

Valerianus a debite put Lucius the byshop of Rome to death by martyrdome, whome succeded in the byshoprycke Stephanus the fyrste of that name the xxij. byshop.

Xystus the seconde of that name the .xxiij. by∣shop of Rome, succeded Stephanus.

Dyonysyus the xxiiij. byshope of Ro. succeded Xystus.

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