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.

The yeare of Christ .CC. lx••iiij.

AVr••lianus the xxxi. Emperoure raygned fy∣ue* 1.1 yeare and ••yxemone thes. He was taken vp to the gouernaunce of the empyre by Claudi∣us for hys excellent prowises and feates of chyual∣ry. He ouercame the Frankes in a sore battayll, not farre from Mentz, afterwarde the Gotthyes also* 1.2 in Illyrycus. Besyde thys ouercame he in the East the quenezenobya, the which did great actes abo∣ue womanly nature, and had great warre with the Romanes.

He is worthy no small prayse also, because that in* 1.3 the hoost and amonge the souldyours he wolde al∣waye haue strayhgtly kepte and maynteyned mo∣desty and discipline of warre. For it befel vpon a ty∣me, that a souldiour forced hys hostesse and had to do with her: of which thing whan Aurelianus had knowledge, he wolde haue hym punyshed wyth a moost greueous kind of punyshment: He commaun¦ded two trees to be bowed do••••e to the earth, and

to binde the my••doer to the boughes of ether of the trees, and than lettynge the trees louse, dressynge themselues agayne, shulde wyth a greate violence teare the yonge man in peces. Thys Aurelianus was also a greate persecutor of the Christians.

Notes

• * 1.1

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