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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"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 15, 2025.
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o the moste excel∣lente Prince, Edwarde the syxte, by the grace of God, Kyng of England, Fraunce and Irelande, Defendour of the fayth, and in earth, immediatly vnder God, supreme head of the church of Englande and Ire∣lande: your graces humble and obey∣saunt subiect Gwalter Lynne wy∣sheth aboundance of all grace and Godlynes wyth a long and prospe∣rous raygne. -
The
eadynge hystoryes. - The firste boke of the Cronicles, whych conteyneth the fyrste two thousande yeares, From Adam vntyll Abrahams tyme.
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seconde boke of the Cronicles, of the foure Monarchies, the whiche lykewyse comprehendeth two thousand yeares.
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Of the fyrst Monarchye of the Assyrians. Ninus kyng of the Assyryans.
- Of quene Semiramis.
- Of Sardanapalus.
- Of Egypte.
- Of Abraham and the spyrituall kyngdom.
- Of the destruction of Sodome.
- Of Isaac.
- Of Ioseph Iacobs sonne.
- Of Moses, and of the punyshment of the tyraunt Pharao.
- What time the ten commaundemen∣tes were geuen.
- Of the princes or rulers of Israell.
- The Kynges of Israel.
- Of the Kynges of Iuda, of Salomons linage and kynred.
- The mydde or half part of the worldes age.
- Of Nathan and his posteritie.
- Of the Grekes.
- Of the battayl of Troye.
- Of the battayl of Thebe.
- Of Hercules.
- Of Homerus and Hesiodus.
- Of the buildinge of the citye Rome.
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¶ Of the second Mo∣narchye.
- The begynnynge of the Monarchye of the Persians.
- Of Cyrus.
- Of the Iewes delyuered out of the Babylonycall captiuite.
- In what tyme the Philosophers were fyrst in Grece.
- Of Solon.
- Of Cambyses.
- Of the punishment of a wicked iudge.
- Of Darius Kyng of the Persians.
- Of Darius Warres in Grece.
- Of Kyng Xerxes.
- Of Artaxerxes with the longe hande.
- Of Zorobabel the Iewysh capitayne.
- The rekenynge of the seuenty we∣kes out of Daniel.
- Of Esdras.
- Of Darius the bastarde.
- Of Artaxerxes Mnemon.
- Of Ochus.
- Of Arsames.
- Of the last Darius.
- The Warres of the cities of Grece.
- Of the Philosophers.
- Of Plato, Eudoxus, Aristoteles.
- Of Rome.
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Of the thyrde Mo∣narchye.
- Of the moderation and godlynesse that Alexander dyd vse agaynst the Iewes.
- The diuision of the realmes after Alexander.
- Of the kynges of Syria.
- Of the kynges of Egypt after Alexander.
- Of the Iewes.
- Of the Machabees kynred.
- The Machabeis kynges.
- What tyme the Phariseys and the other sectes began with the Iewes.
- Of Herodes kynred.
- Of Rome.
- Of the Carthaginian Warre.
- Of Haniball.
- Of the warre of the Romanes in Macedonia.
- Of the Spoylyng of Carthago.
- Of the warre of the Cimbry in Italy.
- Of Sylla and Marius.
- Of Pompeius and C. Iulius Cesar.
- The fourth and laste Monarchy, namely of the Romane empyre Iulius Cesar.
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Of the fyrst Monarchye of the Assyrians. Ninus kyng of the Assyryans.
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¶ The thyrde boke of the Cronicles, whych conteyneth the tyme sence Christes byrth.
- Of the Germanes.
- Tiberius the third Emperoure.
- Sergius Galba, Otho, and Vitellius.
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Of the last destruction of Ierusalem.
- The yeare of Christe .i. C. xl.
- The yeare of Christe .c. lxiij.
- The yeare of Christe .C. lxxxiij.
- The yeare of Christe .C. xcvi.
- The yeare of Christ .C. xcvi.
- The yeare of Christe .cc. xiiij.
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The yeare of Christ .CC. xx
- The yeare of Christ, CC. xxv.
- The yeare of Christ .CC. xxxviij.
- The yeare of Christe, CC. xli.
- The yeare of Christ .CC. xlvij.
- The yeare of Christ .CC. L. iij.
- The yeare of Christ .CC. lv.
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The yeare of Christ .CC. lv
. - The yeare of Christe .CC. lxxij.
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The yeare of Christ .CC. lx
iiij.
- Of the Manicheis the heretykes.
- Of Arrius the heretyke.
- Of Pelagius the heretike.
- The spoylyng of the fourth Monarchy.
- Of the Gotthies.
- Dietrichus of Berna.
- Of the Vandalies.
- Of the Boemes.
- Of Attila.
- Venice.
- Of Bellisarius.
- Of Mahomet and of the kyngdome of the Sarracens.
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Of the
urkes begynnyng. - The yeare of Christe .vi. C. xli
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The yeare of Christe .vi. C. xli
. - The yeare of Christ .vi. C. xliii
- The yeare of Christe .vi. C. lxx.
- Conon the lxxxvi. byshop succeded Ioannes. The yeare of Christ. vi C. lxxxvii.
- The yeare of Christe vij. C. xiii.
- The yeare of Christe vii C. xv.
- The yeare of Christe vii. C. xvii.
- The yeare of Christ .vij. C. xviij.
- The yeare of Christ .vii. C. xlii.
- The yeare of Christ .vii. C. lxxvii.
- The yeare of Christ .vii. C. lxxxiii.
- ¶ Of the Germanes
- Of Germany, and occasyon of the kyng∣dome of the Frankes.
- Lewis the gentle, the second Empe∣roure of the Germanes.
- Lotharius the fyrst of thys name, the thyrde Germane Emperoure.
- Lewis the seconde, the fourth Ger∣mane Emperoure.
- Charles the bald of Fraunce.
- Charles the grosse, the fyft Germane Emperoure.
- Arnolfus the .vi. Germane Emperoure.
- Lewis the .iii. the .vii. Germane Emperoure.
- Cunradus the .i. the viij Germane Emperoure.
- Henry the .i. surnamed the Fouler, the ix. Emperoure of Germany.
- Otho the .i. the .x. Germane. Emperoure.
- Otho the seconde, the .xi. Germane Emperoure.
- Otho the .iii. the .xii. Germane Emperoure.
- Of the begynnynge and institution of the Electors in Germany.
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Hrnry the .ij. surnamed the Haultynge, the.
iij. Germane Emperoure. - Cunradus the .ij. the .xiiij. Germane Emperoure.
- Henry the thyrd surnamed the Black, the .xv. Germane Emperoure.
- Henry the .iiij. the .xvi. Germane Emperour.
- Of the takyng in and possessyng the citie Hierusalem.
- The chaunge of many duchyes in Germany.
- Henry the fyft, the xvij. Germane Emperoure.
- Lotharius the Saxon, the xviij. Germane Emperoure.
- Of the Roman lawes repared and restored.
- Cunradus a Schwabe, the .xix. Germane Emperoure.
- Frederick the .i. called Barbarossa, or wyth the red bearde the .xx. Ger∣mane Emperoure.
- Henry the .vi. the xxi. Germane Emperoure.
- Philippe sonne to Barbarossa, the .xxii. Germane Emperour.
- Of the institution of the freres beg∣gynge ordres.
- Otho the fourth, the .xxiii. Germane Emperoure.
- Friderick the .ij. the .xxiiij. Germane Emperoure.
- Cunradus the .iiij. the xxv Ger∣mane Emperour.
- The ende of the dukes of Schwaben.
- Wiliam, the, xxvi. Germane Emperour.
- Vacation of the Empyre.
- Rudolfe the .xxvij. Germane Emperoure.
- Adolfe the .xxviii. Germane Emperoure.
- Albert the .i. xxix. Germane Emperoure.
- The remouing of the Romysh byshops se from Rome into Fraunce.
- Of the Turkes.
- Ludouicus or Lewis the Baier, the .xxxi. Germane emperoure. And agaynst hym was chosen Emperour Frederick Duke of Eastenriche.
- Of Nicolaus Augustus, that is, Nicolas the noble, that was at Rome.
- Guntherus Erle of Swartzburg is chosen Emperoure.
- Charles the .iiij. the .xxxij. Germane Emperoure.
- Switzer league.
- A diuision
- Wenceslaus the .xxxiii. Ger∣mane Emperoure.
- Rupertus the xxxiiij. Germane Emperoure.
- Of Tamerlanes the ty∣raunt of Tartaria.
- Sigismundus the .xxxv. Ger∣mane Emperoure.
- Of the councell of Constance.
- Of the prouincial erles of the mar∣queship of Brandenburg.
- Albert the .ii. of that name, the .xxxvi. Germane Emperour.
- Friderick the .iii. the .xxxviij. Ger∣mane Emperoure.
- Of Constantinople Wonne by the Turkes.
- Maxi milianus the .xxxviii. Germane Emperoure.
- Charles the .v. the .xxxix. Germane Emperoure.
- Ferdinande the .xl. Germane Emperoure.
- A Table of the worl∣des yeares, out of the Bible and Philo.
- An addition vnto the Cronicle of Iohn Carion contaygnyng the actes and histories come to passe in dyuers and sun¦dry partes of the worlde from the yere of our lorde .MDxxxij. vnto the yeare of our lorde .MD. L. excerpted and gathe∣red out of the best historiographers by Iohn Funke of Nourenbo∣rough. And caused to be tran∣slated by Gwalter Lynne.
- Brefe Annotations added vnto the pre∣misses gathered out of dyuers historiographers.
- The conclusion,
- coda
- A table of those thyn¦ges that be conteyned in thys boke worthy of memory.
- colophon