The estate of the Church with the discourse of times, from the apostles vntill this present: also of the liues of all the emperours, popes of Rome, and Turkes: as also of the Kings of Fraunce, England, Scotland, Spaine, Portugall, Denmarke, &c. With all the memorable accidents of their times. Translated out of French into English by Simon Patrike, Gentleman.
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The estate of the Church with the discourse of times, from the apostles vntill this present: also of the liues of all the emperours, popes of Rome, and Turkes: as also of the Kings of Fraunce, England, Scotland, Spaine, Portugall, Denmarke, &c. With all the memorable accidents of their times. Translated out of French into English by Simon Patrike, Gentleman.
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Hainault, Jean de.
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London :: Printed by Thomas Creede,
1602.
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Church history -- Early works to 1800.
Europe -- History -- Early works to 1800.
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"The estate of the Church with the discourse of times, from the apostles vntill this present: also of the liues of all the emperours, popes of Rome, and Turkes: as also of the Kings of Fraunce, England, Scotland, Spaine, Portugall, Denmarke, &c. With all the memorable accidents of their times. Translated out of French into English by Simon Patrike, Gentleman." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A19602.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 18, 2024.
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descriptionPage 95
Libraries.
The bookes of the holy scripture, which for the most part were lost during the persecutions at this time by the benifi∣cence of the Emperour Constantine, were written in great dili∣dence, and with magnificence worthy of such an Emperour. By the witnes of Athanasius it is plain inough, that in the Chri∣ans Temples there were Libraries,* 1.1 and therein he accuseth the impietie of the Arrians, which tooke out these bookes & burnt them. Hierome against Rufin makes mention of the Librarie at Cesaria. It appeares by the Acts,* 1.2 of a Romane Sinode held vnder Siluister, that the Romane Church mainteined certaine Notaries to write the acts of the Martirs.