Ptōchomuseion [sic]. = The poore mans librarie Rapsodiæ G.A. Bishop of Exceter vpon the first epistle of saint Peter, red publiquely in the cathedrall church of saint Paule, within the citye of London. 1560. Here are adioyned at the end of euery special treatie, certaine fruitful annotacions which may properly be called miscellanea, bicause they do entreate of diuerse and sundry matters, marked with the nombre and figures of Augrime. 2.

Thessalonica. 2.

THessalonica is the chiefe city of Macedonia, builded (as some write) of Philip of Macedonia. Other write, that it was called before Halia, and builded of one Cassander. But bicause Philip vanquished and ouercam in that place, the people called Thessali, it was after named Thessalonica.

Lucius Tarraeus (who made a booke of this city) writeth, that Phi∣lip so named it, of his doughter, called Thessalonica.

The rage of the Emperour Theodosius, who slewe in that citye the number of .xii. thousand persons, is wel knowen by that city.

To this city saint Paule preached first the Gospel, as it is in the actes 17. And vnto the inhabitauntes of this Citye also he wrote from Athens two epistles. About a hundred and twenty yeares agone, Amurathes the turkish Emperour, which killed one Vladislaus, king of Hungary, at a place called Varna, tooke this citie in battel, from the Venetians, wyth which slaughter Theodorus Gasa, a Thessalonian, and other learned mē being moued, forsooke the countrye of Grecia, and came into Italye, and there did set foorth most diligently and learnedly, the studye and know∣ledge of the Greke tounge, which they sent forth throughout al Europe.