The ancient ecclesiasticall histories of the first six hundred yeares after Christ, vvritten in the Greek tongue by three learned historiographers, Eusebius, Socrates, and Evagrius. Eusebius Pamphilus Bishop of Caesarea in Palestina wrote ten books. Socrates Scholasticus of Constantinople wrote seven books. Evagrius Scholasticus of Antioch wrote six books. Whereunto is annexed Dorotheus Bishop of Tyrus, of the lives and ends of the prophets, apostles, and LXX. disciples. All which authors are faithfully translated out of the Greek tongue, by Meredith Hanmer Doctor in Divinitie. Last of all, herein is comprised a brief chronographie collected by the said translator, with a copious index of the principal matters throughout all the histories
Contributors: Hanmer, Meredith, 1543-1604; Socrates, Scholasticus, approximately 379-approximately 440; Evagrius, Scholasticus, 536?-; Dorotheus, Saint, 255-362; Constantine I, Emperor of Rome, -337; Saltonstall, Wye, active 1630-1640
Edition: The fourth edition corrected and revised. Hereunto is added Eusebius his life of Constantine, in foure bookes. With Constantines oration to the clergie.
Publisher: Printed by George Miller [and Thomas Cotes], and are to be sold by Michaell Sparke at his house in Greene-Arbour
Published: 1636
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 598
Subjects: Church history; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Ecclesiasticall history of Socrates Scholasticus; Ecclesiasticall historie of Evagrius Scholasticus; Lives, the ends, and the martyrdomes of the prophets, apostles, and seventie disciples of our saviour; Chronographie; Eusebius his life of Constantine; Historia ecclesiastica. English.; Pannonian lives. English.; Oratio ad sanctorum coetum. English.
Work titles: Ecclesiastical history
Notes: "The ecclesiasticall history of Socrates Scholasticus", "The ecclesiasticall historie of Evagrius Scholasticus", "The lives, the ends, and the martyrdomes of the prophets, apostles, and seventie disciples of our saviour. VVritten in Greeke by Dorotheus ..", and "A chronographie" each have separate dated title page; pagination and register are continuous. "Eusebius his life of Constantine" has separate pagination, register, and dated title page with "printed by Thomas Cotes, for Michael Sparke .. 1637" in imprint.

The attribution of the biographies to Dorotheus is traditional but unsubstantiated.

The translation of Eusebius's "Life of Constantine" is by Wye Saltonstall, who signs ²A2v.

Includes index.

Rare Book copy: Bound with: Polybius. The history of Polybius the Megalopolitan. London : Printed by Nicholas Okes for Simon Waterson, 1634.

STC (2nd ed.), 10576

English short title catalogue, S121370