The auncient ecclesiasticall histories of the first six hundred yeares after Christ
By: wrytten in the Greeke tongue by three learned historiographers, Eusebius, Socrates, and Evagrius ; Eusebius Pamphilus Bishop of Cesarea in Palestina wrote 10 bookes ; Socrates Scholasticus of Constantinople wrote 7 bookes ; Evagrius Scholasticus of Antioch wrote 6 bookes ; whereunto is annexed Dorotheus Bishop of Tyrus, of the lives of the prophetes, apostles and 70 disciples ; all which authors are faithfully translated out of the Greeke tongue by Meredith Hanmer, Maister of Arte and student in divinitie ; last of all herein is contayned a profitable chronographie collected by the sayd translator, the title whereof is to be seene in the ende of this volume, with a copious index of the principall matters throughout all the histories
Series: Early English Books, 1475-1640 -- 342
Publisher: By Thomas Vautroullier dwelling in the Blackefriers by Ludgate
Published: 1577
Place of publication: Imprinted at London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 538
Subjects: Church history
Work titles: Ecclesiastical history
Notes: Printer's mark (McK.170) on t.-p.

Numbers 191-200 omitted in paging; p. 190 misnumbered 176.

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

Includes index.

"The ecclesiasticall historie of Socrates Scholasticus", "The ecclesiasticall historie of Euagrius Scholasticus", and "The liues, the ends, and the martyrdomes of the prophetes, apostles, and seuentye disciples of our Sauiour, written in Greeke by Dorotheus .." each has separate dated title page, the first two dated 1576, the latter 1577; pagination and register are continuous. "A chronographie" has separate pagination, register, and title page dated 1576, with printer's mark (McK.192).

STC (2nd ed.) 10572.