The auncient ecclesiastical histories of the first six hundred yeares after Christ, written in the Greeke tongue by three learned historiographers, Eusebius, Socrates, and Euagrius. Eusebius Pamphilus Bishop of Cæsarea in Palæstina wrote 10. bookes. Socrates Scholasticus of Constantinople wrote 7. bookes. Euagrius Scholasticus of Antioch wrote 6. bookes. Whereunto is annexed Dorotheus Bishop of Tyrus, of the liues and ends of the prophets, apostles, and 70. disciples. All which authors are faithfully translated out of the Greeke tongue by Meredith Hanmer Doctor of Diuinitie. Last of all, herein is contained a briefe Chronographie collected by the said translator, with a copious index of the principall matters throughout all the histories - Eusebius Caesariensis 260-339 (Printed by Richard Field, dwelling in the Blackfriers, 1607)
"The ecclesiasticall historie of Socrates Scholasticus", "The ecclesiasticall historie of Euagrius Scholasticus", "The liues, the ends, and the martyrdomes of the prophets, apostles, and seuentie disciples of our Sauiour. VVritten in Greeke by Dorotheus ..", and "A chronographie" each have separate dated title page; pagination and register are continuous. - Includes index. - Reproduction of the original in the British Library. - STC (2nd ed.), 10574. - The attribution of the biographies to Dorotheus is traditional but unsubstantiated. - The last leaf is blank