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EUSEBIUS PAMPHILUS; SOCRATES SCHOLASTICUS; and EVAGRIUS SCHOLASTICUS. The auncient ecclesiasticall histories of the first six hundred yeares after Christ . . . faithfully translated out of the Greeke tongue by Meredith Hanmer. [12], 176 [i.e. 190], 201-402, [4], 403-538; [2], 56, [17] pages. Partly printed in black letter. Folio, old calf, rebacked, endpapers renewed; occasional light soiling and minor stains, portions of blank upper margin of title excised and restored. Signature of Lawrence Swetnam dated 1710. London: Thomas Vautroullier, 1577-76
First edition in English of three contemporary accounts of early church history, concluding with a chronology compiled from them by Hanmer. "Frequently republished, even down to the eighteenth century, Hanmer's work provided an essential source for those protestants who wanted to show how rapidly the church had declined from its early purity" (ODNB). Hoffmann II, 111; STC 10572.
