The Annals of the World, Title page 2 – History 2
The later Part OF THE ANNALS OF JAMES USSHER, Arch-Bishop of Armagh: Wherein is contained (besides that of the MACCHABEES AND NEW TESTAMENT) The HISTORY of all the remarkable Occurrences transacted during the ROMAN EMPIRE; which began under C. Julius, and Octavianus: With the most considerable Passages in all Asia and Egypt: CONTINUED From the beginning of the Reign of Antiochus Epiphanes, to the beginning of the Empire of Vespasian, and the utter Destruction and Abolition of the Temple and Common-wealth of the Jews.
LONDON, Printed by E. Tyler, for J. Crook, and G. Bedell, 1658.
THE Epistle to the Reader.
READER,
YOu have here the other Part of my Annals, which you will find more full in the History of Rhodes, and the Isles between Asia and Europe. For although formerly, for the alleviating of the Work, I resolved to refer them to Graecia: Yet considering, that in the division of the Eastern Empire, the Province of the Isles is attributed to the Asian Diocesse; I also thought good afterwards to place them with Asia. Those things which I produce concerning Praesages, Spectralls, and Oracles, you have upon the Authority of the Authours who relate them: leaving the judgement of such things to those Learned Men, who make it their businesse to treat of them. In the citing of Cornelius Tacitus, I have observed the Edition of Bereggerus, and Freinshemius, as it is distinguished into Chapters. Of those things which in the disposition of Evangelick and Apostolick History, shall not seem sufficiently satisfactory, I shall (if God Almighty afford me life and strength to finish that Work) give you an account in my Sacred Chronology.
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