OF

ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY,

ANCIENT AND MODERN,

BY

JOHN LAURENCE VON MOSHEIM, D.D.

CHANCELLOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN.

A NEW AND LITERAL TRANSLATION

FROM THE ORIGINAL LATIN, WITH COPIOUS ADDITIONAL NOTES,
ORIGINAL AND SELECTED,

BY JAMES MURDOCK, D.D.

EDITED WITH ADDITIONS, BY

HENRY SOAMES, M. A.

RECTOR OF STAPLEFORD TAWNEY, WITH THOYDON MOUNT, ESSEX.

SECOND REVISED EDITION.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

VOL. I.-PRIMITIVE PERIOD.

LONDON:

LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS; HATCHARD AND SON; F. AND J.
RIVINGTON; HAMILTON AND CO.; SIMPKIN AND CO.; WHITTAKER AND Co.; COWIE
AND CO.; T. BUMPUS; BAGSTER AND SONS; J. BAIN; T. AND W. BOONE; J. BIGG
AND SON; E. HODGSON; H. G. BOHN; HOULSTON AND CO.; H. WASHBOURNE; SMITH,
ELDER, AND CO.; J. NISBET AND CO.; STEVENS AND CO.; W. J. CLEAVER; J. GREEN;
W. WHITE; G. WILLIS; J. CORNISH; J. SNOW; G. ROUTLEDGE; BICKERS AND CO.;
AND J. H. PARKER, OXFORD.

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

SAN DIEGO

ΤΟ

SIR EDWARD BOWYER SMŸTH,

OF HILL HALL, ESSEX, BARONET,

WHOSE RELIGIOUS HABITS,

ANXIETY FOR THE SPIRITUAL WELFARE OF ALL WITHIN HIS INFLUENCE,

DUE SENSE OF OBLIGATION AS AN ECCLESIASTICAL PATRON,

AND PATRICIAN LIBERALITY,

CAST A LUSTRE UPON AN ANCIENT FAMILY, AND DISPLAY THE VALUE OF AN HEREDITARY ARISTOCRACY,

THIS EDITION OF MOSHEIM'S INSTITUTES,

IS GRATEFULLY AND AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED.

STAPLEFORD TAWNEY,

JANUARY 4. 1841.