A. 101. This year pope Clement died.
A. 102.—109.
A. 110. This year Ignatius the bishop suffered martyrdom
A. 111.—115.
A. 116. This year Adrian the emperor began to reign.
A. 117.—136.
A. 137. This year Antoninus began to reign.
A. 138.—144.
A. 145. This year Marcus Antoninus and Aurelius his brother succeeded to the empire.
A. 146.—166.
A. 167. This year Eleutherius obtained the bishopric of Rome, and held it in great glory for twelve years.[1] To him Lucius, king of Britain, sent letters praying that he might be made a Christian: and he fulfilled that he requested. And they afterwards continued in the right faith till the reign of Diocletian.
A. 167. This year Eleutherius succeeded to the popedom, and held it fifteen years; and in the same year Lucius, king of the Britons, sent and begged baptism of him. And he soon sent it him; and they continued in the true faith until the time of Diocletian.
A. 168.—187.
A. 188. This year Severus succeeded to the empire, and went with an army into Britain, and subdued a great part of the island by battle; and then, for the protection of the Britons, he built a rampart of turf, and a broad wall thereon, from sea to sea. He reigned seventeen years, and then ended his days at York. His son Bassianus succeeded to the empire: another son of his was called Geta; he died.
A. 190.—198.
A. 199. In this year the Holy-rood[2] was found.
A. 200. Two hundred years.
A. 201.—285.
A. 286. This year St. Alban the martyr suffered.
- ↑ According to Muratori, Eleutherius presided from A. 170 to A. 185.
- ↑ "Those writers who mention this grand discovery of the holy cross, by Helena the mother of Constantine, disagree so much in their chronology, that it is a vain attempt to reconcile them to truth or to each other. This and the other notices of ecclesiastical matters, whether Latin or Saxon, from the year 190 to the year 380 of the Laud MS. and 381 of the printed Chronicle, may be safely considered as interpolations, probably posterior to the Norman Conquest."—Ingram.
