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 passages of them; others on the contrary confounding Chronology with History, have recited the remarkable Events, without much troubling themselves about the time, wherein they hapned [sic]; this Author, I say, hath attempted to joyne them altogether in this Work. And,

First, He gives an Introduction, in which he explains, what is the Indiction, the Cycle, the Epocha, and all the other terms of Chronology.

Secondly, Forasmuch as the Epocha's, whence we begin to reckon the Years, are the foundations of Chronology, he treateth accurately of the Year of our Saviours Nativity and Death; of the Year of the Kings of France of the first and second Race, and of the other celebrated Epocha's.

Thirdly, He delivers in short all the more remarkable passages of every Year since the Creation of the World till the Year 1666. indicating the Authors, whence an ampler information may be taken. And to establish certain principles of Chronology, he placeth at the beginning of all Years the Names of the Consuls, Cycles, Indictions, Eclipses, and all the other Characters, that distinguish the Years from one another. And he often does not content himself with marlking the Year, in which the more notable things have hapned, but he adds also the Month and Day, especially in the latter Ages; which is a great relief upon many occasions.