The Latter Part
of
THE ANNALS
of
JAMES USSHER,
Archbishop of Armagh:
Containing 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 Octavian:
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 Commonwealth of the Jews.

LONDON,
Printed by E. Tyler, for F. Crook,
and G. Bedell, 1658.

THE EPISTLE TO THE READER

3201. You have here the other volume of my annals, which you will find more fully the history of Rhodes and the isles between Asia and Europe. For although formerly, to make the work more manageable, I resolved to associate them with Greece. Yet considering, that in the division of the Eastern Empire, the province of the isles is attributed to the Asian part, I also thought good later to place them with Asia. Those things which I produce concerning this history, you have on the authority of the authors who relate them. I have left the judgment of such things to those learned men, who make it their business to deal with them. In the citing of Cornelius Tacitus, I have observed the edition of Bereggerus and Freinshemius since it is divided into chapters. Concerning the history of the apostolic times, it does not seem adequate. I shall (if God Almighty affords me life and strength to finish that work) give you an account in my Sacred Chronology.

James Ussher