The nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of their judgment in certain things…

and no sooner did they hear of Martians death, but the people in tumult murdered Proterius in the Church, mangled him, cast out, and burnt his carcass, and scattered his ashes in the wind, and made Timothy Aelurus their Bishop: And thenceforward Alexandria had two Bishops: And both sides petitioning the new Emperor Leo to be for them, he commanded (upon examination) his General to cast out Timothy, & alium decreto populi qui Synodum Calced. vindicaret, inthronizare, This St•la the Captain performeth, and another Timothy Salophaciolus is chosen: But when after Leo's death ⟨p. 64⟩Basiliscus usurped the Empire against Zeno, this Timothy is cast out again, and the other restored; and other Bishops changed accordingly in opposition to the Council of Calcedon. And no sooner was Zeno restored, but all was returned back again, and Aelurus poisoned himself to escape worse: Yet did his Party make Peter Moggus their Bishop; and the Emperor commanded Anthimius to cast him out, and set up Timothy Saloph. again: But while the Emperors chose who should have the Public Authority and Temples, they left the people to join in the choice, and the Dissenters kept up their own Bishops and Schism. And thus the matter went on uncured: And very ordinarily it was the Pulcheria's, Theodora's, Eudoxia's, and such other women, the Empresses, that by Historians are said to dispose of these matters, and make such Patriarchs and Bishops: And these courses still increased Schisms: Of the Joannites at Constantinople we spake before. What a calamitous Schism was that at Alexandria between the Party that held Christ's body incorruptible, called by the other the Phantasiastae, and those that held it corruptible called the corrupticolae, one part taking Gaianus for the Bishop, and the other Theodosius; and the secular power, setting up one, the Soldiers and the city sought it out. abundance on both sides being slain, and yet the Soldiers had the worst, and Theophilus was forced away.

and no sooner did they hear of Martians death, but the people in tumult murdered Proterius in the Church, mangled him, cast out, and burnt his carcass, and scattered his ashes in the wind, and made Timothy Aelurus their Bishop: And thenceforward Alexandria had two Bishops: And both sides petitioning the new Emperour Leo to be for them, he commanded (upon examination) his General to cast out Timothy, & alium decreto populi qui Synodum Calced. vindicaret, inthronizare, This St•la the Captain performeth, and another Timothy Salophaciolus is chosen: But when after Leo's death