A geographical and historical disquisition touching the Asia properly so called, the Lydian Asia…A geographicall and historicall disqvisition touching the Asia properly so called, the Lydian Asia…

And although by a Canon of the said Council of Chalcedon it was provided, that any Bishop which afterward ^pwould attempt to make such divisions to the derogation of the rights of his own Metropolitan, should be deprived of his dignity; and that ^qthe new Metropoles formerly constituted by the Imperial Charters should so content themselves with this honour, that the proper rights should still be preserved unto that which was the Metropolis indeed: yet we see for all this, that ^rin the lists of the Bishoprics of the East made in the succeeding times, there are still distinct suffragans reckoned under these two Metropolitans of Laodicea and Hierapolis; and that diverse other private Bishops were not hereby restrained from aspiring unto a Metropolitical dignity. among whom (to speak only of those who were within the compass of the Lydian Asia) was the Bishop of Smyrna; who found the means to be made first [Greek or Hebrew] or independent, and then ^ta Metropolitan with ^useven suffragans depending upon him. ^xthe Bishop of Pergamus; who was exempted likewise from his subordination to Ephesus, and made a Metropolitan by himself. and the Bishop of Philadelphia: ^sywho by Andronicus Palaeologus the elder was substituted into the place of the Bishop of Sardis, and made Metropolitan of all Lydia. So as of the Bishops of the seven Churches mentioned in the book of the Revelation, he of Thyatira only excepted, all at the last became Metropolitans, as they were at the first.

And although by a Canon of the said Councell of Chalcedon it was provided, that any Bishop which afterward ^p