the Saints; for on the Third of _December_ is kept, in the Church of _Rome_, _the Festival of_ Lucius, _King of the_ Britons, _who died at_ Coire _in_ Germany[255]: these are the Words of the _Roman_ Martyrology; but _Bede_ does not so much as mention him in his; a plain Proof, that what is said of his Preaching, of his Martyrdom, _&c._ was invented after that Writer’s Time. And yet _Alford_ has not only filled his Annals with these, and suchlike fabulous Accounts, giving an intire Credit to them, but inveighs, with great Acrimony, against those who have not the Gift of Belief in the same Degree with himself, especially against _Dempster_, telling, him, that till his Time the Conversion of _Lucius_ had never been questioned by any Man of Sense or Learning[256]. And truly, the Story of King _Lucius_ has been credited even by the greater Part of Protestant Writers, out of Respect to our venerable Historian; but as he wrote many Ages after the pretended Conversion of that Prince, and none of the Writers of those Days, whom such a remarkable Event could hardly have escaped, give us the least Hint of it, we may be well allowed to question the Whole, notwithstanding the Authority of _Bede_, which can be of no Weight with respect to Transactions that are said to have happened in Times so remote. _Eleutherius_ governed, according to the best Chronologers, Fifteen Years; and died in 192. the last of the Emperor _Commodus_[257]. To him are ascribed a Decretal, addressed to the Bishops of _Gaul_, and a Decree, declaring against _Montanus_, and his Followers, that no Food was forbidden to the Christians; but both are deemed spurious. He was buried, according to some, in the _Salarian Way_, according to others, in the _Vatican_; but, in what Place soever he was buried, his Body is now worshiped in the _Vatican_ at _Rome_, in the Cathedral of _Troia_ in _Apulia_, and in several other Places[258]. The Title of Martyr is given him by the Church of _Rome_, but not by any of the antient Writers. Under him flourished _Hegesippus_, who wrote, in Five Books, an Account of what had happened in the Church since our Saviour’s Death, to his Time[259]. He came to _Rome_ in the Pontificate of _Anicetus_, who was chosen in 157. and, remaining there to the Time of _Eleutherius_, who succeeded _Anicetus_ and _Soter_ in 177. he wrote a Book on the Doctrine received by Tradition in that Church[260]; but neither of these Works has reached our Times. ----- Footnote 227: Euseb. l. 4. c. 22. Hier. vir. ill. c. 22. Footnote 228: Iren. l. 3. c. 3. Footnote 229: Euseb. l. 3. c. 3. Footnote 230: Euseb. ib. Footnote 231: Pears. post. p. 255. Footnote 232: Idem ib. Footnote 233: Cave Lives of the Fathers, p. 164. Footnote 234: Tert. in Prax. c. 1. Footnote 235: Euseb. in chron. Footnote 236: Idem l. 5. c. 16. Con. per Labb. t. 1. p. 599. Footnote 237: Vide Dupin. Biblioth. p. 287. Footnote 238: Euseb. l. 5. c. 14. Footnote 239: