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Animadversions upon Sr. Richard Baker's Chronicle, and its continuation wherein many errors are discover'd, and some truths advanced / by T.B., Esq.
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Blount, Thomas, 1618-1679.
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to the vertue and loyalty of that worthy person who suffered both imprisonment and sequestration for his fidelity to his Soveraign And when his memory should deservedly live with honour it is most injuriously blacken'd with this cloud of infamy LXVIII Among men of Note in King Charles the firsts time As some are deservedly nominated why are others of at leastequal desert omitted such were Spencer Earle of Northampton f. 603. b. The Earl of Litchfeild and his two brothers The Lord Francis Villier Sr John Smith who rescued the Standard royal Col Charles Cavendish brother to the Earl of Devonshire Col Thomas Howard two of them Sr John Digby Sr Henry Lingein c. It s strange also the Continuashould forget to name Sr Bevil Greenvile Elder Brother to Sr Richard a Person of Known and Eminent Loyalty and who did gallantly in His Majesties service LXIX The Earl of Eglington the Father of the Lord Mountgomery with one f. 622. b. l. ult of his brothers were taken at Dunbarton by one Captain Crook of Col Berrys And so t is left imperfect and a new Section followes LXX Speaking of the Battle of Worcester f. 626. b. 3. Sept. 1651 and the Rebels entring and plundering that City he says There was not an inhabitant in Worcester friend or foe left worth a Shilling of what they had in the Town Which is strangely hyperbolical and beyond all likelyhood of truth though the Conquerors were never so rapacious severe LXXI At Newport in the pursuit there ibid. were taken among others the now Earle of Shrewsbury c. Here our Continuator is again mistaken For the Earle of Shrewsbury was not taken at Newport nor was at all there but from Boscobel escaped to his house at Longport in Shropshire where the Rebels searched narrowly for him but missed him and from thence he made a shift to passe over Sea LXXII It was resolv'd by my Lord of Derby f 627. a. that they should make what speed they could and recover a place called White Ladyes before morning My Lord of Derby advis'd the King first to goe to Boscobel where himself had been concealed after the Battle of VViggen but Mr Charles Giffard the Kings chief guide in that sad night prevail'd to conduct Him first to VVhite Ladyes LXXIII His Majesty being at Mr Woolfs Madeley understood that the f 627. b. t passes over the water and the river Wye were so guarded that it was unseasonable for him to adventure into Wales Here our Continuator is out again in his Geographics For there is no part of the river Wye or Wey within 24 myles of Madeley but Severn runs neer it which was the River His Majesty designed to passe over LXXIV That his Majesty by Ladders ibid. ascended into the top of that most celebrated Oake There were no Ladders in the Case for the King aescnded the Oake by the help of Col Carlos and two of the Pendrels and his own agility LXXV George Yates for Francis Yates Ibid. that 's more venial So is Col Windhams house at Trent in Dorsetshire for Somersetshire LXXVI Having finish'd though imperfectly the relation of his Majesties miraculous f. 628. b. Escape from Worcester he concludes with no lesse then 52. persons being privy thereto I have nothing to object against the number beleeving it could not be lesse but doubtlesse there were many which did act Gallantly in that honorable and loyal undertaking which he hath not mentioned whose loyalty ought to have its due LXXVI This year 1652 dyed the Lady f. 635. a. Elianor Davys who was the Fifth Daughter of the Lord George Audley Earle of Castlehaven and was married to Sr John Davys the Kings first Serjeant at Law in England c. Our Continuator endeavors by many Encomiums of this Lady to raise her to the reputation of a Prophetess when as she was generally reputed little better then a mad Woman and was actually in Bethlem Hospital by order if I mistake not of King See Heylins life of Archb Laud. Charles the first For I remember whilst she was yet living this Anagram pass'd of her and is printed in Camdens Remains Dame Elianor Davis Never so mad a Lady Then he mistakes her Fathers name For we read not of any Audley to be Earle of Castlehaven but Touchet at least he should have said George Lord Audley And by the Kings first Serjeant at Law in England an unwary Reader wil possibly misunderstand he was the first Serjeant at Law that any King of England ever had whereas most men know they are of great antiquity We read indeed that Sr Iohn Anne 1606. Davis fut primier Serjeant Del Roy K. James where primier ought to be understood as eldest or principal LXXVIII An Army having been sent under f. 644 a. the Marquesse of Piaenella and the Earle of Quince Commander of the French forces in Italy by Charles Emanuel Duke of Savoy against his Protestant subjects in the valleys of Peidmont upon occasion of some high displeasure taken against them and the souldiers left to their own unbridled licence having committed many outrages and massacres upon the poor miserable people Cromwel taking this opertunity appointed a solemne day of humiliation and caused a large contribution to be gather'd for them throughout the Nation c. Here the Continuator describes the Duke of Savoys punishment of his subjects but does not expresse their crime a course that may condemn all the Tribunals in the world of barbarousness and injustice About the time that Mr Stouppe Agent for these Piedmontois came hither to addresse himself to Cromwel in their behalf which was in the year 1655 There was published in London A faithfull Account of the late commotions in the valleys of Piedmont wherein we read That the Duke of Savoy had given his Protestant subjects an absolute toleration of Religion which grace they so much abused that they reviled the Catholic especially their Masse and religious people as at Tour they dressed an Asse in a Monks habit and afterwards in a rage fell furiously upon two Priests at Fenil in the lower vale of Lucerne and slew them at the Altar as they were saying Masse This with much more of their tumultuous carriage and the Dukes lenity first and then Justice towards them you may read at large in that printed paper which seems in a great measure to justifie the Dukes proceedings in that affair He omits the sum that was collected here upon that account which was 38097l 7s 3d 20233 17 0 paid out by Bils of Exch. 17863 10 3 remaining in ready mony at the death of Oliver LXXIX The Continuator speaks of a Plot f. 646. b. against Olivers person the criminals said to be of this Plot were Miles Sindercom a cashierd and dissatisfyd Army man Toop one of Cromwels lifeguard Cecil and Bois the last of whom a Priest belonging to Don Alonso de Cardenas once Leigir Embassador here
from Spain and by him instructed as it was given out to hire and set those other his Agents a work comes off himself with a non est inventus c. That Embassador as I am credibly informed had never any such Priest as Boys belonging to him Therefore that part of the Story must passe as a fiction the rest of it may be true for ought I know LXXIX The next that were try'd by the high f. 651. b. Court of Iustice were Mr Robert Woodcock Captain Henry Mallory and Sr Humfrey Bennet The first was Mr Thomas Woodcock since Deservedly Knightted by his Majesty for his eminent service and fidelity to Him LXXX Cromwell in all hast sends for f. 651. b. the Lord Mayor Tichburn was then the man and Aldermen and this was in the year 1658. And in the Catalogue of Mayors and Sherifs at the end Robert Tichburn is placed Mayor in the year 1656. Which last is the truth for in 1658 Ireton was Mayor Now come we to the year 1659 f. 657. which takes up neer thirty leaves of paper and conteins more words though lesse substance than the seaven Kings Reigns next after the Cōquest of which the two first Henryes Reigned 70. years 'T is true that year comprehends several great Actions and in particular that greatest most happy and most memorable the restoring His sacred Majesty to His Crown and Dignity by the faithfull endeavours of the never-enough honoured General Monk after deservedly created Duke of Albemarle with the concurrence and assistance of many loyall subjects But that the relation of this Noble design and atchievment should be stuffed with so many perticular conferences placing and displacing petty Officers Letters Messages and Debates of private persons seems in most mens judgments very superfluous and not agreeable to the nature of a Chronicle which requires a more compendious method and properly admits of nothing common and trivial I shall endeavour says a late ingenious Historian with plain and Milton f. 3. lightsom brevity to relate well and orderly things worth the noting so as may best instruct and benefit them that read For allowing that prolix way of Chronologizing if all the memorable actions since the Conquest and there were many such had been thus perticularly expatiated 't is more then ptobable the Book would have bulk'd it self into three greater volums then Foxes Martyrs and burn'd the edge of most Readers patience in its perusal LXXXI Speaking of the Lords in Parliament f. 730. a. proclaiming his Majesty in the Palace yard 1660 he adds Mr Bish one of the Heralds and Mr Rily that officiated as King at Armes By this you would Judge Mr Bysshe not Bish to be som smal pursuivant at Armes who was in those times Garter principal King at Armes and both then and since a member of the house of Commons a person of worth and since Knighted by the name of Sr Edward Bysshe and Mr Rily was but Norroy and much his inferior both in quality and literature LXXXII In the 4th Edition our Continuator f. 807. says Knights of the Bath are never made but at a Coronation Now he has better bethought himselfe and says Likewise in order to their attendance f. 758. a. upon this grand solemnity the Coronation there were created 68 Knights of the Holy Trinity called Knights of the Bath they being a Society of Knights never made but at a creation of a Prince of Wales or Duke of York Our Continuator has given these Knights of the Bath a new title For they were never til now called Knights of the Holy Trinity And he might have found in Mr Seldens Titles of Honor and Camdens Brit. f. 172. Britannia That Knights of the Bath have also been made at Royal Marriages Christning or Knighting the Prince or other of the Kings Sons and such like occasions Note likewise that the Foundations of the Colleges of the the Universities especially of Oxford are for the most part mistaken either in the point of time or names of the Founders Which I attempted not alwaies to rectify both in that it cxceeded my skil but cheifly because the History of that University as I am informed is now in the Presse Which will cleer those mistakes with much certainty and satisfaction being perform'd by the hand of that Faithfull and most industrious Searcher of Antiquities Mr Anthony Wood of Merton College Nonsences and false Syntax The last King was Oswald after f. 6. b. whom Egbert being in a sort the fountain of f. 18. a those which at this day we term the Common of Lawes Nor he kept not his word twice f. 34. b in the same page such as one as in this Kings time f. 89. b brake out most loathsome He would come with power to f. 86. b aid the King take order for guarding the Ports which intend to hinder his landing but finding The Viscount Montacute marcheth f. 204. b. towards King Henry and by the way encountreth the Lord Hungerford at Hegley Moor but he with Lord Basse upon the charge ran away leaving Sr Raph Darcy alone with his own Regiment who were valiantly fighting dyed To utter the impoverishing Of f. 83. a the Kingdome And here they bind the King to f. 86. a lose to their loyal obedience whensoever he infringed this Charter But he with Lord Basse ran away f. 204. b. A book of account of Empsons f. 248. a. that had the Kings hand almost to every leaf by way of singing He then left Q. Elizabeth seeing she would not be his to himself c. f. 351 b. But within two houres all these f. 431. q. clouds were slain and dispersed And five Companies of firelocks f. 569. a. for people they wanted not a good pretence that the people might be eased Difference for Deference forward for the Foreward of a Battle Seemless Coat for Seamlesse c. with a number such like A List of some of those Names of our ancient Nobility and Gentry of England which the Author and Continuator have strangely mangled and metamorphosed For he writes Sharnborn Sherborne Touchet Twitchet Abergevenny Abergain and Abergainy Burnell Brunel Burvel Chandois Chandowes Strangways Strangwish Fortescu Foskew Ayscoughe Ascue Huddleston Hurlston Frescshevile Fretswell Trockmorton Frogmorton Widdrington Widdington Wenman Wainmā Waymās Guldeford Gilford Tildesley Tiderlsley Tilseley Bedingfeild Benefeild Sulyard or Sylyard Sulland Trelaune Trelanny Coningesby Conisby Elwes Yelvis Salwey Salloway Fanshaw Fanshall Walsh VVelsh Marshal Martiall Roos Rosse Monthermer or de Mounthemere Monte Hermerij  Hobart Hubbard Perot Parret Trigory Triegury Wingfield VVinkefeild The names of some Lords and others mentioned by our Author which are of his own or his Printers creation The Lord Dangledas The Lord Mawle William the Lord Aldenham The Lord Basse The Lord Stinton The Lord Winson The Lord Wandsor The Lord Brinningham The Lord Burvell The Lord Sudelly The Lord William Carnaby The Lord Carews Sr John Meincle The family of Patternae in Lincolnshire Sr Rich Pawle Sr Tho Trevon Sr Will Causey Golonel Mozen Garrisons and Towns in England not heard of before The Garrisons of Leige and Dainton Brahan Belgran Nun Baton Abby Yorthbrook Dunston Castle Cakewish c. Names of Persons and places in Scotland mistaken The E. of Canworth for Carnwarth The E. of Agnus for Angus The L. Dunferling for Dumfermlin The L. Wimmes for VViemes Places Linlithew for Lithquo or Linlithquo The C. of Candstraines for Candstreās Tantallon Castle for Timptallon The like in Ireland Adam Lofthouse Archbishop of Dublin for Loftus The Lord Jinkillen for Ineskellen The L. Clanrickford for Clanrickard The L. Ballimote for Ballimore Mack Gilparick Baron of Ebrankle for Gilpatricke Murrough Obrine for Murtogh Brian Sr Walter Dungar for Dungan Mnivere Okely c. Forrein names of Persons and places likewise mistaken Alex Furnasse Prince of Parma The Prince of Austurgus The Duke of Andyn The Duke of Lunceburg The Duke of Guysne Pedraca delay Syerra Places Biskey Mountpleasier Terwin Bullen Landersey Obignie Saint yon c. with many such like The INDEX Neither is this of a more accurate composure then the Book it self For in once casting my eye superficially over it I met with these Bulls and unpardonable faults The Bishop of Carlisles bold speech in battail of King Richard John Pole a Priest wrote the life of Sir Marborail a woman Knighted by the Printer In the Book it is St Walhoraile an English woman never I think reaá or heard of but in this Author Priests not sufferd to execute devine Service Raph Bishop of Salisbury how from a poor Prince he came to his greatness For Roger a poor Priest Through voices thought to be begd by Cecil and others Religius Bishop of Dorchester Oward Bishop of Salisbury The Abby of St Petroius Hereford taken by Colonel Rich. The fight at Aldern I was desirous to see what fight this was which I never heard of before but could find no such thing in the place directed to For what through the misfolio's in the Book and the carelesness of the Index maker 't is odds you find not above 3 things of five which the Index pretends to point at FINIS