day of October being the day of his Translation but the 5th of January was that of his death At Westminster we find this Epitaph of Him Omnibus in signis virtutum laudibus Heros Sanctus Edwardus Confessor Rex venerandus Quinto die Jani moriens super aethera scandit Sursum Corda Moritur 1065. He saies William the firsts sons f. 29. b were Robert Richard William and Henry And soon after f. 32. a Sayes William Rufus was second son to William the Conqueror VI. The Castle of Sherburne in Norfolk f. 23. b For when Sherburne who was owner of it This should be Sharnborn in both places The name of a very ancient Family VII A Hide of land containing as some f. 26. b account it twenty acres but as Mr Lambert proveth one hundred acres There is no Author I ever read accounts it so little as xx acres Beae says it is as much as wil maintein a Family many others agree it to be a Plough-land Tanta fundi portio quanta unico per sannum coli poterit aratro says Hen. of Huntingdon But Sr Edw Coke says expresly That a Knights Fee a Hide or Plough-land do not contain any certain number of acres on Littleton fol. 69. VIII By a Law of King Edward the f. 27. a Confessor all matters in question were upon special penalty decided in their Gemote or Conventicle held monethly in every Hundred Where he most improperly expounds Gemote by Conventicle which are of very different significations For Gemote signifies in the Saxon tongue a Court or Convention where Causes of Debate were tryed and determined As the Saxons had their Sciregemot Hundredgemot c. Their County and Hundred Court And Conventicle a word in those times not in use is a little private meetting for the exercise of Religion well known in these days and first taken up in those of Wicklif IX In William the first 's time he says f. 29. a Waring Earle of Shrewsbury built two Abbyes one in the Suburbs of Shrewsbury and another at Wenlock And in William the second 's time f. 36. a That Warren Earle of Shrewsbury built two Abbyes one in the Suburbs of Shrews bury and another at Wenlock Doubtless this Waring and Warren are intended for the same person but there was never any such Earle of Shrewsbury there was indeed one Warren who came in with the Conqueror was advanc'd to the Earldom of Surrey by K. Wil. Rufus The Abby of Shrewsbury was founded by Roger de Mountgomery Earle of Arundell and Shrewsbury Anno 1081. and that of Wenlock by the same person X. Appeals had been seldom used til f. 35. b Anselm in William Rufus Reign appealed to the Pope And in the same breath he says In this Kings time was the first Appeal f. 36. a to Rome made by Anselm that ever before had bin made in England In this contradiction the first part hath most affinity to truth For Mr Pryn no friend to Rome Animad on Cokes 4. Inst fo 238. says The first Appeal out of England to Rome I meet with was that of Wilfrid Archbishop of York which was in the year 678. above 400. years before William Rufus Reign XI He saies The Abby of Hide was founded f. 41. b by King Henry the first Whose Founder was King Alured or Alfred long before XII In the raign of Henry the first He saies This Lady Juga Lady of f. 42. a little Dunmow and late wife of Baynard that first built Baynards Castle in London And in the reign of Henry the 2d he saies Barnard Bayliol of whom Baynards Castle in f. 54. b London took name And in the reign of Edward 1. was laid the foundation f. 101. of Baynards Castle strange contradictions Camden in his Britan. saies we f. 424 term Baynards Castle of William Baynard a noble man Lord of Dunmow who built it For t is improbable it could take name from Bernard Bayliol who was great Grandfather to John Balliol not Bayliol King of the Scots and built Bernard Castle f. 736 in the Bishopric of Durham from whence arose our Authors mistake XIII Stephen Harding a Benedictine fo 45. Monk who was founder to the Cistercian Order Tempore Hen. 1 A great mistake For that Order was instituted by Robert Abbot of the Monastery of Cisteaux iâ— Burgundy whence the Order took denomination and this was in the year 1088 before Henry the first came to the Crown XIV He speaks of Roger Bishop of Salisbury and in the same page calls f. 46. â— him Robert and fo 49 he calls him Raph It seems so they all begin with the same letter it matters not whether it were Roger Robert or Raph The first was his name who was also chief Justice of England Anno 1107. and afterwards Lord Chancelor and Lord Treasurer of England XV The King Stephen replied by his Lawyer Alveric de Vir For Albericus f. 50. a or Awbrey de Vere And in the same page The Abby of Bury in Norfolk for Suffolk XVI The Abby of Garradon in Leicestershire he saies was founded in King f. 50. a Stephens time And afterwards That Robert de Boscu Earle of Leicester f. 58. b in Hen. the 2 ds time founded the Monastery of Garradon and that of Leicester called St Mary de Pater for de pratis The foundation of this Abby of Garradon ought to have no place in King Stephens time For it was founded by the said Robert de Boscu Earle of Leicester in Henry the 2 ds time that of Leicester in King Stephens XVII He saies The four Knights that slew f. 57. b Thomas Becket Archbishop of Canterbury 30 December Anno 1172. were Reynold Fitzurse or Bereson Hugh Morvile William Tracy and Richard Britton When as t is recorded in Monastichon par 2. folio 607 a. Anglicanum a surer Author That Robertus filius Ranulfi was one of the four Knights that slew Thomas Becket in expiation of which fact he founded the Priory of Beauchef in Derbyshire And for Rich Britton I have seen in an ancient Manuscript Rich le Brut. And instead of 30 December he should have said 29. XVIII That Robert Harding a Burgess of f. 58. b Bristow built the Monastery of St Austins in Bristow Which was the foundation and work of King Henry the 2d according to Monastichon Anglicanum XIX King John gave the Citizens of fo 74. London liberty to alter their Mayor and Sherifs every year which before continued during life And after saies To this time the City had bin 75. govern'd by two Bailifs and at their sute King John granted them a Mayor and two Sherifs to be yearly chosen 9 daies before Michaelmas This is a contradiction in it self but a greater to the truth of History For 't was King Rich. the first who by his Charter Anno 1189 changed the Bailifs of London into a
Mayor and Sherifs XX The title of a Chapter viz. Of f. 91. a King Henry the 3 ds Personage and Conditions with two lines of the subject matter are wholy omitted The Chapter beginning confusedly thus of his eye-lids hanging down an unpardonable fault in the Printer XXI Leolyn Prince of Wales surprizes f. 95. b the Castles of Flint and Rutland This makes some Readers wonder How that Prince should march from Flint to Rutlandshire when as that Castles name in Welch is Ruddlan in our Records Rotholan and Rodolan and is seated in Flintshire XXII Edward the 1. in his 17th year f. 100. a Fineà all his Iudges for corruption Sr Raph Higham cheif Iustice of the higher Bench in 7000 Marks Sr John Loveton Iustice of the lower Bench in 3000 Marks c. These were Sr Raph de Hengham and Sr Iohn Lovetot And where does our Author find those Courts ever called the Higher Bench and Lower Bench but Bancus Regis or Aula Regis and Bancus Communis XXIII In the 12th year of Edward the 1 in fol. 101. a the Quindenes of St Michael the Iustices Itinerants began to go their general Circuit This is a mistake for Camden saies King Henry the 2d sent some Cam. Brit. f. 179. of his Judges and others yearly into every County of the Realm who where called Iustiees Itinerant and commonly Iustices in Eyre which is confirmed by Mr Dugdale who In Orig Juri dic names certain Iustices Itinerant that were sent into Kent Middlesexs Berks c. Anno 16 Hen. 2. XXIV He places the degrading and execution ◠115 a. of Sr Andrew Harkley Earle of Carlisle in the year 1321. Which Sr Edward Coke in his Institutes saies was in Hillary Terme 18 Edward 2d four years after And our Author omits a memorable part of the story That Cam. writes his name Harcla and that more truly when Judgment was pronounced against Sr Andrew his sword broken over his head and his spurs hewn of his heeles Sr Anthony Lucy the Judge said to him Andrew now art thou no Knight but a Knave XXV In Edward the 2 ds time digging the foundation of a work about Pauls f. 117 b were found more then one hundred heads of Oxen and Kine which confirmed the opinion That of old time it had bin the Temple of Jupiter and that there was the Sacrifice of Beasts St Pauls Church had of old been the Temple of Diana For See Cam. Brit. f. 426 in Doctors Commons anciently an appurtenant to that Temple there was a Chamber which retained the name of Diana's Chamber even til the late dreadful Conflagration And our ancient Historians write of Tauropolia Beef-head Sacrifices which were immolated to Diana in that Temple XXVI The Book called Domus Dei ib. which should be Domesday liber judiciarius as the learned Spelman asserts with good reason XXVII King Edward 2d was buried without any funeral Pomp in the Monastery f. 118 b. of St Peter at Glocester by the Benedictine Friers Monks he would have said For there never were any Benedictin Friers XXVIII Our Author tels us That John Sconer Iustice of the Bench among f. 122. b. others was committed to Prison by Edward 3. sub Aº 1339. This was Iohn Stonore who was constituted Iusticiarius ad Pat. 1. 1. 14 Ed. m. 15. Placita coram Rege 16 Oct 14. Edward 2d and was made cheif Justice by Edw 3d Sept. 3. Aº 1330. He lyeth buried in the Abby Church of Dorchester in Com. Oxon. and hath a Monument over him with his effigies in its robes cut in stone He was one of the Ancestors of the Stonors of Stonor in the same County XXIX Speaking of David King of Scots f. 123 b. being with an Army in the Province of Durham he says from thence he passed to the Castle of Salisbury He should have said to the Castle of Werk then belonging to William Montacute Earle of Salisbury and now the Lord Grey of VVerk XXX The next year after all the goods f. 131 b. of 3. Orders of Monks Lombards Cluniacs and Cistercians were seized into the Kings hands These Lombards were an Utopian Order of Monks which all the diligence of the most industrious Dugdale could never discover XXXI Richard Aungervil Bishop of f. 137 b. Durham and Lord Chanceler of England Our Records call him Richard de Bury and say he was both Lord Chanceler and Lord Treasurer of England about the year 1333. XXXII Sr John Dimmock for his Mannor f. 140 a of Scribolvy claims the Office of the Kings Champion And in the Index 't is the Mannor of Scriveling And neither true for t is the mannor of Scrivels by in the County of Line To which the Office of the Kings Champion has bin appurtenant ever since the Coronation of K. Ric. 2. XXXIII About this time Sr John Annesley Knight accused Tho Katrington f. 142 a. Anno 1382 Esq for betraying the Fortress of St Saviour to the French which Katrington denying a solemn Combat is permitted between them wherein through the justness of his cause the Knight prevailed and Katrington the day after the combat dyed Fabian says he was drawn to Tiburn and there hang'd for his false accusation Whereas t is plain that Annesley was the accuser and so the Story is nonsensical XXXIV till this time viz. Rich. 2d women used to ride a stride as men f. 157 b doe This I conceave to be unwarrantable For I have seen in Sr Iohn Cottons famous Library a deed of the Lady Iohanna de Stuttevile made in Henry 3d time with a fair Seal wheron the Lady is sculped sitting sidewaies on horseback with her shield or Coat of armes in her hand XXXV he says New-College in Oxford f. 168 a An. 1379 was built where Noetus College stood Which should be St Neots hall built by K. Alfred at St Neots intreaty if Mr Fox may be credited XXXVI In the sixth year of Henry the 4th f. 168. b the King call'd a Parliament at Coventry and sent Process to the Sherifs that they should choose no Knights nor Burgesses that had any knowledg in the Lawes of the Realm by reason whereof it was called the Laymens Parliament This is repeated three times in less then two leaves And shortly after another Parliament Ibid. was called and named the Unlearned Parliament either for the unlearneáness of their persons or for their malice to learned men This which our Author divides into two Parliaments was but one and the same improperly by him called The Laymens Parliament which Walsingham and the Parliament Rols of 6. Hen. 4. call Parliamentum Indoctorum by reason the Lawyers were excluded XXXVII That Queen Katharine wife to fol. 175. b Anno 1421. Henry 5th was Crowned at VVestminster upon St Mathews day the 4th of February and so I find it in former Impressions Every Almanac would have told him that neither is
feild and lyes buried in Christs Church Cathedral at Oxford where there was a Monnument lately laid over his body by one of his Relations XLVII Our Author speaking of a mutinous f. 303. a. Commotion at Exeter in Devonshire says All this while the Lord Russel Lord Privy Seal who had bin sent down to suppress the Commotion lay at Huntington expecting more forces As if Huntington were the ready rode from London to Exeter Perhaps he intended Honnyton XLVIII Sr Thomas was instituted Lord of St Johns of Hierusalem f. 320. b. He leaves us to ghess who this Sr Thomas was and to beleeve he intended to say Lord Prior of St Johns XLIX King Edw. 3. made Kerry in f. 374. b. Ireland a County Palatine and granted to the Earles of Desmond all Royol libertyes excepting Wreck by fire Forestall and Treasure trove This Wreck by fire is a pretty word yet Wreck by water had bin better But there is nothing of Wreck in the Case if you wil beleeve Camden who saies Brit. tit County of Kerry That King granted to the Earle all Regal Liberties except four Pleas namely of Burning Rape Forstal and Treasure trouve L About this time Henry Fitz f. 380. a. Alan Earle of Arundel dyed in whom the Sirname of a most noble family ended which had flourished in this Honor for above 300. years from Richard Fitzalan who being descended from the Abbanets ancient Earles of Arundel and Sussex in the reign of King Edward 1. obtained the title of Earle by reason of the possession of Arundel Castle without Creation He had 3 daughters by his wife Katherine Daughter to Thomas Grey Marques Dorset all whom he out lived Henry a young man of great hope who dyed at Brussels Jean Wife to the Lord Lumley and Mary who being married to Thomas Howard Duke of Norfolk brought forth Philip in her right Earle of Arundel Here the Albanets is mistaken for Albeneys or D'aubeneys and the reign of Edward the 1. for Henry 1. And when he comes to particularize the 3. Daughters of Richard Fitzalan he names Henry a young man Joan and Mary Of which thus Camden Sr John Fitz Alan Lord of Clun Cam. Brit. f. 309 who having married one of the sisters and heyrs of Hugh de Albeney fifth Earle of Arundel and Sussex his great Grandson Richard by reason of his possession of the Castle of Arundel was by Parl. adjudged to be E. of Arundel 11 Hen. 6. LI Soon after him dyed Sr John Crofts who had don good service in f. 400. a. Scotland in Edw the Sixths time This was Sr James Croft of Croft Castle in Herefordshire great Grandfather to Herbert Croft at present Lord Bishop of Hereford a Family of very ancient extraction and this Sr James was by Q. Eliz. made Governor of Berwic and soon after Comptroller of her House LII 19 February 1594 Henry Prince of Scotland was born to whom the f. 403 a. Queen was Godmother and sent Robert Earle of Sussex for her Deputy Which should be Robert Earl of Essex LIII It was now the year 1596 says our f. 406. b. Author when Thomas Arundell of Warder returned into England from the war in Hungary against the Turk whom for his good service don there the Emperor by his Letters Patents had created Earle of the sacred Empire c. And afterward he says King James made f. 428. b. Thomas Arundell of Devonshire Lord Arundell of Warder This to a common Reader will seem to be two severall Thomas Arundells For VVarder is in Wiltshire and his principall Seat and to Devonshire he had no relation Besides our Author makes not that honorable mention of a Person of that singular valor and Desert who had gain'd so much honor abroad to the English Nation as he justly deserv'd For among other examples of his Gallantry he threw down with his own hand the Turkish standard at the seige of Strigomium in Hungary now called Gran and encourag'd his Ensign Rook Church to advance the Christian Colors in its place Which with much more in his due praise will best appear by Quen Elizabeths commendatory Letters of him to the Emperor Rudolphus and his Imperial Majesties Letters Patent of Creation a true Copy of the first and an abstract of the other which is vere long are here exhibited and deserve a place in the best of English Cronicles Elizabetha Dei gratiâ Angliae Franciae et Hiberniae Regina Fidei Defensor c. Serenissimo Potentissimo Principi ac Domino Rudolpho divinâ favente Clementiâ Romanorum Imperatori semper Augusto Fratri Consanguineo amico nostro charissimo Salutem rerum prosperarum foelicissima incrementa Serenissimè Princeps Frater Consanguinee noster charissime Is qui has perfert Thomas Arundelius Consanguineus noster perdilectus Adolescens in melioribus liter is probe institutus ad rerum usum colligendum nobilium Provinciarum mores perdiscendos in Germaniam hoc tempore aliasque nonnullas Europae regiones proficiscitur Ideoque suppliciter à nobis discedens petiit ut se Imperatoriae tuae Majestati literis nostris commendaremus Quod nos pro nostra in optimae spei Adolescentem nobis sanguinis propinquitate conjunctum charitate fecimus perlibentèr orantes summoperè Majestatem tuam ut Thomam hunc non solùm in Imperio clementèr protegas principali favore juves verùm etiam literis si Italiam Regnúmve Neopolitanum petere volet de mulieri notâ commendare velis Hoc ut nobis pergratum erit sic nos vicissim Imperatoriam tuam Majestatem sororiis omnibus officiis demereri studebimus Quam Deus Opt. Max. in omni florente foelicitate diutissimè conservet Dat. ex Palatio nostro VVestmonasterii die decimo Februarii Anno Domini M.D.LXXIXo. Regni verò nostri vicesimo secundo Vestrae Ser tis bona soror Consanguinea ELIZABETH R. Rudolphus secundus Divina favente clementia Electus Romanorum Imperator semper Augustus c. Illustri sincerè nobis dilecto Thomae Arundelio nostro sacri Romani Imperii Comiti gratiam nostram Caesaream omne bonum Considerantes itaque perantiquam illustrem generis tui originem in inclito Angliae Regno ex stemmate Regio qâ—emadmodum antehac ex Serenissimae Principis Dominae Elizabethae Reginae Anglia Franciae Hibereiae sororis consanguineae nostrae clarissimae literis ac testimonia accepimus due is insignes etiam virtutes quibus illustre genus tuum magis ac magis domi ferisque illustras at liberalibus primum disciplinis pectus imbueris peregrinas provincias adieris multorum mores multorum urbes videris magnum rerum usum acquisieris ut denique tandem in hoc sacro quod contra communem Christiani nominis Hostem Turcam gerimus bello raro ac singulari zelo excitus tam longinquis ac remotis ex partibus in Hungariam propriis
we find Sr Francis Eaglesfeild for Englefeild Sr VVilliam Therrold for Thorold Sr Henry Hâ—rn for Hen Sr Iohn Husband for Huband Sr John VVray for Kay Sr Henry Green of Sonpford for Sr Edw Green of Samford Sr Anthony Archer for Aucher Barker for Baker Clare for Clere with a number more Besides the mistake of many of the names of their cheif Dwellings and ancient Seats In so much as of 704 Baronets conteyned in the List I noted above 100 mistakes of some of the kinds here mentioned ANIMADVERSIONS upon Sr Richard Baker's Cronicle I OUr Author saies The eleventh King of Kent was Withred who Fol. 5. 6. founded the Priory of Merton at Dover I do not find any such Priory founded by that King at Dover or elsewhere Camden saies Dover had a fair Church consecrated Britan f 344. to St Martin founded by Withred Wightred son of Egbert King of Kent and an House of the Knights Templars without mention of any Priory of Merton there And Bishop Parker in his Antiq. Britan. agrees in effect with Camden Howbeit there was a Priory at Merton in Surry founded by King Henry the first II The ninth King of the East Saxons f. 6. a was Sebba who after 30 years peaceable reign relinquish'd the Crown and took upon him a Religious habit in the Monastery of St Paul London There was never any Monastery properly so called of St Paul in London Howbeit Bede saies That this holy King took the habit of religion brought Waldhere then Bishop of London a great sum of money to be distributed to the poor and was buried in St Pauls Church III That King Edmund was slain at his f. 10. b Mannor of Pucklekerk by interposing himself to part a fray betwixt two of his servants This is otherwise related by Mr Hist of Engl fo 231. Milton out of the Saxon Annals viz. That King Edmund received a mortal wound in the brest with a dagger by one Leof a noted Theif whom the King had banished yet finding him at the Table among his Nobles at a Feast the King was so much moved that by offering to attach him the Villain gave Him his deaths wound IV That King Canutus set himself to the f. 26. a making of good Lawes in a Parliament at Oxford And soon after he saies That King fo 40. Henry the first did first institute the forme of the high Court of Parliament And neither true For the word Parliamentum to denote a Parliamentary great Council was never used in any of the ancient great Councils Synods Lawes Charters or Records nor yet in any of our old Historians living in the raigns of our Saxon or Danish Kings before or of our Norman or English Kings after the Conquest til the reign of King Henry the 3d as you may read in Sr Henry Spelmans Glossary verbo Parliamentum The first Record wherein the word is so used is Claus 28 Hen. 3d. mem 12. dorso according to Mr Prin in his Animadversions Before which time it was called Concilium magnum Commune Concilium Regni Magnatum Conventus and the like V Our Author after he has laid blemishes f. 18. b on Edward the pious King and Confessor of severity to his Mother Queene Emma and unkindnesse to his wife Editha concludes So as what the vertues were for which after his death he should be reputed a Saint doth not easily appear My thinks this is irreverently said of so great a King of this Nation and a Confessor as our Author himself calls him Though his Mother had been unkind to him yet her pious Son was in a manner enforced to permit her to passe the severe trial of Fier Ordeal by the importunity of Robert a Norman Bishop and other her enemies who bore great sway in the government But when the pious King saw her innocence cleered he with many tears and sighs begged her pardon and not content to restore her and Bromton fo 942. Alwin Bishop of Winchester accused with her to their liberty and possessions he moreover in punishment of his credulity obliged them both to inflict on him a disciplin on the bare back Besides this in penance for having permitted his Mother to be Camd. in Dor. set so unjustly accused he bestowed on the Church of VVinchester the Isle of Portland with other possessions c. Next his unkindness to Editha his Queen Consort is assigned to his not conversing with her as a wife onely at board but not at bed or if at bed no otherwise then David with Abishah c. For cleering this you may read Capgrave and other ancient Authors cited by him who affirm It was by mutual agreement that they both consecrated their Virginity to God Then for his Sanctity he is recorded to have been ful of Devotion humility and Charity He rebuilt that most magnificent Spel. in CoÌ„cil â— f. 636 Church at VVestmister dedicated to St Peter a Church which that Age could not parallel either for the august Majesty or excellent contrivance of the building for that Church afforded to posterity a pattern of framing Churches in the figure of a Crosse as Sr Henry Spelman sayes Having thus built the Church he most liberally endowed it with possessions and adorn'd it with privileges exemptions a most famous Sanctuary and many other royal gifts During this pious Kings reign all the Houses of God saies another Author prosper'd wonderfully for he himselfe spared not his Treasure in adorning them and encouraged others to do the like T was this pious King that first miraculously cured the Kings Ealred in vita S. Edwardi evil and left that royal vertue hereditary to his successors Kings of England which yet at this day our Author saies is ordinary with Kings but cannot shew where any other King pretends to the like Except the Kings of France who as Dupleix the French Historian observes never had that vertue til King Philip the first and his son Lewis's time wherein they are posterior to the Kings of England He also founded saies our Author the College of St Mary Ottery in Devonshire and gave unto it the village of Ottery And was just in his government which lasted 23 years and six moneths These to omit other vertues works of piety and miracles recorded by some Authors might reasonably if wel considered have wrought in our Author a disposition of the word Saint Besides we read at the end of f. 761 our Authors book that St Edwards Staff St Edwards Scepter and St Edwards Crown were born before his Majesty at his Coronation 23 April 1661 And in another place our Author saies That to carry St Edwards Crown before the King at a Coronation is the greatest honor that can be given a subject Which surely argues some more then ordinary estimation and reverence for this pious King in whose memory by the decree of a Synod held at Oxford Ao. 1162 a festival day was ordaind on the 13th
St Mathews day in February nor St Mathias on the 4th but the 24th XXXVIII Our Author tels us of an unkindness fol. 184. b which brake out between the Duke of Bedford Regent of France and the Duke of Burgoigne A time and place saies he was appointed for them to meet to compound some differences The place agreed upon was St Omers a Town in Burgoigne when the time came they stood upon this nice point Which of them should first come to the place as thinking he that did so should thereby acknowledge himself to be the meaner person The Duke of Richmond thought he had no reason to doe it seeing he was Regent of France and therefore superior to any subject in the Kingdome And the Duke of Burgoigne thought he had no reason to do it seeing it was to be done in his own Dominions where he was himself the Soveraigne Lord. Upon this nice point they parted without meeting This Duke of Bedford on the 14th of Sept. 1435. ended his life at Paris and was buried in our Ladies Church at Roan where as the nobility of Normandy much repined who would have had their own Territory honord with his Sepulchre c. Here are not a few mistakes 1. St Omers is in Artois and so no part of Burgoigne 2. He varies the Duke of Bedfords name into Duke of Richmond and in the same page saies he was Earle of Richmond which confounds an unknowing Reader For though Earle not Duke of Richmond were one of his many Titles yet Bedford was the first and most known Suppose we had occasion to mention the present Duke of Buckingham and in the same Paragraph should say the Earle of Coventry This would seem absurd though it be also one of his Titles but not the principal that by which he is usually styled 3. They parted without meeting is an incongruous expression but let it pass 4. He dyed not on the 14th but 13th of Sept. as appears by this his Epitath yet to be seen in Nostredame Church at Roan Cy gist feu de noble memoire haut puissant Prince Iean en son vivant Regent du Royaume de France Duc de Bethfort Pour lequel est fondè un Messe estre par chacun iour perpetuellement celebre en cest Autel par le College des Clementines incontinent apres Prime Et trespassa le 13 Septembre 1435. Au quel 13 iour Semblablement est fondè pour luy un Obit en cest Esglise Dieu face pardon à son Ame. 5. That He was buried in our Ladyes Church at Roan the cheif City of Normandy yet the Nobility of Normandy repind at it because not buried in their Territory seems a contradiction XXXIX Among men of note in Hen. 6. time Our Author puts down Peter f. 201. a. Clerk a Student in Oxford and within eight lynes Peter Paine an earnest professor of Wicklifs Doctrine c. This was one and the same person whose name we find written Peter Clerk alias Paine XL Among men of note in Edward f. 218. b. the 4th time our Author puts down Julian Bemes a Gentleman saies he of excellent gifts who wrote certain Treatises of Hawking and Hunting c. A wonderful Conversion This was a woman and her name Juliana Barnes her works are yet extant XLI He says Richard Fox Aº 1485 f. 237 b. was made Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal and Bishop of Winchester and so far he is in the right But in the very next page he says Richard Fox lately made Bishop of Exeter Besides he mistimes it For Richard Fox was not made Bishop of Winchestter til the year 1502. according to Dr Godwyn's History of Bishops XLII And upon the matter was to be disloyal to King Henry but for f. 242. b. want of better and withall it strook upon a string which Here we have not tactus Physicus neither Grammer nor sence XLIII This Edward Bohun Duke of f. 267. Anno 1520. Buckingham was the last High Constable of England the greatest place next the High Steward in the Kingdom Here are as many errors as lines This Edward Bohun should be Edward Stafford the Bohuns were Earles of Essex and Hereford and Humfry the last Eale of that family dyed Anno 1371. according to Dr Heylin 2. He had several High Constables since as the Earle of Lindsey for the intended Trial between the Lord Ree and Ramsey the Earle of Northumberland at the Coronation of his Majesty that now is c. But he might have said and truely that this Edward Duke of Buckingham was the last Hereditary High Constable of England and that he was decended from an heir female of Bohun 3. The Lord High Constables place is before the Lord High Steward XLIV That St Austin gave credit to many f. 282. b. lying Miracles T is boldly said for fo 5. a. he says Ethelbert was the first Saxon Christian King of this Island converted by Austin the Monk c. Why does he call him St Austin since he thinks he had so weak a Judgment or so little Faith as not to discern Miracles from lyes And we read in Doctor Fullers Church History fo 57 and 68. of the Miracles done by f. 140. St Austin And even Milton says King Ethelbert was converted by Miracles Besides our Author imposes upon our beleif divers later Miracles one in particuler f. 310. b. relating to the body of one Arden murderd in Kent in Edward sixt's time XLV But we shal do him Henry 8. f. 299. a. extreme wrong to think that all the bloud shed in his time was of his shedding they were the Bishops that were the Draco to make the bloudy Lawes the Bishops that were the Phalaris to put them in execution It seems our Author was no friend to the Bishops else he might have remembred that that King did not spare even the Bishops themselves as Rochester and others and needed no other incentives to severity then his own Nature XLVI The Duke of Somerset at the Battle of Muscleborough made three f. 302. a. Bannerets which is a dignity above a Knight and next to a Baron and these were the last that from that time to this did ever receave this dignity Baneret is not properly a dignity above a Knight but an addition of honor to a Knight nor is it next in place to a Baron since Knights of the Garter in those times did and Baronets in these do precede them that is such Banerets as these made by a subject but such Banerets as are made sub vexillis regijs in exercitu regali do take place of all Baronets according to the decree of King Iames. And 10 14. Jac. in contradiction to the last part The Continuator says Sr Iohn Smith for rescuing the Kings Standard Royal at the Battle of fo 543. a Edgehill was made a Baneret when as he was onely a Knight Bachiler dub'd Honorably in the
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