ANIMAD VERSIONS UPON Sr RICHARD BAKER'S CHRONICLE AND It 's CONTINUATION Wherein many Errors are discover'd and some Truths advanced By T. B. Esq Cicero de Orat. Prima est Historiae Lex ne quid falsi dicere audeat deinde ne quid veri non audeat OXON Printed by H. H. for Ric. Davis 1672. The PREFACE SInce Cronicles are the public Records of a Nation I wonder'd not a little to see Sr Rich Bakers twice Printed by it self and three times with a Continuation and no person learned in our History of England or concern'd in the actions of the late Rebellion or in the adulteration of his own or his Ancestors Name or Title should impugn it being stuff'd with so many contradictions and repetitions so many mistimings and mistakings as of other things of moment so especially of the Pedegrees Names and Place of our ancient Nobility Bishops Baronets Gentry c. For. Non ego paucis Offendor maculis And yet the wonder increased to see the Continuator a person as it appears of incompetent parts for so great an undertaking presume to dedicate a Work so many ways imperfect to the Kings most excellent Majestie of whom as Cicero said to Caesar nil vulgare dignum videre possit As I am conscious this Age affords many more knowing in our English History then my self so doubtless the publishing their Notions had been very necessary that the public Cronicle of our Nation might have had the true properties of a Record which are Vetustatis veritatis vestigia But finding in all this time no stop put to so great a stream of Error by any better Hand I thought my self oblig'd to lay these few Animadversions in the way lest such muddy waters should at last totally overflow the land of Truth Nor have I presumed herein to intermeddle with the affairs of State and those great revolutions in the raign of King CHARLES the first of ever blessed memory Though I am wel assured the Continuator has in many passages neither don right to His sacred Memory nor to those of his subjects who most faithfully serv'd Him For the Errors which slip'd Sr Rich. Bakers pen some Excuses may be assign'd as old Age and the confinement of a Prison c. but none for that his confident Assertion upon which the Continuator builds much in his Preface That this Cronicle was collected with so great care and diligence That if all other of our Cronicles should be lost this onely would be sufficient to inform posterity of all passages memorable and worthy to be known Sr Rich acknowledges his VVork to be a Collection out of other Author wherein he took up some Coin upon content which was not sterling and that wherein he onely excell'd was the digesting the whole into a better Method yet he confesses some Passages he might have said many are omitted in the reign of King James which was the tyme he liv'd in and had bin fit for the Continuator to have supply'd who instead thereof has sweld the Continuation into such a Bulk of indigested matter as is not at all sutable to the rest of the History Besides the many failings both of the Author and Continuator the Printer has with supine negligence added a grosse number of Errata's without any advertisement of them but leaving all upon the Authors account yet the understanding Reader wil for the most part discern which ought to be laid at the Authors Study dore and which at the Printers Case If particular information may be rely'd on we may ere long expect a compleater Cronicle of the Kings of England with a more exact and impartial account of the late Rebellion and the happy restauration of his Majesty from a Hand better qualified for such an undertaking Mean time these few leaves not taking in a Third of what is justly lyable to exception may help to rectify some of the Errors already printed and may contribute in some measure towards the observing a greater care and exactnesse in publishing Books of so general a concern in time to come Errors Committed in the printing PAg. 6. lin ult Auther for Author p. 10. l. 8. praefix'd for prefix'd p. 12. 25. l. 1. Barker's for Baker's p. 41. l. 9 where for were p. 57. l. 5. Eale for Earle p. 63. nu 50. l. 7. Abbanets for Albanets p. 85. l. 3. Continua for Continuator p. 88. nu 73. to Mr Woolfs add at p. 89. nu 74. l. 5. acscended for ascended p. 99. l. 7. perticularly for particularly ANIMADVERSIONS On the Catalogue of Writers THe first thing we meet with after the Dedication and Preface is A Catalougue of Writers both ancient and modern out of whom this Cronicle hath been collected Gildas Britanicus Sir named the Num. 1. wise the first Writer of our English Nation When as there were no lesse then threescore before him as Leland Baleus and Pitseus attest And I take it this Gildas for there were two of them was called Badonicus because born in the same year the great Battle was fought between the Britains and Saxons at the mountain Badonicus Ethelwardus a Writer next to Bede 4. the most ancient This is also a mistake for he flourished not til the year 925 which was after Sigebert whom our Author mentions Radulphus de Diceto or Dicetentis 5. who lived about the year 685. He lived not til the year 1210 as may be seen in his Chronicle printed about xx years Since Asserius Menevensis Bishop of Salisbury 9. lived about the year 890. A gross mistake for no Bishops See was setled at Salisbury til after the Conquest There was indeed one Asserus Bishop of Sherburne Anno 880 and continued so but 4 years Osbertus a Benedictine Monk wrote 11. the life of For Osbernus Cantuariensis a Benedictine Monk and Chantor of Canterbury Culmanus Anglicus writ a Cronicle 12. and lived about the year 1040 He should have said Colemannus sapiens who flourished An. 1200. Gulielmus Gemetecensis lived Aº 1135. 13. He flourished in the year 1160. Ingulphus Abhot of Croyland lived 18 in the time of william the first He dyed in the year 1109 which was in the 9th year of Henry the first Turgotus an English man first Dean 19. of Durham c. lived in the year 1098. This Turgotus was not first Dean of Durham but Prior and is called in latin Authors Turgotus Dunelmensis He dyed An 1115. Gnalterus Mappaeus writ a book denugis 21. Curialium and lived about the Conquerors time His name is Mape Latin'd by writers Mapus His book in MS. is in the Bodleyan Library He flourished in the year 1210 long after the Conquerors time And I think his Book affords nothing for our Authors purpose Raradocus born in Wales 25. for Caradocus Lancarvanensis Gervasius Derobernensis lived about the year 1120. 26. Which should be 1200. Johannes Fiberius commonly called de Bever lived about the year 1110. 27.
This Iohannes Fiberius was otherwise called Castorius and flourished not til the later end of Edward the first 's time about the year 1306. Radulphus de Rizeto Which should be Radulphus de Diceto 45. and is mentioned before num 5. but this is the more proper place for him in point of time Thomas Spottey a Benedictine Frier 48. of Canterbury His name was Sport or Spot a Benedictine Monk Matthaeus Westmonasteriensis lived 49. about the year 1307 for 1377 Mathew Paris wrote a History 51. from Will 1. to the last year of Hen. 3. and lived about the time of K. Edward 3. Mistakes enough Math. Paris dyed many years before Edw 3. time viz. Aº 1259. To which year he brought down his History and after his death it was continued for some years by another Bartholomeus Anglicus wrote a 53. Cronicle of the Scots His right Sirname was Glanvile he did not write a Cronicle de Scotis but a History de Sanctis Alex. Essebiensis Prior of the monastery 55. of Regular Canons lived in the year 1360. By the word the we are to beleive there was but one Monastery of that Order of which there were many this Auther flourished in the year 1220. John Froyssart born in the Low Countrys writ a Cronicle ending 56. with Henry the 4th He was born at Hennault in Flanders His History ends in the year 1400 which is the first year of Hen. 4th Thomas Rodburn an English man 58. and a Bishop wrote a Cronicle and lived 1412. He was Bishop of St Davids but the Cronicle our Author aims at was written by another Thomas Rodburn a monk of Hide Abby who lived Ao. 1480. and is extant in M.S. in Lambeth Library John Trevisa born in Glocestershire 59. He was born in Cornwall John Capgrave born in Kent a Hermit 61. Friar He was an Augustin Friar of Canterbury John Lydgate Monk of St. Edmunds 62. bury lived in the year 1470. in the time of King Edw. the 4th He dyed in the year 1440 tempore Hen. 6. Doctor Goodwin Bishop of Hereford 78. wrote and lived in the time of Q. Eliz. He means Doctor Francis Godwin Bishop who lived in the time of K. James and K. Charles 1. and dyed Anno 1633. Doctor Heyward writ the History of 79. This was Sr John Heyward Knight Doctor of Law Thomas Cowper Bp of VVinchester 83. writ Chronicle notes of all Nations These notes were written by Tho Lanquet and onely continued for some years by Cowper Nicholas Harpsfeild hath written 88. a Chronicle of all the Bishops of England He wrote an Ecclesiastical History of England in folio but no such Cronicle of Bishops was ever before heard of John Speed a Londoner wrote 90. He was born in Ches-shire William Abington Esquire hath 91. written His name was Habington c. These Notes have been with some pains collected out of Leland Bale Pits and other Authors of good authority to shew the mistakes and anticronisms of our Author even in his first Effort who thinking to give a greater reputation to his Book has not without much suspition of vanity praefix'd a Catalogue of 93. Authors Ancient and Modern out of whom he saies his Chronicle is collected of which number it may justly be suspected he never saw above the one half otherwise he could not without great inadvertence so grosly have mistaken what is here noted Besides if his wine had bin good it would not have needed such a Bash ANIMADVERSIONS on the Catalogue of the Nobility Bishops Baronets c. BEfore we come to the Book it self the Continuator has thought fit to entertain the Reader with an Antipast consisting of a Catalogue of the Nobility Bishops and Baronets of England which is so ill cook'd that it must needs offend the understanding Readers stomac especially that dish of the Baronets Thomas Howard Duke of Norfolk Baron John Howard his Ancestor created Duke of Norfolk by King Rich. 3d July 4. 1483. whose ancestor Sr John Howard Knight was created a Baron in 1461. by King Edward 4. and afterwards by Richard 3. was created Duke June 28. 1483. If this were true there should be two Dukes of Norfolk and both Howards created by the same K. Rich within 7. daies one of another But this Baron John Howard and Sr Iohn Howard was one and the same person not created Baron but made so by Writ of Summons For thus Camden Iohn Lord Howard who was summond Brit. fol. 483. a Baron to Parliament by Edw. 4 was created Duke of Norfolk by Rich. 3d. and his son Thomas created Earle of Surry It is an ill proof of the Continuators skil in Heraldry thus to mistake the Pedegree of the Primier Peer of the Realm William Cavendish Duke of Baron Bolsomer twice for Bolsover Edward Fines Earle of Lincoln for Fiennes His true name is Clinton William Ley Earle of Marleburgh whose father James was created Earle Iames Ley was the first Earle Henry his son the 2d and Iames the 3d who was slain at Sea in the late war with the Dutch and leaving no issue the title went to his uncle William yet living Henry Germaine Earle of St Albans and Baron Germaine of St Edmundsbury should be Iermyn in both places Archbishops and Bishops Gilbert Shelden for Sheldon John Couzens for Cousin William Fuller consecrated Bishop of in Ireland add Limerick Aº 1663. Davies Bishop of Landaff add Francis BARONS Nevil Baron of Abergavenny created by King Harold the second A grosse mistake The rise of the Lord Bergavenny's honor was by writ of Summons and not by Patent of Creation VVilliam Beauchamp de Bergavenny was first called by writ in 16. Ric. 2d. And Edw. Nevile de Bergavenny was first Summond to Parliament in 29. Hen. 6. James Barfue Baron Norris for Bertue Smith Baron Carington of Worton in England and Viscount Carington of Barefore in Ireland which should be Baron of Wotton-VVawen in England and Viscount Berisford in Ireland William Widdington Baron Widdington for VViddrington John Freshville Baron Freshville and elsewhere Fretswell for Freschevile Thomas Windzor Baron Windzor for VVindesor The Lord Howard of Estrich for Escrick in severall places of the Continuation BARONETS In the Catalogue of Baronets about twenty are totally omitted divers are postpon'd from their true place whereby disputes have arisen touching precedency For say some what more obliging authority can you have in that behalfe Then the English Cronicle not considering that these Catalogu's are published without any licence or authority from the Kings at Armes the proper Registers Approvers and Judges herein Again many of these Baronets names are so grosly mistaken that the Reader had need be a little skilld in Divinails to raise a conjecture who are meant by them for Example num num  137 Sr. Iohn Hornet 184 Sr. VVill Skerington 323 Sr. Iohn Rarisly 468 Sr. Hugh Smithford 558 Sr. Charles Koyde c. Then
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