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A28457 Animadversions upon Sr. Richard Baker's Chronicle, and its continuation wherein many errors are discover'd, and some truths advanced / by T.B., Esq. Blount, Thomas, 1618-1679. 1672 (1672) Wing B3327; ESTC R6294 24,738 120

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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.
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