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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.