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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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stipendiis nobis militatum veneris teque in apertis praeliis in Civitatum Castrorum oppugnationibus ita fortitèr ac strenuè tegesseris ut omnibus Nationibus admirationi Nobisque a Serenissimo Principe Archiduce Mathia Fratre nostro charissimo a primariis Exercitus nostri Fraefectis majorem in modum commendatus fueris insigni hoc inter alia fortitudinis exemplo spectato quod in expugnatione oppidi agnatici juxta Strigonium vexillum Turcis tua manu eripueris in principiis tempore pugnae te spectandum praebueris c. Motu itaque proprio c. te supradictum Thomam Arundelium qui jam antè Comitum consanguin itatem à Majoribus acceptam in Anglia obtines omnesque singulos liberos haeredes posteros descendentes tuos legitimos natos utriusque sexus aeternaque serie nascituros etiam veros Sacri Romani Imperii Comites Comitissas creavimus fecimus nominavimus c. Datum in Arce nostra Regia Pragae die 14. mensis Dec. An. Dom. 1595. RUDOLPHUS At the bottom of the Patent are found these words Erectio in Comitem Imperii pro Thomâ Arundelio LIV. And two Fosters brothers of the Earle of Kildare whose death f. 408. b. How could these Fosters be brothers to the Earle of Kildare whose name was Fitz-Girald But we must lay the fault on the Printer and guess he intended to say Foster brothers LV. In the Town of Ossestry in Wales f. 419. b. 200 houses consumed with fire By this he intends Oswestre or Oswaldstre in Shropshire It taking Cam. Brit. f. 597. name from Saint Oswald King of the Northumbers LVI In the first year of King Iames in f. 44◠b. a Parliament then holden it was enacted That neither Archbishop nor Bishop should alienate grant or demise or in any sort convey no not to the King himself any of their Houses lands tenements or hereditaments being percels of the possession of his Archbishopric or Bishopric By this Act of Parliament as it is here misrecited the unknowing Reader wil judge that neither Archbishop nor Bishop has power to demise or let Leases of any of their lands c. to any person whatsoever Whereas this Act of 1 Iac. 3. recites that of 18. Eliz. whereby they are enabled to demise or let Leases for XXI years or 3 lives and disable them onely from alienating giving granting or demising any of their Mannors lands c. to the King his heirs or Successors LVII Under the title of Works of Piety f. 443. b. our Author tels us that VVhere K. James at his coming found onely four Judges in the Courts of Law at VVestminster he added a fifth with the like allowance as the former had By this expression he would insinuate as if there never had bin but 4 Iudges in each Court Whereas our Records testify that both in Edward the thirds Hen. See Orig juridic in the Cron. Series 6. and Edwards the 4th time there were usually five Judges sometimes 6. or 7. in the Court of Common Pleas. LVIII In the year 1609 so great a Frost as f. 445. a. much herbage in gardens were destroyd especially Artichokes and Rosemary This had been fitter for an Almanac then a Cronicle since winter scapes us without such lamentable disasters LVIII The Isles of Bermudas are above f. 448. a. three thousand three hundred Leagues distant from England This out-goes Truth full two thirds it being but 930 Leagues or there abouts ANIMADVERSIONS on the Continuation LIX THat the Lords Iustices in Ireland f. 473. a. delivering some Priests and Friars into the hands of Pursuivants seized their Houses of Religion into the Kings hands two Priests hang'd themselves at the apprehension of this as they then call'd it persecution This the Continuator places in the year 1631. and probably many persons are yet alive who might remember it had it been a truth But I can meet with none that own it for such Therefore it must at best pass as apocryphal LX. This year 1634 Generall Alldringer f. 474. b. was slain at Lansbut and the whole Army totaly routed by the King of Hungary and the Cardinal Infaule at the Battle of Norlington This General Aldringer was not slain at Lansbut but neer Lanshut and before the Battle of Nortlinghen not Norlington which was 6 Sept. 1634. where the King of Hungary and Cardinal Infante not Infaule were victors LXI The French by their insolencies f. 475. a. at Diet and Tellemont inflamed and encouraged the peoples hearts against them Here Diet being false written for Diest and the Character not changed a common Reader would think he meant the French were insolent at their meat but Diest and Tellemont are two Townes in lower Germany LXII Our Continuator tels us that in f. 532. a. the year 1640 the Parliament passed a Pole Bill therein the whole Kingdome was assessed and among others Knights Bachilers at 201 Esquires at 10l and every Gentleman dispending 100l Per An. 15l Which last is doubtlesse a mistake though the Act is not Printed among our Statutes for 't were very unreasonable a Gentleman of 110l a year should pay more then an Esquire who seldome has lesse that 500l Per An. LXIII The Religion of the Scots is founded f. 532. b. on more pious Principles then that of the Irish I hope our Continuator does not think it was any branch of their pious Principles to sell their own native King Besides he says in the very next page It was generally said the late Insurection we must not call it Rebellion in Scotland gave the first encouragement to that in Ireland the pretences were many of them the same namely Liberty of Conscience LXIV The King having set up his Standard f. 540. b. at Nottingham moved on slowly with those forces he had through Darby shire Staffordshire Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire and so on to Shrewsbury Our Continuator it seems is but meanly skild in the Geography of his owne Country For if he were to go from the Royal Exchange to VVestminster he might in like order go to Ludgate Long-lane Cateaten street Threadnedle street and so on to Westminster LXV He tells us of the surrendry of f. 567. a. Oxford in pursuance of a Trinity wherein among other Commissioners for the beseiged he names Colonel Gosvell and Thomas Chrisly Esquier Two strange names mistaken I beleeve for Colonel Gosnel or Gosnold and Thomas Chichley LXVI Cromwel and Ireton who yet wish'd well to the King did what they f. 574. b. could to oppose I think few but the Continuator himself do beleeve they ever wish'd well to Him I 'm sure we could never hear or see any visible tokens of it LXVII Our Continuator puts down among f. 593. a. those ever to be detested Judges of King Charles the first of blessed memory Thomas Adams Alderman of London Which is an unpardonable injury
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