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
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
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