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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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St Mathews day in February nor St Mathias on the 4th but the 24th XXXVIII Our Author tels us of an unkindness fol. 184. b which brake out between the Duke of Bedford Regent of France and the Duke of Burgoigne A time and place saies he was appointed for them to meet to compound some differences The place agreed upon was St Omers a Town in Burgoigne when the time came they stood upon this nice point Which of them should first come to the place as thinking he that did so should thereby acknowledge himself to be the meaner person The Duke of Richmond thought he had no reason to doe it seeing he was Regent of France and therefore superior to any subject in the Kingdome And the Duke of Burgoigne thought he had no reason to do it seeing it was to be done in his own Dominions where he was himself the Soveraigne Lord. Upon this nice point they parted without meeting This Duke of Bedford on the 14th of Sept. 1435. ended his life at Paris and was buried in our Ladies Church at Roan where as the nobility of Normandy much repined who would have had their own Territory honord with his Sepulchre c. Here are not a few mistakes 1. St Omers is in Artois and so no part of Burgoigne 2. He varies the Duke of Bedfords name into Duke of Richmond and in the same page saies he was Earle of Richmond which confounds an unknowing Reader For though Earle not Duke of Richmond were one of his many Titles yet Bedford was the first and most known Suppose we had occasion to mention the present Duke of Buckingham and in the same Paragraph should say the Earle of Coventry This would seem absurd though it be also one of his Titles but not the principal that by which he is usually styled 3. They parted without meeting is an incongruous expression but let it pass 4. He dyed not on the 14th but 13th of Sept. as appears by this his Epitath yet to be seen in Nostredame Church at Roan Cy gist feu de noble memoire haut puissant Prince Iean en son vivant Regent du Royaume de France Duc de Bethfort Pour lequel est fondè un Messe estre par chacun iour perpetuellement celebre en cest Autel par le College des Clementines incontinent apres Prime Et trespassa le 13 Septembre 1435. Au quel 13 iour Semblablement est fondè pour luy un Obit en cest Esglise Dieu face pardon à son Ame. 5. That He was buried in our Ladyes Church at Roan the cheif City of Normandy yet the Nobility of Normandy repind at it because not buried in their Territory seems a contradiction XXXIX Among men of note in Hen. 6. time Our Author puts down Peter f. 201. a. Clerk a Student in Oxford and within eight lynes Peter Paine an earnest professor of Wicklifs Doctrine c. This was one and the same person whose name we find written Peter Clerk alias Paine XL Among men of note in Edward f. 218. b. the 4th time our Author puts down Julian Bemes a Gentleman saies he of excellent gifts who wrote certain Treatises of Hawking and Hunting c. A wonderful Conversion This was a woman and her name Juliana Barnes her works are yet extant XLI He says Richard Fox Aº 1485 f. 237 b. was made Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal and Bishop of Winchester and so far he is in the right But in the very next page he says Richard Fox lately made Bishop of Exeter Besides he mistimes it For Richard Fox was not made Bishop of Winchestter til the year 1502. according to Dr Godwyn's History of Bishops XLII And upon the matter was to be disloyal to King Henry but for f. 242. b. want of better and withall it strook upon a string which Here we have not tactus Physicus neither Grammer nor sence XLIII This Edward Bohun Duke of f. 267. Anno 1520. Buckingham was the last High Constable of England the greatest place next the High Steward in the Kingdom Here are as many errors as lines This Edward Bohun should be Edward Stafford the Bohuns were Earles of Essex and Hereford and Humfry the last Eale of that family dyed Anno 1371. according to Dr Heylin 2. He had several High Constables since as the Earle of Lindsey for the intended Trial between the Lord Ree and Ramsey the Earle of Northumberland at the Coronation of his Majesty that now is c. But he might have said and truely that this Edward Duke of Buckingham was the last Hereditary High Constable of England and that he was decended from an heir female of Bohun 3. The Lord High Constables place is before the Lord High Steward XLIV That St Austin gave credit to many f. 282. b. lying Miracles T is boldly said for fo 5. a. he says Ethelbert was the first Saxon Christian King of this Island converted by Austin the Monk c. Why does he call him St Austin since he thinks he had so weak a Judgment or so little Faith as not to discern Miracles from lyes And we read in Doctor Fullers Church History fo 57 and 68. of the Miracles done by f. 140. St Austin And even Milton says King Ethelbert was converted by Miracles Besides our Author imposes upon our beleif divers later Miracles one in particuler f. 310. b. relating to the body of one Arden murderd in Kent in Edward sixt's time XLV But we shal do him Henry 8. f. 299. a. extreme wrong to think that all the bloud shed in his time was of his shedding they were the Bishops that were the Draco to make the bloudy Lawes the Bishops that were the Phalaris to put them in execution It seems our Author was no friend to the Bishops else he might have remembred that that King did not spare even the Bishops themselves as Rochester and others and needed no other incentives to severity then his own Nature XLVI The Duke of Somerset at the Battle of Muscleborough made three f. 302. a. Bannerets which is a dignity above a Knight and next to a Baron and these were the last that from that time to this did ever receave this dignity Baneret is not properly a dignity above a Knight but an addition of honor to a Knight nor is it next in place to a Baron since Knights of the Garter in those times did and Baronets in these do precede them that is such Banerets as these made by a subject but such Banerets as are made sub vexillis regijs in exercitu regali do take place of all Baronets according to the decree of King Iames. And 10 14. Jac. in contradiction to the last part The Continuator says Sr Iohn Smith for rescuing the Kings Standard Royal at the Battle of fo 543. a Edgehill was made a Baneret when as he was onely a Knight Bachiler dub'd Honorably in the