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
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
to the vertue and loyalty of that worthy person who suffered both imprisonment and sequestration for his fidelity to his Soveraign And when his memory should deservedly live with honour it is most injuriously blacken'd with this cloud of infamy LXVIII Among men of Note in King Charles the firsts time As some are deservedly nominated why are others of at leastequal desert omitted such were Spencer Earle of Northampton f. 603. b. The Earl of Litchfeild and his two brothers The Lord Francis Villier Sr John Smith who rescued the Standard royal Col Charles Cavendish brother to the Earl of Devonshire Col Thomas Howard two of them Sr John Digby Sr Henry Lingein c. It s strange also the Continuashould forget to name Sr Bevil Greenvile Elder Brother to Sr Richard a Person of Known and Eminent Loyalty and who did gallantly in His Majesties service LXIX The Earl of Eglington the Father of the Lord Mountgomery with one f. 622. b. l. ult of his brothers were taken at Dunbarton by one Captain Crook of Col Berrys And so t is left imperfect and a new Section followes LXX Speaking of the Battle of Worcester f. 626. b. 3. Sept. 1651 and the Rebels entring and plundering that City he says There was not an inhabitant in Worcester friend or foe left worth a Shilling of what they had in the Town Which is strangely hyperbolical and beyond all likelyhood of truth though the Conquerors were never so rapacious severe LXXI At Newport in the pursuit there ibid. were taken among others the now Earle of Shrewsbury c. Here our Continuator is again mistaken For the Earle of Shrewsbury was not taken at Newport nor was at all there but from Boscobel escaped to his house at Longport in Shropshire where the Rebels searched narrowly for him but missed him and from thence he made a shift to passe over Sea LXXII It was resolv'd by my Lord of Derby f 627. a. that they should make what speed they could and recover a place called White Ladyes before morning My Lord of Derby advis'd the King first to goe to Boscobel where himself had been concealed after the Battle of VViggen but Mr Charles Giffard the Kings chief guide in that sad night prevail'd to conduct Him first to VVhite Ladyes LXXIII His Majesty being at Mr Woolfs Madeley understood that the f 627. b. t passes over the water and the river Wye were so guarded that it was unseasonable for him to adventure into Wales Here our Continuator is out again in his Geographics For there is no part of the river Wye or Wey within 24 myles of Madeley but Severn runs neer it which was the River His Majesty designed to passe over LXXIV That his Majesty by Ladders ibid. ascended into the top of that most celebrated Oake There were no Ladders in the Case for the King aescnded the Oake by the help of Col Carlos and two of the Pendrels and his own agility LXXV George Yates for Francis Yates Ibid. that 's more venial So is Col Windhams house at Trent in Dorsetshire for Somersetshire LXXVI Having finish'd though imperfectly the relation of his Majesties miraculous f. 628. b. Escape from Worcester he concludes with no lesse then 52. persons being privy thereto I have nothing to object against the number beleeving it could not be lesse but doubtlesse there were many which did act Gallantly in that honorable and loyal undertaking which he hath not mentioned whose loyalty ought to have its due LXXVI This year 1652 dyed the Lady f. 635. a. Elianor Davys who was the Fifth Daughter of the Lord George Audley Earle of Castlehaven and was married to Sr John Davys the Kings first Serjeant at Law in England c. Our Continuator endeavors by many Encomiums of this Lady to raise her to the reputation of a Prophetess when as she was generally reputed little better then a mad Woman and was actually in Bethlem Hospital by order if I mistake not of King See Heylins life of Archb Laud. Charles the first For I remember whilst she was yet living this Anagram pass'd of her and is printed in Camdens Remains Dame Elianor Davis Never so mad a Lady Then he mistakes her Fathers name For we read not of any Audley to be Earle of Castlehaven but Touchet at least he should have said George Lord Audley And by the Kings first Serjeant at Law in England an unwary Reader wil possibly misunderstand he was the first Serjeant at Law that any King of England ever had whereas most men know they are of great antiquity We read indeed that Sr Iohn Anne 1606. Davis fut primier Serjeant Del Roy K. James where primier ought to be understood as eldest or principal LXXVIII An Army having been sent under f. 644 a. the Marquesse of Piaenella and the Earle of Quince Commander of the French forces in Italy by Charles Emanuel Duke of Savoy against his Protestant subjects in the valleys of Peidmont upon occasion of some high displeasure taken against them and the souldiers left to their own unbridled licence having committed many outrages and massacres upon the poor miserable people Cromwel taking this opertunity appointed a solemne day of humiliation and caused a large contribution to be gather'd for them throughout the Nation c. Here the Continuator describes the Duke of Savoys punishment of his subjects but does not expresse their crime a course that may condemn all the Tribunals in the world of barbarousness and injustice About the time that Mr Stouppe Agent for these Piedmontois came hither to addresse himself to Cromwel in their behalf which was in the year 1655 There was published in London A faithfull Account of the late commotions in the valleys of Piedmont wherein we read That the Duke of Savoy had given his Protestant subjects an absolute toleration of Religion which grace they so much abused that they reviled the Catholic especially their Masse and religious people as at Tour they dressed an Asse in a Monks habit and afterwards in a rage fell furiously upon two Priests at Fenil in the lower vale of Lucerne and slew them at the Altar as they were saying Masse This with much more of their tumultuous carriage and the Dukes lenity first and then Justice towards them you may read at large in that printed paper which seems in a great measure to justifie the Dukes proceedings in that affair He omits the sum that was collected here upon that account which was 38097l 7s 3d 20233 17 0 paid out by Bils of Exch. 17863 10 3 remaining in ready mony at the death of Oliver LXXIX The Continuator speaks of a Plot f. 646. b. against Olivers person the criminals said to be of this Plot were Miles Sindercom a cashierd and dissatisfyd Army man Toop one of Cromwels lifeguard Cecil and Bois the last of whom a Priest belonging to Don Alonso de Cardenas once Leigir Embassador here
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
feild and lyes buried in Christs Church Cathedral at Oxford where there was a Monnument lately laid over his body by one of his Relations XLVII Our Author speaking of a mutinous f. 303. a. Commotion at Exeter in Devonshire says All this while the Lord Russel Lord Privy Seal who had bin sent down to suppress the Commotion lay at Huntington expecting more forces As if Huntington were the ready rode from London to Exeter Perhaps he intended Honnyton XLVIII Sr Thomas was instituted Lord of St Johns of Hierusalem f. 320. b. He leaves us to ghess who this Sr Thomas was and to beleeve he intended to say Lord Prior of St Johns XLIX King Edw. 3. made Kerry in f. 374. b. Ireland a County Palatine and granted to the Earles of Desmond all Royol libertyes excepting Wreck by fire Forestall and Treasure trove This Wreck by fire is a pretty word yet Wreck by water had bin better But there is nothing of Wreck in the Case if you wil beleeve Camden who saies Brit. tit County of Kerry That King granted to the Earle all Regal Liberties except four Pleas namely of Burning Rape Forstal and Treasure trouve L About this time Henry Fitz f. 380. a. Alan Earle of Arundel dyed in whom the Sirname of a most noble family ended which had flourished in this Honor for above 300. years from Richard Fitzalan who being descended from the Abbanets ancient Earles of Arundel and Sussex in the reign of King Edward 1. obtained the title of Earle by reason of the possession of Arundel Castle without Creation He had 3 daughters by his wife Katherine Daughter to Thomas Grey Marques Dorset all whom he out lived Henry a young man of great hope who dyed at Brussels Jean Wife to the Lord Lumley and Mary who being married to Thomas Howard Duke of Norfolk brought forth Philip in her right Earle of Arundel Here the Albanets is mistaken for Albeneys or D'aubeneys and the reign of Edward the 1. for Henry 1. And when he comes to particularize the 3. Daughters of Richard Fitzalan he names Henry a young man Joan and Mary Of which thus Camden Sr John Fitz Alan Lord of Clun Cam. Brit. f. 309 who having married one of the sisters and heyrs of Hugh de Albeney fifth Earle of Arundel and Sussex his great Grandson Richard by reason of his possession of the Castle of Arundel was by Parl. adjudged to be E. of Arundel 11 Hen. 6. LI Soon after him dyed Sr John Crofts who had don good service in f. 400. a. Scotland in Edw the Sixths time This was Sr James Croft of Croft Castle in Herefordshire great Grandfather to Herbert Croft at present Lord Bishop of Hereford a Family of very ancient extraction and this Sr James was by Q. Eliz. made Governor of Berwic and soon after Comptroller of her House LII 19 February 1594 Henry Prince of Scotland was born to whom the f. 403 a. Queen was Godmother and sent Robert Earle of Sussex for her Deputy Which should be Robert Earl of Essex LIII It was now the year 1596 says our f. 406. b. Author when Thomas Arundell of Warder returned into England from the war in Hungary against the Turk whom for his good service don there the Emperor by his Letters Patents had created Earle of the sacred Empire c. And afterward he says King James made f. 428. b. Thomas Arundell of Devonshire Lord Arundell of Warder This to a common Reader will seem to be two severall Thomas Arundells For VVarder is in Wiltshire and his principall Seat and to Devonshire he had no relation Besides our Author makes not that honorable mention of a Person of that singular valor and Desert who had gain'd so much honor abroad to the English Nation as he justly deserv'd For among other examples of his Gallantry he threw down with his own hand the Turkish standard at the seige of Strigomium in Hungary now called Gran and encourag'd his Ensign Rook Church to advance the Christian Colors in its place Which with much more in his due praise will best appear by Quen Elizabeths commendatory Letters of him to the Emperor Rudolphus and his Imperial Majesties Letters Patent of Creation a true Copy of the first and an abstract of the other which is vere long are here exhibited and deserve a place in the best of English Cronicles Elizabetha Dei gratiâ Angliae Franciae et Hiberniae Regina Fidei Defensor c. Serenissimo Potentissimo Principi ac Domino Rudolpho divinâ favente Clementiâ Romanorum Imperatori semper Augusto Fratri Consanguineo amico nostro charissimo Salutem rerum prosperarum foelicissima incrementa Serenissimè Princeps Frater Consanguinee noster charissime Is qui has perfert Thomas Arundelius Consanguineus noster perdilectus Adolescens in melioribus liter is probe institutus ad rerum usum colligendum nobilium Provinciarum mores perdiscendos in Germaniam hoc tempore aliasque nonnullas Europae regiones proficiscitur Ideoque suppliciter à nobis discedens petiit ut se Imperatoriae tuae Majestati literis nostris commendaremus Quod nos pro nostra in optimae spei Adolescentem nobis sanguinis propinquitate conjunctum charitate fecimus perlibentèr orantes summoperè Majestatem tuam ut Thomam hunc non solùm in Imperio clementèr protegas principali favore juves verùm etiam literis si Italiam Regnúmve Neopolitanum petere volet de mulieri notâ commendare velis Hoc ut nobis pergratum erit sic nos vicissim Imperatoriam tuam Majestatem sororiis omnibus officiis demereri studebimus Quam Deus Opt. Max. in omni florente foelicitate diutissimè conservet Dat. ex Palatio nostro VVestmonasterii die decimo Februarii Anno Domini M.D.LXXIXo. Regni verò nostri vicesimo secundo Vestrae Ser tis bona soror Consanguinea ELIZABETH R. Rudolphus secundus Divina favente clementia Electus Romanorum Imperator semper Augustus c. Illustri sincerè nobis dilecto Thomae Arundelio nostro sacri Romani Imperii Comiti gratiam nostram Caesaream omne bonum Considerantes itaque perantiquam illustrem generis tui originem in inclito Angliae Regno ex stemmate Regio qâ—emadmodum antehac ex Serenissimae Principis Dominae Elizabethae Reginae Anglia Franciae Hibereiae sororis consanguineae nostrae clarissimae literis ac testimonia accepimus due is insignes etiam virtutes quibus illustre genus tuum magis ac magis domi ferisque illustras at liberalibus primum disciplinis pectus imbueris peregrinas provincias adieris multorum mores multorum urbes videris magnum rerum usum acquisieris ut denique tandem in hoc sacro quod contra communem Christiani nominis Hostem Turcam gerimus bello raro ac singulari zelo excitus tam longinquis ac remotis ex partibus in Hungariam propriis