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
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
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
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.
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