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A28457 Animadversions upon Sr. Richard Baker's Chronicle, and its continuation wherein many errors are discover'd, and some truths advanced / by T.B., Esq. Blount, Thomas, 1618-1679. 1672 (1672) Wing B3327; ESTC R6294 24,738 120

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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 i● 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. ● 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