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
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
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
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