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A16941	A discouerie of certaine errours published in print in the much commended Britannia. 1594 Very preiudiciall to the discentes and successions of the auncient nobilitie of this realme. By Yorke Herault.; Discoverie of certaine errours published in print in the much commended Britannia. Part 1.	Brooke, Ralph, 1553-1625.; Leland, John, 1506?-1552. Laboryouse journey and serche of Johan Leylande, for Englaundes antiquitees.	1599 (1599)	STC 3834; ESTC S106718	60,269	98

A DISCOVERIE OF CERTAINE ERROVRS PVBLISHED IN PRINT IN the much commended Britannia 1594. Very preiudiciall to the discentes and successions of the auncient Nobilitie of this Realme By Yorke Herault Quam quisque norit artem in hac se exerceat TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE ROBERT EARLE OF ESSEX Earle Marshal of England Viscount Hereford and Bourchier Lo. Ferrers of Chartley Bourchier and Louayne Knight of the most Noble order of the Garter c. Lord generall of her Maiesties Forces in her Realme of Irelande And to all other the Nobilitie of England RIght Honorable hauing vpon deligent search apprehended within the compasse of my profession and science of Heraldry certaine errours in descentes and successions such as may be scandolous to the gray heares of Antiquitie and preiudiciall to the branches of our Nobilitie I thought it my duetie to present them as Captiues at your Honors feete being the vndoubted Champion of trueth and the worthy Marshall of all Heroike magnanimitie and honour vnto whom I humble my selfe for a fauourable censure and protection of this my poore seruice As no childe is so deformed but the father commonly hath a naturall affection towardes it so these errours will no doubt be both fathered and fauoured of the Author whose reputation for Learning is so great and beard of Antiquitie lately growne so long that the goodly Britannia Mother of vs all is become his daughter trayned vp and taught to speake Latine in his Schoole onely she lisps and makes no good congruitie in these principles of Herauldy For which I challendge him not that my exception and challendge is about the wordes and tearmes of our Arte that is the least but touching the falsifiyng of Noble discentes depriuing some Nobles of issue to succeede them who had issue of whom are discended many worthie families Naming others to haue but one sole Daughter and heyre when they had diuers Sonnes and Daughters Denying Barons and Earles that were and making Barons and Earles of others that were not mistaking the Father for the Sonne and the Sonne for the Father affirming legittimate children to be illigittimate and illigittimate to be legittimate those to be basely borne who were in deede discended of very honourable Parentage assigning Armes and ensignes of Honour to others not their owne Lastly the framing incestious and vnnaturall mariages making the Father to marrie his Sonnes wife and the Sonne his owne Mother These and such like matters of importaunce are the errours that I haue examined and attached to abide your Honours censure and reformation For whom with bowed hart and knee I pray to God for all increase of honor harts contentment and happie victorie Your Honours in all duetie Ra. Brooke Yorke Herault at Armes TO MAISTER CAMDEN WHere as You expect thankes at the handes of her Maiesties Heraults for entermedling so sparingly and gently with that which appertaineth to their profession Contrarie to your expectation and answerable to your deserts my selfe being the most vnable haue vndertaken to answere your vnkinde speeches as also your vntrue and erronious writing touching matters of our profession and science published in your Britannia In deede you dealt but sparingly and after a sort gently as you say in the handling of our misteries at the first but in your fourth and last Edition though your Preface spake as it did sparingly still yet your Booke hath swelled with large additions of Herauldrie in which you haue by your patience been too busie and venterous except your proceedinges in those poyntes had been more firmely grounded vpon experience And I doubt not but the grouth and encrease of your Booke hath sprung from some of those Heraults labours which you so much holde in scorne Nay it can not be denyed but since the death of Glouer late Somerset Herault 1588. you haue gleaned not onely handfuls but whole sheaues out of his industrious collections being reserued in the Librarie of that Honorable Lord Treasurer deceased and by that meanes incommoned to your vse and free recourse I would his Gloues might haue fitted your handes in such sort as you might haue smoothly carried them away his Notes I meane I wish you had neither misunderstood nor misreported as contrariwise you haue in such palpable maner that me thinks euer hereafter you should distrust your selfe in the search of such mysticall poyntes without the aduice of an Herault better experimented then your selfe I prognosticate alreadie what entertainement in these mine aduertisementes I shall haue It will be obiected from your selfe that I vnderstande not your Booke I confesse mine intelligence not so great but my feare is the greater and my care the more to vnderstande you by helpes so that the trust in my selfe is the lesse And this suspition I hope will force me to make sure worke in that I vndertake Valure they say may be too bolde and Learning too full of quillities the one standing more vpon the brauerie of his fyght then the goodnes of the quarrell the other more vpon the generalitie of his knowledge then the trueth of his cause The mother tongue of euery Nation as you affirme is the best conseruer of Originall names And your selfe endeuour to get a more ample credite in Historie by auouching that you haue read ouer many home-bredd Historinas By your example therefore I am induced to beleeue that English Authors and English Heraults though they haue concealed their trauayles from the worlde and not published a Rapiamus generall vpon euerie light occasion are to be credited for the trueth of English successions discentes and reportes of all honorable designementes Againe who is more vnfit to describe the trueth of actions in their proper nature then such affectate Nouices as haue their mouthes and pennes running ouer with the foaming Muste of vn-refined Eloquence who chouse rather to let the trueth of the matter slip then to abate one title of their selfe-pleasing phrase Therefore I haue heard meny great statsmen affirme that the Court hath affourded more absolute Wisemen for any actiue employment in the Common-wealth then the Schooles which falleth out especially because to these proceedinges of the one in Arte there hath not been added some lecture of discretion to qualifie the same withall which is to be had dayly by examples and practise in the other And doubtles for a meere Scholler to be an Historian that must take vp all by hearesay and vncertaine rumors not being acquainted with the secretes and occurrences of state matters I take it as many others affirme with me verie vnfit and dangerous I hope you will in some sort acknowledge this to be true if indifferently you take a viewe of these errours by your selfe committed a man of so rare knowledge and singular industrie Yet no one man so generally well seene in all thinges but an inferior person in some one speciall matter may goe beyonde him In regarde whereof contemne not these few Collections of mine wherein I haue not vaunted my Learning

Roger Quincy Earle of Winchester who brought with her the honor and barony of Grooby Of which fruitfull mariages if you make a fained nullitie or deuorce you intercept those noble plants from whence sprung sundry the most famous branches of our nobilitie florishing in this our declining age CHartley Castle builded by Ranulph earle of Chester came to the Ferrars by Agnes his daughter whom Robert earle Ferrars and Derby maried of whose progeny issued seuen barons Ferrars of Chartley Anne daughter of the last of thē brought this title and honor by mariage to Walter Deuereux her husband who was the great-great-great grand-father of the right honorable Robert Earle of Essex that now is Pag. 449. WHere you affirme in this place Ranulph Earle of Chester to haue builded the Castle of Chartley which after came to be the possession of Robert earle Ferrars and Derby by marying Agnes the daughter of the foresaide Ranulph and that there did discend of the said Robert Agnes seuen barons in direct line successiuely hereto I answere that Ranulph Earle of Chester builded indeed the castle of Chartley in the fourth yeare of king Henry the third died An. 1236. But that he was father to the said Agnes I vtterlie denie affirming him to die without any issue at all And for proofe hereof I appeale to your self in perfect remembrance testifying the same against your selfe in the title of Earles of Chester Pag. 471. And for the foresaid Robert Earle Ferrars he neuer maried any such woman So that by this your not vnderstanding you haue obscured and made vnperfect that noble line of the Earle Ferrars Nay you haue done them a farre greater wrong for hereby haue you contrarie to all law and reason made the said Agnes to be daughter to her owne brother and the said Robert to be husband vnto her that was his grandfathers wife By which vntrue wresting you haue thrust out of their places not only two of the greatest Earles of their time but also the coheire of Quincy who as before I saide brought into that family the barony of Grooby Therfore that you may reforme this your error I will here set you down the truth of this discent prooued by good authoritie beginning first with William Earle Ferrars and Derby grandfather of the said Earle Robert who maried the forenamed Agnes the third sister and coheire of the forenamed Ranulph Earle of Chester and Lincolne and not his daughter as you haue written This saide William died in the 27. yeare of king Henrie the thirde and left issue William Earle Ferrars and Derbie his sonne Lord of Chartley who maryed with Margaret Ladye of Grooby daughter and coheire of Roger Quincy Earle of Winchester on whome he begot Robert Earle Ferrars and Derby and after died in the 38. yeare of king Henry the third Which Robert was he that you would haue to mary Agnes the daughter of Ranulph Earle of Chester who was in trueth his grandmother But for your further satisfaction vnderstand that the said Robert maryed to his wife the daughter of the Lord Basset and was taken prisoner soone after by King Henry the third in the Barrons warres and forced to paye at one entyre payment for his ransome deliuery to Lord Edmond the Kings sonne the summe of fiftie thousand poundes for the assurance of which payment he bound ouer all his landes as before in the title of Tutbury I haue set downe He died in the seuenth yeare of king Edward the first 1278. leauing issue by his said wife Iohn Lord Ferrars of Chartley auncester to the Earle of Essex now liuing REignald base sonne to king Henry the first was made Earle of Cornewall and after dyed without issue Pag. 130. IN making Reignald Earle of Cornewall to dye without issue you offer great iniurie to diuers worshipfull families depriuing them of their Auncestor from whome they are discended For the said Reignald had issue three daughters his heires one maryed to Baldwin Riduerse Earle of Deuon of whome discended the honorable families of Courtneys and an other to Valitort of whose issue many remaine at this present KIng Richard the second honored William le Scroope first with the Earledome of Wiltshire But the felicitie of this man did both stand and fall with his Prince c. Not many yeares after this dignitie came vnto Iames Butler Earle of Ormond From thence the familie of Lancaster decaying it went vnto Iohn Stafford second sonne to Humfrey Duke of Buckingham by the gift of king Edward the fourth of which stocke one or two succeeded At last a grand-childe of the forenamed Iames Butler by his sonne caryed this title into the familie of Bullens for Thomas Bullen in right of his mother was created Earle of Wiltshire whose eldest daughter Anne was maryed vnto king Henry the eight and by him had issue our soueraigne Lady Elizabeth Pag. 187. ALthough your rash and ouer hastie penne haue seemed vnto you so priuileged as that thereby you durst aduenture the preiudice of many honorable persons in their discents and ensignes of honor as you haue done yet me thinkes that her Maiesties sacred name might iustly haue lymited your writings within such boundes of loyall duetie as that your hand should haue trembled to endite or your hart once to admitte the publishing any vntrueth whereby her honor might in any part be eclipsed Heere you say that Iames Butler Earle of Wiltshire had a grand-childe by his namelesse sonne which was mother vnto Thomas Bullen Earle of Wiltshire graund-father to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie that now is in which you greatly wrong her she being not discended of the said Iames but of Thomas Butler Earle of Ormond his brother And the better to manifest the same the said Iames was atteinted by Acte of Parliament for high treason suffered for the same at New-castle in the first yeare of king Edward the fourth without any issue of his body at all to beget such a grand-child as you say was the mother to Sir Thomas Bullen Which being true as it cannot be denyed I admire that a man of your learning and professing such skill in Heraldy would so vnaduisedly publish in print to the view of the whole worlde so great an vntrueth you hauing neither proofe nor warrant for the same And not contented herewith after for maintenance and colour of these your errors you further affirme that the said Sir Thomas Bullen was created Earle of Wiltshire in right of Margaret his mother graund-childe as you say of the said Iames. In which so saying you shewe your selfe very ignorant in the discents of dignities And for answere hereunto First I say that Margaret the mother of Sir Thomas Bullen was second daughter and coheire of Thomas Butler Earle of Ormond brother of Iames Earle of Wiltshire and not the saide Iames his grand-childe and so in that poynt haue you falsified this discent Secondly where you would haue this dignitie of Wiltshire

to haue perished to no small incommoditie of good Letters Of the which part remaine in the most magnificent Libraries of your royall Palaces Part also remaine in my custodie whereby I trust right shortly so to describe your most noble Realme and to publish the maiestie of the excellent actes of your progenitours hitherto sore obscured both for lacke of imprinting of such works as lay secretly in corners And also because men of eloquence hath not enterprised to set them foorth in a flourishing stile in some times past not commonly vsed in England of Writers otherwise well learned and now in such estimation that except trueth be delicately cloathed in Purpure her written verities can scant finde a reader That all the worlde shall euidently perceiue that no particular Region may iustly be more extolled then yours for true Nobilitie and Vertues at all poyntes renowmed Farthermore part of the exemplaries curiously sought by me and fortunately found in sundry places of this your dominion hath been imprinted in Germanie and now be in the Presses chiefly of Frobenius that not alonely the Germanes but also the Italians themselues that count as the Greekes did full arrogantly all other Nations to be barbarous and vnlettered sauing their owne shall haue a direct occasion openly of force to say That Britannia prima fuit parens altrix addo hoc etiam iure quidem optimo conseruatrix cum virorum magnorum tum maxime ingeniorum And that profite hath risen by the aforesaid iourney in bringing full many thinges to light as concerning the vsurped authoritie of the Byshop of Rome and his complices to the manifest and violent derogation of kingly dignitie I referre my selfe most humbly to your most prudent learned and high iudgement to discerne my diligence in the long volume wherein I haue made answere for the defence of your supreme dignitie alonely leaning to the strong pillor of holy Scripture against the whole Colledge of the Romanistes cloaking their craftie assercions and arguments vnder the name of one poore Pighius of Vltraiecte in Germanie and standing to them as to their onely anker holde against tempestes that they know will arise if trueth may be by lisence let in to haue a voyce in the generall counsell Yet herein onely I haue not pitched the supreame worke of my labour whereunto your Grace most like a kingly patrone of all good Learning did animate me But also considering and expending with my selfe how great a number of excellent godly Wits and Writers learned with the best as the times serued hath been in this your Region Not onely at such times as the Romane Emperours had recourse to it but also in those dayes that the Saxons preuayled of the Brytaines and the Normannes of the Saxons could not but with a feruent zeale and an honest courage commend them to memorie Els alas like to haue bin perpetually obscured or to haue bin lightly remembred as vncertaine shaddowes Wherefore I knowing by infinite varietie of Bookes and assyduous reading of them who hath bin learned and who hath written from time to time in this Realme haue digested into iiij Bookes the names of them with their lyues and monuments of learning And to them added this litle De viris illustribus folowing the profitable example of Hierome Gennadie Cassiodore Seueryane and Trittemie a late writer But alway so handling the matter that I haue more exspaciated in this campe then they did as in a thing that desired to be somewhat at large and to haue or nature The first Booke beginning at the Druides is deducted vnto the time of the comming of S. Augustine into England The seconde is frō the time of Augustine vnto the aduente of the Normanes The thirde from the Normanes to the ende of the most honourable reigne of the mightie famous and prudent Prince Henrie the. vij your Father The fourth beginneth with the name of Your Maiestie whose glorie in Learning is to the worlde so cleerely knowne that though among the liues of other learned men I haue accurately celebrated the names of Bladudus Molmutius Constantinus magnus Sigeberius Alfridus Alfridus magnus Athelstanus and Henrie the first Kinges and your progenitours And also Ethelward second sonne to Alfride the great Hunfryde Duke of Glocester and Tipetote Earle of Worcester yet conferred with your Grace they seeme as small lightes if I may freely say my iudgment your high modestie not offended in respect of the day starre Now farther to insinuate to your Grace of what matters the Writers whose liues I haue congested into foure Bookes hath treated of I may right boldly say that beside the cognicion of the. iiij tongues in the which part of them hath excelled that there is no kinde of liberall science or any feate concerning learning in the which they haue not shewed certaine argumentes of great felicitie of witte Yea and concerning the interpretacion of holy Scripture both after the auncient forme and sence the scholasticall trade they haue reigned as in a certaine excellencie And as touching Historicall knowledge there hath bin to the number of a full hundreth or moe that from time to time hath with great deligence and no lesse fayth would to God with like eloquence perscribed the actes of your most noble predecessours and the fortunes of this your Realme so incrediblie great that he that hath not seene and throughly read their workes can litle pronounce in this part Wherefore after that I had perpended the honest and profitable studies of these Historiographers I was totallie enflamed with a loue to see throughly all those partes of this your opulent and ample Realme that I had read of in the aforesayd Writers In so much that all my other occupations intermitted I haue so trauayled in your Dominions both by the Sea coastes and the middle partes sparing neither labour nor costes by the space of these sixe yeeres past that there is almost neither Cape nor Bay Hauen Creeke or Pere Riuer or confluence of Riuers Breaches Washes Lakes Meeres Fennie waters Moūtaines Vallies Moores Heathes Forrestes Woodes Cities Burges Castles principall manour Places Monasteries and Colledges but I haue seene them and noted in so doing a whole worlde of things verie memorable Thus instructed I trust shortly to see the time that like as Carolus magnus had among his treasures three large and notable tables of Siluer richly enamiled one of the syte and description of Constantinople an other of the syte and figure of the magnificent Citie of Rome and the thirde of the description of the Worlde So shall your Maiestie haue this your Worlde and Emperie of Englande so set foorth in a quadrate table of Siluer if God sende me life to accomplysh my beginning that your Grace shall haue readie knowledge at the first sight of many right delectable fruitefull and necessarie pleasures by contemplation thereof as often as occasion shall