THE
ENGLISH
Historical
Library
:
OR
,
A
Short
View
and
Character
Of
most
of
the
WRITERS
Now
Extant
,
either
in
Print
or
Manuscript
;
Which
may
be
Serviceable
to
the
Undertakers
of
a
General
History
of
this
Kingdom
.
By
WILLIAM
NICOLSON
,
A.
M.
Arch-Deacon
of
Carlisle
.
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
&c.
Lucian
.
de
Conscrib
.
Hist.
LONDON
,
Printed
for
Abel
Swall
and
T.
Child
,
at
the
Unicorn
,
in
St.
Paul's
Church-Yard
,
MDCXCVI
.
TO
THE
Most
Reverend
Father
in
God
,
JOHN
,
By
Divine
Providence
,
Lord
Arch-Bishop
of
YORK
,
Primate
and
Metropolitan
of
ENGLAND
.
MY
LORD
,
INstead
of
prefixing
so
great
a
Name
to
the
following
Papers
,
I
had
thoughts
of
craving
Your
Grace's
Patronage
for
some
others
which
more
nearly
relate
to
the
Affairs
of
Your
own
Province
.
But
,
I
know
not
how
,
these
have
gotten
the
start
;
and
,
tho'
I
may
(
for
the
present
)
have
some
Reason
to
vary
my
Subject
,
I
hope
,
I
may
be
allow'd
to
put
those
also
under
Your
Protection
hereafter
.
I
am
deeply
sensible
of
my
own
Insufficiency
to
perfect
what
is
here
begun
,
without
such
Assistances
as
Your
Grace
(
above
all
others
)
can
best
afford
me
.
My
great
distance
from
Libraries
,
and
the
narrowness
of
my
Acquaintance
with
our
English
Historians
,
will
render
my
best
Performances
very
scanty
and
imperfect
.
Yet
,
if
the
Design
be
approv'd
and
meet
with
acceptance
abroad
,
I
shall
not
despair
of
such
helps
as
will
rectify
all
my
mistakes
,
and
supply
the
defects
of
this
first
Essay
.
To
this
purpose
,
I
now
humbly
offer
it
to
Your
Grace's
View
and
Censure
;
being
very
ready
to
acknowledge
all
your
Corrections
as
so
many
Particular
Obligations
and
Honours
conferr'd
upon
,
MY
LORD
,
YOUR
GRACE's
Most
dutiful
Son
and
Servant
,
WILL
.
NICOLSON
.
THE
PREFACE
.
A
General
History
of
this
Kingdom
is
what
our
learned
Men
begin
now
so
sensibly
to
want
,
and
so
earnestly
to
desire
,
that
I
do
not
question
but
Attempts
will
be
made
to
gratify
the
prevailing
Humour
of
the
Times
.
Though
to
me
,
I
confess
,
the
Prospect
is
a
little
discouraging
:
Since
the
due
observance
of
all
the
Rules
which
Lucian
,
Father
Le
Moyne
,
and
others
,
have
laid
down
for
the
carrying
on
of
such
a
work
require
so
many
Accomplishments
,
that
I
am
very
much
of
the
Jesuits
opinion
,
that
their
Historian
is
[
a
](A52335-e400-b)
a
Le
moyne's
Art
of
Writing
Hist.
p.
224.
a
Man
not
yet
born
,
nor
will
be
before
the
year
that
discovers
the
perpetual
motion
and
Philosopher's
Stone
.
'T
is
not
enough
,
they
tell
us
,
that
he
be
(
what
the
Incomparable
Translatour
of
Polybius
observes
of
his
[
a
](A52335-e440-b)
a
Sir
H.
S.
Pref.
to
Polyb.
Author
)
a
Soldier
,
a
Statesman
and
a
Philosopher
:
but
he
must
be
also
a
Divine
,
a
Lawyer
,
an
Oratour
,
a
Poet
,
and
a
downright
honest
Countrey-Gentleman
.
At
least
,
he
must
be
plentifully
stock'd
with
[
b
](A52335-e470-b)
b
Le
Moyne
,
p.
21
,
22
,
&c.
Wit
,
or
an
Universal
Disposition
and
unbounded
Spirit
that
comprehends
all
that
's
Great
and
Glorious
in
the
several
States
and
Empires
of
the
whole
World
.
To
these
Intellectual
Endowments
we
must
add
the
great
Moral
one
of
his
being
Philalethes
,
a
Person
of
that
just
Integrity
as
not
to
be
byass'd
by
Passion
or
Interest
.
A
Learned
Writer
has
very
lately
observ'd
,
That
[
a
](A52335-e520-b)
a
H.
Wharton's
Pref.
to
AB
.
Laud's
Life
p.
10.
Private
Affections
ought
not
to
accompany
works
of
such
a
Publick
Nature
:
and
yet
how
difficult
a
Lesson
this
is
to
Flesh
and
Blood
,
himself
has
fairly
shewn
us
,
when
(
in
the
same
Page
)
he
sticks
not
to
affirm
that
his
late
Patron
left
more
Collections
of
his
own
hand-writing
than
perhaps
any
Man
,
either
of
this
or
the
last
Age
,
ever
did
write
.
So
that
,
for
my
share
,
I
know
not
where
to
look
for
this
fine
Person
;
this
Nonesuch
of
a
Man
;
who
alone
(
it
seems
)
is
qualify'd
to
write
a
General
History
.
We
have
lately
indeed
had
Proposals
for
the
speedy
publishing
of
an
entire
History
of
this
Nation
:
But
I
extremely
suspect
the
Author
,
when
he
appears
abroad
,
will
not
be
able
to
stand
this
Test.
The
very
Title
of
his
Book
(
which
promises
to
bring
down
our
Story
[
a
](A52335-e580-b)
a
J.
●●●on's
Proposals
.
from
the
Flood
)
looks
so
like
a
Iest
,
that
I
cannot
but
fear
that
we
shall
not
have
Alloy
enough
to
qualify
the
mighty
strain
of
Poetry
that
will
run
thorough
the
whole
Work
.
What
Advances
might
be
made
this
way
by
[
b
](A52335-e610-b)
b
T.
Gale
,
Praef.
ad
Script
.
XV.
●
▪
8.
Leland
,
Bale
or
Josceline
,
I
know
not
:
but
I
think
all
three
of
'em
have
discover'd
such
frailties
in
themselves
,
and
such
defects
in
their
writings
,
as
are
hardly
consistent
with
the
being
able
to
finish
an
Vndertaking
of
this
kind
.
Nor
do
I
at
all
believe
Dr.
Gale's
great
Mr.
[
c
](A52335-e660-b)
c
Id.
ib.
Selden
to
have
been
a
Man
of
Accomplishments
sufficient
for
such
a
Performance
;
and
I
fansie
the
learned
Doctor
himself
will
be
of
my
opinion
when
he
has
carefully
perus'd
his
Preface
to
the
Decem
Scriptores
,
his
Spicilegium
to
Eadmerus
and
his
Janus
Anglorum
.
Camden
[
a
](A52335-e720-b)
a
Camd.
Brit.
in
Norman
.
bewails
the
rashness
and
folly
of
his
own
Attempting
such
a
Matter
;
and
seems
to
acknowledge
that
't
was
Imprudence
and
want
of
thought
,
which
,
in
his
younger
daies
,
had
led
him
into
the
Sare
.
Mr.
Milton
and
Sir
William
Temple
design'd
only
to
write
Abridgments
of
our
English
Story
;
and
therefore
they
do
not
expect
that
what
they
have
drawn
up
,
for
a
View
of
the
Times
before
the
Conquest
,
should
be
receiv'd
as
a
Complete
General
History
,
even
for
so
far
as
it
reaches
.
Their
[
b
](A52335-e770-b)
b
Sir
W.
T.'s
Introduct.
p.
5.
beating
through
these
rough
and
dark
ways
of
the
Journey
appears
to
be
done
in
so
much
haste
,
and
affords
so
slender
a
Discovery
of
the
road
,
that
it
looks
like
the
Tale
of
a
Man
in
a
fright
;
one
that
has
been
scared
with
dismal
Apprehensions
of
meeting
with
most
monstrous
Sprites
and
Hobgoblins
in
the
Shades
and
Night
he
had
pass'd
thorough
.
Before
therefore
I
can
have
any
tolerable
hopes
of
seeing
a
work
of
this
Grandeur
carry'd
on
with
success
,
and
to
the
purpose
,
I
must
hear
of
its
being
undertaken
by
a
Clubb
of
Men
of
Parts
and
Learning
;
some
whereof
are
Masters
of
our
ancient
Languages
,
and
others
of
the
Modern
;
Some
vers'd
in
the
Writings
of
the
old
Britains
,
Romans
,
Saxons
and
Danes
,
and
others
thoroughly
acquainted
with
the
Historians
since
the
Conquest
;
some
that
know
the
Geography
,
and
others
the
Law
,
of
the
Realm
;
some
that
have
been
bred
at
Court
,
and
others
in
the
Camp
,
&c.
Nor
would
I
have
this
Society
to
consist
of
such
as
the
Bookseller
only
should
assure
me
were
Persons
of
these
very
Characters
;
but
I
could
wish
it
might
be
an
Engagement
mutually
and
generously
enter'd
into
by
Men
of
Leisure
and
Fortune
,
as
additional
Accomplishments
,
over
and
above
all
that
we
have
mention'd
.
Or
else
,
let
me
hope
to
see
a
College
of
Historians
as
Nobly
endow'd
here
,
as
that
of
the
Antiquaries
is
in
Sweden
;
where
the
President
has
a
yearly
Salary
allow'd
him
of
six
hundred
Crowns
,
and
each
of
his
Assessors
three
hundred
.
When
these
Gentlemen
have
agreed
on
,
and
finish'd
their
several
Tasks
,
they
ought
to
be
carefully
perus'd
by
every
particular
Member
of
the
Society
;
as
well
as
by
him
whose
peculiar
Province
it
shall
be
to
inspect
and
supervise
the
whole
.
To
serve
this
imaginary
Fraternity
I
have
drawn
together
the
following
Papers
;
which
give
the
Reader
as
short
and
as
methodical
an
Abstract
of
a
great
many
larger
Collections
on
the
same
Subject
as
I
could
readily
furnish
him
with
.
I
know
there
have
been
Catalogues
of
this
kind
made
heretofore
by
Men
of
better
Acquaintance
with
our
English
Libraries
and
Manuscripts
than
I
can
pretend
to
.
Such
is
Joh.
Josceline's
Commentary
cited
by
[
a
](A52335-e880-b)
a
Praef.
ad
Angl.
Sacr.
Vol.
I.
p.
26.
Mr.
Wharton
;
and
the
Hypercritica
,
frequently
referr'd
to
by
the
Oxford
[
b
](A52335-e920-b)
b
Athen-Oxon
.
Vol.
I.
p.
452.
&
alibi
.
Antiquary
.
Tho.
Fuller
had
also
composed
something
of
the
like
Nature
,
under
the
Title
of
[
c
](A52335-e940-b)
c
Hist.
Eccles.
lib.
I.
p.
42.
A
Library
of
British
Historians
;
to
which
he
sometimes
refers
his
Readers
,
as
a
piece
wherewith
he
intended
suddainly
to
bless
the
Publick
.
P.
Heylyn
began
an
[
a
](A52335-e970-b)
a
Edit.
London
,
8o
1659.
Examen
Historicum
,
but
carry'd
it
no
farther
than
the
works
of
a
couple
of
his
Cotemporaries
,
who
very
well
deserv'd
to
be
lash'd
.
'T
is
seldom
that
the
Censures
and
Remarks
of
single
Men
go
any
greater
lengths
than
this
;
just
as
far
as
they
are
push'd
on
by
private
Resentment
and
Pique
.
Whereas
a
General
Examen
,
a
sort
of
an
Vniversal
Index
Expurgatorius
,
that
points
at
the
mistakes
and
errors
of
every
page
in
our
several
Historians
,
is
what
we
chiefly
want
;
and
what
must
be
the
Result
of
the
joynt
Labours
of
a
Society
of
English
Antiquaries
and
Historians
as
well
as
the
General
History
it self
.
For
,
most
of
our
Printed
Histories
have
been
miserably
abused
,
either
in
transcribing
,
or
at
the
Press
,
besides
(
their
native
blemishes
)
the
falsities
and
blunders
of
their
Authors
;
tho'
some
few
have
had
the
good
fortune
to
fall
into
better
hands
which
have
sent
them
abroad
beautifull
and
well
dress'd
.
The
first
Person
of
my
Eminence
and
Learning
that
was
so
kind
to
this
Kingdom
as
to
procure
a
correct
Edition
of
some
of
our
best
Historians
,
was
Archbishop
Parker
;
who
furnish'd
us
with
[
a
](A52335-e1050-b)
a
London
1570.
Matthew
of
Westminster
,
[
b
](A52335-e1070-b)
b
London
1571.
M.
Paris
,
[
c
](A52335-e1090-b)
c
Lond.
1574.
Tho.
Walsingham
and
[
d
](A52335-e1110-b)
d
Cum
priore
.
Asserius
Menevensis
.
After
him
the
Lord
William
Howard
of
Naworth
publish'd
[
e
](A52335-e1150-b)
e
Francof
.
1601.
Florence
of
Worcester
;
as
did
likewise
Sir
Henry
Savile
his
[
a
](A52335-e1180-b)
a
Francof
.
1601.
Scriptores
post
Bedam
,
and
Camden
his
[
b
](A52335-e1210-b)
b
Ib.
1602.
Anglica
,
Normannica
,
&c.
These
were
four
very
Great
Men
:
And
what
they
had
begun
singly
and
severally
,
was
,
with
like
accuracy
and
success
,
carry'd
on
by
a
Confederacy
of
Learned
Worthies
(
Archbishop
Usher
,
Sir
R.
Twisden
and
Mr.
Selden
)
during
our
late
Civil
Wars
.
To
them
we
are
eternally
indebted
for
the
noble
Edition
they
gave
us
of
the
[
c
](A52335-e1260-b)
c
Lond.
1652.
Decem
Scriptores
;
and
they
had
certainly
[
d
](A52335-e1280-b)
d
See
W.
Kennet's
Life
of
Mr.
S●●●er
,
p.
64
,
65
,
66.
further
oblig'd
us
,
had
not
the
Iniquity
of
the
Times
,
and
the
Inconstancy
that
attends
all
humane
Affairs
,
prevented
them
.
What
they
left
unfinish'd
was
,
in
a
good
measure
,
perfected
by
(
that
mighty
Supporter
of
Learning
)
Dr.
John
Fell
,
the
late
excellent
Bishop
of
Oxford
,
who
took
care
to
[
a
](A52335-e1330-b)
a
Oxon.
1684.
publish
some
of
the
Treatises
which
they
had
prepared
for
the
Press
;
and
had
been
at
a
great
charge
in
procuring
others
of
'em
,
which
he
did
not
live
to
finish
.
Of
these
a
more
particular
account
will
be
given
hereafter
,
in
their
proper
places
.
To
repair
(
as
much
as
was
possible
)
the
inexpressible
loss
we
had
by
the
Death
of
this
worthy
Prelate
,
the
like
good
service
to
the
Publick
was
happily
undertaken
by
the
Industrious
and
Learned
Dr.
Th.
Gale
;
who
has
kindly
obliged
us
with
Twenty
of
our
old
Writers
,
in
two
Volumes
.
The
former
of
these
(
tho'
last
[
b
](A52335-e1360-b)
b
Oxon.
1691.
Printed
)
contains
fifteen
pieces
of
our
most
ancient
Historians
(
as
Gildas
,
Nennius
,
Asserius
,
&c.
)
transcribed
out
of
old
Manuscripts
;
with
the
various
Readings
,
where
any
variety
of
Copies
was
to
be
had
.
To
which
he
has
added
a
large
Appendix
of
such
fragments
of
Antiquity
as
are
justly
to
be
call'd
Prime-Primitive
,
out
of
Ptolemy
,
Antoninus's
Itinerary
,
the
Notitia
Dignitatum
,
&c.
Vpon
some
of
these
he
has
given
us
his
own
excellent
Notes
;
together
with
Surita's
upon
the
Itinerary
,
so
far
as
it
relates
to
Britain
.
It
were
to
be
wish'd
the
Printer
had
perform'd
his
part
as
well
:
But
the
Doctor
's
great
Distance
from
the
Press
,
and
the
usual
negligence
of
Correctors
,
has
occasion'd
several
Errata
;
which
yet
will
be
easily
rectify'd
by
an
Intelligent
Reader
.
In
the
[
a
](A52335-e1430-b)
a
Oxon.
1687.
second
Volume
we
have
Five
Historians
of
Note
;
who
make
us
acquainted
with
many
considerable
Transactions
in
the
first
eight
Reigns
after
the
Conquest
.
The
Publisher's
Design
,
in
this
part
,
would
not
allow
him
to
descend
any
lower
than
to
the
Reign
of
Edward
the
First
:
and
therefore
,
although
Wikes
and
the
Annals
of
Waverley
carry
him
a
little
beyond
his
Bounds
(
as
ending
soon
after
)
yet
,
he
tells
us
,
he
has
reserv'd
a
good
share
of
Hemmingford
for
the
more
regular
Prosecution
of
his
Method
in
some
other
Volume
,
which
he
encourages
us
to
hope
for
from
him
hereafter
.
To
these
(
as
he
[
a
](A52335-e1480-b)
a
Praef.
ad
Vol.
I.
p.
5
,
6.
observes
)
there
ought
indeed
to
be
added
a
Third
Volume
(
perhaps
,
a
Fourth
and
a
Fifth
)
of
our
MS.
Historians
from
Hen.
III.
to
Hen.
VIII
.
And
that
would
complete
the
Collection
which
he
has
,
with
so
great
Pains
and
Judgment
,
begun
.
For
,
since
Printing
came
in
fashion
,
nothing
of
History
has
been
penn'd
,
worth
the
Common
View
,
which
is
not
effectually
published
and
easy
to
be
had
;
except
only
some
few
choice
Papers
that
are
still
monopoliz'd
by
such
private
men
(
of
slow
thought
)
as
do
believe
they
wrong
themselves
whenever
they
communicate
these
hidden
Treasures
.
In
both
Volumes
we
have
most
exact
and
full
Indices
;
which
exceedingly
add
to
the
value
of
the
Work
.
The
like
good
Services
have
been
done
to
the
Ecclesiastical
History
of
this
Kingdom
by
H.
Wharton
,
who
has
publish'd
[
a
](A52335-e1540-b)
a
Anglia
Sacra
,
Par.
I.
&
II.
Lond.
1691.
two
Volumes
of
Writers
on
that
Subject
;
and
seems
to
intimate
that
,
some
time
or
other
,
we
might
have
hoped
for
a
Third
and
Fourth
Volume
of
the
same
sort
of
Collections
from
him
.
Had
he
improv'd
the
Opportunities
he
once
had
of
fitting
out
all
these
for
the
Press
,
before
the
misfortunes
of
his
Patron
had
spoil'd
both
his
[
a
](A52335-e1550-b)
a
Cùm
adversa
Clementissimi
Patroni
fortuna
mihi
hujusmodi
studiorum
subsidia
,
omnium
verò
praemia
,
infoelici
excusserit
:
Praef.
ad
Par.
II.
p.
30.
Design
and
Prospect
,
his
kindness
to
the
Publick
would
have
been
doubled
;
and
perhaps
other
occasions
might
have
been
offer'd
him
of
communicating
his
elaborate
Notes
on
the
Succession
of
some
of
our
Bishops
.
His
other
Ornamental
Discourses
,
which
seem
to
have
robb'd
us
of
a
deal
of
his
Time
and
Pains
,
might
have
been
spard
.
At
least
;
they
would
have
taken
no
harm
,
if
he
had
kept
them
within
Doors
a
little
longer
;
since
some
of
'em
look
as
if
they
were
sent
abroad
too
early
,
and
before
they
were
come
to
their
full
growth
and
perfection
.
For
instance
;
That
about
the
two
Aelfrics
(
which
he
values
himself
upon
,
as
his
[
a
](A52335-e1570-b)
a
Tot
tantisque
Argumentis
firmata
,
ut
non
facilè
aliis
rejicienda
fuerit
.
master-piece
)
is
founded
on
a
gross
mistake
in
A.
Wheloc's
wrong
Translating
an
expression
in
the
Saxon
[
b
](A52335-e1600-b)
b
Ad
Antiq.
975.
Chronicle
;
which
carries
no
such
sense
as
he
puts
upon
it
.
Some
body
,
I
fansy
,
had
made
him
sensible
of
this
Error
;
and
therefore
(
in
his
[
c
](A52335-e1610-b)
c
P.
796.
Addenda
)
he
endeavours
to
gain
his
point
by
a
fresh
Argument
,
assuring
us
that
the
Codex
optimus
Cottonianus
ends
the
Chronicle
at
the
year
975.
Had
the
rest
of
our
Libraries
been
as
well
search'd
,
as
that
at
Lambeth
was
by
this
Gentleman
,
I
should
have
been
able
to
have
enlarg'd
this
Collection
to
a
much
greater
bulk
:
whereas
,
for
want
of
such
Discoveries
,
some
hundreds
of
Volumes
may
possibly
escape
me
.
Sir
John
Cotton's
at
Westminster
(
collected
by
his
Grandfather
Sir
Robert
)
has
heretofore
been
justly
esteem'd
to
contain
more
Helps
for
the
composure
of
a
General
History
of
England
,
than
all
the
other
Libraries
of
the
Kingdom
[
a
](A52335-e1700-b)
a
J.
Usser
.
Praef.
ad
Brit.
Eccl.
Antiq.
p.
2.
put
together
;
being
not
only
plentifully
stock'd
with
Manuscript
Historians
,
Original
Grants
,
Patents
,
&c.
but
also
abundantly
furnish'd
with
our
old
[
b
](A52335-e1730-b)
b
Camden
and
Speed
.
Roman
,
British
,
[
c
](A52335-e1770-b)
c
Praef.
ad
vit.
Aelfredi
R.
Not.
ad
Tab.
IV.
Saxon
and
Norman
Coins
.
Tho-James
first
publish'd
a
[
d
](A52335-e1820-b)
d
Ecloga
Oxonio-Cantabr
.
Lond.
1600.
Catalogue
of
the
MSS.
in
the
Publick
Library
at
Cambridge
and
of
the
Private
College-Libraries
in
Oxford
;
out
of
which
last
he
is
reported
to
have
[
e
](A52335-e1850-b)
e
Athen.
Oxon.
Vol.
I.
p.
459.
borrow'd
several
Volumes
,
never
hitherto
restor'd
to
their
proper
Owners
,
Afterwards
he
did
the
like
for
[
a
](A52335-e1870-b)
a
Oxon.
1605
,
1620.
Bodley's
;
which
,
the
Reader
ought
to
know
,
has
been
wonderfully
improv'd
since
that
time
by
the
many
large
Additions
that
have
been
made
to
it
(
chiefly
in
Manuscripts
)
by
Archbishop
Laud
,
the
Lord
Hatton
,
Mr.
Selden's
and
Mr.
Junius's
Executors
,
&c.
To
which
the
Musaeum
Ashmoleanum
makes
now
a
most
Noble
Appendix
;
as
being
richly
fraught
with
an
excellent
Collection
of
Manuscripts
and
Coins
(
as
well
as
other
[
b
](A52335-e1940-b)
b
See
Dr.
Plott's
Hist.
of
Staffordsh
.
p.
277.
Rarities
in
Art
and
Nature
)
made
by
that
worthy
Person
whose
Name
it
deservedly
bears
.
Some
part
of
the
great
Treasure
here
reposited
,
has
been
already
discover'd
to
us
by
Mr.
Gibson
,
who
has
publish'd
a
[
c
](A52335-e1980-b)
c
Oxon.
1692.
Catalogue
of
Sir
William
Dugdale
's
Books
;
and
we
hope
the
like
good
Office
will
be
done
for
Mr.
Ashmole
by
[
a
](A52335-e2010-b)
a
Mr.
Edw.
Lhwyd
the
worthy
Keeper
of
the
Musaeum
.
another
learned
hand
.
Dr.
Hickes's
[
b
](A52335-e2030-b)
b
Ad
finem
Instit.
Gramm
.
Anglo-Sax
.
Catalogue
of
such
MSS.
as
relate
to
the
Saxon
and
Danish
Times
is
the
most
complete
we
have
in
its
kind
:
and
Mr.
[
c
](A52335-e2060-b)
c
Oxon.
1692.
Gibson's
Account
of
Tennison's
Library
(
founded
by
His
Grace
the
present
Archbishop
of
Canterbury
,
at
St.
Martin's
in
the
Fields
)
is
highly
beneficial
and
obliging
.
But
all
these
are
small
shreds
and
scantlings
,
if
compar'd
with
the
Voluminous
work
of
Dr.
Bernard
;
who
threatens
to
give
us
an
entire
[
d
](A52335-e2130-b)
d
Librorum
MSS.
Academiorum
Oxoniensis
&
Cantabrigiensis
,
&
celebrium
per
Angliam
Hiberniamque
Bibliothecarum
Catalogus
,
&c.
List
of
all
the
Manuscripts
of
this
Kingdom
(
of
all
kinds
)
that
either
our
Publick
or
Private
Libraries
will
afford
.
'T
is
a
very
Noble
and
Generous
Vndertaking
.
Only
;
a
little
more
caution
(
I
think
)
should
be
observ'd
by
him
,
in
carefully
perusing
the
Catalogues
that
are
sent
from
some
of
the
most
distant
Counties
:
especially
,
where
the
Authority
rely'd
on
,
for
the
Truth
of
the
Copies
,
is
not
very
good
and
staunch
.
Otherwise
,
't
is
possible
the
Reader
may
be
sent
some
hundreds
of
Miles
to
enquire
after
a
Book
that
has
not
appear'd
,
in
the
place
referr'd
to
,
at
any
time
since
the
Restoration
of
King
Charles
the
Second
.
This
,
I
am
very
sure
,
is
the
Case
with
some
of
the
Northern
Libraries
;
whose
Catalogues
(
as
he
has
Printed
them
)
were
either
drawn
thirty
years
ago
,
or
else
are
Prophetically
calculated
for
about
thirty
years
hence
.
Of
this
latter
kind
is
that
of
a
certain
Cathedral
Church
;
which
neither
is
,
nor
ever
was
,
furnish'd
with
any
one
single
Manuscript
of
the
several
,
in
all
Volumes
,
which
't
is
there
said
to
contain
.
I
have
some
cause
to
fear
that
I
shall
never
live
to
see
such
Books
,
in
that
Library
,
as
are
there
mention'd
:
and
I
am
also
afraid
that
most
of
'em
(
if
they
have
any
being
at
all
)
are
of
that
modest
complexion
which
becomes
a
private
retirement
better
than
an
appearance
in
publick
.
The
Doctor
's
Project
is
certainly
very
commendable
;
and
deserves
encouragement
,
and
the
utmost
Assistance
that
Men
of
Learning
and
Acquaintance
with
Books
can
give
it
.
But
then
,
They
that
pretend
to
put
a
helping
hand
to
the
Work
should
be
sure
to
do
it
effectually
.
They
should
be
scrupulously
nice
in
their
Informations
;
take
nothing
upon
Trust
and
Hear-say
;
send
no
Transcripts
of
ancient
(
heretofore
)
Catalogues
,
instead
of
such
as
give
the
present
State
of
their
Libraries
;
view
the
Books
themselves
;
be
sure
they
are
already
in
the
Classes
referr'd
to
,
and
not
only
in
some
distant
and
uncertain
promise
;
&c.
By
these
means
we
might
truly
discover
the
dormant
Riches
of
the
Nation
;
and
the
c●rious
might
,
with
good
assurance
,
apply
to
such
Persons
as
were
undoubtedly
able
to
Answer
their
Hopes
.
Till
these
vast
Designs
are
perfected
,
we
cannot
hope
for
a
full
and
exact
Index
of
all
those
Historians
that
have
escaped
the
common
Destruction
,
in
the
Dissolution
of
Abbeys
,
and
the
Outrages
of
our
Civil
Wars
.
And
't
will
be
enough
for
a
Man
that
lives
in
such
an
obscure
corner
of
the
Earth
,
as
my
Lot
is
fallen
into
,
to
point
at
the
Times
wherein
the
greatest
part
of
'em
flourish'd
;
how
they
were
qualify'd
for
their
several
Vndertakings
;
and
how
well
,
or
ill
,
they
have
acquitted
themselves
in
their
Performances
.
This
I
shall
endeavour
to
do
in
a
Method
,
which
,
I
hope
,
the
Reader
will
think
Natural
enough
;
as
agreeing
with
me
that
our
General
Historian
ought
to
enquire
for
,
-
1.
Geographical
,
Chorographical
and
Topographical
Writers
of
this
Nation
;
such
as
give
an
Account
of
its
chief
Remarkables
in
Nature
,
Arts
and
Antiquities
.
And
that
either
,
-
1.
In
Genera●
.
Chap.
1.
-
2.
In
Particular
Counties
,
Cities
and
Great
Towns
.
Ch.
2.
-
2.
Chronicles
and
Annals
.
Which
are
either
,
-
1.
General
Relating
to
the
Times
,
-
1.
Of
the
Britains
and
Romans
.
Chap.
3.
-
2.
Of
the
Saxons
and
Danes
.
Ch.
4.
-
3.
Since
the
Conquest
.
Ch.
5.
-
2.
Particular
Lives
of
our
several
Kings
,
down
from
William
the
Conqueror
.
Ch.
6.
-
3.
Ecclesiastical
Historians
.
-
1.
General
.
As
,
-
1.
From
the
first
Establishment
of
Christianity
to
the
Reign
of
Henry
VIII
.
Chap.
7.
-
2.
Since
the
Reformation
.
Ch.
8.
-
2.
Particular
.
As
to
the
several
-
1.
Bishopricks
.
Ch.
9.
-
2.
Monasteries
.
Ch.
10.
-
3.
Vniversities
.
Ch.
11.
-
4.
Law-Books
,
Records
and
Papers
of
State
.
Ch.
12.
-
5.
Biographers
,
Writers
of
the
Lives
of
our
English
-
1.
Saints
.
Ch.
13.
-
2.
Eminent
Churchmen
and
Statesman
.
Ch.
14.
-
3.
Writers
.
Ch.
15.
I
have
not
the
vanity
to
imagine
that
I
shall
ever
be
able
to
run
through
all
these
Chapters
without
being
guilty
of
a
deal
of
very
gross
Mistakes
:
and
therefore
I
expect
to
hear
of
a
large
Muster-Roll
of
Errors
and
Defects
in
my
Book
.
This
I
shall
so
little
repine
at
;
that
I
do
assure
Thee
(
Honest
Reader
)
't
is
what
I
heartily
long
for
and
desire
.
I
pretend
to
little
more
at
present
than
the
drawing
of
such
Lines
as
may
be
filld
up
hereafter
into
a
piece
worth
the
Viewing
;
and
I
shall
be
abundantly
thankful
to
have
the
finishing
part
done
by
a
better
and
more
Skilful
hand
than
my
own
.
I
have
spent
a
great
deal
of
time
(
perhaps
,
too
much
)
in
conversing
with
some
of
these
old
Gentlemen
;
and
I
cannot
but
flatter
my self
into
a
belief
that
I
have
attain'd
to
something
of
a
more
than
ordinary
Acquaintance
with
them
.
However
,
the
Characters
I
shall
give
of
'em
are
not
alwaies
mine
,
but
are
sometimes
Censures
pass'd
by
better
Judges
than
my self
.
Where-ever
I
venture
to
give
my
own
opinion
,
I
hope
,
I
shall
do
it
with
that
Sincerity
and
Caution
which
becomes
an
Englishman
;
one
that
is
alwaies
ready
to
put
himself
upon
a
Tryal
by
God
and
his
Countrey
,
as
not
being
conscious
of
any
Offence
,
either
against
Religion
or
good
Manners
.
And
yet
,
where
there
is
Manifest
Cause
of
Complaint
;
where
a
Writer
is
either
scandalously
Ignorant
or
Impertinent
;
where
we
have
Romance
or
Buffoonry
trump'd
upon
us
for
good
Sterling-History
;
where
a
Bankrupt
Plagiary
sets
up
upon
the
borrow'd
Stock
of
an
Industrious
Author
,
or
the
like
;
there
,
I
hope
,
a
moderately
keen
Resentment
will
not
be
Interpreted
as
a
Breach
of
any
Commandment
,
either
of
the
First
or
Second
Table
.
I
have
but
one
thing
more
to
Apologize
for
;
and
that
's
the
frequent
Repetitions
,
the
Reader
will
be
apt
to
observe
,
of
the
same
Word
and
(
perhaps
)
Expression
and
Phrase
.
I
have
repeated
Occasions
to
take
Notice
of
this
and
the
other
Man's
Undertaking
and
Performing
,
Penning
and
Publishing
,
his
several
Historical
Labours
:
And
possibly
a
nice
Critick
in
the
Finery
and
Cadence
of
the
English
Tongue
would
expect
that
I
should
have
Collected
a
good
Number
of
Synonymous
Sentences
for
this
Purpose
.
I
can
only
say
,
I
never
intended
my
Papers
for
the
View
of
such
Delicate
and
Curious
Judges
of
Language
and
Oratory
.
If
I
had
but
a
Word
in
readiness
that
would
serve
my
Turn
▪
I
never
vex'd
my
Brains
in
Pumping
for
another
that
could
only
do
as
well
:
And
,
being
to
cloath
so
many
People
of
the
very
same
Size
and
Shapes
,
it
were
too
severe
(
I
think
)
to
force
me
to
provide
each
of
'em
with
a
different
Habit
and
Fashion
.
CHAP.
I.
Of
the
General
Geography
,
State
and
Antiquities
of
England
.
WHatever
crime
it
might
be
anciently
in
private
Men
to
be
skill'd
in
Maps
and
Charts
of
whole
Countries
,
(
that
being
thought
a
Piece
of
Knowledge
,
proper
only
for
Princes
and
great
Generals
)
't
is
now
a
mighty
Defect
in
the
modish
Accomplishments
of
the
Age
of
the
otherwise
;
and
every
Body
is
so
much
a
Politician
,
States-man
and
Warriour
,
that
there
is
no
conversing
in
the
World
without
an
intimate
Acquaintance
with
all
the
four
Quarters
of
the
Globe
.
'T
is
not
my
business
at
present
to
furnish
out
Instructions
for
the
speedy
Attainment
of
this
kind
of
Learning
;
nor
to
explain
Gazettes
and
Monthly
Mercuries
:
that
's
done
abundantly
by
other
Hands
.
The
sole
design
of
this
Chapter
is
the
pointing
at
such
ancient
and
modern
Writers
,
as
have
describ'd
(
at
large
,
and
by
whole-sale
)
the
Lands
and
Territories
,
Cities
and
High-ways
,
Natural
History
,
Politicks
,
Antiquities
,
&c.
of
this
Kingdom
.
Ptolemy
,
[
a
](A52335-e2880-b)
a
H.
Lhuyd
Fragment
.
fol.
35.
a.
Jo.
Ant.
Maginus
,
Pag.
4.
&c.
all
agree
)
in
the
beginning
of
the
second
Century
;
and
therefore
we
may
safely
call
him
the
first
Geographer
that
mention'd
any
thing
of
the
British
Islands
.
For
the
little
florid
Accounts
which
we
have
from
Julius
Caesar
or
Tacitus
,
ought
not
to
come
into
this
reckoning
.
And
well
he
may
seem
to
be
so
;
since
the
Maps
which
Maginus
and
others
have
drawn
by
his
Tables
,
sufficiently
shew
,
that
,
when
he
wrote
,
Geography
was
but
in
its
Infancy
.
So
much
of
him
as
relates
to
us
,
has
been
lately
publish'd
by
[
b
](A52335-e2940-b)
b
Append.
ad
Hist.
Brit.
p.
735.
&
787.
Dr.
Gale
,
who
has
also
give
us
his
own
learned
Notes
upon
that
part
of
the
Book
.
If
Antoninus's
[
c
](A52335-e3000-b)
c
De
Hist.
Lat.
in
vità
Livii
.
Vossius
gives
it
too
severe
Language
to
deserve
the
Honour
it
had
sometime
gain'd
in
the
world
;
and
(
in
plain
terms
)
calls
it
a
Bastard
.
However
,
let
it
be
written
by
Antoninus
,
Antonius
or
[
a
](A52335-e3030-b)
a
Vide
Usserii
Hist.
Eccles.
Brit.
p.
42.
Aethicus
;
't
is
of
an
ancient
date
,
and
shall
here
keep
the
Station
and
Repute
it
has
gotten
among
as
learned
and
wise
Judges
as
have
hitherto
condemn'd
it
.
That
part
of
his
Work
which
concerns
Britain
,
has
been
amply
treated
on
by
three
of
our
own
Countrymen
:
Mr.
[
b
](A52335-e3060-b)
b
M.
S.
in
Coll.
Ben.
Cantab.
&
Bibl.
Cott.
de
quo
vid.
Hist.
&
Antiq.
Oxon.
par.
II.
p.
135.
&
J.
Pits
,
p.
737.
R.
Talbot
,
sometime
Canon
of
Norwich
,
whose
Manuscript
Commentaries
(
much
enlarg'd
by
Dr.
Caius
)
are
now
in
the
Library
at
Caius
College
in
Cambridge
:
Mr.
William
[
c
](A52335-e3130-b)
c
Fol.
London
1658.
Burton
,
School-master
at
Kingston
upon
Thames
:
And
Dr.
Tho.
[
d
](A52335-e3170-b)
d
Append.
ad
Hist.
Brit.
p.
787.
Gale
,
the
present
Learned
and
Worthy
Master
of
St.
Paul's
School
in
London
.
The
Liber
Notitiarum
comes
next
in
order
;
[
e
](A52335-e3240-b)
e
Id.
ib.
p.
744
,
746
,
748.
Learned
Person
has
oblig'd
us
with
as
much
of
it
as
is
for
our
purpose
.
He
has
also
given
us
what
may
seem
to
have
any
relation
to
this
Country
,
out
of
an
old
anonymous
Geographer
lately
publish'd
at
Paris
,
together
with
a
List
of
the
Hides
or
Tenements
in
the
several
Counties
of
England
in
the
days
of
our
Saxon
Kings
.
And
these
(
I
think
)
are
all
the
Remains
of
our
old
Geography
,
and
the
Summ
of
what
was
penn'd
before
the
Conquest
that
look'd
this
way
.
For
,
with
what
confidence
soever
[
a
](A52335-e3280-b)
a
Pag.
136.
J.
Pits
may
report
it
,
I
do
not
believe
that
ever
venerable
Bede
wrote
any
Book
,
De
situ
&
mirabilibus
Britanniae
;
or
that
any
such
thing
is
,
or
ever
was
to
be
had
in
the
Library
of
Bennet
College
.
His
Ecclesiastical
History
(
as
paraphras'd
in
the
English
Saxon
Tongue
by
King
Aelfred
)
is
indeed
there
;
and
the
first
Chapter
in
it
bears
a
Title
which
might
impose
upon
the
good
Man
,
or
his
Informer
,
who
is
often
guilty
of
more
groundless
Mistakes
than
this
.
From
the
Conquest
,
[
a
](A52335-e3410-b)
a
Id.
p.
280.
are
said
to
be
in
Bennet-Library
)
are
the
first
I
can
hear
off
.
And
I
doubt
I
shall
only
hear
of
them
;
for
they
seem
to
be
the
same
with
his
Itinerary
and
Topography
of
Wales
.
John
Leland
[
b
](A52335-e3440-b)
b
Assert
.
Arthur
.
fol.
33.
a.
says
,
he
does
not
question
but
there
was
such
a
Book
as
the
former
of
these
.
But
all
his
industry
could
not
ferret
it
out
.
Ralph
de
Diceto's
Treatise
[
c
](A52335-e3460-b)
c
Pits
p.
283.
de
mirabilibus
Angliae
seems
to
be
as
rare
a
Piece
as
either
of
the
former
;
and
is
,
perhaps
,
laid
up
with
John
Horminger's
[
d
](A52335-e3490-b)
d
Id.
p.
398.
Commendations
of
England
,
or
(
as
Bale
calls
it
)
de
divitiis
&
deliciis
Angliae
.
Of
the
same
Stamp
,
I
fansie
,
is
William
Thorn's
[
e
](A52335-e3540-b)
e
Id.
pag.
529.
Chronicle
of
all
the
Countries
(
as
well
as
Bishopricks
and
Abbeys
)
in
Trevisa's
[
f
](A52335-e3560-b)
f
Id.
pag.
567.
Description
of
Britain
;
and
William
Buttoner's
[
g
](A52335-e3590-b)
g
Id.
p.
646.
Antiquities
,
collected
out
of
the
old
Charters
,
Leiger-Books
,
Epitaphs
,
&c.
of
the
whole
Kingdom
.
Caxton's
is
the
only
thing
in
its
kind
,
which
I
can
assuredly
say
we
have
;
as
being
long
since
publish'd
with
his
[
h
](A52335-e3620-b)
h
Fol.
Lond.
1515.
Chronicle
or
Fructus
Temporum
.
Will
it
be
any
inducement
to
the
Reader
to
peruse
use
this
Author's
Work
to
hear
him
recommended
by
[
a
](A52335-e3640-b)
a
Edit.
prim
.
Cent.
8.
cap.
43.
Bale
,
under
the
character
of
vir
non
omnino
stupidus
aut
ignaviâ
torpens
?
Since
the
beginning
of
Henry
the
Eighth's
Reign
,
[
b
](A52335-e3710-b)
b
J.
Pits
,
p.
733.
Tho.
Sulmo
(
some
call
him
Sulemanus
,
others
Solimountes
)
a
Guernsey
Man
,
who
died
at
London
,
A.
D.
1545.
The
year
following
a
much
greater
Man
of
the
profession
(
Sir
Thomas
Eliot
,
one
of
King
Henry's
Ambassadors
and
Sir
Thomas
Moor's
Friends
)
[
c
](A52335-e3800-b)
c
Id.
p.
734.
di'd
also
,
and
left
behind
him
a
learned
and
judicious
Commentary
de
rebus
memorabilibus
Angliae
.
This
work
gain'd
him
the
Repute
of
a
most
accomplish'd
Antiquary
in
the
opinion
of
J.
[
d
](A52335-e3830-b)
d
De
Encom
.
virorum
illustr.
p.
18.
Leland
,
who
is
almost
immoderate
in
his
Praises
.
But
Humphrey
[
e
](A52335-e3860-b)
e
Fragment
.
fol.
5.
a.
b.
Lhuyd
(
being
a
little
disgusted
at
his
Prytannia
)
could
only
allow
him
the
modest
Character
of
vir
non
contemnendae
eruditionis
.
Cotemporary
with
these
two
,
was
George
Lilly
(
Son
of
William
Lilly
the
famous
Grammarian
)
who
liv'd
sometime
at
Rome
with
Cardinal
Pool
;
and
publish'd
the
first
exact
[
a
](A52335-e3940-b)
a
J.
Pits
,
p.
740.
Map
that
ever
was
drawn
of
this
Island
.
The
chief
Ornament
of
this
King's
Reign
,
John
Leland
,
his
Library-Keeper
and
Canon
of
Christ-Church
,
of
whom
we
shall
have
occasion
to
speak
more
largely
[
b
](A52335-e3990-b)
b
Chap.
15.
elsewhere
.
Among
the
many
voluminous
Writings
he
left
behind
him
,
those
that
have
any
relation
to
the
general
Description
of
England
,
are
his
[
c
](A52335-e4010-b)
c
M.
S.
in
Bibl.
Bodl.
Itinerary
in
five
Volumes
(
which
J.
[
d
](A52335-e4030-b)
d
Pag.
743
,
744.
Pits
seems
to
have
subdivided
into
a
great
many
other
Treatises
)
and
his
[
e
](A52335-e4050-b)
e
4o
.
Lond.
1545.
Cygnea
Cantio
.
The
latter
of
these
is
a
Poetical
Piece
of
Flattery
,
or
a
Panegyrick
on
King
Henry
;
wherein
the
Author
brings
his
Swan
down
the
River
of
Thames
,
from
Oxford
to
Greenwich
,
describing
(
as
she
passes
along
)
all
the
Towns
,
Castles
and
other
places
of
Note
within
her
view
.
And
the
ancient
Names
of
these
,
being
sometimes
different
from
what
the
common
Herd
of
Writers
had
usually
given
,
therefore
(
in
his
Commentary
on
this
Poem
)
he
Alphabetically
explains
his
Terms
;
and
by
the
bye
,
brings
in
a
great
deal
of
the
ancient
Geography
of
this
Island
.
Persons
of
greatest
eminence
in
this
Humphrey
Lhuyd
,
John
Twyne
,
William
Harrison
and
William
Camden
.
The
first
of
these
was
born
at
Denbigh
,
where
he
afterwards
practis'd
Physick
,
and
wrote
many
excellent
Treatises
.
He
was
an
intimate
Acquaintance
of
Ortelius
,
whom
he
assisted
in
the
Edition
of
his
Ancient
Geography
,
furnishing
him
with
Maps
of
England
and
Wales
.
And
because
he
therein
disagreed
from
the
opinions
of
some
former
Antiquaries
,
in
the
Position
of
several
of
the
old
Cities
,
Forts
and
Rivers
,
he
sent
him
also
his
[
a
](A52335-e4220-b)
a
8ᵒ.
Colon.
Agrip.
1572.
&
Anglice
(
The
Breviary
of
Britain
.
)
8o
.
London
1573.
Commentarioli
Britannicae
descriptionis
fragmentum
;
which
gives
reasons
for
all
the
uncommon
Assertions
he
had
there
laid
down
.
He
shews
in
it
how
imperfect
all
the
accounts
of
this
Island
are
,
which
we
have
from
the
Roman
Writers
,
and
how
dark
,
for
want
of
a
little
skill
in
the
old
British
Language
.
From
thence
he
derives
most
of
our
ancient
Names
;
and
herein
he
is
much
follow'd
by
Camden
,
as
himself
(
in
other
matters
)
is
a
great
follower
of
Leland
.
John
Twyne
(
Schoolmaster
,
and
sometime
[
a
](A52335-e4310-b)
a
Athen.
Oxon.
vol.
I.
p.
160.
Mayor
of
Canterbury
)
was
so
considerable
in
Antiquities
,
as
to
deserve
a
very
high
place
among
J.
Leland's
[
b
](A52335-e4340-b)
b
Encom
.
Viror
.
illustr.
p.
83.
Worthies
;
and
appears
indeed
to
have
been
a
man
of
extraordinary
Knowledge
in
the
Histories
and
Antiquities
of
this
Kingdom
.
The
only
thing
of
his
that
's
publish'd
is
his
Treatise
[
c
](A52335-e4350-b)
c
8o
.
Lond.
1590.
de
rebus
Albionicis
,
Britannicis
atque
Anglicis
:
but
his
Grandson
Bryan
gave
several
other
of
his
Manuscript
Collections
to
Corpus
Christi
College
in
Oxford
;
where
they
still
remain
.
William
Harrison
(
Chaplain
to
Sir
William
Brook
Lord
Warden
of
the
Cinque
Ports
)
with
great
Pains
,
and
good
Judgment
,
collected
,
A
Description
of
the
Island
of
Britain
,
with
a
brief
Rehearsal
of
the
Nature
and
Qualities
of
the
People
of
England
,
and
such
Commodities
as
are
to
be
found
in
the
same
.
Which
in
three
Books
,
has
been
[
d
](A52335-e4460-b)
d
Fol.
Lond.
1577
and
1587.
several
times
printed
together
with
R.
Holinshead's
Chronicle
.
Besides
these
,
't
is
said
,
George
Coryat
(
Rector
of
Odcombe
,
and
Father
to
Tom.
Coryat
of
famous
Memory
)
wrote
a
[
e
](A52335-e4510-b)
e
Hist.
&
Antiq.
Oxon.
par.
II.
p.
141.
Description
of
England
,
Scotland
and
Ireland
,
in
Latin
Verse
,
which
he
dedicated
to
Queen
Elizabeth
.
But
the
Glory
of
this
Queen's
Reign
,
's
Britannia
.
as
well
as
her
Successor's
,
and
the
Prince
of
our
English
Antiquaries
,
was
Mr.
Camden
,
whose
Life
has
been
written
at
large
by
Dr.
Smith
,
Mr.
Wood
,
and
Mr.
Gibson
.
So
that
I
need
not
here
mention
any
of
its
particulars
.
His
Britannia
is
the
Book
which
chiefly
respects
the
Subject
of
this
Chapter
;
and
may
honestly
be
styl'd
the
common
[
a
](A52335-e4650-b)
a
Vid.
H.
Spelm.
Gloss.
in
voce
Heraldus
.
Sun
,
whereat
our
modern
Writers
have
all
lighted
their
little
Torches
.
In
Latin
it
had
many
[
b
](A52335-e4670-b)
b
8o
.
Lond.
1582.
85.
87.
4ᵒ.
Ib.
1590.
94.
Fol.
Ib.
1607.
Editions
during
the
Life
of
its
Author
,
who
continually
polish'd
and
improv'd
it
;
'T
was
first
translated
into
English
by
Philemon
Holland
;
who
gave
two
[
c
](A52335-e4720-b)
c
Fol.
Lond.
1610
,
1637.
Editions
of
it
in
that
Language
.
The
former
of
these
appearing
while
Mr.
Camden
himself
was
alive
,
I
am
apt
to
believe
(
with
Tho.
[
d
](A52335-e4750-b)
d
Worthies
of
Engl.
p.
128.
in
Warwickshire
.
Fuller
)
that
many
of
the
Additions
and
Interpolations
,
which
were
then
charg'd
on
the
Translator
,
might
not
only
come
in
by
the
Author
's
own
Permission
and
Consent
,
but
were
also
placed
there
by
his
Directions
,
and
are
as
truly
his
proper
Work
as
any
other
part
of
the
Text.
But
,
in
the
second
,
Holland
himself
frequently
turns
Antiquary
,
taking
upon
him
to
correct
,
add
and
explode
what
he
pleases
.
These
Corruptions
have
been
all
noted
in
a
late
English
Edition
of
the
Work
;
wherein
,
't
is
hoped
,
effectual
care
has
been
taken
to
do
the
great
Author
all
the
Honour
and
Justice
he
has
merited
from
his
Countrymen
.
Some
early
Attempts
were
made
by
an
envious
Person
,
one
[
a
](A52335-e4810-b)
a
Ath.
Oxon.
Vol.
I.
p.
411.
Brook
or
Brookmonth
,
to
blast
the
deservedly
great
Reputation
of
this
Book
;
but
they
perish'd
and
came
to
nothing
;
as
did
likewise
the
terrible
Threats
given
out
by
Sir
Symonds
D.
Ewes
,
that
he
would
discover
[
b
](A52335-e4850-b)
b
See
A.
B.
Usher's
Letters
,
P.
496.
Errors
in
every
Page
.
As
little
to
be
regarded
is
that
scurrillous
Invective
,
which
Fuller
has
most
unworthily
inserted
into
his
Church-History
:
a
Work
wherein
(
if
the
Author
had
been
capable
of
any
such
thing
)
a
Man
would
have
expected
nothing
but
what
look'd
like
Truth
and
Gravity
.
There
is
now
no
danger
of
his
Suffering
by
the
Injuries
done
him
by
Holland
;
and
,
I
think
,
very
little
from
the
[
a
](A52335-e4900-b)
a
Vid.
Not.
in
Aelfr
.
mag.
vit.
p.
33.
unskilfull
Epitome
of
the
Book
drawn
by
Vitellius
a
Foreigner
,
and
long
since
publish'd
at
[
b
](A52335-e4920-b)
b
In
12ᵒ.
1639.
Amsterdam
.
To
this
we
must
here
add
another
Work
,
s
Remains
.
which
is
now
generally
ascribed
to
Mr.
Camden
;
but
at
first
carry'd
only
in
its
Title
Page
the
two
last
Letters
(
M.
N.
)
of
both
his
Names
.
This
is
his
Remains
concerning
Britain
,
its
Languages
,
Names
,
Surnames
,
&c.
After
't
was
enlarg'd
by
John
Philipot
(
Somerset-Herald
)
it
has
had
many
[
c
](A52335-e5030-b)
c
4ᵒ.
&
8o
.
Lond.
1637
,
&c.
Impressions
,
and
has
been
confidently
,
and
without
any
Scruple
,
father'd
upon
our
great
Antiquary
.
There
are
in
it
a
deal
of
good
Collections
touching
the
Languages
,
Money
,
Surnames
and
Apparel
of
our
British
and
Saxon
Ancestors
:
but
his
List
of
proper
Names
might
be
considerably
enlarged
and
corrected
by
what
[
d
](A52335-e5090-b)
d
De
Ling.
Germ.
lib.
5.
tract.
2.
Scottelius
and
[
e
](A52335-e5110-b)
e
In
Append.
ad
Chron.
Saxon.
Mr.
Gibson
have
written
on
that
Subject
.
As
for
his
Allusions
,
Rebus
and
Anagrams
,
he
himself
fear'd
they
would
pass
for
Foolish
Fopperies
;
and
I
do
not
care
for
thwarting
,
without
very
good
reason
,
any
of
his
opinions
.
The
conceits
in
Impresses
,
Apophthegms
,
Poems
,
Epigra
msand
Epitaphs
are
endless
,
and
therefore
hardly
worth
registring
in
a
Work
of
this
Nature
.
To
our
late
Antiquaries
,
J.
Speed
and
other
late
Antiquaries
.
Mr.
Camden
has
been
the
same
thing
as
Homer
was
of
old
to
the
Poets
of
Greece
.
They
have
usually
borrow'd
or
stoln
their
whole
stock
from
him
.
J.
Speed
,
't
is
true
,
was
a
Person
of
extraordinary
Industry
and
Attainments
in
the
Study
of
Antiquities
;
and
seems
not
altogether
unworthy
of
the
Name
of
summus
&
eruditus
Antiquarius
,
given
him
by
[
a
](A52335-e5220-b)
a
Sheringham
de
Angl.
Orig.
P.
42.
one
who
was
certainly
so
himself
.
His
Maps
are
extremely
well
;
and
make
a
noble
Apparatus
(
as
they
were
design'd
)
to
his
History
.
But
his
Descriptions
of
the
several
Counties
are
mostly
short
Abstracts
of
what
Camden
had
said
before
him
,
saving
only
that
of
Norfolk
,
which
(
he
owns
,
tho'
he
is
not
always
so
civil
to
his
chief
Benefactor
)
he
had
from
Sir
Henry
Spelman
.
I
am
apt
to
believe
he
was
not
much
in
Sir
Henry's
Debt
;
since
't
is
likely
the
Villare
Anglicum
(
afterwards
publish'd
in
Sir
Henry's
Name
▪
and
said
to
be
compos'd
by
him
and
Mr.
Dodesworth
)
was
chiefly
drawn
out
of
Speed's
Alphabetical
Tables
on
the
back
of
his
Maps
.
The
like
must
be
said
of
Edw.
Leigh's
short
Treatise
of
[
a
](A52335-e5330-b)
a
8o
.
Lond.
1659.
England
describ'd
,
&c.
which
is
a
small
handfull
of
Gleanings
out
of
the
same
common
Field
.
Of
the
like
Complexion
is
a
good
share
of
Fuller's
[
b
](A52335-e5370-b)
b
Fol.
Lond.
1662.
Worthies
;
which
pretends
to
give
an
account
of
the
Native
Commodities
,
Manufactures
,
Buildings
,
Proverbs
,
&c.
of
all
the
Counties
of
England
and
Wales
;
as
well
as
of
their
great
men
in
Church
and
State
;
tho'
this
latter
looks
like
the
principal
Design
,
and
makes
up
the
greatest
part
of
the
Volume
.
It
was
hudled
up
in
hast
,
[
c
](A52335-e5420-b)
c
P.
2.
for
the
procurement
of
some
moderate
profit
for
the
Author
,
tho'
he
did
not
live
to
see
it
publish'd
.
It
corrects
many
Mistakes
in
his
Ecclesiastical
History
;
but
makes
more
new
ones
in
their
stead
.
The
best
things
in
it
are
the
Catalogues
of
the
Sheriffs
;
and
the
Lists
of
the
Gentry
,
as
they
were
return'd
from
the
several
Counties
(
twelve
only
excepted
)
in
the
12th
.
year
of
Henry
the
Sixth
.
His
chief
Author
is
Bale
,
for
the
Lives
of
his
eminent
Writers
;
and
those
of
his
greatest
Heroes
are
commonly
mis-shapen
Scraps
,
mix'd
with
Tattle
and
Lyes
.
But
the
boldest
Plagiary
in
the
whole
pack
,
is
R.
Blome
,
the
pretended
Author
of
the
mock
[
a
](A52335-e5470-b)
a
Fol.
Lond.
1673.
Britannia
,
or
,
A
Geographical
Description
of
the
Kingdoms
of
England
,
Scotland
and
Ireland
,
&c.
a
most
entire
Piece
of
Theft
out
of
Camden
and
Speed
.
Besides
these
Volumes
in
print
,
H.
Ferrers
Esq
a
great
Friend
and
Assistant
to
[
b
](A52335-e5570-b)
b
Camd.
Britan.
in
Warwickshire
.
Mr.
Camden
;
one
large
Volume
whereof
(
relating
to
the
Pedigrees
of
our
Nobility
and
Gentry
)
is
now
in
the
[
c
](A52335-e5600-b)
c
Ath.
Oxon.
vol.
I.
pag.
504.
Heralds
Office
at
London
,
and
others
are
scatter'd
in
private
hands
.
Many
more
of
the
like
kind
are
referr'd
to
by
Sir
William
Dugdale
:
as
those
of
[
d
](A52335-e5630-b)
d
Monast.
Angl.
Tom.
II.
p.
18.
66.
246.
851.
869
,
&c.
R.
Glover
,
[
e
](A52335-e5660-b)
e
Ib.
p.
41.
Jo.
Hanson
,
[
f
](A52335-e5680-b)
f
Ib.
p.
50.
184.
607.
S.
Kniveton
,
[
a
](A52335-e5700-b)
a
Ibid.
p.
85.
A.
Vincent
,
Sir
[
b
](A52335-e5720-b)
b
Ibid.
p.
70.
154.
298.
449.
506.
Hen.
Spelman
,
Sir
[
c
](A52335-e5740-b)
c
Ibid.
p.
78.
196.
624.
R.
St.
George
and
others
;
and
he
has
also
left
a
fair
number
of
his
own
Composure
,
which
were
kindly
deposited
by
himself
in
his
Son
Ashmole's
Musaeum
at
Oxford
.
His
Copartner
Dodesworth's
are
in
Bodley's
Library
.
We
are
likewise
indebted
to
them
that
have
been
at
the
Expence
of
making
Surveys
of
the
whole
Kingdom
,
more
correct
Maps
of
England
(
as
they
call
them
)
which
are
in
nothing
different
from
theirs
,
but
in
some
few
changes
of
the
Bearings
of
Towns
,
new
Currents
of
Rivers
,
&c.
all
of
the
same
value
,
and
discover'd
by
the
same
Art
,
with
the
Painter's
Wife's
Island
.
Mr.
Adams's
large
Map
,
with
the
Contraction
of
it
afterwards
must
also
be
acknowledg'd
to
be
done
with
good
Pains
,
Judgment
and
Exactness
.
'T
were
to
be
wish'd
his
Index
[
a
](A52335-e5920-b)
a
Fol.
Lond.
1680.
Villaris
had
no
more
Errors
nor
Omissions
in
it
:
but
we
are
not
without
hopes
,
but
that
the
mighty
Improvements
which
have
been
made
upon
this
,
by
the
Industrious
and
Learned
Mr.
[
b
](A52335-e5940-b)
b
MS.
in
Musaeo
Ashmol
.
Oxon.
Aubrey
,
may
shortly
be
published
.
The
Natural
History
of
England
was
Francis
Bacon
)
began
to
publish
his
own
Discoveries
in
Experimental
Philosophy
;
and
,
by
his
great
Example
and
Success
,
set
some
lesser
Heads
a
working
.
'T
was
this
great
Man
who
first
[
c
](A52335-e6010-b)
c
De
Augment
.
Scient.
Lib.
2.
Cap.
2.
observed
to
our
English
Philosophers
,
that
we
wanted
two
parts
in
three
of
a
just
Natural
History
;
which
he
calls
Expatiatio
Naturae
&
Ars.
Under
the
former
he
ranks
all
the
uncouth
and
uncommon
Occurrences
in
Simple
Nature
;
and
,
under
the
other
,
her
several
Modifications
(
and
the
many
Useful
and
Instructive
Discoveries
that
are
made
of
Her
)
in
Arts
Mechanical
.
And
yet
what
is
it
(
upon
the
whole
)
that
we
have
hitherto
had
on
either
of
these
Subjects
?
Dr.
Childrey's
[
a
](A52335-e6050-b)
a
8o
.
Lond.
1661.
Britannia
Baconica
does
promise
an
Historical
Account
of
the
Natural
Rarities
of
England
,
Scotland
and
Wales
;
with
Observations
and
Deductions
answerable
to
the
Rules
laid
down
by
the
Lord
Bacon
:
But
his
Volume
(
not
to
say
a
hard
thing
of
him
)
is
manifestly
too
small
for
the
performance
.
Sir
Hugh
Platt's
[
b
](A52335-e6120-b)
b
4o
.
Lond.
1652.
Jewel
House
,
and
Dr.
Merret's
[
c
](A52335-e6160-b)
c
8o
.
Lond.
1665.
Pinax
are
also
rather
short
Catalogues
of
our
Natural
Curiosities
,
than
just
Treatises
upon
'em
:
For
no
such
thing
has
yet
appear'd
.
We
have
indeed
a
pretty
good
stock
of
Materials
towards
the
raising
of
such
a
Fabrick
;
if
we
could
but
meet
with
a
Judicious
and
Daring
Architect
.
The
late
Honourable
and
Famous
Mr.
Boyle
has
(
in
several
of
his
Tracts
)
made
large
Discoveries
of
the
Nature
of
our
Frosts
,
Snow
,
Hail
and
other
Meteors
.
Our
flying
and
creeping
Insects
have
been
carefully
marshall'd
and
examin'd
by
Dr.
[
d
](A52335-e6200-b)
d
Tract
de
Aran.
&
Not.
in
Goedart
.
Lister
;
who
also
has
notably
inform'd
us
of
the
most
abstruse
Phoenomena
in
our
Springs
and
[
e
](A52335-e6230-b)
e
De
Fontibus
Medicat
.
Angl.
8o
.
Lond
1684.
Mineral
Waters
(
as
Dr.
Plott
likewise
has
[
a
](A52335-e6260-b)
a
De
Orig.
Fontium
.
8o
.
Oxon.
1685.
done
)
and
has
reduced
our
Land
and
[
b
](A52335-e6280-b)
b
Hist.
Conchyliorum
.
Fol.
Lond.
1685.
86.
&c.
ad
1691.
Sea-shells
into
the
best
Classes
that
are
any
where
extant
.
Our
[
c
](A52335-e6290-b)
c
Willughby's
Ornithology
.
Fol.
Lond.
1678.
Fowl
,
[
d
](A52335-e6310-b)
d
His
Icthyology
.
Fol.
Oxon.
Fish
,
and
[
e
](A52335-e6320-b)
e
Joh.
Raii
Synopsis
Anim
.
&c.
8o
.
Lond.
1693.
Quadrupeds
are
well
Trib'd
by
Mr.
Willughby
and
Mr.
R●y.
Our
Earths
,
Metals
,
and
other
Fossils
,
have
been
enquir'd
into
by
[
f
](A52335-e6380-b)
f
Metallographia
.
4o
.
Lond.
1671.
Mr.
Webster
,
and
others
.
Our
form'd
Stones
,
which
have
been
strangely
neglected
by
the
Naturalists
of
former
Ages
,
will
(
we
hope
)
shortly
be
very
throughly
and
satisfactorily
treated
on
by
the
Ingenious
Dr.
Woodward
;
who
,
by
what
he
has
already
[
g
](A52335-e6420-b)
g
Nat.
Hist.
of
the
Earth
.
8o
.
Lond.
1695.
publish'd
on
that
Subject
,
has
rather
rais'd
our
Expectations
than
remov'd
our
Doubts
.
We
likewise
expect
a
deal
of
Information
,
in
these
amusing
Curiosities
,
from
the
Learned
Mr.
Edward
Lhwyd
,
who
has
Abilities
sufficient
to
go
through
with
any
Undertaking
,
wherein
his
singular
Modesty
will
allow
him
to
engage
.
Mr.
Beaumont
ought
also
to
be
reminded
of
the
thoughts
he
once
had
o●
[
h
](A52335-e6460-b)
h
Consid.
on
the
Theory
of
the
Earth
.
p.
4.
setting
forth
a
particular
Tract
to
this
purpose
:
No
Man
being
better
qualify'd
for
such
a
performance
.
Mr.
Ray
has
put
our
Botanists
upon
daily
searches
after
new
Plants
;
since
his
[
a
](A52335-e6490-b)
a
Synopsis
Method
.
8o
.
Lond.
1690.
Synopsis
has
told
them
what
numerous
Discoveries
have
been
lately
made
by
Mr.
Lhwyd
in
Wales
,
Mr.
Lawson
in
the
Northern
Counties
of
England
,
&c.
The
like
Encouragements
our
Naturalists
have
from
his
(
and
Mr.
Willughby's
)
Ornithology
to
make
further
Enquiries
after
the
many
hitherto
undiscover'd
Species
of
Birds
;
since
't
is
easily
observable
,
that
the
Authors
of
that
Work
having
had
the
greatest
Assistance
from
Mr.
Johnson
and
Mr.
Jessop
(
both
Yorkshire
Men
)
there
are
in
it
more
Discoveries
of
new
kinds
from
the
North
than
any
other
Quarter
of
the
Kingdom
.
To
all
these
must
be
added
the
many
Ingenious
Informations
communicated
,
from
most
parts
of
the
Nation
,
in
our
Philosophical
Transactions
;
especially
from
some
of
the
forementioned
chief
Naturalists
of
this
Age
,
Dr.
Plott
,
Dr.
Lister
;
and
Mr.
Ray.
Some
general
Accounts
have
been
given
of
our
English
Policy
[
a
](A52335-e6680-b)
a
First
publish'd
in
English
4o
.
Lond.
1583.
Commonwealth
of
England
has
met
with
good
Applause
;
having
been
frequently
printed
both
in
English
and
Latin
.
There
was
also
another
small
Treatise
(
entitul'd
,
The
Authority
,
Form
and
Manner
of
holding
Parliaments
)
lately
[
b
](A52335-e6760-b)
b
8o
.
Lond.
1685.
publish'd
in
his
Name
:
but
some
have
question'd
whether
it
be
rightly
father'd
.
Upon
this
latter
Subject
we
have
a
printed
Account
of
the
Opinion
of
Mr.
Camden
[
c
](A52335-e6790-b)
c
High
Court
of
Parliament
.
8o
.
Lond.
1658.
;
together
with
those
of
J.
Doderidge
,
Arthur
Agard
and
Francis
Tate
.
Sir
Walter
Raleigh
has
likewise
written
(
as
he
used
to
do
on
all
other
Subjects
)
most
judiciously
and
[
d
](A52335-e6840-b)
d
Vid.
Hen.
Spelm.
Gloss.
pag.
451.
acutely
upon
the
Prerogatives
of
our
Parliaments
;
and
Sir
Robert
Cotton's
[
e
](A52335-e6860-b)
e
8o
.
Lond.
1679.
Posthuma
are
full
of
Learning
on
the
same
Topick
.
Dr.
Chamberlain's
present
state
of
England
has
been
so
well
receiv'd
,
as
to
admit
of
a
new
Edition
almost
yearly
ever
since
't
was
[
a
](A52335-e6910-b)
a
8o
.
Lond.
1668.
first
publish'd
.
It
has
been
indeed
,
of
late
,
very
coursly
treated
by
a
nameless
Scribler
of
Observations
on
the
Times
:
But
he
seems
to
have
been
hir'd
to
the
Drudgery
of
penning
such
unmannerly
Reflections
,
by
a
Gentleman
who
had
newly
publish'd
another
Book
(
much
fuller
of
Mistakes
)
under
the
like
Title
.
As
to
what
concerns
our
Nobility
and
Gentry
,
[
b
](A52335-e6960-b)
b
Fol.
Lond.
1672.
Titles
of
Honour
ought
first
to
be
well
perus'd
;
for
the
gaining
of
a
general
Notion
of
the
Distinction
of
Degrees
from
an
Emperour
down
to
a
Country-Gentleman
:
And
,
after
this
,
the
three
Volumes
of
Sir
William
Dugdale's
[
c
](A52335-e6990-b)
c
Fol.
Lond.
1675
,
&
1676.
Baronage
of
England
;
which
gives
an
Account
of
the
Lives
and
Prowess
of
all
our
English
Nobility
,
from
the
coming
in
of
the
Saxons
down
to
the
Year
1676.
Whatever
relates
to
the
Knights
of
the
most
Noble
Order
of
the
Garter
is
completely
shewn
us
by
Mr.
Ashmole
,
in
his
most
elaborate
and
perfect
[
d
](A52335-e7040-b)
d
Fol.
Lond.
1672.
Work
on
that
Subject
.
For
inferiour
Ranks
we
have
'em
in
the
Books
of
Heraldry
that
have
been
publish'd
by
Wyrley
,
Brooks
,
Vincent
,
Dugdale
,
and
(
especially
)
Guillim
;
of
the
[
a
](A52335-e7070-b)
a
Fol.
Lond.
1660
,
&
1679.
two
last
Editions
of
whose
Book
't
is
observ'd
,
that
R.
Blome
has
so
disguis'd
and
spoil'd
it
,
that
if
the
Author
,
or
Authors
,
of
it
were
living
they
could
scarce
know
it
.
What
is
missing
in
these
will
be
abundantly
supply'd
out
of
the
great
Treasury
of
MS.
Collections
in
the
Heralds
Office
at
London
;
wherein
are
innumerable
Inscriptions
,
Arms
,
Epitaphs
,
Pedigrees
,
Lists
of
Precedence
at
Coronations
and
Funerals
,
&c.
CHAP.
II.
Of
particular
Descriptions
of
Counties
;
with
their
Cities
and
great
Towns
.
'T
IS
so
much
the
general
Humour
of
Mankind
to
be
fond
of
their
Native
Soil
,
and
Places
of
chief
Residence
and
Abode
,
that
Historians
must
not
pretend
to
be
so
far
of
a
different
Composition
from
their
Neighbours
as
not
to
be
subject
to
the
common
Frailty
.
They
are
as
liable
to
discover
their
Dotage
,
in
this
Particular
,
as
other
ordinary
Mort●ls
;
and
thence
it
comes
that
Ingulfus's
History
is
so
full
of
Crowland
,
W.
Neubrigensis's
of
Paris's
of
St.
Albans
,
&c.
whenever
any
shadow
of
an
opportunity
is
offer'd
'T
is
from
the
same
Principle
that
we
have
sew
Counties
in
England
whose
Records
have
not
been
carefully
sought
out
,
and
Endeavours
used
to
preserve
them
,
by
some
of
their
Sons
;
who
have
usually
prov'd
more
happy
in
such
Undertakings
(
as
having
gone
about
them
with
most
hearty
Zeal
and
Application
)
than
any
of
our
more
general
Writers
.
Those
that
I
have
met
with
of
this
kind
are
here
drawn
into
Order
and
Rank
;
according
to
the
following
Alphabetical
Lists
of
our
several
Counties
.
BARKSHIRE
has
not
hitherto
,
Elias
Ashmole
Esquire
,
in
his
History
of
the
Knights
of
the
Garter
,
before
mention'd
.
BEDFORDSHIRE
is
under
the
like
BVCKINGHAMSHIRE
has
had
the
[
a
](A52335-e7340-b)
a
4o
.
Oxon.
1695.
Mr.
Kennet
.
CAMBRIDGESHIRE
,
A
little
of
William
Dugdale
,
in
his
History
of
the
[
a
](A52335-e7410-b)
a
Fol.
Lond.
1662.
Imbanking
and
Dreining
of
divers
Fenns
and
Marshes
both
in
Foreign
Parts
and
in
this
Kingdom
.
Dr.
Hickes
,
in
the
Appendix
to
his
[
b
](A52335-e7430-b)
b
Pag.
131.
Saxon
Grammar
mentions
a
Manuscript
in
Sir
John
Cotton's
Library
(
entitul'd
,
Statuta
de
Gildâ
quâdam
in
Cantabrigiâ
)
which
seems
to
relate
to
the
Town
of
Cambridge
.
The
Writers
upon
the
Affairs
of
the
University
belong
to
[
c
](A52335-e7480-b)
c
Chap.
11.
another
place
.
CHESHIRE
[
d
](A52335-e7530-b)
d
Britan.
in
Chesh.
Camden
,
as
a
piece
of
great
Rarity
and
good
Value
.
S.
Erdeswick
(
the
great
Antiquary
of
Staffordshire
)
seems
to
have
written
also
something
of
the
History
of
this
County
;
as
is
intimated
by
his
MS.
Book
in
the
hands
of
several
Gentlemen
of
Staffordshire
,
which
begins
thus
;
[
e
](A52335-e7590-b)
e
Athen.
Oxon.
Vol.
I.
p.
275.
Having
disposed
with
my self
to
take
a
further
View
of
the
Shires
of
Staffordshire
and
Chester
,
&c.
A
third
Description
of
this
County
(
Geographical
and
Historical
)
was
written
by
W.
Smith
,
Rouge-dragon
Pursuivant
at
Arms
,
and
left
in
the
hands
of
Sir
Ranulph
Crew
,
sometimes
Lord
Chief
Justice
of
the
King's
Bench
;
whose
Grandchild
(
Sr
R.
Crew
)
afterwards
publish'd
it
.
A
Fourth
was
compil'd
by
W.
Webb
M.
A.
and
sometime
Town-Clerk
of
Chester
;
which
was
thought
worthy
the
publishing
by
that
Judicious
Antiquary
Sir
Simon
Archer
of
Tamworth
.
These
two
last
were
afterwards
printed
together
(
under
the
Title
of
[
a
](A52335-e7710-b)
a
Fol.
Lond.
1656.
The
Vale
Royal
of
England
)
by
Daniel
King
;
who
took
care
to
have
the
Work
beautify'd
with
several
Cuts
of
Heraldry
and
Topography
.
The
Accounts
given
of
this
King
by
[
b
](A52335-e7750-b)
b
Worthies
of
Engl.
pag.
184.
in
Chesh.
Mr.
Fuller
and
the
[
c
](A52335-e7790-b)
c
Athen.
Oxon.
Vol.
II.
p.
163.
Oxford
Antiquary
are
very
widely
different
:
So
that
whether
he
was
Lux
Patriae
,
as
the
former
Styles
him
,
or
(
in
the
others
plain
English
)
a
silly
Fellow
and
an
errant
Knave
,
I
know
not
.
Sir
Peter
[
d
](A52335-e7840-b)
d
Fol.
Lond.
1673.
Leicester's
Historical
Antiquities
were
also
(
no
doubt
)
chiefly
intended
to
do
Honour
to
this
County
:
For
tho'
the
first
Book
pretends
to
treat
of
the
general
Affairs
of
Great
Britain
and
Ireland
,
its
true
Design
was
to
Introduce
(
what
alone
comes
to
be
handled
in
the
Second
)
the
Antiquities
of
Cheshire
,
and
chiefly
of
Bucklew
Hundred
.
The
Contests
which
hereupon
happen'd
'twixt
Sir
Peter
and
(
his
Kinsman
)
Sir
Thomas
Manwaring
are
not
worth
the
remembring
,
as
belonging
rather
to
the
Men
of
the
Law
than
History
.
There
's
an
old
MS.
History
of
the
Earldom
of
Chester
quoted
(
out
of
Bennet-Library
)
by
Mr.
[
a
](A52335-e7940-b)
a
Titles
of
Hon.
p.
729.
Selden
;
the
summ
whereof
,
I
imagine
,
has
been
publish'd
by
Judge
Doderidge
,
in
the
History
he
[
b
](A52335-e7970-b)
b
4o
.
Lond.
1630.
wrote
of
the
Ancient
and
Modern
Estate
of
this
Earldom
,
together
with
that
of
the
Principality
of
Wales
and
Dutchy
of
Cornwall
.
In
this
Treatise
Sir
John
,
with
a
great
deal
of
Industry
and
Exactness
,
calculates
the
ancient
and
present
Revenues
of
this
Palatinate
;
but
is
not
so
curious
in
clearing
up
its
original
History
.
This
Defect
is
since
very
much
supply'd
by
the
Labours
of
the
late
[
c
](A52335-e8020-b)
c
See
Camd.
Brit.
N.
E.
p.
566.
Ingenious
Mr.
Harrington
;
who
has
left
behind
him
several
excellent
Remarks
on
that
Subject
,
together
with
other
good
Collections
relating
to
the
Antiquities
of
this
County
.
Several
Books
(
says
[
a
](A52335-e8040-b)
a
Pag.
690.
John
Pits
)
were
written
by
Henry
Bradshaw
(
a
Benedictine
Monk
,
who
did
A.
D.
1513
)
De
Antiquitate
&
Magnificentiâ
Vrbis
Cestriae
:
All
which
,
I
am
apt
to
believe
,
are
swallow'd
up
by
(
another
Work
,
says
that
Gentleman
)
His
Life
of
St.
Werburg
;
which
is
still
to
be
had
in
several
of
our
Libraries
.
CORNWALL
.
[
b
](A52335-e8130-b)
b
4o
.
Lond.
1602.
R.
Carew
Esquire
,
that
there
will
be
only
occasion
for
Posterity
carefully
to
continue
a
Work
so
excellently
begun
;
and
to
which
Mr.
Camden
acknowledges
himself
indebted
for
the
chief
Light
he
had
in
these
parts
.
This
Book
,
with
large
Additions
,
is
now
in
the
possession
of
Mr.
Chiswell
,
Bookseller
in
London
;
who
may
probably
,
e're
long
,
oblige
us
with
a
new
Edition
.
There
is
also
an
Historical
Account
of
this
County
in
MS.
pen'd
by
J.
Norden
(
who
Mr.
Camden
[
c
](A52335-e8210-b)
c
Camd.
Epist.
p.
72.
tells
us
,
did
sometime
travel
into
this
part
of
the
Kingdom
)
in
the
hands
of
the
Learned
Dr.
Gale
.
Sir
John
Doderidge's
History
of
the
Dutchy
has
been
already
mention'd
in
Cheshire
.
CVMBERLAND
.
H.
Todd
,
Prebendary
of
that
Church
;
and
are
now
(
or
should
be
)
in
the
possession
of
the
Mayor
and
Aldermen
.
DERBYSHIRE
.
Ed.
Manlow
(
sometimes
Steward
of
the
Works
)
has
done
of
the
Miners
,
in
his
Book
entituled
,
[
a
](A52335-e8380-b)
a
8o
.
Lond.
1653.
Customs
of
the
[
b
](A52335-e8410-b)
b
Berge-moot
is
the
truer
Writing
.
Barge-Moot-Court
;
which
has
been
improv'd
by
T.
Houghton
in
his
[
c
](A52335-e8440-b)
c
12o
.
Lond.
1687.
Collection
of
the
Laws
,
Liberties
,
&c.
of
the
Mines
and
Miners
of
Derbyshire
.
I
should
also
think
the
Wonders
of
the
Peak
are
as
proper
a
Subject
for
a
Philosopher
to
write
on
in
Prose
,
as
they
can
be
for
the
most
exalted
Poetry
of
either
[
d
](A52335-e8490-b)
d
De
Mirabilibus
Pecci
.
4o
.
Lond.
1666.
Mr.
Hobbs
or
[
e
](A52335-e8520-b)
e
4o
.
Lond.
1681.
Mr.
Cotton
;
and
that
Buxton-Wells
deserve
a
better
Describer
than
Antiquated
[
f
](A52335-e8560-b)
f
8o
.
Lond.
1572.
John
Jones
.
DEVONSHIRE
.
Tho.
Fuller
(
in
his
Worthies
)
when
he
comes
to
treat
of
that
County
;
tho'
he
says
nothing
of
him
amongst
its
Writers
.
Tho.
Risdon's
Survey
or
Chorographical
Description
of
Devonshire
,
continues
likewise
in
MS.
though
Copies
of
it
are
no
rare
Matters
among
the
Gentry
of
that
County
.
'T
is
said
one
[
g
](A52335-e8680-b)
g
Athen.
Oxon.
Vol.
I.
p.
517.
Westcote
either
wrote
another
Survey
;
or
,
at
least
,
had
a
hand
in
that
which
was
compos'd
by
Risdon
.
I
wish
this
Westcote
be
not
the
same
Man
with
Dr.
Fuller's
Northcote
:
for
he
's
often
further
mistaken
than
from
West
to
North.
The
Remarkable
Antiquities
of
the
City
of
Exeter
were
publish'd
by
[
a
](A52335-e8770-b)
a
8o
.
Lond.
1681.
Richard
Izaac
;
but
(
as
a
[
b
](A52335-e8800-b)
b
Wh.
Kennet's
Life
of
Somn.
pag.
20.
worthy
Person
observes
)
the
Book
is
a
dry
Collection
,
and
full
of
Mistakes
;
there
being
nothing
(
worth
the
perusal
)
which
had
not
been
before
remark'd
in
J.
Hooker's
Description
,
Reprinted
in
Holinshead's
Chronicle
.
DORSETSHIRE
.
DVRHAM
.
[
a
](A52335-e8960-b)
a
Vitellius
,
D.
20.
Sr.
John
Cotton's
Library
.
ESSEX
.
Mr.
Strangman
has
attempted
the
Collection
of
its
Antiquities
:
But
(
whatever
their
Performances
may
have
been
)
we
have
cause
to
hope
for
good
things
,
on
that
Subject
,
very
shortly
from
Mr.
Ousley
;
who
has
given
a
Specimen
of
his
Work
in
what
he
has
communicated
in
the
New
Edition
of
Camden
.
The
Description
of
Harwich
with
all
its
Appurtenances
and
Antiquities
was
written
by
Silas
Taylor
(
Author
of
the
History
of
Gavelkind
)
who
was
Store-keeper
at
that
Port
,
A.
D.
1665.
The
Book
was
never
Printed
;
and
where
't
is
to
be
had
in
Manuscript
my
[
b
](A52335-e9080-b)
b
Ath.
Oxon.
vol.
II.
p.
465.
Author
does
not
inform
me
.
GLOCESTERSHIRE
.
[
a
](A52335-e9130-b)
a
J.
Pits
,
p.
823.
Andrew
Horn
,
a
suppos'd
Citizen
of
Glocester
,
God
knows
when
)
speaks
wholly
,
or
at
all
,
of
the
Affairs
of
this
County
,
is
mighty
uncertain
:
But
we
are
pretty
sure
that
[
b
](A52335-e9160-b)
b
See
his
Life
,
by
Dr.
Burnet
.
Sr.
Matthew
Hales
made
large
Collections
to
that
purpose
,
tho
he
did
not
live
to
fit
them
for
the
Press
.
Proposals
were
also
[
c
](A52335-e9190-b)
c
A.
D.
1683.
long
since
Publish'd
for
Printing
the
Antiquities
of
Glocestershire
by
Mr.
Abel
Wantner
;
who
,
meeting
with
the
Discouragements
that
are
Common
in
that
Case
(
an
untoward
Recompence
for
a
Gentleman
's
twelve
years
pains
and
study
)
was
content
to
enjoy
the
Fruits
of
his
Labour
himself
,
the
Publick
not
admitting
of
his
Services
.
The
City
of
Glocester's
Military
Government
has
been
accounted
for
by
[
d
](A52335-e9230-b)
d
8vo
Lond.
1651.
John
Corbet
;
and
the
Laws
and
Customs
of
the
Miners
in
the
Forest
of
Dean
by
an
[
e
](A52335-e9260-b)
e
12mo
Lond.
1687.
Anonymous
Writer
.
HAMPSHIRE
.
[
a
](A52335-e9310-b)
a
Ath.
Oxon.
vol.
I.
p.
380.
John
Trussel
;
who
was
himself
sometime
Alderman
of
that
City
,
and
continu'd
S.
Daniel's
History
.
I
guess
it
to
be
too
Voluminous
to
appear
in
Print
,
rather
than
(
as
[
b
](A52335-e9340-b)
b
Life
of
Somn.
p.
21.
Mr.
Kennet
presumes
it
)
too
imperfect
.
Something
,
to
the
same
purpose
,
was
likewise
written
by
Dr.
Bettes
;
whose
Book
is
still
in
MS.
As
are
also
,
I
suppose
,
Mr.
Butler's
Remarks
on
the
Monuments
in
this
ancient
City
.
A
General
Survey
of
the
Isle
of
Wight
(
part
of
this
County
)
was
written
by
[
c
](A52335-e9390-b)
c
Ath.
Oxon.
vol.
I.
p.
248.
Sr.
Francis
Knollis
,
Knight
of
the
Garter
and
Privy-Counsellour
to
Queen
Elizabeth
:
a
Manuscript
Copy
whereof
was
in
the
Library
of
the
late
Earl
of
Anglesey
.
There
is
also
a
[
d
](A52335-e9430-b)
d
Id.
ib.
p.
525.
Fragment
(
of
17.
Quarto
Pages
)
Entitul'd
Antiquitates
Insulae
Vectae
,
in
Bodley's
Library
,
among
the
MSS.
of
Richard
James
(
Fellow
of
C.C.C.
in
Oxford
)
an
eminent
Antiquary
;
who
dy'd
,
at
Sr.
Tho.
Cotton's
in
Westminster
,
A.
D.
1638.
HARTFORDSHIRE
.
[
a
](A52335-e9530-b)
a
4o
Lond.
1593.
Chorographical
Description
of
this
County
was
published
by
John
Norden
,
Gentleman
;
whom
we
shall
again
meet
with
in
Kent
and
Middlesex
,
as
we
have
had
already
occasion
to
mention
him
in
other
Counties
.
But
't
is
hop'd
his
Enquiries
will
be
infinitely
outdone
by
Sr.
Henry
Chauncey
Kt.
Serjeant
at
Law
;
whose
Antiquities
we
are
greedily
expecting
to
see
Publish'd
.
HEREFORDSHIRE
.
Silas
Taylor
(
beforemention'd
,
in
Essex
)
spent
four
years
in
collecting
the
Antiquities
,
Pedigrees
,
Epitaphs
,
&c.
of
this
County
;
and
his
Papers
were
lately
(
perhaps
,
now
are
)
in
the
hands
of
Sr.
Edward
Harley
of
Brompton-Brian
.
The
[
b
](A52335-e9670-b)
b
Athen.
Oxon.
vol.
II.
p.
465.
Ransack
he
made
,
during
the
times
of
Usurpation
,
in
the
Libraries
of
the
Cathedral
Churches
of
Hereford
and
Worcester
,
might
furnish
him
with
a
greater
plenty
of
Materials
than
(
it
may
be
)
a
man
will
easily
meet
with
at
this
Day
:
and
therefore
his
Collections
are
justly
recommended
as
a
good
[
c
](A52335-e9700-b)
c
Hist.
&
Antiq.
Oxon.
Part.
II.
p.
368.
Apparatus
for
any
that
shall
hereafter
write
on
the
same
Subject
.
HVNTINGDONSHIRE
.
Robert
Cotton
is
reported
to
have
[
a
](A52335-e9760-b)
a
Tho.
Fuller's
Ch.
Hist.
lib.
6.
p.
295.
&
Hist.
of
Waltham
.
p.
12.
written
that
Description
which
John
Speed
has
publish'd
of
this
County
.
KENT
.
this
be
observ'd
for
the
Honour
of
Kent
(
says
an
[
b
](A52335-e9820-b)
b
Kennet's
Life
of
Somn.
p.
38.
Ingenious
and
Learned
Gentleman
,
Native
of
this
County
)
that
while
other
Counties
(
and
but
few
of
them
)
have
met
with
single
Pens
to
give
the
History
and
Description
of
them
;
ours
has
had
no
less
than
four
Writers
to
celebrate
the
Glories
of
it
,
Lambard
,
Somner
,
Kilburn
,
and
Philpot
.
He
will
not
,
I
Hope
,
take
it
ill
,
if
we
enlarge
the
Catalogue
.
Both
Bale
and
Pits
expressly
reckon
the
Itinerarium
Cantiae
among
John
Leland's
Composures
;
so
that
I
should
think
he
bestow'd
something
of
more
care
than
ordinary
in
disposing
the
Remarks
he
made
on
this
County
.
W.
Lambard's
Perambulation
of
Kent
was
indeed
the
first
Account
which
was
[
c
](A52335-e9910-b)
c
4o
Lond.
1570.
publish'd
;
and
it
was
not
only
highly
applauded
by
Camden
,
and
other
Chief
Judges
of
such
Matters
,
but
gave
the
hint
to
many
more
Men
of
Learning
to
endeavour
the
like
Services
for
their
several
Counties
.
'T
was
not
well
approv'd
by
the
Gentlemen
of
the
Roman
Communion
.
Reiner
[
a
](A52335-e9960-b)
a
Apost.
Bened.
in
Angl.
p.
162.
,
particularly
,
censures
it
as
a
Work
undertaken
and
carry'd
on
with
a
Design
to
expose
the
Lewdnesses
and
Debaucherics
of
the
late
Inhabitants
of
the
Monasteries
of
that
County
;
in
describing
whereof
(
he
thinks
many
things
are
spitefully
misrepresented
.
Mr.
Somner
[
b
](A52335-e9980-b)
b
Kennet's
Life
of
Somn.
p.
33
,
34
,
35.
,
it
appears
,
fully
purpos'd
to
have
given
us
the
Antiquities
of
the
whole
County
;
and
had
certainly
made
very
great
Progress
towards
the
completing
the
Work
,
as
appears
by
his
Manuscripts
now
in
the
Library
of
the
Cathedral
Church
of
Canterbury
.
'T
is
not
doubted
but
he
would
mightily
have
enlarg'd
W.
Lambard's
Perambulation
;
and
he
gives
us
some
Specimen
of
his
Design
to
correct
also
his
Errors
,
by
marking
such
as
came
in
his
way
in
some
of
his
[
c
](A52335-e10010-b)
c
Antiq.
of
Canterb.
p.
77
,
88
,
381.
Treatises
already
publish'd
.
However
,
we
are
not
wholly
depriv'd
of
this
great
Work
,
some
part
of
it
having
been
lately
publish'd
under
the
Title
of
[
a
](A52335-e10020-b)
a
8o
.
Oxon.
1693.
A
Treatise
of
the
Roman
Ports
and
Forts
in
Kent
;
wherein
(
and
in
Mr.
Gibson's
Notes
upon
it
)
we
have
as
entire
a
Discourse
as
we
could
wish
for
on
that
Subject
;
rectifying
a
great
many
mistakes
in
Camden
,
Lambard
,
Philpot
,
&c.
and
discovering
the
true
Situation
of
those
ancient
Places
.
Philpot's
[
b
](A52335-e10090-b)
b
Fol.
Lond.
1659.
&
1664.
Villare
Cantianum
was
not
written
by
Thomas
Philpot
,
whose
name
in
bears
,
but
by
(
his
Father
)
Iohn
,
Somerset
Herald
;
who
is
only
own'd
to
be
Author
of
the
Additional
History
of
the
High
Sheriffs
of
the
County
:
And
,
what
Faith
(
a
Learned
[
c
](A52335-e10130-b)
c
Kennet's
Life
of
Somn.
p.
37
,
38.
Countreyman
of
his
puts
the
Question
in
my
Mouth
)
can
be
given
to
him
that
could
afford
to
rob
his
own
Father
of
the
credit
of
his
Book
.
Kilburn's
[
d
](A52335-e10160-b)
d
4o
.
Lond.
1659.
Survey
of
Kent
(
you
may
take
[
e
](A52335-e10190-b)
e
Life
of
Somn.
p.
37.
Mr.
Kennet's
word
for
it
)
is
all
Modern
and
Superficial
.
Another
Survey
of
the
County
(
in
proportion
to
the
rest
of
the
same
Author
's
)
was
drawn
by
Iohn
Norden
;
which
none
have
hitherto
thought
worth
the
handing
to
the
Press
,
and
few
have
reckon'd
so
considerable
as
to
mention
it
.
To
these
,
I
think
,
we
may
add
Iohn
Weever's
[
a
](A52335-e10230-b)
a
Fol.
Lond.
1631.
Funeral
Monuments
;
a
great
share
of
'em
having
been
collected
in
the
Dioceses
of
Canterbury
and
Rochester
.
But
let
the
Reader
never
forget
the
Remark
made
on
him
by
[
b
](A52335-e10260-b)
b
Angl.
Sacr.
Par.
I.
p.
668.
Mr.
Wharton
;
that
he
has
most
scandalously
mistaken
the
Numeral
Letters
and
Figures
in
most
of
the
Inscriptions
he
transcrib'd
:
which
makes
it
hazardous
for
an
Antiquary
to
rely
upon
his
Authority
.
Both
Mr.
Somner's
Excellent
[
c
](A52335-e10290-b)
c
4o
.
Lond.
1660.
Treatise
of
Gavelkind
,
and
Silas
Taylor
's
[
d
](A52335-e10330-b)
d
4o
.
Lond.
1663.
History
of
the
same
,
ought
also
to
be
referr'd
to
the
Catalogue
of
this
County's
Historians
and
Antiquaries
;
as
explaining
an
ancient
Custom
,
whereof
there
are
now
hardly
any
Remains
elsewhere
within
the
King's
Dominions
.
The
History
of
the
City
of
Canterbury
seems
to
have
been
penn'd
long
since
by
Will
.
Gillingham
,
a
Benedictine
Monk
of
that
place
;
who
is
[
e
](A52335-e10370-b)
e
Io.
Pits
,
p.
552.
said
to
have
written
De
Rebus
Cantuariensibus
,
about
the
year
1390.
Iohn
Twyne
[
f
](A52335-e10410-b)
f
Comment.
de
Reb.
Albion
.
mentions
some
Collections
that
he
had
made
tending
to
Illustrate
the
Antiquities
of
this
City
:
But
Mr.
Somner
assures
us
he
could
no
more
meet
with
them
than
with
those
of
Tho.
Spott
,
mention'd
by
Bale
.
But
it
s
everlasting
Monument
is
W.
Somner's
[
a
](A52335-e10460-b)
a
4o
.
Lond.
1640.
Antiquities
of
Canterbury
;
or
,
a
Survey
of
that
ancient
City
with
its
Suburbs
and
Cathedral
:
A
work
which
secur'd
the
Honour
of
all
that
the
Title-page
mentions
from
the
Levelling
Fury
and
Madness
of
the
Time
wherein
't
was
publish'd
,
and
is
deservedly
recommended
(
both
by
the
[
b
](A52335-e10490-b)
b
Kennet's
Life
of
Somn.
pag.
19.
Author's
Enemies
and
Friends
)
as
a
Piece
most
exquisitely
Perfect
in
its
kind
.
Amongst
his
Manuscripts
at
Canterbury
,
this
Book
may
be
seen
interleav'd
,
with
large
Additions
in
the
Author
's
own
Hand-writing
.
The
Spaw-waters
at
Tunbridge
are
treated
on
by
Lod.
Rowzee
and
P.
Madan
,
MM.
DD.
And
the
Chronicle
of
Rochester
(
collected
chiefly
from
the
Textus
Roffensis
,
mention'd
elsewhere
)
is
written
by
Edm.
Bedenham
Esq.
MS.
LANCASHIRE
.
R.
Keurden
sent
out
Proposals
for
the
Printing
his
Brigantia
Lancastriensis
Restaurata
,
or
,
a
History
of
the
Honourable
Dukedom
or
County
Palatine
of
Lancaster
:
which
(
he
told
us
)
was
compos'd
,
and
laid
ready
for
the
Press
,
in
Five
Volumes
.
I
know
not
how
the
Design
came
to
miscarry
;
but
do
imagine
that
the
vastness
of
the
Undertaking
slacken'd
its
Pace
.
'T
were
to
be
wish'd
the
Industrious
Author
would
oblige
us
with
an
Abstract
of
such
Discoveries
in
it
as
are
purely
New
to
us
,
and
his
own
.
There
can
hardly
be
any
danger
of
his
meeting
with
better
Encouragement
and
Success
upon
such
a
fresh
Attempt
:
whereas
it
could
not
well
prove
otherwise
than
a
very
cloying
Method
to
propose
the
taking
off
a
Volume
or
two
of
General
Preliminaries
,
before
we
came
at
(
the
main
business
)
the
Antiquities
of
Lancashire
.
Some
particulars
relating
to
the
Antiquities
of
the
Northern
Parts
of
this
County
were
communicated
,
to
the
undertaker
of
the
new
[
a
](A52335-e10650-b)
a
Britan.
Camd.
N.
E.
p.
802.
Edition
of
Camden
,
by
Sr.
Dan.
Fleming
Kt.
who
is
a
Person
of
great
Curiosity
and
Judgment
in
these
Matters
,
and
has
made
much
larger
Collections
than
could
be
brought
within
so
small
a
Compass
as
the
Nature
of
that
work
would
admit
of
.
It
s
Natural
History
(
I
am
told
)
is
compiled
by
Dr.
Charles
Leigh
;
who
has
already
given
us
good
earnest
of
his
Abilities
,
suitable
to
the
Undertaking
,
in
his
[
a
](A52335-e10690-b)
a
8o
Lond.
1694.
Phthisiologia
Lancastriensis
;
cui
accessit
Tentamen
Philosophieum
de
Mineralibus
Aquis
in
eodem
Comitatu
Observatis
.
To
which
may
be
added
Dr.
Edm.
Burlace's
[
b
](A52335-e10730-b)
b
8o
Lond.
1670.
Latham
Spaw
,
with
some
Remarkable
Cases
and
Cures
effected
by
it
;
and
[
c
](A52335-e10760-b)
c
Ray's
Engl.
words
,
&c.
p.
209.
a
short
Treatise
touching
the
manner
of
making
Salt
of
Sea-sand
in
this
County
.
The
Town
of
Manchester
has
its
particular
History
written
by
one
Richard
Hollingworth
,
an
active
Presbyterian
Preacher
in
the
beginning
of
our
Civil
Wars
:
which
may
be
seen
in
MS.
in
their
College
Library
.
LEICESTERSHIRE
William
Burton
Esq
a
native
of
this
County
,
and
Barrister
at
Law
.
His
[
d
](A52335-e10850-b)
d
Fol.
Lond.
1622.
Description
runs
in
an
Alphabetical
Order
of
the
Villages
;
and
his
Method
has
been
observ'd
by
many
more
that
have
since
endeavour'd
the
like
services
for
other
Counties
.
The
Work
consists
chiefly
of
Descents
,
Pedigrees
and
Moot-Cases
:
But
the
Author
was
afterwards
sensible
of
its
main
Defect
,
and
therefore
very
much
enlarg'd
and
enrich'd
it
with
an
Addition
of
Roman
,
Saxon
and
other
Antiquities
.
This
appears
from
his
own
Letter
to
Sr.
Robert
Cotton
,
still
extant
;
and
the
Book
it self
,
thus
improv'd
is
[
a
](A52335-e10880-b)
a
Ath.
Oxon.
vol.
II.
p.
36.
said
to
have
been
lately
in
the
possession
of
Walter
Chetwind
,
of
Ingestree
near
Stafford
,
Esq
who
had
also
other
Manuscripts
of
the
said
Mr.
Burton's
Composure
.
LINCOLNSHIRE
William
Dugdale
,
in
his
[
b
](A52335-e10980-b)
b
Fol.
Lond.
1622.
History
of
Imbanking
;
and
(
in
the
year
1671.
)
there
was
publish'd
a
short
Relation
of
great
Damages
done
by
a
Tempest
and
Overflowing
of
the
Tides
in
this
County
and
Norfolk
:
But
its
main
Body
lies
yet
undescribed
,
to
the
Reproach
of
all
those
Persons
of
Learning
and
Ingenuity
that
are
its
Natives
.
R.
Butcher's
Survey
of
Stamford
is
often
quoted
by
Tho.
Fuller
(
in
his
Worthies
)
when
he
comes
to
speak
of
Lincolnshire
;
as
it
is
likewise
,
very
frequently
,
by
J.
Wright
in
his
Antiquities
of
Rutland
.
It
was
printed
in
the
Year
1646.
MIDDLESEX
.
John
Norden
[
a
](A52335-e11100-b)
a
4o
.
Lond.
1593.
published
a
Description
of
this
County
about
the
same
time
that
he
wrote
his
other
(
somewhat
shorter
)
or
Hartfordshire
.
Both
these
Surveys
are
mention'd
by
[
b
](A52335-e11130-b)
b
Survey
of
Lond.
in
Epist.
Ded.
John
Stow
,
as
undertaken
(
and
publish'd
)
in
imitation
of
W.
Lambard's
perambulation
of
Kent
.
The
Funeral
Monuments
within
the
Diocese
of
London
were
Collected
(
after
his
Fashion
)
by
J.
Weever
;
and
we
are
lately
encouraged
to
hope
for
the
natural
Hi●●ory
of
the
County
by
Dr.
Plott
.
Tho.
Johnson's
little
short
account
of
the
Plants
that
grow
wild
on
[
c
](A52335-e11200-b)
c
8o
.
Lond.
1632.
Hampsted-heath
is
the
only
thing
publish'd
that
looks
this
way
;
and
't
is
to
inconsiderable
as
hardly
to
deserve
mentioning
.
The
first
Description
of
the
famous
City
of
London
(
now
Extant
)
was
written
by
one
W.
Stephens
or
Fits-Stephens
(
a
Monk
of
Canterbury
)
about
the
Year
1190.
'T
is
a
small
Tract
of
about
ten
pages
in
Quarto
;
and
is
publish'd
by
J.
Stow
(
as
an
Appendix
to
his
Survey
)
under
the
Title
of
Stephanides
.
Robert
Bale
(
Recorder
of
the
City
,
A.
D.
1461.
)
is
also
said
to
have
written
several
Treatises
on
that
Subject
;
which
were
long
kept
as
choice
Rarities
in
the
publick
Library
of
the
Lord
Mayor
and
Aldermen
,
and
whereof
my
[
a
](A52335-e11310-b)
a
Jo.
Pits
,
P.
654.
Author
reckons
up
the
Titles
of
these
Three
:
1.
Londinensis
Vrbis
Chronicon
.
2.
De
Consulibus
&
praefectis
ejus
.
3.
Instrumenta
Libertatum
Vrbis
.
The
same
Gentleman
makes
R.
Fabian
write
a
couple
of
Treatises
upon
the
Affairs
of
London
:
but
I
suppose
all
he
ever
penn'd
of
that
kind
is
in
his
printed
Chronicle
.
John
Stow
(
we
are
sure
)
wrote
and
[
b
](A52335-e11370-b)
b
4o
.
Lond.
1598.
publish'd
a
Survey
of
London
;
and
owns
himself
put
upon
the
Undertaking
by
Mr.
Lambard's
general
Invitation
to
the
several
Antiquaries
of
this
Kingdom
to
write
the
Histories
of
their
Native
Counties
.
The
account
he
gives
is
very
particular
and
full
;
running
thro'
every
one
of
the
twenty
six
Wards
,
and
affording
a
good
View
of
the
Government
of
this
City
(
together
with
Westminster
and
Southwark
)
Ecclesiastical
and
Civil
;
the
Churches
,
Hospitals
and
other
Religious
Houses
;
a
Catalogue
of
their
Mayors
and
Sheriffs
down
to
the
Fortieth
year
of
Queen
Elizabeth
,
&c.
The
whole
is
Collected
out
of
our
best
Historians
and
most
Authentick
Records
;
and
discovers
a
deal
of
Industry
and
Accuracy
in
the
worthy
and
honest
Author
.
It
appears
he
had
perus'd
the
small
Treatise
call'd
the
City
Law
in
its
Original
:
So
that
there
was
little
occasion
for
the
Translation
and
Publishing
of
that
[
a
](A52335-e11450-b)
a
8o
.
Lond.
1647.
afterwards
.
But
,
because
the
State
of
this
mighty
City
is
wonderfully
chang'd
since
his
time
,
we
are
in
daily
Expectance
of
a
new
Edition
of
this
Book
;
with
very
considerable
Additions
and
Improvements
.
Sir
George
Buck's
Treatise
of
the
Inns
of
Court
(
under
the
Title
of
the
Third
Vniversity
of
England
)
we
have
in
the
end
of
Stow's
Chronicle
:
and
James
Howel's
[
b
](A52335-e11510-b)
b
Fol.
Lond.
1657.
Londinopolis
has
very
little
in
it
more
than
what
he
has
Copy'd
from
the
foremention'd
Survey
;
nor
is
De
Laun's
pretended
Present
State
of
the
City
much
different
from
what
we
have
there
.
Indeed
,
several
new
Discoveries
and
Observations
touching
its
mighty
growth
and
number
of
its
Inhabitants
(
proving
that
they
are
more
than
in
Rome
,
Paris
and
Roan
;
that
they
are
above
696000
People
,
&c.
)
have
been
advanc'd
,
in
some
[
a
](A52335-e11570-b)
a
8o
.
Lond.
1686
,
87.
Essays
in
Political
Arithmetick
,
by
(
one
of
the
most
eminent
Mathematicians
and
Virtuoso's
of
this
Age
)
Sir
William
Petty
;
who
was
also
the
chief
Director
and
Author
of
a
piece
publish'd
sometime
before
by
one
John
Graunt
,
and
Entitul'd
,
Natural
and
political
Observations
on
the
Bills
of
Mortality
in
London
.
The
dreadful
Fire
which
hapned
in
this
famous
City
,
in
the
Year
1666.
will
for
ever
remain
one
of
its
chief
Epoche's
;
and
of
this
we
have
[
b
](A52335-e11630-b)
b
Both
Printed
A.
D.
1667.
two
Historical
Narratives
:
One
according
to
the
Reports
made
to
a
Committee
in
Parliament
;
and
another
publish'd
by
Edward
Waterhouse
.
The
Epitaphs
of
our
Kings
,
Princes
and
Nobles
,
that
lie
bury'd
in
the
Abbey-Church
at
Westminster
,
were
first
Collected
by
John
Skelton
,
a
famous
Poet
;
who
(
for
making
too
bold
with
Cardinal
Woolsey
,
in
some
of
his
Satyrs
)
[
c
](A52335-e11690-b)
c
Jo.
Pits
,
P.
702.
ended
his
days
miserably
within
the
Precincts
of
the
Asylum
of
that
Church
,
A.
D.
1529.
These
were
afterwards
enlarg'd
by
[
a
](A52335-e11730-b)
a
4o
.
Lond.
1606.
Camden
;
and
compleated
by
H.
Keep
,
under
the
name
of
[
b
](A52335-e11770-b)
b
8o
.
Lond.
1682.
Monumenta
Westmonasteriensia
.
The
Monuments
of
St.
Paul's
(
the
Cathedral
of
this
Diocese
)
will
be
treated
on
[
c
](A52335-e11810-b)
c
Chap.
9.
elsewhere
.
NORFOLK
.
Iohn
de
S.
Omero
(
or
Saintemer
)
a
Norfolk-man
,
and
[
d
](A52335-e11880-b)
d
Job
.
Pits
,
p.
294.
Student
in
Cambridge
about
the
Year
1219.
when
a
certain
Monk
of
Peterborough
,
taking
upon
him
to
libel
the
Inhabitants
of
that
Country
in
Latin
Doggrel
,
was
answer'd
in
his
own
way
by
this
John
.
The
Epitaphs
here
,
with
some
other
Antiquities
,
were
collected
by
J.
Weever
,
who
[
e
](A52335-e11950-b)
e
Fun.
Mon.
sub
fin
.
referrs
us
for
further
satisfaction
to
Sir
Hen.
Spelman's
Iceni
;
which
we
impatiently
hope
to
see
publish'd
by
[
f
](A52335-e11980-b)
f
Vid.
Tract
.
de
Portu
Iccio
,
p.
11.
Mr.
Gibson
.
Something
relating
to
the
Natural
History
of
Norfolk
may
be
had
from
Sir
William
Dugdale's
Imbanking
;
and
in
a
little
Treatise
entituled
,
[
g
](A52335-e12020-b)
g
12o
.
Lond.
1664.
Mercurius
Centralis
,
or
,
a
Discourse
of
Subterranean
Cockle
,
Muscle
and
Oyster-shells
,
found
in
digging
a
Well
at
Sir
William
Doylie's
in
this
County
.
'T
is
a
Letter
from
one
Tho.
Lawrence
M.
A.
to
Sir
Thomas
Brown
.
To
which
may
be
added
the
(
already
mention'd
)
Relation
of
the
Damages
done
by
a
Tempest
on
the
Coasts
of
this
County
and
Lincolnshire
.
The
City
of
Norwich
was
describ'd
by
Alexander
Nevil
,
whose
Book
is
quoted
by
[
a
](A52335-e12110-b)
a
In
Epist.
Ded.
ad
Tom.
I.
Concil.
Angl.
p.
3
,
4.
Sir
Henry
Spelman
.
We
have
Sir
Tho.
Brown's
[
b
](A52335-e12140-b)
b
8o
.
Lond.
1658.
Vrn-Burial
,
or
,
a
Discourse
of
Sepulchral
Urns
lately
found
in
Norfolk
;
and
we
expect
his
Repertorium
,
or
,
an
account
of
the
Tombs
and
Monuments
in
the
Cathedral
Church
of
Norwich
.
It
has
been
[
c
](A52335-e12200-b)
c
Dr.
Tennison's
Pref.
to
Sir
T.
B's
Misc.
promis'd
,
and
I
know
not
what
occasion
Sir
Thomas
has
ever
given
any
body
to
suspect
,
that
ought
of
his
penning
should
[
d
](A52335-e12230-b)
d
Kennet's
Life
of
Somn.
p.
21.
rather
fear
,
than
deserve
an
Edition
.
The
late
Publisher
of
Camden
makes
Tho.
Fuller
the
Reporter
of
Dr.
Caius's
having
written
the
Antiquities
of
Norwich
;
but
I
suspect
there
's
some
mistake
in
that
matter
,
since
Fuller
(
in
the
[
e
](A52335-e12310-b)
e
Worthies
,
in
Norw
.
p.
275.
place
where
he
should
especially
have
noted
such
a
thing
says
nothing
of
it
.
Nash's
[
a
](A52335-e12340-b)
a
Lond.
1599.
Account
of
the
growth
of
great
Yarmouth
,
the
History
of
the
[
b
](A52335-e12360-b)
b
Ib.
1582.
burning
of
East
Derham
,
and
[
c
](A52335-e12380-b)
c
Ib.
1615.
Sir
R.
W.'s
Norfolk
Furies
,
may
possibly
contribute
some
small
helps
towards
the
Illustration
of
the
Antiquities
of
these
Parts
:
but
seem
to
be
of
too
great
(
or
too
little
)
Age
to
be
very
valuable
.
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE
.
Will
.
Vincent
(
Windsor-Herald
)
collected
some
materials
for
a
Survey
and
the
Antiquities
of
this
County
,
which
were
lately
in
the
possession
of
[
d
](A52335-e12450-b)
d
Athen.
Oxon.
Vol.
I.
p.
349.
Mr.
Wood.
He
frequently
quotes
Fran.
Tate's
Nomina
Hydarum
in
Com.
Northampton
.
The
State
of
the
Town
of
Northampton
,
from
the
beginning
of
the
Fire
Sept.
20.
1675.
to
Nov.
5.
following
,
was
publish'd
in
a
[
e
](A52335-e12520-b)
e
4o
.
Lond.
1675.
Letter
to
a
Friend
:
and
we
had
its
[
f
](A52335-e12540-b)
f
4o
.
Lond.
1677.
Fall
and
Funeral
first
in
a
Latin
Elegy
,
and
afterwards
(
with
some
Variations
and
Additions
)
in
English
.
NORTHVMBERLAND
.
John
Pits
says
,
That
the
Genealogies
of
the
Earls
of
Northumberland
were
drawn
up
by
one
[
a
](A52335-e12640-b)
a
J.
Pits
,
p.
593.
Tho.
Otterburn
,
a
Franciscan
Friar
,
about
the
Year
1411
,
and
that
[
b
](A52335-e12660-b)
b
Id.
p.
871.
John
Currar
(
he
knows
not
when
)
drew
up
a
List
of
Seventy
Eight
Castles
in
this
County
,
with
the
Pedigrees
of
their
several
Owners
.
These
are
Uncertainties
.
But
we
know
that
Sir
Robert
Shaftoe
and
Mr.
Clavering
(
both
now
living
)
have
really
made
large
Progresses
in
its
Antiquities
;
and
we
hope
they
will
be
so
just
to
the
Publick
and
themselves
as
shortly
to
communicate
'em
.
The
Town
of
Berwick
,
with
some
other
places
of
Note
in
this
County
,
are
describ'd
in
a
MS.
in
the
Earl
of
Carlisle's
Library
at
Noward
.
But
Newcastle
still
wants
a
just
Description
and
History
:
For
Grey's
[
c
](A52335-e12750-b)
c
Excus
.
A.
D.
1649.
Chorographical
Survey
comes
short
of
its
present
Glory
;
and
the
Anonymous
Author
of
[
d
](A52335-e12760-b)
d
8o
.
Lond.
1655.
England's
Grievances
in
Relation
to
the
Coal-Trade
,
&c.
is
too
much
confin'd
in
his
Subject
to
answer
the
Expectations
of
a
Curious
Reader
.
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE's
[
a
](A52335-e12850-b)
a
Fol.
Lond.
1677.
Work
by
his
Son-in-law
,
R.
Thoroton
M.
D.
at
the
instance
of
Sir
William
Dugdale
.
He
owns
't
is
capable
of
Improvements
out
of
the
Archbishop
of
York's
Registry
and
other
Records
in
private
Hands
,
which
he
had
not
an
opportunity
of
consulting
.
But
the
Work
,
as
it
is
,
shews
a
good
Industry
in
its
Author
;
who
,
being
a
Physician
of
eminent
Practice
,
had
a
free
access
to
the
Evidences
of
most
of
the
considerable
Families
.
The
Author
had
not
the
Curiosity
to
intermix
any
Observations
relating
to
the
British
,
Roman
and
Saxon
Antiquities
;
writing
only
after
the
printed
Copy
of
Mr.
Burton's
Leicestershire
.
OXFORDSHIRE
.
Randal
Catherall
(
who
dy'd
A.
D.
1625.
)
and
were
sometime
in
the
Custody
of
Bishop
[
b
](A52335-e12980-b)
b
Ath.
Oxon.
Vol.
I.
p.
731.
Sanderson
:
But
,
upon
the
[
c
](A52335-e13000-b)
c
Kennet's
Life
of
Somn.
p.
42.
strictest
Enquiry
that
could
be
made
after
'em
,
they
are
not
now
to
be
found
.
Dr.
Plot
's
[
d
](A52335-e13030-b)
d
Fol.
Oxon.
1677.
Natural
History
of
Oxfordshire
was
the
first
Essay
made
in
that
kind
by
its
excellent
Author
;
who
has
made
us
acquainted
with
so
many
Physical
Discoveries
,
as
well
as
notable
Improvements
in
Trade
and
Manufactures
,
that
the
Work
has
met
with
an
Universal
Applause
.
And
as
this
County
had
the
happiness
to
have
its
Natural
History
set
,
by
that
worthy
Person
,
as
a
Pattern
to
the
rest
of
the
Kingdom
;
so
it
now
affords
a
new
Example
of
having
some
of
its
Parochial
Antiquities
consider'd
(
in
the
[
a
](A52335-e13050-b)
a
4o
.
Oxon.
1695.
History
of
Ambrosden
,
Burcester
,
and
other
adjacent
Towns
and
Villages
)
by
a
very
Learned
Antiquary
,
Mr.
White
Kennet
.
Some
of
the
Annals
of
the
City
of
Oxford
seem
to
be
drawn
up
in
their
Red
Book
,
which
is
quoted
by
[
b
](A52335-e13110-b)
b
Hist.
&
Antiq.
Oxon.
Par.
I.
p.
57.
Mr.
Wood
;
who
had
a
Design
of
obliging
the
Town
in
the
same
[
c
](A52335-e13130-b)
c
Athen.
Oxon.
Vol.
II.
p.
28.
manner
he
had
done
the
University
.
RVTLANDSHIRE
J.
Wright
,
who
has
[
d
](A52335-e13180-b)
d
Fol.
Lond.
1684.
publish'd
the
History
and
Antiquities
of
that
County
.
The
Author
being
himself
a
Barrister
at
Law
,
propos'd
Mr.
Burton
(
a
person
of
the
same
Profession
)
for
his
pattern
:
So
that
here
,
as
in
Leicestershire
,
we
have
the
Towns
and
Villages
in
Alphabetical
Order
;
the
Intermixture
of
some
few
remarkable
Law-Cases
;
the
Inscriptions
on
Tombs
and
Grave-Stones
;
Pedigrees
of
Families
,
&c.
Sir
Wingfield
Bodenham
had
,
as
he
owns
,
drawn
together
a
great
many
Materials
out
of
the
vast
Collections
of
R.
Dodsworth
;
whereof
he
had
the
perusal
.
The
rest
we
owe
to
his
own
pains
;
which
,
he
says
,
had
been
to
better
purpose
,
if
he
had
not
met
with
many
of
the
Gentry
(
a
mishap
which
will
always
attend
Men
that
engage
in
these
matters
)
very
shy
in
Discovering
the
Evidences
and
Conveyances
of
their
several
Estates
.
SHROPSHIRE's
SOMERSETSHIRE
.
[
a
](A52335-e13320-b)
a
Plot
's
Staffordsh
.
p.
251.
Mr.
Beaumont
,
who
is
a
person
of
that
known
Ingenuity
that
the
World
has
just
cause
to
hope
for
a
most
excellent
Performance
.
I
wish
his
late
[
b
](A52335-e13350-b)
b
Consid.
on
Burnet's
Theory
.
in
Ep.
Ded.
more
noble
Considerations
(
as
he
calls
them
)
have
not
enlarg'd
his
Thoughts
too
much
for
the
finishing
a
Work
of
so
narrow
a
Compass
.
The
Laws
,
Customs
,
&c.
of
the
Miners
in
the
King's
Forest
of
Mendip
are
drawn
[
c
](A52335-e13400-b)
c
12o
.
Lond.
1687.
together
in
a
short
Manual
;
and
Mr.
Beaumont
has
given
us
a
Specimen
of
his
foremention'd
large
Design
,
in
the
Account
we
have
[
d
](A52335-e13430-b)
d
Philos.
Transact
.
1681.
Numb.
2.
from
him
of
Ookey-hole
,
and
other
Subterranean
Grottoes
in
those
Hills
.
The
City
of
Bath
(
and
it
s
hot
Baths
)
has
been
beholden
to
Jo
,
Caius
,
the
famous
Cambridge
Antiquary
,
who
wrote
[
e
](A52335-e13480-b)
e
J.
Pits
,
p.
756.
De
Thermis
Bathoniensibus
;
as
did
also
[
a
](A52335-e13510-b)
a
Plot
's
Oxfordsh
.
p.
42.
Dr.
Mayow
,
tho'
Mr.
Wood
(
which
I
wonder
at
)
has
not
observ'd
it
in
the
[
b
](A52335-e13550-b)
b
Ath.
Oxon.
Vol.
II.
p.
475.
Account
he
gives
of
his
Works
.
The
Learned
Dr.
Jorden's
Discourse
(
or
Natural
Baths
and
Mineral
Waters
)
was
not
so
general
but
that
it
was
all
apply'd
to
this
place
,
and
publish'd
a
[
c
](A52335-e13570-b)
c
8o
.
Lond.
1669.
third
time
by
Dr.
Guidot
;
who
has
since
very
greatly
enlarg'd
his
own
Observations
upon
both
the
[
d
](A52335-e13600-b)
d
T.
Guidot
de
Therm
.
Brit.
4o
.
Lond.
1691.
Antiquities
and
Natural
Curiosities
of
the
Town
,
and
has
also
given
us
a
[
e
](A52335-e13630-b)
e
8o
.
Lond.
1694.
Register
of
two
hundred
notable
Cures
wrought
there
within
the
time
of
his
own
Experience
.
John
Chapman's
[
f
](A52335-e13660-b)
f
8o
.
Lond.
1673.
Thermae
Redivivae
are
on
the
same
Subject
;
and
have
also
an
Appendix
(
in
Coriat's
Rhimes
)
on
the
Antiquities
of
this
City
.
To
all
which
we
must
add
Dr.
Tho.
Johnson's
History
of
both
kinds
,
annex'd
to
his
[
g
](A52335-e13710-b)
g
8o
.
Lond.
1634.
Mercurius
Botanicus
;
wherein
the
Reader
will
find
as
entertaining
a
Discourse
as
could
well
be
expected
from
any
Man
in
so
little
Room
.
STAFFORDSHIRE
S.
Erdeswick
of
Sandon
Esquire
,
who
began
his
Collection
A.
D.
1593
,
and
[
a
](A52335-e13800-b)
a
Athen.
Oxon.
Vol.
I.
p.
275.
continu'd
it
to
(
the
time
of
his
Death
)
the
Year
1603.
His
Manuscript
Papers
fell
happily
into
the
Hands
of
Walter
Chetwind
of
Ingestree
(
in
the
same
County
)
Esquire
,
a
person
exactly
of
Mr.
Erdeswick's
own
Temper
(
Venerandae
[
b
](A52335-e13850-b)
b
Camd.
Brit.
in
Staffordsh
.
Antiquitatis
Cultoris
Maximi
)
and
as
piously
dispos'd
to
the
Founding
,
as
he
to
the
Rebuilding
of
Churches
;
from
whom
we
had
reason
to
hope
for
a
[
c
](A52335-e13870-b)
c
See
Plot
's
Nat.
Hist.
of
Staff
.
p.
392.
finishing
stroke
to
the
Enterprize
,
if
Death
had
not
unhappily
interven'd
.
The
Natural
History
of
this
County
is
written
by
the
same
[
d
](A52335-e13890-b)
d
Fol.
Oxon.
1686.
worthy
Hand
,
and
in
the
same
Method
with
that
of
Oxfordshire
;
and
the
Performance
is
answerable
to
the
Experience
and
Knowledge
we
may
easily
imagine
so
industrious
an
Author
would
gain
in
nine
Years
Study
and
Travel
.
It
had
been
happy
if
the
Doctor
's
Health
and
Occasions
would
have
allow'd
him
to
have
gone
on
thro'
the
rest
of
the
Counties
of
England
,
as
he
seem'd
once
to
[
a
](A52335-e13920-b)
a
Nat.
Hist.
of
Oxf.
in
Epist.
Ded.
promise
:
But
in
the
Conclusion
of
this
Book
,
he
seems
to
be
weary
,
resolv'd
to
rest
,
and
to
leave
some
part
of
the
Glory
of
this
great
Work
to
others
.
SVFFOLK's
[
b
](A52335-e13960-b)
b
W.
Kennet's
Life
of
Somn.
p.
41.
attempted
by
(
Mr.
Selden's
great
Friend
)
Sir
Simonds
d'Ewes
;
but
where
his
Collections
now
are
I
cannot
tell
,
unless
(
perhaps
)
amongst
R.
Dodsworth's
Papers
in
the
Publick
Library
at
Oxford
.
SVRREY
.
[
c
](A52335-e14060-b)
c
Ath.
Oxon.
Vol.
II.
p.
484.
threatned
by
Sir
Edward
Bishe
:
but
whether
any
Advances
were
ever
made
(
in
good
earnest
)
by
him
,
towards
such
a
Work
,
I
have
not
yet
learnt
.
SVSSEX
WALES
.
Gyraldus
Cambrensis
(
Bishop
Elect
of
St.
Davids
,
about
the
year
1200.
)
is
the
oldest
Topographer
of
this
Principality
;
and
is
every
where
quoted
at
large
by
Mr.
Camden
,
as
an
Author
of
undoubted
Credit
and
Reputation
.
His
Itinerary
and
Description
were
both
publish'd
by
[
a
](A52335-e14200-b)
a
8vo
.
Lond.
1585.
Dr.
Powel
;
with
his
own
most
Learned
Notes
upon
'em
.
The
former
contains
a
Journal
of
the
Expedition
of
Archbishop
Baldwine
(
A.
D.
1188.
)
in
Collecting
the
Contributions
of
Wales
,
for
the
carrying
on
of
the
Holy
War
.
Together
with
the
Topography
we
have
a
mixture
of
Popish
Miracles
and
Tales
;
which
the
Publisher
thought
himself
oblig'd
,
in
strictness
of
Justice
,
to
give
us
entire
.
And
we
have
this
Advantage
by
them
,
that
they
do
not
onely
divert
the
Reader
,
but
afford
also
an
opportunity
to
the
Learned
Publisher
of
communicating
a
deal
of
his
own
Critical
Knowledge
.
The
Description
that
follows
in
General
:
being
,
in
the
main
,
a
Panegyrick
on
the
sweetness
of
the
Soil
;
and
the
good
Humour
,
strict
Morals
and
exemplary
Piety
,
of
the
Inhabitants
.
There
's
a
second
Part
of
this
Description
(
De
Illaudabilibus
Walliae
,
which
the
Doctor
thought
it
not
convenient
to
publish
;
but
has
been
set
out
lately
in
Print
by
[
a
](A52335-e14250-b)
a
Angl.
Sac.
Part.
II.
p.
447.
Mr.
Wharton
:
for
which
the
Welshmen
are
not
very
much
oblig'd
to
him
.
Gyraldus's
Map
of
Wales
(
mention'd
by
[
b
](A52335-e14290-b)
b
J.
Pits
,
p.
280.
John
Pits
,
and
frequently
by
himself
is
to
be
seen
in
a
MS.
Copy
of
some
of
his
Works
,
in
the
Library
at
Westminster-Abbey
.
After
him
David
Morgan
(
Treasurer
of
the
Church
at
Landaff
,
A.
D.
1480.
)
is
[
c
](A52335-e14350-b)
c
Id.
p.
696.
said
to
have
written
the
Geography
and
Antiquities
of
Wales
:
and
[
d
](A52335-e14370-b)
d
Id.
p.
736.
Arthur
Kelton
(
an
Ingenious
Welsh
Bard
,
in
the
top
of
his
Fame
,
about
the
year
1548.
)
wrote
several
English
Accounts
,
both
in
Verse
and
Prose
,
of
the
Glories
of
his
Countrey
;
most
of
which
he
dedicated
to
Sr.
William
Herbert
.
Another
Description
of
Wales
was
written
by
Sr.
John
Price
,
in
the
Reign
of
Edward
the
Sixth
;
perfected
by
Humph.
Lhwyd
,
and
prefix'd
to
his
[
a
](A52335-e14460-b)
a
4to
.
Lond.
1584.
Translation
of
the
Welsh
History
.
This
Humphrey
[
b
](A52335-e14480-b)
b
Comment.
Brit.
Descrip.
Fragm.
de
quo
supra
.
himself
gives
also
a
more
large
Account
of
(
his
own
Countrey
)
Wales
,
than
any
other
part
of
Britain
;
and
enlarges
often
,
sometimes
corrects
,
the
Description
given
by
Gyraldus
.
The
History
of
the
Ancient
and
Modern
State
of
the
Principality
is
well
written
by
[
c
](A52335-e14520-b)
c
4to
.
Lond.
1630.
Sr.
John
Doderidge
;
and
the
latest
(
and
incomparably
the
best
)
Account
of
its
Antiquities
is
just
now
[
d
](A52335-e14540-b)
d
Edit.
Novis
.
Brit.
Camden
.
publish'd
by
my
Friend
Mr.
Edw.
Lhwyd
.
The
same
excellent
Person
is
also
projecting
a
Design
of
a
British
Dictionary
,
Historical
and
Geographical
;
with
an
Essay
entitul'd
Archaeologia
Britannica
,
being
a
Complete
Collection
of
the
ancient
Monuments
throughout
this
whole
Country
;
and
(
lastly
)
a
Natural
History
of
Wales
.
In
order
to
the
performance
of
so
Noble
and
Undertaking
,
he
thinks
of
travailing
in
that
Principality
four
or
five
Summers
;
and
likewise
to
make
one
Journey
into
Cornwal
,
and
another
into
Ireland
or
the
Highlands
of
Scotland
,
for
Parallel
Observations
as
to
their
Language
;
Names
of
Towns
,
Rivers
,
Mountains
,
&c.
I
heartily
hope
the
Work
will
not
meet
with
those
Obstructions
which
have
hitherto
usually
befaln
Attempts
of
this
Nature
:
since
the
Author
is
so
generally
known
to
be
of
suitable
Industry
and
Abilities
,
and
cannot
fail
(
if
God
continue
his
Life
)
of
making
good
his
Proposals
.
WARWICKSHIRE's
[
a
](A52335-e14670-b)
a
Fol.
Lond.
1656.
Illustrated
by
Sr.
William
Dugdale
;
who
was
Master
of
all
the
Advantages
requisite
for
such
a
Performance
:
And
no
man
can
so
well
judge
of
the
great
Labour
and
Pains
bestow'd
on
the
bringing
of
this
excellent
Work
(
the
Author's
[
b
](A52335-e14700-b)
b
Ath.
Oxon.
Vol.
II.
p.
700.
Master-piece
)
to
perfection
,
as
he
that
has
view'd
the
many
[
c
](A52335-e14710-b)
c
In
Musaeo
Asmol
.
Oxon.
Volumes
of
Materials
which
he
gather'd
in
order
to
the
compiling
of
it
.
His
great
zeal
against
the
Sacrilegious
Destruction
of
some
Religious
Structures
carry'd
his
Searches
into
every
corner
of
the
History
that
related
to
that
Matter
;
and
his
early
Inclination
to
the
Study
of
Heraldry
obliged
him
carefully
to
preserve
whatever
might
be
grateful
(
on
that
Head
)
to
the
Nobility
and
Gentry
of
the
County
.
The
History
of
the
Earls
of
Warwick
was
long
since
written
by
John
Ross
or
Rouse
,
a
noted
Antiquary
;
who
dy'd
at
Warwick
(
or
Guy's
Cliff
,
within
a
Mile
of
the
Town
)
A.
D.
1491.
A
Noble
Manuscript
Copy
of
this
Book
,
with
the
Pictures
of
the
several
Earls
,
their
Coats
of
Arms
,
&c.
is
now
in
the
Archives
of
the
Publick
[
a
](A52335-e14780-b)
a
Vid.
Hist.
&
Antiq.
Oxon.
Part.
II.
p.
77.
Library
at
Oxford
.
John
Pits
[
b
](A52335-e14800-b)
b
J.
Pits
,
p.
683.
makes
him
write
four
distinct
Volumes
of
the
Antiquities
and
History
of
Warwick
:
but
this
is
all
that
more
credible
Enquirers
could
meet
with
.
The
Life
of
the
Famous
Earl
Guy
was
first
written
by
Walter
of
Exeter
(
a
Dominican
Friar
)
about
the
year
1301.
There
is
a
sort
of
Spaw-water
at
Ilmington
in
this
County
;
the
History
whereof
is
Publish'd
by
[
c
](A52335-e14870-b)
c
8vo
.
Lond.
1685.
Sam.
Derham
,
an
Ingenious
Physician
.
WESTMORLAND
.
Tho
Machel
,
Rector
of
Kirkbythore
in
this
County
,
has
(
with
a
great
deal
of
Pains
and
good
Judgment
)
collected
its
Antiquities
:
which
,
we
hope
,
will
ere
long
meet
with
so
suitable
an
Encouragement
as
will
oblige
the
Author
to
publish
'em
.
That
Part
of
its
Story
which
more
nearly
concerns
the
Nobility
and
Gentry
,
has
been
well
preserv'd
by
Sr.
Daniel
Fleming
of
Rydale
Knt.
who
has
thereby
done
his
own
ancient
Family
a
great
deal
of
Right
,
and
has
also
approv'd
himself
an
Eminent
Benefactor
to
those
of
his
Neighbours
.
WILTSHIRE
.
John
Aubrey
Esq
(
Fellow
of
the
Royal
Society
,
and
a
Person
well
vers'd
in
our
British
and
English
Antiquities
)
has
laid
the
Foundation
of
the
History
and
Antiquities
of
this
County
:
but
designs
to
leave
the
finishing
part
,
I
think
,
to
[
a
](A52335-e15030-b)
a
Vid.
Camd.
Britan.
N.
E.
p.
107.
Mr.
Tanner
;
Whose
extraordinary
Proficiency
in
these
Studies
will
quickly
be
made
known
to
the
World
.
The
Monument
of
Stonehenge
in
Wiltshire
has
engaged
several
Antiquaries
in
disputing
the
Original
of
so
Famous
and
Admirable
a
Structure
;
and
they
have
advanc'd
almost
as
many
different
Opinions
about
it
.
Mr.
Samms
[
b
](A52335-e15090-b)
b
Samm
.
Britan.
p.
395.
in
a
particular
Treatise
,
endeavours
to
fetch
its
Original
from
the
Phaenicians
,
his
only
Darlings
;
and
clears
the
point
as
fairly
as
he
does
all
the
rest
wherein
he
's
singular
.
Mr.
Inigo
Jones
(
King
James
the
First
's
Learned
Architect
)
believes
it
to
be
a
[
a
](A52335-e15130-b)
a
Stone-henge
Restor'd
,
Fol.
Lond.
1658.
Roman
Temple
;
and
strongly
prove●
that
the
Fabrick
is
of
the
Tuscan
Order
.
His
Scheme
,
however
false
in
it self
,
is
also
learnedly
defended
by
[
b
](A52335-e15160-b)
b
Vindicat
.
of
Stone-h
.
Rest.
ib.
1665.
Mr.
Webb
,
his
Son-in-Law
.
Mr.
[
c
](A52335-e15180-b)
c
Camd.
Brit.
N.
E.
p.
109.
Aubrey
and
others
think
they
can
evidently
prove
't
is
British
;
and
[
d
](A52335-e15210-b)
d
Stone-henge
Restor'd
to
the
Danes
,
Fol.
Lond.
Dr.
Charlton
is
very
sure
that
't
was
erected
by
the
Danes
.
No
Author
,
that
hitherto
has
consider'd
it
,
has
so
much
as
dream'd
of
its
being
a
Saxon
Monument
.
And
yet
(
if
the
true
old
Writing
of
the
Name
be
Stan-Hengest
,
as
the
[
e
](A52335-e15270-b)
e
Monast.
Angl.
Tom.
I.
p.
97.
Monasticon
seems
to
tell
us
)
I
cannot
see
why
that
people
may
not
have
as
just
a
Title
as
any
to
the
Honour
of
it
.
Possibly
the
[
f
](A52335-e15290-b)
f
Vid.
Praef.
ad
Edit.
Nov.
Camd.
MS.
Treatise
that
is
said
to
be
written
,
on
this
subject
,
by
Joh.
Gibbons
,
may
place
it
here
.
WORCESTERSHIRE
.
There
is
now
Tho.
Abingdon
Esq
written
by
his
Grand-father
,
an
Able
and
Industrious
Antiquary
:
wherein
,
if
there
be
any
Defects
,
they
may
be
supply'd
by
a
present
Prebendary
of
the
Church
of
Worcester
,
who
(
when
his
modesty
will
give
him
leave
)
can
effectually
complete
such
a
Work
.
YORKSHIRE
.
There
are
some
Collections
[
a
](A52335-e15410-b)
a
Vespasian
,
D.
21.
Sir
John
Cotton's
Library
relating
to
this
County
,
gather'd
by
one
Tho.
Talbot
;
who
was
some
time
Clerk
of
the
Records
in
the
Tower
,
and
was
alive
[
b
](A52335-e15440-b)
b
Athen.
Oxon.
Vol.
I.
p.
88.
A.
D.
1580.
These
,
and
whatever
else
looks
this
way
,
we
must
believe
to
have
been
long
since
seen
and
perus'd
by
Dr.
Nath.
Johnston
of
Pomfret
;
who
(
as
he
saies
)
has
spent
thirty
years
in
amassing
together
Materials
for
the
Illustrating
the
Antiquities
and
Natural
History
of
Yorkshire
.
In
the
former
of
these
he
intends
to
write
after
Sir
William
Dugdale's
Copy
,
and
in
the
latter
after
Dr.
Plott's
;
and
to
finish
the
whole
in
five
Volumes
.
I
am
pretty
well
assur'd
that
he
is
not
yet
(
as
[
a
](A52335-e15500-b)
a
Ath.
Oxon.
Vol.
II.
p.
699.
Mr.
Wood
was
inform'd
)
weary
of
the
Work
:
but
that
,
tho'
some
late
troubles
have
render'd
him
unable
to
finish
it
so
soon
as
he
design'd
,
he
is
every
day
doing
something
at
it
.
H.
Keep
(
mention'd
before
in
Middlesex
)
is
[
b
](A52335-e15550-b)
b
Id.
ib.
p.
623.
reported
to
have
made
some
Collections
towards
the
Antiquities
of
the
City
of
York
;
and
Sir
Thomas
Widdrington
(
sometime
Recorder
there
)
did
certainly
make
a
very
great
Progress
in
a
learned
and
exact
Description
of
it
.
Some
distast
,
given
him
by
the
Citizens
,
obstructed
his
allowing
of
his
Papers
to
be
publish'd
;
and
they
are
now
(
I
am
told
)
sub
sigillo
,
in
the
Custody
of
Mr.
Fairfax
of
Menston
.
A
lean
Catalogue
of
the
Mayors
,
Sheriffs
,
&c.
(
from
the
Reign
of
Edward
the
First
,
to
the
year
1664
)
is
publish'd
by
their
late
Recorder
[
c
](A52335-e15630-b)
c
8o
Lond.
1665.
Hildyard
:
And
some
Learned
Observations
on
a
Roman
Wall
and
Multangular
Tower
,
in
that
City
,
have
been
made
by
[
d
](A52335-e15670-b)
d
Philos.
Transact
.
Num.
145.
M.
Lister
.
The
Tower
of
St.
Mary's
in
York
was
the
best
furnish'd
with
ancient
Charters
and
Records
of
any
Place
in
the
North
of
England
,
as
appears
from
the
many
Transcripts
which
are
thence
Inserted
in
the
two
first
Volumes
of
the
[
a
](A52335-e15720-b)
a
Tom.
I.
p.
386
,
393
,
394
,
395
,
399
,
427
,
496
,
497
,
498
,
501
,
510
,
554
,
565
,
587
,
599
,
661
,
758
,
776
,
778
,
798
,
799
,
827
,
834
,
&c.
Tom.
II.
p.
35
,
97
,
98
,
99
,
104
,
148
,
151
,
153
,
166
,
192
,
348
,
350
,
369
,
371
,
402
,
556
,
557
,
798
,
808
,
820
,
824
,
976
,
999.
Monasticon
:
But
the
barbarous
Rage
of
our
late
Days
of
Rebellion
laid
it
and
them
in
Ashes
.
Mr.
Dodesworth
happily
copy'd
all
or
most
of
'em
before
those
Times
of
Destruction
came
upon
us
;
and
his
large
Collections
were
afterwards
as
happily
deposited
in
Bodley's
Library
,
where
they
now
remain
.
The
Registrum
Feodorum
de
Richmondshire
is
quoted
both
by
▪
[
b
](A52335-e15780-b)
b
Britan
.
in
Richmondsh
.
Mr.
Camden
and
[
c
](A52335-e15800-b)
c
Monast.
Angl.
Tom.
I.
p.
877.
Sir
William
Dugdale
.
It
seems
to
be
the
same
which
is
cited
by
[
d
](A52335-e15820-b)
d
Praef.
ad
10
Script
.
Mr.
Selden
,
under
the
Name
of
an
old
Genealogy
of
the
Earls
of
Richmond
.
The
Parish
of
Leedes
will
shortly
be
describ'd
,
and
have
its
Antiquities
Publish'd
,
by
my
Ingenious
and
Industrious
Friend
Mr.
R.
Thoresby
.
The
Spaw-waters
in
Yorkshire
have
occasion'd
the
publishing
of
several
Learned
and
Ingenious
Treatises
on
that
Subject
.
Knaresbrough
is
particularly
oblig'd
to
Mich.
Stanhop's
[
a
](A52335-e15900-b)
a
8o
Lond.
1632.
Knaresbrough-Spaw
;
to
Dr.
Edm.
Dean's
[
b
](A52335-e15940-b)
b
8o
.
Lond.
1626.
Spadacrene
Anglica
;
and
to
Dr.
[
c
](A52335-e15970-b)
c
8o
ib.
1652.
French's
Yorkshire-Spaw
.
Dr.
Wittie's
Scarborough-Spaw
(
publish'd
both
in
[
d
](A52335-e16030-b)
d
8o
ibid.
1660.
English
and
[
e
](A52335-e16060-b)
e
8o
Lond.
1678.
Latin
)
met
not
with
so
much
quiet
as
the
three
former
;
being
briskly
encounter'd
by
two
several
Champions
.
The
first
that
engaged
it
was
W.
Simpson
,
in
his
Hydrologia
Chymica
;
to
which
the
Doctor
made
a
sharp
Reply
under
the
Title
of
Pyrologia
[
f
](A52335-e16120-b)
f
8o
Lond.
1669.
Mimica
.
His
next
Opposer
was
Dr.
Tonstall
,
who
wrote
[
g
](A52335-e16160-b)
g
8o
Lond
1672.
Scarborough-Spaw
Spagirically
Anatomiz'd
;
together
with
a
New-years-Gift
for
Dr.
Wittie
:
but
whether
he
was
ever
vouchsafed
any
Answer
I
know
not
.
The
Reader
may
expect
a
further
Account
of
the
Affairs
of
our
several
Counties
from
those
that
have
treated
of
the
History
of
our
Cathedrals
and
Monasteries
:
and
whatever
Writers
fall
under
those
Heads
will
be
remember'd
[
h
](A52335-e16210-b)
h
Chh.
9.
and
10.
elsewhere
.
CHAP.
III.
Of
the
Histories
that
relate
to
the
Times
of
the
old
Britains
and
Romans
.
'T
IS
a
very
discouraging
Censure
which
Sir
William
Temple
passes
upon
all
the
Accounts
given
us
of
the
Affairs
of
this
Island
,
before
the
Romans
came
and
Invaded
it
.
The
Tales
(
says
[
a
](A52335-e16290-b)
a
Introduct.
to
the
Hist.
of
Eng.
p.
19.
he
)
we
have
of
what
pass'd
before
Caesar'
s
Time
,
of
Brute
and
his
Trojans
,
of
many
Adventures
and
Successions
,
are
cover'd
with
the
Rust
of
Time
,
or
Involv'd
in
the
Vanity
of
Fables
or
pretended
Traditions
;
which
seem
to
all
Men
obscure
or
uncertain
,
but
to
me
forged
at
pleasure
by
the
Wit
or
Folly
of
their
first
Authors
,
and
not
to
be
regarded
.
And
[
b
](A52335-e16350-b)
b
Ib.
p.
31.
again
;
I
know
few
ancient
Authors
upon
this
Subject
[
of
the
British
History
]
worth
the
pains
of
perusal
,
and
of
Dividing
or
Refining
so
little
Gold
out
of
so
much
course
Oar
,
or
from
so
much
Dross
.
But
some
other
Inferiour
People
may
think
this
worth
their
pains
;
since
all
Men
are
not
born
to
be
Ambassadors
:
And
,
accordingly
,
we
are
told
of
a
very
[
a
](A52335-e16380-b)
a
R.
Talbot
.
Vid.
Athen.
Oxon.
Par.
I.
p.
88.
Eminent
Antiquary
who
has
thought
fit
to
give
his
Labours
in
this
kind
the
Title
of
Aurum
ex
Stercore
.
There
's
a
deal
of
Servile
Drudgery
requir'd
to
the
Discovery
of
these
Riches
,
and
such
as
every
Body
will
not
stoop
to
:
For
few
Statesmen
and
Courtiers
(
as
one
is
lately
said
to
have
observ'd
in
his
own
Case
)
care
for
Travelling
in
Ireland
,
or
Wales
,
purely
to
learn
the
Language
.
A
diligent
Enquirer
into
our
old
British
[
b
](A52335-e16450-b)
b
Assert
.
Arth.
Fol.
25.
b.
Leland
)
that
the
poor
Britains
,
being
harass'd
by
those
Roman
Conquerours
with
continual
Wars
,
could
neither
have
leisure
nor
thought
for
the
penning
of
a
Regular
History
:
and
that
afterwards
their
Back-Friends
,
the
Saxons
,
were
(
for
a
good
while
)
an
Illiterate
Generation
;
and
minded
nothing
but
Killing
and
taking
Possession
.
So
that
't
is
a
wonder
that
even
so
much
remains
of
the
Story
of
those
Times
as
the
sorry
Fragment
of
Gildas
;
who
appears
to
have
written
in
such
a
Consternation
,
that
what
he
has
left
us
looks
more
like
the
Declamation
of
an
Orator
,
hired
to
expose
the
miserable
Wretches
,
than
any
Historical
Account
of
their
Sufferings
.
Besides
,
't
is
not
to
be
imagin'd
but
another
long
and
calamitous
War
(
with
the
Picts
and
Saxons
afterwards
)
that
demolish'd
their
Churches
as
well
as
Libraries
,
would
sweep
away
even
the
very
Ruines
of
Religion
and
Learning
.
Some
have
thought
that
there
are
considerable
Reliques
of
the
British
History
among
the
Refugees
of
Britany
in
France
;
and
that
they
have
Manuscripts
of
much
elder
Dates
than
the
Lives
of
some
ancient
Saints
,
which
have
been
had
from
thence
.
We
are
sure
there
are
many
such
Books
,
of
a
very
great
Age
,
that
still
remain
in
Wales
;
a
good
Collection
whereof
was
lately
made
by
a
notable
Antiquary
,
Mr.
Maurice
of
Kevny
braich
in
Denbighshire
,
and
is
now
(
as
I
am
inform'd
)
fallen
into
the
hands
of
Sir
William
Williams
.
But
't
will
be
to
no
purpose
for
a
Man
to
seek
out
these
Venerable
Remnants
,
[
a
](A52335-e16660-b)
a
In
Epist.
ad
G.
Hickesium
,
in
fine
Gramm
.
Anglo-sax
.
observ'd
)
the
words
in
Dr.
Davies's
Dictionary
are
one
half
Latin
,
a
Quarter
English
,
and
onely
another
quarter
Welsh
:
But
I
dare
not
promise
that
this
will
be
found
to
be
a
true
and
punctual
Account
.
Mr.
Edward
Lhwyd
(
who
took
the
pains
to
examine
into
the
matter
)
says
,
there
are
about
10000
Words
in
that
Dictionary
;
whereof
1500
are
indeed
like
the
Latin
,
and
200
like
the
English
:
So
that
not
a
sixth
part
can
be
so
much
as
suspected
to
be
Latin
,
nor
a
fortieth
English
.
For
,
tho'
the
Welshmen
grant
1500
words
to
be
like
the
Latin
,
yet
they
will
not
allow
that
their
Original
is
owing
to
that
Language
;
since
many
of
'em
are
also
used
(
in
the
like
signification
)
by
other
Nations
,
who
are
confess'd
to
have
borrow'd
none
from
thence
.
Mr.
Sheringham
takes
[
b
](A52335-e16800-b)
b
De
Angl.
Orig.
p.
108
,
109
,
&c.
notice
that
Brutus
,
coming
from
Italy
(
which
I
do
as
verily
believe
as
that
Romulus
came
from
Mars
and
Rhes
Sylvia
)
must
necessarily
have
had
a
Language
near-a-kin
to
what
was
spoken
there
;
and
that
hence
are
so
many
words
in
the
Welsh
which
look
like
the
Roman
,
and
not
from
the
Corruption
of
it
by
the
Conquering
Romans
afterwards
.
Tacitus
himself
[
a
](A52335-e16900-b)
a
In
Vit.
Agric.
Cap.
21.
confesses
the
Britains
zealously
kept
their
Language
unmix'd
:
And
Dr.
Davies
[
b
](A52335-e16930-b)
b
In
Praefat.
ad
Gram.
Brit.
says
,
their
old
Laws
expresly
forbid
the
Bards
to
introduce
any
new
words
into
their
Rhimes
.
Mr.
Sheringham
further
observes
that
the
Britains
have
many
words
nearly
related
to
such
old
Latin
ones
as
were
grown
obsolete
even
before
Caesar's
time
;
and
that
many
of
the
Roman
Proper
Names
may
be
handsomly
deriv'd
from
the
British
Tongue
,
which
have
no
Foundation
in
the
Modern
Latin
.
As
to
that
part
of
the
Language
which
Dr.
Bernard
invidiously
tells
them
they
owe
(
Dominis
Anglis
)
to
their
Masters
,
the
Saxons
,
Mr.
Lhwyd
will
not
allow
that
they
are
so
indebted
for
one
Moyety
of
the
200
words
observ'd
to
agree
in
Sound
and
Signification
with
the
English
;
since
above
half
of
'em
are
found
in
the
Armorican
Vocabulary
,
publish'd
by
[
a
](A52335-e17080-b)
a
8o
.
Paris
1521.
Ivon
Quillivere
.
Now
,
't
is
certain
the
Britains
went
hence
to
Armorica
in
the
Year
384
,
whereas
the
Saxons
came
not
in
before
450.
If
then
our
English
Antiquary
be
not
a
Native
of
Wales
,
W.
Salesbury
,
sometime
a
Member
of
Lincoln's
Inn
,
under
the
Title
of
[
b
](A52335-e17220-b)
b
4o
Lond.
1550
,
&
1557.
A
plain
and
familiar
Introduction
,
teaching
how
to
pronounce
the
Letters
in
the
British
Tongue
,
&c.
The
next
was
Sir
Edward
Stradling's
;
which
seems
to
have
given
occasion
to
(
the
Third
)
that
of
J.
Dav.
Rhese
,
printed
(
together
with
a
large
Preface
by
H.
Prichard
)
by
the
[
c
](A52335-e17280-b)
c
Fol.
Lond.
1592.
Name
of
Cambro-Britannicae
Cymraecaeve
Linguae
Institutiones
&
Rudimenta
,
&c.
ad
Intelligend
.
Biblia
Sacra
nuper
in
Cambro-Britan
.
Sermonem
eleganter
versa
.
The
Fourth
and
last
was
written
by
Dr.
Davies
,
and
bears
the
Title
of
[
a
](A52335-e17320-b)
a
8o
.
Lond.
1621.
Antiquae
Linguae
Britannicae
,
nunc
communiter
dictae
Cambro-Britannicae
,
à
suis
Cymraecae
vel
Cambricae
,
ab
aliis
Wallicae
,
Rudimenta
,
&c.
There
are
also
several
Dictionaries
publish'd
in
that
Language
;
Will
.
Salesbury
(
beforemention'd
)
compos'd
one
in
English
and
Welsh
;
which
was
first
privately
presented
to
King
Henry
the
Eighth
(
his
very
kind
Patron
)
and
afterwards
[
b
](A52335-e17410-b)
b
4o
.
Lond.
1546.
Printed
.
The
Summ
and
Substance
of
this
(
as
likewise
what
was
afterwards
written
in
the
same
kind
by
Bishop
Morgan
,
H.
Salesbury
,
H.
Perry
and
Tho.
Williams
)
was
publish'd
in
Dr.
Joh.
Davies's
most
Elaborate
Work
,
entitul'd
,
[
c
](A52335-e17460-b)
c
Fol.
Lond.
1638.
Antiquae
Linguae
Britannicae
,
&c.
Dictionarium
duplex
:
A
Book
which
shews
its
excellent
Author
to
have
been
perfectly
acquainted
with
all
the
Learned
Languages
as
well
as
his
own
Mother
Tongue
.
John
Leland
is
also
reported
by
Pits
,
to
have
written
a
Dictionarium
Britannico-Latinum
.
But
I
suspect
there
's
no
more
grounds
for
such
a
Story
than
only
this
:
Leland
publish'd
a
Latin
Poem
upon
the
[
a
](A52335-e17540-b)
a
Genethliacon
,
&c.
4o
.
Lond.
1543.
Birth
of
the
Prince
of
Wales
,
afterwards
King
Edward
the
Sixth
;
and
,
taking
occasion
to
use
some
hard
words
in
it
,
added
to
it
Syllabus
&
Interpretatio
Antiquarum
Dictionum
,
quae
passim
per
Libellum
Lectori
occurrunt
.
And
this
,
I
believe
,
is
all
the
Welsh
Dictionary
that
will
be
found
of
his
Composure
.
With
these
Helps
a
Man
may
venture
upon
those
most
[
b
](A52335-e17610-b)
b
Vid.
Gyrald
.
Cambr.
Descrip.
Cambr.
cap.
3.
Ancient
and
Authentick
Writings
of
the
old
Bards
;
Lucan
,
Strabo
,
Diodorus
Siculus
and
Am.
Marcellinus
:
[
c
](A52335-e17690-b)
c
Sheringham
de
Angl.
Orig.
p.
165.
And
almost
all
other
History
(
among
the
Chaldeans
,
Greeks
and
Romans
)
had
its
first
Foundation
in
Poetry
.
Whether
he
will
find
the
Rules
of
their
Prosodia
to
agree
with
those
that
are
laid
down
by
Captain
Middleton
in
his
[
a
](A52335-e17740-b)
a
4o
.
Lond.
1593.
Bardoniaeth
,
or
Art
of
Welsh
Poetry
,
I
know
not
:
But
how
methodically
they
order'd
their
TYLWYTHS
,
or
Tribes
,
[
b
](A52335-e17790-b)
b
Hist
of
Gavelk
.
p.
20
,
21
,
&c.
Silas
Taylour
has
at
large
inform'd
us
.
Nor
were
they
content
to
preserve
the
Pedigrees
of
their
own
Princes
and
great
Men
,
but
were
also
so
good-natur'd
as
to
do
the
like
Services
for
the
Saxons
.
Thus
we
are
told
that
S.
Benlanius
(
who
is
sometimes
quoted
by
the
name
of
[
c
](A52335-e17830-b)
c
J.
Leland
.
Assert
.
Arth.
Fol.
11.
a.
Samuel
Britannus
,
and
liv'd
about
the
Year
600
)
was
a
curious
Enquirer
into
the
Genealogies
of
many
[
d
](A52335-e17850-b)
d
J.
Pits
,
p.
104.
Vid.
etiam
Usser
.
Hist.
Eccles.
p.
206.
English
Families
;
some
whereof
he
carry'd
as
high
as
the
Flood
.
'T
was
customary
to
sing
these
Composures
in
the
presence
of
their
Nobles
,
and
at
their
chief
Festivals
and
Solemnities
.
And
,
truly
,
if
the
Story
of
one
of
these
Bards
canting
the
Praises
of
King
Arthur
before
Henry
II.
and
giving
a
hint
to
the
Monks
of
Glassenbury
for
the
Discovery
of
that
British
King's
Body
,
be
fairly
true
(
and
have
nothing
of
Legend
in
it
)
a
very
great
regard
is
to
be
had
to
these
Historical
Ballads
.
Amongst
these
Bards
is
to
be
reckon'd
their
famous
Merlyn
;
[
a
](A52335-e17980-b)
a
Commentar.
Fragm.
Fol.
64.
b.
Humph.
Lhuid
)
is
Merdhyn
,
so
called
from
Caermarthen
[
Mariduno
]
where
he
was
born
.
This
was
so
mighty
a
Man
in
his
Time
that
our
Writers
have
thought
it
convenient
to
split
him
into
three
.
The
first
of
these
(
Godfather
to
the
two
following
)
they
call
Merlinus
Ambrosius
,
or
Merdhyn
Emrys
;
who
liv'd
about
the
Year
480
,
and
wrote
several
Prophetical
Odes
,
turn'd
into
Latin
Prose
by
Jeoffrey
of
Monmouth
.
The
next
is
Merlinus
Caledonius
,
who
liv'd
A.
D.
570
,
wrote
upon
the
same
Subject
with
the
former
,
and
had
the
same
Translator
.
The
third
is
surnam'd
Avalonius
,
who
liv'd
under
King
Malgocunus
(
they
might
as
well
have
made
him
Secretary
to
Ioseph
of
Arimathea
,
says
our
great
[
b
](A52335-e18130-b)
b
Orig.
Brit.
p.
9.
Stillingfleet
;
and
yet
my
[
c
](A52335-e18150-b)
c
J.
Pits
,
p.
97.
Author
goes
gravely
on
,
and
affirms
that
he
)
was
an
eminent
Antiquary
,
but
seems
to
mix
too
many
Fables
with
his
true
Story
.
They
write
this
last
indeed
Melchinus
,
Melkinus
and
Mewynus
,
and
make
him
to
live
some
time
before
the
latter
Merlyn
:
But
all
this
is
Stuff
;
and
he
's
manifestly
the
same
Man
,
or
nothing
.
Soon
after
him
came
Ambrosius
Thaliessin
;
whom
Bale
and
Pits
make
to
live
in
the
days
of
King
Arthur
,
and
to
record
his
Story
.
Sir
John
Prise
[
a
](A52335-e18250-b)
a
In
Defens
.
Hist.
Brit.
quotes
a
certain
Ode
of
his
call'd
Hannes
Thaliessin
,
or
Thaliessin's
Errors
;
which
he
says
is
to
be
seen
in
several
of
their
old
Manuscripts
.
The
most
ancient
British
Historian
Gildas
▪
For
the
Chronicle
that
bears
the
Name
of
Brutus
mentions
the
[
b
](A52335-e18340-b)
b
Usserii
Hist.
Eccles.
p.
72.
Legend
of
King
Lucius
,
and
is
apparently
a
late
contriv'd
Piece
;
and
[
c
](A52335-e18370-b)
c
J.
Pits
,
p.
86.
Sylvius
is
much
of
the
same
Authority
with
the
Writings
of
[
d
](A52335-e18400-b)
d
Bale
,
Cent.
I.
Cap.
1.
Samothes
.
This
Gentleman
has
had
the
same
Respect
paid
to
his
Memory
that
we
have
already
noted
of
Merlyn
:
Since
Gildas
Cambricus
,
Albanius
and
Badonicus
,
are
made
(
by
the
generality
of
our
Writers
)
three
several
Persons
.
It
does
not
well
appear
that
there
was
ever
more
than
one
Historian
of
this
Name
,
whatever
they
that
[
e
](A52335-e18460-b)
e
Stillingst
.
Orig.
Brit.
p.
209.
love
to
multiply
Authors
as
well
as
Books
,
have
said
to
the
contrary
:
And
therefore
(
notwithstanding
Archbishop
[
a
](A52335-e18490-b)
a
Hist.
Eccles.
Brit.
p.
237.
Vsher's
great
Authority
on
the
other
side
)
I
shall
venture
to
consider
him
in
a
single
Capacity
.
He
was
Monk
of
Bangor
,
about
the
middle
of
the
Sixth
Century
;
a
sorrowful
Spectator
of
the
Miseries
and
almost
utter
Ruine
of
his
Country-men
,
by
a
People
under
whose
Banners
they
hop'd
for
Peace
.
His
Life
is
written
at
large
by
[
b
](A52335-e18520-b)
b
Stillingst
.
Orig.
Brit.
p.
207.
Usser
.
Hist.
Eccles.
p.
237
,
250.
Car●doc
of
Lancarvan
;
and
by
an
Anonymous
Author
,
publish'd
by
[
c
](A52335-e18570-b)
c
In
Biblioth.
Flor.
John
à
Bosco
.
His
lamentable
History
De
Excidio
Britanniae
is
all
that
's
printed
of
his
Writing
;
and
perhaps
all
that
is
any
where
extant
.
Bale
,
Pits
and
others
,
reckon
up
some
other
Matters
whereof
they
make
this
Gildas
Badonicus
(
as
they
distinguish
him
)
to
be
the
Author
:
But
Archbishop
Vsher
is
peremptory
in
it
,
that
this
is
the
[
d
](A52335-e18630-b)
d
Hist.
Eccles.
p.
278
,
279.
Vnicum
quod
restat
Opusculum
;
for
he
makes
it
and
the
Epistle
to
be
all
one
thing
.
It
was
first
Publish'd
and
Dedicated
to
Bishop
Tunstall
,
by
[
e
](A52335-e18660-b)
e
8o
.
Lond.
1625.
Polydore
Virgil
;
whose
imperfect
and
corrupt
Copy
was
Reprinted
in
the
[
a
](A52335-e18690-b)
a
Fol.
Paris
.
1610.
Tom.
V.
Col.
477.
Bibliotheca
Patrum
.
Afterwards
there
was
another
Edition
of
it
by
John
Josseline
;
who
made
use
of
another
Manuscript
,
but
not
much
more
correct
than
the
former
:
The
latest
and
best
is
that
we
have
from
[
b
](A52335-e18720-b)
b
Hist.
Brit.
Tom.
I.
Tract.
1.
Dr.
Gale
;
who
had
the
advantage
of
a
more
ancient
and
much
better
Copy
than
either
of
the
two
former
had
seen
.
If
he
did
write
any
thing
more
,
't
is
now
lost
.
Leland
is
mighty
desirous
to
believ●●hat
there
is
somewhere
such
a
Treatise
as
his
Cambreis
in
Verse
;
that
't
was
stollen
and
carry'd
into
[
c
](A52335-e18760-b)
c
Assert
.
Arth.
Fol.
32.
b.
Italy
;
and
that
the
Poet
Gildas
and
the
Historian
were
[
d
](A52335-e18790-b)
d
Comment.
in
Cygn
.
Cant.
voce
Britannia
.
two
several
Persons
.
But
't
is
now
fear'd
we
shall
never
meet
with
any
other
Poetical
Treatise
,
bearing
his
Name
,
save
only
that
which
Leland
himself
calls
Gildas
fictitius
;
and
which
Archbishop
Vsher
frequently
quotes
by
the
Name
of
[
e
](A52335-e18840-b)
e
Hist.
Eccles.
p.
27
,
30
,
37.
Pseudo-Gildas
.
His
Book
De
Victoria
Ambrosii
is
of
the
same
[
f
](A52335-e18870-b)
f
Ib.
p.
12.
base
metal
;
out
of
which
have
been
coin'd
John
Pits's
Regum
Britannorum
Historia
;
De
primis
Insulae
Incolis
;
Lites
Luddi
&
Nennii
,
&c.
The
next
British
Historian
of
Note
[
a
](A52335-e18980-b)
a
Bale
Cent.
I.
Cap.
15.
&
59.
Edit.
1.
say
,
〈◊〉
first
wrote
a
Book
of
the
British
History
in
his
own
Tongue
;
which
was
afterwards
translated
into
Latin
by
his
Namesake
,
Abbot
of
Bangor
.
This
same
Abbot
Nennius
is
generally
suppos'd
to
be
one
of
the
Fifty
Monks
that
were
so
wise
as
to
skulk
at
Chester
,
when
1200
of
their
Brethren
fell
a
Sacrifice
to
the
Pride
of
Augustine
,
the
first
Planter
of
the
Romish
Principles
and
Practices
in
our
Isle
?
and
to
have
flourish'd
about
the
Year
620.
Which
will
not
agree
with
what
is
attested
by
himself
in
the
best
Copies
of
his
[
b
](A52335-e19070-b)
b
Vid.
Usser
.
Hist.
Eccl.
p.
217.
&
Edit
Galei
,
p.
93.
Book
,
that
he
wrote
A.
D.
858.
Anno
24ᵒ.
Mervini
Regis
.
He
is
said
to
have
left
behind
him
several
Treatises
;
whereof
all
that
's
publish'd
is
his
[
a
](A52335-e19130-b)
a
Dr.
Gale's
Hist.
Brit.
p.
93.
Historia
Britonum
.
This
is
the
same
Book
that
Bale
and
Pits
have
register'd
under
the
Style
of
Eulogium
Britanniae
;
and
the
only
piece
that
must
answer
for
what
those
Gentlemen
mention
by
the
Titles
of
his
Collectiones
Historiarum
;
Antiquitates
Britannicae
;
Chronicon
,
&c.
In
most
of
the
MS.
Copies
it
is
erroneously
[
b
](A52335-e19210-b)
b
Vid.
Usserii
Hist.
Eccles.
p.
107.
&
J.
Leland
,
Assert
.
Arth.
Fol.
3.
b.
ascrib'd
to
Gildas
.
This
History
says
nothing
of
the
other
brave
Nennius
,
abovemention'd
;
whom
later
Commentators
have
〈◊〉
so
great
in
Story
.
I
am
of
Opinion
that
the
Contrivance
of
this
Hero
is
one
of
the
best
things
in
all
Jeoffrey
of
Monmouth's
Romance
.
It
looks
like
a
gratefull
Acknowledgment
to
the
Person
that
had
oblig'd
him
(
or
his
Author
)
with
the
ground-work
of
his
whole
Fabrick
:
to
whom
he
could
not
pay
a
more
decent
Complement
than
by
making
him
Godfather
to
one
of
his
chief
Knights
Errant
.
Next
after
Nennius
,
[
a
](A52335-e19320-b)
a
Concil.
Tom.
I.
p.
408.
Sir
Henry
Spelman
.
Of
these
there
are
[
b
](A52335-e19340-b)
b
Vid.
Humph.
Lhuid
.
Comment.
Brit.
Frag.
Fol.
53.
a.
&
Hen.
Spelm.
Gloss.
in
voce
Adelingus
&
Lex
.
several
Copies
,
both
in
Welsh
and
Latin
,
still
extant
;
among
which
a
very
old
one
(
written
on
Parchment
)
in
Jesus
College
at
Oxford
.
The
Preface
to
this
last
will
not
allow
that
King
Hoel
abrogated
(
as
Mr.
Camden
[
c
](A52335-e19450-b)
c
Brit.
in
Carmardensh
.
says
he
did
)
all
the
Laws
of
his
Ancestors
;
but
expresly
tells
us
,
that
[
d
](A52335-e19460-b)
d
Observat.
Ed.
Lhwyd
in
novam
Edit.
Camd.
p.
625.
according
to
the
Advice
of
his
Council
,
some
of
the
ancient
Laws
he
retain'd
,
〈◊〉
he
corrected
,
and
some
he
quite
disann●●●
,
appointing
others
in
their
stead
.
Dr.
Powell
will
not
agree
that
any
new
Statutes
were
ordain'd
by
this
King
[
e
](A52335-e19500-b)
e
In
Additament
.
ad
Hist.
Cambr.
But
that
his
Commissioners
(
according
to
the
Powers
given
them
)
retain'd
only
those
ancient
Laws
that
were
good
and
usefull
,
explain'd
the
Ambiguous
,
and
abrogated
the
Superfluous
.
For
,
we
are
to
know
that
(
full
fourteen
hundred
years
before
Hoel's
Time
)
the
Britains
had
a
whole
Body
of
Muncipal
Laws
,
enacted
by
King
[
a
](A52335-e19530-b)
a
Bale
(
Edit.
I.
)
Cent.
I.
Cap.
8.
&
10.
Dunwallo
Molmutius
;
which
were
soon
afterwards
enlarg'd
by
Queen
Martia
.
All
these
,
says
Bale
,
were
translated
into
Latin
by
Gildas
;
and
into
Saxon
by
King
Aelfred
.
Nay
,
some
wise
Writers
will
needs
affirm
,
that
a
certain
part
of
our
English
Saxon
Laws
,
which
they
call
Lex
Merciorum
,
had
its
Denomination
from
these
Leges
Martiae
:
and
this
childish
Fancy
has
been
embrac'd
by
several
of
our
[
b
](A52335-e19650-b)
b
Vid.
R.
Higden
.
Lib.
I.
cap.
50.
&
Hist.
Jorn
.
p.
38.
grave
and
ancient
Historians
.
Others
think
it
improbable
that
so
great
a
Prince
as
King
Aelfred
should
ever
trouble
his
Head
with
Translating
any
of
the
Laws
either
of
Molmutius
or
Martia
;
who
were
only
Antiquated
Legislators
among
his
Enemies
,
and
Heathens
.
But
(
since
the
Britains
,
as
Asserius
and
others
tell
us
,
voluntarily
submitted
to
him
)
it
seems
as
wise
in
Him
to
give
them
their
own
Laws
in
his
Language
,
as
't
was
in
William
the
Conquerour
to
grant
us
the
Saxon
Laws
in
French
.
Many
of
'em
(
we
have
already
been
told
)
were
abolish'd
even
by
the
Britains
themselves
,
after
they
became
Christians
:
But
Mr.
Sheringham
thinks
't
is
evident
from
several
Law-Terms
(
such
as
[
a
](A52335-e19760-b)
a
Shering
.
de
Orig.
Gentis
Angl.
p.
125
,
126.
Murder
,
Denizon
,
Rout
,
&c.
)
which
are
purely
British
,
that
some
of
them
were
taken
into
the
Body
of
our
English
Laws
.
Hoel's
are
said
to
have
been
first
Translated
into
Latin
by
(
a
Gentleman
with
a
very
hard
Name
)
Blegabride
[
b
](A52335-e19830-b)
b
Bale
,
Cent.
2.
Cap.
23.
Langauride
,
Doctor
of
Laws
and
Archdeacon
of
Landaff
,
in
the
year
914.
which
,
if
the
British
History
do
not
misinform
us
,
was
about
26
years
before
that
King
began
his
Reign
.
There
is
lately
come
to
my
hands
a
Latin
MS
Copy
(
in
Parchment
)
of
these
Laws
;
in
the
end
whereof
(
in
a
later
hand
)
is
written
:
Istum
Librum
Tho
Powel
Joanni
Da.
Rhaeso
Med.
Doctori
dono
dedit
me●se
Augusto
1600.
And
these
,
[
c
](A52335-e19960-b)
c
J.
Pits
,
p.
103
,
105.
Elvodugus
(
for
they
are
both
the
same
Man
)
from
whom
Nennius
is
made
to
borrow
a
good
part
of
what
we
now
have
under
his
Name
;
nor
for
those
of
[
a
](A52335-e20000-b)
a
J.
Pits
p.
107.
Worgresius
and
Mawornus
,
Abbot
and
Monk
of
Glassenbury
;
nor
for
the
Genealogies
drawn
up
,
by
the
Famous
Bard
in
King
Edgar's
daies
,
[
b
](A52335-e20070-b)
b
Id.
p.
175.
Saliphilax
.
When
these
are
retriev'd
,
I
would
have
them
all
carefully
bound
up
with
the
Deflorationes
Historiae
Britannicae
;
which
(
as
Jo.
[
c
](A52335-e20110-b)
c
De
Antiq.
Cantab.
lib.
1.
Caius
has
learnedly
prov'd
from
Stow
and
Lanquet
)
were
written
by
King
Gurguntius
about
370
years
before
Christ
.
The
Welsh
MS.
cited
frequently
in
Camden's
Britannia
,
by
the
name
of
Triades
,
seems
not
to
carry
Age
enough
to
come
within
this
Class
.
'T
is
the
same
,
I
suppose
,
which
he
[
d
](A52335-e20200-b)
d
Camd.
Remains
,
Edit.
1614.
p.
17.
elsewhere
calls
the
British
old
Book
of
Triplicities
;
running
all
upon
the
number
three
,
as
appears
from
his
Quotation
out
of
it
:
Welshmen
love
Fire
,
Salt
and
Drink
;
Frenchmen
Women
,
Weapons
and
Horses
;
Englishmen
Good
cheer
,
Lands
and
Traffick
.
We
are
not
to
expect
any
such
Assistances
[
a
](A52335-e20280-b)
a
Assert
.
Arth.
fol.
12
,
13
,
&c.
Leland
tells
us
of
King
Arthur's
Seal
:
But
I
am
not
,
I
confess
,
so
much
in
Love
with
that
Venerable
Relique
as
he
seems
to
have
been
.
It
might
indeed
be
brought
(
as
he
guesses
)
from
Glassenbury
;
where
I
do
believe
't
was
hung
at
a
forg'd
Charter
by
some
Monk
,
who
was
a
better
Mechanick
than
Antiquary
.
The
Inscription
easily
discovers
the
Cheat
:
PATRICIVS
ARTVRIVS
BRITANNIAE
,
GALLIAE
,
GERMANIAE
,
DACIAE
IMPERATOR
.
He
is
certainly
call'd
Patricius
here
(
and
no
where
else
)
out
of
the
abundant
Respect
that
Monastery
had
for
their
Guardian
,
Saint
Patrick
;
and
not
,
as
Leland
fansies
,
upon
any
Account
of
a
Roman
Fashion
.
Another
Help
is
here
wanting
,
[
b
](A52335-e20390-b)
b
Commentar.
lib.
5.
Caesar's
Time
was
nothing
more
than
Iron
Rings
and
shapeless
pieces
of
Brass
:
nor
does
it
well
appear
that
ever
afterwards
their
Kings
brought
in
any
of
another
sort
.
Camden
[
a
](A52335-e20420-b)
a
Remains
p.
m.
199.
200.
says
he
could
not
learn
that
,
after
their
retirement
into
Wales
,
they
had
any
such
thing
among
them
:
none
of
the
Learned
Men
of
that
Principality
having
yet
been
able
to
produce
so
much
as
one
piece
of
British
Coin
,
found
either
in
Wales
or
any
where
else
.
And
,
is
it
likely
that
a
Royalty
of
this
Nature
(
of
so
great
Benefit
to
their
Subjects
,
as
well
as
Honour
to
themselves
)
would
have
been
laid
aside
by
the
Cambrian
Princes
,
if
formerly
enjoy'd
by
any
of
their
Ancestors
?
J.
[
b
](A52335-e20480-b)
b
Comment.
in
Cygn
.
Cant.
voce
Britannia
.
Leland
tells
us
he
never
(
in
all
his
Travels
,
throughout
the
whole
Kingdom
of
England
)
could
meet
with
one
British
Coin
,
among
the
many
Millions
of
those
of
the
Romans
found
in
this
Nation
.
And
the
Reason
,
he
says
,
was
,
because
(
as
he
proves
out
of
[
c
](A52335-e20540-b)
c
Vid.
Histor.
Gilda
,
§.
5.
Gildas
)
the
Romans
would
not
allow
any
of
our
Metal
to
be
stamp'd
with
any
other
Image
or
Superscription
,
save
only
that
of
Caesar's
,
that
is
,
some
of
their
own
Emperours
.
However
,
we
now
have
several
ancient
Coins
in
our
publick
and
private
Libraries
,
which
are
generally
reputed
to
be
British
:
tho'
't
is
very
hard
to
determine
in
what
Age
of
the
World
they
were
minted
.
My
very
Learned
and
Ingenious
Friend
Mr.
Lwhyd
believes
that
,
before
the
coming
in
of
the
Romans
,
they
had
Gold
Coins
of
their
own
;
because
there
have
been
frequently
found
(
both
in
England
and
Wales
)
thick
pieces
of
that
Metal
,
hollow'd
on
one
side
,
with
variety
of
unintelligible
Marks
and
Characters
upon
them
.
These
,
he
is
sure
,
cannot
be
ascrib'd
either
to
the
Romans
,
Saxons
or
Danes
;
and
therefore
't
is
reasonable
we
should
conclude
them
to
be
British
.
And
the
Reason
why
he
thinks
they
were
coin'd
before
the
Romans
came
,
is
this
:
If
the
Britains
had
learn'd
the
Art
from
them
,
they
would
(
tho'
never
so
inartificially
)
have
endeavour'd
to
imitate
their
manner
of
Coining
;
and
,
in
all
likelyhood
,
have
added
Letters
and
the
Head
of
their
Kings
.
Here
's
a
fair
and
probable
opinion
against
the
express
Testimony
of
Julius
Caesar
;
who
could
hardly
be
impos'd
on
in
this
part
of
the
Account
he
gives
of
our
Isle
.
Camden
[
a
](A52335-e20710-b)
a
Remains
p.
m.
199.
rather
thinks
that
,
after
the
Arrival
of
the
Romans
,
the
Britains
first
began
to
imitate
them
in
their
Coining
of
both
Gold
and
Copper
:
But
his
Stories
of
Cunobeline
and
Queen
Brundvica
,
are
much
of
a
piece
with
those
of
Doctor
[
a
](A52335-e20760-b)
a
Nat.
Hist.
of
Oxfordsh
.
cap.
10.
Plott's
Prasutagus
;
all
of
'em
liable
to
very
just
and
(
to
me
)
unanswerable
Objections
.
For
my
own
part
,
I
am
of
Opinion
,
that
never
any
of
the
British
Kings
did
Coin
Money
:
But
that
even
their
Tribute-Money
(
like
the
Dane-Gelt
and
Peterpence
afterwards
)
was
the
ordinary
Current
Coin
;
which
was
brought
in
(
or
minted
here
)
by
the
Romans
themselves
,
as
long
as
this
Island
continu'd
a
Province
.
The
most
(
if
not
all
)
of
the
foremention'd
pieces
,
which
are
not
Counterfeits
,
I
take
to
be
Amulets
;
whereof
Tho.
[
b
](A52335-e20840-b)
b
Antiq.
Dan.
p.
466.
Bartholine
gives
this
sensible
Account
:
Habuere
Veteres
in
Paganismo
res
quasdam
portatiles
,
ex
Argento
vel
Auro
factas
,
Imaginibus
Deorum
,
facie
humanâ
Expressorum
signatas
,
quibus
Futurorum
Cognitionem
explorabant
,
&
quarum
possessione
felices
se
&
quodam
quasi
Numinis
praesidio
tutos
judicabant
.
These
were
in
use
among
the
Romans
a
good
while
[
c
](A52335-e20880-b)
c
Vid.
Spartian
.
in
Caracal
.
after
they
came
into
Britain
:
and
the
Amula
(
from
whence
they
had
their
Name
)
was
a
little
drinking
[
a
](A52335-e20930-b)
a
Coel.
Rhodig
.
Antiq.
Lect.
lib.
27.
cap.
27.
Cup
,
most
probably
of
this
very
Fashion
.
If
any
man
dislikes
my
Conjecture
,
I
am
willing
Sir
John
Pettus
should
Umpire
the
matter
between
us
;
and
his
Supposition
(
that
Coin
is
an
[
b
](A52335-e20960-b)
b
Gloss.
ad
Flet.
Min.
voce
Coin
.
Abstract
of
Coynobeline
,
who
first
coin'd
Money
at
Malden
)
will
for
ever
decide
the
Controversie
.
After
the
Conquest
,
[
c
](A52335-e21050-b)
c
J.
Pits
,
p.
217.
Stephen
,
about
the
year
1150.
He
had
a
peculiar
fancy
for
Stories
surmounting
all
ordinary
Faith
:
which
inclin'd
him
to
pitch
upon
King
Arthur's
feats
of
Chivalry
,
and
Merlyn's
Prophecies
,
as
proper
subjects
for
his
Pen.
But
his
most
famous
piece
is
his
Chronicon
sive
Historia
Britonum
;
which
has
taken
so
well
as
to
have
had
several
[
d
](A52335-e21110-b)
d
Apud
Jo.
Badium
A.
D.
1508.
&
Hydelb
.
1587
,
&c.
Impressions
.
In
this
he
has
given
a
perfect
Genealogy
of
the
Kings
of
Britain
from
the
Days
of
Brutus
:
wherein
we
have
an
Exact
Register
of
above
Seventy
glorious
Monarchs
that
rul'd
this
Island
,
before
ever
Julius
Caesar
had
the
good
fortune
to
be
acquainted
with
it
.
The
first
stone
of
this
fair
Fabrick
was
laid
by
Nennius
:
but
the
Superstructure
is
all
Fire-new
,
and
purely
his
own
.
They
that
are
concern'd
for
the
Credit
of
this
Historian
tell
us
,
that
he
had
no
further
hand
in
the
Work
,
than
only
to
translate
an
ancient
Welsh
History
brought
out
of
Britany
in
France
by
Walter
Calenius
,
Archdeacon
of
Oxford
;
who
was
himself
an
eminent
Antiquary
,
and
added
a
[
a
](A52335-e21220-b)
a
J.
Pits
,
p.
198.
Supplement
to
the
Book
.
The
Translation
of
the
whole
he
committed
to
the
care
of
his
Friend
Geoffry
;
who
(
says
[
b
](A52335-e21250-b)
b
Ad
An.
1151.
Matt.
Paris
)
approv'd
himself
Interpres
verus
.
And
there
I
am
willing
to
let
the
matter
rest
.
The
Translator
might
have
employ'd
his
time
better
,
yet
may
be
an
honest
man
:
But
the
Author
(
whoever
he
was
)
has
basely
impos'd
upon
the
World
,
and
was
certainly
something
of
another
Nature
.
The
best
defence
that
can
be
made
for
it
is
that
which
was
written
by
Sir
John
Prise
;
and
is
publish'd
under
the
Title
of
[
a
](A52335-e21290-b)
a
4to
.
Lond.
1573.
Historiae
Britannicae
Defensio
:
to
which
something
further
is
added
by
[
b
](A52335-e21310-b)
b
De
Orig.
Gentis
Angl.
p.
124.
ad
134.
Mr.
Sheringham
(
if
it
could
be
help'd
)
to
part
with
any
thing
of
an
old
Story
that
looks
gay
,
and
is
but
even
tolerably
well
contriv'd
.
As
to
the
regard
(
says
the
ingenious
Mr.
[
c
](A52335-e21340-b)
c
Camd.
Brit.
N.
E.
p.
603.
Lhwyd
)
due
to
this
History
in
general
,
the
judicious
Reader
may
consult
Dr.
Powel's
Epistle
[
d
](A52335-e21370-b)
d
In
calce
Editionis
suae
Pont.
Virun
.
De
Britannicâ
Historiâ
rectè
Intelligendâ
;
and
Dr.
Davies
'
s
Preface
to
his
British
Lexicon
;
and
balance
them
with
the
Arguments
and
Authority
of
those
that
wholly
reject
them
.
I
am
not
for
wholly
rejecting
all
that
's
contained
in
that
History
;
believing
there
is
somewhat
of
Truth
in
it
,
under
a
mighty
heap
of
Monkish
Forgeries
:
But
,
for
the
main
,
I
am
of
[
e
](A52335-e21420-b)
e
Britan.
in
Monmouthsh
.
Camden's
Judgment
;
and
I
hope
my
Friend
will
allow
me
to
think
the
Arguments
and
Authority
of
that
Writer
and
common
Sense
to
be
as
weighty
(
in
these
Matters
)
as
those
of
the
two
greatest
Doctors
in
Christendom
.
Ponticus
Virunnius
,
an
Italian
,
[
a
](A52335-e21490-b)
a
8o
.
Lond.
1585.
curante
D.
Powel
.
Epitomiz'd
it
;
and
indeed
't
is
of
a
Complexion
fitter
for
the
Air
of
Italy
than
England
.
Cotemporary
with
this
Jeoffrey
was
Caradocus
Monk
of
Lancarvan
;
Humphrey
Lhuid
;
and
enlarg'd
and
publish'd
by
[
b
](A52335-e21640-b)
b
4o
.
Lond.
1584.
Dr.
Powel
.
There
are
three
MSS.
of
good
note
,
mention'd
by
[
c
](A52335-e21670-b)
c
Hist.
Eccl.
Brit.
p.
29
,
31.
Archbishop
Vsher
,
which
seem
to
reach
much
higher
than
Caradocus
pretends
to
go
;
all
which
I
guess
to
have
been
written
about
the
same
Time
.
The
first
is
in
Welsh
,
in
Sir
John
Cotton's
Library
;
reported
to
be
the
same
that
was
translated
by
Jeoffrey
of
Monmouth
.
The
Second
is
in
old
English
by
one
Lazimon
:
and
the
Third
(
as
I
take
it
)
in
Latin
,
by
Geraldus
Cornubiensis
.
King
Arthur
,
Will
.
Neubrigensis
,
&c.
)
was
one
Grey
,
the
suppos'd
Author
of
Scalechronicon
;
whom
[
a
](A52335-e21860-b)
a
J.
Pits
,
p.
680.
Pits
calls
John
,
and
says
,
he
was
Bishop
of
Norwich
and
Elect
of
Canterbury
,
and
that
he
dy'd
A.
D.
1217.
Bishop
[
b
](A52335-e21930-b)
b
Def.
Apolog.
Par.
I.
p.
11.
Jewel
calls
him
Thomas
.
About
two
hundred
Years
after
him
,
Tho.
Ma●ory
(
a
Welsh
Gentleman
)
wrote
King
Arthur's
Story
in
English
;
a
Book
that
is
,
in
our
Days
,
often
sold
by
the
Ballad-singers
with
the
like
Authentick
Records
of
Guy
of
Warwick
and
Bevis
of
Southampton
.
But
,
about
the
middle
of
the
last
Century
,
his
chief
Champions
appear'd
on
the
Stage
;
in
defence
of
him
against
Polydore
Virgil's
fierce
attack
.
These
were
[
c
](A52335-e22050-b)
c
Hist.
Brit.
Def.
4o
.
Lond.
1573.
Sir
John
Prise
and
[
d
](A52335-e22080-b)
d
Assert
.
Regis
Arth.
4o
.
Lond.
1544.
Mr.
Leland
;
the
latter
whereof
was
as
able
as
any
Man
alive
to
give
the
Story
all
the
Light
which
the
Kingdom
could
afford
it
.
And
yet
his
Treatise
is
the
most
liable
to
Exception
of
any
thing
he
ever
publish'd
.
Many
of
the
Authors
he
quotes
are
only
Jeoffrey
of
Monmouth's
Echoes
;
others
come
not
up
to
the
Question
;
and
some
are
too
Modern
.
These
,
and
more
Objections
are
rais'd
against
this
History
by
our
most
Learned
Bishop
[
a
](A52335-e22130-b)
a
Orig.
Brit.
p.
339
,
&c.
Stillingfleet
;
who
nevertheless
confesses
that
he
has
sufficiently
prov'd
that
there
was
such
a
Prince
.
So
that
,
it
seems
,
there
is
something
of
[
b
](A52335-e22150-b)
b
Sir
W.
Temple
's
Introd.
p.
51
,
52
,
53.
plain
Stuff
in
the
Story
;
whatever
Imbroydery
may
be
Introduced
by
the
Spanish
Kelton's
Chronicle
of
the
[
c
](A52335-e22200-b)
c
8o
.
Lond.
1547.
Brutes
,
and
H.
[
d
](A52335-e22240-b)
d
Ath.
Oxon.
Vol.
I.
p.
293.
Lyte's
Records
,
&c.
are
such
Whimsical
and
Imperfect
Pieces
as
not
to
deserve
the
being
nam'd
with
the
last
mention'd
Authors
;
tho'
they
treat
much
on
the
same
Subject
.
After
King
Charles
the
Second's
Restoration
,
Robert
Vaughan
(
a
Learned
Gentleman
of
Meryonidshire
)
publish'd
his
[
a
](A52335-e22320-b)
a
4o
Oxon.
1662.
British
Antiquities
Reviv'd
;
wherein
are
a
great
many
very
pretty
Remarks
and
Discoveries
.
The
Author
,
it
appears
,
was
well
known
to
Archbishop
[
b
](A52335-e22350-b)
b
See
Archbish.
Usher's
Letters
,
p.
261
,
270
,
&c.
Vsher
;
by
whom
he
was
much
countenanc'd
and
encourag'd
in
these
Studies
.
In
one
of
his
Letters
to
that
renown'd
Primate
,
he
says
,
he
had
now
finish'd
his
Annals
of
Wales
;
which
he
then
sent
to
be
perus'd
by
his
Grace
,
and
to
receive
his
Approbation
(
if
worthy
of
it
)
for
the
Press
.
What
became
of
that
Work
,
I
cannot
tell
:
but
it
has
not
yet
appear'd
so
publickly
as
the
Author
(
it
seems
)
long
since
intended
it
should
.
His
Executors
owe
him
and
us
the
Justice
of
sending
abroad
whatever
they
have
of
his
that
's
compleat
:
For
he
left
also
behind
him
a
large
Collection
of
other
Manuscript
Papers
,
relating
to
the
same
Subject
;
which
were
sometime
in
the
Possession
of
Sir
William
Williams
.
After
him
came
forth
Aylet
Sammes
[
a
](A52335-e22430-b)
a
Fol.
Lond.
1676.
Britannia
Antiqua
Illustrata
;
wherein
he
fetches
the
Original
of
the
British
Customs
,
Religion
and
Laws
,
from
the
Phoenicians
.
This
Conceit
(
which
is
all
that
looks
new
in
his
Book
)
is
wholly
borrow'd
from
Bochartus
;
as
is
his
long
Discourse
of
the
Off-spring
of
the
Saxons
,
from
Sheringham
.
As
for
his
own
part
,
't
is
visible
he
equally
understood
the
Phoenician
,
British
,
Gothick
,
Saxon
,
and
Islandic
Languages
;
and
,
if
left
to
himself
,
could
as
easily
have
brought
the
Britains
from
New
Spain
,
and
the
Saxons
from
Madagascar
.
Upon
the
first
publishing
of
this
Book
,
Mr.
Oldenburg
(
Secretary
to
the
Royal
Society
)
gave
a
very
obliging
[
b
](A52335-e22570-b)
b
Philos.
Transact
.
Num.
124.
p.
596.
Character
both
of
the
Work
and
its
Author
:
who
(
by
what
the
[
c
](A52335-e22580-b)
c
Athen.
Oxon.
Vol.
II.
p.
879.
Oxford
Antiquary
has
since
told
us
)
was
every
way
unworthy
of
such
a
Complement
.
Whether
his
Uncle
or
himself
was
the
true
Author
of
what
he
was
pleas'd
to
publish
under
his
own
Name
,
is
not
worth
our
while
to
enquire
.
But
,
if
we
believe
Mr.
Wood
that
Aylet
had
never
so
much
as
heard
of
John
Leland
before
the
Year
1677
,
he
's
the
most
unaccountable
and
ridiculous
Plagiary
and
Buffoon
that
ever
had
his
Name
in
the
Title
Page
of
any
Book
whatever
.
For
that
which
he
pretends
to
be
his
,
was
Printed
the
Year
before
;
and
(
in
the
Preface
to
it
)
we
are
told
,
that
't
was
John
Leland's
asserting
,
that
the
main
Body
of
the
Welsh
Language
consisted
of
Hebrew
and
Greek
words
,
which
first
put
the
Author
upon
his
search
into
the
Stories
of
the
Phoenician
Voyages
.
So
that
,
it
's
very
probable
that
good
Master
Sammes
never
read
so
much
as
the
Preface
to
his
Book
:
Or
else
,
either
he
or
Mr.
Wood
must
be
under
the
misfortune
of
a
very
treacherous
Memory
.
Something
of
value
might
have
been
John
Aubrey
Esquire
,
Fellow
of
the
Royal
Society
;
if
the
Proposals
he
lately
made
for
the
publishing
of
his
Monumenta
Britannica
had
met
with
a
suitable
Reception
.
The
World
is
not
come
to
that
Ripeness
we
hope
for
,
as
duely
to
relish
Works
of
this
Nature
:
but
how
well
his
have
deserv'd
a
better
Encouragement
than
hitherto
they
have
met
with
,
is
apparent
from
the
little
Tasts
we
have
of
'em
in
the
late
Edition
of
the
Britannia
;
especially
in
Wiltshire
,
Herefordshire
and
Wales
.
He
would
have
given
us
(
if
we
had
been
so
kind
to
our selves
as
to
have
accepted
his
Pains
)
a
good
view
of
the
Temples
,
Religion
and
Manners
,
of
the
Ancient
Druids
;
of
the
Camps
,
Castles
,
Military
Architecture
,
&c.
of
both
Britains
and
Romans
.
But
we
rejected
his
offers
;
and
may
possibly
too
late
repent
of
our
Folly
.
As
to
the
Roman
Writers
,
Tacitus
,
Dio
Cassius
,
Suetonius
,
Eutropius
,
Spartianus
,
Capitolinus
,
Lampridius
,
Vopiscus
,
[
a
](A52335-e22890-b)
a
Vid.
Hist.
August
.
Script
.
Edit.
à
Fred.
Sylburgio
,
in
2
Vol.
Fol.
Francof
.
1588.
&c.
who
may
all
be
suppos'd
to
have
had
the
perusal
of
such
Memorials
as
were
,
from
time
to
time
,
sent
to
the
Emperours
from
their
Lieutenants
(
and
other
chief
Officers
)
in
this
Province
.
In
the
use
of
these
,
the
Reader
ought
to
take
a
deal
of
Leisure
and
Caution
.
For
most
of
'em
seem
to
have
been
loose
Indigested
Adversaria
;
such
as
had
not
the
last
Examination
and
Thoughts
of
their
Authors
;
and
do
therefore
want
the
Regard
that
should
be
had
to
Order
and
Time
.
Besides
the
several
Tracts
are
not
well
ascertain'd
to
their
Genuine
and
Proper
Writers
;
the
not
heeding
whereof
may
draw
one
unawares
into
very
dangerous
mistakes
.
These
Defects
are
happily
supply'd
by
the
famous
Mr.
Dodwell
,
in
his
late
Learned
Praelectiones
[
b
](A52335-e22940-b)
b
8o
.
Oxon.
1692.
Camdenianae
;
which
will
be
highly
serviceable
to
all
such
as
shall
hereafter
engage
in
these
Studies
.
Indeed
Tacitus's
Life
of
Agricola
(
especially
as
improv'd
by
[
a
](A52335-e22990-b)
a
Fol.
Lond.
1598.
Sir
Henry
Savil's
most
admirable
Translation
and
Learned
Notes
)
looks
something
like
a
Just
Treatise
upon
that
great
General
's
Conduct
here
;
and
is
done
with
that
Fairness
and
Respect
to
the
Natives
,
that
I
cannot
see
but
Galgacus
is
made
to
talk
as
Bravely
,
Gracefully
and
Eloquently
,
as
the
best
of
his
Enemies
.
Many
Defects
in
these
Accounts
have
been
likewise
supply'd
(
as
well
as
good
store
of
Conjectural
Mistakes
,
in
more
Modern
Authors
,
rectify'd
)
by
the
Roman
Inscriptions
and
Coins
found
in
several
parts
of
our
Island
;
and
there
are
daily
new
Discoveries
of
both
these
sorts
.
Since
the
acceptable
Services
done
to
Mr.
Camden
[
a
](A52335-e23130-b)
a
Remains
,
P.
M.
199.
tells
us
,
that
,
Rome
,
Lions
or
Treves
)
Constantine
the
Great
erected
a
Mint
at
London
.
Some
of
his
Pieces
,
which
were
there
coin'd
,
I
have
in
my
poor
Collection
;
and
they
are
not
uncommon
in
many
of
the
Musaea
in
England
.
But
,
long
before
his
Days
,
his
Predecessors
took
occasion
to
magnify
their
Exploits
,
in
this
other
World
of
Great
Britain
,
on
the
Reverse
of
their
Coins
;
from
whence
several
good
Illustrations
of
that
part
of
our
History
may
be
had
.
What
are
given
us
of
this
kind
,
in
the
Britannia
,
are
very
valuable
:
But
their
Numbers
might
be
further
enlarg'd
;
and
we
are
the
more
encouraged
to
look
after
those
we
want
,
because
I
have
not
yet
heard
that
our
Trayterous
English
Money-makers
have
hitherto
busy'd
themselves
in
Counterfeiting
any
Coin
of
so
ancient
a
Date
.
Such
Rogueries
are
common
in
France
and
Germany
;
where
most
of
their
old
Medals
have
been
Copy'd
(
and
many
New
Ones
of
the
first
Caesar's
stamp'd
and
minted
)
by
Modern
Artists
:
And
yet
,
even
there
,
those
that
relate
to
the
Affairs
of
this
Isle
are
always
allow'd
to
be
True
and
Genuine
.
CHAP.
IV.
Of
the
Histories
,
and
other
Monuments
,
that
relate
to
the
Times
of
the
Saxons
and
Danes
.
THe
Dispatch
that
Sir
William
Temple
makes
of
the
Saxon
times
is
very
short
and
pithy
;
and
the
Character
he
gives
of
their
Writers
is
so
full
of
Contempt
,
that
(
if
we
were
sure
it
came
from
a
proper
Judge
)
't
would
save
an
Antiquary
a
great
deal
of
trouble
and
pains
.
The
Authors
(
he
[
a
](A52335-e23360-b)
a
Introduct.
pag.
1.
says
)
of
those
barbarous
and
illiterate
Ages
are
few
and
mean
:
and
perhaps
the
rough
course
of
those
Lawless
Times
and
Actions
would
have
been
too
ignoble
a
subject
for
a
good
Historian
.
The
times
were
not
so
lawless
,
nor
the
Authors
so
few
and
mean
,
as
he
imagines
.
A
great
many
of
the
Records
of
those
days
,
we
own
,
are
lost
:
but
there
are
still
more
remaining
,
than
any
of
our
Neighbour-Nations
can
pretend
to
shew
,
relating
to
the
Transactions
of
those
Ages
.
We
know
not
what
's
become
of
the
Book
King
[
b
](A52335-e23410-b)
b
Vid.
Aelfred
.
Mag.
Vit.
p.
82
,
92
,
93.
Aelfred
wrote
against
Corrupt
Judges
;
of
his
Collection
of
the
old
Saxon
Sonnets
;
of
St.
Aldhelm's
Hymns
,
and
other
Musical
Composures
,
&c.
And
yet
we
have
a
pretty
good
stock
of
their
Laws
and
Historical
Treatises
;
and
those
that
have
been
conversant
in
'em
do
not
think
they
have
thrown
away
their
time
upon
so
ignoble
a
Subject
as
some
may
fansie
it
.
Before
a
just
Sentence
could
be
pass'd
in
this
case
,
[
c
](A52335-e23500-b)
c
Archaion
.
Praef.
ad
Lect.
p.
2.
Mr.
Lambard
or
[
d
](A52335-e23520-b)
d
Praef.
ad
Gram.
Saxon.
p.
12
,
13.
Dr.
Hickes
.
To
this
purpose
,
it
had
been
convenient
that
he
had
furnish'd
himself
,
in
the
first
place
,
with
a
Saxon
Grammar
,
since
our
Tongue
is
now
very
much
alter'd
in
the
Construction
and
Termination
of
such
words
as
we
still
retain
,
from
that
of
our
Ancestors
.
Whether
the
Monks
of
Tavistoke
(
who
,
as
[
e
](A52335-e23560-b)
e
Britan.
in
Devon
.
Camden
tells
us
,
had
a
Saxon
Lecture
in
their
Monastery
)
ever
compil'd
any
thing
of
this
kind
,
is
not
known
;
tho
it
has
been
lately
[
f
](A52335-e23600-b)
f
N.
E.
Camd.
Brit.
p.
38.
reported
,
that
,
in
the
beginning
of
the
Civil
Wars
,
there
was
such
a
Grammar
there
printed
.
The
first
attempt
towards
it
,
that
we
hear
of
,
was
by
Mr.
John
Josseline
,
Archbishop
Parker's
Secretary
;
who
drew
up
a
Specimen
,
which
is
now
hardly
to
be
met
with
.
Mr.
Somner
prefix'd
some
short
Grammatical
Rules
to
his
Dictionary
:
but
Mr.
Junius
did
not
(
as
far
as
I
could
ever
learn
)
bend
his
thoughts
that
way
.
Bishop
Fell
was
earnest
with
Dr
Marshall
(
late
Rector
of
Lincoln-College
)
to
draw
up
a
Grammar
;
and
he
devolv'd
the
work
upon
one
much
more
unfit
for
the
employment
,
who
had
made
some
Collections
to
that
purpose
.
His
endeavours
were
superseded
by
the
excellent
performance
of
Dr.
Hickes
,
who
has
publish'd
his
Institutiones
[
g
](A52335-e23700-b)
g
4to
.
Oxon.
1689.
Grammaticae
Anglo-Saxonicae
,
&c.
The
Book
discovers
an
Accuracy
in
this
Language
beyond
the
Attainments
of
any
that
had
gone
before
him
in
that
Study
;
and
will
be
of
most
necessary
use
to
such
as
shall
apply
themselves
to
the
right
understanding
of
the
ancient
History
and
Laws
of
this
Kingdom
.
But
,
as
all
first
Draughts
of
any
sort
are
usually
Imperfect
,
so
there
seem
to
be
some
Defects
in
this
that
may
be
supply'd
.
For
Example
,
There
wants
a
Chapter
of
the
variety
of
Dialects
;
which
might
have
been
had
out
of
the
Northern
Interlineary
Versions
of
the
Gospel
mention'd
by
Doctor
[
h
](A52335-e23720-b)
h
Observat.
in
Vers.
Anglo
.
Sax.
p.
491
,
492.
Marshall
:
One
whereof
is
peremptorily
affirm'd
to
have
belong'd
to
St.
Cuthbert
,
as
the
other
(
in
all
likelihood
)
did
to
Venerable
Bede
.
After
the
Grammar
is
well
and
carefully
perus'd
,
Barbarous
Ages
,
they
had
some
few
men
of
Learning
,
who
collected
several
Vocabularies
,
in
Saxon
and
Latin
,
for
the
use
of
their
School-boys
.
Some
of
these
are
still
remaining
,
having
been
carefully
pick'd
up
and
transcrib'd
by
Mr.
Junius
.
The
chief
of
them
are
the
two
that
bear
the
Name
of
the
learned
Aelfric
:
whereof
the
worse
was
printed
,
with
his
Grammar
,
in
the
end
of
Mr.
Somner's
Dictionary
;
the
better
still
continuing
in
Manuscript
(
notwithstanding
[
i
](A52335-e23860-b)
i
Auct
.
Hist.
Dogm
.
Vsserii
,
p.
377
,
378.
Mr.
Wharton's
Remark
to
the
contrary
)
both
in
Cotton's
Library
,
and
in
that
of
St.
John's
College
in
Oxford
,
as
well
as
amongst
Junius's
Transcripts
.
Out
of
these
,
and
other
helps
,
the
most
Industrious
of
our
English
Antiquaries
have
compil'd
their
Saxon
Dictionaries
;
very
serviceable
towards
the
carrying
on
of
these
intricate
and
useful
Studies
.
All
that
I
have
heard
of
in
this
kind
,
are
:
1.
That
which
was
drawn
up
by
Laur.
Noel
,
Dean
of
Litchfield
,
in
the
beginning
of
Queen
Elizabeth's
Reign
:
whose
Original
Manuscript
fell
into
the
hands
of
Mr.
Selden
,
and
is
now
in
Bodley's
Library
;
as
a
fair
Copy
of
it
is
amongst
Junius's
MSS.
2.
John
Josseline's
;
said
to
be
in
[
k
](A52335-e24020-b)
k
Titles
of
Hon.
p.
82.
Cotton's
Library
,
tho
Dr.
Hickes
does
not
mention
it
in
his
Catalogue
.
3.
Will
.
Somner's
;
which
was
[
l
](A52335-e24060-b)
l
Fol.
Oxon.
1659.
publish'd
at
the
Earnest
Request
and
Charges
of
some
of
the
most
Learned
Men
in
this
Kingdom
.
The
chief
Additions
he
made
,
to
what
was
done
to
his
hand
by
the
two
forementioned
Gentlemen
,
were
out
of
Caedmon's
Paraphrase
,
and
the
Medicinal
MS.
in
the
King's
Library
;
together
with
two
old
Glossaries
in
Sir
John
Cotton's
.
4.
That
most
elaborate
one
of
Fr.
Junius
,
who
has
infinitely
outdone
all
that
went
before
him
.
His
large
Glossary
or
Lexicon
of
the
five
old
Northern
Languages
(
whereof
the
Saxon
has
the
preference
)
may
be
seen
in
the
Author
's
own
MS.
in
Bodley's
Library
;
and
a
fair
Transcript
of
it
(
in
Eleven
Volumes
,
at
the
charge
of
the
late
pious
Bishop
Fell
)
in
the
Musaeum
Ashmoleanum
.
It
was
design'd
for
the
Press
by
that
most
excellent
Prelate
;
and
may
be
yet
hoped
for
,
as
soon
as
it
shall
please
God
to
restore
to
us
the
Blessing
of
Peace
,
together
with
(
one
of
its
certain
Consequences
)
the
Encouragement
of
Industry
and
good
Learning
.
We
may
likewise
then
expect
the
same
Author
's
Etymologicum
Anglicanum
,
a
work
completely
finish'd
in
two
Volumes
;
which
will
be
also
of
singular
use
to
our
English
Antiquary
.
After
these
I
can
hardly
think
it
worth
the
while
to
take
notice
of
the
Imperfect
Collections
made
by
Sir
William
Dugdale
in
Saxon
and
English
;
nor
of
two
Anonymous
Fragments
,
of
the
like
kind
,
in
the
Libraries
of
Sir
Thomas
Bodley
and
Bennet-College
.
To
these
Dictionaries
ought
to
be
added
the
Glossaries
of
Sir
Henry
Spelman
[
m
](A52335-e24250-b)
m
Fol.
Lond.
16●6
.
publish'd
Imperfect
:
but
in
the
[
n
](A52335-e24260-b)
n
Fol.
Lond
1664
,
&
1687.
Second
and
Third
Editions
that
Defect
is
supply'd
.
That
the
whole
is
the
true
Genuine
Work
of
its
pretended
Author
,
appears
from
the
uniformity
of
the
Style
in
both
parts
;
from
the
Quotations
of
the
same
Manuscripts
;
References
in
both
to
the
Readings
of
his
Grandfather
Sir
John
Spelman
,
&c.
'T
was
a
great
misfortune
that
the
late
publisher
of
it
was
not
made
acquainted
with
the
Notes
and
Enlargements
upon
the
whole
amongst
Somner's
Manuscripts
in
the
Library
at
Canterbury
.
The
other
Glossary
was
long
after
compil'd
by
W.
Somner
,
and
annex'd
to
the
[
o
](A52335-e24320-b)
o
Fol.
Lond.
1652.
Decem
Scriptores
,
publish'd
by
Sir
Roger
Twisden
;
who
acknowledges
,
that
without
it
that
work
had
been
a
very
dry
and
useless
performance
.
Out
of
these
two
Du
Fresne
usually
transcribes
whatever
he
has
,
in
his
[
p
](A52335-e24360-b)
p
Glossar
.
ad
Script
.
Med.
&
Infim
.
Latinit
.
3
Vol.
Paris
.
Fol.
1678.
great
work
,
which
relates
to
the
difficult
passages
in
our
old
Laws
,
&c.
Dr.
Wats
has
added
a
Glossary
to
his
Edition
of
M.
Paris
;
which
may
be
very
serviceable
to
a
young
English
Antiquary
:
And
[
q
](A52335-e24410-b)
q
In
Praef.
ad
Archaion
.
Guil.
Lambardi
.
Mr
Wheloc
promis'd
one
of
his
Composure
.
There
's
not
much
to
be
learn'd
[
r
](A52335-e24490-b)
r
Luc.
12.
6.
21.
2.
Gospels
Halfpennies
and
Farthings
;
which
perhaps
were
of
a
baser
Matter
.
They
had
also
Half
Farthings
(
eight
to
a
Penny
,
like
the
Liards
de
France
)
which
they
call'd
[
s
](A52335-e24510-b)
s
Marc.
12.
42.
Sticas
:
Of
which
kind
I
take
those
Brass
pices
to
be
which
were
lately
found
near
Rippon
in
Yorkshire
,
and
by
Sir
Edward
Black●t
(
into
whose
possession
they
first
came
)
kindly
communicated
to
several
curious
Antiquaries
in
that
County
.
The
rest
of
their
Money-Terms
are
Names
of
Accounts
and
Weight
;
which
are
thus
stated
by
[
t
](A52335-e24560-b)
t
Remains
p.
m.
200.
Camden
.
|
|
l.
|
s.
|
d.
|
|
1.
Their
Shilling
was
5
of
their
Pennies
;
in
our
Money
|
0
|
1
|
3
|
|
2.
Their
Pound
was
their
48
s.
our
|
3
|
0
|
0
|
3.
Manca
,
Mancusa
or
Marca
,
about
|
0
|
1
|
0
|
|
4.
Manca
of
Gold
,
their
30
d.
our
|
0
|
7
|
6
|
This
computation
(
tho
not
exact
)
comes
near
the
truth
;
and
is
as
much
,
or
more
,
than
we
have
occasion
for
at
present
.
Camden
here
omits
their
Thrimsa
;
which
Sir
Henry
Spelman
takes
to
have
been
three
Shillings
;
Mr.
Selden
thinks
it
was
the
third
part
of
a
Shilling
;
and
Mr.
Somner
modestly
owns
he
knows
not
what
it
was
.
As
far
as
I
am
able
to
judge
,
King
[
u
](A52335-e24970-b)
u
Vid.
LL.
Aethelstan
.
R.
●dit
.
Wheloc
p.
55.
Aethelstan's
Laws
make
the
Thrimsa
,
Peninga
and
Sceat
,
all
one
thing
.
They
tell
us
a
King's
Weregild
was
thirty
thousand
Thrimsa's
:
that
is
(
say
they
)
one
hundred
and
twenty
pounds
.
Now
,
one
of
their
pounds
being
allow'd
to
be
about
three
times
the
weight
of
ours
,
this
Summ
will
amount
to
about
three
hundred
and
sixty
pounds
of
our
Money
;
and
,
there
being
eighty
six
thousand
and
four
hundred
pence
in
our
three
hundred
and
sixty
Pounds
,
it
follows
that
a
Thrimsa
is
somewhat
less
than
our
three
pence
;
which
is
the
same
with
their
Peninga
or
Sceat
.
In
several
[
w
](A52335-e25080-b)
w
Bibl.
Cot.
Tiber.
A.
13.
Nero
,
E.
1.
131.
&
132.
&c.
Libraries
,
[
x
](A52335-e25110-b)
x
H.
Spelm.
Concil.
Tom.
1.
p
118
,
119
,
120.
Ethelbert
King
of
Kent
,
about
the
Year
605.
and
they
have
such
Marks
of
Forgery
upon
them
,
as
would
make
a
Man
jealous
of
medling
with
any
others
of
the
like
kind
.
The
Records
of
the
very
Chuch
of
Canterbury
,
to
which
these
Grants
are
said
to
have
been
made
,
assure
us
that
King
Withered
(
who
reign●d
almost
a
whole
Century
after
Ethelbert
)
was
the
first
that
gave
out
Charters
in
Writing
;
his
Predecessors
thinking
their
bare
word
sufficient
to
secure
any
of
their
Gifts
and
Benefactions
.
Nay
,
one
of
their
own
[
y
](A52335-e25170-b)
y
Gervas
.
Dorob
ad
an.
1181.
Monks
acquaints
us
,
that
his
Brethren
were
eminent
Artists
at
coining
of
Charters
:
and
we
have
all
the
reason
in
the
world
to
take
his
Word
for
it
.
The
Cheat
may
commonly
be
discover'd
by
a
strict
Enquiry
after
,
and
comparing
of
,
their
Dates
and
the
Times
of
such
Witnesses
(
Bishops
,
Abbots
,
&c.
)
as
are
brought
in
to
attest
their
Truth
.
Mr.
Wharton
[
z
](A52335-e25200-b)
z
Praef.
ad
Angl.
Sacr.
par.
2.
p.
3.
says
,
he
could
rarely
observe
one
Saxon
Charter
,
penn'd
in
their
own
Tongue
,
to
have
been
counterfeited
:
and
the
reason
he
assigns
,
is
,
because
all
the
Forgery
came
in
after
the
Conquest
;
when
the
hungry
Normans
put
the
Monks
and
others
upon
proving
their
Titles
to
their
Lands
and
Houses
,
or
otherwise
made
bold
to
seize
them
into
their
own
hands
.
Now
,
what
was
written
in
the
Saxon
Tongue
being
generally
slighted
,
it
was
necessary
they
should
produce
their
Grants
in
Latin
,
if
they
expected
that
their
new
Masters
would
everregard
or
cast
an
Eye
on
them
.
Another
occasion
was
afterwards
taken
of
feigning
Charters
,
upon
William
the
Conqueror's
extraordinary
one
to
his
new
erected
Monastery
at
Battle-Abbey
;
whereby
he
exempted
the
Abbot
there
,
and
his
Monks
,
from
all
Episcopal
Jurisdiction
.
This
set
the
Religious
,
in
other
parts
of
the
Kingdom
,
upon
grasping
at
the
like
Immunities
;
and
,
to
that
end
,
they
frequently
framed
the
like
Grants
from
former
Kings
.
R.
Fabian
[
a
](A52335-e25280-b)
a
V●l.
1.
p.
310.
will
tell
us
,
that
the
first
Charter
the
Citizens
of
London
ever
had
was
granted
by
King
William
the
First
;
which
(
notwithstanding
the
great
Antipathy
which
he
is
said
to
have
against
it
)
is
written
in
the
Saxon
Tongue
,
seal'd
with
green
Wax
,
and
exprest
in
eight
or
nine
Lines
.
A
great
many
of
their
Laws
have
been
publisht
;
A.
Nowel
,
who
collected
all
he
could
find
,
and
left
them
to
be
translated
by
his
Friend
W.
Lambard
.
He
accordingly
made
them
[
b
](A52335-e25370-b)
b
Archainom
.
4to
.
Lond.
1568.
&
Fol.
C●nta●●
1644.
publick
:
but
his
Translation
is
so
false
and
affected
,
that
the
best
Judges
of
such
a
performance
have
not
been
satisfy'd
with
it
.
For
which
reason
[
c
](A52335-e25380-b)
c
In
Praef.
ad
Gloss.
Goth.
Mr.
Junius
recommends
the
old
Translation
in
John
Brompton's
History
,
as
much
more
correct
,
and
better
to
be
rely'd
on
.
Mr.
Somner
took
the
pains
to
review
the
Book
,
and
to
correct
his
Errors
;
adding
several
Laws
omitted
by
Lambard
,
and
giving
a
[
d
](A52335-e25430-b)
d
Kennet
's
Life
of
Somn.
p.
52.
double
Translation
,
in
Latin
and
English
,
to
the
whole
.
These
are
now
,
with
what
else
of
that
kind
was
left
unpublish'd
by
that
industrious
person
,
in
the
Custody
of
the
Dean
and
Chapter
of
Canterbury
.
Mr.
Junius
took
the
like
pains
with
the
Book
;
and
his
Emendations
are
to
be
had
at
Oxford
.
But
still
there
are
several
Saxon
Laws
in
Manuscript
;
which
we
have
good
hopes
will
e're
long
be
publisht
.
At
least
,
those
of
'em
that
relate
to
the
Affairs
of
the
Church
,
will
be
given
us
in
a
better
Edition
of
Sir
Henry
Spelman's
Councils
:
Of
which
more
hereafter
.
By
the
way
,
Camden
,
Lambard
,
Spelman
,
(
and
,
generally
,
all
our
English
Antiquaries
and
Historians
who
have
treated
of
these
matters
)
that
there
were
in
this
Kingdom
,
before
the
Conquest
,
three
Codes
or
Digests
of
Laws
:
which
,
from
the
several
Countries
wherein
they
first
prevail'd
,
were
rightly
named
the
West-Saxon
,
Mercian
and
Danish
Laws
.
This
conceit
is
deriv'd
down
,
without
Contradiction
or
due
Examination
,
from
the
most
early
Translators
of
our
Saxon
Records
;
who
took
it
for
granted
that
Laga
(
in
Westsexena
laga
,
Myrcena
laga
and
Dene
laga
)
was
a
word
of
the
same
Import
and
Signification
with
the
Norman
Ley.
Whereas
,
in
truth
,
Laga
or
Lage
is
properly
a
Country
or
District
:
and
so
,
't
is
very
evident
,
it
ought
to
have
been
translated
in
the
Laws
of
[
e
](A52335-e25650-b)
e
Archaion
.
Edit.
Wheloc
.
p.
88.
On
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
.
Quae
male
Lambardus
,
Merciae
,
quae
legibus
Anglorum
gubernatur
.
Rectius
—
quae
postea
Ditio
Anglorum
.
Ethelbert
,
[
f
](A52335-e25710-b)
f
Ib.
p.
110.
On
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
&
on
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
.
i.
Intra
Ditiones
Danicas
&
Anglicas
.
Cnute
,
and
[
g
](A52335-e25760-b)
g
Ib.
p.
149.
Erat
Lex
Danorum
,
Norfolc
.
&c.
Quam
ob
omni
sensu
alienum
!
Pro
Lex
itidem
hic
Loci
Diti●
sive
Provincia
substituenda
est
.
Edward
the
Confessor
;
even
in
those
very
parts
of
'em
which
have
occasion'd
all
these
mistakes
.
It
appears
there
were
some
Historians
[
h
](A52335-e25850-b)
h
Vid.
Bed
.
Eccl.
Hist.
lib.
3.
cap.
1.
Bede's
time
;
and
I
am
inclinable
to
think
that
a
part
of
their
old
Chronicle
(
which
has
had
so
[
i
](A52335-e25870-b)
i
Life
of
Somn.
p.
53.
much
honour
of
late
done
to
it
by
Mr.
Gibson
)
is
of
that
Age.
The
first
Publisher
of
this
Noble
Monument
was
Ab.
Wheloc
;
who
translated
it
,
and
caus'd
it
to
be
printed
in
the
end
of
his
[
k
](A52335-e25920-b)
k
Fol.
Cantab.
1643.
Saxon
Bede
.
He
made
use
only
of
two
Manuscript
Copies
;
one
in
Cotton's
Library
,
the
other
in
that
of
Bennet
College
:
whereof
the
former
ended
with
the
year
1001
,
and
the
latter
with
1070.
Cotton's
,
he
says
,
had
been
compar'd
with
a
Third
;
which
the
Collater
(
whom
he
supposes
to
have
been
Mr.
Josseline
)
calls
the
Book
of
Peterburgh
.
Mr.
Gibson
had
the
advantage
of
three
Copies
more
:
1.
Laud
:
A
fair
one
in
Vellum
,
given
by
Archbishop
Laud
to
the
University
of
Oxford
;
which
corrects
those
that
Wheloc
had
seen
,
and
continues
the
History
down
to
the
year
1154.
This
,
he
fansies
,
did
anciently
belong
to
the
Monastery
of
Peterburgh
;
because
it
often
largely
insists
upon
the
Affairs
of
that
place
.
But
,
if
it
did
so
,
't
is
plain
it
cannot
be
the
same
wherewith
Mr.
Wheloc's
Cottonian
MS.
had
been
compar'd
,
tho
its
variations
from
it
are
not
very
considerable
,
being
mostly
in
words
,
and
not
in
sence
.
2.
Cant.
Another
Gift
of
the
same
Archbishop
to
the
publick
Library
at
Oxford
.
'T
is
a
Paper-transcript
of
some
Copy
(
now
lost
)
differing
from
all
the
rest
;
and
sometimes
explaining
their
dark
passages
,
and
supplying
their
defects
.
It
ends
with
the
year
977.
3.
Cot.
A
better
Copy
than
it
had
been
Mr.
Wheloc's
Fortune
to
meet
with
in
the
[
m
](A52335-e26110-b)
m
Tiber.
B.
4.
Cotton-Library
:
which
was
accurately
compared
with
Wheloc's
Edition
by
●r
.
Junius
,
and
ends
A.
D.
1057.
Out
of
all
these
we
have
the
Text
made
up
as
entire
and
compleat
as
't
was
possible
to
give
it
us
;
with
an
elegant
and
proper
[
n
](A52335-e26160-b)
n
4to
.
Oxon.
1672.
Translation
,
void
of
all
affected
Strains
,
and
unlucky
Mistakes
,
which
used
to
abound
in
Works
of
this
kind
.
If
some
few
passages
have
a
little
puzzl'd
the
Ingenious
publisher
,
let
it
be
consider'd
,
that
in
these
,
Florence
of
Worcester
and
Matthew
of
Westminster
(
who
lived
nearer
the
times
wherein
they
were
penn'd
)
were
much
more
lamentably
gravell'd
.
Perhaps
,
some
further
Enlargements
and
Additions
might
yet
be
made
to
this
Work
,
out
of
such
MSS.
as
came
not
early
enough
to
Mr.
Gibson's
View
and
Knowledge
.
Of
this
Number
I
take
to
be
,
1.
The
Saxon
Chronicle
from
Julius
Caesar
down
to
the
Reign
of
King
Edward
the
Martyr
,
in
[
o
](A52335-e26250-b)
o
Tiber.
A.
6.
Sir
John
Cotton's
Library
:
For
(
if
it
ends
,
as
Mr.
Wharton
[
p
](A52335-e26280-b)
p
Angl.
Sac.
par.
I.
p.
176.
says
it
does
,
A.
D.
975.
)
it
must
be
different
from
what
was
perus'd
by
A.
Wheloc
.
2.
Another
,
in
the
same
[
q
](A52335-e26310-b)
q
Tiber.
B.
1.
Library
,
from
Iulius
Caesar
down
to
the
Conquest
;
which
was
transcrib'd
by
Somner
,
and
is
now
(
under
the
Title
of
the
Chronicle
of
Abingdon
)
amongst
his
MSS.
at
Canterbury
.
3.
A
Third
,
in
Latin
and
Saxon
,
at
the
same
[
r
](A52335-e26380-b)
r
Domitian
.
A.
8.
place
;
which
is
frequently
referr'd
to
by
[
s
](A52335-e26390-b)
s
Angl.
Sac.
par.
I.
p.
332
,
558
,
791
,
796.
Mr.
Wharton
,
and
seems
to
have
recorded
many
particulars
of
Note
not
mention'd
by
any
of
the
rest
.
This
Book
was
given
to
Sir
Robert
Cotton
by
Mr.
Camden
,
says
[
t
](A52335-e26430-b)
t
Vsserij
Hist.
Eccles.
p.
20.
218.
Archbishop
Vsher
;
who
also
mentions
a
[
u
](A52335-e26450-b)
u
Ib.
p.
182.
Copy
of
his
own
,
worth
the
enquiring
after
.
4.
The
Book
of
Peterburgh
,
which
was
never
thoroughly
compar'd
with
any
Copy
,
hitherto
publisht
,
and
[
w
](A52335-e26470-b)
w
Angl.
Sacr.
p.
405.
differs
from
them
all
.
May
we
not
also
bring
into
this
List
those
hinted
at
by
[
x
](A52335-e26480-b)
x
Life
of
Somn.
p.
30.
66.
Mr.
Kennet
;
and
that
which
[
y
](A52335-e26510-b)
y
Roman
Ports
,
&c.
p.
32.
Vid.
etiam
D.
Hickesij
,
Catal.
Lib.
Sept.
p.
171.
Mr.
Somner
had
from
Mr.
Lambard
?
I
think
we
may
.
The
History
that
is
written
by
Bede
[
z
](A52335-e26610-b)
z
I.
Pits
,
p.
127.
Bale
,
Cent.
1.
cap.
89.
reputed
Author
of
the
Annals
of
his
own
time
;
and
Daniel
Bishop
of
the
West
Saxons
is
[
a
](A52335-e26660-b)
a
Pits
,
p.
144.
Bale
,
Cent.
1.
cap.
91.
said
to
have
written
four
or
five
Historical
Treatises
.
I
suppose
there
was
no
other
grounds
for
dubbing
these
men
Historians
,
save
only
Bede's
grateful
Acknowledgments
of
his
being
indebted
to
both
of
'em
for
the
Informations
and
Assistances
they
gave
him
towards
the
compiling
his
Ecclesiastical
History
:
and
,
if
he
quotes
them
in
twenty
particulars
,
't
is
enough
for
either
Bale
or
Pits
to
make
them
Authors
of
as
many
Books
.
To
W.
Caxton
,
[
b
](A52335-e26770-b)
b
Martyrol
.
ad
An.
872.
Aelfred
'
s
compiling
a
Story
in
the
Saxon
Speech
,
&c.
But
Bale
and
Pits
have
bravely
[
c
](A52335-e26820-b)
c
Pits
,
p.
170.
Bale
,
Cent.
2.
cap.
7.
enlarg'd
upon
the
matter
;
assuring
us
that
he
did
not
only
write
Collectiones
Chronicorum
,
but
also
Acta
suorum
Mastratuum
.
The
Mirroir
des
Justices
(
written
in
the
days
of
Edward
the
First
)
would
incline
us
to
believe
the
latter
part
of
the
story
;
giving
so
very
punctual
an
[
d
](A52335-e26890-b)
d
Aelfr
.
Mag.
Vit.
p.
82
,
83.
Account
of
forty
and
four
of
his
Judges
executed
,
in
one
year
,
for
corrupt
Practices
.
But
all
that
now
remains
of
that
great
Monarch's
Works
(
which
relates
to
History
)
is
only
his
paraphrastical
Translation
of
Bede
,
and
a
short
Genealogy
of
the
Kings
of
the
West
Saxons
.
The
former
of
these
will
be
treated
on
[
e
](A52335-e26920-b)
e
Chap.
7.
hereafter
,
and
the
other
may
be
seen
among
the
Appendices
to
the
Oxford
Edition
of
his
Life
.
The
earliest
Account
we
have
of
[
f
](A52335-e27010-b)
f
Fol.
Lond.
1574.
Th●
.
Walsingham's
History
.
This
he
did
to
invite
his
English
Readers
,
and
to
draw
them
in
unawares
,
to
an
Acquaintance
with
the
Hand
writing
of
their
Ancestors
,
in
hopes
to
beget
in
'em
(
by
degrees
)
a
Love
for
the
Antiquities
of
their
own
Country
.
Asserius
wrote
his
Soveraign's
Life
no
further
than
the
45th
year
of
his
Age
,
which
,
according
to
his
computation
,
fell
in
the
year
of
our
Lord●893
.
So
that
,
tho
the
Book
(
as
't
is
publisht
)
continue
his
Story
to
his
Death
,
yet
that
part
is
borrowed
from
Authors
of
a
later
time
;
particularly
,
the
Copy
of
Verses
,
by
way
of
Epitaph
,
is
Henry
of
Huntingdon's
.
He
shows
,
through
the
whole
,
a
great
deal
of
Modesty
,
especially
in
the
Account
he
gives
of
his
own
being
call'd
to
Court
,
and
his
Reception
there
.
He
mentions
nothing
of
the
Visionary
Dialogue
'twixt
King
Aelfred
and
St.
Cuthbert
;
which
all
the
rest
of
our
Historians
largely
insist
on
,
together
with
the
good
effects
it
had
upon
the
Diocess
of
Lindisfern
.
He
is
exactly
copy'd
by
Florence
of
Worcester
,
and
others
;
when
they
come
to
treat
of
the
great
things
of
this
Reign
.
As
to
what
relates
to
the
Truth
or
Falshood
of
that
Memorable
Passage
in
this
Book
,
mightily
asserting
the
Antiquity
of
the
University
of
Oxford
,
I
shall
not
meddle
at
present
;
that
matter
having
been
sufficiently
canvass'd
by
[
g
](A52335-e27130-b)
g
Vid.
Hist.
&
Antiq.
Oxon.
lib.
1.
p.
9
,
10.
Et
Vit.
Aelfr
.
R.
p.
141
,
142
,
143
,
&c.
those
whose
proper
business
led
them
to
it
.
The
best
thing
this
Contest
could
do
for
us
was
the
putting
Sir
John
Spelman
upon
writing
a
New
[
h
](A52335-e27150-b)
h
Fol.
Oxon.
1678.
Life
of
this
King
;
which
he
seems
to
have
undertaken
chiefly
upon
a
Design
to
vindicate
the
University
of
Cambridge
from
the
Reflections
which
he
apprehended
were
cast
upon
it
by
the
use
that
had
been
made
of
that
passage
.
The
most
elaborate
piece
in
his
whole
[
*
](A52335-e27170-b)
*
Ibid.
Book
is
on
this
Subject
;
and
his
zealous
Management
has
afforded
us
some
good
Remarks
of
his
own
,
and
others
of
the
learned
Translator
and
Publisher
of
his
Work
.
Whether
St.
Neot
ever
wrote
(
as
some
have
reported
)
the
Life
of
King
Aelfred
,
Sir
John
Spelman
justly
[
i
](A52335-e27210-b)
i
Vit.
Aelfr
p.
3
,
4.
doubts
;
and
I
am
not
able
to
resolve
him
,
unless
the
next
Paragraph
will
unravel
the
matter
.
Another
piece
has
been
lately
pub●lisht
,
[
k
](A52335-e27240-b)
k
Fol.
Oxon.
1691.
Asserius's
Annals
,
by
Dr.
Gale
;
who
tells
us
that
the
Manuscript
Copy
,
which
he
used
,
is
now
in
the
Library
of
Trinity
College
in
Cambridge
.
Jo
Brompton
[
l
](A52335-e27290-b)
l
l●ter
X.
Script
.
p.
753.
indeed
cites
several
things
,
relating
to
the
Story
of
King
Offa
,
out
of
Asserius's
Writings
,
which
are
not
in
his
Life
of
Aelfred
.
Hence
some
have
concluded
that
he
might
possibly
have
been
impos'd
upon
by
those
that
had
given
the
Name
of
that
Author
to
such
Anonymous
Collections
as
they
knew
not
how
truly
to
Father
;
and
the
Jealousy
may
still
continue
for
any
thing
which
this
Book
discover●●o
the
contrary
.
For
King
Offa
is
hardly
named
in
it
;
and
therefore
Brompton
must
have
hit
upon
a
[
m
](A52335-e27350-b)
m
Vid.
Angl.
Sacr.
par.
I.
p.
330.
spurious
piece
,
how
genuine
soever
this
may
prove
.
The
learned
Publisher
does
not
[
n
](A52335-e27360-b)
n
Praef.
10.
question
but
't
is
the
true
Off-spring
of
Asserius
;
and
its
insisting
chiefly
on
the
Fortunes
of
King
Aelfred
seems
to
countenance
his
Opinion
.
Leland
calls
it
the
Chronicle
of
St.
Neot's
;
because
he
found
it
in
that
Monastery
.
Marianus
Scotus
had
also
met
with
it
somewhere
,
for
he
transcribes
it
by
whole
Sale
.
The
next
Saxon
Historian
now
extant
,
Elward
Patricius
,
descended
(
as
himself
[
o
](A52335-e27470-b)
o
Lib.
4.
cap.
2.
attests
)
of
the
Blood
Royal
;
who
liv'd
till
the
year
1090
,
but
did
not
continue
his
Chronicle
so
far
.
His
work
consists
of
four
Books
;
which
are
publish'd
by
[
p
](A52335-e27480-b)
p
Inter
5
Scrip.
post
Bed
.
Fol.
Francof
.
1601.
Sir
H.
Savil.
The
whole
is
a
Translation
of
a
very
false
and
imperfect
Copy
of
the
Saxon
Chronicle
:
and
therefore
William
of
Malmesbury
has
modestly
(
out
of
Deference
to
his
Family
)
[
q
](A52335-e27540-b)
q
Prolog
.
ad
Lib.
1.
de
Gest.
Reg.
declin'd
the
giving
a
Character
of
this
Writer's
performance
.
If
he
had
done
it
truly
,
he
ought
to
have
told
us
that
his
Style
is
boisterous
;
and
that
several
parts
of
his
History
are
not
so
much
as
hardly
sence
.
It
appears
from
what
we
have
noted
above
,
that
both
[
r
](A52335-e27550-b)
r
Id.
ib.
Malmesbury
and
[
s
](A52335-e27570-b)
s
Britan.
in
val.
Pict
.
Camden
are
mistaken
,
when
they
affirm
him
to
be
our
most
ancient
Historian
after
Bede
.
J.
Pits
[
t
](A52335-e27600-b)
t
J.
Pits
,
p.
173.
will
tell
you
that
we
had
two
other
Ethelwerds
of
the
same
Royal
Extraction
,
who
,
long
before
this
Man's
time
,
wrote
each
of
'em
a
Chronicle
or
History
of
our
English
Affairs
.
The
Elder
of
these
he
makes
Son
to
King
Aelfred
,
and
the
other
his
Grandson
.
Nay
,
and
St.
Ethelwold
(
Bishop
of
Winchester
)
was
likewise
most
certainly
Senior
to
this
Ethelwerd
Patricius
,
dying
in
the
year
984.
Now
,
he
(
says
the
same
[
u
](A52335-e27680-b)
u
Id.
p.
178.
Author
)
wrote
two
Books
De
Regibus
,
&c.
totius
Angliae
,
and
De
Tempore
Regum
Britannorum
:
for
Copies
of
both
which
he
sends
to
the
public
Library
at
Cambridge
.
Many
things
relating
to
the
Civil
[
w
](A52335-e27750-b)
w
Concil.
Tom.
I.
p.
302
,
303
,
&c.
Gloss.
p.
296.
Sir
Hen.
Spelman
)
has
been
publisht
by
[
x
](A52335-e27770-b)
x
In
Edit.
M.
Paris
.
Dr.
Watts
:
That
of
King
Oswin
was
somewhere
met
with
by
[
y
](A52335-e27810-b)
y
Vid.
Monast.
Angl.
Tom.
I.
p.
334.
John
Leland
:
King
Ethelwolph's
is
said
to
have
been
written
by
[
z
](A52335-e27840-b)
z
J.
Pits
,
p.
181.
Wolstan
,
a
famous
Monk
of
Winchester
,
much
commended
by
William
of
Malmesbury
:
Edward
the
Confessor's
,
written
by
Abbot
Ealred
,
has
had
[
a
](A52335-e27910-b)
a
Apud
Capgravium
,
●urium
,
&c.
Optima
autem
inter
10.
Script
.
several
Editions
:
and
Queen
Emma's
Encomium
is
also
made
[
b
](A52335-e27950-b)
b
Edit.
Paris
.
1619.
publick
.
After
the
Conquest
,
J.
Pike
is
[
c
](A52335-e27980-b)
c
I.
Pits
.
p.
195.
De
Regibus
Anglo-Saxonum
,
and
De
Danis
in
Anglia
dominantibus
:
but
it
seems
to
be
a
[
d
](A52335-e28030-b)
d
Vid.
H.
Wharton
,
Praef.
ad
Angl.
Sac.
par.
II.
p.
28
,
29.
mistake
.
Upon
the
same
Credit
we
are
assured
that
[
e
](A52335-e28050-b)
e
J.
Pits
,
p.
213.
John
Mercius
,
under
the
Reign
of
King
Stephen
,
publisht
an
Historical
Account
of
the
Mercian
Kings
,
which
got
him
his
Surname
:
That
[
f
](A52335-e28100-b)
f
Id.
p.
266.
Colman
the
wise
(
John
Harding's
great
Friend
)
wrote
most
copiously
and
clearly
of
the
Saxon
Heptarchy
,
their
uniting
afterwards
into
a
Monarchy
,
the
Danish
Incursions
and
Cruelties
,
&c.
And
that
[
g
](A52335-e28160-b)
g
Id.
p.
281.
Gyraldus
Cambrensis
penn'd
the
Story
of
the
West
Saxon
Kings
.
R.
Verstegan's
[
h
](A52335-e28210-b)
h
Quarto
Antwerp
.
1605.
oct.
Lond.
1653.
1674.
Restitution
of
decayed
Intelligence
in
Antiquities
does
especially
relate
to
the
Language
,
Religion
,
Manners
and
Government
of
the
ancient
English
Saxons
.
This
Writer
being
of
Low
Dutch
Extraction
,
a
Romanist
,
and
something
of
an
Artist
in
Painting
,
had
several
advantages
for
the
making
of
some
special
Discoveries
on
the
Subject
whereon
he
treats
;
which
is
handled
so
plausibly
,
and
so
well
illustrated
with
handsome
Cuts
,
that
the
Book
has
taken
and
sold
very
well
.
But
a
great
many
Mistakes
have
escap'd
him
:
Some
whereof
have
been
noted
by
Mr.
Sheringham
;
As
,
his
fancy
of
the
[
i
](A52335-e28270-b)
i
Sheringh
.
de
Angl.
Gent.
Orig.
p.
35
,
36
,
&c.
Vitae
being
the
ancient
Inhabitants
of
the
Isle
of
Wight
;
Of
the
[
k
](A52335-e28310-b)
k
Id.
p
75
,
149
,
345.
Saxons
being
in
Germany
,
before
they
came
in
the
more
Northern
Countries
;
Of
[
l
](A52335-e28340-b)
l
Id.
p.
85.
Tuisco's
coming
from
Babel
,
his
giving
Name
to
[
m
](A52335-e28370-b)
m
Id.
p.
317.
Tuesday
,
&c.
The
rest
have
been
carefully
corrected
by
Mr.
Somner
,
who
has
left
large
Marginal
[
n
](A52335-e28400-b)
n
Kennet'
s
Life
of
Somn.
p.
63.
120.
Notes
upon
the
whole
.
Mr.
Selden
[
o
](A52335-e28470-b)
o
Quarto
Francof
.
1615.
do
not
so
clearly
account
for
the
Religion
,
Government
and
Revolutions
of
State
,
among
our
Saxon
Ancestors
,
as
they
are
[
p
](A52335-e28490-b)
p
Deg.
Whear
.
Method
.
Legend
.
Hist.
p.
m.
133.
reported
to
do
.
The
Laws
he
quotes
in
his
Janus
Anglorum
are
as
faulty
,
as
if
his
whole
Skill
in
them
reach'd
no
higher
than
Lambard's
Translation
;
and
seem
to
want
Will
.
Somner's
Emendations
,
as
much
as
those
he
has
publisht
of
William
the
Conqueror
in
his
[
q
](A52335-e28550-b)
q
Fol.
Lond.
1623.
Spicelegium
in
Eadmerum
.
The
very
best
performance
that
I
[
r
](A52335-e28610-b)
r
Octav.
Cantabr.
1670.
De
Anglorum
Gentis
Origine
.
Our
Civil
Wars
sent
this
Author
into
the
Low
Countries
,
where
he
had
the
Opportunity
of
coming
acquainted
with
Dr.
Marshal
and
the
Dutch
Language
;
both
inclining
him
to
such
Studies
as
this
Book
shews
him
to
have
delighted
in
.
He
appears
to
have
been
a
person
of
great
Modesty
;
as
well
as
Industry
and
Learning
.
Hence
some
will
conclude
him
to
be
too
credulous
;
and
that
several
of
his
Authorities
(
particularly
[
s
](A52335-e28660-b)
s
Cap.
4.
Lazius's
Tattle
about
the
Hebrew
Inscriptions
found
at
Vienna
)
have
not
been
sufficiently
consider'd
:
But
his
Collections
out
of
the
Greek
,
Roman
,
and
(
chiefly
)
the
Northern
Writers
,
are
highly
commendable
;
and
,
for
the
most
part
,
very
well
put
together
.
Our
Saxon
Antiquary
ought
also
to
Kayserlich
und
Koniglich
Land
und
Lehnrech
;
The
Frisian
Laws
,
amongst
F.
Junius's
Book●
in
Bodley's
Library
;
and
(
above
all
)
the
[
t
](A52335-e28810-b)
t
See
Engl.
Atlas
,
vol.
II.
p.
113
,
114.
Sachsen●Spiegel
or
Speculum
Saxonicum
,
which
is
a
notable
Manual
of
the
old
Laws
of
the
ancient
German-Saxons
.
For
the
acquiring
a
sufficient
knowledge
of
the
Language
,
a
Man
ought
not
only
to
be
conversant
in
the
Francic
pieces
that
are
collected
by
[
u
](A52335-e28870-b)
u
Vid.
Hickes
Catal.
Lib.
Sept.
p.
177.
Junius
,
and
others
publisht
by
[
w
](A52335-e28900-b)
w
Comment
in
Biblioth.
Vindobon
.
Lambecius
;
but
also
(
and
most
especially
to
be
familiarly
intimate
with
the
most
elaborate
and
exquisite
Work
of
[
x
](A52335-e28920-b)
x
Von
der
Teutschen
Ha●pt-Sprach
,
&c.
Lib.
V.
4to
Brunsw
.
1663.
J.
G.
Schottelius
,
who
has
all
that
can
be
wisht
for
on
that
Subject
.
'T
was
the
Opinion
of
[
y
](A52335-e28950-b)
y
In
Epist.
ad
D.
P.
Rosaecran
,
Mon.
Dan.
p.
159.
Sir
Henry
Spelman
,
[
z
](A52335-e29020-b)
z
Hist.
Dan.
lib
1.
p.
37.
Pontanus
has
happily
remov'd
that
Panick
Fear
;
shewing
that
the
Story
is
entire
enough
,
and
only
the
Chronological
part
(
which
is
a
Fault
common
to
all
the
ancient
Histories
of
the
whole
World
)
a
little
dark
and
troubled
.
The
Scaldri
or
Runae
were
men
of
Great
Britain
.
They
were
the
profest
Historians
and
Genealogists
of
their
several
Countries
;
always
in
attendance
on
their
Kings
both
in
Peace
and
War
,
and
ready
to
celebrate
every
remarkable
Occurrence
in
everlasting
Rhimes
.
This
was
their
Office
:
And
't
was
of
that
Consideration
in
the
State
,
and
so
acceptable
to
the
Monarchs
themselves
,
that
those
Poets
were
always
the
chief
Courtiers
and
Counsellors
;
as
being
perhaps
the
only
Men
of
Letters
.
Out
of
their
Compositions
is
fetch'd
all
the
ancient
Danish
History
for
some
Centuries
;
as
both
[
a
](A52335-e29130-b)
a
Vid.
Praef.
ad
Sax.
Grammat
.
Hist.
Dan.
Saxo
himself
,
and
all
the
rest
of
their
Historians
,
have
acknowledg'd
.
The
Art
is
still
in
great
Vogue
and
Credit
with
the
Modern
Islanders
,
who
are
justly
reputed
the
main
preservers
of
the
Northern
Antiquities
,
notwithstanding
that
a
late
[
b
](A52335-e29170-b)
b
Sir
Tho.
Craig's
Scotlands
Soveraign
.
p.
121.
Learned
person
has
affirm'd
that
their
Country
produces
nothing
but
Apparitions
,
Ghosts
,
Hobgoblins
and
Fairies
.
Mighty
are
the
Commendations
which
they
that
pretend
to
Skill
in
these
Venerable
Sonnets
have
given
us
of
them
.
They
will
not
allow
any
thing
that
was
ever
penn'd
by
Homer
or
Virgil
to
come
in
Competition
with
them
:
assuring
us
,
that
the
[
c
](A52335-e29220-b)
c
Vid.
S.
Ioh.
Steph.
Not.
in
Sax.
Gram.
p.
11
,
1●
.
happiest
Flights
we
can
meet
with
in
the
Greek
and
Roman
Poets
are
dull
Trash
,
if
compar'd
with
the
Seraphick
Lines
of
a
true
Cimbrian
Scalder
.
The
Language
wherein
the
foremention'd
[
d
](A52335-e29340-b)
d
Engl.
Atlas
.
vol.
I.
in
Denm
.
p.
49
,
70.
acquainted
the
English
Reader
)
are
now
amongst
the
Inhabitants
of
Island
:
who
have
preserv'd
their
ancient
Language
in
the
greatest
Purity
;
both
by
being
least
acquainted
with
foreign
Commerce
,
and
by
taking
care
to
Registerin
it
the
public
Transactions
of
their
own
and
the
Neighbouring
Nations
.
The
same
old
Tongue
was
also
call'd
[
e
](A52335-e29380-b)
e
Ol.
Worm
.
Lit.
Run
.
cap.
5.
Runa
Maali
,
from
the
Characters
wherein
't
was
written
,
and
which
they
term'd
Runer
:
Of
the
Original
of
which
word
,
and
its
proper
signification
,
Wormius
has
given
us
a
large
account
.
The
Characters
themselves
were
first
(
he
shews
)
call'd
Runer
;
tho
afterwards
that
word
came
to
acquire
some
new
significations
:
As
,
1.
Enchantments
;
because
they
were
perform'd
by
the
help
of
these
strange
Letters
.
2.
Learned
Men
;
whose
business
it
was
,
by
the
help
of
the
same
Alphabet
,
to
compose
Epitaphs
for
their
great
ones
,
and
to
make
Inscriptions
on
their
Monuments
.
'T
is
well
worth
our
Observation
,
[
f
](A52335-e29490-b)
f
In
Epist.
ad
Olaum
ibid.
Arngrim
Jonas
,
there
's
one
which
he
calls
Ira
Letur
,
or
Irlandorum
Literae
.
Now
,
it
appears
indeed
that
the
Danes
were
long
in
possession
of
the
Kingdom
of
Ireland
,
or
(
at
least
)
a
good
share
of
it
:
and
yet
we
have
not
hitherto
met
with
any
Remains
of
their
ancient
Learning
,
which
have
been
discover'd
in
that
Island
.
But
the
thing
is
not
much
to
be
wonder'd
at
.
As
all
Reformations
in
religious
matters
are
zealous
and
warm
;
so
we
have
reason
to
believe
that
to
have
been
wherein
these
Pagan
Nations
were
first
converted
to
Christianity
.
Care
was
taken
to
abolish
the
very
Ruins
of
their
former
Worship
;
and
their
first
Apostles
,
bringing
generally
their
Commissions
from
the
Court
of
Rome
,
thought
the
Papal
Conquest
never
to
be
effectually
finish'd
till
even
the
Italian
Characters
and
Way
of
Writing
had
been
wholly
admitted
into
practice
by
their
Northern
Converts
.
Which
was
the
more
easily
brought
about
,
by
reason
of
the
ill
use
which
had
been
some
time
made
of
their
Runic
Letters
:
For
the
suggestion
was
obvious
,
that
,
as
long
as
these
were
at
hand
,
it
would
be
difficult
to
preserve
Men
from
trying
some
of
their
old
Magical
Conclusions
;
and
,
by
degrees
,
relapsing
into
Idolatry
and
Paganism
.
The
Danes
(
as
all
other
ancient
[
g
](A52335-e29620-b)
g
Vid.
Lit.
Run
.
cap.
1.
&
25.
Mon.
Dan.
lib.
5.
p.
344
,
345
,
&
438.
Altars
,
Triumphal
Arches
,
Sepulchral
Monuments
and
Genealogical
Histories
,
of
their
Ancestors
.
Their
Writings
of
less
Concern
(
as
Letters
,
Almanacks
,
&c.
)
were
engraven
upon
Wood
:
And
because
Beech
was
most
plentiful
in
Denmark
,
(
tho
Firr
and
Oak
be
so
in
Norway
and
Sweden
)
and
most
commonly
employ'd
in
these
Services
,
from
the
word
Bog
(
which
in
their
Language
is
the
Name
of
that
sort
of
Wood
)
they
and
all
other
Northern
Nations
have
the
Name
of
Book
.
The
poorer
sort
used
Bark
;
and
the
Horns
of
Rain-Deer
and
Elks
were
often
finely
polish'd
,
and
shaped
into
Books
of
several
Leaves
.
Many
of
their
Old
Calendars
are
likewise
upon
Bones
of
Beasts
and
Fishes
:
But
the
Inscriptions
on
Tapestry
,
Bells
,
Parchment
and
Paper
,
are
of
later
use
.
Some
other
Monuments
may
be
known
to
be
of
a
Danish
Extraction
,
[
h
](A52335-e29730-b)
h
Mon.
Dan.
lib.
1.
cap.
3
,
6
,
7.
Temples
were
cover'd
;
and
the
largest
observ'd
by
Wormius
(
at
Kialernes
in
Island
)
was
120
foot
in
length
,
and
60
in
breadth
.
Their
Altars
stood
in
a
sort
of
Chappel
,
or
Chancel
,
in
the
end
of
these
Temples
;
being
only
large
broad
Stones
,
erected
on
three
bulky
Supporters
,
on
the
top
of
a
Hillock
,
surrounded
with
Rows
of
lesser
Stones
.
These
Altars
are
usually
,
three
of
'em
,
found
together
;
being
consecrated
to
their
three
chief
Deities
.
They
buried
their
Princes
and
great
men
(
as
the
old
Greeks
and
Romans
also
did
)
in
Hills
,
rais'd
sometimes
to
a
considerable
heighth
,
surrounded
with
one
row
of
Stones
about
the
bottom
,
and
another
near
the
top
;
and
,
on
some
pompous
occasions
,
having
a
third
row
(
in
a
square
)
at
some
distance
from
the
lower
of
the
two
former
Coronets
.
They
likewise
anciently
burn'd
their
dead
,
and
enclos'd
their
Ashes
in
Urns
,
which
were
reposited
in
the
foremention'd
Barrows
,
together
with
the
choicest
Jewels
,
Treasure
,
and
valuable
Accoutrements
,
of
the
deceas'd
.
The
places
wherein
they
fought
their
Duels
were
sometimes
Squares
,
lined
out
with
rows
of
Stones
;
sometimes
round
Pits
,
with
convenient
Posts
(
at
a
due
distance
)
for
the
By-standers
.
Thus
fought
[
i
](A52335-e29790-b)
i
Sax.
Gram.
Hist.
Dan.
lib.
3.
Ubbo
with
the
Sclavonian
.
Their
Courts
of
Judicature
(
which
they
call'd
Tinge
)
were
also
certain
plots
of
ground
,
either
[
k
](A52335-e29840-b)
k
Mon.
Dan.
lib.
1.
cap.
10.
oval
or
square
,
environ'd
with
great
Stones
;
and
having
one
larger
than
the
rest
in
the
middle
.
Near
akin
to
which
were
the
places
assign'd
for
the
[
l
](A52335-e29850-b)
l
Ib.
cap.
12.
Election
of
their
Kings
;
being
Circles
of
such
Stones
(
usually
twelve
in
number
)
with
the
bulkiest
in
the
midst
.
The
next
Monument
of
Age
is
their
Edda
Islandorum
;
[
m
](A52335-e29890-b)
m
Arng.
Jonas
▪
in
Chrymog
.
lib.
1.
cap.
2.
Island
was
first
inhabited
(
in
the
year
874
)
by
a
Colony
of
Norwegians
;
who
brought
hither
the
Traditions
of
their
Forefathers
,
in
certain
metrical
Composures
,
which
(
as
is
usual
with
Men
transplanted
into
a
Foreign
Land
)
were
here
more
zealously
and
carefully
preserv'd
and
kept
in
memory
than
by
the
Men
of
Norway
themselves
.
About
240●years
after
this
(
A.
D.
1114.
)
their
History
began
to
be
written
by
one
[
n
](A52335-e29950-b)
n
Tho.
Bartholin
.
Antiq.
Dan.
lib.
1.
cap.
11.
p.
192.
Saemund
,
surnam'd
Frode
or
the
wise
;
who
(
in
nine
years
travel
through
Italy
,
Germany
and
England
)
had
amass'd
together
a
mighty
Collection
of
Historical
Treatises
.
With
these
he
return'd
full
fraught
into
Island
;
where
he
also
drew
up
an
account
of
the
affairs
of
his
own
Country
.
Many
of
his
Works
are
now
said
to
be
lost
:
But
there
is
still
an
Edda
,
consisting
of
several
Odes
(
whence
I
suspect
its
Name
is
derived
)
written
by
many
several
hands
,
and
at
as
different
times
,
which
bears
his
Name
.
The
Book
is
a
Collection
of
Mythological
Fables
,
relating
to
the
ancient
State
and
Behaviour
of
the
Great
Woden
and
his
Followers
,
in
terms
poetical
and
adapted
to
the
Service
of
those
that
were
employ'd
in
the
composure
of
their
old
Rhymes
and
Sonnets
.
Another
Edda
(
publish'd
by
[
o
](A52335-e30060-b)
o
Quarto
Hatn
.
1665.
Resenius
)
was
written
by
Snorro
Sturlaesonius
,
who
was
born
(
A.
D.
1179.
)
above
a
hundred
years
after
Saemund
;
and
liv'd
to
be
an
eminent
Lawyer
in
his
own
Country
.
His
Work
is
thought
to
be
only
an
Epitome
of
the
former
:
but
I
rather
look
upon
them
as
two
several
Collections
of
Islandic
Tales
and
Ballads
;
out
of
which
may
be
pick'd
a
deal
of
good
History
,
and
the
best
View
of
the
Religious
Rites
of
the
Northern
Nations
that
is
any
where
extant
.
'T
is
plain
Saxo
had
seen
many
Sonnets
that
are
not
touch'd
upon
in
either
of
these
;
and
thence
the
Report
comes
of
an
Elder
Edda
much
larger
(
a
thousand
times
says
Bishop
[
p
](A52335-e30140-b)
p
In
Epist.
ad
.
S.
Joh
Stephan
.
Br.
Suenonius
)
than
both
of
'em
put
together
.
Nor
is
it
indeed
improbable
but
that
a
thousand
times
more
Songs
of
this
kind
might
have
been
had
for
seeking
after
,
whatever
Scantiness
they
may
now
be
reduc'd
to
.
Magnus
Olaus
collected
many
of
'em
for
Wormius's
;
which
he
was
also
so
kind
as
to
translate
and
explain
to
him
:
And
,
near
twenty
years
ago
,
I
met
with
a
much
more
perfect
Edda
than
Resenius's
in
the
famous
Library
of
the
Duke
of
Brunswic-Wolfembuttel
.
Whether
it
was
a
Copy
of
Saemund
Frode's
I
am
not
now
able
so
much
as
to
conjecture
;
but
I
remember
the
Library
Keeper
(
Mr.
Hanisius
)
was
so
much
a
stranger
to
its
Contents
,
that
he
had
entitul'd
it
an
old
Moscovian
MS.
To
the
Edda
is
always
annex'd
the
Scalda
,
which
is
the
old
Danish
or
Islandic
Prosodia
,
teaching
how
to
compose
their
several
sorts
of
Meter
.
Our
Danish
Antiquary
should
be
also
acquainted
with
the
best
Islandic
Historians
;
Aras
Frode
,
Cotemporary
with
Saemund
.
He
first
wrote
a
Regular
History
of
Island
,
from
the
first
planting
of
the
Country
down
to
his
own
Time
:
wherein
he
gives
an
account
also
of
the
Affairs
of
Norway
,
Denmark
,
and
England
,
intermixt
with
those
of
his
own
Nation
.
This
fell
happily
into
the
hands
of
Tho.
Bartholine
;
who
with
the
[
q
](A52335-e30390-b)
q
Tho.
Bartholin
.
Antiq.
Dan.
p.
197
,
198.
assistance
of
his
Friend
the
Bishop
of
Scalholt
)
took
care
to
have
it
published
,
A.
D.
1689.
Since
his
time
the
Islandic
Historians
have
not
had
any
great
occasion
to
meddle
with
the
Transactions
in
Britain
,
excepting
only
[
r
](A52335-e30450-b)
r
Chrymogaea
.
4to
Hamb
.
1610.
Arngrim
Jonas
,
who
touches
upon
some
passages
which
we
have
also
in
others
already
mentioned
.
And
indeed
most
of
'em
are
written
with
so
little
judgment
(
confounding
the
true
and
fabulous
Sonnets
of
their
Scaldri
)
that
they
are
not
to
be
read
without
some
Caution
and
Acquaintance
with
those
Poetical
Writers
who
are
own'd
to
be
their
chief
Authors
:
And
the
Emulation
that
daily
appears
to
be
betwixt
the
Antiquaries
of
the
two
Neighbouring
Kingdoms
of
Sweden
and
Denmark
(
for
the
gaining
the
honour
of
Precedence
to
their
several
Countries
)
seems
to
threaten
us
with
further
Corruptions
in
the
Editions
of
their
Manuscripts
.
A
misfortune
this
is
,
which
is
too
frequently
observable
(
tho
very
highly
scandalous
)
in
Historians
and
Learned
Men
;
who
ought
not
to
be
byass'd
by
any
,
even
the
most
natural
,
Affections
.
There
is
likewise
extant
a
couple
of
Great
Britain
,
which
our
own
Historians
have
either
wholly
omitted
or
very
darkly
recorded
.
The
former
of
these
was
written
soon
after
the
year
1130
,
by
one
[
s
](A52335-e30550-b)
s
8vo
.
Amstelod
.
1684.
Theodoric
a
Monk
;
who
acknowledges
his
whole
Fabrick
to
be
built
upon
Tradition
,
and
that
the
old
Northern
History
is
no
where
now
to
be
had
save
only
ab
Istendingorum
antiquis
Carminibus
.
The
other
was
compil'd
by
Snorro
Sturlaesonius
;
who
confesses
he
drew
it
out
of
the
Ballads
of
the
Scaldri
,
which
he
verily
believes
to
contain
nothing
but
what
may
be
firmly
rely'd
on
as
most
unquestionable
Truth
.
And
Arngrim
Jonas
so
far
concurs
with
him
,
as
to
[
t
](A52335-e30610-b)
t
In
Supplement
.
ad
Hist.
Norvag
.
assure
us
that
the
Songsters
of
those
days
were
far
from
Flattery
;
and
knew
nothing
of
the
more
modern
poetical
Licence
,
of
Fable
and
Rhodomantade
,
in
recording
the
story
of
their
Princes
and
Patrons
.
This
Book
was
translated
into
the
Vulgar
Danish
Language
by
Pet.
Vndallensis
;
and
so
[
u
](A52335-e30640-b)
u
4to
.
Hafn.
1633.
publish'd
by
Wormius
.
Nor
do
I
know
of
any
more
than
Saxo
Grammaticus
and
(
his
Cotemporary
and
Fellow-Servant
)
Sueno
Aggonis
.
Before
Stephanius's
excellent
[
w
](A52335-e30720-b)
w
Fol.
Sorae
,
1645.
Edition
,
Saxo's
History
had
been
thrice
publisht
,
but
very
faultily
.
He
is
commonly
reckon'd
the
most
ancient
(
as
well
as
most
polite
)
Historian
of
Denmark
;
dying
,
Provost
of
the
Cathedral
Church
at
Roschild
,
A.
D.
1204.
Saxo
himself
says
he
[
x
](A52335-e30770-b)
x
In
Epist.
Ded.
compil'd
a
good
part
of
his
out
of
the
Islandic
Ballads
;
yet
Arn.
Jonas
(
as
quoted
by
[
y
](A52335-e30800-b)
y
Proleg
.
p.
37.
Stephanius
)
assures
us
that
he
did
not
deal
fairly
in
that
matter
,
nor
make
such
good
use
of
those
Authorities
as
he
ought
to
have
done
.
J.
Lyscander
[
z
](A52335-e30830-b)
z
Antiq.
Dan.
Serm.
8.
quarrels
him
upon
the
like
bottom
,
and
seems
to
intimate
that
he
had
a
greater
care
of
the
Style
than
Matter
of
his
Book
.
Sueno
dy'd
before
he
could
bring
his
Work
(
which
is
also
[
a
](A52335-e30850-b)
a
Sorae
1643.
publish'd
by
Stephanius
)
to
perfection
:
But
what
we
have
is
of
as
good
and
valuable
a
kind
as
the
fore-mention'd
:
For
,
as
Saxo
framed
his
History
out
of
the
old
Rhimes
,
so
he
declares
that
his
is
mostly
taken
from
the
Tales
and
Traditions
of
old
people
.
Out
of
these
two
is
borrow'd
the
most
of
what
we
meet
with
,
relating
to
those
Times
wherein
the
Affairs
of
Denmark
and
Britain
were
chiefly
interwoven
,
in
Huitfield
,
Pontanus
,
Meursius
,
and
all
other
later
Historians
of
that
Kingdom
.
The
great
Restorer
of
the
decay'd
Olaus
Wormius
;
who
has
also
enabled
us
to
make
many
new
Discoveries
in
those
of
our
own
Nation
.
His
[
b
](A52335-e30960-b)
b
4to
.
Hafn.
1636.
&
Fol.
ibid.
1651.
Literatura
Runica
was
the
first
happy
Attempt
made
towards
the
right
explaining
of
the
old
Cimbrian
Monuments
:
which
,
till
his
time
,
had
laid
neglected
and
unknown
to
the
Learned
World
;
not
only
in
those
Northern
Kingdoms
,
but
in
several
parts
of
Italy
,
Spain
and
other
Europoean
Countries
,
where
the
Gothic
Arms
and
Letters
had
gain'd
a
footing
.
The
whole
Treatise
is
divided
into
29
Chapters
;
largely
treating
of
the
Name
,
Number
,
Figure
,
Powers
,
&c.
of
the
Runic
Characters
.
His
[
c
](A52335-e31040-b)
c
Fol.
Hafn.
1644.
Monumenta
Danica
affords
a
Noble
Collection
of
the
scatter'd
Runic
Monuments
through
all
the
several
Provinces
of
the
Danish
and
Norwegian
Kingdoms
:
An
undertaking
fruitlessly
attempted
before
him
,
and
a
Work
that
was
so
much
despair'd
on
,
that
some
of
the
best
pieces
were
put
to
the
most
vile
uses
.
Out
of
this
Misery
he
recover'd
them
;
and
has
now
rais'd
himself
an
everlasting
Monument
out
of
them
all
.
The
whole
Book
is
of
singular
use
to
any
man
that
pretends
to
write
upon
any
Branch
of
our
English
Antiquities
;
some
whereof
are
[
d
](A52335-e31100-b)
d
Mon.
Dan.
p.
326
,
&c.
339
,
342.
particularly
Illustrated
by
the
worthy
Author
himself
.
To
these
we
must
add
his
[
e
](A52335-e31110-b)
e
Fol.
Hafn.
1650.
Lexicon
Runicum
and
[
f
](A52335-e31130-b)
f
Fol.
Hafn.
1626
&
1651.
Fasti
Danici
:
Nor
is
the
[
g
](A52335-e31150-b)
g
Fol.
Lugd.
Bat.
1655.
Musaeum
Wormianum
so
full
fraught
with
Physical
Rarities
,
but
that
it
will
supply
us
with
some
Curiosities
in
Northern
Antiquities
worth
our
seeking
.
After
him
,
Joh.
Mejerus
made
some
Gleanings
in
the
same
Field
;
which
still
remain
in
MS.
And
several
Swedes
were
,
by
his
example
,
induced
to
pay
the
like
respect
to
the
long
neglected
Monuments
of
their
Ancestors
.
Among
whom
Buraeus
and
Verelius
have
already
appeared
in
public
;
and
Joh.
Hadorphius's
more
complete
Work
(
de
Sepultura
Sueco-Gothorum
)
has
been
long
since
promis'd
.
Tho.
Bartholinus
[
h
](A52335-e31260-b)
h
Antiquitates
Dan.
4to
.
Hafn.
1689.
Addition
to
Wormius's
Discoveries
;
enquiring
into
the
Reasons
that
induced
the
ancient
Danes
to
contemn
Death
,
and
carry
on
the
most
dangerous
Exploits
with
so
much
Courage
and
Bravery
.
In
pursuance
whereof
he
gives
us
a
notable
Account
of
their
Belief
of
the
Soul's
Immortality
;
their
Deifying
of
Woden
,
Thor
,
Fro
and
other
Heroes
;
their
hopes
of
enjoying
a
sensual
and
Turkish
Eternity
in
Valhalla
or
Woden's
Elysium
,
&c.
Some
few
more
Writers
there
are
(
of
a
lower
form
)
that
have
treated
on
the
same
subject
;
which
may
be
useful
to
our
English
Antiquary
.
But
for
these
I
must
refer
him
to
Alb.
Bartholine's
Treatise
[
i
](A52335-e31370-b)
i
8vo
.
Hafn.
1666.
de
Scriptis
Danorum
;
being
not
very
well
dispos'd
(
at
present
)
for
the
writing
of
dry
Catalogues
.
CHAP.
V.
Of
our
English
Historians
since
the
Conquest
.
TO
give
an
exact
and
full
Register
of
these
would
be
a
tedious
Work
;
and
require
a
much
better
acquaintance
with
our
public
and
private
Libraries
than
I
can
pretend
to
.
Sir
William
Temple
has
rightly
observ'd
,
that
tho
,
since
this
great
period
,
the
face
of
affairs
[
a
](A52335-e31440-b)
a
Introduct.
to
Hist.
of
Engl.
p.
319
,
320.
has
not
been
drawn
by
any
one
skilful
hand
,
or
by
the
Life
;
yet
't
is
represented
in
so
clear
a
Light
as
leaves
very
little
either
obscure
or
uncertain
in
the
History
of
our
Kingdom
,
or
Succession
of
our
Kings
:
And
't
will
be
enough
for
my
present
purpose
to
pick
out
the
chief
of
these
Limners
,
and
to
give
the
Reader
a
View
of
'em
in
their
proper
Colours
.
This
I
shall
endeavour
to
do
as
briefly
as
is
possible
;
ranking
them
in
the
several
Centuries
wherein
they
wrote
.
1066.
[
b
](A52335-e31520-b)
b
Chap.
10.
elsewhere
.
The
Relation
he
bore
to
King
William
does
manifestly
byass
him
in
the
ill
account
he
gives
of
Haerold
;
pelting
that
Prince
with
a
Volley
of
hard
Names
,
all
in
a
breath
,
Contemptor
praestitae
fidei
,
ac
nequiter
oblitus
sui
Sacramenti
,
Throno
Regio
se
intrusit
,
&c.
About
the
same
time
wrote
Marianus
Scotus
(
a
Monk
of
Mentz
in
Germany
)
[
c
](A52335-e31620-b)
c
Angl.
sacr.
Tom.
1.
Praef.
p.
24.
one
in
the
Kingdom
that
wanted
a
Copy
of
it
,
and
some
had
several
.
The
frequent
transcribing
it
gave
occasion
to
a
deal
of
errors
and
mistakes
;
and
the
Interpolations
were
so
many
and
confused
,
that
(
when
it
came
to
be
[
c
](A52335-e31630-b)
c
Vid.
H.
Lhuid
Fragm
,
Brit.
Descr.
f.
27.
〈◊〉
prepar'd
for
the
Press
)
some
of
its
Genuine
and
fairest
Branches
were
lopp'd
off
,
for
Morbose
Tumours
and
Excrescencies
.
Nor
will
the
Reader
meet
with
a
word
of
our
English
affairs
in
that
lame
Edition
of
Marianus's
Chronicle
by
[
d
](A52335-e31670-b)
d
Fol.
Francof
.
1583.
Pistorius
:
whose
business
't
was
only
to
publish
the
ancient
Writers
of
the
German
History
;
and
therefore
he
designedly
omitted
all
that
concern'd
this
Kingdom
.
The
best
,
and
most
[
e
](A52335-e31700-b)
e
See
J.
Gregory
'
s
Notes
on
Ridley'
s
View
,
&c.
p.
171.
complete
Manuscript
Copy
is
in
the
public
Library
at
Oxford
.
1101.
Florence
of
Worcester
.
The
earliest
[
f
](A52335-e31780-b)
f
Fol.
Francof
.
1601.
History
in
the
twelfth
Century
was
written
by
Florence
(
a
Monk
)
of
Worcester
,
whom
I
know
not
whether
to
call
an
Epitomizer
or
Transcriber
of
Marianus
.
He
seems
to
give
[
g
](A52335-e31820-b)
g
Ad
Ann.
1043.
himself
the
latter
Character
;
tho
it
must
be
acknowledg'd
that
he
has
added
very
many
Collections
,
out
of
the
Saxon
Chronicle
and
other
Writers
,
with
much
Care
and
Judgment
.
His
Book
ended
,
with
his
[
h
](A52335-e31840-b)
h
J.
Pits
,
p.
197.
Life
,
in
the
year
1119
;
but
't
was
continu'd
50
years
farther
by
another
Monk
of
the
same
Monastery
.
He
so
[
i
](A52335-e31860-b)
i
Praef.
ad
Chron.
Sax.
p.
6.
Et
Praef.
ad
V●t
.
Aelfr
.
R.
p.
3.
scrupulously
adheres
to
his
Authorities
,
that
he
sometimes
retains
even
their
very
mistakes
;
and
yet
I
must
do
him
the
Justice
,
to
say
he
is
not
guilty
of
all
the
Contradictions
that
have
been
laid
to
his
charge
.
An
ingenious
person
has
lately
observ'd
that
he
makes
his
Friend
Marianus
die
in
the
year
1052.
and
yet
affirms
that
the
same
Man
was
made
a
Presbyter
(
seven
years
after
)
A.
D.
1059.
But
,
in
truth
,
the
Gentleman
himself
is
more
upon
the
Blunder
than
his
Author
.
The
Phrase
of
Saeculum
reliquit
,
does
not
(
as
he
imagines
)
import
the
same
thing
with
mortuus
est
:
But
signifies
only
(
as
it
does
,
in
the
same
Year
,
and
on
the
same
Occasion
,
in
Matt.
of
Westminster
,
and
others
)
the
Man's
leaving
the
Concerns
of
this
world
,
Secular
Affairs
,
to
turn
Regular
and
Secluse
.
'T
is
a
scandalous
reproach
,
and
not
worth
the
answering
,
which
Sir
Thomas
Craig
gives
of
him
:
That
[
k
](A52335-e31950-b)
k
Scotland's
Soveraignt
.
Assert
.
p.
〈◊〉
He
led
his
followers
into
Error
,
like
so
many
Cattle
breaking
over
a
Ditch
.
Eadmerus
,
Historia
Novorum
,
&c.
was
[
l
](A52335-e32030-b)
l
Fol.
Lond.
1623.
published
by
Mr.
Selden
,
and
contains
the
story
of
the
two
Williams
and
Henry
the
First
,
from
the
year
1066
to
1122.
'T
is
a
Work
of
great
Gravity
,
and
unquestionable
Authority
.
It
affords
no
fooleries
of
Miracles
,
so
very
rife
in
the
Writings
of
other
Monks
,
unless
perhaps
the
Story
of
the
B.
Virgins
[
m
](A52335-e32070-b)
m
p.
88.
Hair
have
a
smack
of
the
Cloister
.
He
had
Temptations
enough
(
being
an
intimate
Acquaintance
of
Archbishop
Anselm
)
to
take
the
Pope's
part
,
in
the
mighty
Dispute
of
his
Time
about
Investitu●e
;
and
yet
he
approves
himself
a
person
of
that
steady
Loyalty
to
his
Country
as
to
give
a
fair
account
of
the
management
on
both
sides
,
and
the
unanswerable
arguments
made
in
Defence
of
the
Regal
Power
.
His
comparing
of
our
Saviour's
Commission
to
St.
Peter
,
and
Pope
Gregory's
to
Augustine
the
Monk
(
for
the
establishing
of
the
Primacy
of
Canterbury
)
is
notable
;
and
either
clears
that
of
Canterbury
,
or
clouds
that
of
Rome
.
The
Character
which
Selden
himself
gives
of
him
is
,
that
his
Style
equals
that
of
Malmesbury
,
his
Matter
and
Composure
exceeds
him
.
His
Cotemporary
Aelfred
(
Monk
and
Treasurer
of
the
Church
)
of
Beverly
seems
to
be
no
more
than
an
Epitomizer
of
Jeoffrey
of
Monmouth
:
So
that
all
the
four
[
n
](A52335-e32210-b)
n
J.
Pits
,
p.
204.
general
Treatises
said
to
be
written
by
this
Author
may
probably
well
bear
the
Name
of
Deflorationes
Galfredi
.
But
William
(
Monk
and
Library-Keeper
)
[
o
](A52335-e32290-b)
o
J.
Leland
,
Assert
.
Arth.
fol.
4.
b.
&
fol.
8.
s.
elegant
,
learned
,
and
faithful
Historian
:
Another
says
he
's
the
[
p
](A52335-e32310-b)
p
D.
Hen.
Savil.
In
Epist.
Ded.
ad
5
Script
.
only
Man
of
his
Time
that
has
honestly
discharg'd
the
Trust
of
such
a
Writer
:
And
the
third
calls
him
the
[
q
](A52335-e32330-b)
q
Vsher.
in
Ep.
Ded.
ad
Eccles.
Hist.
chief
of
all
our
Historians
.
What
falls
under
our
present
consideration
is
his
Account
[
r
](A52335-e32350-b)
r
Fol.
Francof
.
1601.
De
Gestis
Regum
Anglorum
,
in
five
Books
;
with
an
Appendix
in
two
more
,
which
he
stiles
Historiae
Novellae
.
In
these
we
have
a
judicious
Collection
of
whatever
he
found
on
Record
,
touching
the
Affairs
of
England
,
from
the
first
arrival
of
the
Saxons
;
concluding
his
Work
with
the
Reign
of
King
Stephen
;
to
whom
he
shews
himself
as
hearty
an
Enemy
,
as
(
his
Patron
)
Robert
Earl
of
Glocester
could
possibly
be
.
We
shall
have
occasion
to
mention
this
Author
in
several
of
the
following
Chapters
;
and
therefore
I
shall
now
only
add
,
that
I
think
himself
has
given
an
honest
account
of
this
part
of
his
Labours
,
when
he
tells
us
,
[
r
](A52335-e32430-b)
r
In
Prolegom
ad
Libb
.
5.
de
Gest.
Reg.
Privatim
ipse
mihi
,
sub
Ope
Christi
,
gratulor
,
quod
●ontinuam
Anglorum
Historiam
ordinaverim
post
Bedam
vel
solus
vel
primus
.
And
again
:
Ego
enim
veram
Legem
secutus
Historiae
,
nihil
unquam
posui
nisi
quod
a
fidelibus
Relatoribus
vel
Scriptoribus
addidici
.
Pits
says
he
was
epitomiz'd
by
[
s
](A52335-e32480-b)
s
J.
Pits
.
p.
723.
W.
Horman
,
sometime
Master
of
Eaton-School
:
But
whether
all
his
Works
,
or
some
part
of
'em
only
,
were
so
contracted
he
does
not
tell
us
.
Possibly
,
he
only
transcrib'd
what
[
t
](A52335-e32520-b)
t
Id.
p.
228.
Simeon
Dunelmensis
had
before
drawn
up
to
his
hand
.
This
Simeon
,
Durham
,
A.
D.
1164.
and
might
justly
be
reckon'd
one
of
the
most
[
u
](A52335-e32600-b)
u
Vid.
J.
Selden
.
Praef.
ad
X
Script
.
p
,
1.
learned
Men
of
his
Age.
But
his
two
Books
De
Gestis
Regum
(
which
alone
are
now
to
be
mention'd
)
are
not
his
Master-pieces
:
Being
only
a
few
indigested
Collections
,
chiefly
out
of
Florence
of
Worcester
,
whose
very
words
he
frequently
copies
.
Abbot
Ealred
(
not
of
[
x
](A52335-e32660-b)
x
Ut
male
J.
Selden
,
in
Praef.
ad
X
Script
.
Vid.
Monast.
Angl.
Tom.
I.
p.
172.
Revesby
in
Lincolnshire
,
but
of
Rievaulx
in
Yorkshire
)
gives
us
a
short
Genealogy
of
our
Kings
;
but
enlarges
chiefly
on
the
Praises
of
David
King
of
Scots
,
Founder
of
a
great
many
Abbies
for
the
Cistertians
.
His
other
Books
(
of
the
Life
of
Edward
the
Confessor
,
&c.
)
are
treated
on
elsewhere
.
I
doubt
Sir
George
Mackenzy's
[
y
](A52335-e32780-b)
y
Def.
of
the
Royal
Line
of
Scotl.
p.
22.
&
27.
Baldredus
Abbas
Rynalis
is
this
very
Author
:
Notwithstanding
the
great
pains
he
is
at
to
distinguish
them
.
About
the
same
time
flourished
[
z
](A52335-e32860-b)
z
Fol.
Francof
.
1601.
Sir
Henry
Savil.
In
the
Preface
he
owns
himself
a
Follower
of
Bede
,
in
the
main
,
for
the
time
he
wrote
in
:
But
says
(
withal
)
that
he
added
many
things
met
with
in
old
Libraries
.
His
first
Lines
will
easily
convince
the
Reader
that
he
does
really
follow
Bede
;
for
he
Copies
him
to
a
word
.
But
I
am
not
satisfy'd
that
he
has
added
any
great
matters
,
as
far
as
that
Author
goes
.
He
has
indeed
a
great
many
Lyes
out
of
Jeoffrey
of
Monmouth
,
which
Bede
never
heard
of
;
and
which
the
World
might
have
wanted
well
enough
.
After
Bede's
time
,
he
has
many
particulars
out
of
the
Saxon
Chronicle
;
which
had
been
omitted
by
our
Historians
before
him
.
He
is
pleas'd
to
take
notice
of
one
great
Truth
,
that
he
writes
very
[
a
](A52335-e32950-b)
a
Lib.
2.
confusedly
.
All
the
Transactions
of
the
Heptarchy
he
reduces
to
the
several
Reigns
of
the
West-Saxon
Kings
:
But
has
not
adjusted
them
so
well
as
he
ought
to
have
done
.
At
the
same
time
liv'd
John
Serlo
(
Abbot
of
Fountains
)
who
,
(
as
John
[
b
](A52335-e33000-b)
b
J.
Pits
,
p.
224.
Pits
tells
us
)
wrote
a
Treatise
De
Bello
inter
Scotiae
Regem
&
Angliae
Barones
.
We
are
not
so
well
assur'd
of
this
,
as
that
he
wrote
a
History
of
the
Foundation
of
his
own
Monastery
;
for
which
he
shall
be
remember'd
in
a
proper
place
.
The
general
Histories
written
by
Richard
of
the
[
c
](A52335-e33050-b)
c
Id
p.
255.
Devises
,
and
John
of
[
d
](A52335-e33080-b)
d
Id.
p.
258.
Tilbury
(
a
London-Divine
)
before
the
end
of
this
Age
,
are
of
the
same
authority
;
and
that
's
all
I
have
to
say
concerning
either
of
'em
.
William
of
Newburg
was
so
call'd
from
a
Monastery
in
Yorkshire
,
[
e
](A52335-e33190-b)
e
D.
Whear
,
Method
.
Leg.
Hist.
p.
138.
A.
D.
1220.
)
he
ought
to
be
reckon'd
among
the
Historians
of
this
Age.
John
Pits
[
f
](A52335-e33230-b)
f
J.
Pits
,
p.
271.
thinks
he
appears
too
much
a
Flatterer
of
the
Grandees
at
Court
to
write
a
true
History
:
But
,
by
the
account
he
gives
of
the
beginning
of
it
,
a
Man
would
be
tempted
to
believe
he
never
read
it
.
He
was
a
most
violent
Persecutor
of
Jeoffrey
of
Monmouth
,
of
whose
History
he
gives
this
sharp
Character
,
that
it
contains
only
pro
expiandis
Britonum
maculis
ridicula
figmenta
,
&c.
But
[
g
](A52335-e33280-b)
g
In
Epist.
Ded.
ad
Pontic
.
Virun
.
D.
Powel
gives
the
reason
of
this
bitterness
of
Spirit
.
It
appears
,
he
says
,
from
some
of
their
Histories
of
good
Credit
and
Antiquity
,
that
this
William
(
whom
those
Welsh
Historians
call
Gwilym
Bach.
i.
Gulielmus
Parvus
)
put
in
for
the
Bishoprick
of
St.
Asaph
,
upon
the
death
of
the
said
Jeoffrey
(
Bishop
there
)
about
the
year
1165.
and
,
being
disappointed
,
fell
into
a
mad
humour
of
decrying
the
whole
Principality
of
Wales
,
its
History
,
Antiquity
,
and
all
that
belongs
to
it
.
He
is
large
in
his
account
of
the
Life
,
Manners
,
&c.
of
Hugh
Bishop
of
Durham
.
His
Latin
Style
is
preferr'd
to
that
of
M.
Paris
,
and
equall'd
with
those
of
Eadmerus
and
William
of
Malmesbury
by
[
h
](A52335-e33450-b)
h
Praef.
ad
M.
Paris
,
Hist.
Dr.
Wats
.
1201.
[
i
](A52335-e33510-b)
i
J.
Pits
,
p.
268.
is
reported
to
have
been
a
most
judicious
Antiquary
and
Methodical
Historian
,
and
to
have
made
excellent
Collections
of
the
British
and
English
Story
from
the
coming
in
of
the
Trojans
down
to
the
year
1200.
'T
were
to
be
wished
these
dormant
Tomes
could
be
discover'd
:
For
the
Reigns
of
three
Kings
(
which
are
the
only
part
of
our
General
History
,
of
this
Author
's
penning
,
now
[
k
](A52335-e33560-b)
k
Fol.
Lond.
1652.
inter
X
Script
.
extant
)
are
done
with
judgment
enough
.
About
the
same
time
Nicholas
de
Fly
,
Bishop
of
Durham
,
is
[
l
](A52335-e33590-b)
l
J.
Pits
,
p.
889.
said
to
have
written
and
Historical
Treatise
;
wherein
he
relates
that
memorable
passage
(
mentioned
also
by
some
other
Historians
)
of
one
Simon
Thurvay's
forgetting
all
that
he
had
learned
,
which
was
to
a
good
pitch
of
Eminence
,
and
turning
perfect
Blockhead
.
Cotemporary
to
these
two
(
and
a
much
greater
Historian
than
both
of
'em
join'd
)
Roger
de
Hoveden
,
who
seems
to
have
been
Chaplain
for
some
time
to
King
Henry
the
Second
.
His
History
was
[
m
](A52335-e33660-b)
m
Fol.
Francof
.
1601.
published
by
Sir
H.
Savil
:
But
(
as
Sir
H.
[
n
](A52335-e33690-b)
n
Glossar
.
in
voce
Frithborga
.
Spelman
observes
)
there
are
many
errors
in
that
foreign
Edition
of
this
and
all
our
other
Historians
;
and
therefore
he
well
cautions
the
English
Reader
attentively
to
consider
the
spelling
of
such
words
as
are
of
our
own
growth
,
as
very
frequently
mistaken
by
Printers
that
are
Strangers
to
our
Country
and
Language
.
'T
is
a
heavy
Censure
which
Leland
has
given
of
this
Author
,
[
o
](A52335-e33740-b)
o
Comment.
ad
Cygn
.
Cant.
voce
Dunolm
.
Qui
Scrinia
Simeonis
,
suppresso
ejus
nomine
,
strenue
compilavit
,
&
aliena
pro
suis
,
Gloriae
avidulus
supposuit
.
Mr.
Selden
justifies
him
[
p
](A52335-e33790-b)
p
Praef.
ad
X
Script
.
p.
2.
against
this
sharp
Sentence
;
and
Sir
Henry
Savil
gives
a
quite
different
Character
of
the
Man
and
his
Writings
:
[
q
](A52335-e33810-b)
q
Epist.
Ded.
ad
5
Script
.
Huntingdoniensis
&
Hovedenus
(
says
he
)
Authores
cu●●
primis
boni
&
diligentes
,
verissimique
superiorum
temporum
Indices
.
He
may
possibly
have
borrowed
something
from
Simeon
of
Durham
:
But
,
if
he
did
,
he
has
improv'd
his
Story
,
adding
the
years
to
many
things
confusedly
related
in
that
Writer
.
After
the
year
802.
he
falls
indeed
a
little
into
confusion
himself
;
jumbling
a
great
many
things
touch'd
on
before
,
without
any
manner
of
Form
or
Order
.
But
,
after
three
or
four
Pages
,
he
comes
to
himself
again
;
and
goes
on
regularly
enough
.
There
are
in
his
Book
many
Letters
,
Speeches
,
&c.
relating
to
Ecclesiastical
affairs
;
which
are
good
Materials
towards
a
General
Church
history
of
this
Kingdom
.
In
the
year
1291.
King
Edward
the
First
is
said
to
have
caus'd
diligent
search
to
be
made
in
all
the
Libraries
in
England
for
Hoveden's
History
,
to
adjust
the
Dispute
about
the
Homage
due
from
the
Crown
of
Scotland
:
which
(
says
my
[
r
](A52335-e33910-b)
r
J.
Pits
,
p.
272.
Author
)
it
clears
effectually
.
At
the
same
time
Joh.
Oxfordius
(
Bishop
of
Norwich
)
is
[
s
](A52335-e33950-b)
s
Id.
p.
265.
reported
to
have
compil'd
an
English
Chronicle
;
and
we
may
look
for
some
good
Remarks
from
a
person
employ'd
(
as
he
was
)
on
an
Embassy
to
Rome
,
there
truly
to
represent
to
his
Holiness
an
account
of
Archbishop
Be●ket's
Behaviour
.
Hector
Boethius
pretends
to
have
seen
his
History
;
and
applauds
him
as
a
Writer
next
to
his
mighty
Jeoffrey
of
Monmouth
,
in
Authority
as
well
as
Time
.
The
next
Historian
of
Note
and
Figure
is
Ralph
de
Diceto
,
[
t
](A52335-e34070-b)
t
Angl.
Sacr.
Par.
II.
p.
677.
Chronological
Account
of
our
British
Kings
of
his
own
Composure
,
which
must
have
reach'd
much
higher
than
any
thing
hitherto
published
under
his
Name
.
And
such
a
Work
in
several
parts
(
containing
a
British
Chronicle
from
Brute
to
Cadwallador
,
and
an
English
one
from
Hengist
to
King
Harold
)
the
industrious
Mr.
Wharton
[
t
](A52335-e34160-b)
t
Praef.
ad
Par.
II
Angl.
Sac.
p.
27.
says
he
had
seen
and
perus'd
in
the
Norfolk-Library
.
The
two
Treatises
which
concern
us
at
present
,
and
are
already
[
u
](A52335-e34180-b)
u
Fol.
Lond.
1652.
inter
10.
Script
.
printed
,
are
his
Abbreviationes
Chronicorum
and
his
Imagines
Historiarum
:
The
former
whereof
contains
an
Abstract
of
our
History
(
but
chiefly
in
Church-matters
)
down
to
the
Conquest
;
and
the
latter
gives
the
Portraictures
of
some
of
our
Kings
more
at
length
,
ending
with
the
first
years
of
King
John's
Reign
.
Mr.
Selden
is
much
in
the
Praises
of
this
[
w
](A52335-e34230-b)
w
In
Praef.
ad
10.
Scrip.
Author
,
and
his
Works
:
tho
all
that
is
here
remember'd
is
usually
copy'd
out
of
other
Writers
,
who
are
often
transcrib'd
verbatim
.
Dr.
Gale
met
with
a
better
Copy
of
his
Abbreviations
than
had
fallen
into
the
hands
of
Sir
Roger
Twisden
;
and
has
taken
occasion
(
in
discoursing
[
x
](A52335-e34270-b)
x
Praef.
ad
Hist.
Brit●
p.
14.
upon
that
subject
)
to
shew
how
mischievously
the
old
Monks
of
Canterbury
us'd
to
corrupt
their
Manuscripts
.
Diceto's
Talent
lay
mainly
towards
Church-history
;
and
,
on
that
Topick
,
we
shall
hereafter
meet
with
him
more
than
once
.
If
Gyraldus
Cambrensis
ever
wrote
any
such
thing
as
an
[
y
](A52335-e34310-b)
y
J.
Pits
,
p.
281.
English
Chronicle
,
it
ought
to
come
in
the
same
rank
of
time
with
these
of
Diceto's
:
But
I
very
much
suspect
the
Truth
of
that
Report
.
Hither
also
must
be
referr'd
the
famous
[
z
](A52335-e34350-b)
z
H
Spelm.
Glossar
.
in
voce
Scaccarium
.
J.
Stow
,
Chron.
p.
154.
Exchequer-man
,
King
Henry
the
Second's
Nephew
,
Gervase
of
Tilbury
;
who
(
besides
the
Black
Book
,
to
be
remembered
when
we
come
to
the
Twelfth
Chapter
)
is
said
to
have
written
a
large
historical
Commentary
upon
Jeoffrey
of
Monmouth
,
under
the
Title
of
[
a
](A52335-e34440-b)
a
J.
Pits
,
p.
274.
Bale
,
Cent.
3.
Illustrationes
Galfredi
,
which
he
dedicated
to
the
Emperor
Otho
the
Fourth
.
Walter
Monk
of
Coventry
deserves
a
more
particular
Remembrance
,
[
b
](A52335-e34540-b)
b
Apud
Jo.
Pits
,
p.
290.
Leland
,
who
says
the
two
main
Ornaments
of
an
Historian
(
Sincera
sides
&
lucidus
ordo
)
are
to
be
had
in
him
.
Upon
the
strength
of
this
Authority
,
Bale
tells
us
he
was
[
e
](A52335-e34590-b)
e
Cent.
3.
cap.
74.
Immortali
Vir
dignus
memoria
.
But
his
three
Books
of
Chronicles
and
Annals
(
for
which
these
men
send
us
to
Bennet
College
)
are
all
one
;
being
chiefly
Collections
out
of
Jeoffrey
of
Monmouth
,
R.
Hoveden
,
and
H.
Huntingdon
.
Some
few
things
of
Note
and
Consequence
he
has
which
are
not
to
be
met
with
in
those
Authors
.
He
is
said
to
have
liv'd
in
Coventry
,
A.
D.
1217.
and
therefore
Alexander
[
f
](A52335-e34670-b)
f
Vid.
Hist.
&
Antiq.
Oxon.
Par.
I.
p.
15.
Essebiensis's
Epitome
of
our
English
Annals
,
Peter
[
g
](A52335-e34710-b)
g
J.
Pits
,
p.
297.
Henham's
history
,
and
R.
[
h
](A52335-e34750-b)
h
Id.
p.
292.
Niger's
(
continued
by
his
Namesake
[
i
](A52335-e34770-b)
i
Id.
p.
301.
Ralph
Abbot
of
Coggeshal
)
are
of
the
same
date
.
Soon
after
these
appear'd
Matthew
Paris
,
a
Monk
of
St.
Albans
;
Historia
Major
contains
the
Annals
(
at
large
)
of
Eight
of
our
Kings
;
from
the
beginning
of
the
Reign
of
William
the
First
,
to
the
conclusion
of
that
of
Henry
the
Third
.
'T
was
first
publisht
at
London
,
A.
D.
1571.
and
the
[
k
](A52335-e34880-b)
k
Fol.
1606.
Zurich
Edition
only
copy'd
from
that
.
It
was
again
verbatim
reprinted
(
the
errors
of
the
Press
being
only
corrected
)
by
[
l
](A52335-e34910-b)
l
Fol.
Lond.
1640.
Dr.
Wats
,
who
beautify'd
it
with
additions
of
various
Readings
;
the
Author
's
large
Additamenta
,
and
his
Lives
of
the
Abbots
of
St.
Albans
;
a
good
Glossary
of
his
own
composure
,
&c.
Among
other
Reasons
that
prevailed
with
him
to
publish
the
very
words
of
the
former
Edition
,
he
thought
he
should
hereby
effectually
stop
the
Mouths
of
the
Romanists
(
who
pretended
that
the
Hereticks
had
vilely
corrupted
that
Historian
)
when
they
should
see
their
Case
was
not
better'd
by
comparing
it
with
all
the
Manuscript
Copies
that
could
be
had
of
it
.
From
the
year
1259.
(
wherein
M.
Paris
dy'd
)
to
King
Henry
the
Third's
Death
,
it
was
continu'd
by
Will
.
Rishanger
,
a
Monk
of
the
same
Fraternity
;
as
some
inform
us
.
Others
will
needs
affirm
,
that
Paris
himself
had
a
very
small
hand
in
the
whole
,
having
only
begun
at
the
year
1235.
the
rest
being
done
to
his
hand
by
one
Roger
de
Windleshore
,
or
Windsor
,
(
the
MS.
Copy
of
his
History
in
Cotton's
Library
calls
him
Rogerus
Wendovre
de
Wendover
prior
de
Bealvair
)
one
of
his
Predecessors
in
the
same
Monastery
.
Before
that
time
(
they
[
m
](A52335-e35050-b)
m
Vid.
D.
Watsi●
P●aefa●
.
tell
us
)
there
are
only
some
few
Interpolations
of
M.
Paris's
,
who
(
for
some
reasons
best
known
to
himself
)
did
not
break
off
at
the
year
1250.
as
it
appears
he
design'd
,
but
continued
writing
to
his
Death
.
The
Author
(
whoever
he
was
)
did
certainly
begin
his
Chronicle
at
the
Creation
,
tho
we
now
have
lost
all
that
went
before
the
Conquest
;
unless
,
as
the
[
n
](A52335-e35080-b)
n
●n
Praef.
ad
Editionem
Tigurin
.
Publisher
of
him
guesses
,
that
which
now
goes
under
the
Name
of
Matthew
of
Westminster
,
be
(
in
reality
)
the
true
Work
of
Mat.
Paris
.
This
undoubtedly
is
as
much
the
Offspring
of
Roger
de
Wendover
,
as
that
following
part
now
published
is
the
genuine
Work
of
M.
Paris
,
as
will
sufficiently
appear
to
any
that
shall
take
the
pains
to
consult
the
abovementioned
Manuscript
Copy
.
The
whole
Book
manifests
a
great
deal
of
Candour
and
Exactness
in
its
Author
,
who
furnishes
us
with
so
particular
a
relation
of
the
brave
Repulses
given
by
many
of
our
Princes
to
the
Usurping
Power
of
the
Roman
See
,
that
't
is
a
wonder
how
such
an
heretical
history
came
to
survive
thus
long
.
Quam
fuit
animo
infensissim●
in
Apostolicam
Sedem
quivis
facile
potest
intelligere
,
says
Cardinal
[
o
](A52335-e35160-b)
o
Annal.
Eccles.
ad
An.
996.
Baronius
.
The
English
whereof
is
only
this
;
he
was
a
Writer
of
a
singular
Courage
,
and
one
that
durst
maintain
the
Prerogatives
of
his
Soveraign's
Imperial
Crown
against
the
Usurpations
of
the
Papal
Crosier
.
And
yet
he
is
as
kind
to
the
Pope
,
as
he
is
either
to
the
King
himself
,
or
the
Abbot
of
St.
Albans
;
for
he
indiscriminately
las●es
(
upon
occasion
)
every
body
that
comes
in
his
way
.
The
same
Author
wrote
an
Abstract
of
the
foremention'd
Work
,
to
which
he
gave
the
Title
of
Chronica
,
and
W.
Lambard
first
christen'd
it
Historia
Minor
.
It
begins
,
as
the
former
,
with
William
the
Conqueror
,
and
ends
A.
D.
1250
having
in
it
several
Particulars
of
Note
omitted
in
the
larger
history
.
The
fairest
Copy
of
this
Book
(
suppos'd
to
be
written
by
the
Author●s
own
hand
)
is
in
the
King's
Library
at
St.
James's
.
One
John
Shepshed
is
[
p
](A52335-e35270-b)
p
J.
Pits
,
p.
313.
supposed
to
have
liv'd
at
the
same
time
with
M.
Paris
;
and
is
,
by
John
Stow
,
asserted
to
be
the
Author
of
an
English
history
.
We
may
probably
bring
in
also
Robert
of
Glocester
for
another
of
his
Cotemporaries
,
since
Archbishop
[
q
](A52335-e35340-b)
q
Hist.
Eccles.
Brit.
p.
29.
Vsher
,
and
[
r
](A52335-e35360-b)
r
Remains
,
p.
m.
8.
Mr.
Camden
are
both
positive
,
that
he
liv'd
some
time
in
the
Reign
of
King
Henry
the
Third
.
His
rhyming
Chronicle
is
in
English
;
and
the
Reader
may
have
a
Tast
〈◊〉
it
(
as
much
,
it
may
be
,
as
ever
he
'll
desire
)
either
from
[
s
](A52335-e35410-b)
s
Titles
of
Hon.
p.
535.
Mr.
Selden
,
or
[
t
](A52335-e35440-b)
t
Hist.
&
Antiq.
Oxon.
Par.
I.
p.
112.
Mr.
Wood.
The
Chronicle
of
[
u
](A52335-e35470-b)
u
Fol.
Oxon.
1684.
Mailros
(
tho
its
Title
may
seem
to
rank
it
among
Simon
Monfort
,
the
famous
Earl
of
Leicester
;
and
he
has
so
overdone
the
matter
,
that
he
thought
himself
oblig'd
,
in
the
Conclusion
,
to
instance
in
a
great
many
Authors
of
Note
that
had
publish'd
some
Stories
a
little
Romantick
,
and
yet
had
found
the
favour
to
be
believ'd
.
The
rest
of
the
general
Historians
of
this
Age
are
of
a
much
lower
form
,
Elias
de
Evesham
,
and
(
his
Namesake
)
Elias
de
Trickingham
;
who
are
[
x
](A52335-e35660-b)
x
J.
Pits
,
p.
350
,
351.
both
said
to
have
flourish'd
about
the
year
1270.
There
is
a
Copy
of
the
latter's
Chronicle
among
my
Lord
Clarendon's
Manuscripts
,
which
ends
A.
D.
1268.
Peter
Ickeham
(
a
[
y
](A52335-e35700-b)
y
Id.
p.
355.
Kentish
Man
born
,
and
sometime
a
Student
in
the
University
of
Paris
)
about
the
year
1274.
collected
the
British
and
English
Histories
,
from
the
coming
in
of
Brute
;
and
continued
them
to
the
Reign
of
Edward
the
First
.
This
Chronicle
is
[
z
](A52335-e35770-b)
z
E●
Gibson
Catal.
Bibl.
Tennison
.
p.
26.
said
to
have
been
some
time
in
the
possession
of
Sir
Symonds
D'
Ewes
;
and
perhaps
is
the
same
Book
which
[
a
](A52335-e35810-b)
a
Angl.
Sacr.
Par.
I.
p.
116.
Mr.
Wharton
acquaints
us
is
now
at
Lambeth
.
John
Buriensir
(
Abbot
of
St.
Edmundsbury
,
where
he
dy'd
A.
D.
1280.
)
wrote
also
[
b
](A52335-e35860-b)
b
J.
Pits
,
p.
361.
English
Annals
,
wherein
he
treats
at
large
of
the
Disputes
betwixt
Pope
Innocent
the
Fourth
and
R.
Grostest
Bishop
of
Lincoln
.
Possibly
this
Buriensis
may
be
the
same
with
[
c
](A52335-e35930-b)
c
Id.
p.
448.
Burgensis
;
and
all
one
with
John
Abbot
of
Peterburgh
,
whose
MS.
Chronicle
is
quoted
by
[
d
](A52335-e35970-b)
d
Angl.
Sacr.
Par.
I.
p.
115.
Mr.
Wharton
.
And
then
he
should
have
been
reserv'd
till
the
next
Century
,
about
the
middle
whereof
that
Abbot
certainly
flourish'd
.
1301.
Th.
Wikes
.
Tho.
Wikes
(
call'd
by
Leland
,
Vicanus
;
by
others
Wic●ius
)
ought
to
begin
the
Fourteenth
Century
,
tho
both
Bale
and
Pits
bring
him
within
the
foregoing
;
for
his
History
(
which
begins
at
the
Conquest
)
ends
at
the
Death
of
Edward
the
First
,
A.
D.
1304.
The
Author
was
Canon
Regular
of
Osney
near
Oxford
;
and
writes
as
clearly
and
full
(
especially
in
some
passages
relating
to
the
Baronwars
)
as
so
compendious
a
Chronicle
as
his
is
would
allow
him
to
do
.
We
are
indebted
to
Dr.
Gale
for
the
[
e
](A52335-e36120-b)
e
Hist.
Angl.
Vol.
II.
Fol.
Oxon.
1687.
publishing
of
this
history
,
together
with
others
of
good
value
,
that
had
long
laid
imprivate
hands
John
Castorius
(
call'd
also
[
f
](A52335-e36140-b)
f
J.
Leland
,
Assert
.
Arth.
fol.
30.
a.
Fiber
and
Bever
)
was
a
Monk
of
Westminster
,
about
this
time
,
and
wrote
a
Chronicle
,
still
extant
in
some
of
our
[
g
](A52335-e36190-b)
g
Bibl.
D'
Ewes
,
Monast.
Angl.
Tom.
I.
p.
177.
English
Libraries
.
Leland
commends
him
as
an
Historian
of
good
credit
;
and
he
is
also
cited
,
with
respect
,
by
John
Stow
in
his
Survey
.
He
begins
with
the
coming
in
of
Brute
,
and
ends
at
his
own
time
.
W.
Rishanger
(
who
dy'd
,
very
old
,
about
the
year
1312
)
has
been
mentioned
already
;
and
Rad.
Baldoc
who
dy'd
the
year
following
,
and
whose
history
is
quoted
by
Leland
and
Archbishop
[
h
](A52335-e36290-b)
h
Hist.
Eccles.
Brit.
p.
21.
Vsher
)
seems
hardly
to
deserve
it
.
Of
the
like
kind
is
the
compendious
Chronicle
of
Tho.
〈◊〉
,
Canon
Regular
of
Leedes
in
Kent
,
whom
both
Bale
and
Pits
have
fix'd
at
the
year
1321.
But
[
i
](A52335-e36360-b)
i
Fun.
Mon.
p.
206.
J.
Weever
,
from
a
passage
in
his
Book
,
which
gives
an
account
of
the
Victories
of
the
Black
Prince
,
shews
that
he
must
have
liv'd
pretty
late
in
the
Reign
of
Edward
the
Third
,
if
not
under
(
his
Grandson
)
Richard
the
Second
.
Of
something
better
value
are
the
Annals
of
Nicolas
Trivet
Thomas
Trivet
,
Lord
Chief
Justice
)
who
was
Prior
of
a
Monastery
of
Dominican
Friars
in
London
;
where
he
was
bury'd
A.
D.
1328.
An
excellent
Copy
of
his
history
(
which
John
Pits
[
k
](A52335-e36470-b)
k
J.
Pits
,
p.
422.
subdivides
into
three
several
Treatises
)
is
now
in
the
Library
at
Merton
College
in
Oxford
,
whence
several
of
our
most
eminent
[
l
](A52335-e36510-b)
l
Vid.
H.
Spelman
.
Concil.
Tom.
l.
p.
111.
Hist.
Oxon.
lib.
2.
p.
392.
&
Ab.
Whel●c
.
●ed
.
Hist.
p.
115.
Antiquaries
have
had
very
remarkable
Observations
.
'T
is
in
French
,
and
bears
the
Title
of
Les
Gestes
des
Apostoiles
,
(
or
,
the
[
m
](A52335-e36560-b)
m
Spelm.
Gloss.
in
voce
Apostolici
.
Popes
)
Empereurs
è
Rois.
Roger
●estrensis
(
who
was
a
Benedictine
Monk
of
St.
Werburg's
in
Chester
)
was
Trivet's
Cotemporary
,
and
wrote
a
large
account
of
the
affairs
of
this
Nation
.
This
Work
he
entitled
Polycraticae
Temporum
,
and
began
it
with
the
coming
in
of
the
Romans
.
He
continu'd
it
at
first
no
lower
than
the
year
1314.
but
added
[
n
](A52335-e36650-b)
n
J.
Pits
,
p.
438.
afterwards
a
Supplement
of
fifteen
years
more
.
About
the
same
time
(
as
Mr.
Selden
[
o
](A52335-e36700-b)
o
Praef.
and
X.
Script
.
inter
quos
J.
Brompton
.
conjectures
)
liv'd
the
Author
of
that
Chronicle
which
goes
under
the
Name
of
John
Brompton
,
some
time
Abbot
of
Joreval
(
or
Jorvaulx
)
in
the
County
of
York
,
which
begins
(
with
the
coming
in
of
Augustine
the
Monk
)
A.
D.
588.
and
ends
with
the
Death
of
Richard
the
First
,
1198.
'T
is
not
indeed
likely
that
this
History
was
written
by
any
Member
of
the
Abby
of
Joreval
,
since
it
takes
no
notice
of
the
Foundation
of
that
Monastery
,
&c.
But
only
procur'd
by
Abbot
Brompton
,
and
(
by
him
)
bestow'd
on
his
Monastery
.
The
Author
(
whoever
he
be
)
is
very
full
in
his
Collections
for
the
Saxon
times
,
but
takes
no
notice
of
the
Chronological
part
in
the
whole
story
of
the
Heptarchy
.
In
this
he
has
not
been
very
inquisitive
;
ending
(
for
example
)
Northumberland
where
Bede's
History
leaves
him
.
He
gives
the
Saxon
Laws
at
large
,
and
translates
them
pretty
honestly
.
In
what
he
borrows
from
the
old
Chronicle
,
in
that
Language
,
he
is
not
altogether
so
correct
:
Otherwise
,
he
had
never
told
us
such
a
rare
story
of
one
[
p
](A52335-e36860-b)
p
Vid.
Joh.
Spelm.
Vit.
Aelfr
.
R.
p.
18.
Sumerled
,
a
Danish
Tyrant
,
who
sack'd
Reading
,
&c.
His
chief
Author
is
Roger
Hoveden
.
Of
Walter
Hemmingford
the
Reader
needs
no
further
account
than
what
has
been
already
given
of
him
by
his
worthy
[
q
](A52335-e36930-b)
q
Tho.
Gale
,
Hist.
Brit.
&
Angl.
vol.
II.
in
Praefat.
p.
8
,
9
,
10.
Publisher
:
Nor
have
I
any
more
to
say
of
Richard
of
Chichester
than
what
John
Pits
has
told
me
[
r
](A52335-e36980-b)
r
J.
Pits
,
p.
438.
,
that
he
was
a
Monk
of
Westminster
,
A.
D.
1348.
that
he
travell'd
to
most
of
the
Libraries
of
England
;
and
,
out
of
his
Collections
thence
,
compil'd
a
notable
History
of
this
Kingdom
,
from
the
coming
in
of
the
Saxons
down
to
his
own
time
.
Ran.
Higden
[
s
](A52335-e37080-b)
s
Jta
Ioh.
Pits
,
p.
517.
Verum
Balae●s
,
Anno
1363.
A.
D.
1377
)
was
an
industrious
Historian
,
a
great
Follower
of
Florence
of
Worcester
and
others
of
our
best
Writers
;
Vnicuique
Authorum
suorum
honorem
integrum
servans
,
says
Bale
.
The
Character
might
be
true
for
any
thing
(
perhaps
)
he
knew
:
But
't
is
that
Writer's
way
to
give
accounts
of
Men
and
their
Labours
at
random
.
It
is
very
evident
that
,
on
the
Contrary
,
he
falls
foul
on
William
of
Malmesbury
in
many
places
;
and
yet
that
person
is
thought
to
have
deserv'd
a
Respect
,
and
is
usually
better
treated
by
all
our
other
Historians
.
He
is
pleas'd
to
stile
his
Work
Polychronicon
:
And
,
if
you
spell
the
first
Letters
of
the
several
Chapters
that
begin
it
,
you
read
Praesentem
Chronicam
conpilavit
Ranulphus
Monachus
Cestrensis
.
What
he
wrote
relating
to
the
times
of
the
Britains
and
Saxons
has
been
lately
[
t
](A52335-e37220-b)
t
Hist.
Brit.
Vol.
I.
Fol.
Oxon.
1691.
publish'd
by
Dr.
Gale
,
who
commends
him
for
preserving
many
Remains
out
of
ancient
Chronicles
,
now
wholly
lost
or
mislaid
.
(
I
have
a
Parchment
Manuscript
of
this
History
,
which
seems
to
be
a
better
Copy
than
what
the
Learned
Doctor
made
use
of
.
)
The
rest
was
first
translated
into
English
by
John
de
Trevisa
(
a
[
u
](A52335-e37260-b)
u
J.
Pits
,
p.
567.
Cornish
Man
born
,
and
some
time
Vicar
of
Berkeley
in
Glocestershire
)
who
illustrated
the
whole
with
Annotations
of
his
own
,
says
my
Author
:
But
they
[
x
](A52335-e37310-b)
x
Vid.
Vsserii
Hist.
Dogm
.
Edit.
ab
Hen.
Wharton
,
p.
157
,
439.
that
know
the
matter
better
have
observ'd
aright
that
the
many
Interpolations
and
Additions
in
W.
Caxton's
English
Edition
,
are
the
Publishers
and
not
Trevisa's
.
And
so
is
also
the
Continuation
down
to
the
year
1460.
For
Caxton
expressly
takes
it
upon
himself
,
tho
our
famous
[
y
](A52335-e37370-b)
y
In
Praefat.
ad
10.
Script
.
Selden
says
't
was
the
Work
of
Trevisa
,
who
(
if
the
great
Man
were
not
mistaken
)
must
have
penn'd
it
near
a
hundred
years
after
his
death
.
John
Vicar
of
Tinmouth
[
z
](A52335-e37450-b)
z
J.
Pits
,
p.
500.
Monk
of
St.
Albans
,
A.
D.
1366
)
was
a
mighty
Collector
of
our
English
Histories
,
which
he
has
left
digested
in
to
three
very
large
Volumes
;
whereof
there
are
now
fair
Copies
in
the
Libraries
at
Oxford
,
Lamboth
,
&c.
This
Work
he
was
pleas'd
to
call
Histori●●
〈◊〉
,
and
,
for
that
reason
,
the
Author
himself
is
by
[
a
](A52335-e37490-b)
a
Assert
.
Arth.
&
alibi
.
Leland
named
Chrysistoriographus
.
Out
of
this
large
Mass
many
notable
Remarks
have
been
made
by
the
learned
Men
of
this
Age
:
But
,
because
they
chiefly
relate
to
the
doughty
Feats
and
Miracles
of
our
English
Saints
,
as
well
as
his
other
Works
that
more
professedly
treat
on
that
Subject
,
we
shall
defer
the
further
consideration
of
him
to
[
b
](A52335-e37530-b)
b
Chap.
13.
another
place
.
To
humour
Bale
,
Pits
and
Vossius
,
[
c
](A52335-e37620-b)
c
Vid.
H.
Wharton
,
Praef.
ad
Angl.
S.
c.
Par.
I.
p.
32
,
33.
ended
his
History
,
tho
't
was
afterwards
(
as
we
shall
see
anon
)
continued
by
other
hands
.
He
was
a
choice
Collector
of
the
Flowers
of
former
Historians
,
from
whence
,
and
from
the
Title
of
his
Book
;
he
is
usually
styl'd
Florilegus
.
His
chief
Benefactoris
Matthew
Paris
,
whom
he
so
accurately
transcribes
,
that
he
cannot
be
perswaded
to
leave
him
,
even
when
he
warmly
treats
of
the
particulars
of
his
own
Monastery
of
St.
Albans
.
Nay
,
he
sometimes
refers
(
in
Paris's
very
words
)
to
that
Author's
Addilamenta
,
as
to
a
Work
of
his
own
composure
;
and
hence
some
have
concluded
that
the
whole
,
even
that
part
which
precedes
the
Conquest
,
was
borrow'd
from
the
same
hand
.
But
I
can
hardly
agree
to
that
,
since
the
same
heedless
way
of
writing
(
unbecoming
the
Accuracy
of
M.
Paris
)
runs
through
both
of
'em
.
Hence
[
d
](A52335-e37700-b)
d
Ad
An.
489.
Vnde
Reges
Cantiae
usque
hodie
Aeskynges
vocantur
;
with
a
thousand
more
of
the
like
.
'T
is
most
likely
(
as
has
been
already
observ'd
)
that
R.
de
Wendover
was
a
common
Parent
to
both
the
Matthews
;
and
the
main
of
what
is
publisht
under
both
their
Names
came
from
that
hand
.
There
was
an
Edition
of
Westminster's
history
before
that
at
[
e
](A52335-e37770-b)
e
Fol.
A.
D.
1601.
Francfort
,
but
abominably
corrupt
and
imperfect
,
especially
after
the
year
1245.
the
Author
's
punctual
Relation
of
the
brisk
behaviour
of
our
Kings
and
Nobility
,
in
opposition
to
the
Encroachments
of
the
Roman
See
,
being
wretchedly
mangled
and
purloyn●d
.
Upon
this
bottom
John
Pits
divides
the
History
into
two
[
f
](A52335-e37810-b)
f
J.
Pits
,
p.
519.
several
Works
,
whereof
the
former
he
calls
Historia
ampla
,
which
(
says
he
)
is
that
which
was
publish'd
at
[
g
](A52335-e37840-b)
g
Fol.
A.
D.
1570.
London
;
and
the
other
Historiarum
Flores
.
The
Distinction
he
had
from
Bale
;
tho
the
Application
be
his
own
.
This
Report
seems
to
have
had
some
slender
Foundation
;
since
we
are
told
that
,
amongst
my
Lord
[
h
](A52335-e37880-b)
h
Catalog
.
Bibl.
Tennison
.
p.
1.
Clarendon's
Manuscripts
,
there
's
another
historical
Work
which
bears
the
Name
of
Flores
Historiarum
,
which
is
very
different
from
the
Printed
Copy
,
and
is
continu'd
near
forty
years
further
.
But
the
Reader
ought
to
know
that
there
are
many
anonymous
Historians
in
this
Kingdom
,
who
(
beginning
at
the
year
1307
,
)
manifestly
shew
that
they
chiefly
intended
to
continue
the
Work
of
Matthew
of
Westminster
.
The
most
eminent
(
indeed
)
of
his
Continuators
was
Adam
Merimuth
,
Canon
Regular
of
St.
Paul's
,
and
an
eminent
Civilian
,
who
in
the
latter
end
of
his
days
,
gave
himself
wholly
to
the
reading
and
writing
of
English
History
.
He
begins
his
Work
[
i
](A52335-e37970-b)
i
So
says
Pits
,
p.
531.
and
yet
Pety●'s
Quotation
runs
in
his
Ancient
Right
of
the
Commons
,
&c.
p.
30.
at
1302.
and
his
first
part
reaches
only
to
1343.
(
which
,
I
suppose
,
makes
the
Enlargement
in
my
Lord
Clarendon's
Copy
)
but
the
second
continues
the
Story
to
(
in
all
likelihood
,
the
year
of
his
own
Death
)
A.
D.
1300.
'T
is
observable
that
his
History
commences
at
Michaelmas
,
and
for
that
reason
,
he
always
afterwards
begins
the
New
Year
at
that
Feast
.
A
few
more
,
John
Staffort
,
a
Franciscan
●●iar
,
who
is
[
k
](A52335-e38070-b)
k
Pits
,
p.
523.
supposed
to
have
written
an
English
History
about
the
year
1800.
Tho.
Fuller
[
l
](A52335-e38110-b)
l
Worthies
in
Staffordshire
,
p.
45.
observes
very
well
that
the
exact
time
when
he
wrote
(
or
liv'd
)
is
not
known
〈◊〉
only
,
being
a
Francisean
(
and
that
,
I
doubt
,
is
not
very
certainly
known
neither
)
he
must
have
flourished
after
the
year
1226.
when
that
Order
first
came
into
England
;
and
,
being
quoted
by
John
Ross
,
must
come
in
before
1400.
2.
William
de
Packington
,
Secretary
and
Treasurer
to
the
Black
Prince
in
Gascoigne
,
wrote
a
Cronique
in
French
from
the
Ninth
year
of
King
John
down
to
(
his
own
time
)
1380.
out
of
which
several
Collections
have
been
made
by
[
m
](A52335-e38200-b)
m
MSS.
Tom.
1.
p.
657.
Leland
,
[
n
](A52335-e38220-b)
n
Chron
in
RR.
Joh.
Ed.
I.
&c.
Stow
and
others
.
3.
Henry
de
Knyghton
,
one
of
the
Canons
of
Leicester
,
whose
[
o
](A52335-e38270-b)
o
De
Eventibrs
Angliae
Fol.
Lond.
1652.
inter
10.
Scrip.
History
may
be
said
to
begin
at
the
Conquest
,
since
he
has
only
a
short
Abstract
of
the
Saxon
Affairs
in
his
first
Book
.
It
is
continued
down
to
the
year
1395.
He
fairly
owns
what
he
transcribes
from
Ralph
Higden
;
whom
he
imitates
also
in
the
Crotchet
of
making
the
fifteen
first
Chapters
of
his
Second
Book
give
his
Name
in
their
Initial
Letters
,
thus
:
HENRICVS
CNITTON
.
'T
is
plain
that
neither
Leland
,
Bale
nor
Pits
,
had
ever
seen
this
Work
.
An
Encouragement
to
the
industrious
Antiquaries
of
this
Age
to
continue
their
Enquiries
after
such
Histories
as
are
presum'd
to
be
irrecoverably
lost
.
4.
Galf
,
Lingius
(
a
Franciscan
of
Norwich
,
about
the
year
1390.
)
is
also
[
p
](A52335-e38360-b)
p
J.
Pits
,
p.
555.
said
to
have
compil'd
a
History
of
this
Kingdom
,
from
the
coming
in
of
Brutus
,
down
to
his
own
Time
.
1401.
J.
Froissart
.
The
fifteenth
Century
was
one
of
the
most
rude
and
illiterate
Ages
,
and
therefore
we
are
not
to
look
for
a
large
Harvest
of
Historians
,
in
a
Dearth
and
Scarcity
of
Persons
eminent
in
other
parts
of
Learning
.
Sir
John
Froissart
(
sometime
Canon
[
q
](A52335-e38430-b)
q
See
his
Hist.
Vol.
II.
cap.
200.
and
Treasurer
of
Chimay
in
the
Diocess
of
Liege
)
justly
deserves
to
be
placed
first
,
as
having
ended
his
Life
and
Story
about
the
beginning
of
it
.
His
Work
contains
a
General
History
of
the
Affairs
of
France
,
Spain
,
and
other
parts
of
Europe
,
as
well
as
England
;
tho
it
chiefly
insists
on
those
of
this
Nation
.
The
Author
was
a
Frenchman
born
,
but
was
brought
up
,
in
his
Youth
,
in
the
Court
of
our
King
Edward
the
Third
;
and
,
many
years
after
,
familiarly
conversant
in
King
Richard
the
Second's
.
He
wrote
in
his
own
Native
Language
,
which
was
also
,
in
his
Time
,
the
[
r
](A52335-e38520-b)
r
Selden's
Tit.
of
Hon.
p.
635.
Court-Language
of
England
.
The
Copies
that
were
taken
of
him
in
French
(
as
well
Manuscript
as
in
[
s
](A52335-e38560-b)
s
Fol.
Paris
.
31
Vol.
1505.
Print
)
are
generally
faulty
and
corrupt
in
Names
and
Numbers
;
whereas
the
Author
himself
,
being
perfectly
acquainted
with
the
English
Court
and
Customs
,
could
not
well
mistake
.
Most
of
these
Errors
are
corrected
in
the
English
Edition
,
which
was
published
by
Sir
John
Bourchier
,
Deputy
of
Calais
,
at
the
Command
of
King
Henry
the
Eighth
,
towards
the
latter
end
of
his
Reign
.
His
Account
of
matters
seems
to
be
plain
and
honest
;
and
perhaps
none
gives
a
better
of
the
Affairs
of
Edward
the
Third
,
and
(
his
unfortunate
Successor
)
Richard
the
Second
.
Sleidan
epitomiz'd
his
History
in
[
t
](A52335-e38650-b)
t
Quarto
Heydelberg
.
1587.
Latin
;
but
has
not
done
it
with
that
impartiality
and
fairness
that
might
have
been
expected
from
a
Man
of
his
great
Name
.
Take
the
Censure
which
our
learned
Humphry
Lhuid
long
since
gave
of
that
piece
and
its
Author
:
[
u
](A52335-e38680-b)
u
Comment.
Brit.
Descrip.
fol.
27.
a.
Dum
Gallico
Nomini
nimium
faveret
,
Anglorum
Nobilissima
Gesta
aut
Silentio
praeteritt
,
aut
,
ab
Authore
dissentiens
,
aliter
,
quam
á
Froissardo
scriptum
est
,
literis
commendavit
.
After
him
follow
,
Tho.
Otterburn
,
a
Franciscan
Friar
of
some
of
our
English
Monasteries
about
the
year
1411.
whose
MS.
History
is
[
x
](A52335-e38770-b)
x
Monast.
Angl.
Tom.
II.
p.
468.
said
to
be
in
our
publick
Library
at
Oxford
.
2.
Tho.
Radburn
,
Bishop
of
St.
Davids
,
[
y
](A52335-e38800-b)
y
Godwin
.
de
Praesul
.
in
St.
David
.
and
C●ancellor
of
the
University
of
Oxford
,
A.
D.
1420.
He
is
usually
quoted
by
the
Name
of
Radburn
●enior
,
to
distinguish
him
from
another
little
Chronicler
of
both
his
Names
,
who
was
a
Monk
of
St.
Swithin's
in
Winchester
,
and
Joh.
Ross's
great
Acquaintance
.
This
latter
wrote
two
Books
of
our
General
History
;
the
one
whereof
he
stiles
[
z
](A52335-e38880-b)
z
MS.
Bibl.
Cotton
.
Nero
,
A.
17.
Breviarium
Chronicorum
,
which
begins
at
Brute
,
and
ends
A.
D.
1234.
After
the
Conquest
he
copies
most
from
M.
Paris
,
and
is
very
unhappy
in
his
Chronological
part
His
[
a
](A52335-e38940-b)
a
MS.
in
Bibl.
Lambeth
.
&
Coll.
Ben.
Cantab
.
Historia
Major
(
as
he
calls
his
other
Work
)
consists
of
large
Collections
out
of
other
common
Historians
,
save
only
in
what
relates
to
the
Church
of
Winchester
.
3
John
Sherburn
,
a
Monk
,
who
wrote
[
b
](A52335-e38970-b)
b
MS.
inter
Codd
.
D.
Com.
Clarendon
.
Chronica
Britannorum
,
from
the
first
coming
in
of
the
Trojans
,
to
the
Reign
of
Henry
the
Sixth
.
4.
John
Henfield
,
a
Monk
of
Battle-Abby
,
who
drew
an
[
c
](A52335-e39030-b)
c
8vo
.
MS.
in
Bibl.
D.
Com.
Carliol
.
Abstract
of
our
Chronicles
down
to
the
same
time
.
5.
John
Langden
,
[
d
](A52335-e39060-b)
d
J.
Pits
,
p.
607.
Bishop
of
Rochester
,
who
possibly
is
all
one
with
John
Langton
,
(
another
of
the
same
[
e
](A52335-e39100-b)
e
Id.
p.
625.
authentic
Gentleman's
Historians
)
a
Carmelite
Friar
,
who
is
said
to
die
at
the
Council
of
Basil
,
A.
D.
1434.
Tho.
Walsingham
,
Regius
Professor
of
History
in
that
Monastery
,
about
the
year
1440.
)
made
something
a
better
figure
than
the
last
mention'd
;
and
accordingly
both
his
Historia
brevis
and
his
Hypodigma
Neustriae
,
have
had
the
honour
to
be
publish'd
by
Archbishop
[
f
](A52335-e39190-b)
f
Fol.
Lond.
1574.
Parker
.
His
short
History
begins
at
the
Conclusion
of
Henry
the
Third's
Reign
,
where
M.
Paris
ended
his
:
And
he
might
well
seem
to
be
Paris's
Continuator
,
were
his
Language
answerable
to
his
matter
.
The
account
he
gives
is
well
enough
,
and
we
are
indebted
to
him
for
many
things
not
taken
notice
of
by
any
other
Writer
of
those
times
.
Indeed
,
his
Reign
of
King
Edward
the
Second
is
wholly
borrow'd
from
Sir
Thomas
de
la
More
.
His
Ypodigma
Neustriae
(
as
he
calls
it
)
has
a
more
particular
regard
to
the
Affairs
of
Normandy
;
giving
an
account
(
at
large
)
of
that
Dukedom
,
from
the
time
it
came
first
into
the
hands
of
Rollo
and
his
Danes
,
down
to
the
Sixth
year
of
Henry
the
Fifth
;
wherein
the
Reader
will
find
many
Occurrences
not
elsewhere
to
be
met
with
.
About
the
same
time
wrote
John
Wethamstede
,
the
first
[
g
](A52335-e39320-b)
g
J.
Stow's
Pref.
to
his
Chron.
Opposer
of
the
story
of
King
Brutus
;
and
Nicolas
Cantelupus
(
the
Cambridge
Historiographer
)
who
is
also
reported
to
have
penn'd
a
[
h
](A52335-e39370-b)
h
Pits
,
p
635.
General
Chronicle
of
England
.
The
next
Historian
of
Note
was
John
Harding
a
,
[
i
](A52335-e39430-b)
i
Id.
p.
653.
Bale
,
Cent.
8.
cap.
30.
Englishman
,
and
an
inveterate
Enemy
to
the
Scottish
Nation
;
against
whom
he
carry'd
Arms
in
several
Expeditions
.
He
collected
out
of
all
our
Histories
whatever
might
tend
to
the
proof
of
the
ancient
Vassalage
of
that
Kingdom
to
the
Crown
of
England
;
and
,
hearing
there
was
in
Scotland
an
old
Record
that
put
the
matter
beyond
dispute
,
he
went
(
with
great
hazard
)
thither
in
disguise
,
and
,
with
much
ado
,
brought
it
away
,
and
shew'd
it
.
to
Hen.
V.
Hen.
VI.
and
Edw.
IV.
To
the
last
of
these
he
dedicated
his
two
Books
of
Chronicles
in
English
Rhime
;
whereof
the
curious
Reader
may
have
a
taste
in
some
of
our
Modern
[
k
](A52335-e39530-b)
k
Vid.
Aelfr
.
mag.
vit.
p.
63.
Writers
.
It
appears
he
was
living
(
tho
very
old
)
in
the
year
1461.
So
that
Nic.
Montacute
(
about
that
time
[
l
](A52335-e39550-b)
l
J.
Pits
,
p.
656
,
657.
Master
of
Eaton-School
,
and
a
Collector
of
English
History
)
may
be
reckon'd
his
Cotemporary
;
as
may
also
Roger
Albanus
,
a
[
m
](A52335-e39600-b)
m
Id.
p.
644.
Carmelite
of
London
,
who
drew
up
the
Genealogies
of
some
of
our
Kings
.
William
Caxton
St.
Albans
,
says
John
Pits
,
very
[
n
](A52335-e39740-b)
n
J.
Pits
,
p.
670
,
671.
unadvisedly
)
he
continu'd
it
in
English
,
giving
it
only
the
Latin
Title
of
[
o
](A52335-e39780-b)
o
Fol.
Lond.
1515.
Fructus
Temporum
.
How
small
a
portion
of
this
Work
is
owing
to
this
Author
,
has
been
observ'd
before
;
but
he
now
usually
bears
the
Name
of
the
whole
,
which
begins
with
the
first
inhabiting
of
his
Island
,
and
ends
(
the
last
year
of
Edward
the
fourth
)
A.
D.
1483.
The
opportunities
he
had
,
of
being
acquainted
with
the
Court-Transactions
of
his
own
time
,
would
encourage
his
Reader
to
hope
for
great
matters
from
him
;
but
his
fancy
seem
to
have
led
him
into
an
Undertaking
above
his
strength
.
John
Rosse
,
[
p
](A52335-e39870-b)
p
Vid.
Hist.
&
Antiq.
Oxon.
Par.
II.
p.
77.
and
bred
at
Oxford
.
He
travell'd
over
the
greatest
part
of
England
;
and
,
having
made
large
Collections
out
of
the
Libraries
where
he
came
,
relating
to
the
History
and
Antiquities
of
this
Kingdom
,
he
at
last
retir'd
to
Guy's
Cliff
(
about
a
mile
from
Warwick
,
on
the
Banks
of
Avon
)
where
he
spent
the
Remainder
of
his
Life
,
and
dy'd
A.
D.
1491.
His
History
of
our
Kings
is
still
[
q
](A52335-e39940-b)
q
MS.
Bibl.
Cotton
.
&
Coll.
Ben.
Cantabr
.
extant
;
wherein
are
many
Collections
illustrating
the
Antiquities
of
our
Universities
.
Hereupon
,
he
is
frequently
quoted
by
our
Oxford-Antriquary
;
who
nevertheless
will
not
allow
that
his
Judgment
equall'd
his
Pains
.
1501.
R.
Fabian
.
The
first
Post
in
the
Sixteenth
Century
is
due
to
Rob.
Fabian
,
an
eminent
Merchant
,
(
and
some
time
Sheriff
of
London
,
where
he
dy'd
A.
D.
1512.
Both
Bale
and
Pits
subdivide
his
historical
Writings
into
a
great
many
several
Treatises
;
but
I
presume
that
which
they
call
his
Historiarum
Concordantiae
is
the
sum
of
all
.
This
Chronicle
is
[
r
](A52335-e40050-b)
r
Fol.
Lond.
1559.
publisht
,
and
does
indeed
consist
of
seven
parts
,
whereof
the
six
first
bring
down
his
Story
from
Brutus
to
William
the
Conqueror
,
and
are
chiefly
taken
out
of
Jeoffry
of
Monmouth
;
and
the
Seventh
gives
an
account
of
our
several
Kings
from
the
Conquest
of
Henry
the
VII
.
He
is
very
particular
in
the
Affairs
of
London
,
many
good
things
being
noted
by
him
(
which
concern
the
Government
of
that
great
City
)
hardly
to
be
had
elsewhere
.
He
gives
the
Names
of
all
the
Bailiffs
,
Mayors
,
and
Sheriffs
,
with
the
chief
Transactions
in
their
several
Years
;
but
,
in
other
matters
,
he
is
a
great
Follower
of
R.
Higden
.
He
mixes
all
along
the
French
History
with
the
English
;
but
in
different
Chapters
.
He
translates
his
Authors
very
literally
;
whence
Monmouth's
Phrase
of
Ferro
&
Flamma
vastare
is
render'd
[
s
](A52335-e40170-b)
s
P.
42.
&c.
to
wast
with
Iron
and
Fire
,
&
c.
In
the
beginning
of
his
Seventh
part
he
observes
Higden's
method
of
making
his
Years
commence
at
Michaelmas
;
by
which
the
Reader
will
understand
how
William
the
Conqueror
comes
to
begin
his
Reign
in
October
1067.
Cardinal
Woolsey
is
said
to
have
procur'd
all
the
Copies
of
this
History
,
that
he
could
meet
with
,
to
be
burn'd
;
because
(
says
my
[
t
](A52335-e40240-b)
t
Bale
,
Cent.
8.
cap.
62.
Author
,
who
is
not
infallible
either
in
his
Reasons
or
Relations
)
the
Church's
Patrimony
was
thereby
too
plainly
discover'd
.
This
Cardinal
's
Menial
Servant
(
John
Skuish
,
Squisus
,
or
Squisius
)
is
[
u
](A52335-e40280-b)
u
Id.
Cent.
9.
cap.
19.
&
I.
Pits
,
p.
709.
reported
to
have
compil'd
a
notable
Epitome
of
our
Chronicles
about
the
Year
1630.
but
I
am
not
able
to
direct
the
Reader
where
to
meet
with
it
.
Polydore
Virgil
[
a
](A52335-e40330-b)
a
J.
Leland
.
Comment.
ad
Cygn
.
Cant.
voce
Isis.
severest
Enemy
he
had
has
acknowledg'd
of
him
;
and
,
on
this
score
alone
,
[
b
](A52335-e40360-b)
b
Sir
Tho.
Craig's
Scotl.
Soveraignt
.
p.
20
,
38
,
44
,
181.
some
have
unreasonably
extoll'd
him
.
But
there
's
so
little
of
the
other
more
Necessary
Qualifications
of
a
good
Historian
(
Truth
and
Fair
Dealing
)
in
all
his
[
c
](A52335-e40380-b)
c
Fol.
Basil.
1534.
Twently-six
Books
,
that
he
has
been
justly
condemn'd
by
our
Criticks
:
and
't
is
no
wonder
that
some
of
them
have
express'd
an
Indignation
suitable
to
the
Abuses
put
upon
their
Country
.
Sir
Henry
Savil
is
warmer
on
this
occasion
than
is
usual
with
him
.
[
d
](A52335-e40400-b)
d
Epist.
Ded.
ad
5
Script
.
post
Bedam
.
Polydorus
(
says
he
)
ut
homo
Italus
,
&
in
rebus
nostris
Hospes
,
&
(
quod
Caput
est
)
neque
in
Republicâ
versatus
,
nec
magni
alioqui
vel
Judicii
,
vel
Ingenii
,
pauca
ex
multis
delibans
,
&
falsa
plerumque
pro
veris
complexus
,
Historiam
nobis
reliquit
cùm
coetera
mendosam
,
tùm
exiliter
sanè
&
jejunè
conscriptam
.
Some
have
fansy'd
that
the
severe
Character
which
Sir
Henry
is
here
pleas'd
to
give
of
this
Author
,
might
chiefly
by
apply'd
to
the
History
of
Henry
the
Eighth
:
And
that
a
great
many
Passages
in
that
Reign
may
be
darkly
or
falsly
represented
by
him
,
by
reason
of
his
being
unacquainted
with
the
English
Tongue
;
which
could
not
but
very
much
obstruct
his
Knowledge
in
Modern
Transactions
.
Other
things
,
say
[
e
](A52335-e40480-b)
e
Vid.
Mantiss
.
ad
Deg.
Wheàr
.
Method
.
&c.
p.
143.
they
,
have
fallen
from
him
under
a
borrow'd
Light
and
Colour
,
out
of
the
Respect
he
had
for
Queen
Mary
,
and
his
great
Inclinations
to
serve
the
Interests
of
that
Princess
.
But
does
not
even
this
Apology
carry
a
deal
of
Invective
in
it
?
Sir
Henry
Savil
is
far
from
being
singular
in
the
severest
part
of
his
Censure
.
Some
of
our
late
[
f
](A52335-e40520-b)
f
Not.
in
Aelfr
.
R.
Vit.
p.
152.
Writers
have
agreed
to
it
;
and
his
Cotemporary
Humph.
Lhuyd
out-throws
him
a
Bar
or
two
.
For
,
what
think
you
of
these
[
g
](A52335-e40540-b)
g
Comment.
Brit.
Descrip.
Frag.
fol.
6
,
17
,
19
,
&c.
Expressions
?
Nominis
Britannici
gloriam
non
solum
obfuscare
,
sed
etiam
Britannos
ipsos
mendacissimis
suis
Calumniis
infamare
totis
viribus
conatur
.
—
Homo
Ignotus
&
Exterus
.
—
Vir
perfrictae
frontis
—
Invidiâ
&
odio
tumens
.
—
Infamis
Homunculus
.
—
Os
Impudens
.
Nor
ought
any
thing
of
this
to
be
attributed
to
an
over-boyling
of
honest
Humphrey's
Welsh
Blood
,
if
the
other
Matters
he
's
accus'd
on
be
true
.
He
is
said
to
have
[
h
](A52335-e40600-b)
h
Hist.
Oxon.
Lib.
2.
p.
50.
borrow'd
Books
out
of
the
publick
Library
at
Oxford
,
without
taking
any
Care
to
restore
them
:
Upon
which
the
University
(
as
they
had
good
reason
)
declin'd
lending
any
more
,
till
forc'd
to
it
by
a
Mandate
which
he
made
a
shift
to
procure
from
the
King
.
In
other
places
he
likewise
pillag'd
the
[
i
](A52335-e40620-b)
i
S.
Taylor
's
Gavelk
.
p.
83
,
84.
Libraries
at
his
pleasure
;
and
,
at
last
,
sent
over
a
[
k
](A52335-e40640-b)
k
Th.
Gale
,
Praef.
ad
Hist.
Angl.
Tom.
1.
whole
Ship-load
of
Manuscripts
to
Rome
.
And
yet
when
this
Publican
himself
left
England
(
when
there
was
no
further
occasion
for
his
Collecting
the
Papal
Revenues
)
King
Edward
the
Sixth
is
said
to
have
dismiss'd
him
with
several
handsome
Presents
:
Which
we
are
not
to
look
upon
as
a
Reward
,
as
a
certain
[
l
](A52335-e40700-b)
l
Ant.
Harmer
,
p.
95.
late
Writer
expresses
it
;
but
rather
to
consider
,
that
the
young
King
being
about
to
take
his
final
leave
of
the
Pope
,
and
all
that
belong'd
to
him
,
resolv'd
to
do
it
as
courteously
as
was
possible
.
The
other
Historians
of
his
Time
have
been
much
Eclips'd
by
the
glaring
Lustre
of
this
Foreigner
;
John
Rastal
,
a
Citizen
and
Printer
in
London
(
who
marry'd
Sir
Thomas
Meer's
Sister
,
and
died
A.
D.
1536.
)
wrote
an
[
m
](A52335-e40790-b)
m
Ath.
Oxon.
vol.
I.
p.
38.
&
J.
Pits
,
p.
726.
English
Chronicle
;
but
I
know
no
more
where
to
find
it
than
another
of
the
same
Age
,
written
by
Richard
Turpin
a
Leicestershire
Gentleman
,
and
an
Officer
in
the
Garrison
at
Calais
,
which
I
find
quoted
by
his
[
n
](A52335-e40850-b)
n
Burton
,
Descript.
Lei●
.
p.
153.
Countryman
.
Tho.
Lanquet
(
who
died
at
London
in
the
twenty-fourth
year
of
his
Age
,
A.
D.
1545.
)
began
an
Abbreviation
of
our
Chronicles
,
but
brought
it
no
lower
than
the
Birth
of
our
Saviour
.
Its
third
part
,
which
chiefly
relates
to
this
Kingdom
,
was
written
by
the
Learned
Tho.
Cowper
(
afterwards
Bishop
of
Winchester
)
and
by
him
[
o
](A52335-e40920-b)
o
4to
Lond.
1560.
published
.
He
calls
it
,
as
justly
he
may
,
an
Epitome
of
our
Chronicles
,
and
't
is
a
Meagre
one
too
,
far
short
of
the
Performances
of
the
same
Author
on
other
Subjects
.
The
like
slender
Abstract
of
our
English
History
was
,
about
the
same
time
,
penn'd
by
George
Lily
(
son
of
William
the
Famous
Grammarian
)
which
,
together
with
his
short
Account
of
the
Wars
betwixt
the
Houses
of
York
and
Lancaster
,
and
his
Genealogy
of
our
Kings
,
has
had
several
[
p
](A52335-e40990-b)
p
4to
Venet.
1548.
Francof
.
1565.
Basil.
1567.
&c.
Impressions
.
Somewhat
bulkier
is
the
Work
of
Edward
Hall
,
who
was
some
time
Recorder
(
if
I
understand
my
[
q
](A52335-e41010-b)
q
J.
Pits
,
p.
735.
Vid.
etiam
Fuller's
Worthies
,
p.
219.
in
London
.
Author
right
)
of
London
,
where
he
died
A.
D.
1547.
He
wrote
a
large
Account
of
the
foremention'd
Wars
;
which
,
in
a
very
flattering
Epistle
,
he
dedicates
to
Henry
the
Eighth
.
If
the
Reader
desires
to
know
what
sort
of
Cloaths
were
worn
in
each
King's
Reign
,
and
how
the
Fashions
alter'd
,
this
is
an
Historian
for
his
purpose
;
but
in
other
Matters
his
Information
is
not
very
valuable
.
A
great
Borrower
from
this
Hall
was
Rich.
Grafton
,
who
(
as
[
r
](A52335-e41100-b)
r
Hist.
Scot.
lib.
8.
Buchanan
rightly
observes
)
was
a
very
heedless
and
unskilful
Writer
;
and
yet
he
has
the
Honour
done
him
to
be
sometimes
quoted
by
Stow
and
others
.
Of
much
better
Note
are
the
joynt
Will
.
Harrison
and
Ra.
Holinshead
,
whose
[
s
](A52335-e41170-b)
s
Fol.
Lond.
1577
,
1587
,
&c.
Chronicle
has
been
well
receiv'd
,
and
still
bears
a
good
Port
among
our
Books
of
that
kind
.
These
Authors
are
[
t
](A52335-e41180-b)
t
Ath.
Oxon.
vol.
I.
p.
189.
&
270.
suppos'd
to
have
been
both
Clergy-men
;
but
't
is
not
certainly
known
where
they
spent
the
most
of
their
days
.
So
remarkably
careful
have
they
been
to
benefit
the
Publick
,
without
the
Vanity
of
making
their
own
Story
known
to
Posterity
.
Holinshead
frequently
owns
the
great
Assistance
he
had
from
Fran.
Thynne
,
sometime
(
in
the
Reign
of
Queen
Elizabeth
)
Lancaster-Herald
,
and
an
eminent
Antiquary
.
He
has
been
severely
treated
by
[
u
](A52335-e41220-b)
u
Scotland's
Sover
.
8vo
Lond.
1695.
pertotum
.
Sir
Thomas
Craig
,
for
some
Insolencies
which
that
Learned
Gentleman
suppos'd
him
guilty
of
,
in
Relation
to
the
Kingdom
of
Scotland
:
Whereas
(
in
Truth
)
that
part
of
the
Book
no
farther
concern'd
poor
Mr.
Holinshead
,
than
as
the
whole
was
sheltered
under
his
Name
.
In
the
second
Edition
the
History
was
continu'd
(
to
the
year
1586.
)
by
John
Hooker
,
alias
Vowel
,
of
whom
we
shall
have
occasion
to
make
some
further
mention
hereafter
.
1601.
J.
Stow.
Industrious
John
Stow
leads
the
Van
in
the
present
Century
,
which
is
now
brought
near
its
Conclusion
:
And
he
well
deserves
to
be
remember'd
with
Honour
.
He
was
a
Member
of
the
Merchant-Taylors
Company
in
London
,
and
(
as
has
been
already
observ'd
)
a
special
Benefactor
to
that
City
,
in
enquiring
after
and
preserving
its
Antiquities
and
Records
.
He
travell'd
(
on
[
w
](A52335-e41340-b)
w
See
his
Chronicle
published
by
Howes
,
p.
811.
foot
)
through
a
good
part
of
England
,
in
search
after
the
Manuscript
Historians
in
the
Libraries
of
our
Cathedral
Churches
,
and
was
very
exact
and
Critical
in
his
Collections
.
Having
spent
above
Forty
Years
in
these
Studies
,
he
was
put
upon
the
Correction
and
Publishing
of
Reyne
Wolf's
Chronicle
by
Archbishop
Whitgift
;
and
he
had
fairly
transcrib'd
his
Work
,
and
made
it
ready
for
the
Press
,
when
he
died
A.
D.
1605.
He
always
protested
(
and
we
may
take
his
honest
word
for
it
)
that
he
never
was
sway'd
by
Favour
or
Fear
in
any
of
his
Writings
;
but
that
he
had
impartially
to
the
best
of
his
Knowledge
,
deliver'd
the
Truth
.
This
good
Opinion
the
greatest
of
our
later
Historians
seem
to
have
of
him
,
since
even
Sir
Francis
Bacon
and
Mr.
Camden
(
not
to
mention
others
of
a
less
Repute
)
have
boldly
taken
several
things
upon
his
single
Credit
,
and
(
sometimes
)
without
being
so
just
as
to
own
their
Benefactor
.
Upon
his
Death
,
the
Revising
and
Continuation
of
his
Book
was
committed
to
Ed.
Howes
,
who
says
he
bestow'd
thirty
Years
in
bringing
it
into
that
good
Order
and
Method
in
which
we
[
x
](A52335-e41430-b)
x
Fol.
Lond.
1631.
now
see
it
.
He
is
very
Unfortunate
,
if
(
after
so
great
Pains
)
he
be
justly
liable
to
the
sharp
Sentence
that
[
y
](A52335-e41440-b)
y
Tho.
Fuller's
Worthies
,
p.
220
,
221.
in
London
.
one
has
pass'd
upon
him
;
That
he
's
as
far
short
of
Mr.
Stow
in
Goodness
,
as
〈◊〉
Age
is
of
the
Integrity
and
Charity
of
those
that
went
before
it
.
I
am
abundantly
sensible
of
the
Degenetacy
of
our
Age
,
and
how
Corrupt
our
Morals
are
,
beyond
the
Precedents
of
former
Times
:
But
how
applicable
this
grave
Comparison
may
be
to
Mr.
Howes
,
I
know
not
:
He
does
indeed
say
some
great
things
of
King
James
and
King
Charles
;
and
if
that
be
a
Fault
in
him
.
't
is
transgressing
with
a
Multitude
.
Not
long
after
Mr.
Stow
,
died
R.
White
(
Vitus
he
calls
himself
)
Canon
of
Doway
,
who
left
nine
[
z
](A52335-e41550-b)
z
8vo
Duac
.
1602.
Books
of
our
English
,
or
rather
British
,
History
,
in
a
pretty
elegant
Latin
Style
:
His
business
is
to
assert
the
Rights
of
the
Papacy
in
this
Kingdom
;
and
therefore
having
setled
Religion
by
Augustine
the
Monk
and
other
Emissaries
,
he
ends
his
Story
A.
D.
800.
Our
next
Historian
of
Eminence
was
Sam.
Daniel
,
[
a
](A52335-e41670-b)
a
Fol.
Lond.
1618
,
1621
,
&c.
Impressions
.
It
was
afterwards
enlarg'd
,
and
[
b
](A52335-e41680-b)
b
Fol.
Lond.
1638
,
&c.
continu'd
to
the
end
of
King
Richard
the
Third's
Reign
,
by
John
Trussel
Alderman
of
Winchester
,
who
has
not
had
the
Luck
to
have
either
his
Language
,
Matter
or
Method
,
so
well
approv'd
,
as
those
of
Mr.
Daniel
.
About
the
same
time
Will
.
Martyn
(
Recorder
of
Exeter
)
wrote
his
[
c
](A52335-e41750-b)
c
Fol.
Lond.
1616.
History
and
Lives
of
the
Kings
of
England
,
from
William
the
Conqueror
to
Henry
the
Eighth
.
This
came
recommended
to
the
World
by
the
Author
's
own
Sons
:
But
I
cannot
learn
that
any
other
Family
in
the
Nation
could
ever
discover
so
much
Worth
and
Beauty
in
the
Book
,
as
they
pretended
to
see
in
it
.
Upon
a
[
d
](A52335-e41790-b)
d
Fol.
Lond.
1638.
second
Edition
,
it
was
enlarg'd
(
by
R.
B.
Master
of
Arts
)
with
the
Reigns
of
Edward
the
Sixth
,
Queen
Mary
and
Queen
Elizabeth
.
John
Speed
(
who
〈◊〉
London
A.
D.
1619.
)
[
e
](A52335-e41880-b)
e
So
Fuller
in
his
Worthies
,
p.
181.
Taylor
?
However
,
we
may
boldly
say
that
his
Chronicle
is
the
largest
and
best
we
have
hitherto
Extant
:
It
begins
with
the
first
Inhabitants
of
the
Island
,
and
ends
with
the
Union
of
the
Kingdoms
under
King
James
,
to
whom
it
is
Dedicated
.
Tho'
some
[
f
](A52335-e41910-b)
f
Deg.
Whear
.
Method
.
p.
146.
say
he
spent
twice
seven
years
in
compiling
the
whole
,
he
himself
owns
he
made
more
haste
than
he
ought
to
have
done
;
and
that
he
was
forced
to
trust
a
deal
of
his
Work
in
the
hands
of
his
Friends
and
Journey-men
.
And
the
Truth
of
this
honest
Acknowledgment
and
Confession
is
obvious
enough
to
a
discerning
Reader
;
who
will
easily
find
a
mighty
Difference
in
the
Style
,
as
well
as
Matter
,
of
several
of
the
Reigns
.
Those
of
King
John
and
Henry
the
Second
,
were
written
by
Dr.
Barcham
[
g
](A52335-e41960-b)
g
Ath.
Oxon.
vol.
II.
p.
9
,
10.
,
Dean
of
Bocking
,
a
curious
Antiquary
,
who
has
done
them
answerably
to
the
good
Opinion
which
Men
of
Learning
had
of
him
.
Several
Remarkables
in
that
of
Henry
the
Fifth
were
Collected
by
[
h
](A52335-e41990-b)
h
Id.
vol.
I.
p.
452.
George
(
Carew
)
Earl
of
Totnes
;
as
was
his
Catalogue
of
the
Monasteries
by
[
i
](A52335-e42020-b)
i
Sir
H.
Spelm.
Concil.
Tom.
I.
p.
215.
Will
.
Burton
,
&c.
Sir
Richard
Baker
(
who
died
in
the
Fleet
,
A.
D.
1644.
)
Collected
with
so
great
Care
and
Diligence
,
that
,
if
all
other
of
our
Chronicles
were
lost
,
this
only
would
be
sufficient
to
inform
Posterity
of
all
Passages
Memorable
or
Worthy
to
be
known
.
His
Method
is
New
,
and
seems
to
please
the
Rabble
:
But
Learned
Men
will
be
of
another
Opinion
;
for
't
is
the
same
with
that
of
Sueronius
,
which
is
justly
complain'd
of
by
[
k
](A52335-e42120-b)
k
Praele●t
,
Ca●●den
,
p.
36.
Mr.
D●dwell
.
In
the
[
l
](A52335-e42140-b)
l
Fol.
Lond.
1641.
&
1663.
first
and
second
Editions
we
had
nothing
more
than
the
Author
's
own
Work
,
containing
the
History
of
our
Kings
from
the
Roman
Government
down
to
the
end
of
King
James
the
First
's
Reign
:
But
afterwards
it
was
[
m
](A52335-e42170-b)
m
Fol.
Lond.
1660
,
1671.
continu'd
to
the
Restoration
of
Charles
the
Second
,
by
Edward
Philips
;
who
(
having
the
perusal
of
some
of
the
Duke
of
[
n
](A52335-e42200-b)
n
〈◊〉
vol.
II.
p.
34.
Alb●●arle's
Papers
)
might
have
set
that
great
Revolution
in
its
true
Light
,
had
not
Ambition
and
Flattery
carry'd
him
beyond
Truth
and
his
Copy
.
Soon
after
these
Additions
were
publish'd
,
the
whole
Book
was
examin'd
by
Tho.
Blount
a
Barrister
of
the
Inner-Temple
,
who
[
o
](A52335-e42230-b)
o
8vo
Oxon.
1672.
printed
his
Animadversions
upon
it
,
and
gave
the
World
such
a
Specimen
of
its
many
and
gross
Errors
,
as
ought
to
have
shaken
its
Credit
.
And
yet
(
so
little
Regard
have
we
for
Truth
,
if
a
Story
be
but
handsomly
told
)
the
Chronicle
has
been
Reprinted
since
that
Time
,
and
Sells
as
well
as
ever
;
notwithstanding
that
no
notice
is
taken
of
the
Animadversions
,
but
all
the
old
Faults
remain
uncorrected
.
Mr.
Blount
himself
spent
some
Years
in
writing
an
[
p
](A52335-e42250-b)
p
Ath.
Oxon.
vol.
II.
p.
34.
English
Chronicle
,
which
we
may
believe
would
(
at
least
)
want
those
Errors
which
he
had
descry'd
in
the
Labours
of
other
Men
:
But
where
't
is
to
be
had
I
know
not
.
There
are
some
later
Histories
,
W.
Churchill
,
&c.
which
are
so
well
known
to
all
that
are
any
thing
Curious
in
these
Matters
,
that
I
need
do
little
more
than
mention
them
.
Such
are
,
1.
Sir
Winston
Churchill's
[
q
](A52335-e42310-b)
q
Fol.
Lond.
1675.
Di●i
Britannici
,
which
gives
the
Reader
a
diverting
View
of
the
Arms
and
Exploits
of
our
Kings
,
down
to
the
Restoration
in
1660.
2.
Fr.
Sandford's
[
r
](A52335-e42340-b)
r
Fol.
Lond.
1677.
Genealogical
History
of
the
Kings
of
England
and
Monarchs
of
Great
Britain
,
from
the
Norman
Conquest
to
the
year
1677.
with
their
several
Effigies
,
Seals
,
Tombs
,
Arms
,
&c.
3.
Let
me
add
Dr.
Hoel's
[
s
](A52335-e42400-b)
s
8vo
Lond.
1679.
Medulla
Historiae
Anglicanae
,
which
,
tho'
only
a
very
concise
Epitome
of
our
History
,
is
done
with
that
great
Judgment
,
that
it
deserves
a
place
among
the
best
of
our
Writers
on
this
Subject
.
There
have
been
some
Additions
made
to
this
Treatise
,
since
the
Doctor
's
death
in
1683.
which
(
whatever
Relish
they
may
have
with
some
Readers
)
are
not
to
be
laid
to
his
Charge
.
Others
,
we
hear
,
are
now
engaged
in
the
bold
Work
of
Compiling
General
Histories
of
this
Kingdom
.
The
most
considerable
of
these
are
Sir
John
Marsham
,
and
James
Tyrrel
Esq
and
,
if
the
former
writes
with
the
true
Spirit
of
his
Father
,
and
the
other
with
that
of
(
Archbishop
Vsher
)
his
Grandfather
,
we
have
good
cause
to
hope
for
great
things
from
them
both
.
There
are
also
many
Anonymous
Historians
,
Paris
,
Westminster
,
Hoveden
,
&c.
A
few
,
we
are
sure
,
are
not
of
this
kind
,
but
appear
to
be
of
good
value
in
themselves
,
tho'
of
an
unknown
Authority
.
Such
are
three
Manuscripts
of
good
Esteem
in
the
Library
at
Lambeth
,
sometimes
quoted
by
[
t
](A52335-e42500-b)
t
In
notis
ad
vol.
I.
Angl.
Sac.
p.
55
,
109
,
121.
Mr
Wharton
;
a
Fourth
,
referred
to
by
[
u
](A52335-e42520-b)
u
Hist.
Eccles.
Brit.
p.
72.
Archbishop
Vsher
;
a
Fifth
and
Sixth
by
[
w
](A52335-e42540-b)
w
Tit.
of
Hon.
p.
25
,
83.
Mr.
Selden
;
a
Seventh
now
in
the
Possession
of
,
my
worthy
Friend
,
Mr.
Thoresby
of
Leedes
in
Yorkshire
,
&c.
To
which
we
might
add
a
large
Scrole
of
those
that
bear
only
the
Names
of
such
Monasteries
as
they
were
penn'd
in
:
But
these
may
happen
to
be
remember'd
when
we
come
more
particularly
to
treat
of
the
Registers
and
Records
of
those
Religious
Houses
.
CHAP.
VI.
Of
the
Writers
of
Particular
Lives
of
our
Kings
since
the
Conquest
.
THE
Historians
that
have
been
already
mention'd
,
in
the
foregoing
Chapter
,
have
usually
treated
most
Copiously
of
the
Reigns
of
those
Princes
that
rul'd
in
their
own
Times
;
and
are
to
be
most
especially
consulted
in
such
Transactions
as
may
be
suppos'd
to
have
happen'd
within
the
Compass
of
their
own
View
and
Observation
.
Others
have
confin'd
their
Pens
to
the
History
of
this
or
the
other
particular
Monarch
;
and
from
them
(
if
not
manifestly
under
some
Prejudices
and
Temptations
either
to
Invective
or
Panegyrick
)
we
may
expect
the
best
and
most
comprehensive
Account
,
as
far
as
their
Subject
carries
them
.
Of
these
I
shall
give
the
Reader
as
full
a
List
as
I
can
;
following
the
Succession
down
to
the
Union
of
the
two
Kingdoms
.
William
the
First
's
Conquest
(
or
[
a
](A52335-e42650-b)
a
vid.
H.
Spelm.
Gloss.
in
voce
Conquaestus
.
Acquest
)
[
b
](A52335-e42730-b)
b
Bale
(
Edit.
1.
)
Cent.
2.
cap.
28.
is
said
to
have
written
his
Life
also
;
and
he
is
observ'd
to
have
been
so
well
affected
towards
the
English
Nation
(
tho'
a
Lombard
himself
)
and
to
have
carry'd
so
even
betwixt
their
New
Governour
and
them
,
that
't
is
very
probable
he
would
likewise
approve
himself
an
unbyass'd
Author
.
There
's
a
short
Anonymous
History
of
this
Reign
publish'd
by
Silas
Taylor
,
in
the
end
of
his
[
c
](A52335-e42780-b)
c
4to
Lond.
1663.
Treatise
of
Gavel-kind
.
He
guesses
the
Author
was
a
Monk
of
Battle-Abbey
:
But
I
see
no
cogent
Reason
,
in
the
Tract
it self
,
to
press
such
a
Perswasion
.
'T
is
plain
the
Writer
liv'd
in
the
days
of
Henry
the
First
,
and
so
might
be
sufficiently
inform'd
of
the
Truth
of
all
he
relates
.
There
was
some
time
in
the
Library
of
Sir
Kenelm
Digby
,
a
Manuscript
History
of
the
Life
and
Death
of
the
Conqueror
,
said
to
have
been
written
by
Sir
Walter
Raleigh
;
but
my
[
d
](A52335-e42840-b)
d
Ath.
Oxon.
Vol.
I.
p.
373.
Informer
reckons
it
amongst
some
other
Pieces
,
which
he
thinks
unduly
father'd
upon
that
great
Man
.
But
,
above
all
,
Sir
William
Temple
has
lately
given
us
the
most
excellent
and
Judicious
Account
of
this
[
e
](A52335-e42860-b)
e
Introd.
to
Engl.
Hist.
8vo
Lond.
1695.
King's
Reign
and
Policy
;
the
old
Laws
he
preserv'd
,
and
the
new
ones
he
enacted
;
his
good
Conduct
and
Success
in
his
many
Wars
,
both
in
England
and
France
;
several
Instances
of
his
Clemency
and
Wisdom
,
&c.
Upon
all
which
he
makes
such
Reflections
as
become
a
Statesman
,
and
a
Person
so
conversant
in
the
Management
of
publick
Affairs
,
as
that
Author
is
known
to
have
been
.
William
the
Second
was
more
Unfortunate
(
both
in
his
Life
and
Death
)
Henry
the
First
(
tho'
he
reign'd
much
longer
than
his
Brother
,
De
N●gis
Curi●llu●
,
to
be
something
of
that
●ind
;
seeing
a
great
many
witty
things
,
relating
to
the
History
of
this
King
,
are
quote●
out
of
it
by
[
f
](A52335-e43000-b)
f
Remains
,
p.
m.
260
,
262
,
264.
Mr.
Camden
.
That
Author
was
Arch-deacon
of
Oxford
,
and
a
Merry
Good
Fellow
,
in
the
Reign
of
Henry
the
Second
.
King
Stephen's
Memoirs
were
collected
by
Richard
,
[
g
](A52335-e43100-b)
g
Fol.
Lond.
1652.
Decem
Scriptores
.
Mr.
Selden
[
h
](A52335-e43130-b)
h
Tit.
of
Hon.
p.
537
,
557
,
&c.
quotes
another
Anonymous
Writer
of
his
Life
,
who
seems
to
be
a
voluminous
Author
.
Henry
the
Second's
long
Contests
,
Rome
.
Gilbert
Folioth
[
i
](A52335-e43210-b)
i
J.
Pits
,
p.
251
,
252.
,
Bishop
of
London
(
who
died
before
the
end
of
this
Reign
,
A.
D.
1187.
)
was
the
earliest
Stickler
for
the
King
against
the
Archbishop
,
and
wrote
smartly
in
Defence
of
the
Prerogative
Royal
,
and
against
the
Papal
and
Prelatical
Usurpations
of
those
Times
.
Will
.
Stephens
(
or
Fitz-Stephens
,
the
London
Antiquary
)
is
[
k
](A52335-e43280-b)
k
Id.
p.
257.
said
to
be
another
Writer
of
this
King's
Life
;
but
I
suspect
the
Truth
of
the
Story
.
Stow
and
others
quote
him
sometimes
as
writing
in
the
Reign
of
Henry
the
Second
;
and
that
's
enough
for
Pits
to
conclude
that
he
wrote
his
Life
.
Prior
Richard
of
Hexham
is
[
l
](A52335-e43350-b)
l
Id.
p.
259.
brought
in
for
another
;
as
is
also
John
Oxfordius
[
m
](A52335-e43370-b)
m
Id.
p.
265.
Bishop
of
Norwich
,
This
last
was
sometime
Dean
of
Salisbury
;
and
was
certainly
sent
by
King
Henry
to
Rome
,
to
give
the
Pope
a
true
Account
of
Becket's
Behaviour
.
But
whether
he
did
really
draw
up
a
Journal
of
his
Embassy
,
with
an
Apology
for
his
Master
,
I
cannot
assuredly
inform
the
Reader
;
tho'
Hector
Boethius
pretends
to
have
seen
it
,
and
recommends
it
as
a
Treatise
highly
worth
the
Perusal
.
Three
of
Gyraldus
Cambrensis's
many
Historical
Books
are
likewise
[
n
](A52335-e43450-b)
n
Id.
p.
281.
reported
to
be
written
on
this
Subject
:
And
Mr.
Wharton
[
o
](A52335-e43470-b)
o
Angl.
Sacr.
vol.
I.
p.
169.
mentions
a
Manuscript
History
of
the
same
Reign
by
Benedictus
.
Some
[
p
](A52335-e43490-b)
p
Hist.
&
Antiq.
Oxon.
p●r
.
II.
p.
241.
say
that
the
Life
of
this
King
,
as
we
now
have
it
in
Speed's
Chronicle
,
was
composed
by
Dr.
Barcham
,
Archbishop
Bancroft's
Chaplain
;
and
penn'd
chiefly
in
Confutation
of
one
Bolton
(
a
Papist
)
who
had
newly
enlarg'd
too
far
in
the
Justification
of
Becket's
Insolent
Carriage
to
his
Prince
.
These
are
mostly
the
King's
Friends
;
and
such
as
engaged
on
the
behalf
of
our
English
Monarchy
.
What
was
to
be
said
,
on
the
other
hand
,
for
good
Saint
Thomas
,
must
be
learn'd
from
those
that
have
recorded
the
Actions
,
Sufferings
and
Miracles
,
of
that
worthy
Roman
Saint
and
Martyr
.
An
Account
whereof
shall
be
given
in
their
proper
[
q
](A52335-e43580-b)
q
Infra
,
Cap.
13.
place
.
Richard
the
First
's
Meritorious
Expedition
into
the
Holy
Land
,
[
r
](A52335-e43660-b)
r
Bale
,
Cent.
III.
cap.
28.
Divisiensis
,
[
i.
e.
of
the
Devises
in
Wiltshire
]
a
Monk
of
Winchester
;
Walter
[
s
](A52335-e43730-b)
s
J.
Pits
,
p.
263.
Constantiensis
,
Bishop
of
Lincoln
,
who
accompany'd
him
in
some
of
his
Travels
;
Will.
[
t
](A52335-e43780-b)
t
Id.
p.
266.
Peregrinus
,
so
call'd
from
the
Peregrination
he
also
made
in
Attendance
on
this
King
;
and
Rich.
[
u
](A52335-e43810-b)
u
Id.
p.
268.
Canonicus
(
Augustine
Canon
of
St.
Trinity
in
London
)
another
of
his
Retinue
.
Jos.
Iscanus
(
or
,
of
Exeter
)
had
the
like
Curiosity
;
follow'd
the
Fortunes
of
his
Prince
in
the
Holy
War
;
and
,
at
his
Return
,
celebrated
his
Acts
in
a
Book
which
he
thought
fit
to
call
A●tiocheidos
:
'T
is
in
Heroick
Verse
;
and
in
a
[
w
](A52335-e43880-b)
w
Camd.
Remains
,
p.
m.
317.
Style
and
Strain
of
Poetry
,
much
beyond
what
one
would
expect
to
meet
with
in
the
Writings
of
that
Age.
John
Leland
(
who
thought
himself
as
great
a
Master
and
Iudge
in
Poetry
as
History
)
says
of
this
Author
,
that
he
was
[
x
](A52335-e43910-b)
x
Assert
.
Arth.
fol.
7.
b.
Poeta
Britannus
omnibus
Numeris
Elegantissi●us
;
and
calls
his
Book
Op●s
Immortale
.
His
Life
is
also
said
to
have
been
written
by
[
y
](A52335-e43960-b)
y
J.
Pits
,
p.
304.
Stephen
Laugton
(
Archbishop
of
Canterbury
)
and
[
z
](A52335-e44000-b)
z
Id.
p.
316.
Alexander
de
Hales
the
Famous
School-man
.
But
we
have
not
so
particular
Directions
where
to
look
for
these
as
for
●n
[
a
](A52335-e44020-b)
a
Id.
p.
824.
Anonymous
Manuscript
to
the
same
purpose
,
in
the
Library
of
Magdalene
College
in
Oxford
.
The
Learned
[
b
](A52335-e44050-b)
b
Hist.
Angl.
Scrip.
5.
Fol.
Oxon.
1687.
Dr.
Gale
has
obliged
us
with
one
of
the
largest
of
this
King's
Journals
,
taken
by
one
Je●ffrey
Vinesauf
(
or
,
de
Vino
Sal●●
)
whom
he
takes
to
be
the
same
Man
with
the
foremention'd
Walter
Constantiensis
,
who
sometimes
(
he
says
)
is
also
call'd
Walter
Oxoniensis
.
He
likewise
believes
that
Richard
of
the
Devises
and
Richard
the
Canon
were
the
same
Person
:
So
that
instead
of
having
our
Store
enlarged
by
what
he
has
done
for
us
,
we
have
lost
some
of
our
former
Stock
.
King
John's
Unhappy
Reign
was
not
a
Subject
so
taking
as
that
of
his
Brother
;
John
de
Forda
or
Fordeham
(
who
is
ignorantly
confounded
with
John
Fordon
the
Scottish
Historian
,
by
[
c
](A52335-e44220-b)
c
J.
Pits
,
p.
277.
Vid.
Stissingst
.
Orig.
Brit.
p.
249.
John
Pits
)
was
the
first
that
attempted
it
;
and
,
being
this
King's
Chaplain
,
had
Opportunities
enough
of
knowing
the
Truth
,
if
he
was
a
Person
of
such
unbyass'd
Honesty
as
to
reveal
it
.
Gyraldus
Cambrensis
,
living
also
at
the
same
time
,
is
[
d
](A52335-e44270-b)
d
J.
Pits
,
p.
281.
said
to
have
likewise
penn'd
his
Story
;
and
we
may
believe
it
will
discover
that
warmness
of
Temper
which
runs
through
all
that
Author's
Writings
.
Some
of
the
Learned
Men
of
the
present
Age
,
have
thought
the
Extraordinary
Freaks
of
this
Prince
worth
their
Considering
;
and
have
therefore
bestow'd
good
Pains
in
Collecting
and
Methodizing
the
most
Notable
Transactions
of
his
Reign
.
Of
these
,
Dr.
Barcham's
History
is
(
as
we
have
already
observ'd
)
publish'd
in
Speed's
Chronicle
;
and
is
so
well
done
,
that
an
Industrious
[
e
](A52335-e44310-b)
e
Anth.
à
Wood.
Ath.
Oxon.
vol.
I.
p.
10.
Antiquary
gives
this
Character
of
it
,
That
it
shews
more
Reading
and
Judgment
than
any
Life
besides
in
that
History
.
And
another
[
f
](A52335-e44340-b)
f
Tho.
Fuller's
Worth
.
p.
276.
in
Dev●●sh
.
witty
Author
says
,
'T
is
the
King
of
all
the
Reigns
of
that
Book
,
for
profound
Penning
.
The
Voluminous
[
g
](A52335-e44380-b)
g
Hist.
of
K.
John
,
R.
Hen.
III.
and
K.
Ed.
I.
Fol.
L●nd
.
1670.
Will
.
Prynne
has
also
carefully
and
largely
inform'd
us
of
the
publick
Occurrences
of
this
Reign
,
as
well
as
the
two
next
following
,
in
order
to
the
Asserting
and
Vindicating
of
the
ancient
Sovereignty
of
our
English
Monarchs
,
against
all
Foreign
Incroachments
and
Innovations
whatever
.
Henry
the
Third's
long
Reign
might
seem
to
afford
Matter
enough
to
employ
one
Man's
Pen
;
S.
Monfort
and
the
other
Barons
)
so
few
memorable
things
happen'd
in
so
many
years
,
that
it
has
not
hitherto
been
very
nic●ly
enquir'd
into
.
In
a
late
Edition
of
the
learned
[
h
](A52335-e44500-b)
h
8vo
Lond.
1679.
Sir
Robert
Cotton's
Remains
,
the
Table
of
the
several
Discourses
reckons
the
last
of
the
Sixteen
The
Life
and
Reign
of
Henry
the
Third
,
compil'd
in
a
Critical
way
:
But
the
Reader
,
to
his
great
Disappointment
,
will
meet
with
no
such
thing
in
the
Book
:
Perhaps
it
is
to
be
had
in
a
former
Edition
of
that
Treatise
,
as
published
by
James
Howel
.
Edward
the
First
was
a
brave
and
Victorious
Prince
,
Robert
Baston
,
[
i
](A52335-e44610-b)
i
Bale
(
Edit.
1.
)
Cent.
3.
Fol.
127.
Pits
,
p.
399.
But
,
the
Story
is
told
otherwise
by
An.
Wood.
Hist.
Oxon.
par.
I.
p.
101.
Prior
of
Scarborough
,
with
him
into
that
Kingdom
,
to
describe
his
Battels
,
and
(
particularly
)
the
Famous
Siege
of
Sterling
.
This
was
done
in
pretty
Elegant
Heroicks
:
But
the
Author
,
being
the
next
year
unfortunately
taken
Prisoner
by
the
Scots
,
was
(
by
the
over-powering
Commands
and
Severities
of
R.
Bruce
)
oblig'd
to
rec●nt
all
;
and
to
extol
the
Scotch
Nation
as
highly
as
he
had
lately
magnify'd
the
English
.
Will
.
Rishanger
(
who
was
Historiographer-Royal
during
this
King's
whole
Reign
)
compos'd
a
special
Treatise
of
the
Annals
of
Edward
the
First
;
whereof
,
I
presume
,
three
other
Tracts
of
the
same
Man
's
Writing
(
entitul'd
by
[
k
](A52335-e44720-b)
k
J.
Pits
,
p.
403.
J.
Pits
and
others
,
De
Joanne
Baileolo
Rege
;
Super
Electione
Regis
Scotorum
;
and
De
Jure
Regis
Anglorum
ad
Scotiam
)
are
only
so
many
several
Parts
.
Edward
the
Second's
Misfortunes
are
very
honestly
,
Stephen
Eiton
or
Eden
,
a
[
l
](A52335-e44830-b)
l
Id.
p.
410.
Canon
Regular
of
Warter
in
Yorkshire
,
sometime
about
the
Year
1320.
His
Life
was
more
accurately
penn'd
in
French
by
Sir
Thomas
de
la
More
,
who
was
Knighted
by
[
m
](A52335-e44880-b)
m
So
says
Pits
:
But
Sir
Thomas
himself
says
otherwise
,
see
Stow
,
p.
233.
Edward
the
First
,
was
Counsellor
to
Edward
the
Second
,
and
liv'd
to
the
beginning
of
Edward
the
Third's
more
prosperous
Reign
.
It
was
first
Translated
into
Latin
by
[
n
](A52335-e44960-b)
n
Stow's
Chron.
p.
217.
Walter
Baker
,
or
Swinburn
,
Canon
of
Osney
near
Oxford
;
and
has
been
frequently
publish'd
in
English
by
our
general
Chroniclers
.
In
our
Age
,
Sir
Henry
Carey
(
Lord
Viscount
Faulkland
)
wrote
the
[
o
](A52335-e45050-b)
o
8vo
Lond.
1680.
History
of
this
unfortunate
Prince
;
with
choice
Political
Observations
on
him
and
his
unhappy
Favourites
,
Gaveston
and
Spencer
.
There
was
also
an
Historical
Poem
written
about
the
same
time
(
tho'
it
appear'd
abroad
much
[
p
](A52335-e45080-b)
p
8vo
Lond.
1629.
sooner
)
on
the
same
subject
,
whose
Author
was
Rich.
Hobert
,
a
younger
Brother
to
Sir
Henry
,
who
himself
made
some
additional
Observations
that
are
[
q
](A52335-e45110-b)
q
Ath.
Oxon.
vol.
I.
p.
501.
of
good
Vse
and
Ornament
to
it
.
Edward
the
Third
reign'd
long
and
prosperously
;
[
r
](A52335-e45190-b)
r
Bale
,
Cent.
5.
Cap.
71.
Pits
,
p.
456.
Bale
and
Pits
assert
it
,
[
s
](A52335-e45240-b)
s
De
Viris
Illustr.
MS.
Leland
mentions
no
such
thing
.
If
it
be
,
't
is
not
likely
that
it
can
escape
the
diligent
and
curious
Enquiry
of
the
foremention'd
worthy
Person
;
who
has
encourag'd
us
to
hope
for
his
sending
abroad
a
great
many
more
of
our
old
Manuscript
Historians
.
The
like
Scruples
I
have
upon
me
as
to
some
other
Res
Gestae
of
this
King
,
which
are
said
to
have
been
written
by
Robert
Bale
,
sometime
Recorder
of
London
.
And
yet
,
John
Pits
[
t
](A52335-e45300-b)
t
Pag.
654.
avers
,
that
,
in
his
time
,
such
a
Treatise
was
kept
(
as
a
choice
Rarity
)
by
the
Citizens
of
London
,
in
their
publick
Library
;
together
with
some
Historical
Pieces
of
the
same
Author
's
Penning
,
which
more
immediately
related
to
that
City
.
The
victorious
Atchievements
of
the
Black
Prince
,
falling
all
within
the
Compass
of
his
Father's
Reign
,
make
up
a
good
Share
of
its
Story
:
And
these
were
collected
,
and
[
u
](A52335-e45330-b)
u
J.
Pits
,
p.
530.
separately
treated
on
in
French
,
by
Will
.
Packington
,
who
was
Secretary
and
Treasurer
to
that
Hero
,
and
constantly
attended
him
in
the
Wars
.
The
English
Historian
will
observe
,
that
in
this
and
many
of
the
following
Reigns
,
this
Kingdom
was
so
constantly
engaged
against
the
United
Policies
and
Forces
both
of
France
and
Scotland
,
that
't
will
be
convenient
for
him
to
consult
the
Accounts
given
by
the
Writers
of
those
Nations
,
as
well
as
our
own
;
especially
,
since
the
Testimony
of
an
Enemy
(
if
to
the
Advantage
and
Honour
of
our
Country
)
is
of
double
value
with
that
of
a
Friend
.
Richard
the
Second's
good
Success
in
Ireland
,
[
w
](A52335-e45460-b)
w
Id.
p.
576.
says
,
That
one
Sir
John
Gower
(
a
Yorkshire
Knight
,
and
Cotemporary
with
the
Famous
Chaucer
)
died
in
the
Year
1402.
leaving
behind
him
a
deal
of
Monuments
of
his
Learning
,
and
(
amongst
the
rest
)
a
Latin
Chronicle
of
King
Richard
the
Second
.
There
was
indeed
one
Mr.
John
Gower
,
a
noted
Poet
,
who
liv'd
about
the
time
he
mentions
.
This
witty
Person
took
the
Liberty
,
that
has
always
been
allow'd
to
Men
of
his
Profession
,
to
make
Free
with
his
Prince
;
and
Mr.
[
x
](A52335-e45530-b)
x
Stow's
Chron.
p.
325.
Stow
(
or
,
his
Continuer
,
Howes
)
has
done
him
the
Honour
to
Translate
the
Elegy
he
made
on
this
King
's
untimely
Death
,
which
(
it
may
be
)
contains
the
whole
Chronicle
.
There
's
an
Ingenious
Treatise
lately
written
and
published
by
[
y
](A52335-e45570-b)
y
8vo
Lond.
1690.
Sir
Robert
Howard
,
which
(
in
the
Title-page
)
is
said
to
be
the
History
of
the
Reigns
of
Edward
and
Richard
the
Second
:
But
the
Author
himself
seems
to
have
more
rightly
named
it
Reflections
upon
some
select
Passages
in
them
.
His
Design
is
to
give
a
Prospect
of
the
Hazard
and
Madness
of
a
Prince's
following
the
Misguiding
Meteor
of
Arbitrary
Power
:
And
,
by
comparing
the
Misadventures
of
these
two
unhappy
Kings
,
with
the
Triumphs
of
their
Prosperous
Predecessors
,
to
shew
what
[
z
](A52335-e45640-b)
z
Vid.
p.
17.
Glory
and
Safety
Wise
and
Vertuous
Princes
have
obtain'd
,
and
what
Ruin
the
Cruelty
and
Folly
of
others
have
brought
upon
Themselves
and
Subjects
.
This
he
has
done
in
a
Well-penn'd
Political
Essay
,
which
will
very
much
advantage
our
English
Historian
,
in
giving
him
a
Right
Notion
of
many
(
otherwise
)
dark
Occurrences
in
those
Reigns
.
Henry
the
Fourth's
surprizing
and
pompous
Accession
to
the
Throne
,
[
a
](A52335-e45720-b)
a
J.
Pits
,
p.
598.
says
,
that
Rob.
Mascall
,
Bishop
of
Hereford
,
was
employ'd
in
several
Embassies
during
the
Reigns
of
this
King
and
his
Successor
;
and
that
(
dying
at
Ludlow
,
in
the
Year
1417.
)
he
left
,
among
other
things
,
a
Treatise
De
suis
Legationibus
.
Sir
John
Hayward
,
King
James
the
First
's
Historiographer
at
Chelsey
,
wrote
Henry
the
Fourth's
Life
among
others
;
and
had
the
Repute
(
in
those
days
)
of
a
good
clean
Pen
and
smooth
Style
,
tho'
some
have
since
blamed
him
for
being
a
little
too
[
b
](A52335-e45820-b)
b
Ath.
Oxon.
vol.
I.
p.
824.
Dramatical
.
Henry
the
Fifth
was
a
most
Heroick
Prince
;
[
c
](A52335-e45900-b)
c
J.
Pits
,
p.
616.
Basset
,
who
was
of
his
Bed-chamber
,
and
an
Attendant
on
him
in
all
his
Triumphs
:
But
what
the
same
[
d
](A52335-e45930-b)
d
Id.
p.
824.
Person
writes
of
another
(
Anonymous
)
Author
who
translated
Livy's
History
into
English
;
and
also
wrote
the
Life
of
Henry
the
Fifth
,
is
such
Stuff
as
is
common
with
him
.
The
Truth
is
,
His
Life
was
written
at
large
by
one
who
call'd
himself
Titus
Livius
;
who
,
by
that
name
,
dedicated
it
to
King
Henry
the
Sixth
,
and
is
still
quoted
by
Stow
and
others
.
We
have
,
to
this
day
,
two
good
Copies
of
his
Work
;
one
in
Sir
John
Cotton's
Library
,
the
other
in
that
of
Bennet
College
.
Out
of
these
,
carefully
collated
,
a
third
was
prepared
for
the
Press
by
the
[
e
](A52335-e46020-b)
e
See
Wh.
Kennet's
Life
of
Somn.
p.
65
,
66.
worthy
Publishers
of
the
Decem
Scriptores
;
which
(
with
several
other
Historical
Treatises
,
some
whereof
have
been
printed
)
was
afterwards
purchas'd
by
that
Indefatigable
Promoter
of
all
sorts
of
Learning
,
the
late
Pious
Bishop
Fell.
This
Treatise
is
abundantly
quoted
by
our
General
Chroniclers
:
But
no
piece
of
History
relishes
so
well
at
the
second
hand
,
as
it
does
when
we
have
it
from
its
first
Author
.
It
were
therefore
to
be
wish'd
,
that
the
good
Prelate's
Executors
would
do
Him
and
Themselves
(
as
well
as
the
Publick
)
so
much
Right
as
to
Print
it
;
together
with
the
like
valuable
Manuscripts
which
have
thus
fallen
into
their
hands
.
What
was
done
by
Sir
George
Carew
(
Earl
of
Totness
)
has
been
already
observ'd
to
be
remitted
into
J.
Speed's
Chronicle
;
where
the
Reader
will
meet
with
some
Remarks
becoming
a
Statesman
,
a
General
and
a
Scholar
.
Henry
the
Sixth
was
as
Good
as
his
Father
was
Great
;
[
f
](A52335-e46140-b)
f
De
Script
.
&
Sacr.
Vernac
.
p.
171.
Vsher
tells
us
of
one
Iohn
Blackman
,
a
Carthusian
,
who
was
particularly
intimate
with
him
,
and
has
left
a
Collection
of
the
many
good
things
he
had
taken
notice
of
,
in
the
most
Secret
Passages
of
his
Life
.
Tho.
Walsingham
(
who
also
liv'd
in
his
Time
)
took
a
Journal
of
his
Reign
;
out
of
which
is
composed
that
which
some
have
entitul'd
his
[
g
](A52335-e46180-b)
g
J.
Pits
,
p.
630.
Acta
Regis
Henrici
Sexti
.
Had
the
Pope
favour'd
the
Attempt
which
was
afterwards
made
at
the
Enshrining
or
Sainting
of
this
King
,
't
is
very
likely
that
his
Legend
would
have
out-grown
his
History
,
and
have
been
penn'd
by
more
Writers
than
his
Life
:
Since
the
Roman
Saints
are
commonly
most
Active
after
their
Decease
,
and
the
Wonders
of
their
Relicks
are
usually
much
greater
than
those
of
their
Persons
.
Edward
the
Fourth
can
hardly
be
said
to
have
enjoy'd
so
much
Quiet
,
Edward
the
Fifth
had
the
Name
of
a
King
for
some
few
Weeks
;
Thomas
Moor
,
Lord
Chancellor
of
England
;
who
has
sufficiently
shewn
how
a
short
and
doleful
Tale
may
be
improv'd
into
a
complete
History
,
by
a
Person
of
good
Skill
and
Judgment
.
This
Treatise
has
met
with
such
a
general
Acceptance
,
as
that
it
not
only
finds
Admission
(
by
whole-sale
)
into
all
our
late
Chronicles
;
but
has
also
been
[
h
](A52335-e46340-b)
h
8vo
Lond.
1651.
separately
printed
,
without
any
other
Alteration
than
a
small
change
of
the
English
Orthography
,
according
to
the
Usage
and
Mode
of
the
present
Age.
The
short
Epitome
of
this
and
the
three
following
Reigns
,
that
was
written
[
i
](A52335-e46360-b)
i
Elenchus
Annalium
RR.
Edw.
IV.
&c.
12o
Lond.
1597.
and
publish'd
by
Will
.
Fleetwood
,
Serjeant
at
Law
,
is
so
thin
a
piece
(
and
refers
so
peculiarly
to
the
Transactions
in
the
Courts
at
Westminster
)
that
it
has
been
rather
look'd
on
as
a
Table
or
Index
to
the
Year-books
of
those
Times
,
than
any
Historical
Treatise
.
Richard
the
Third's
short
and
unfortunate
Reign
,
[
k
](A52335-e46440-b)
k
8vo
Lond.
1651.
Tragical
History
begun
by
Sir
Thomas
Moor
,
who
did
not
bring
it
to
such
a
final
Conclusion
,
as
he
had
done
that
of
his
Nephew
and
Predecessor
.
Neither
Bale
nor
Pits
take
notice
of
any
such
thing
:
But
Vossius
seems
to
have
seen
and
perus'd
it
.
[
l
](A52335-e46500-b)
l
De
Hist.
Lat.
lib.
III.
cap.
13.
Vt
fusè
(
says
he
)
persequitur
quibus
Sceleribus
ille
ad
Regnum
pervenerit
;
ita
quomodo
id
gesserit
non
exponit
:
Ac
nec
eâ
parte
quam
habemus
ultimam
manum
accepit
.
Praeterea
Elegantiâ
Latini
Sermonis
ab
aliis
ejusce
viri
operibus
longè
vincitur
.
Which
last
words
must
refer
to
Sir
Thomas's
Life
of
this
King
;
and
not
to
that
of
Edward
,
which
indeed
might
seem
to
be
an
Introduction
to
this
,
and
would
answer
all
the
former
part
of
Vossius's
Story
:
But
King
Edward's
was
only
written
in
English
;
whereas
Richard's
was
in
both
Languages
,
and
(
as
appears
from
[
m
](A52335-e46590-b)
m
Stow's
Chron.
p.
458.
Stow's
account
)
was
more
copiously
treated
on
in
Latin
.
Great
Additions
have
been
since
made
by
a
more
Candid
[
n
](A52335-e46630-b)
n
G.
Buck's
Hist.
of
Rich.
III.
Fol.
Lond.
Composer
of
his
Annals
;
who
endeavours
to
represent
him
as
a
Prince
of
much
better
Shapes
(
both
of
Body
and
Mind
)
than
he
had
been
generally
esteem'd
.
Various
are
the
Censures
which
have
pass'd
upon
this
Work
.
I
shall
only
trouble
the
Reader
with
that
of
Dr.
Fuller
:
[
o
](A52335-e46680-b)
o
Worthies
,
p.
282.
in
Northamptonsh
.
His
Memory
(
says
he
,
speaking
of
King
Richard
)
has
met
with
a
Modern
Pen
,
who
has
not
only
purg'd
but
prais'd
it
to
the
heighth
;
and
pity
it
is
that
so
able
an
Advocate
had
not
a
more
meriting
Person
to
his
Client
.
Henry
the
Seventh
,
having
most
fortunately
and
wisely
united
the
Houses
of
York
and
Lancaster
,
Thomas
Moor
had
once
some
[
p
](A52335-e46810-b)
p
Stow's
Chron.
p.
459.
col.
1.
faint
Thoughts
of
writing
this
King's
Life
,
whilst
he
was
in
hand
with
those
of
his
immediate
Predecessors
:
But
I
know
not
whether
he
ever
liv'd
,
or
not
,
to
digest
them
.
Sir
James
Ware
has
Industriously
Collected
and
[
q
](A52335-e46840-b)
q
In
Append.
ad
Disquisit
.
de
Hiberniâ
,
8vo
Lond.
1658.
Published
such
Occurrences
of
this
Reign
,
as
relate
to
the
Affairs
of
Ireland
:
And
a
Poetical
History
of
the
whole
has
been
[
r
](A52335-e46860-b)
r
8vo
Lond.
1638.
printed
by
Ch.
Aleyn
.
But
this
good
Work
was
the
most
effectually
undertaken
and
compleated
by
the
Incomparable
[
s
](A52335-e46880-b)
s
Fol.
Lond.
1676.
&
apud
Joh.
Speed
in
Chron.
Sir
Francis
Bacon
,
who
has
bravely
surmounted
all
those
Difficulties
,
and
pass'd
over
those
Rocks
and
Shallows
,
against
which
he
took
such
Pains
to
[
t
](A52335-e46910-b)
t
De
Augment
.
Scient.
lib.
2.
cap.
5.
caution
other
less
experienc'd
Historians
.
He
has
perfectly
put
himself
into
King
Henry's
own
Garb
and
Livery
,
giving
as
spritely
a
View
of
the
Secrets
of
his
Council
,
as
if
himself
had
been
President
in
it
.
No
trivial
Passages
,
such
as
are
below
the
Notice
of
a
Statesman
,
are
mix'd
with
his
Sage
Remarks
:
Nor
is
any
thing
of
Weight
or
Moment
slubber'd
over
with
that
careless
Hast
and
Indifferency
which
is
too
common
in
other
Writers
.
No
Allowances
are
given
to
the
Author
's
own
Conjecture
or
Invention
;
where
a
little
Pains
and
Consideration
will
serve
to
set
the
Matter
in
its
proper
and
true
Light
.
No
Impertinent
Digressions
,
nor
fanciful
Comments
,
distract
his
Readers
:
But
the
whole
is
written
in
such
a
Grave
and
Uniform
Style
,
as
becomes
both
the
Subject
and
the
Artificer
.
Henry
the
Eighth
was
a
Prince
of
great
Vertues
and
Accomplishments
,
Edmund
Campian
wrote
a
Narrative
of
the
most
remarkable
Passages
relating
to
his
Divorce
of
Queen
Katharine
,
which
is
printed
at
the
end
of
Nich.
[
u
](A52335-e47000-b)
u
Fol.
Duaci
,
1622.
Harpesfeild's
Church-History
,
and
is
written
with
the
true
Spirit
and
Heart
(
as
well
as
Eloquence
)
of
a
Jesuit
.
Fran.
Godwin
(
Bishop
of
Landaff
,
who
will
be
remember'd
at
large
amongst
our
Ecclesiastical
Historians
)
compil'd
also
the
[
w
](A52335-e47040-b)
w
4to
&
Fol.
Lond.
1616
,
1628
,
&c.
Annals
of
this
and
the
two
following
Reigns
:
Whereof
[
x
](A52335-e47050-b)
x
Deg.
Whear
,
Method
.
p.
144.
one
of
our
Criticks
gives
this
just
Character
,
That
his
Book
is
penn'd
,
Non
m●gis
succinctâ
quàm
laudabili
brevitate
.
The
Author
was
a
perfect
Master
of
the
Latin
Tongue
,
and
wrote
in
that
Language
:
But
his
Annals
were
translated
into
English
(
and
so
have
been
frequently
publish'd
)
by
his
Son
Morgan
Godwin
LL.
D.
Sir
Robert
Cotton
had
drawn
together
some
Notes
and
Collections
as
Materials
for
a
future
History
of
this
King's
Reign
:
But
these
fell
unfinish'd
into
the
hands
of
John
Speed
▪
who
has
taken
Care
to
preserve
them
,
as
orderly
as
he
could
,
in
his
Chronicle
.
I
suppose
that
which
was
written
in
Greek
Verse
by
George
Etheridge
,
sometime
Regius
Professor
of
that
Language
in
Oxford
(
and
by
him
[
y
](A52335-e47170-b)
y
Vid.
Hist.
&
Antiq.
Oxon.
Lib.
I.
p.
289.
&
Lib.
II.
p.
235.
presented
to
Queen
Elizabeth
)
was
intended
only
for
the
Use
of
Her
Majesty
and
its
Author
;
and
,
for
that
reason
,
has
ever
continu'd
in
Manuscript
,
&
sub
Noctibus
Atticis
.
Above
all
,
Edward
Lord
Herbert
of
Cherbury
may
be
truly
said
to
have
written
the
Life
and
Reign
of
King
Henry
the
Eighth
;
having
acquitted
himself
with
the
like
Reputation
as
the
Lord
Chancellor
Bacon
gain'd
by
that
of
Henry
the
Seventh
.
For
,
in
the
Politick
and
Martial
Part
this
Honourable
Author
has
been
admirably
Particular
and
Exact
,
from
the
best
Records
that
were
Extant
:
Tho'
,
as
to
the
Ecclesiastical
,
he
seems
to
have
look'd
upon
it
as
a
Thing
out
of
his
Province
,
and
an
Undertaking
more
proper
for
Men
of
another
Profession
.
The
Oxford
Antiquary
[
z
](A52335-e47270-b)
z
Athen.
Oxon.
Vol.
II.
p.
19.
tells
us
,
That
he
had
seen
four
thick
Volumes
(
in
Folio
)
of
Collections
,
which
this
Lord
has
furnish'd
himself
withal
;
as
Materials
necessary
for
the
firm
erecting
of
so
noble
a
Structure
.
Out
of
these
,
and
other
Helps
,
he
(
at
last
)
finish'd
his
excellent
History
;
the
Original
Manuscript
whereof
he
was
pleas'd
to
bestow
on
the
University
of
Oxford
,
in
whose
Archives
it
still
remains
.
It
has
been
frequently
Printed
,
and
the
several
Impressions
as
greedily
bought
up
:
But
the
[
a
](A52335-e47300-b)
a
Fol.
Lond.
1682.
last
Edition
is
indeed
(
what
is
always
Pretended
)
the
Best
and
most
Correct
.
Edward
the
Sixth
.
[
b
](A52335-e47360-b)
b
In
Append.
ad
Vol.
II.
Hist.
Reform
.
publish'd
it
.
There
was
a
Notable
Discourse
,
touching
the
State
of
the
Times
in
this
King's
Reign
,
written
by
(
a
Person
admirably
well
Skill'd
in
the
Antiquities
and
Laws
of
England
)
Dr.
Gerard
Langbaine
,
Provost
of
Queen's
College
in
Oxford
;
which
he
publish'd
,
by
way
of
Preface
,
to
Sir
John
[
c
](A52335-e47420-b)
c
4to
Oxon.
1641.
Cheek's
True
Subject
to
the
Rebel
.
As
for
Sir
John
Hayward
,
He
is
the
same
Man
in
his
[
d
](A52335-e47460-b)
d
8vo
Lond.
1622.
Life
of
Edward
the
Sixth
,
that
we
have
already
observ'd
him
to
be
in
that
of
Henry
the
Fourth
:
Only
,
his
Style
is
here
sometimes
too
Sharp
and
Pungent
;
especially
when
he
comes
to
give
Characters
of
the
Nobility
,
Ministers
of
State
,
&c.
where
an
Intelligent
Historian
ought
no
more
to
be
Clownish
,
than
he
needs
turn
Courtier
when
he
Converses
with
Plowmen
.
Queen
Mary's
Reign
had
Blemishes
in
it
,
Queen
Elizabeth
,
Tho.
Bourchier
,
a
Franciscan
Doctor
of
the
Sorbon
,
to
write
a
History
of
the
[
e
](A52335-e47630-b)
e
8vo
Paris
,
1586.
Martyrdom
(
as
he
terms
it
)
of
the
Men
of
his
Order
.
The
Life
and
[
f
](A52335-e47640-b)
f
J.
Pits
,
p.
799.
Martyrdom
of
Mary
Queen
of
Scots
,
was
also
written
by
Rob.
Turner
,
sometime
Scholar
to
Ed.
Campian
,
who
was
afterwards
Doctor
of
Divinity
at
Rome
,
and
Secretary
to
Ferdinand
Arch-duke
of
Austria
.
Some
of
her
better
Subjects
have
furnish'd
us
with
more
agreeable
Accounts
of
the
chief
Passages
in
her
Reign
.
Sir
Henry
Vnton
has
drawn
up
a
Journal
of
his
Embassy
in
France
,
giving
a
full
Register
of
his
Commission
,
Instructions
,
Expences
,
&c.
a
Manuscript
Copy
whereof
is
now
in
the
Publick
Library
at
Oxford
.
Heyward
Towneshend
,
an
Eminent
Member
of
the
House
of
Commons
,
preserv'd
the
Debates
in
Parliament
of
her
last
fourteen
Years
;
which
,
long
after
the
Author's
Death
,
were
publish'd
under
the
Title
of
[
g
](A52335-e47760-b)
g
Fol.
Lond.
1680.
Historical
Collections
,
&c.
But
this
,
as
vast
an
Undertaking
as
it
seems
to
be
,
is
only
a
part
of
that
more
Comprehensive
one
of
Sir
Symonds
d'Ewes
;
whose
Journal
of
Both
Houses
,
during
her
whole
Reign
,
was
soon
after
given
us
in
[
h
](A52335-e47790-b)
h
Fol.
Lond.
1682.
Print
.
Her
Wars
with
Spain
,
the
several
Engagements
of
her
Fleets
at
Sea
,
with
their
many
Successful
Expeditions
,
&c.
have
been
well
described
by
Sir
William
Monson
,
who
bore
a
high
Command
in
most
of
them
,
and
has
shewn
such
a
Judgment
in
Maritime
Affairs
,
as
well
qualify'd
him
for
such
Posts
of
Honour
.
His
Book
bears
the
Title
of
[
i
](A52335-e47830-b)
i
Fo●
.
Lo●d
.
1682.
A
Particular
and
Exact
Account
of
the
last
Seventeen
Years
of
Queen
Elizabeth
's
Reign
,
both
Military
and
Civil
:
The
former
kind
being
the
Work
of
Sir
William
,
and
the
latter
Mr.
Towneshend's
.
Out
of
all
these
,
and
many
other
good
Helps
,
Mr.
Camden
compos'd
his
most
Exquisite
History
of
this
Queen
;
which
,
as
Dr.
Smith
shews
in
his
[
k
](A52335-e47900-b)
k
Vid.
Camd.
Vit.
Epist.
Praef.
p.
57.
Life
,
was
undertaken
by
the
special
Directions
and
Command
of
the
great
Lord
Cecil
.
It
has
had
many
Editions
,
and
in
several
Languages
;
tho'
't
is
pity
it
should
be
read
in
any
other
than
its
Author
's
Polite
Original
Latin
.
Dr.
Fuller
[
l
](A52335-e47950-b)
l
Worthies
▪
p.
94.
in
Margin
.
observes
,
that
one
of
its
English
Translations
(
for
it
had
several
)
was
done
out
of
French
by
Abraham
Darcy
;
who
understood
not
the
Latin
,
and
has
therefore
committed
many
Mistakes
.
Hugh
Holland
(
one
of
Camden's
[
m
](A52335-e48020-b)
m
Ath.
Oxon.
Vol.
I.
p.
498.
Scholars
at
Westminster
,
and
a
Papist
)
is
said
to
have
written
this
Queen's
Life
as
well
as
his
Master
's
:
But
't
is
only
(
if
it
be
at
all
)
an
English
Manuscript
,
and
very
probably
not
worth
the
seeking
.
Sir
Robert
Naunton's
Character
of
her
Court
and
Favourites
has
been
lately
publish'd
with
Sir
Francis
Walsingham's
[
n
](A52335-e48070-b)
n
8vo
Lond.
1694.
Arcana
Aulica
;
and
a
short
System
of
her
Policies
hath
been
offer'd
to
our
present
Soveraign
,
and
the
late
excellent
Queen
,
by
the
Ingenious
[
o
](A52335-e48090-b)
o
Character
of
Queen
Elizabeth
,
8vo
Lond.
1693.
Edmund
Bohun
Esq
Author
of
many
other
Treatises
of
good
Value
.
The
End
of
the
First
Part.
AN
INDEX
OF
THE
AUTHORS
,
&c.
A
-
ABingdon
Pag.
67
-
Adams
16
-
Aelfred
;
King
100
,
118
-
—
of
Beverly
147
-
Aelfric
103
-
Agard
21
-
Albanus
190
-
Aldhelm
101
-
Aleyn
223
-
Anonymi
199
,
202
-
Antoninus
2
-
Aras
136
-
Asamal
131
-
Asserius
121
-
Ashmole
22
,
25
-
Aubrey
65
,
102
B.
-
Bacon
223
-
Baker
196
-
Baldoc
165
-
Bale
46
,
213
-
Barcham
193
,
205
,
209
-
Bards
78
-
Bartholin
146
-
Basset
217
-
Baston
218
-
Beaumont
19
,
53
,
57
-
Bede
4
-
Bedenham
41
-
Benedictus
205
-
Benlanius
79
-
Bettes
35
-
Blackman
219
-
Blome
15
-
Blount
197
-
Boun
52
-
Bohun
232
-
Bourchie●
229
-
Boyle
18
-
Bradshaw
29
-
British
Grammars
76
-
—
Dictionaries
77
-
—
Charters
89
-
—
Coins
90
-
Brompton
175
-
Brown
50
-
Buck
47
,
222
-
Burgensis
172
-
Buriensis
172
-
Burlace
43
-
Burton
3
,
43
,
195
-
Butche●
44
-
Butler
35
-
Buttoner
5
-
Byshe
59
C.
-
Caius
50
,
56
-
Calenius
95
-
Cambrensis
4
,
60
,
125
,
205
,
206
-
Camden
10
,
21
,
49
,
231
-
Campian
224
-
Canonicus
206
-
Cantelupus
178
-
Caradocus
97
-
Carew
29
,
193
,
218
-
Cary
211
-
Castorius
173
-
Catheral
53
-
Caxton
5
,
178
,
190
-
Cestrensis
174
-
Chamberlain
21
-
Chapman
57
-
Charlton
66
-
Charters
,
British
89
-
—
Saxon
109
-
Chauncey
36
-
Chetwind
58
-
Chichester
176
-
Childrey
18
-
Churchill
197
-
Cimbert
117
-
Clavering
52
-
Coggeshall
158
-
Coins
,
British
90
-
—
Saxon
106
-
—
Roman
107
-
Colman
125
-
Constantiensis
205
,
206
-
Corbet
34
-
Cornubiensis
91
-
Coryate
9
-
Cotton
,
Sir
Rob.
37
,
210
,
225
-
—
Mr.
31
-
Coventriensis
164
-
Couper
188
-
Currar
52
D.
-
Daniel
117
,
193
-
Danish
Histories
129
-
—
Monuments
135
-
Davies
72
,
73
-
Dean
70
-
Denelaga
113
-
Denton
30
-
Derham
64
-
Devisiensis
157
,
205
,
206
-
D'Ewes
11
,
59
,
230
-
Diceto
5
,
162
-
Doderidge
21
,
28
,
62
-
Dodesworth
55
,
69
-
Dodwel
104
-
Dorobernensis
153
-
Dugdale
22
,
26
,
44
,
49
,
63
-
Dunelmensis
154
E
-
Eadmerus
151
-
Ealred
124
,
150
-
Edda
137
-
Eden
211
-
Elbodus
,
or
Elvodugus
88
-
Eliot
6
-
Erdeswick
26
,
58
-
Essebiensis
.
158
-
Ethelwerd
12●
-
Ethelwold
122
-
Etheridge
225
-
Etrick
32
-
Evesham
171
-
Exeter
64
,
207
F.
-
Fabian
46
,
192
-
Ferrers
15
-
Fitz-Stephens
45
,
204
-
Fleetwood
221
-
Fleming
42
,
65
-
Florilegus
171
-
Fly
159
-
Folioth
204
-
Fordham
208
-
French
70
-
Froissard
185
-
Fuller
14
G.
-
Ga●e
3
-
German
Writers
128
-
Gibbons
66
-
Gervase
Cantuar.
159
-
Gildas
73
,
81
-
Gillingham
40
-
Glocester
169
-
Godwin
225
-
Gower
214
-
Grafton
189
-
Graunt
48
-
Grey
52
,
92
-
Guidot
57
-
Guillim
23
-
Gurguntius
89
H.
-
Habbington
220
-
Hagustaldensis
201
,
202
-
Hales
34
,
207
-
Hall
189
-
Harding
189
-
Harrington
28
-
Harrison
8
,
190
-
Hasilwood
173
-
Hayward
216
,
228
-
Hemmingford
175
,
212
-
Henfield
188
-
Henham
165
-
Herald's
Office
21
-
Herbert
226
-
R.
of
Hexham
203
-
Higden
176
-
Hobert
212
-
Hoel
Dha
85
-
Hoel
198
-
Holinshead
190
-
Holland
10
,
231
-
Hollingworth
43
-
Hooker
32
,
189
-
Horman
154
-
Horminger
5
-
Horn
34
-
Hoveden
160
-
Houghton
31
-
Howard
215
-
Howel
47
,
192
-
Howes
192
-
Huntingdon
155
I.
-
James
35
-
Ickham
171
-
Ingulfus
148
-
Johnson
45
,
57
-
Johnston
67
-
Jonas
140
-
Jones
31
,
66
-
Jorden
57
-
Josseline
101
,
103
-
Ira
letur
133
-
Iscanus
207
-
Islandic
Histories
140
-
Junius
103
,
112
-
Izaac
32
K.
-
Keep
49
,
68
-
Kelron
67
,
99
-
Kennet
25
,
54
-
Keurden
41
-
Kilburn
39
-
King
27
-
Knollis
35
-
Knyghton
183
L.
-
Lambard
37
,
112
-
Lanfranc
201
-
Langaurid
88
-
Langbain
227
-
Langden
188
-
Langton
188
,
207
-
Lanquet
188
-
Laund
47
-
Lawrence
50
-
Lazimon
97
-
Leigh
(
Edw.
)
14
-
Leigh
(
Char.
)
43
-
Leland
7
,
37
,
78
,
98
-
Leicester
27
-
Lhuid
Humph.
8
,
62
-
—
Edw.
19
,
62
-
Lilie
6
,
189
-
Ling●●●s
184
-
Lister
18
,
68
-
Livius
217
-
Lucian
26
-
Lyte
99
M.
-
Machell
64
-
Madan
41
-
Mailros
169
-
Malmesbury
152
-
Malory
92
-
Manlow
36
-
Manwaring
25
-
Mapez
203
-
Marianus
148
-
Marsham
198
-
Martyn
192
-
Mascal
216
-
Maurice
73
-
Mawornus
89
-
Mayow
57
-
Mercius
125
-
Merimuth
182
-
Merlyn
80
-
Merret
18
-
Mickleton
32
-
Middleton
74
-
Molmutius
81
-
Monmouth
94
-
Monson
230
-
Montacute
190
-
Moor
220
,
221
,
223
-
Morden
16
-
More
211
-
Morgan
61
,
73
N.
-
Nash
50
-
Naunton
231
-
Nennius
84
-
Neot
121
-
Neubrigensis
157
-
Nevil
50
-
Niget
158
V.
Blackman
-
Noel
103
-
Norden
29
,
33
,
36
,
45
-
Northcot
31
-
Norwegian
Histories
141
-
Notitiarum
Liber
3
O.
-
Otterburn
52
,
186
-
Ousley
33
-
Oxfordius
162
,
205
P.
-
Packington
183
,
213
-
Paris
165
-
Peregrinus
206
-
Perry
77
-
Petty
48
-
Philips
196
-
Philpot
12
,
39
-
Pictaviensis
201
-
Pike
125
-
Platt
18
-
Plott
18
,
54
,
58
-
Prise
62
,
96
,
98
-
Pritchard
76
-
Prynne
209
-
Ptolemy
2
Q.
-
Quillivere
76
R.
-
Radburn
187
-
Raleigh
21
,
202
-
Rastal
188
-
Ray
19
,
20
-
Rhese
76
-
Risdon
31
-
Rishanger
173
,
211
-
Roman
Historians
103
-
—
Inscriptions
105
-
—
Coins
107
-
Rosse
64
,
192
-
Rowzée
41
-
Runic
Monuments
134
S.
-
Saemund
138
-
Saintemer
49
-
Saliphilax
89
-
Salisbery
76
-
Sammes
65
,
101
-
Sandford
198
-
Saxo
142
-
Saxon
Grammars
100
-
—
Dictionaries
102
,
105
-
—
Coins
106
-
—
Charters
108
-
—
Laws
111
-
—
Chronicle
114
-
Scaldri
130
-
Selden
22
,
126
-
Seller
16
-
Serlo
151
-
Shafto
52
-
Shepeshed
169
-
Sherburn
187
-
Sheringham
127
-
Simpson
68
-
Skelton
48
-
Skuish
194
-
Smith
21
,
27
-
Snorro
138
,
142
-
Somner
38
,
40
,
41
,
105
,
106
,
112
-
Speed
13
,
194
-
Spelman
13
,
49
,
106
,
120
-
Spott
41
-
Stafford
183
-
Stanhop
70
-
Stow
46
,
191
-
Stradling
76
-
Strangman
33
-
Sueno
142
-
Sulemannus
6
T.
-
Talbot
3
,
67
-
Tanner
65
-
Tate
21
,
51
-
Taylor
33
,
36
,
40
-
Temple
202
-
Thaliessin
81
-
Theodoric
141
-
Thoresby
69
-
Thorn
5
-
Thoroton
53
-
Tilburiensis
151
,
157
-
Tinmuthensis
169
-
Todd
38
-
Tonstall
70
-
Townshend
230
-
Trevisa
5
,
178
-
Triades
89
-
Trickingham
171
-
Trivet
174
-
Trussel
35
,
194
-
Turner
229
-
Turpin
188
-
Twyne
8
,
40
-
Tyrrel
198
V.
-
Vaughan
100
-
Vergil
185
-
Verstegan
125
-
Vincent
51
-
Vinesauf
207
-
Virunnius
97
-
Vitellius
11
-
Unton
229
-
Vowel
.
V.
Hooker
W.
-
Walsingham
188
,
219
-
Wantner
34
-
Ware
223
-
Waterhouse
48
-
Wats
124
-
Webb
27
,
66
-
Webster
19
-
Weever
40
,
45
,
49
-
Wendover
167
,
180
-
Westcot
32
-
Westminster
179
-
Wethamstede
189
-
Wheloc
106
-
White
191
-
Widdrington
68
-
Wigorniensis
149
-
Wikes
172
-
Williams
77
-
Willoughby
19
,
20
-
Wittie
70
-
Wolf
191
-
Wolstan
124
-
Wood
54
-
Woodward
19
-
Worcester
149
-
Worgresius
89
-
Wormius
144
-
Wright
54
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TO
THE
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Reverend
Father
in
GOD
,
THOMAS
,
Lord
Bishop
of
CARLILE
.
MY
LORD
,
THE
first
Part
of
this
Work
having
taken
Shelter
under
the
Patronage
of
our
Metropolitan
,
this
naturally
flies
to
your
Lordship
:
From
whom
I
have
good
Encouragement
to
hope
for
as
kind
a
Protection
.
I
have
great
Reason
to
be
fond
of
any
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of
making
my
grateful
Resentments
of
your
Lordship's
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to
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World
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heartily
wish
this
little
Book
may
be
look'd
upon
as
any
part
of
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suitable
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can
honestly
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of
your
Lordship's
Approbation
of
what
I
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already
publish'd
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of
your
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to
proceed
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(
give
me
leave
,
My
Lord
,
here
to
repeat
it
)
those
are
Words
which
sometimes
appears
in
Dedications
without
any
thing
of
the
caress'd
Patrons
Knowledge
or
Allowance
.
I
dare
not
presume
to
enlarge
upon
your
Bounty
and
Goodness
to
the
Author
;
since
most
of
the
Instances
I
should
give
of
'em
are
so
many
Testimonies
of
your
Lordship's
Desire
to
follow
the
Directions
of
your
Great
Master
,
in
bestowing
your
Benefits
in
Secret
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May
God
be
graciously
pleas'd
to
reward
openly
what
you
have
thus
done
for
this
Church
and
Diocese
,
as
well
as
for
,
MY
LORD
,
Your
Lordship
's
most
Obliged
,
Dutiful
,
and
Grateful
Servant
,
W.
Nicolson
.
THE
PREFACE
.
WHen
I
was
first
perswaded
to
publish
this
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Library
,
I
easily
foresaw
some
of
the
many
Difficulties
to
which
such
an
Adventure
would
expose
me
.
I
knew
the
little
I
had
to
say
would
fall
very
far
short
of
being
a
just
Treatise
on
so
copious
a
Subject
:
And
I
was
also
sensible
that
,
even
in
that
little
,
there
was
too
much
that
would
give
Offence
.
This
was
the
general
Notion
I
had
of
the
Undertaking
;
which
was
so
natural
and
obvious
,
that
't
was
impossible
I
should
be
mistaken
.
I
confess
,
in
Particulars
,
my
Conjectures
have
very
much
fail'd
me
.
I
have
been
cavill'd
at
,
and
buffeted
by
a
couple
of
Gentlemen
,
whom
(
above
all
Mankind
)
I
thought
I
had
oblig'd
.
One
of
these
is
lately
dead
;
and
therefore
my
Answers
to
his
Reflections
(
which
,
I
think
,
were
never
made
very
publick
)
shall
be
bury'd
with
him
.
The
other
attacks
me
in
the
Face
of
the
Sun
;
and
what
he
objects
shall
be
particularly
reply'd
to
,
as
soon
as
that
Author
and
his
Book
are
out
of
the
Clouds
;
Till
when
,
it
will
be
sufficient
to
acquaint
the
Reader
that
I
have
here
amended
whatever
he
has
truly
observ'd
to
be
amiss
in
me
.
If
these
two
Persons
had
known
and
consider's
that
I
have
been
fifteen
Years
(
which
Tacitus
justly
calls
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a
In
vit.
Agric.
grande
mortalis
aevi
spatium
)
a
Member
of
a
Church
and
Diocese
at
a
very
great
distance
from
our
Universities
and
Publick
Libraries
,
they
would
have
overlook'd
a
few
little
Failures
;
and
have
given
some
grains
of
Allowance
to
a
Writer
in
my
Circumstances
.
Not
that
I
,
who
am
so
insolent
as
to
censure
every
body
,
either
do
or
ought
to
beg
Quarter
of
any
.
No.
Let
each
Man
that
's
offended
chastise
me
in
his
own
way
;
provided
his
stripes
make
me
wiser
:
For
't
is
indifferent
to
me
whether
my
Informations
come
wrinkled
or
smooth
;
whether
I
have
'em
in
plain
English
,
or
in
rough
(
balderdash
)
Latin
.
I
was
as
much
surpriz'd
with
the
different
and
more
acceptable
Entertainment
which
my
former
Book
met
with
amongst
a
great
many
eminently
learned
Men
;
who
were
pleas'd
,
together
with
their
kind
Remarks
on
the
Omissions
and
Mistakes
in
it
,
earnestly
to
request
the
publishing
of
this
Second
Part.
'T
is
to
their
unexpected
Goodness
that
I
owe
a
great
share
of
the
following
Emendations
;
which
strongly
oblige
and
encourage
me
to
proceed
in
the
Attempt
,
hoping
for
the
like
Assistance
and
support
from
them
hereafter
.
I
must
also
acknowledge
my self
extremely
indebted
to
the
late
accurate
[
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Edit●a
Tho.
Smith
,
S.
T●P
.
Fol.
Oxon
,
1696.
Catalogue
of
the
Manuscripts
in
Sir
John
Cotton's
Library
;
which
has
effectually
clear'd
a
great
many
of
my
Doubts
,
rectify'd
my
Mistakes
,
and
furnish'd
me
with
a
much
better
Light
than
I
could
have
hoped
for
from
any
other
hand
:
So
that
,
if
it
shall
be
the
good
Fortune
of
this
Work
to
appear
in
a
second
(
and
more
entire
)
Edition
,
it
may
possibly
prove
more
serviceable
to
the
English
Reader
than
ever
its
Author
had
the
Confidence
to
think
it
would
.
The
first
Error
,
that
's
to
be
taken
notice
of
,
is
of
a
very
large
Extent
;
and
wherein
the
Printer
and
I
are
joint
Faulters
.
The
Index
,
't
is
observ'd
,
is
too
scanty
:
and
the
repeating
of
no
less
than
Twenty
Pages
(
from
p.
99.
to
108.
and
again
,
from
185.
to
194.
inclusive
)
causes
great
Confusion
in
some
of
the
References
.
This
latter
Failure
is
remedy'd
in
the
following
Additions
,
by
marking
the
repeated
Pages
thus
,
99.
*
,
100
,
*
.
&c.
and
the
Reader
is
desir'd
to
correct
the
first
Index
after
the
same
manner
.
-
Aelfred
,
King
,
87.
100
,
118.
-
—
of
Beverley
,
147.
152.
-
Aldhelm
,
100.
101.
-
Annius
of
Viterbo
,
106.
-
Antoninus
,
2.
17.
-
Aras
,
140.
-
Archer
,
27.
-
Arthur
,
K.
98.
-
Ashmole
,
22.
23
,
25.
-
Asserius
,
14.
16
,
87
,
119
,
121.
-
Aubrey
,
17.
65
,
66
,
102.
-
Bacon
,
17.
192
,
*
,
223.
-
Baker
,
196.
212.
-
Baldoc
,
173.
-
Baldwine
,
60.
-
Bale
,
8.
46
,
213.
-
Barcham
,
195.
204
,
205.
-
Bartholine
,
140.
146.
-
Baston
,
210.
-
Beamont
,
19.
56
,
57.
-
Bede
,
4.
59
,
102
,
114
,
117.
-
Bernard
,
24.
74.
-
Blacket
,
107.
-
Blome
,
15.
23.
-
Bolton
,
205.
-
à
Bosco
,
82.
-
Bodley
,
23.
-
Boethius
,
205.
-
Bourchier
,
186.
229.
-
Britannus
,
79.
-
Bodenham
,
55.
-
Brompton
,
112.
121
,
175.
-
Brook
,
11.
23.
-
Brutus
,
81.
-
Burnet
,
56.
227
,
-
Burton
,
3.
43
,
44
,
53
,
55
,
195.
-
Caedmon
,
104.
-
Caesar
,
92.
103.
-
Caius
,
50.
56
,
89.
-
Cambrensis
,
4.
60
,
125
,
164
,
205
,
206
,
208.
-
Combden
,
8.
9
,
10
,
15
,
21
,
29
,
49
,
93
,
105
,
108
,
117
,
192
,
*
,
231.
-
Cantelupus
,
189.
-
Caradocus
,
82.
97.
-
Carew
,
29.
195
,
218.
-
Cary
,
212.
-
Caxton
,
5.
118
,
178
,
190.
-
Chetwind
,
44
,
58.
-
Childrey
,
17.
18.
-
Coggeshal
,
165.
-
Constantiensis
,
206.
208.
-
Cornubiensis
,
97.
-
Coryate
,
9.
57.
-
Cotton
,
Sir
Rob.
21.
37
,
44
,
210
,
225.
-
—
Sir
John
,
21.
23
,
33.
-
—
Sir
Tho.
35.
-
—
Mr.
31.
-
Couper
,
Cowper
,
188.
*
.
-
Cheek
,
227.
-
Chiswel
,
29.
〈◊〉
-
Clarendon
,
171.
181
,
182.
-
Craig
,
151.
190
,
*
.
-
Crew
,
27.
-
S.
Cuthbert
,
102.
-
Darcy
,
231.
-
Daniel
,
35.
117
,
193
,
*
.
-
Danish
,
Histories
,
129.
142.
-
—
Monuments
,
134.
135.
144.
-
Davies
,
77.
96.
-
Devisiensis
,
157.
205
,
206
,
208.
-
Digby
,
202.
-
Doderidge
,
21
,
28
,
29
,
62.
-
Dodesworth
,
16.
55
,
59
,
69.
-
Dadwel
,
104.
196.
-
Doilie
,
50.
-
Dugdale
,
15.
16
,
22
,
26
,
44
,
49
,
53
,
63.
23.
24
,
105.
-
Ealred
,
124.
154
,
155.
-
Edda
,
137.
138
,
139.
-
Essebiensis
,
158.
165.
-
Ethelwerd
,
122
,
&c.
-
Ewes
,
11.
59
,
171.
S.
D'
Ewes
.
-
Fabian
,
46.
111
,
192.
-
Fairfax
,
68.
-
Fell
,
15.
101
,
104
,
218.
-
Florilegus
,
171.
180.
-
Fox
,
118.
-
Fresne
,
106.
-
Fuller
,
11.
12
,
14
,
27
,
31
,
32
,
50
,
183
,
192
,
*
,
222
,
231.
-
Gale
,
16
,
&c.
2.
3
,
29
,
83
,
121
,
163
,
173
,
177
,
207
,
212.
-
Gibson
,
23.
24
,
39
,
49
,
114
,
116.
-
Gildas
,
73.
81
,
&c.
85.
87.
16.
-
Grafton
,
189.
*
.
-
Grey
,
52.
92
,
98.
-
Glover
,
15.
-
Hall
,
189.
*
.
-
Hanson
,
15.
-
Harding
,
125.
189.
-
Harley
,
36.
-
Harpesfield
,
225.
-
Harrison
,
8.
190
,
*
.
-
Hatton
,
23.
-
Hemmingford
,
18.
176
,
212.
-
Herald
's
Office
,
21
,
23.
-
R.
of
Hexham
.
203.
204.
-
Heylin
,
13.
-
Higden
,
176.
184.
-
Hickes
,
24.
26
,
100
,
101
,
104.
-
Hobbes
,
31.
-
Holinshead
,
32.
190
,
*
.
-
Hooker
,
32.
191
,
*
.
-
Howard
,
14.
215.
-
Howes
,
192.
*
,
215.
-
Huntingdon
,
120.
155.
-
Hypercritica
,
12.
-
James
,
22.
35.
-
Jessop
,
20.
-
Ingulfus
,
24.
148.
-
Johnson
,
20.
45
,
57.
-
Jonas
,
133.
140
,
142
,
142.
-
Josseline
,
8.
12
,
83
,
101
,
103
,
114.
-
Iscanus
,
206.
207.
-
Junius
,
23.
101
,
103
,
104
,
111.
112.
-
Kelton
,
61.
67
,
99.
-
Kennet
,
35.
39
,
25
,
54
,
117.
-
Keurden
,
41.
42.
-
Kilburn
,
37.
39.
-
Kniveton
,
15.
-
Lambard
,
37.
100
,
111
,
112
,
117
,
127
,
168.
-
Lanquet
,
188.
*
.
-
Laud
,
23.
114.
-
Lawson
,
20.
-
Leland
,
7.
8
,
37
,
72
,
77
,
78
,
83
,
90
,
91
,
98
,
122
,
124
,
164
,
207.
-
Leicester
,
27
,
28.
-
Lhuid
,
8.
20
,
62
,
75
,
80
,
97
,
186
,
186
,
*
.
-
Lhwyd
,
92.
96.
-
Lilie
,
6.
189
,
*
.
-
Lister
,
18.
20
,
68.
-
Mackenzy
,
155.
-
Malmesbury
,
123.
124
,
152
,
177.
-
Malory
,
98.
-
Manwaring
,
28.
-
Marianus
,
122.
148
,
149
,
150.
-
Marshal
,
101.
102
,
127.
-
Martia
,
87.
-
Martyn
,
194.
*
.
-
Medals
,
90.
-
Middleton
,
78.
-
Milton
,
9.
-
Molmutius
,
81.
87.
-
Monmouth
,
85.
94
,
152
,
158
,
164.
-
More
,
189.
211.
-
Morgan
,
61.
77.
-
Nash
,
50.
51.
-
Nennius
,
16
,
84
,
85
,
88
,
95.
-
Neubrigensis
,
24.
98
,
157.
-
Niger
,
158.
165.
-
Norden
,
29.
33.
36
,
39
,
45.
-
Northcot
,
31.
32.
-
Nowel
,
111.
-
Olaus
Magnus
,
139.
-
Oldenburg
,
101.
-
Oxoniensis
,
208.
-
Paris
,
14.
24
,
165
,
180.
-
Parker
,
14.
119.
188.
-
Philpot
,
12.
37
,
39.
-
Pettus
,
94.
-
Pistorius
,
149.
-
Pits
,
83.
-
Plot
,
18.
20
,
45
,
53
,
54
,
58
,
93.
-
Powel
,
60.
86
,
88
,
96
,
97
,
158.
-
Ptolemy
,
2.
17.
-
Rastal
,
188.
*
.
-
Reiner
,
38.
-
Resenius
,
138.
-
Rhese
,
76.
88.
-
Risdon
,
31.
32.
-
Rishanger
,
166.
173
,
211.
-
Ross
,
64.
183
,
192.
-
Soemund
,
137.
138.
-
Saint
George
,
16.
-
Sammes
,
65.
101.
-
Samothes
,
81.
-
Sanderson
,
53.
-
Savil
,
15.
105
,
123
,
155
,
160
,
185
,
*
.
-
Saxo
,
131.
139
,
142
,
143.
-
Saxton
;
16.
-
Selden
,
8.
15
,
22
,
23
,
59
,
103
,
126
,
151
,
155
,
163
,
199.
-
Sheringham
,
13.
87
,
96
,
126
,
127.
-
Simpson
,
70.
-
Sleidan
,
186.
-
Somner
,
37.
38
,
40
,
41
,
105
,
106
,
108
,
101
,
103
,
104
,
112
,
116
,
117
,
126
,
127.
-
Speed
,
13.
16
,
194
,
*
.
-
Spelman
,
13.
16
,
49
,
50
,
86
,
106
,
105
,
108
,
112
,
120
,
121
,
124
,
129
,
160.
-
Stephens
,
45.
-
Stillingfleet
,
80.
99.
-
Stow
,
46.
47
,
191
,
*
,
215.
-
Sueno
,
142
,
143.
-
Surita
,
17.
-
Sylvius
,
81.
-
Taylor
,
33.
36
,
40
,
79
,
202.
-
Temple
,
9.
99
,
147
,
202.
-
Tenison
,
24.
-
Thynne
,
190
,
*
.
-
Thoresby
,
69.
199.
-
Tilburiensis
,
157.
164.
-
Tinmuthensis
,
178.
-
Todd
,
30.
-
Towneshend
,
230.
231.
-
Trussel
,
35.
194
,
*
.
-
Turner
,
33.
229.
-
Turpin
,
188.
*
.
-
Twisden
,
15.
106.
163.
-
Twyne
,
8.
9
,
40.
-
Virgil
,
82.
98
,
185
,
*
.
-
Vincent
,
16.
23
,
51.
-
Vinesauf
,
207
,
208.
-
Vndallensis
,
124.
-
Vossius
,
221.
-
Vsher
,
15.
82
,
83
,
97
,
100
,
117
,
199.
-
Walsingham
,
14.
119
,
188
,
219
,
231.
-
Wats
,
106.
124.
-
Waverley
,
18.
-
Westcot
,
31.
32.
-
Westminster
,
14
,
116.
167
,
179.
-
Wharton
,
12.
19
,
&c.
40
,
61
,
103
,
110
,
116
,
163
,
171
,
172
,
199
,
205.
-
Wheloc
,
21
,
106
,
114
,
116.
-
White
,
193.
*
.
-
Whitgift
,
191.
*
.
-
Wikes
,
118.
172.
-
Williams
,
73.
77.
-
Wolf
,
191.
*
.
-
Wood
,
54.
57
,
68
,
102.
-
Woolsey
,
194.
-
Worcester
,
14.
116
,
120
,
149.
-
Wormius
,
129.
135
,
139
,
142
,
144.
-
Wyrley
,
23.
'T
is
to
be
noted
,
that
in
this
additional
Index
References
are
not
only
made
to
the
Book
it self
,
but
also
to
the
Preface
,
which
is
suppos'd
to
be
Paged
from
the
Title-Page
.
The
other
Errors
and
Defects
are
thus
to
be
corrected
and
supply'd
.
P.
2.
l.
13.
Reckoning
:
Nor
ought
any
thing
that
has
been
transcrib'd
from
them
by
Strabo
or
Pomponius
Mela
,
by
Solinius
or
Pleny
,
to
carry
any
higher
Value
.
P.
4.
l.
26.
Most
of
them
.
I
,
Leland
,
[
d
](A52335-e56430-b)
d
De
Script
.
Brit.
Vide
&
J.
Pits
,
p.
266.
says
he
,
once
saw
in
the
Library
at
St.
Paul's
,
a
Description
of
England
written
in
the
Saxon
Tongue
by
Coleman
;
who
(
if
he
be
the
the
same
Man
with
Colemannus
,
Monk
of
Worcester
,
the
Writer
of
St.
Wulstan's
Life
)
may
justly
challenge
a
Precedence
.
Otherwise
,
Gyraldus
,
&c.
P.
13.
l.
6.
This
Nature
.
With
this
fancyful
Treatise
let
me
join
Mich.
Drayton's
Poly-Olbion
;
which
affords
a
much
truer
Account
of
this
Kingdom
,
and
the
Dominion
of
Wales
,
than
could
well
be
expected
from
the
Pen
of
a
Poet.
The
first
[
a
](A52335-e56570-b)
a
Fol.
Lond.
1612.
eighteen
of
these
Songs
had
the
Honour
to
be
publish'd
with
Mr.
Selden's
Notes
;
the
other
[
b
](A52335-e56590-b)
b
Fol.
ib.
1622.
twelve
being
hardly
capable
of
such
a
respect
.
P.
15.
l.
11.
and
Speed
.
Mr.
Ogilby
design'd
a
most
Noble
Description
of
England
in
Three
Volumes
;
the
first
whereof
(
which
only
is
[
c
](A52335-e56650-b)
c
Fol.
Lond.
1675.
publish'd
)
contains
an
Ichnographical
and
Historical
Account
of
all
our
great
Roads
,
on
100
large
Copper
Cuts
.
The
second
was
to
have
given
us
the
like
View
of
our
Cities
;
and
the
third
should
have
afforded
us
a
Topographical
Description
of
the
whole
Kingdom
.
P.
16.
l.
7.
Library
.
Sir
John
Marsham
,
Junior
(
lately
deceas'd
)
took
good
Pains
in
writing
an
Historical
List
of
all
the
Burroughs
in
England
,
which
send
Members
to
the
Parliament
.
This
Work
was
just
finish'd
upon
the
Death
of
its
Author
;
and
is
now
(
ready
for
the
Press
,
in
the
hands
of
his
Brother
Sir
Robert
Marsham
.
P.
18.
l.
8.
Performance
.
There
are
two
small
Tracts
about
our
English
Mastiffs
,
and
other
extraordinary
Animals
(
as
well
as
Plants
)
written
by
Dr.
Caius
;
which
are
printed
with
his
Treatise
[
d
](A52335-e56750-b)
d
120.
Lond.
1570.
de
Libris
propriis
.
P.
25.
l.
13.
before
mention'd
:
In
which
Work
he
told
us
he
design'd
a
more
complete
History
of
these
,
and
that
he
had
made
Collections
in
order
to
it
.
These
Collections
are
now
in
his
Musaeum
at
Oxford
;
where
there
are
also
very
considerable
Materials
(
of
his
own
gathering
)
for
a
General
History
of
Berkshire
.
P.
26.
l.
5.
Kingdom
.
A
Catalogue
of
the
indigenous
Plants
of
Cambridgeshire
was
long
since
[
a
](A52335-e56850-b)
a
80.
Lond.
1660.
publish'd
by
the
learned
Mr.
Ray
;
augmented
afterwards
by
Mr.
Stone-street
and
Mr.
Dent.
There
is
also
a
Manuscript-History
of
this
County
,
by
Mr.
Laire
of
Shephred
near
Royston
;
whose
Son
intends
to
deposite
it
in
some
of
the
College-Libraries
at
Cambridge
.
P.
31.
l.
13.
Jones
.
There
's
a
MS.
in
the
Musaeum
at
Oxford
,
which
bears
the
Title
of
Phil.
Kynder's
Natural
History
of
Derbyshire
:
But
't
is
only
(
as
the
Author
himself
there
calls
it
)
a
short
Prolusion
to
an
intended
future
History
,
and
has
little
in
it
worth
the
consulting
or
looking
after
.
P.
34.
l.
12.
Wantner
;
who
,
meeting
with
those
Discouragements
that
were
suitable
to
the
Man
's
busie
medling
in
things
beyond
his
Sphere
,
was
content
to
enjoy
,
&c.
Nor
is
Corbet's
Book
worth
the
mentioning
.
P.
37.
l.
4.
County
.
But
the
late
learned
Publisher
of
Sir
Robert's
[
b
](A52335-e57080-b)
b
T.
Smith
,
vit
D.
R.
Cott.
p.
23.
vid.
&
Tiber.
E.
VIII
.
81.
Life
,
says
,
't
is
only
probable
(
from
the
great
store
of
Collections
that
he
had
made
out
of
Doomsday
,
&c.
to
that
purpose
)
that
he
had
projected
such
an
History
.
He
does
not
believe
that
he
ever
finish'd
any
thing
of
that
Nature
.
P.
50.
l.
19.
Spelman
;
and
was
long
since
printed
with
the
first
Edition
of
his
Treatise
[
c
](A52335-e57130-b)
c
40.
Lond.
1575.
de
Furoribus
Norfolciensium
Ketto
Duce
.
Sir
Symonds
D
Ewes
[
a
](A52335-e57170-b)
a
See
the
Preface
to
his
Journal
,
&c.
thought
of
making
a
Survey
of
Norfolk
out
of
Original
Deeds
;
but
we
know
not
what
Advances
he
had
made
in
it
.
P.
51.
l.
9.
Mr.
Peter
le
Neve
,
one
of
the
Pursuivants
at
Arms
,
is
now
[
b
](A52335-e57230-b)
b
Hist.
Bibl.
Cott.
p.
42.
preparing
an
accurate
Description
and
History
of
this
County
;
which
we
hope
to
see
published
ere
long
.
Ibid.
l.
10.
Augustine
Vincent
.
P.
52.
l.
20.
For
the
Anonymous
Author
,
&c.
Read
,
Ralph
Gardiner
in
his
England's
Grievances
,
&c.
Ibid.
In
the
Notes
(d)
40.
Lond.
1655.
P.
57.
l.
1.
Bathoniensibus
;
as
did
also
[
c
](A52335-e57340-b)
c
Fol.
Colon.
1562.
Dr.
William
Turner
,
a
famous
Physician
in
the
beginning
of
Queen
Elizabeth's
Reign
.
P.
59.
l.
12.
Oxford
.
A
kind
Friend
of
mine
could
not
meet
with
them
there
:
But
he
tells
me
(
what
is
much
better
worth
the
hearing
)
that
Dr.
Battely
,
the
present
Arch-deacon
of
Canterbury
,
has
made
a
good
Progress
in
the
History
of
the
Town
and
Abby
of
St.
Edmondsbury
.
I
wish
this
Discovery
of
it
may
be
a
means
to
hasten
its
publishing
.
P.
68.
l.
21.
The
late
Recorder
of
Heddon
,
Mr.
Christopher
Hildyard
;
which
is
now
enlarging
by
Mr.
Forr
,
a
Gentleman
of
good
Industry
and
Abilities
suitable
to
the
Work
.
P.
79.
l.
ult
.
Historical
Ballads
.
Be
that
Matter
as
it
will
,
we
ought
here
to
observe
that
Sam.
Beaulanius
or
Britannus
was
(
as
himself
owns
)
Scholar
to
Beaulanus
Presbyter
,
who
was
the
Genealogist
;
and
that
neither
of
'em
liv'd
in
the
beginning
(
or
perhaps
any
part
)
of
the
Seventh
Century
.
Britannus
as
we
shall
see
anon
)
did
certainly
write
Notes
upon
Nennius
;
and
therefore
must
have
flourish'd
after
him
.
'T
is
likewise
very
improbable
that
he
never
medled
with
any
of
the
Saxon
Genealogies
:
since
,
in
one
of
those
Notes
,
he
says
expresly
[
a
](A52335-e57550-b)
a
Vid.
Nenn.
Edit.
Gal.
p.
115.
Cum
inutiles
Magistro
meo
,
id
est
,
Beaulario
(
it
should
be
Beaulano
)
Presbytero
,
visae
sunt
Genealogiae
Saxonum
&
aliarum
Genealogiae
Gentium
,
nolui
ea
scribere
,
&c.
P.
81.
l.
2.
or
nothing
.
The
most
learned
of
the
British
Antiquaries
agree
,
that
this
Myrdhyn
ap
Morvryn
(
call'd
from
the
Country
wherein
he
liv'd
Caledonius
,
and
Sylvestris
,
from
his
Humour
of
leading
a
retir'd
Life
in
the
Woods
)
wrote
a
Poem
call'd
Avalleneu
,
or
the
Apple-Trees
,
to
his
Lord
Gwendholen
ap
Keidio
;
who
was
slain
in
the
Battel
of
Arderith
,
in
the
Year
577.
Some
Fragments
of
this
Poem
were
found
at
Hengwrt
in
Meiriondyshire
,
the
last
Summer
,
by
Mr.
Lhwyd
;
who
very
probably
conjectures
that
from
hence
he
had
the
Surname
of
Avalonius
.
If
so
;
there
's
a
happy
Discovery
made
of
one
of
the
many
foolish
Impostures
of
the
old
Monks
of
Glassenbury
:
who
,
to
secure
this
famous
Prophet
to
themselves
,
have
made
King
Arthur's
Tomb
,
and
their
own
Monastery
to
stand
in
Insulâ
Avallonia
.
P.
82.
In
the
Notes
,
(d)
80.
Lond.
1525.
Basil.
1541.
120.
Lond.
1568.
Inter
Orthodoxographa
Patrum
,
&c.
&
Angl.
120.
Lond.
1638.
P.
84.
l.
penult.
Mervini
Regis
.
Though
here
also
there
seems
to
be
some
Mistake
:
For
the
first
Mervin
[
b
](A52335-e57820-b)
b
Vide
Success
RR.
Walliae
praefix.
Angl.
Sacr.
Tom.
II.
dy'd
in
the
Year
,
843.
and
the
second
did
not
begin
to
reign
till
885.
.
It
's
therefore
most
probable
that
the
Words
ought
to
be
read
.
Anno
828.
Anno
40.
Mervini
Regis
.
P.
85.
l.
10.
to
Gildas
.
John
Leland
mentions
an
ancient
Copy
of
this
History
,
which
(
he
says
)
he
borrow'd
from
his
Friend
Thomas
Solme
Secretary
for
the
French
Tongue
to
King
Henry
the
Eighth
;
in
the
Margin
whereof
were
the
Additions
of
Sam.
Beaulanius
,
or
Britannus
.
He
has
[
a
](A52335-e57940-b)
a
Collect.
MSS.
Vol.
2.
p.
46.
transcribed
several
of
these
Marginal
Annotations
;
which
(
it
appears
)
were
afterwards
inserted
in
the
Body
of
the
History
,
and
are
so
publish'd
by
Dr.
Gale
.
The
Doctor
indeed
,
in
his
Notes
,
mentions
Samuel
as
the
Scholiast
upon
his
Bennet
Copy
:
but
Leland
has
a
great
many
other
things
,
as
Excerpta
out
of
Beulanius
,
which
are
not
there
observ'd
to
be
only
in
the
Scholion
.
There
is
also
in
Bodley's
Library
a
MS.
of
this
Nennius
,
which
cannot
be
less
than
500
Years
old
;
wherein
the
Prefaces
,
and
all
those
Interpolations
,
which
are
by
Leland
said
to
be
this
Samuel's
,
are
wanting
.
P.
88.
l.
11.
His
Reign
.
It
appears
indeed
from
the
Preface
of
this
Hoel's
Laws
(
in
most
of
the
Latin
and
[
b
](A52335-e58120-b)
b
Bibl.
Cott.
Caligula
,
A.
3.
Vitellius
,
E.
11.
Titus
,
D.
2.
9.
Cleopatra
,
B.
5.
Welsh
Copies
)
that
Blegorede
,
or
Blegwrt
,
was
one
of
the
Commissioners
appointed
to
draw
up
that
Code
or
Abstract
;
and
't
is
also
probable
,
seeing
he
was
the
only
Ecclesiastick
amongst
them
,
that
he
penn'd
it
:
But
,
whether
he
did
it
in
the
Latin
,
or
British
Tongue
,
is
wholly
uncertain
.
Ibid.
l.
17.
Augusto
1600.
Sir
William
Dugdale
[
c
](A52335-e58260-b)
c
Orig.
Jurid
.
p.
54.
reckons
up
seven
Manuscript
Collections
of
the
old
British
Laws
,
besides
those
we
have
aloeady
mention'd
:
As
,
1.
Kyfnerth
ap
Morgan
.
2.
Gronu
vab
Moreddig
.
3.
Lhyfr
hen
y
tuy
Gwyn
.
4.
Gwair
mab
Ruon
.
5.
Lhyfr
Prawf
.
6.
Prawfyneit
;
a
Collection
(
he
says
)
out
of
the
four
first
.
7.
Lhyfr
Kyghawssed
.
The
third
of
these
is
undoubtedly
the
same
with
Howel's
Dha's
;
as
will
easily
appear
from
the
Title
of
those
Laws
.
All
the
rest
(
whereof
the
fifth
and
sixth
seem
to
be
the
same
)
are
now
at
Hengwrt
;
except
only
the
fourth
,
which
is
suppos'd
to
be
(
in
the
hands
of
Sir
William
Williams
)
amongst
Mr.
Maurice's
MSS.
There
we
are
likewise
to
enquire
for
that
eminent
Antiquary's
Dedhf-grawn
,
or
Thesaurus
Juridicus
;
wherein
are
the
various
Readings
of
above
thirty
ancient
Copies
of
the
British
Laws
.
To
which
we
may
possibly
add
the
Liber
Cardiffe
;
being
a
Treatise
upon
the
ancient
Customs
of
Wales
,
in
the
Welsh
Language
.
P.
96.
l.
6.
Sheringham
;
who
is
always
very
loath
(
if
it
,
&c.
P.
99.
l.
ult.
same
Subject
.
J.
Bale
[
a
](A52335-e58460-b)
a
Cent.
8.
cap.
42.
makes
Will
.
Caxton
write
King
Arthur
's
History
in
no
less
than
One
and
twenty
several
Books
;
which
,
if
they
could
have
been
found
,
might
have
sav'd
Rich.
Robinson
the
trouble
of
translating
Leland
's
Assertio
into
[
b
](A52335-e58530-b)
b
Lond.
1582.
English
.
P.
100.
l.
ult.
Williams
.
The
foremention'd
learned
Primate
made
also
some
choice
Collections
,
in
his
Retirement
at
St.
Donate
's
,
relating
to
the
British
Antiquities
;
which
were
afterwards
in
the
hands
[
c
](A52335-e58570-b)
c
See
his
Life
of
A.
B.
Ilsher
,
p.
60.
of
Dr.
Parr
,
his
Grace's
Chaplain
:
And
,
from
the
like
Helps
in
the
Library
at
Llantarnam
,
Mr.
Percie
Enderby
collected
his
[
d
](A52335-e58620-b)
d
Fol.
Lond.
1661.
Cambria
Triumphans
,
or
,
Ancient
and
Modern
,
British
and
Welsh
Histories
from
Brute
to
Charles
the
First
.
Nic.
Allen's
Britanneis
(
ten
Books
whereof
are
now
in
MS.
in
Bodley's
Library
)
comes
no
lower
than
the
Conquest
.
P.
107.
l.
4.
from
the
time
of
Claudius
to
that
of
Valentinian
(
about
five
hundred
[
he
should
say
four
hundred
]
years
)
the
,
&c.
P.
104.
*
.
l.
20.
Bodley
's
Library
:
But
the
Transcript
of
it
(
in
eleven
Volumes
,
at
the
Charge
of
the
late
pious
Bishop
Fell
)
is
not
in
the
Musaeum
Ashmoleanum
,
as
[
a
](A52335-e58790-b)
a
Catalog
.
Libb
.
Sept.
p.
Dr.
Hickes
was
inform'd
.
P.
111.
l.
20.
Laur.
Nowel
.
P.
121.
l.
19.
the
matter
:
But
I
do
know
that
there
was
a
short
Life
of
this
great
King
[
b
](A52335-e58840-b)
b
8o
.
Lond.
1634.
publish'd
by
R.
Powel
,
a
Lawyer
;
who
has
been
at
no
contemptible
Pains
to
make
up
a
Parallel
betwixt
Aelfred
and
Charles
the
First
.
P.
128.
l.
12.
put
together
.
A
short
Chronicle
of
our
English-Saxon
Kings
,
from
Hengist
to
the
end
of
the
Heptarchy
,
was
written
in
Latin
by
[
c
](A52335-e58940-b)
c
8o
.
Lond.
1634
,
Dan.
Langhorn
;
[
c
](A52335-e58950-b)
c
8o
.
Lond.
1679.
whose
chief
Authors
are
those
publish'd
by
Sir
Hen.
Savil
,
and
Sir
Roger
Twisden
.
He
had
[
d
](A52335-e58990-b)
d
8o
.
Lond.
1673.
formerly
given
us
the
Antiquities
of
this
Island
,
previous
to
the
Arrival
of
the
Saxons
;
wherein
(
amongst
other
Remains
of
those
dark
Times
)
we
have
a
Catalogue
of
the
Pictish
King
.
'T
is
said
that
the
Continuation
of
this
History
is
[
e
](A52335-e59030-b)
e
See
Mr.
Bohun's
Additions
to
D.
Whear
,
p.
134.
much
desir'd
by
Learned
Men
:
And
't
is
pity
but
the
Author
,
if
yet
living
,
should
be
prevail'd
with
to
gratifie
them
.
P.
139.
l.
15.
Wormius
's
use
;
P.
140.
l.
14.
own
Nation
.
Some
part
of
this
fell
happily
into
the
hands
of
(
Tho.
Bartholine
's
Friend
)
the
Bishop
of
Scalholt
;
who
took
care
to
have
it
printed
,
A.
D.
1689.
P.
152.
l.
23.
Galfredi
.
But
in
this
I
dare
not
be
positive
.
Leland
saw
this
Author
's
entire
History
;
which
ended
,
Anno
29
Hen.
1.
He
has
made
Collections
out
of
it
:
wherein
(
as
in
some
other
Passages
cited
by
R.
Higden
)
there
are
several
things
not
found
in
Jeoffrey
.
Which
(
considering
withal
that
Aelfred
may
probably
be
reckon'd
as
early
a
Writer
as
himself
)
is
one
of
the
most
cogent
Arguments
,
as
far
as
I
know
,
to
prove
that
this
Monmouth
was
not
the
first
Author
of
the
whole
British
Story
.
P.
159.
l.
17.
Judgment
enough
.
So
much
Encouragement
we
have
to
look
after
the
whole
,
that
we
are
sure
Leland
had
the
perusal
of
an
entire
Copy
;
the
Prologue
whereof
he
has
[
a
](A52335-e59250-b)
a
Collect.
MS.
Vol.
1.
p.
105.
transcrib'd
,
as
likewise
many
following
Passages
relating
to
the
Affairs
of
the
Britains
and
Saxons
.
Ibid.
l.
ult.
Blockhead
.
'T
is
to
be
fear'd
we
shall
hardly
meet
with
this
History
,
till
we
find
the
Historian
himself
(
which
is
more
than
either
Bishop
Godwine
,
or
Mr.
Wharton
could
do
)
amongst
the
Bishops
of
Durham
.
P.
161.
l.
3.
temporum
Indices
.
And
indeed
Leland
himself
was
afterwards
of
the
like
Opinion
:
For
(
in
his
Book
[
b
](A52335-e59350-b)
b
MS.
in
Bibl.
Bodl.
p.
183.
de
Scriptoribus
)
he
says
nothing
of
his
being
a
Plagiary
,
but
gives
him
this
great
Character
—
Mortuo
Henrico
[
Rege
sc.
ejus
nominis
secundo
]
omne
studium
suum
ad
Historiam
scribendam
contulit
;
in
quo
Negotio
si
diligentiam
,
si
Antiquitatis
cognitionem
,
si
sanctam
fidem
spectes
,
non
modo
quotquot
seculis
rudibus
quidem
praecesserunt
Scriptores
,
verum
etiam
seipsum
superavit
.
P.
163.
l.
3.
Library
.
This
British
Chronicle
is
probably
the
same
that
's
printed
by
[
a
](A52335-e59410-b)
a
Inter
XV.
Script
.
P.
553.
Dr.
Gale
;
and
seems
to
be
wholly
transcrib'd
out
of
the
Works
of
a
former
Author
,
whom
he
calls
Brome
.
This
may
be
the
same
with
Jo.
Bromius
or
Bramus
,
quoted
sometimes
by
Dr.
Caius
and
[
b
](A52335-e59480-b)
b
Holinshead's
Hist.
Vol.
2.
p.
1589.
Franc.
Thynne
;
but
must
be
different
from
Jo.
Bramis
the
Friar
of
Gorleston
(
with
whom
he
is
confounded
by
Bale
and
Pits
)
because
the
Friar
did
not
flourish
till
1440.
and
the
Historian
must
live
before
Ralph
de
Diceto
,
and
was
moreover
(
as
Thynne
observes
)
a
Monk
of
Thetford
.
P.
164.
l.
19.
the
Fourth
.
Here
likewise
notice
ought
to
be
taken
of
Joh.
Wallingford's
Chronicle
,
publish'd
by
[
c
](A52335-e59600-b)
c
XV.
Script
.
p.
525.
Dr.
Gale
;
if
the
Abbot
of
St.
Albans
of
that
name
(
who
dy'ds
in
the
Year
1214.
)
was
,
as
the
learned
Editor
guesses
,
the
Author
of
it
.
But
he
seems
to
be
a
different
Person
from
the
Historian
;
who
carries
down
his
Work
forty
years
after
the
Abbot's
Death
.
The
Doctor
indeed
makes
R.
Wendover
Author
of
the
latter
Part
of
that
History
:
But
if
he
had
look'd
into
the
next
Treatise
to
this
Chronicle
(
in
the
Cottonian
MS.
from
whence
he
had
it
)
he
would
have
met
with
another
John
Wallingford
,
who
was
made
Monk
of
St.
Alban's
in
the
Year
1231.
and
so
might
bring
down
the
History
till
1258.
without
the
Assistance
of
Wendover
.
P.
172.
l.
15.
flourish'd
.
Or
,
it
may
be
,
the
[
d
](A52335-e59700-b)
d
Bibl.
Cott.
Julius
,
A.
1.
Chronicle
that
was
written
by
John
de
Taxston
a
Monk
of
Bury
,
which
ends
at
the
Reign
of
Edw.
3.
is
the
same
thing
with
these
Annals
.
John
de
Oxenedes
(
a
Monk
of
Hulm
,
mention'd
by
[
e
](A52335-e59770-b)
e
Angl.
Sac.
Vol
1.
p.
405.
410.
Mr.
Wharton
)
liv'd
about
the
same
time
.
P.
175.
l.
7.
Years
more
.
'T
is
probable
the
Chronicle
of
Joh.
Londinensis
(
who
liv'd
[
b
](A52335-e59820-b)
b
J.
Pits
,
p.
878.
about
the
same
time
)
is
still
extant
:
For
't
is
quoted
in
Lambard's
Preface
to
his
Archaionomia
,
and
among
R.
James's
Collections
there
are
several
things
extracted
out
of
it
.
P.
184.
l.
21.
To
these
we
may
probably
add
the
Author
of
the
MS.
[
c
](A52335-e59900-b)
c
Bibl.
Cott.
Galb●●
,
E.
7.
Eulogium
;
who
begins
his
Work
at
Bru●e
,
and
ends
at
the
Year
1367.
The
beginning
of
the
Book
(
't
is
likely
)
may
be
Nennius's
:
but
the
rest
seems
to
have
been
penn'd
by
a
Monk
of
Canterbury
,
by
his
calling
St.
Thomas
Becket
his
Patron
.
P.
194.
l.
23.
the
Year
1530.
P.
185.
*
.
l.
15.
their
Countrey
.
Bale
[
d
](A52335-e60020-b)
d
Par.
a.
p.
103.
reports
that
Sir
Brian
Tuke
wrote
a
Chronicle
,
purposely
to
vindicate
the
Honour
of
the
English
Nation
,
against
those
Aspersions
which
Virgil
had
cast
upon
it
in
this
History
.
P.
190.
*
.
l.
2.
and
others
.
To
these
we
may
add
two
Poetical
Historians
of
this
Age
;
Chr.
Ocland
,
who
wrote
[
e
](A52335-e60090-b)
e
12o
.
Lond.
1582.
Anglorum
praelia
in
Latin
Verse
;
and
Will
.
Warner
(
an
English
Rhimer
)
Author
of
the
Romantick
Story
of
[
f
](A52335-e60140-b)
f
4o
.
Lond.
1606.
Albion's
England
in
twelve
Books
,
containing
the
Occurrences
of
our
Land
from
Noah
to
the
39th
of
Queen
Elizabeth
.
P.
194.
*
.
l.
19.
Queen
Elizabeth
.
Cotemporaries
with
these
were
John
Clapham
,
Edward
Ayscue
and
Will
.
Slatyer
;
the
first
whereof
left
us
the
[
a
](A52335-e60240-b)
a
4o
.
Lond.
1606.
History
of
Great
Britain
;
the
second
that
of
the
[
b
](A52335-e60260-b)
b
4o
.
Lond.
1607.
Wars
,
Treaties
and
Marriages
,
with
Scotland
;
and
the
third
his
[
c
](A52335-e60280-b)
c
Fol.
Lond.
1621.
Palae-Albion
,
in
ten
Books
of
Latin
and
English
Verse
.
P.
198.
l.
9.
Arms
,
&c.
3.
Dr.
R.
Brady's
Complete
[
d
](A52335-e60360-b)
d
Fol.
Lond.
1685.
History
of
England
;
wherein
he
endeavours
to
prove
(
and
no
Man
ever
did
it
more
effectually
)
that
all
our
adored
Liberties
are
deriv'd
from
the
Crown
,
and
owing
to
the
Concessions
of
our
Princes
.
He
shews
that
the
Normans
themselves
(
weary
of
the
Tenure
of
Knight-Service
,
and
other
Drudgeries
of
the
Feudal
Law
)
rais'd
all
our
old
Civil
Commotions
in
England
:
And
that
no
ancient
Rights
and
Properties
of
the
Subject
were
any
part
of
the
true
Controversie
.
He
very
well
illustrates
many
dark
Passages
in
our
English-Saxon
Laws
;
by
comparing
them
with
those
of
the
old
Germans
,
Francs
,
Lombards
,
&c.
His
Preface
to
the
Norman
History
largely
accounts
for
the
Customs
of
that
People
;
and
shews
what
sort
of
Government
and
Laws
they
brought
with
them
into
this
Kingdom
.
Afterwards
we
have
a
good
view
of
the
seven
first
Reigns
after
the
Conquest
.
His
chief
Author
is
M.
Paris
,
well
epitomiz'd
;
and
confirm'd
and
enlarg'd
with
authentick
Evidence
from
Records
,
a
great
many
whereof
are
printed
(
at
large
)
in
his
Appendix
.
He
has
also
publish'd
an
Introduction
to
the
English
History
;
which
(
treating
chiefly
of
Matters
of
Law
and
Government
)
shall
be
consider'd
elsewhere
.
4.
Let
me
add
,
&c.
P.
202.
l.
17.
great
Man
.
Sir
John
Hayward's
[
e
](A52335-e60500-b)
e
Lond.
1623.
History
of
the
three
Norman
Kings
was
undertaken
at
the
Request
of
Prince
.
Henry
,
who
hardly
liv'd
to
read
it
,
and
not
to
requite
the
Author's
Pains
.
He
calls
his
Lives
of
these
Monarchs
[
a
](A52335-e60530-b)
a
In
Epist.
Ded.
Descriptions
rather
than
Histories
:
And
so
indeed
they
are
;
being
only
short
Portraictures
of
'em
,
in
such
a
witty
and
humour
some
Style
and
Method
,
as
might
better
serve
to
divert
the
young
Prince
than
instruct
him
.
I
shall
give
the
Reader
but
one
Instance
of
the
Care
he
took
of
the
Chronological
part
of
his
Story
.
He
[
b
](A52335-e60550-b)
b
P.
216.
&
223.
says
,
Hen.
1.
was
crown'd
the
second
of
August
;
which
is
the
same
day
whereon
(
he
acknowledges
)
King
William
II.
was
slain
,
a
little
before
Sun-set
,
in
the
New-Forest
.
A
small
Fragment
of
the
Conqueror's
History
is
among
Cambden's
Anglica
,
Normannica
,
&c.
and
some
Particulars
relating
to
the
Reigns
of
this
,
and
the
two
following
Kings
,
may
be
pick'd
out
of
Guil.
Gemeticensis
,
and
others
publish'd
by
the
learned
[
c
](A52335-e60620-b)
c
Fol.
Paris
.
1619.
And.
du
Chesne
.
But
above
all
,
&c.
P.
203.
l.
21.
the
second
.
There
's
an
old
English
History
(
in
Saxon
Letters
)
of
the
Transactions
of
some
few
years
of
his
Reign
,
after
1123
,
in
[
d
](A52335-e60690-b)
d
Tiberius
,
B.
4.
Sir
John
Cotton's
Library
.
P.
204.
l.
3.
voluminous
Author
.
In
Du
Chesne's
Collection
there
's
a
pretty
large
Life
of
this
King
;
whose
Author
,
though
Anonymous
,
seems
to
have
flourish'd
in
the
latter
end
of
this
,
or
the
beginning
of
the
next
Reign
:
And
Pits
assures
us
that
Ralph
de
Diceto's
Annals
of
King
Stephen
are
in
the
Library
at
Bennet-College
.
P.
205.
l.
18.
Benedictus
;
whose
Book
(
we
are
[
e
](A52335-e60810-b)
e
Bibl.
Cott.
Iulius
,
A.
11.
since
told
)
is
full
of
notable
and
politick
Remarks
,
and
is
much
follow'd
by
Hoveden
and
Brompton
.
Pet.
Blesensis
[
f
](A52335-e60850-b)
f
Vid.
P.
Bles.
Epist.
14.
certainly
wrote
his
Life
;
tho'
we
know
not
what
's
become
of
it
.
Tho.
May
(
the
Translator
of
Lucan
)
has
given
us
seven
[
a
](A52335-e60880-b)
a
12o
.
Lond.
1633.
Books
,
in
English
Poetry
,
on
this
Subject
:
to
which
is
annex'd
his
Character
in
Prose
,
with
a
short
Survey
of
the
Changes
in
his
Reign
,
and
a
comparative
Description
of
his
two
Sons
,
Henry
and
Richard
.
P.
207.
l.
5.
Antiocheis
.
P.
208.
l.
8.
But
perhaps
he
's
mistaken
in
that
Conjecture
;
since
Rich.
Devisiensis
was
certainly
a
Monk
of
Winchester
.
However
,
to
make
up
the
Number
,
the
Reader
is
to
know
that
an
old
printed
[
b
](A52335-e60970-b)
b
4o
.
Lond.
1528.
Life
of
this
Ceur
du
Lyon
,
is
in
English
Meeter
;
tho'
I
cannot
inform
him
who
was
its
Author
.
P.
211.
l.
15.
several
Parts
.
Peter
de
Langetoft
,
who
drew
up
an
Epitome
of
our
[
c
](A52335-e61030-b)
c
Bibl.
Cott.
Julius
,
A.
5.
Chronicles
in
old
French
Rhimes
,
bestows
one
whole
Book
upon
Edward
the
First
.
Ibid.
l.
21
,
1320.
The
Annals
of
the
greatest
and
best
part
of
his
Reign
(
from
1307.
to
1323.
)
were
digested
by
[
d
](A52335-e61090-b)
d
Ibid.
Claudius
,
D.
6.
John
de
Frokelow
a
Monk
;
as
the
History
of
his
Treaty
of
Peace
,
in
the
Sixteenth
Year
of
his
Reign
,
with
Robert
King
of
Scots
,
was
by
Heminford's
Life
of
Edw.
II.
is
said
to
have
been
in
the
Library
of
Bennet-College
;
which
we
are
not
so
sure
of
as
that
his
Life
of
Edw.
III.
is
in
that
of
Magdalene-College
in
Oxford
,
as
well
as
in
[
e
](A52335-e61200-b)
e
Nero
,
D.
2.
Sir
John
Cotton's
at
Westminster
.
P.
212.
l.
22.
Deleantur
I
doubt
whether
,
&c.
usque
ad
Old
Manuscript
Historians
,
p.
213.
l.
7.
inclusivè
.
P.
214.
l.
11.
a
Friend
.
R.
James
,
in
some
Volume
of
his
MS.
Collections
,
reports
that
Rob.
Avesbury
,
(
Registrary
of
the
Archbishop
of
Canterbury's
Court
wrote
Mirabilia
gesta
R.
Edwardi
III.
post
Conquestum
,
procerúmque
suorum
,
tractis
primitùs
quibusdam
gestis
de
tempore
Patris
sui
D.
Edv.
II.
quae
in
regnis
Angliae
,
Scotioe
,
&
Franciae
,
&
in
Aquitaniâ
&
Britanniâ
,
non
humanâ
sed
Dei
potentiâ
contigerunt
.
Tho.
May
(
the
Poet
)
has
likewise
[
a
](A52335-e61410-b)
a
8o
.
Lond.
1637.
some
English
Raptures
upon
this
King
's
Life
:
Nor
ought
I
to
forget
that
Sir
John
Froissard
is
said
to
have
written
two
Books
on
that
of
Queen
Philippa
,
the
first
glorious
Patroness
of
Queen's
College
in
Oxford
.
Above
all
;
Mr.
Joshua
Barnes
has
diligently
collected
whatever
was
to
be
had
,
far
and
near
,
upon
the
several
Passages
of
this
[
b
](A52335-e61490-b)
b
Hist.
of
Edw.
III.
Fol.
Cantab.
1688.
great
King's
Reign
.
His
Quotations
are
many
;
and
(
generally
)
his
Authors
are
as
well
chosen
as
such
a
Multitude
can
be
suppos'd
to
have
been
.
His
Inferences
are
not
always
like
a
Statesman
;
and
sometimes
his
Digressions
are
tedious
.
His
deriving
of
the
famous
Institution
of
the
Garter
from
the
[
c
](A52335-e61510-b)
c
P.
294.
295.
Phaenicians
is
extremely
obliging
to
good
Master
Sammes
:
But
came
too
late
,
it
seems
,
to
Mr.
Ashmole's
Knowledge
;
or
otherwise
would
have
bid
fair
for
a
choice
Post
of
Honour
in
his
Elaborate
Book
.
In
short
,
this
industrious
Author
seems
to
have
hasten'd
his
Work
too
much
to
the
Press
,
before
he
had
provided
an
Index
,
and
some
other
Accoutrements
,
which
might
have
made
it
more
serviceable
to
his
Readers
.
P.
215.
l.
6.
untimely
Death
.
Deleantur
,
which
(
it
may
be
)
contains
the
whole
Chronicle
.
Et
adde
,
Richard
Maidstone
(
a
learned
Carmelite
)
wrote
also
in
Latin
Verse
[
d
](A52335-e61600-b)
d
MS.
in
Bibl.
Bodl.
Concordiam
inter
Ricardum
II.
&
Cives
Lond●nenses
:
And
Henry
Knighton's
History
of
his
Deposition
is
among
the
Decem
Scriptores
,
as
another
short
History
of
his
Reign
(
by
an
anonymous
Monk
of
Evesham
)
it
in
the
[
a
](A52335-e61650-b)
a
Tiberius
,
c.
9.
Claudius
,
B.
9.
Co●tonian
Library
.
Amongst
later
Pamphlets
on
this
Subject
,
the
[
b
](A52335-e61690-b)
b
120.
1654.
Idol
of
Clowns
(
or
the
Insurrection
of
Wat
Tyler
,
as
a
Parallel
with
some
Occurrences
in
our
late
Days
of
Rebellion
)
may
balance
the
[
c
](A52335-e61720-b)
c
40.
Lond.
1689.
Exact
Ac-Account
of
the
Articles
and
Proceedings
,
&c.
P.
216.
1.
5.
those
Reigns
.
There
is
an
old
French
MS.
in
Verse
,
which
treats
of
the
Affairs
of
this
Reign
;
the
Title
whereof
,
in
a
hand
more
modern
than
the
Book
it self
,
is
this
:
Histoire
du
Roy
D'
Angleterre
Richard
,
traictant
particulierement
la
Rebellion
des
sus
Subjects
,
&
prinse
de
sa
personne
,
&c.
Composée
par
un
gentilhomme
François
de
Marque
,
qui
fut
à
la
suité
du
dict
Roy
,
avecque
permission
du
Roy
de
France
.
At
the
end
,
in
a
hand
as
old
as
that
of
the
Book
,
is
written
:
Ce
livre
de
la
prinse
du
Roy
Richart
d'
Angleterre
est
à
Monseigneur
Charles
Damon
Conte
du
Maine
&
de
Mortaing
,
&
Gouverneur
de
Languedoc
.
This
was
lately
in
the
Possession
of
the
learned
Dr.
Hickes
;
who
(
finding
many
Passages
in
it
not
touch'd
on
by
other
Writers
,
and
others
differently
related
)
had
once
Thoughts
of
publishing
it
,
with
a
Translation
and
Notes
of
his
own
:
But
,
being
afterwards
acquainted
that
Dr.
Brady
had
written
the
Life
of
this
King
;
and
knowing
that
nothing
could
escape
the
Diligence
of
that
Historian
,
he
lay
those
Thoughts
aside
.
Here
(
rather
than
it
should
be
wholly
forgotten
)
let
me
put
the
Reader
in
mind
of
the
elegant
History
of
our
old
Civil
Wars
;
written
in
Italian
by
Sir
Francis
Biondi
(
of
the
Bed-Chamber
to
King
Charles
the
First
)
and
translated
into
[
a
](A52335-e61860-b)
a
In
2.
Vol.
Fol.
Lond.
1641.
1646.
English
by
the
Earl
of
Monmouth
.
Ibid.
l.
ult
.
too
Dramatical
.
This
Piece
is
certainly
the
least
liable
to
that
Censure
of
any
this
Author
ever
wrote
;
being
the
most
elaborate
of
all
his
Works
,
and
what
looks
like
a
part
of
what
he
design'd
for
a
just
History
.
But
the
little
that
's
[
b
](A52335-e61930-b)
b
Lond.
1599.
published
should
rather
be
entitl'd
the
Reign
of
Richard
the
Second
;
since
it
reaches
no
farther
than
his
Death
,
and
the
Settlement
of
his
Successor
in
the
Throne
.
P.
218.
l.
14.
their
hands
.
There
's
a
very
fair
Ms.
in
Bodley's
Library
,
entitl'd
a
Translation
of
Titus
Livius
's
Life
of
K.
Hen.
V.
dedicated
to
Hen.
VIII
.
But
't
is
more
truly
a
History
of
that
Prince's
Life
,
compiled
out
of
a
French
Book
call'd
Enquerrant
(
which
,
of
all
the
French
Chronicles
,
is
said
to
treat
most
copiously
of
the
Wars
betwixt
England
and
France
)
and
out
of
Titus
Livius
:
To
which
Book
(
says
the
Author
or
Translator
in
the
Prologue
)
I
have
added
divers
Sayings
of
the
English
Chronicles
,
and
to
the
same
Matter
also
divers
other
Opinions
that
I
have
read
of
the
Report
of
a
certain
Honourable
and
Ancient
Person
—
and
that
is
the
Honourable
Earl
of
Ormond
.
There
are
likewise
two
several
Lives
of
this
King
in
[
c
](A52335-e62090-b)
c
Julius
,
E.
4.
Tiberius
,
B.
6.
Claudius
,
A
8.
E.
4.
Cotton's
Libary
;
whereof
the
one
was
written
by
Tho.
Elmham
(
Prior
of
Lenton
)
and
the
other
by
an
Anonymous
Author
.
Fran.
Thynne
(
in
the
Conclusion
of
Holinshead's
Chronicle
)
mentions
one
by
Roger
Wall
,
a
Herald
.
P.
220.
l.
10.
Original
.
Dr.
John
Herd
was
employ'd
by
the
great
Lord
Burleigh
to
write
the
History
of
England
,
during
the
Reigns
of
Edw.
IV.
V.
Rich.
III.
and
Henry
VII
.
which
he
did
in
Latin
Verse
,
and
his
Book
is
still
extant
in
several
hands
.
P.
222.
l.
ult.
his
Client
.
They
that
are
dissatisfyd
with
any
Passages
in
this
Book
,
may
have
recourse
to
a
Copy
[
a
](A52335-e62290-b)
a
Bibl.
Cott.
Tiberius
,
E.
10.
corrected
and
amended
in
every
Page
.
P.
223.
l.
7.
Throne
.
He
is
mightily
extoll'd
by
Bern.
Andreas
of
Tholouse
,
his
Poet
Laureat
and
Historiographer
;
who
has
written
[
b
](A52335-e62350-b)
b
Jbid.
Iulius
,
A.
3.
4.
B.
12.
Domitianus
.
18
,
15.
two
good
Volumes
on
the
most
eminent
Transactions
of
his
Reign
.
P.
228.
l.
20.
do
it
.
A
slender
historical
Account
of
Wiat's
Rebellion
was
publish'd
by
one
[
c
](A52335-e62410-b)
c
120.
Lond.
1555.
John
Proctor
School-Master
of
Tunbridge
;
who
(
for
any
thing
I
have
yet
learn'd
)
must
be
look'd
upon
as
the
only
particular
Historian
of
this
Reign
.
P.
232.
l.
5.
good
value
.
There
are
several
other
Treatises
which
will
be
useful
in
furnishing
out
a
complete
View
of
her
long
and
prosperous
Reign
;
As
,
1.
Eliza
,
[
d
](A52335-e62470-b)
d
80.
1631.
or
the
Life
and
Troubles
of
Queen
Elizabeth
from
her
Cradle
to
her
Crown
,
by
Tho.
Heywood
.
2.
Elizabetha
,
[
e
](A52335-e62500-b)
e
120.
Lond.
1582.
or
a
Panegyrick
on
the
most
considerable
Occurrences
of
her
Reign
,
in
Latin
,
Verse
,
by
Chr.
Ocland
.
3.
The
Felicity
of
her
Time
,
[
f
](A52335-e62530-b)
f
120.
1651.
by
Sir
Digge's
Compleat
[
g
](A52335-e62550-b)
g
Fol.
1655.
Ambassador
;
containing
all
the
Letters
,
Instructions
,
Memoirs
,
&c.
relating
to
the
French
Match
with
that
Queen
.
5.
Some
good
Materials
may
be
had
from
the
Itinerary
of
F.
Moryson
;
Secretary
to
the
Lord
Montjoy
,
General
and
Governour
of
Ireland
.
They
are
given
us
in
that
useful
Method
,
which
is
now
generally
allow'd
to
be
the
most
pleasing
and
instructive
;
John
Hayward
[
a
](A52335-e62630-b)
a
In
Epist.
Ded.
ad
Hist.
RRR
.
Norman
.
acquaints
us
likewise
that
he
presented
Prince
Henry
with
some
Years
of
this
Queen's
Reign
,
drawn
at
length
and
in
full
proportion
:
But
these
,
I
think
,
were
never
publish'd
.
7.
Dr.
Barth
.
Clerke
,
Dean
of
the
Arches
,
was
[
b
](A52335-e62660-b)
b
See
his
Pref.
to
Castilion
de
Aulico
.
put
upon
the
writing
of
her
History
by
my
Lord
Buckhurst
;
and
he
seems
to
have
been
every
way
fit
for
the
Undertaking
:
But
,
whether
he
might
not
afterwards
be
prevented
by
Death
,
or
Mr.
Camden's
engaging
in
the
same
Design
,
I
know
not
.
These
are
the
chief
of
those
Errors
and
Defects
that
have
either
been
remark'd
by
others
,
or
hitherto
observ'd
by
my self
,
in
the
former
part
.
There
are
several
others
,
of
lesser
Note
,
which
an
intelligent
Reader
will
easily
correct
,
without
my
Directions
:
As
(
particularly
)
the
frequent
References
to
some
following
Chapters
,
which
are
here
digested
in
a
different
manner
than
was
at
first
projected
.
They
that
have
any
Acquaintance
with
the
Drudgery
of
preparing
Books
for
the
Publick
View
,
know
very
well
how
apt
an
Undertaking
of
this
kind
is
to
grow
upon
the
Author's
hand
;
and
how
little
't
is
we
see
of
our
Work
,
when
we
first
begin
to
engage
in
it
.
With
these
I
shall
need
no
Apology
,
and
the
rest
must
excuse
me
,
if
I
make
none
.
I
am
now
in
haste
:
And
can
only
stay
to
tell
them
that
I
have
as
many
Papers
that
treat
on
our
Law-Books
,
Records
,
&c.
so
far
as
they
are
serviceable
to
History
(
all
which
I
once
thought
to
have
crowded
into
a
Chapter
or
two
)
,
as
will
furnish
out
a
Third
Part
;
if
they
and
the
Bookseller
think
it
worth
their
while
to
call
for
it
.
For
the
present
,
I
am
resolv'd
to
keep
my self
within
the
Verge
of
the
Church
;
and
shall
only
(
in
this
Second
Part
)
give
the
Reader
the
best
Account
I
can
of
our
Ecclesiastical
Historians
,
in
the
following
Chapters
:
-
1.
Of
the
Affairs
of
the
British
Church
.
-
2.
Historians
of
the
English-Saxon
Church
;
from
the
coming
in
of
Augustine
the
Monk
,
to
the
Conquest
.
-
3.
Church-Historians
from
the
Conquest
to
the
Reformation
.
-
4.
Histories
of
the
Reformation
,
and
our
Church-Affairs
to
the
End
of
Queen
Elizabeth's
Reign
.
-
5.
Accounts
of
our
Bishops
in
general
;
and
their
several
Sees
.
-
6.
Lives
of
particular
Bishops
,
and
other
eminent
Church-men
.
-
7.
Histories
,
Chronicles
,
Cartularies
,
&c.
of
our
Ancient
Monasteries
.
-
8.
Histories
of
our
Universities
and
Writers
.
CHAP.
I.
Of
the
Writers
of
the
Affairs
of
the
British
Church
.
IF
[
a
](A52335-e62910-b)
a
De
Excid
.
Brit.
cap.
2.
Gildas
had
cause
to
complain
,
That
in
treating
of
the
Civil
History
of
Britain
,
he
had
no
Assistance
from
any
Monuments
or
Records
of
his
own
Country
,
but
was
forced
to
seek
his
whole
Information
from
Forreigners
;
they
that
take
upon
them
to
write
the
Church-History
of
the
first
British
Christians
,
will
find
themselves
much
more
oblig'd
to
Strangers
,
and
must
look
abroad
for
their
Intelligence
.
'T
was
Happiness
enough
to
enjoy
the
Gospel-Light
,
as
long
as
the
Heathen
Romans
were
our
Masters
,
without
the
rejoycing
in
it
so
openly
as
to
have
had
our
Publick
Notaries
registring
the
Acts
of
our
Councils
,
Convocations
and
Synods
;
even
amongst
such
of
our
Ancestors
as
had
(
at
once
)
learn'd
to
write
and
to
obey
:
And
they
that
,
either
in
the
North
or
West
,
had
shun'd
the
Roman
Yoke
,
and
enjoy'd
their
Liberty
and
[
b
](A52335-e62990-b)
b
See
the
B.
of
S.
Asaph's
Pref.
pag.
8.
where
he
also
quotes
Irenaeus
for
his
Opinion
.
Traditional
Christianity
in
the
Woods
and
Mountains
,
are
generally
believed
to
have
been
so
much
unacquainted
with
Letters
,
as
not
to
have
been
able
to
transmit
their
own
Story
to
Posterity
.
Some
Remains
there
are
of
those
ancient
Times
,
and
the
State
of
Christianity
in
them
;
and
our
Church
has
not
wanted
Men
of
Learning
and
Industry
,
who
(
even
at
this
distance
)
have
successfully
imploy'd
themselves
in
gathering
up
the
scatter'd
Fragments
,
that
no
part
of
so
valuable
a
Treasure
might
be
lost
.
Master
[
c
](A52335-e63030-b)
c
De
Script
.
Brit.
Edit.
Wesal
.
fol.
14.
a.
Bale
tells
us
there
are
some
that
,
Great
Britain
:
And
for
the
better
strengthening
of
such
a
Conjecture
,
he
assures
us
't
was
usual
for
the
Primitive
Fathers
to
send
such
Letters
to
those
Churches
to
which
they
were
some
way
or
other
specially
related
.
He
might
as
well
have
told
us
of
some
Epistles
sent
hither
by
St.
Peter
or
St.
Paul
;
since
't
is
likely
that
one
(
or
both
)
of
those
Apostles
were
as
instrumental
in
planting
Christianity
in
this
Island
,
as
this
Joseph
himself
;
and
we
are
also
very
sure
,
that
they
used
to
write
such
Epistles
.
Our
next
Ecclesiastical
Writer
is
said
to
be
[
a
](A52335-e63140-b)
a
Vid.
Nenii
Hist.
Brit.
cap.
18.
&
Pont.
Virum
.
Hist.
Brit.
l.
4.
Bed
.
Hist.
Eccles.
lib.
1.
cap.
4.
King
Lucius
;
[
a
](A52335-e63240-b)
a
Vid.
II.
Spelm.
Concil.
Tom.
1.
pag.
3●
.
Forgery
upon
it
,
that
we
cannot
think
it
worth
our
while
to
be
very
inquisitive
after
the
Kings
;
and
tho'
a
genuine
Piece
of
this
kind
were
highly
to
be
prized
,
we
do
not
desire
to
build
upon
Shadow
and
Fable
.
This
Story
of
King
Lucius
has
help'd
us
to
a
Couple
more
of
Ecclestiastical
Historians
;
[
b
](A52335-e63350-b)
b
Joh.
Pits
,
p.
79.
Book
,
De
Origine
Ecclesiae
Britanniae
.
Medvinus
had
not
the
luck
to
mount
equally
in
Preferment
,
with
his
Fellow-Ambassador
;
but
he
rival'd
him
in
the
publick
Services
of
his
Pen
,
having
written
Fugatii
&
Damiani
gesta
in
Britannia
.
(
These
were
Pope
Eleutherius's
Legates
;
and
are
by
others
call'd
Faganus
and
Derwianus
.
)
The
most
probable
part
of
this
Account
is
,
That
this
latter
Book
was
found
in
the
Rubbish
at
Glassenbury
:
'T
is
no
matter
whether
at
the
repairing
of
that
Monastery
by
St.
Patrick
,
or
at
some
other
time
.
After
these
,
we
hear
no
more
of
the
Writers
of
our
British
Church-History
,
[
a
](A52335-e63470-b)
a
Vid.
Antiq.
Brit.
pag.
3.
&
Fr.
Godwin
de
Convers.
Brit.
pag.
12.
written
something
of
the
state
of
Christianity
in
these
parts
,
even
before
his
own
Arrival
.
If
we
could
be
assured
of
this
,
we
could
not
have
a
better
Authority
in
some
of
our
Modern
Disputes
with
the
Court
of
Rome
:
But
't
is
more
than
probable
that
those
Learned
Men
,
that
assert
such
a
thing
,
mistook
the
meaning
of
William
of
Malmesbury
;
who
seems
to
have
been
their
Informer
in
that
Matter
.
That
Historian
,
speaking
of
something
relating
to
the
first
Foundation
of
the
Monastery
at
Glassenbury
which
he
had
met
with
,
Apud
Sanctum
Augustinum
,
Anglorum
Apostolum
,
his
unwary
Readers
presently
concluded
that
he
quoted
some
latent
MS.
Work
of
that
Monk
:
Whereas
,
in
truth
,
he
meant
no
more
than
that
he
had
met
with
such
an
Account
in
the
Library
at
St.
Augustine's
in
Canterbury
.
The
like
Phrase
is
common
with
him
;
and
,
in
the
same
Paragraph
,
[
a
](A52335-e63560-b)
a
Vid.
Cl.
Vsherii
Antiq.
Brit.
Eccles.
p.
56.
Apud
Sanctum
Edmundum
,
is
to
be
English'd
,
in
the
Library
at
St.
Edmundsbury
.
The
Remonstrance
of
Dinoth
,
[
b
](A52335-e63660-b)
b
Pag.
104.
Vide
&
Baleum
,
fol.
m.
35.
John
Pits
himself
owns
that
he
stoutly
opposed
such
Encroachments
,
and
that
he
has
left
to
Posterity
his
Thoughts
on
that
Subject
:
having
written
(
among
other
Things
)
two
Books
,
entitled
,
Defensorium
Jurisdictionis
sedis
Menevensis
,
and
De
Conservandis
Britannorum
Ritibus
.
Both
these
Treatises
have
certainly
been
fram'd
out
of
that
Answer
of
the
Abbots
,
which
Sir
H.
Spelman
[
c
](A52335-e63720-b)
c
Concil.
Tom.
1.
p.
108.
Extat
etiam
Wallice
in
Bibl.
Cott.
Claudius
,
A.
8.
has
given
us
in
Welch
,
English
and
Latin
:
having
found
it
in
an
old
Transcript
out
of
a
more
ancient
Manuscript
in
the
two
former
Languages
;
and
adding
a
Translation
of
his
own
,
in
the
last
.
The
Critique
that
our
Learn'd
Stillingfleet
gives
upon
this
Piece
,
and
its
Publisher
,
is
what
I
dare
not
add
to
:
[
a
](A52335-e63780-b)
a
Orig.
Brit.
p.
360.
There
is
,
he
says
,
all
the
appearance
of
Ingenuity
and
Faithfulness
that
can
be
expected
;
and
he
was
a
Person
of
too
great
Judgment
and
Sagacity
to
be
easily
imposed
upon
by
a
Modern
Invention
,
or
a
new-found
Schedule
.
I
know
some
Romanists
have
endeavour'd
to
persuade
the
World
,
That
this
Monument
bears
no
great
Age
,
and
was
probably
forg'd
since
[
b
](A52335-e63820-b)
b
Eman
Schelstraet
,
Dissert.
pag.
103.
the
Reformation
:
But
since
Venerable
Bede
[
c
](A52335-e63840-b)
c
Eccles.
Hist.
l.
cap.
himself
(
who
was
as
great
a
Favourer
of
Augustine
,
and
as
profess'd
an
Enemy
to
the
ancient
British
Church
,
as
they
could
wish
)
confirms
the
main
of
the
Story
,
they
will
not
easily
persuade
us
that
the
whole
is
improbable
.
I
can
hear
of
no
more
ancient
Treatises
relating
to
the
Ecclesiastical
State
of
Old
Britain
,
Sanctum
Graal
:
Which
,
says
trusty
Iohn
[
a
](A52335-e63920-b)
a
Pag.
122.
Pits
,
was
written
by
an
Anonymous
Hermit
about
the
Year
720.
and
gives
an
ample
Account
of
the
Miracles
wrought
by
Joseph
of
Arimathea
.
Indeed
Vincentius
[
b
](A52335-e63970-b)
b
Specul
.
Histor.
lib.
23.
c.
27.
of
Beauvais
mentions
such
a
French
Legend
;
which
,
as
he
observes
,
had
the
Name
of
Graal
(
or
Gruel
)
because
it
likewise
treated
of
a
Dish
of
Meat
,
miraculously
preserved
since
our
Saviour's
last
Supper
:
But
the
Book
(
he
confesses
)
was
somewhat
hard
to
be
met
with
.
In
this
Dish
(
which
was
to
be
seen
among
the
sacred
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
at
Glastonbury
)
they
pretended
to
have
part
of
the
true
Blood
of
our
Redeemer
:
But
whether
't
was
of
that
shed
on
the
Cross
,
or
of
that
which
was
at
the
said
last
Supper
,
after
Consecration
,
the
[
c
](A52335-e64040-b)
c
Tho.
Malorii
Hist.
Arthuri
R.
Historian
dares
not
be
positive
.
However
,
from
hence
the
same
Person
gives
the
Relick
the
Name
of
Sanegreal
,
i.e.
Sanguis
Realis
:
And
from
him
't
is
[
d
](A52335-e64090-b)
d
Vid.
Vsserii
Brit.
Eccles.
Antiq.
p.
9.
&
Orig.
Brit.
p.
13.
probable
the
following
Writers
,
gave
that
Title
to
the
Legend
it self
.
The
Learned
Reader
will
pardon
me
if
I
give
him
a
further
Account
of
this
rare
French
MS.
out
of
Monsieur
Borel's
[
a
](A52335-e64130-b)
a
Tresor
de
Recherches
&
Antiquitez
Gauloises
&
Francoises
,
4to
,
Paris
,
1655.
in
voce
Graal
.
Glossary
:
Which
(
because
the
Book
is
not
in
many
of
our
English
Libraries
)
I
shall
do
at
large
in
his
own
Words
.
Il
ya
un
Romant
ancien
,
says
he
,
intitule
,
La
Conqueste
du
Saingreal
,
c.
du
S.
Vaisseau
ou
estoit
le
Sang
de
Jesus-Christ
,
qu'il
appelle
aussi
le
Sang
real
,
c.
le
Sang
royal
.
Et
ainsi
ces
deux
choses
sont
confundues
tellement
,
qu'on
ne
connoist
qu'auec
peine
quand
les
anciens
Romans
qui
en
parlent
fort
souuent
,
entendent
le
Vaisseau
,
ou
le
Sang.
Perceual
l'explique
bien
en
ces
mots
:
Senefioit
que
li
greaus
,
Qui
tant
est
beaux
&
precieux
,
Que
le
S.
Sang
glorieux
,
Du
Roy
des
Rois
y
fu
receus
.
Et
ailleurs
:
Un
greal
Trestout
descouuert
.
Item
,
Et
puis
apporta
un
greaux
Tout
plein
de
pierres
precieuses
.
R.
de
Merlin
MS.
Ne
oneques
peus
ne
fust
veu
au
siecle
,
ne
du
greal
ne
palle
.
Et
apres
il
dit
:
Et
cil
Rois
pecheors
avoit
le
digne
sang
Jesus-Christ
en
guarde
.
D'ou
il
est
manifeste
que
le
R.
de
Sangreal
,
n'est
que
du
Sang
Royal
de
Jesus-Christ
.
Item
,
Pensa
moult
a
la
lance
,
&
ou
graal
qu'il
avoit
veu
porter
.
Ce
texte
monstre
que
c'estoit
un
vase
.
Mais
en
suite
le
mesinem
Autheur
parlant
du
Graal
,
l'appelle
un
Vaisseau
;
car
il
parle
ainsi
:
Et
quand
le
premier
mes
fust
apportee
,
si
issi
le
Graal
fo
rs
d'une
Chambre
,
&
les
dignes
Reliques
auenc
;
&
si
tot
comme
Perceualle
vit
qui
moult
en
avoit
grand
desir
de
scavoir
,
si
dit
:
Sire
,
je
vos
prie
que
vous
me
diez
,
que
l'en
sert
de
cest
Vessel
que
cest
vallet
porte
.
Et
encore
il
dit
ailleurs
:
Et
porce
laupelon
nos
Graal
qu'il
agree
as
prodes
homes
.
En
cest
Vessel
gist
le
Sang
de
Jesus-Christ
.
En
ce
texte
il
donne
une
Etymologie
differente
du
Sang
Royal
,
a
scavoir
le
Sang
agreable
aux
hommes
,
en
ce
qu'
ils
en
lavent
leurs
pechez
.
Et
derechef
confirmant
cela
,
il
dit
vers
le
commencement
de
son
Livre
.
Et
ils
distrent
,
&
porrons
dire
du
Vesseil
que
nos
veimes
;
&
coman
le
clameron
nos
qui
tant
nos
gree
,
cil
qui
ly
voudront
clamer
ne
metre
non
a
nos
esciens
,
le
clameront
le
greal
qui
tant
agree
:
Et
quant
cil
l'oyent
,
si
dient
,
bien
doit
avoir
non
cist
vesseaux
graax
.
Et
ainsi
le
nomment
.
Et
enfin
il
dit
:
Ou
li
Vessel
de
graal
seit
.
C'est
le
vase
on
Joseph
(
dit
-
il
)
recueillit
le
Sang
qui
sortit
des
playes
de
Jesus-Christ
,
lors
qu'il
lavoit
son
corps
pour
l'embaumer
,
a
la
maniere
des
Juifs
.
The
present
Age
,
R.
Broughton
,
a
Secular
Priest
;
who
was
bred
at
Rheims
,
and
sojourn'd
sometime
[
a
](A52335-e64470-b)
a
Athen.
Oxon.
vol.
1.
pag.
854.
in
Oxford
.
In
this
latter
Place
he
collected
Materials
for
his
[
b
](A52335-e64490-b)
b
Fol.
Duaci
,
1633.
Ecclesiastical
History
of
Great
Britain
,
from
the
Nativity
of
our
Saviour
unto
the
happy
Conversion
of
the
Saxons
.
The
Account
that
Mr.
Wood
gives
of
this
Book
,
is
this
;
Tho'
't
is
a
Rapsody
,
and
a
thing
not
well
digested
,
yet
there
's
a
great
deal
of
Reading
shew'd
in
it
.
'T
is
said
King
James
J.
was
overjoy'd
to
hear
of
[
a
](A52335-e64550-b)
a
D.
Smith
,
de
Vit.
D.
Rob.
Cotton
,
pag.
24.
Sir
R.
Cotton's
Design
of
writing
our
Church-History
,
from
the
first
planting
of
Christianity
to
the
Reformation
:
And
so
far
he
carry'd
on
the
Project
,
as
to
draw
together
no
less
than
[
b
](A52335-e64590-b)
b
Bibl.
Cott.
Cleopatra
,
E.
F.
Eight
large
Volumes
of
Collections
,
which
have
long
been
(
and
still
are
)
very
serviceable
to
those
that
engage
in
those
Studies
.
The
like
Collections
were
made
(
about
the
same
time
)
by
AB
.
[
c
](A52335-e64660-b)
c
D.
Joh.
Marsham
,
in
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
ad
Monast.
Angl.
Tom.
1.
one
(
that
knew
him
well
,
and
was
as
able
as
any
Man
to
judge
of
him
)
gives
this
Character
,
Vir
ob
Eruditionis
immensitatem
,
morumque
Sanctitatem
toto
Orbi
Vener
andissimus
.
His
Book
was
first
printed
at
Dublin
,
under
the
Title
,
[
d
](A52335-e64710-b)
d
4to
.
1639.
De
P●imordiis
,
&c.
and
is
since
publish'd
by
the
Name
of
[
a
](A52335-e64730-b)
a
Fol.
Lond.
1687.
Britannicarum
Ecclesiarum
Antiquitates
.
'T
was
begun
by
Command
of
King
James
I.
who
gave
him
Licence
,
under
the
Great
Seal
of
Ireland
,
to
retire
from
his
Bishoprick
of
Meath
to
one
of
our
English
Universities
,
for
the
more
effectual
carrying
on
of
so
good
a
Work
:
And
this
[
b
](A52335-e64790-b)
b
See
his
Life
by
Dr.
Parr
.
p.
24
,
45.
Grant
was
had
and
enjoy'd
above
a
dozen
Years
before
the
Book
was
first
published
.
He
begins
with
a
Collection
of
whatever
Narratives
and
old
Stories
he
could
meet
with
about
Simon
Zelotes
,
Joseph
of
Arimathea
,
and
others
,
first
planting
Christianity
in
this
Island
:
From
whence
he
proceeds
to
the
Legend
of
King
Lucius
,
and
the
whole
Succession
of
those
Archbishops
and
Bishops
descended
from
Jeoffrey
of
Monmouth's
Flamines
and
Archi-Flamines
.
After
this
,
we
have
the
Settlement
of
three
Metropolitical
Thrones
,
at
London
,
York
and
Caerlion
;
which
are
afterward
removed
to
Canterbury
,
Dole
(
in
Britany
)
and
St.
Davids
.
Then
follows
the
generous
Endowments
of
Glastonbury
,
and
other
places
by
Lucius
and
Arthur
:
The
Martyrdom
of
St.
Alban
and
his
Friend
(
or
Cloak
)
Amphibalus
,
with
many
more
of
their
Fellow-Saints
:
The
famous
Expedition
of
Vrsula
;
&c.
Interwoven
with
these
Reports
,
the
Reader
will
find
a
deal
of
excellent
Learning
,
and
the
clearing
of
many
doubts
in
our
British
,
Roman
and
Saxon
Antiquities
.
He
also
gives
a
particular
Account
of
the
Original
and
Progress
of
the
Pelagian
and
Semi-Pelagian
Heresies
;
and
concludes
with
the
Remains
St.
Patrick
,
and
the
ancient
Scottish
(
or
Irish
)
Church
.
The
Author
himself
[
a
](A52335-e65060-b)
a
In
Praefat.
p.
2.
modestly
calls
the
Work
,
Ex
omni
Scriptorum
genere
promiscue
congesta
farrago
.
Which
Sir
Geo.
Mackenzie
has
,
a
little
bluntly
,
translated
;
[
b
](A52335-e65090-b)
b
Def.
of
Royal
Line
,
p.
11.
A
confused
Rabble
,
and
a
formless
Lump
of
fabulous
Nonsense
.
'T
is
a
more
just
Account
that
another
gives
of
this
Treasure
of
our
ancient
Church-History
,
That
[
c
](A52335-e65120-b)
c
Dr.
Parr
,
in
vit.
Authoris
,
p.
44.
all
that
have
written
since
,
with
any
Success
,
on
this
Subject
,
must
own
themselves
beholding
to
him
for
his
Elaborate
Collections
.
In
the
late
Edition
,
the
References
which
the
Author
makes
to
the
several
parts
of
his
Work
,
are
very
faulty
:
The
Margin
of
the
former
Quarto
Edition
having
not
always
been
Corrected
.
The
same
Year
with
AB
.
The
next
that
engaged
in
these
dark
Enquiries
,
William
Lloyd
,
(
then
Bishop
of
St.
Asaph
,
now
of
Coventry
and
Lichfield
)
in
his
[
a
](A52335-e65280-b)
a
8vo
,
Lond.
1684
,
Historical
Account
of
Ancient
Church-Government
in
Great
Britain
and
Ireland
.
The
Undertaking
became
a
Bishop
of
our
English
Church
;
and
the
Performance
answered
the
great
Opinion
that
Men
of
Learning
have
always
had
of
this
worthy
Prelate
.
His
Aim
in
it
was
the
encountring
an
Objection
against
the
Order
of
Episcopacy
,
from
the
Story
of
the
Scotch
Culdees
:
An
Argument
put
into
the
Mouths
of
our
Schismaticks
by
Blondel
and
Selden
,
out
of
the
abundant
Kindness
they
had
for
our
Establishment
.
In
the
answering
of
the
several
Cavils
of
these
Learned
Men
,
the
Bishop
thought
himself
obliged
to
give
a
short
History
of
the
first
planting
of
the
Scots
in
Great
Britain
;
which
thwarted
the
common
Road
of
their
Historians
since
the
Days
of
Hector
Boethius
,
and
bereaf'd
them
of
about
Forty
of
their
first
Monarchs
.
This
shortening
of
the
Royal
Line
,
His
Majesty's
Advocate
of
Scotland
,
the
late
Ingenious
and
Learn'd
Sir
Geo.
Mackenzie
,
presently
resented
as
an
Affront
little
short
of
what
the
Lawyers
of
that
Country
call
Lese-Majesty
;
and
therefore
publish'd
[
a
](A52335-e65430-b)
a
8to
.
Lond.
1685.
a
Defence
of
the
Antiquity
of
the
Royal
Line
of
Scotland
.
In
this
Tract
the
zealous
Author
was
so
wholly
on
Fire
,
that
't
was
not
safe
for
the
Bishop
himself
to
approach
him
:
but
his
incomparable
Friend
Dr.
Stillingfleet
took
the
[
a
](A52335-e65470-b)
a
In
praefat.
ad
Orig.
Brit.
Pains
to
confirm
,
at
large
,
the
Bishops
Positions
,
and
to
answer
the
most
considerable
of
Sir
George's
Objections
.
Soon
after
,
the
Advocate
published
a
[
b
](A52335-e65490-b)
b
8vo
.
Lond.
1686.
Reply
to
his
new
Antagonist
,
under
the
Title
of
The
Antiquity
of
the
Royal
Line
of
Scotland
,
further
clear'd
,
&c.
I
am
not
now
concern'd
to
enquire
whether
these
two
great
Opponents
,
or
their
no
less
ingenious
Answerer
,
had
the
better
in
these
Debates
;
tho'
I
may
perhaps
hereafter
weigh
some
of
the
Arguments
on
both
sides
,
if
I
live
to
publish
my
Notes
on
the
Scotch
and
Irish
Historians
.
For
the
present
,
I
shall
only
observe
that
the
Cause
of
our
Church
in
this
Controversie
,
was
thought
long
since
to
have
been
secur'd
(
in
few
words
)
by
Sir
John
Marsham
[
c
](A52335-e65560-b)
c
In
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
ad
Monast.
Angl.
.
Columbanus
(
says
he
)
postquam
in
Hybernia
Armachanum
Monasterium
fecerat
,
Anno
565.
Britanniam
venit
ad
Pictos
:
Australes
autem
Pictos
Nynias
Brito
ad
Veritatem
converterat
,
Anno
412.
&
hii
Insulam
Episcopatus
sedem
fecerat
.
This
last
particular
was
more
than
needed
;
and
is
what
he
could
not
prove
from
(
his
avow'd
Author
)
Venerable
[
a
](A52335-e65600-b)
a
Hist.
Eccles.
lib.
3.
c.
4.
Bede
,
who
says
no
such
thing
.
He
never
speaks
of
Nynias's
being
at
Hy
:
but
expresly
tells
us
,
that
his
Church
was
at
Whithern
.
The
latest
of
our
British
Church-Historians
(
and
,
[
b
](A52335-e65700-b)
b
Fol.
Lond.
1685.
Origines
Britannicae
have
perfected
all
the
Collections
of
former
Writers
on
that
Subject
.
The
Design
of
the
Book
is
to
vindicate
the
Liberties
of
the
ancicient
British
Church
,
against
the
pretended
Jurisdiction
of
the
Bishops
of
Rome
:
so
that
it
reaches
only
,
from
the
first
appearance
of
the
Christian
Faith
in
this
Island
,
to
the
Conversion
of
the
Saxons
.
'T
is
penn'd
with
an
Accuracy
of
Judgment
and
Purity
of
Style
peculiar
to
its
great
Author
;
and
clears
many
doubtful
Passages
that
had
escaped
the
diligence
of
the
famous
AB
.
of
Armagh
.
He
tells
us
(
in
the
conclusion
of
his
Preface
)
that
it
comes
forth
as
a
Specimen
of
a
greater
Design
;
to
clear
the
most
important
difficulties
of
Ecclesiastical
History
.
He
rejects
,
for
very
good
Reasons
,
the
Glastonbury-Legend
of
Ioseph
of
Arimathea
;
but
confirms
the
Story
of
St.
Paul's
planting
a
Church
in
this
our
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
.
The
History
of
King
Lucius
he
endeavours
to
set
free
from
the
Monkish
Fopperies
and
Contradictions
that
clog
it
in
other
Authors
;
explains
the
Subscriptions
of
the
British
Bishops
in
the
Council
of
Arles
;
shews
the
probability
of
some
of
'em
being
present
in
the
Council
of
Nice
;
excellently
illustrates
the
State
of
Arrianism
and
Pelagianism
,
&c.
The
Picts
he
thinks
(
contrary
to
Camden's
Opinion
)
to
have
been
a
People
originally
distinct
from
the
ancient
Britains
;
and
agrees
with
Hector
Boethius
,
for
better
Reasons
than
ever
he
knew
,
that
they
were
some
of
the
old
Maritime
Inhabitants
of
the
Baltic
Sea
.
He
teaches
his
Reader
how
to
judge
of
the
Antiquities
and
Antiquaries
of
Scotland
and
Ireland
;
and
concludes
with
a
very
particular
and
full
Account
of
the
great
Revolution
in
this
Island
,
upon
the
coming
in
of
the
Saxons
.
His
Preface
(
as
we
have
already
hinted
)
was
attaqu'd
by
Sir
George
Mackenzie
;
and
the
Book
it self
by
Emanuel
a
Schelstrate
(
Keeper
of
the
Vatican
Library
)
in
his
[
a
](A52335-e65980-b)
a
4to
.
Angl.
Edit.
Lond.
1688.
Dissertation
concerning
Patriarchal
and
Metropolitical
Authority
.
To
the
latter
there
needs
no
other
Reply
,
than
only
to
tell
him
;
1.
The
probable
Arguments
alledg'd
for
St.
Paul's
preaching
Christianity
in
this
Isle
,
are
not
to
be
overthrown
by
less
probable
ones
on
the
behalf
of
St.
Peter
:
Nor
should
the
Man
that
admits
King
Lucius's
and
Pope
Eleutherius's
Epistles
as
genuine
,
reject
the
MS.
account
of
Abbot
Dinoth
and
his
Monks
.
2.
Mr.
Launoy
and
Dr.
Beverege
agree
with
Dr.
Stillingfleet
,
in
their
Exposition
of
the
sixth
Canon
of
the
Nicene
Council
,
as
well
as
the
Anonymous
French
Author
of
the
Treatise
De
Disciplina
Ecclesiae
;
who
exactly
jumps
with
our
great
Prelate
in
his
Notion
about
the
Suburbicarian
Churches
.
Dr.
Basire's
[
b
](A52335-e66140-b)
b
Ancient
Liberty
of
the
Britannick
Church
,
120.
Lond.
1661.
four
Positions
,
asserting
the
Legitimate
Exemption
of
the
British
Church
from
the
Roman
Patriarchate
,
contain
only
a
short
Essay
towards
the
proof
of
what
we
have
more
amply
advanc'd
,
and
more
clearly
demonstrated
,
in
the
Origines
;
not
to
mention
that
the
greatest
part
of
'em
are
borrow'd
from
John
Barnes's
[
a
](A52335-e66190-b)
a
8vo
.
Oxon.
1680.
Catholico
Romanus
Pacificus
.
The
Lives
of
our
British
Saints
[
b
](A52335-e66270-b)
b
Loc.
Com.
lib.
11.
cap.
6.
Melchior
Canus
)
multo
severius
a
Laertio
vitas
Philosophorum
scriptas
,
quam
a
Christianis
vitas
Sanctorum
,
longeque
incorruptius
&
integrius
Suetonium
Res
Caesarum
exposuisse
quam
exposuerint
Catholici
,
non
res
dico
Imperatorum
,
sed
Martyrum
,
Virginum
&
Confessorum
.
'T
is
the
sense
of
the
gravest
and
best
Writers
of
that
Church
;
and
what
will
very
well
agree
to
those
of
the
Times
and
Country
we
are
now
mentioning
.
There
cannot
be
bolder
,
nor
more
inconsistent
Miracles
than
those
we
meet
with
in
the
Stories
of
St.
Alban
and
St.
Patrick
:
And
the
whole
Treasury
of
Legends
seems
to
be
out-vy'd
by
the
choice
Adventures
of
St.
Vrsula
and
her
Train
.
To
furnish
the
Reader
with
an
exact
List
of
all
the
ancient
Saints
of
this
Island
,
would
be
as
edifying
as
to
present
him
with
a
Catalogue
of
the
Parishes
of
Wales
;
most
of
which
bear
the
Inscription
and
Name
of
some
one
or
other
of
Them
.
Besides
the
general
Pains
taken
by
[
a
](A52335-e66350-b)
a
De
Sanctor
.
Hist.
Tom.
7.
Fol.
Cologn
.
1576.
&
Collect.
Hist.
Sanct.
Edit.
Lovan
.
1485.
Surius
and
others
in
this
Matter
,
there
are
some
who
have
more
particularly
treated
of
our
British
Saints
;
and
others
that
have
apply'd
themselves
to
the
History
of
the
Life
,
Actions
and
Sufferings
,
of
some
special
Hero
.
John
Pits
[
b
](A52335-e66390-b)
b
p.
868.
Ubi
&
Liber
MS.
extare
dicitur
in
Bibl.
Gu.
Copi
.
tells
us
of
Johannes
Anglicus
(
who
seems
to
have
been
a
Welch
Man
,
notwithstanding
his
Name
)
that
wrote
a
Book
De
Vitis
Sanctorum
Wallensium
:
And
we
are
also
told
(
by
a
[
c
](A52335-e66440-b)
c
Ath.
Oxon.
vol.
1.
p.
182.
Brother
of
his
,
of
somewhat
better
Authority
)
that
there
is
now
in
the
Library
of
the
English
College
at
Rome
,
a
Manuscript
Treatise
(
of
the
like
import
)
by
William
Good
,
a
Fugitive
Papist
under
the
Reign
of
Queen
Elizabeth
.
'T
is
likewise
certain
that
:
Ricemarchus
(
whether
[
a
](A52335-e66500-b)
a
Vid.
Vsserii
Antiq.
Brit.
Eccles.
pag.
3.
&
H.
Wharton
,
praef.
ad
Angl.
Sacr.
vol.
2.
pag.
25.
Bishop
of
St.
Davids
himself
,
or
only
Son
to
Sulgenus
Bishop
of
that
Place
,
or
both
)
wrote
such
a
Martyrology
:
tho'
perhaps
in
the
Manuscript
Lives
of
the
British
Saints
,
which
are
now
in
the
[
b
](A52335-e66560-b)
b
Vespasianus
,
A.
14.
Cottonian
Library
,
the
Life
of
St.
David
is
only
to
be
ascribed
to
that
Author
.
In
perusing
those
of
the
several
other
Writers
,
who
have
made
it
their
Business
to
collect
or
invent
Matter
for
the
magnifying
of
some
single
Martyr
,
the
Reader
will
be
cautious
in
separating
the
Chaff
and
good
Corn
:
And
so
,
by
distinguishing
the
Monk
from
the
Historian
,
a
good
use
may
be
made
of
these
Romantick
ones
that
follow
.
St.
Alban
is
our
Proto-Martyr
,
[
a
](A52335-e66650-b)
a
Pits
,
p.
103.
Vid.
etiam
Vsser
.
Antiq.
p.
80.
Person
of
good
Abilities
,
who
wrote
about
the
Year
590.
but
had
the
modesty
to
conceal
his
Name
.
This
Work
was
translated
into
Latin
by
[
b
](A52335-e66680-b)
b
Bibl.
Cott.
Faustina
,
B.
4.
Will
.
Albanensis
(
a
Monk
of
St.
Albans
)
who
afterwards
prevail'd
with
his
Brother
[
c
](A52335-e66720-b)
c
Ibid.
Claudius
,
E.
4.
Ralph
de
Dunstable
,
to
turn
it
into
Heroic
Verse
.
Vnwon
,
an
old
Priest
well
skill'd
in
the
ancient
British
Language
,
translated
another
such
Volume
(
but
of
much
greater
Antiquity
)
at
the
Request
of
Abbot
Aedmar
about
the
Year
970.
whereof
we
have
an
notable
Account
given
by
[
d
](A52335-e66780-b)
d
In
vit.
Abhatum
S.
Albani
Edit.
Wats
.
p.
41.
Matt.
Paris
;
who
is
also
[
e
](A52335-e66820-b)
e
Joh.
Pits
,
p.
339
,
887.
reported
to
have
written
two
Books
of
the
Martyrdom
of
St.
Alban
and
St.
Amphibalus
.
Dr.
Wats
could
not
meet
with
them
;
and
indeed
Pits
is
not
very
consistent
in
the
Account
he
gives
of
them
:
For
he
elsewhere
tells
us
,
That
a
certain
modest
Gentleman
(
who
calls
himself
[
a
](A52335-e66880-b)
a
In
the
Conclusion
of
that
translated
by
W.
Alban
▪
the
Author
calls
himself
Miser
and
peccator
ultimus
:
and
this
is
what
M.
Paris
translated
into
French
,
Vsser
.
Antiq.
p.
82.
83.
Bibl.
Cott.
Otho
,
D.
8.
Miserorum
Simplicissimus
)
wrote
these
same
Books
,
which
were
translated
into
French
Verse
by
M.
Paris
;
as
they
were
afterwards
into
English
Meeter
by
John
Lydgate
.
The
latest
Writer
of
his
Life
is
Stephen
Gourmeline
,
a
[
b
](A52335-e67000-b)
b
Pits
,
784.
Cornish
Man
;
who
is
said
to
have
published
something
of
that
kind
about
the
Year
,
1585.
St.
Columba's
Life
translated
out
of
Cornish
,
[
c
](A52335-e67090-b)
c
Vid.
Camd.
Epist.
p.
91.
&
Britan.
Edit.
novis
.
pag.
10.
Mr.
Camden
;
and
thereby
convinced
him
of
an
Error
(
which
he
had
advanced
in
some
of
the
first
Editions
of
his
Britannia
)
that
St.
Columb's
,
a
Market-Town
in
Cornwal
,
had
its
Name
from
Columbanus
,
the
famous
Scotch
Apostle
.
St.
David's
had
almost
as
many
Pen-men
as
St.
Albans
.
[
d
](A52335-e67230-b)
d
Act.
Sanctor
.
Martyr
.
lib.
1.
§.
1.
num.
5.
Bollandus
)
is
the
Vtrecht-Manuscript
,
which
he
publishes
,
The
next
to
this
he
thinks
that
in
Colganus
;
which
he
believes
to
be
that
which
was
written
by
Ricemarchus
,
and
is
now
publish'd
by
[
a
](A52335-e67280-b)
a
Angl.
Sacr.
vol.
2.
p.
645.
Mr.
Wharton
.
This
industrious
Person
observes
that
,
out
of
this
,
all
the
latter
Writers
of
his
Life
have
transcribed
their
Treatises
:
particularly
Giraldus
[
b
](A52335-e67310-b)
b
Ibid.
p.
628.
Bibl.
Cott.
Vitellius
,
E.
7.
Cambrensis
;
who
omits
some
Miracles
,
but
gives
new
ones
in
lieu
of
them
,
and
is
(
with
the
like
freedom
)
epitomized
by
John
of
Tinmouth
and
Capgrave
.
For
this
Reason
he
has
thought
it
sufficient
to
give
us
Giraldus
entire
;
adding
only
what
he
was
pleased
to
omit
in
that
of
[
c
](A52335-e67380-b)
c
Bibl.
Cott.
Vespasianus
,
A.
14.
Ricemarchus
.
St.
Dubricius
(
Arch-Bishop
of
Caerleon
)
is
beholden
to
one
Benedict
,
[
d
](A52335-e67480-b)
d
Vid.
Praefat.
ad
vol.
2.
Angl.
Sacr.
p.
26.
&
deinde
p.
654
,
655.
acknowledges
he
pass'd
over
some
fulsome
Miracles
,
and
guesses
that
its
Author
borrowed
his
best
Materials
from
Geoffrey
of
Landaff
,
whose
Manuscript-History
of
this
Saint
was
in
the
same
Volume
out
of
which
this
is
given
us
.
St.
Germanus's
Embassies
(
under
Pope
Celestine
)
have
been
treated
on
at
large
by
some
Forreigners
,
[
a
](A52335-e67560-b)
a
Antiq.
Brit.
Eccles.
p.
175.
AB
.
Vsher
,
than
I
can
pretend
to
give
him
.
St.
Kentigern
[
b
](A52335-e67670-b)
b
Bale
,
Cent.
1.
cap.
m.
53.
&
Pits
,
p.
103.
St.
Asaph
be
any
where
extant
,
I
dare
not
take
upon
me
to
determine
.
S.
Lupus
[
c
](A52335-e67770-b)
c
Antiq.
Brit.
Eccles.
p.
176.
anonymous
Writer
of
his
Life
.
St.
Ninian
(
who
by
our
Neighbours
on
the
Borders
of
Scotland
is
corruptly
call'd
Ringen
,
Nine
Churches
in
Cumberland
)
is
[
a
](A52335-e67860-b)
a
Vid.
Pits
,
229
,
230.
reported
to
have
had
his
Wonders
recorded
by
Ealred
Abbot
of
Rievaulx
:
which
is
not
so
certain
,
as
that
his
Life
was
some
time
[
b
](A52335-e67900-b)
b
Vsserii
Antiq
p.
347.
extant
and
pretty
common
in
Ireland
.
St.
Patrick
,
[
c
](A52335-e67970-b)
c
AB
.
Vsher
mentions
an
old
MS.
Life
of
this
Saint
in
the
Library
at
Lovain
;
which
quotes
some
Passages
out
of
his
own
Writings
.
See
his
Letters
,
p.
1.
Apostle
of
Ireland
,
is
challenged
by
the
Monks
of
Glassenbury
;
and
therefore
may
be
reckon'd
indifferently
either
a
British
or
Irish
Saint
.
Under
the
former
Denomination
we
must
believe
that
his
History
was
written
by
[
d
](A52335-e68040-b)
d
Pits
,
p.
279
,
280.
&
Praef.
ad
Angl.
Sacr.
vol.
2.
p.
23.
Gyraldus
Cambrensis
;
and
under
the
latter
by
Joceline
and
[
e
](A52335-e68080-b)
e
8vo
.
Antwerp
,
1587.
Rich.
Stanyhurst
.
St.
Teliau
(
or
Eliud
,
[
f
](A52335-e68170-b)
f
Bibl.
Cott.
Vespasianus
,
A.
14.
Landaff
,
Brother
to
Vrbane
Bishop
of
that
See
,
about
the
beginning
of
the
Twelfth
Century
;
whose
Treatise
is
still
to
be
had
at
large
in
an
[
a
](A52335-e68210-b)
a
Vid.
Vsserii
Antiq.
Brit.
p.
44.
old
Register-book
of
that
Church
.
St.
Vrsula
,
[
b
](A52335-e68310-b)
b
8vo
.
Paris
,
1513.
&
Colon.
Agrip.
1628.
Visions
on
this
Occasion
.
St.
Winefride's
[
c
](A52335-e68370-b)
c
Bale
,
Cent.
2.
cap.
76.
Robert
Prior
of
Shrewsbury
;
who
(
about
the
Year
1140.
)
translated
her
Relicks
to
his
own
Convent
:
so
that
't
is
justly
[
d
](A52335-e68410-b)
d
Ath.
Oxon.
vol.
1.
p.
605.
wondered
how
Giraldus
Cambrensis
came
to
take
no
notice
of
this
sacred
Fountain
in
his
Itinerary
of
Wales
,
which
was
penn'd
many
Years
after
.
The
Wonder
will
increase
when
we
consider
that
,
long
before
the
Prior's
time
,
her
Life
was
written
by
[
a
](A52335-e68440-b)
a
Pits
,
p.
109.
Elerius
a
Monk
of
St.
Asaph
,
who
himself
(
about
the
middle
of
the
Seventh
Century
)
instructed
her
in
the
Monastick
Rules
;
and
had
the
comfort
of
seeing
her
so
great
a
Proficient
as
first
to
turn
Nun
,
afterwards
to
become
an
Abbess
,
and
(
in
the
end
)
a
Martyr
,
under
the
Tyranny
of
Carodocus
.
Abstracts
of
these
Lives
(
and
many
others
which
are
either
now
lost
,
[
b
](A52335-e68530-b)
b
MS.
in
Bibl.
Cott.
Tiberius
,
E.
1.
Sanctilogium
Britanniae
;
which
gives
the
best
and
largest
Account
,
that
is
any
where
extant
,
of
the
Lives
of
our
British
,
English
,
Scotch
and
Irish
Saints
.
The
whole
is
a
Collection
of
such
Passages
as
related
to
these
Holy
Persons
,
out
of
his
Historia
Aurea
,
mention'd
in
the
first
part
of
this
Work
:
And
this
perhaps
gave
occasion
to
Mr.
Pits
to
split
the
Sanctilogium
into
a
Majus
and
Minus
;
and
to
provide
a
pair
of
[
c
](A52335-e68630-b)
c
J.
Pits
,
p.
500.
Appendices
Martyrologii
to
bind
up
with
these
two
Books
.
There
's
an
ancient
and
fair
Copy
of
it
in
the
[
a
](A52335-e68660-b)
a
Tiberius
,
E.
1.
Cottonian
Library
;
at
the
end
whereof
we
have
this
Note
:
Hunc
Librum
dedit
Dominus
Thomas
de
la
Marc
,
Abbas
Monasterii
St.
Albani
Anglorum
Proto-Martyris
,
Deo
&
Ecclesiae
B.
Amphibali
de
Redburn
;
ut
Fratres
ibidem
in
cursu
existentes
per
ejus
Lecturam
poterint
coelestibus
instrui
,
&
per
Sanctorum
Exempla
virtutibus
insigniri
.
John
Capgrave
,
[
b
](A52335-e68830-b)
b
Vid.
Cl.
Vsserii
Antiq.
p.
10
,
11.
&
332.
prefaces
a
Miracle
of
a
more
than
ordinary
size
,
with
leaving
his
Reader
to
a
liberty
of
believing
or
disbelieving
,
as
his
own
Reason
shall
guide
him
.
But
,
so
far
is
both
Capgrave
and
his
Translator
from
any
thing
of
this
bashful
Temper
,
that
they
always
load
a
Man's
Faith
with
more
than
it
well
can
carry
.
For
Example
;
The
Story
of
St.
Vrsula
and
her
Eleven
thousand
Virgins
was
thought
(
in
former
times
)
a
sufficiently
glorious
Army
of
Martyrs
:
but
Mr.
Caxton
assures
us
,
there
were
also
Fifteen
thousand
Men
that
suffer'd
with
them
,
and
so
the
whole
Company
consisted
of
no
less
than
26000.
This
part
of
the
History
was
vouch'd
to
him
by
the
Men
of
Cologn
;
who
seem
to
have
had
some
farther
Revelation
since
the
Days
of
Tynmouth
and
Capgrave
.
CHAP.
II.
Historians
of
the
English
Church
,
from
the
coming
in
of
Augustine
the
Monk
,
to
the
Conquest
.
THE
Conversion
of
our
Saxon
Ancestors
happen'd
at
a
time
when
Learning
run
very
low
,
and
when
a
general
Credulity
and
want
of
Thought
gave
opportunity
to
the
Monks
of
coining
their
Legendary
Fables
,
and
obtruding
them
upon
the
World
for
true
and
unquestionable
History
:
So
that
the
main
part
of
the
Ecclesiastical
Story
(
if
we
may
so
call
it
)
of
those
Ages
is
to
be
had
amongst
the
Lives
of
our
English
Saints
,
which
are
much
of
a
piece
with
those
of
the
British
already
mention'd
.
The
Account
that
[
a
](A52335-e68980-b)
a
Bale
,
Fol.
m.
35.
Augustine
gave
to
Pope
Gregory
,
of
the
Success
of
his
Apostleship
in
Kent
,
is
hardly
extant
:
But
we
have
the
Queries
he
put
to
that
Holy
Father
,
with
the
Pope's
Answers
,
in
[
a
](A52335-e69030-b)
a
Eccles.
Hist.
lib.
1.
cap.
27.
Bede
;
from
whom
several
of
our
later
Historians
have
transcrib'd
them
.
Both
the
Questions
and
Answers
are
plain
enough
,
and
of
no
great
moment
;
yet
I
think
Bale's
Censure
a
little
too
severe
,
when
he
affirms
that
they
are
Omnis
Evangelii
atque
Legis
Eruditionis
vacuae
,
immo
ineptissimae
.
In
truth
Venerable
Bede
[
b
](A52335-e69100-b)
b
Ad
fin
.
lib.
5.
Hist.
Eccles.
pag.
(
See
Edit.
Wheloc
.
)
492.
himself
gives
of
his
own
Life
,
is
,
That
he
was
born
within
the
Territories
(
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
says
the
Saxon
Paraphrase
)
of
the
Monastery
of
St.
Peter
and
St.
Paul
at
Weremouth
and
Jarrow
;
where
he
was
afterwards
Educated
:
That
he
was
,
when
Seven
Years
old
,
committed
to
the
care
of
Abbot
Benedict
:
That
he
was
ordain'd
Deacon
(
at
Nineteen
)
and
Priest
(
at
Thirty
)
by
St.
John
of
Beverly
:
That
from
thenceforth
he
continued
still
in
the
same
Monastery
to
the
59th
Year
of
his
Age.
Here
he
imploy'd
himself
in
writing
Commentaries
on
the
Scriptures
,
and
distinct
Treatises
upon
almost
every
part
of
Learning
;
most
of
which
are
still
extant
.
What
we
are
(
at
present
)
concern'd
in
is
his
Ecclesiastical
History
of
this
Island
,
in
Five
Books
,
which
have
had
many
[
a
](A52335-e69210-b)
a
8vo
.
Antverp
.
1550.
Heidelb
.
1587.
Colon.
1601.
&c.
Impressions
in
Latin
;
the
Language
wherein
he
penn'd
them
.
It
's
plain
he
had
seen
and
perused
several
Chronicles
of
the
English
Kings
,
before
his
own
Time
:
witness
that
Expression
[
b
](A52335-e69240-b)
b
Lib.
3.
cap.
1.
Vnde
cunctis
placuit
Regum
tempora
computantibus
,
&c.
But
he
first
attempted
an
Account
of
their
Church-Affairs
;
and
kept
Correspondence
in
the
other
Kingdoms
of
the
Heptarchy
,
the
better
to
enable
him
to
give
a
true
State
of
Christianity
throughout
the
whole
Nation
.
He
treats
indeed
most
largely
of
the
Conversion
of
Northumberland
,
and
the
progress
of
Religion
in
that
Kingdom
:
but
always
intermixes
what
other
Relations
he
could
borrow
from
Books
,
or
learn
from
such
living
Testimonies
as
he
believed
to
be
credible
.
Some
have
censur'd
his
History
,
as
composed
with
too
great
partiality
;
favouring
,
on
all
Occasions
,
the
Saxons
;
and
depressing
the
Britains
.
Such
a
Charge
is
not
wholly
groundless
.
He
must
be
pardon'd
for
stuffing
it
,
here
and
there
,
with
thumping
Miracles
;
the
natural
product
of
the
Zeal
and
Ignorance
of
his
Age
:
Especially
,
since
so
little
Truth
was
to
be
had
of
the
Saints
of
those
Days
,
that
there
was
a
sort
of
Necessity
of
filling
up
Books
of
this
kind
with
such
pleasant
Legends
as
the
Chat
of
the
Country
,
or
a
good
Invention
would
afford
a
Man
.
It
's
worth
our
observation
that
none
of
the
Writers
of
his
own
Life
have
mention'd
one
single
Miracle
wrought
by
him
;
because
,
they
had
enough
of
Truth
to
relate
:
Not
but
that
we
may
boldly
reckon
him
(
as
a
Foreign
Minister
is
said
once
to
have
done
)
a
much
better
Saint
than
many
of
those
Thaumaturgi
that
we
read
of
in
his
History
.
There
was
a
Paraphrase
very
early
made
of
it
in
the
English
Saxon
Tongue
,
which
has
been
printed
[
a
](A52335-e69310-b)
a
Fol.
Cantabr.
1644.
together
with
the
Original
Latin
Text
:
But
whether
't
was
done
by
the
famous
King
Alfred
,
or
some
other
Hand
,
we
are
not
very
certain
.
Mr.
Wheloc
dares
not
be
positive
;
yet
thinks
it
very
[
a
](A52335-e69350-b)
a
In
Praefat.
ad
Lect.
probable
,
that
it
was
the
Work
of
that
Great
Monarch
,
to
whom
(
in
his
Title-page
)
he
has
confidently
ascrib'd
it
.
Sir
John
Spelman
[
b
](A52335-e69370-b)
b
Aelfredi
mag.
vit.
p.
166.
proves
him
the
Author
,
from
a
Distich
in
the
Front
of
that
very
Manuscript
,
out
of
which
Mr.
Wheloc
afterwards
publish'd
it
;
which
runs
thus
,
Historicus
quondam
fecit
me
Baeda
Latinum
,
Aelfred
Rex
Saxo
transtulit
ille
prius
.
Indeed
,
he
is
commonly
so
reputed
;
and
particularly
by
[
c
](A52335-e69450-b)
c
G.
Hickes
,
in
Praefat.
ad
Gram.
Anglo-Sax
.
p.
12.
one
,
who
(
of
all
Men
now
living
)
is
the
best
able
to
give
a
Character
of
the
Performance
,
which
the
Reader
will
be
pleased
to
have
in
his
own
Words
.
Nil
Regiis
versionibus
perfectius
dici
possit
.
Bone
Deus
!
Quam
in
illis
Nativus
,
facilis
&
simplex
Sermo
!
Praecipue
in
Ecclesiasticae
Historae
Bedae
Paraphrasi
;
cujus
Augustissimum
Auctorem
,
sive
dictionis
in
ea
puritatem
,
sive
perspecuitatem
▪
Styli
,
sive
hypotyposin
illam
miram
,
qua
res
omnes
quasi
ob
oculos
legentis
ponit
;
spectes
,
Caesari
in
dicendo
aequalem
censebis
.
The
Publisher
of
this
Noble
Monument
has
beautified
his
Edition
with
some
learn'd
Annotations
of
his
own
;
wherein
he
takes
frequent
occasion
to
shew
in
what
Points
of
Doctrin
our
Saxon
Ancestors
differ'd
from
the
present
Members
of
the
Roman
Church
,
and
agreed
with
those
of
the
Reform'd
.
If
we
live
to
see
this
Paraphrase
reprinted
(
and
,
why
should
we
despair
?
)
it
will
have
considerable
Enlargements
from
the
excellent
Notes
of
Fr.
Junius
,
[
a
](A52335-e69520-b)
a
Inter
Cond
.
MSS.
Junianos
,
Oxon.
who
has
carry'd
his
Animadversions
and
Illustrations
through
the
whole
Work
:
and
some
advantage
may
be
given
it
from
a
Manuscript
Copy
in
[
b
](A52335-e69540-b)
b
Vid.
Not.
in
Aelf●
.
m.
vit.
p.
166.
Corpus
Christi
College
in
Oxford
,
which
Mr.
Wheloc
never
saw
.
The
History
it self
was
translated
into
English
by
[
c
](A52335-e69590-b)
c
8v●
.
Antverp
.
1565.
Tho.
Stapleton
,
a
Doctor
of
Divinity
in
the
University
of
Lovain
:
But
(
as
on
other
Occasions
he
has
shewn
himself
too
partially
inclined
to
serve
the
Interests
of
his
own
Church
,
so
)
we
have
here
[
a
](A52335-e69620-b)
a
Vid.
Edit.
Wheloc
.
p.
29.
&
115.
sometimes
just
Cause
to
complain
that
he
does
not
deal
fairly
,
and
honestly
with
us
.
Rich.
Lavingham
(
Prior
of
the
Carmelite
Monastery
at
Bristol
,
and
a
mighty
Writer
in
Divinity
,
about
the
latter
end
of
the
Fourteenth
Century
)
is
[
b
](A52335-e69660-b)
b
J.
Pits
,
p.
534.
reported
to
have
epitomiz'd
Bede's
History
;
beginning
his
Work
with
Britannia
cui
quondam
Albion
,
&c.
There
's
such
an
Abstract
added
in
Wheloc's
Edition
,
with
a
continuation
to
the
Year
,
766.
which
perhaps
may
be
the
same
:
For
,
tho'
it
does
not
begin
with
these
words
,
Bede
himself
begins
with
such
as
are
very
like
them
;
and
to
confound
two
Writers
,
if
they
appear
under
the
same
Cover
,
is
no
great
Transgression
in
my
Author
.
There
's
another
anonymous
Continuer
of
this
History
,
who
descends
below
the
Conquest
;
and
whose
Book
(
now
in
MS.
in
the
publick
Library
at
Oxford
)
is
quoted
by
some
of
our
most
Learn'd
[
a
](A52335-e69730-b)
a
Guil.
Somner
,
Antiq.
Cantuar.
p.
157.
Hist.
Oxon.
lib.
1.
p.
49.
Writers
.
All
that
look'd
like
Truth
in
Bede's
Collections
,
and
was
purely
Ecclesiastical
,
was
remitted
into
the
First
Volume
of
Sir
Henry
Spelman's
[
b
](A52335-e69780-b)
b
Fol.
Lond.
1639.
Councils
:
to
which
were
added
such
other
genuine
Remains
of
the
Saxon
Church
,
as
that
Industrious
and
truly
Religious
Knight
could
any
where
meet
with
.
This
good
Work
was
undertaken
at
the
Entreaty
of
AB
.
Abbot
,
and
his
Successor
Laud
;
and
mightily
encourag'd
by
Bishop
Andrews
,
who
had
Thoughts
of
engaging
in
it
himself
.
Many
of
the
Notes
are
owing
to
AB
.
Vsher
;
who
seems
to
have
furnish'd
the
Author
with
more
than
were
published
.
He
is
mightily
perplex'd
in
some
of
them
,
when
he
comes
to
reconcile
the
Times
of
the
Kings
and
Bishops
mentioned
together
in
the
Laws
;
and
the
Difficulties
increase
upon
him
,
by
his
adhereing
too
stiffly
to
Bishop
Goodwin's
and
Sir
H.
Savil's
Authority
.
Had
he
had
the
compleat
Saxon
Chronicle
(
especially
,
with
the
Advantages
of
such
accurate
Indices
as
are
now
publish'd
with
it
)
these
Mists
would
have
vanish'd
more
readily
;
and
he
would
have
had
much
fewer
Achronisms
to
disturb
him
.
He
confesses
,
he
often
follows
blind
Guides
;
and
is
therefore
apprehensive
of
the
danger
he
's
in
of
leading
his
Reader
into
the
same
Ditch
with
himself
.
Some
Laws
,
he
acknowledges
,
were
omitted
(
he
knows
not
well
by
what
Misfortune
)
which
were
even
in
his
own
Possession
;
and
others
were
communicated
by
his
Friends
(
chiefly
,
the
Learn'd
Primate
of
Armagh
)
when
't
was
too
late
to
insert
them
in
their
proper
places
.
His
Translations
are
mostly
Lambard's
,
which
we
have
already
observed
to
be
uncorrect
.
Where
those
fail'd
him
,
he
made
use
of
W.
L'Isle
,
and
(
sometimes
)
his
Son
Sir
John
Spelman
;
who
seems
to
have
understood
our
ancient
Language
better
than
his
Father
.
He
had
also
great
Assistances
from
Mr.
Stephens
,
a
Person
eminently
skill'd
in
our
English
Antiquities
;
and
who
,
for
his
good
Services
in
the
Edition
of
this
very
Book
,
is
[
a
](A52335-e69930-b)
a
Hist
&
Antiq.
Oxon.
lib.
2.
p.
223.
Vide
etiam
ipsius
H.
Spelm.
praefat.
ad
Lect.
said
to
have
had
a
Prebend
of
Lincoln
,
procured
for
him
by
AB
.
Laud.
There
are
several
Mistakes
in
the
very
Titles
of
his
Chapters
.
I
shall
only
instance
in
Two
:
1.
[
a
](A52335-e69960-b)
a
Pag.
432.
&
434.
Aedgari
Regis
Anglorum
Charta
ae
Oswaldes-Law
,
hoc
est
,
de
ejiciendis
Clericis
Vxoratis
&
introducendis
Monachis
.
'T
is
known
St.
Oswald
was
Canoniz'd
for
his
inveterate
Hatred
of
secular
and
marry'd
Clergy
;
and
for
that
he
help'd
to
enact
severe
Laws
against
them
.
But
none
of
these
were
ever
call'd
by
the
Name
of
Oswald's
Law
;
which
signifies
no
more
than
a
certain
Hundred
of
that
Name
in
the
Country
of
Worcester
,
whereof
we
have
this
account
in
an
old
Register
of
that
Church
:
[
b
](A52335-e70030-b)
b
Regist.
MS.
Coenob
.
Wigorn.
in
Monast.
Angl.
Tom
1.
p.
120.
Idem
Rex
[
Aedgarus
]
fecit
de
tribus
Centuriatibus
,
sc.
Welverdes-Law
&
Wiburneto
(
qui
erant
Episcopi
)
&
de
Chutberes-Lawe
(
qui
erat
Prioris
&
Conventus
)
unum
Centuriatum
,
i.
e.
Hundredum
:
Deditque
Beato
Oswaldo
&
ejus
successoribus
eandem
per
omnia
libertatem
in
eodem
Hundredo
perpetuo
possidendam
,
quam
ipse
Rex
habuit
in
suis
Hundredis
.
Et
vocatur
Oswaldeslaw
.
So
that
here
's
a
very
unfortunate
Mistake
;
and
of
the
same
Nature
with
that
we
have
already
observed
of
Denelage
,
&c.
in
the
first
part
.
I
wonder
we
never
had
any
mention
of
the
Laws
of
the
Picts
,
as
well
as
those
of
the
Danes
.
since
we
read
of
[
a
](A52335-e70140-b)
a
Vid.
Vsserii
Antiq.
p.
350.
Pithland-Law
in
Hector-Boethius
,
of
the
like
signification
with
the
former
.
2.
The
proof
that
a
Learn'd
Person
[
b
](A52335-e70180-b)
b
W.
Kennet
,
paroch
.
Antiq.
p.
24.
alledges
for
Amesbury
being
in
the
Primitive
Ages
of
English
Writers
call'd
Vrbs
Ambrosii
,
is
not
conclusive
:
For
the
Title
,
there
referr'd
to
,
is
manifestly
Sir
Henry's
own
;
his
Author
mentioning
only
Ambresbyrig
,
which
may
admit
of
another
signification
than
Vrbs
Ambrosii
.
It
may
be
as
well
,
and
't
was
as
anciently
,
translated
,
Mons
Ambrii
.
We
wait
impatiently
for
a
New
Edition
of
these
Councils
:
And
the
worthy
Undertaker
(
if
God
please
to
bless
him
and
us
with
the
continuance
of
his
Health
)
will
amply
answer
our
Expectations
.
He
will
be
able
(
out
of
Junius's
Collections
;
a
Manuscript
in
the
Hands
of
Mr.
Jones
of
Sunningwel
,
&c.
)
to
make
large
Additions
;
and
to
insert
them
,
appositely
translated
,
in
their
proper
places
.
He
'll
finish
the
Pains
which
Mr.
Somner
long
since
took
[
a
](A52335-e70310-b)
a
Inter
MSS.
Somner
.
in
Bibl.
Cantuar.
to
collate
all
the
Saxon
Pieces
(
already
printed
)
with
the
Original
MSS.
and
to
correct
the
Translation
.
He
'll
give
us
necessary
Prefaces
to
the
whole
,
subjoin
a
convenient
Glossary
;
and
(
in
a
word
)
do
all
that
's
requisite
to
the
rendring
of
such
a
Work
as
compleat
as
we
can
wish
it
.
When
this
is
done
,
[
b
](A52335-e70380-b)
b
Pits
,
pag.
121
,
205
,
212.
Egwine
Bishop
of
Worcester
,
and
Founder
of
the
Abby
of
Evesham
;
those
of
Osbert
Clarentius
(
Prior
of
Westminster
,
A.
D.
1136.
)
are
said
to
be
in
the
Library
of
Bennet
College
;
and
Henry
of
Huntingdon's
,
in
that
of
the
Jesuits
at
Antwerp
.
There
are
two
Books
of
these
Lives
,
in
the
Saxon
Language
,
in
Sir
John
Cotton's
Library
:
whereof
the
one
was
written
by
Aelfric
,
and
the
other
by
an
Anonymous
Author
.
I
know
not
but
they
may
be
the
same
with
two
small
Treatises
,
amongst
Junius's
Saxon
Transcripts
,
de
Sanctis
in
Anglia
sepultis
.
His
Menologium
also
(
which
is
a
Kalender
of
those
ancient
Saints
,
and
was
transcrib'd
by
him
out
of
two
old
Copies
in
the
Cottonian
and
Bennet
Libraries
)
is
a
Piece
which
he
thought
highly
valuable
;
and
which
he
sometimes
refers
to
under
the
Titles
of
Martyrologium
,
and
Fasti
Anglo-Saxonici
.
Some
of
their
Lives
are
describ'd
at
large
in
the
Old
Homilies
;
tho'
the
main
of
all
those
Stories
comes
usually
out
of
Bede's
Shop
.
This
is
observable
in
the
Homilies
on
St.
Edmund
and
St.
Cuthbert
in
Bodley's
Library
;
on
St.
Cuthbert
,
St.
Aetheldrytha
,
St.
Bennet
junior
,
and
St.
Oswald
,
in
the
publick
Library
at
Cambrige
;
on
St.
Ceadda
amongst
Mr.
Junius's
Manuscripts
;
and
on
St.
Cuthbert
,
St.
Swithin
and
St.
Ethelgetha
,
in
that
of
Bennet
College
.
Other
general
Historians
of
this
kind
(
besides
John
of
Tynmouth
and
Capgrave
,
already
mention'd
)
we
have
not
many
.
John
Wilson's
Martyrology
is
not
much
to
be
heeded
,
since
an
unquestionable
[
a
](A52335-e70790-b)
a
Vsher
,
Antiq.
Eccles.
p.
109.
Judge
of
these
Matters
has
thought
fit
to
bestow
the
Epithet
of
Nugivendulus
upon
its
Author
.
And
I
know
not
what
greater
regard
can
be
had
to
(
Tho.
Fuller's
[
b
](A52335-e70830-b)
b
Hist
,
Eccles.
lib.
1.
p.
40.
lib.
2
p.
91.
&c.
great
Friend
)
Father
Jerome
Porter
,
and
his
Flowers
of
the
Saints
.
Particular
Lives
may
be
rank'd
in
the
following
Order
.
St.
Aldhelm's
[
c
](A52335-e70950-b)
c
Vid.
Epist.
Ded.
ad
Angl.
sacr.
vol.
2.
&
Praefat.
ad
Lect.
p.
1
,
2.
said
to
have
imploy'd
a
careless
Amanuensis
,
and
the
other
confesses
he
transcribed
a
very
faulty
Copy
.
Be
that
Matter
as
't
will
,
betwixt
the
two
we
may
hope
for
an
intire
Book
:
whereas
Father
[
d
](A52335-e70970-b)
d
Act.
Bened.
Sae●
.
4.
par.
1.
p.
726.
Mabillon
gave
us
only
an
imperfect
Abstract
.
Of
what
Authority
this
Writer
is
to
be
reckon'd
,
we
have
already
been
acquainted
.
'T
is
in
this
Treatise
chiefly
,
that
this
Credit
flags
,
and
that
he
falls
below
himself
.
Pervenisset
ad
summam
Laudem
(
says
[
a
](A52335-e71000-b)
a
Praefat.
at
Hist.
●v
.
p.
11.
Dr.
Gale
)
si
carbasa
sua
non
implesset
Poetico
farore
;
si
veritatem
Historia
Fabulis
officiosis
non
contaminasset
;
si
de
splendore
&
dulcedine
Aldelmi
minus
prolixe
judicasset
.
We
are
not
sure
the
like
was
done
for
this
renown'd
Prelate
by
Egwine
,
Daniel
(
his
Cotemporary
Bishop
of
Winchester
)
and
Alfred
Abbot
of
Malmesbury
;
tho'
Pits
[
b
](A52335-e71080-b)
b
Pag.
121
,
144
,
180.
affirms
it
:
Nor
can
we
tell
what
's
become
of
those
that
were
written
by
Ofmund
of
Salisbury
,
or
Eadmerus
,
which
[
c
](A52335-e71120-b)
c
Praefat.
ad
Act.
Bened
,
Saec.
iv
.
Mabillon
vouches
for
,
with
the
same
assurance
.
St.
Augustine's
is
[
d
](A52335-e71160-b)
d
J.
Pits
,
p.
136.
reported
to
have
been
treated
on
by
Venerable
Bede
,
[
e
](A52335-e71230-b)
e
Hist.
Eccles.
Edit.
Wheloc
.
pag.
494.
himself
says
he
corrected
a
false
Translation
of
the
Life
of
St.
Anastasius
;
which
I
am
apt
to
think
is
the
Ground-work
of
this
Story
.
There
's
hardly
so
good
an
one
for
[
f
](A52335-e71250-b)
f
Pits
,
p.
141.
Nothelmus's
three
Treatises
of
his
Life
,
Miracles
and
Translation
;
which
were
undertaken
at
the
joint
Instances
of
Bede
and
Alcuinus
.
'T
is
enough
that
we
have
a
bigger
and
a
less
.
History
of
him
(
as
well
as
two
other
like
Treatises
on
his
Miracles
)
written
by
Gotseline
,
sometime
Monk
of
Canterbury
;
the
former
whereof
is
publish'd
by
[
a
](A52335-e71320-b)
a
Act.
Bened.
Saec.
1.
p.
499.
Mabillon
,
and
the
latter
by
[
b
](A52335-e71340-b)
b
Angl.
Sac.
vol.
2.
p.
56.
Mr.
Wharton
.
St.
Cedda's
[
c
](A52335-e71400-b)
c
Pits
,
p.
141.
Bishop
of
the
West-Saxons
;
or
(
which
is
the
same
thing
to
Bale
and
Pits
)
some
Particulars
of
it
were
,
by
that
Prelate
,
communicated
to
Bede
;
who
took
care
to
transmit
them
into
his
Ecclesiastical
History
.
St.
Cuthbert's
[
d
](A52335-e71510-b)
d
Inter
opera
ejus
.
Tract
;
wherein
he
has
omitted
no
Miracle
,
that
could
well
be
swallow'd
,
even
by
the
greedy
Faith
of
his
own
Age.
He
wrote
it
first
in
Heroic
Verse
;
and
afterwards
in
Prose
.
It
is
also
[
e
](A52335-e71520-b)
e
J.
Pits
,
p.
122.
said
to
have
been
compiled
by
Laurence
Monk
and
Precentor
of
Durham
;
as
it
certainly
was
by
Reginald
,
[
a
](A52335-e71570-b)
a
Bibl.
Cott.
Claudius
,
D
4.
another
Monk
of
that
Church
.
AB
.
Vsher
[
b
](A52335-e71600-b)
b
Antiq.
Eccles.
p.
489.
e
Bibl.
Cott.
Otho
D.
14.
quotes
a
Manuscript
Life
of
this
Saint
collected
out
of
the
Irish
Histories
;
and
there
's
another
in
English
Meeter
,
answerable
to
the
foremention'd
Latin
Poetry
,
in
the
Right
Honourable
the
Earl
of
Carlisle's
Library
at
Naworth
.
Many
more
are
in
[
c
](A52335-e71670-b)
c
Ibid.
Nero
,
A
2.
Vitellius
,
E.
1.
other
Libraries
.
But
that
which
I
would
especially
recommend
to
my
Reader
,
for
his
Diversion
and
a
pleasant
Entertainment
,
is
the
printed
[
d
](A52335-e71700-b)
d
8vo
.
Lond.
1663.
Legend
of
St.
Cuthbert
,
with
the
Antiquities
of
the
Church
of
Durham
;
which
was
publish'd
by
B.
R.
a
Gentleman
of
the
old
[
e
](A52335-e71740-b)
e
Ath.
Oxon.
vol.
1.
p.
455.
Lord
Fairfax's
Retinue
,
but
written
by
one
Robert
Hegge
,
sometime
Fellow
of
Corpus
Christi
College
in
Oxford
.
The
latter
part
of
the
Title
might
have
been
spar'd
,
since
there
's
not
much
in
it
that
will
any
way
illustrate
the
Antiquities
of
that
Church
:
But
the
Saint's
own
History
is
prettily
composed
,
in
a
good
orderly
Method
and
handsome
Stile
;
intermix'd
with
great
variety
of
Learning
and
witty
Reflections
.
The
Publisher
did
not
do
his
Author
Justice
:
For
,
besides
the
concealing
his
Name
,
he
[
a
](A52335-e71790-b)
a
Vid.
D.
Tho.
Marshal
.
praefat.
ad
observat.
in
Evang.
Anglo-Sax
.
p.
492.
omitted
a
great
many
considerable
Passages
,
all
his
Quotations
,
and
a
Learn'd
Preface
.
All
these
Defects
have
been
lately
supply'd
(
from
the
Author
's
own
Manuscript
)
by
Mr.
Tanner
;
who
has
also
added
some
curious
Notes
and
Observations
of
his
own
.
This
Piece
he
has
had
,
for
some
time
,
ready
for
the
Press
:
and
(
methinks
)
the
Members
of
that
great
Cathedral
,
which
owes
so
much
to
the
Memory
of
this
Saint
,
should
encourage
and
countenance
his
Pains
.
St.
Dunstan's
[
b
](A52335-e71890-b)
b
Maii.
Tom.
4.
p.
344.
Antwerp
Collection
.
This
was
afterwards
epitomiz'd
and
beautified
with
a
set
of
new
Miracles
,
by
[
a
](A52335-e71910-b)
a
Bibl.
Cott.
Nero
,
c.
7.
Vide
&
E.
8.
It.
Cleo
,
patra
,
B.
13.
Adalard
,
at
the
Command
of
St.
Elphegus
,
to
whom
't
is
dedicated
.
This
is
also
publish'd
,
with
the
former
.
Out
of
these
two
,
and
some
other
Helps
,
Osbern
(
a
very
Learn'd
Monk
,
and
Precentor
of
Canterbury
,
about
the
Year
1074.
)
compos'd
a
couple
of
elegant
Treatises
;
in
one
of
which
he
gives
us
the
Life
,
and
in
the
other
the
Posthumous
Miracles
,
of
St.
Dunstan
.
The
former
of
these
was
publish'd
by
[
b
](A52335-e71990-b)
b
Angl.
Sacr.
vol.
2.
p.
88.
Mr.
Wharton
;
and
both
of
them
by
Monsieur
[
c
](A52335-e72010-b)
c
Act.
Bened.
Saec.
v.
p.
654.
Mabillon
.
St.
Edmund
,
[
d
](A52335-e72090-b)
d
Bibl.
Cott.
Julius
,
E.
7.
Aelfric
;
and
in
old
English
,
by
Iohn
[
e
](A52335-e72140-b)
e
MS.
in
Bibl.
Hon.
D.
Com.
Carl●ol
.
Lydgate
,
Monk
of
Bury
.
Both
Bale
and
Pits
tell
us
a
formal
Story
of
one
Burchardus
,
a
Dorsetshire
Hermit
,
whose
Company
was
much
affected
by
Fremund
Son
of
King
Offa
;
whose
Life
(
after
he
was
Martyr'd
by
the
Danes
)
he
took
the
Pains
to
write
:
and
[
f
](A52335-e72250-b)
f
Fol.
m.
63.
Bale
pretends
to
have
seen
it
.
This
very
Life
is
quoted
by
John
[
a
](A52335-e72280-b)
a
Survey
of
L●nd
.
p.
28.
Stow
;
who
says
't
is
the
Life
of
St.
Edmund
,
and
that
Burchard
was
Secretary
to
King
Offa.
'T
was
also
written
by
[
b
](A52335-e72340-b)
b
Bibl.
Cott.
Vitelli●s
,
D.
14.
Will
.
Monk
of
Croyland
;
and
more
fully
penn'd
(
at
the
Request
of
King
Aethelred
and
St.
Dunstan
)
by
the
famous
Abbo
Flori●censis
,
about
the
Year
of
our
Lord
985.
And
,
soon
after
the
Conquest
,
another
Book
(
of
his
Miracles
)
was
composed
by
Arch-deacon
Herman
.
The
two
last
are
bound
up
in
[
c
](A52335-e72420-b)
c
Ibid.
Tibe●ius
,
B.
2.
one
Volume
;
with
several
other
Pieces
,
relating
to
the
Monasteries
of
St.
Edmundsbary
and
Ely
.
St.
Elphegas
.
[
d
](A52335-e72530-b)
d
Angl.
Sacr.
vol.
2.
p.
122.
143.
Bibl.
Cott.
Nero
,
C.
7.
Otho
,
A.
12.
Vitel.
B.
17.
extant
.
St.
Ethelbert
was
slain
by
King
Offa
,
Gyraldus
Cambrensis
(
who
was
sometime
Canon
there
)
took
the
pains
to
write
his
[
a
](A52335-e72640-b)
a
Ibid.
Vitellius
,
E.
7.
Life
,
among
many
others
that
his
teeming
Pen
has
given
us
.
St.
Ethelreda
(
commonly
call'd
[
b
](A52335-e72740-b)
b
Ibid.
Domitianus
,
A.
15.
Thomas
,
a
Monk
of
that
City
;
part
whereof
has
only
been
publish'd
by
[
c
](A52335-e72770-b)
c
Act.
Bened.
Saec.
i●
.
p.
739.
Vid.
etiam
Bedae
Hist.
Eccles.
Edit.
Wheloc
.
p.
312.
313.
Mabillon
,
to
whom
we
are
likewise
indebted
for
[
d
](A52335-e72810-b)
d
Saec.
v.
p.
608.
Wulstan's
Life
of
Saint
Ethelwold
.
St.
George
.
[
e
](A52335-e72930-b)
e
4to
Lond.
1631.
1633.
Dr.
Heylin
;
who
design'd
to
have
oblig'd
(
for
ever
)
our
Knights
of
the
Garter
,
by
such
a
signal
Service
to
the
Memory
of
the
great
Guardian
Saint
and
Protectour
of
their
Order
.
Out
of
this
Elaborate
Book
have
been
stoln
[
a
](A52335-e72950-b)
a
4to
Lond.
1661.
&
8vo
.
Ibid.
1664.
two
shorter
Accounts
of
his
Life
;
which
bear
the
same
Title
,
and
are
sometimes
sold
amongst
Romances
and
Ballads
.
St.
Guthlac
,
[
b
](A52335-e73040-b)
b
Rem
.
p.
m.
319.
MS.
in
charact.
vet.
Saxon.
in
Bibl.
Ben.
&
Cot.
Nero
,
E.
1.
Camden
,
as
a
Poet
fortunate
enough
in
his
descriptions
,
tho'
Bale
is
pleased
to
give
this
harsh
Character
of
him
,
[
c
](A52335-e73080-b)
c
Fol.
m.
50.
a
Vid.
Pet.
Blesens
.
in
contin
.
Histor.
Ingul●
.
Fictis
Narratiunculis
,
immo
manifestissimis
mendaciis
,
Historiam
,
Monachico
more
implevit
.
The
like
was
done
(
in
Latine
Heroics
)
by
Will.
[
d
](A52335-e73120-b)
d
Bibl.
Cott.
Otho
,
D.
14.
Ramsey
,
who
dy'd
Abbot
of
that
Monastery
,
A.
D.
1180.
of
whom
[
e
](A52335-e73160-b)
e
Comment.
in
C●g
.
Cant.
voce
Grantae
.
Leland
(
who
was
a
good
Judge
of
Poetry
)
gives
this
Account
,
that
he
was
,
Poeta
tam
barbaro
Saeculo
clarus
.
We
are
told
of
a
third
,
by
Aelfric
,
in
the
Cottonian
[
a
](A52335-e73220-b)
a
G
Hickes
,
Catal.
Libb
.
Septen
.
p.
175
Library
;
which
I
guess
to
be
that
Saxon
Translation
of
Felix's
Book
which
is
mentioned
by
Archbishop
[
b
](A52335-e73260-b)
b
Antiq.
Eccles.
p.
33.
Bibl.
Cott.
Vespas
.
D.
21.
Vsher.
We
are
further
assured
by
[
c
](A52335-e73290-b)
c
P.
193.
339.
Vid.
Bibl.
Cott.
Nero
,
c.
7.
Mr.
Pits
,
that
both
Ingulfus
and
M.
Paris
wrote
of
the
Life
and
Miracles
of
St.
Guthlac
:
but
I
dare
hardly
rely
upon
his
single
Authority
.
St.
Frideswide's
exemplary
Chastity
is
recommended
to
Posterity
by
Philip
,
[
d
](A52335-e73400-b)
d
Hist.
&
Antiq.
Oxon.
lib.
1.
p.
12.
&
55.
sometimes
Prior
of
her
Monastery
in
Oxford
:
whereof
there
's
a
fair
MS.
Copy
in
the
Library
of
Jesus
College
in
that
University
.
St.
John
of
Beverley's
[
e
](A52335-e73510-b)
e
Pits
,
p.
188.
Bibl.
Cott.
Otho
,
c.
16.
Faustin●
,
B.
4.
Folcard
,
a
Benedictine
Monk
,
about
the
Year
1066.
which
was
enlarg'd
by
Will.
[
f
](A52335-e73580-b)
f
Pits
,
p.
411.
Asketel
(
or
Chettel
,
Clark
of
Beverley
)
A.
D.
1320.
Another
draught
was
taken
of
him
by
[
g
](A52335-e73640-b)
g
Id.
p
204.
Alfred
,
Canon
and
Treasurer
of
that
Church
,
in
the
beginning
of
the
twelfth
Century
:
and
a
Third
(
or
Fourth
)
by
an
[
a
](A52335-e73660-b)
a
Hist.
&
Ant.
Oxon.
lib.
1.
p
11.
&
Monast.
Angl.
Tom.
1.
p.
169.
Anonymous
Writer
about
1373.
St.
Marcellinus
would
have
been
utterly
forgotten
by
our
English
Historians
,
[
b
](A52335-e73740-b)
b
Coln
.
1508.
printed
Works
)
that
he
was
a
Dominican
Monk
of
York
,
and
one
of
the
twelve
Apostles
sent
by
Abbot
Egbert
(
A.
D.
690.
)
to
convert
the
Pagan
Germans
.
The
Particulars
of
their
Mission
,
with
their
Entertainment
in
Westphalia
,
Frisland
,
&c.
we
have
from
his
own
Pen.
St.
Neot's
Life
,
Will
▪
Ramsey
,
is
in
the
Library
at
Magdalene
College
in
Oxford
.
'T
is
in
Verse
:
but
of
so
[
c
](A52335-e73880-b)
c
Vi●
.
Not.
in
Aelfred
.
M.
vit.
p.
103.
low
a
strain
,
that
the
Author
seems
to
have
failed
here
of
that
Spirit
which
Leland
observ'd
in
his
Guthlac
.
The
Matter
is
likewise
as
fulsome
as
the
composure
is
flat
;
so
that
't
is
not
probable
we
shall
ever
see
it
out
of
Manuscript
.
I
suppose
this
is
the
same
which
is
quoted
by
[
a
](A52335-e73920-b)
a
Hist.
et
Antiq.
Oxon.
lib.
1.
cap.
13.
Leland
,
and
some
of
our
later
Writers
.
St.
Oswald
,
[
b
](A52335-e74000-b)
b
Angl.
Sac.
vol.
2.
p.
191.
published
;
as
is
also
another
written
by
an
[
c
](A52335-e74010-b)
c
Apud
Joh.
Mabillon
,
Act.
Bened
p.
735.
Anonymous
Monk
of
Ramsey
.
A
Third
,
more
Voluminous
than
either
of
these
,
was
compos'd
by
another
Nameless
Monk
of
Ramsey
;
which
is
now
amongst
the
many
more
valuable
Manuscripts
in
[
d
](A52335-e74050-b)
d
Nero
,
E.
1.
Sir
Jo.
Cotton's
Library
.
There
also
(
as
I
[
e
](A52335-e74080-b)
e
Vid.
Praefat.
ad
Angl.
Sac.
vol.
2.
p.
14.
guess
)
the
Reader
may
meet
with
his
Saxon
Legend
,
by
Abbot
Aelfric
:
But
where
he
'll
find
either
of
those
that
were
penn'd
by
[
f
](A52335-e74110-b)
f
Ord.
Vital
.
Hist.
Eccles.
lib.
2.
ad
an.
1108.
Folcard
,
or
[
g
](A52335-e74140-b)
g
J.
Pits
,
p.
237.
Senatus
Bravonius
,
I
cannot
inform
him
.
St.
Swithun's
miracles
were
recorded
by
Lamfrid
or
Lantfred
,
[
a
](A52335-e74240-b)
a
J.
Pits
,
p.
178.
Lumley's
Library
,
and
we
are
sure
there
now
is
one
in
[
b
](A52335-e74270-b)
b
Nero
,
E.
1.
vide
et
Gal●●
,
A.
13.
Sir
Jo.
Cotten's
.
This
treats
only
of
the
great
things
he
did
after
his
Death
:
but
't
is
probable
there
was
a
former
part
of
the
Discourse
(
which
seems
also
to
have
been
[
c
](A52335-e74310-b)
c
Prae●at
.
ad
Angl.
Sacr.
vol.
1.
p.
29.
30.
translated
into
the
old
English-Saxon
Tongue
)
that
took
the
Story
higher
.
The
like
,
says
Pits
,
[
d
](A52335-e74340-b)
d
pag.
181.
was
penn'd
by
Wolstan
,
the
same
famous
Monk
of
Winchester
,
who
(
about
the
Year
1000
)
did
as
much
for
St.
Ethelwald
:
but
I
can
hear
of
this
piece
no
where
else
.
St.
Wilfrid's
[
e
](A52335-e74470-b)
e
Inter
15
Scriptt
.
p.
40.
Dr.
Gale
)
there
was
a
second
Account
taken
in
Latin
Rhime
by
Fridegod
,
[
a
](A52335-e74510-b)
a
Edit.
a
Job
.
Mabillon
,
Act.
Bened.
Saec.
V.
p.
283.
e
Bibl.
Cott.
Claudius
,
A.
1.
another
Monk
of
the
same
Church
,
who
was
put
upon
the
Employment
by
Odo
,
Archbishop
of
Canterbury
.
The
Arch-bishop
himself
wrote
a
Preface
to
the
Book
,
which
was
omitted
by
Mabillon
,
but
is
since
published
by
[
b
](A52335-e74560-b)
b
Angl.
Sac.
vol.
2.
p.
50.
another
;
and
,
for
this
Mr.
Pits
[
c
](A52335-e74580-b)
c
pag.
174.
makes
him
a
distinct
Writer
of
St.
Wilfrid's
Life
.
A
Third
was
written
in
Prose
by
[
d
](A52335-e74600-b)
d
Apud
J.
Mabillon
Act.
Bened.
Saec.
III.
par.
1.
p.
196.
et
.
Bibl.
cott
.
Caligula
,
A.
8.
Eadmerus
;
and
a
fourth
by
[
e
](A52335-e74640-b)
e
Vid.
Monast.
Angl.
Tom.
1.
p.
172.
Petrus
Blesensis
,
dedicated
to
Jeofrey
A.
B.
of
York
.
So
that
this
Petrus
Blesensis
and
Mr.
Pit's
Petrus
[
f
](A52335-e74710-b)
f
J.
Pits
,
p.
257.
Ripponensis
(
tho'
he
makes
them
two
several
Authors
)
are
the
same
Person
.
There
is
now
in
my
Possession
a
Latin
Manuscript
Life
of
this
Saint
;
which
perhaps
may
be
the
same
with
the
last
mention'd
.
It
is
certainly
different
from
the
three
first
;
and
seems
not
to
have
Length
enough
for
that
tedious
Discourse
on
this
Subject
,
which
is
said
to
have
been
written
by
one
[
a
](A52335-e74750-b)
a
Id.
p.
911.
Stephen
a
Priest
;
and
Epitomiz'd
by
William
of
Malmesbury
.
It
begins
,
An●●
igitur
ab
Incar
natione
Verbi
Dei
Sexcei●●esimo
tricesimo
quarto
;
and
ends
with
St.
Wilfrid's
Epitaph
,
in
twenty
Hexameters
.
St.
Wulstan
(
as
two
of
his
immediate
Predecessors
)
[
b
](A52335-e74880-b)
b
Angl.
Sacr.
vol.
1.
p.
541.
Hemming
,
a
Monk
of
Worcester
,
and
another
(
more
at
large
)
by
the
famous
[
c
](A52335-e74910-b)
c
Ibid.
vol.
2.
p.
241.
Will
.
of
Malmesbury
▪
But
what
's
become
of
those
by
[
d
](A52335-e74940-b)
d
J.
Pits
,
p.
237.
et
339.
Bravonius
and
M.
Paris
,
we
know
not
.
These
are
they
that
make
the
most
considerable
Figure
in
the
Saxon
Calendar
,
and
whose
Lives
,
being
most
amply
treated
on
,
will
afford
some
Passages
that
may
be
of
use
to
our
English
Historian
.
Nor
are
the
little
inferior
Saints
of
those
times
to
be
wholly
despised
by
him
.
He
'll
meet
with
abundance
of
such
in
the
several
Voluminous
Collections
to
which
we
sometimes
referr
him
:
And
I
dare
promise
that
,
in
most
of
'em
he
shall
frequently
discover
some
hidden
Treasure
,
even
in
the
midst
of
the
most
drossy
Miracles
.
CHAP.
III.
Of
our
Church-Historians
,
from
the
Conquest
to
the
Reformation
.
THE
Subject
of
this
Chapter
is
,
in
a
great
measure
,
dispatch'd
already
.
The
general
Historians
of
the
Kingdom
,
during
this
whole
Period
,
were
mostly
Monks
and
other
Church-men
;
who
have
taken
care
to
Register
our
Ecclesiastical
Transactions
as
accurately
as
the
Civil
,
and
to
carry
along
with
them
the
Affairs
of
our
Church
and
State
together
.
Canon-Law
and
Appeals
to
Rome
were
first
brought
into
England
in
King
[
a
](A52335-e75070-b)
a
Vid.
Gervas
.
Dorobern
.
Act.
Pontif.
col.
1665.
Num.
20.
30.
Stephen's
Reign
,
upon
the
Debates
that
arose
betwixt
the
Bishop
of
Winchester
(
the
Pope's
Legate
)
and
the
AB
.
of
Canterbury
:
And
these
soon
introduced
that
Exaltation
of
the
Clergy
,
that
they
were
necessarily
in
at
every
thing
;
no
Intriegue
(
either
of
the
Court
or
Camp
)
being
to
be
manag'd
without
them
.
So
that
't
is
no
wonder
if
,
after
that
time
,
our
Histories
are
generally
cramm'd
with
Disputes
and
other
Matters
of
a
purely
Ecclesiastical
Nature
;
and
the
main
Body
of
'em
look
like
the
Annals
of
Saint
Peter's
Patrimony
.
Odericus
(
or
Ordericus
)
[
a
](A52335-e75220-b)
a
Inter
Script
.
Normann
.
Fol.
Paris
.
1619.
Books
are
spent
in
Affairs
of
the
Church
within
his
own
Native
Country
:
But
,
towards
the
latter
end
,
he
has
intermix'd
a
great
many
Passages
that
relate
to
us
.
There
are
in
his
Writings
two
Faults
(
and
they
are
great
ones
)
which
Lucian
of
old
condemn'd
in
History
:
For
1.
He
's
immoderate
in
the
Praise
of
his
Friends
;
and
the
Dispraise
of
his
Enemies
;
either
all
Panegyrick
,
or
all
Satyr
.
Now
such
Discourses
are
rightly
observed
to
be
strangely
monstrous
and
unnatural
Productions
:
They
want
Meeter
to
become
Poems
,
and
Truth
to
make
them
just
Histories
.
2.
He
's
too
large
in
his
Descriptions
of
little
petit
Matters
;
and
,
on
the
contrary
,
passes
too
cursorily
over
some
things
of
such
weight
as
would
well
endure
Reflection
and
a
second
Thought
.
We
are
told
of
one
[
a
](A52335-e75240-b)
a
J.
Pits
,
p.
248.
Richard
Pluto
(
who
was
Monk
of
Canterbury
,
A.
D.
1181.
)
a
Writer
of
the
Ecclesiastical
History
of
England
;
which
he
dedicated
to
Richard
Duke
of
Normandy
.
Where
(
or
what
)
it
is
,
I
know
not
.
But
what
is
hop'd
for
in
that
Book
may
possibly
be
found
in
the
[
b
](A52335-e75310-b)
b
Inter
Hist.
Angl.
Fol.
Oxon.
1684.
Burtonenses
Annales
;
written
,
I
suppose
,
by
some
Monk
of
Burton
in
Staffordshire
:
For
it
begins
with
the
Foundation
of
that
Monastery
,
A.
D.
1004.
and
ends
at
the
Year
,
1263.
Many
Passages
in
it
are
borrow'd
from
Roger
Hoveden
(
whom
the
Author
calls
Hugh
)
and
not
a
few
from
M.
Paris
.
The
latter
of
these
was
certainly
Cotemporary
with
this
Author
,
whoever
he
was
;
and
they
may
be
,
to
good
purpose
,
read
together
.
The
Reader
will
meet
with
a
great
many
remarkable
Stories
in
it
that
are
hardly
to
be
had
elsewhere
:
none
(
perhaps
)
having
a
better
Collection
of
Letters
,
Memorials
,
&c.
of
the
Church-History
of
those
Times
.
The
Defects
of
these
Annals
will
be
(
in
part
)
supply'd
by
W.
Linwood's
[
a
](A52335-e75420-b)
a
Fol.
Oxon.
1679.
Provinciale
;
Stephen
Langton
(
inclusively
)
down
to
Henry
Chicheley
.
These
give
us
a
View
of
what
Points
were
chiefly
under
Debate
in
the
Church
,
for
about
200
Years
;
and
are
rank'd
(
after
the
Example
of
the
Decretals
)
under
several
distinct
Titles
,
or
Common
Places
:
having
annex'd
to
them
a
large
Commentary
or
Gloss
,
of
the
Learn'd
Collector's
own
composure
.
This
Writer
was
Dr.
of
Laws
,
Official
of
Canterbury
,
and
(
at
last
)
Bishop
of
St.
Davids
;
after
he
had
been
imploy'd
by
King
Henry
the
Fifth
in
[
a
](A52335-e75510-b)
a
Godwin
.
de
praeful
.
p.
613.
several
Embassies
,
and
entrusted
with
his
Privy-Seal
.
The
Book
was
first
publish'd
by
[
b
](A52335-e75520-b)
b
4to
.
Paris
.
1506.
Jodocus
Badius
,
and
dedicated
to
Arch-bishop
Warham
:
but
,
the
Abbreviations
in
the
Original
MS.
being
retain'd
in
this
,
and
two
following
Editions
,
it
was
lately
reprinted
at
Oxford
,
much
more
accurately
and
correct
.
The
Legatine
Constitutions
of
the
two
Cardinals
Otho
and
Othobon
(
in
the
Years
1236
,
and
1268.
)
have
been
always
added
to
these
,
in
the
Prints
;
together
with
the
like
Commentaries
of
John
Acton
or
Athon
,
sometime
Prebendary
of
Lincoln
.
The
Oxford
Edition
gives
us
the
Canons
of
the
several
Arch-bishops
entire
and
apart
,
as
well
as
in
that
confusion
to
which
Linwood's
Method
had
reduced
them
:
and
it
also
intermixes
some
other
Edicts
of
a
spiritual
kind
;
such
as
Edward
the
First
's
Statute
of
Circumspecte
Agatis
,
the
Decree
of
the
University
of
Oxford
against
some
Tenets
of
Wickliff
,
&c.
Lastly
,
it
furnishes
us
with
some
other
Canons
made
by
Stafford
and
Wa●ham
▪
which
will
bring
us
down
as
low
as
the
beginning
of
the
Reformation
.
What
is
here
missing
may
be
sought
for
in
Sir
Henry
Spelman's
[
a
](A52335-e75730-b)
a
Fol.
Lond.
1664.
second
Volume
of
our
English
Councils
;
which
unhappily
wanted
the
finishing
Hand
of
its
Author
.
Indeed
,
he
was
so
far
from
perfecting
what
he
had
projected
,
that
he
is
[
b
](A52335-e75740-b)
b
Ath.
Oxon.
vol.
2.
p.
697.
&
Wo●
Kennet
,
Life
of
Som.
p.
88
,
89.
said
to
have
left
no
more
than
57
Sheets
,
of
the
200.
which
are
now
publish'd
under
his
Name
:
the
rest
being
entirely
owing
to
the
indefatigable
Pains
of
,
our
late
excellent
Antiquary
,
Sir
William
Dugdale
.
'T
is
a
pity
that
the
joint
Labours
,
of
two
such
great
Men
as
these
,
should
stand
in
need
of
a
third
Hand
to
compleat
them
:
And
yet
the
Errors
that
were
committed
(
either
in
Transcribing
,
or
Printing
,
or
both
)
are
apparently
so
many
,
that
we
cannot
but
earnestly
wish
that
better
care
may
be
taken
in
a
second
Edition
.
Arch-bishop
Sheldon
and
Chancellour
Hide
thought
such
a
Structure
,
as
this
,
worth
the
rearing
;
and
will
none
of
the
present
Patrons
of
our
Church
think
fit
to
repair
it
?
Mr.
Somner
has
long
since
made
a
considerable
advance
toward
so
good
a
Work
;
having
with
[
a
](A52335-e75820-b)
a
W.
Kennet
,
ibid.
great
Pains
and
Accuracy
collated
the
Printed
Copy
with
many
of
the
Original
Records
,
and
in
the
Margin
amended
the
infinite
Defects
.
This
Book
is
now
,
amongst
others
of
the
same
worthy
Person
's
valuable
Labours
,
in
the
Library
at
Canterbury
:
where
it
cannot
lie
much
longer
in
obscurity
.
After
the
Papal
Yoke
was
thrown
off
,
Nicholas
Harpesfield
,
sometime
Arch-Deacon
of
Canterbury
;
but
outed
(
A.
D.
1559.
)
for
refusing
the
Oath
of
Supremacy
.
John
Pits
[
b
](A52335-e75940-b)
b
Pag
781.
says
he
,
was
afterwards
imprison'd
.
So
far
from
it
,
that
AB
.
Parker
took
him
into
his
own
particular
care
;
and
gave
him
all
the
assistance
he
could
wish
for
,
in
compiling
what
he
calls
his
[
a
](A52335-e75960-b)
a
Fol.
Duaci
.
1622.
Ecclesistaical
History
of
the
British
Church
.
In
the
first
Ages
he
has
lazily
follow'd
Bede
and
Malmesbury
;
transcribing
the
very
Errors
of
such
Copies
as
he
met
with
,
and
not
giving
himself
leisure
to
examine
the
Incoherencies
in
Chronology
;
and
other
Contradictions
,
that
he
delivers
for
good
and
grave
History
.
In
after-times
,
he
amasses
Things
together
,
out
of
the
Registraries
and
other
Helps
he
had
at
hand
,
without
any
sort
of
Order
or
Form
:
Insomuch
,
that
sometimes
the
Reader
is
plagued
with
several
Sheets
of
tedious
Impertinences
;
and
elsewhere
scarce
meets
with
the
bare
Names
of
the
Prelates
for
some
Ages
together
.
Some
things
are
said
to
have
been
expunged
out
of
his
Original
Manuscript
,
by
the
Licenser
of
his
Book
;
being
mostly
particular
Opinions
of
his
own
,
condemning
the
[
b
](A52335-e76000-b)
b
Ath.
Oxon.
vol.
1.
p.
172.
Discords
,
Broils
,
and
ambitious
Poverty
of
the
begging
Fryers
:
So
that
we
may
probably
want
the
best
part
of
his
Work
;
since
this
would
have
a
little
ballanc'd
that
[
a
](A52335-e76020-b)
a
Vid.
Somner
.
Antiq.
Cantuar.
p.
272.
load
of
Infamy
which
he
endeavours
to
lay
upon
the
chief
of
our
Reformers
.
I
confess
our
Oxford
Antiquary
gives
a
somewhat
different
Character
of
this
History
:
[
b
](A52335-e76040-b)
b
Hist.
&
Antiq.
Oxon.
lib.
2.
p.
137.
Quo
quidem
in
Libro
Eruditio
an
Industria
conspicua
magis
sit
,
haud
facile
dicendum
.
Vtroque
revera
Nomine
laudandus
adeo
comparet
,
ut
,
nisi
partium
studio
abductus
suorum
in
Vtilitatem
omnia
rapuisset
,
haud
modice
de
Republica
Literaria
meruisset
.
Another
Zealous
engager
in
this
undertaking
was
,
Robert
Parsons
;
who
wrote
an
Account
of
the
three
Conversions
of
England
from
Paganism
to
Christianity
,
in
as
[
c
](A52335-e76100-b)
c
8vo
.
Audomar
.
1603.
1604.
many
little
Volumes
.
The
first
of
these
he
ascribes
to
St.
Peter
;
whom
he
very
Logically
proves
to
have
been
here
,
because
he
was
not
at
Rome
when
St.
Paul
sent
his
Epistle
thither
.
His
story
of
King
Lucius's
change
is
[
d
](A52335-e76160-b)
d
Vsserii
Antiq.
Eccles.
p.
26.
shewn
to
be
borrow'd
from
Baronius
;
who
also
(
tho'
he
would
have
been
loath
to
have
own'd
any
such
thing
)
had
it
from
the
Centuriators
.
The
whole
seems
to
have
been
design'd
in
answer
to
Mr.
Fox
,
whom
he
profess'dly
opposes
,
throughout
a
great
part
of
his
Second
and
Third
Volumes
.
He
represents
that
Author
,
as
a
Person
very
ignorant
and
very
dishonest
;
perverting
the
Sense
in
some
of
his
Quotations
,
and
mistaking
it
in
others
.
Rich.
Smith
[
a
](A52335-e76270-b)
a
Fol.
Paris
,
1654.
Flores
Ecclesiasticae
Historiae
Gentis
Anglorum
.
The
whole
Volume
is
rather
an
indigested
heap
of
Materials
than
a
just
and
formal
History
:
and
thus
much
may
be
said
in
it's
commendation
,
that
it
honestly
Quotes
the
Reform'd
Writers
as
well
as
those
of
the
Author
's
own
Persuasion
.
After
these
Flores
,
Annales
Ecclesiae
Britannicae
(
in
[
a
](A52335-e76340-b)
a
Leod.
1663.
four
Volumes
)
by
Michael
Alford
,
a
Jesuite
;
whose
true
Name
is
[
b
](A52335-e76370-b)
b
Ath.
Oxon.
p.
387.
said
to
be
Griffith
.
From
this
Work
a
late
[
c
](A52335-e76390-b)
c
H.
Woarton
,
Angl.
Sacr.
in
Praef.
ad
vol.
1.
p.
15.
Learn'd
Member
of
our
Church
has
well
prov'd
how
vain
and
empty
are
the
brags
of
our
Romanists
;
who
are
frequently
valuing
themselves
upon
the
great
Treasure
they
have
of
our
Ancient
English
Records
.
These
,
they
say
,
were
carry'd
off
by
Monks
and
other
Religious
People
,
who
were
forc'd
to
fly
in
the
last
Age
;
and
are
now
(
in
Salva
Custodia
)
in
several
Monasteries
beyond
the
Seas
.
'T
is
much
,
as
he
unanswerably
argues
,
that
none
of
their
own
Friends
should
ever
reap
any
Benefit
from
these
mighty
Spoils
:
that
this
same
Alford
,
for
Example
,
should
not
have
the
Advantage
of
one
of
those
Venerable
Instruments
to
grace
his
Book
;
but
be
forced
to
run
on
in
the
beaten
Track
,
and
fetch
all
his
Quotations
from
such
printed
Authors
as
we
poor
Hereticks
have
publish'd
for
him
.
This
is
the
true
state
of
his
Case
.
There
's
nothing
in
him
that
carries
a
Face
of
Antiquity
,
save
only
some
few
Shreds
that
were
pick'd
up
at
Lambeth
by
Harpsfield
;
who
has
furnish'd
him
and
his
Brethren
with
whatever
looks
this
way
.
Out
of
this
Gentleman
,
Serenus
Cressy
compil'd
his
Church-History
;
which
should
have
been
brought
down
to
the
Dissolution
of
Monasteries
by
K.
Henry
the
Eighth
,
tho'
what
is
[
a
](A52335-e76520-b)
a
Fol.
Rothom
.
1668.
publish'd
reaches
no
lower
than
the
Conquest
.
'T
was
much
wondred
(
by
those
that
had
been
acquainted
with
this
Learned
Person
in
Oxford
,
before
he
fled
to
the
Roman
Communion
)
how
he
came
to
stuff
his
Book
so
full
of
Legendary
Miracles
;
since
a
Man
of
good
substantial
Learning
,
and
that
enlargement
of
Thought
which
usually
accompanies
it
,
is
very
rarely
split
upon
such
Rocks
.
Yet
let
this
be
said
for
him
(
says
honest
and
blunt
[
b
](A52335-e76560-b)
b
Ath.
Oxon.
p.
388.
Anthony
Wood
)
that
for
as
much
as
he
mostly
quotes
his
Authors
for
,
and
leaves
what
he
says
to
the
Judgment
of
the
Readers
,
he
is
to
be
excused
,
and
in
the
mean
time
to
be
commended
for
his
grave
and
good
Style
,
proper
for
an
Ecclesiastical
Historian
.
In
the
rear
of
these
,
let
us
remember
such
as
have
penn'd
the
Lives
of
those
few
Saints
that
flourish'd
in
the
English
Church
after
the
Conquest
;
who
have
been
usually
Canoniz'd
for
such
Exploits
as
(
in
our
days
)
are
commonly
thought
to
desevre
another
sort
of
Treatment
.
St.
Anselm
,
[
a
](A52335-e76640-b)
a
Vid.
Godwin
.
de
Prae●ul
.
p.
95.
Title
to
his
Saint-ship
than
any
of
those
that
follow
,
had
great
contests
with
Henry
the
First
about
Investitures
:
an
Account
whereof
,
with
the
other
Remarkables
of
his
Life
,
was
written
by
John
[
b
](A52335-e76670-b)
b
J.
Pits
,
p.
249.
vide
etiam
Bibl.
Cott.
Nero
,
c.
7.
of
Salisbury
,
an
Author
much
commended
by
Petrus
Blesensis
.
'T
is
the
same
with
that
which
is
now
extant
in
Manuscript
(
I
suppose
in
the
Library
at
[
c
](A52335-e76720-b)
c
Angl.
Sac.
vol.
1.
p.
109.
Lambeth
)
and
goes
by
the
Name
of
John
Carnotensis
.
St.
Edmund's
[
a
](A52335-e76790-b)
a
I.
Pits
,
p.
318
,
319
,
339.
Bibl.
Cott.
Julius
,
D.
6.
Vitelius
,
C.
12.
said
to
be
penn'd
by
Rob
,
Bacon
a
secular
Priest
,
and
Dr.
of
Divinity
in
Oxford
;
who
is
also
reported
to
have
been
sometime
Servant
to
that
eminently
learn'd
and
pious
Arch-bishop
.
The
same
Authority
assures
us
that
't
was
likewise
written
by
,
his
only
Brother
and
Companion
in
all
the
varieties
of
his
Fortune
,
[
b
](A52335-e76840-b)
b
Ibid.
Cleopatra
,
B.
1.
Robert
Rich
;
as
also
by
M.
Paris
.
Let
me
add
,
't
was
also
written
by
[
c
](A52335-e76870-b)
c
Hist.
et
Antiq.
Oxon.
lib.
2.
p.
10.
Albert
AB
,
of
Prussia
,
the
Pope's
Legate
.
St.
Gilbert
of
Sempringham
(
the
Founder
of
our
Famous
English
Order
of
Gilbertines
)
had
his
Life
written
by
a
modest
Brother
of
his
own
Order
;
St.
Goodric
.
Nicholaus
Dunelmensis
,
[
d
](A52335-e77050-b)
d
Adan
.
1170.
p.
120.
Paris
tells
the
Story
)
a
great
Comrade
of
an
Eminent
Hermit
of
his
Time
call'd
Goodric
;
whose
Life
Nicolas
being
by
some
of
his
Friends
desired
to
Write
and
Publish
,
he
acquainted
Goodric
with
the
Design
,
and
desired
his
Assistance
.
But
instead
of
having
an
Account
of
the
remarkable
instances
of
Piety
and
Mortification
,
which
he
expected
,
the
Hermite
gives
him
a
long
Schedule
of
all
the
Crimes
he
had
been
guilty
of
,
during
his
whole
Life
:
Yet
,
on
a
second
Importunity
,
his
request
was
granted
;
and
plenty
of
Materials
given
for
such
a
Treatise
.
St.
Remigius
and
St.
Hugh
,
[
a
](A52335-e77160-b)
a
Vid.
Angl.
Sac.
408
et
419.
Treatise
,
by
Gyraldus
Cambrensis
.
The
latter
having
himself
been
sometimes
Prior
of
a
Carthusian
Monastery
at
Witham
in
Somersetshire
,
had
his
Life
also
written
by
one
Adam
,
a
Monk
of
that
Order
;
which
is
suppos'd
to
be
done
about
the
Year
[
b
](A52335-e77220-b)
b
J.
Pits
,
p.
442.
1340.
St.
Richard
(
de
Witz
or
Wych
,
[
a
](A52335-e77310-b)
a
M.
Paris
,
Edit.
Wats
.
p.
982.
Vrban
,
in
the
Year
1259.
And
Ralph
Rocking
,
his
Confessor
,
wrote
[
b
](A52335-e77350-b)
b
Godw.
de
Praesul
.
p.
554.
et
Pits
,
p.
349.
two
Books
of
the
History
of
his
Life
and
Wonders
which
he
dedicated
to
Isabel
Countess
of
Arundel
.
St.
Robert's
[
c
](A52335-e77430-b)
c
Id.
p.
287.
Joceline
Bracland
;
a
Learn'd
Monk
of
St.
Edmundsbury
about
the
Year
1214.
St.
Thomas
Becket
Leland
,
Bale
and
[
d
](A52335-e77520-b)
d
pag.
214
,
239
,
249
,
250
,
257
,
271
,
286
,
304
,
316
,
501
,
797
,
835.
Pits
;
together
with
some
of
our
later
Authors
.
1.
Herbert
Bosenham
(
Boseham
[
e
](A52335-e77550-b)
e
Bibl.
Cott.
Néro
,
A.
5.
or
Bosseham
)
Secretary
to
this
Arch-bishop
;
who
was
also
present
at
the
Slaughter
of
him
.
Others
call
him
Herb.
de
Hoscham
;
and
,
by
that
Name
,
we
shall
shortly
meet
with
him
again
.
2.
Edward
a
Monk
of
[
a
](A52335-e77600-b)
a
Bibl.
Cott.
Vespasianus
,
E.
10.
Canterbury
;
the
Martyr's
most
intimate
Friend
.
3.
Joh.
[
b
](A52335-e77640-b)
b
Ibid.
Claudius
,
B.
2.
Salesburiensis
,
who
accompanied
Becket
in
his
Exile
;
but
never
countenanc'd
him
in
his
Misbehaviour
towards
his
Sovereign
;
being
as
sharp
a
Writer
against
the
Encroachments
of
the
Papal
See
,
as
any
Man
of
his
time
.
4.
Barthol
.
Iscanus
(
or
Exoniensis
)
Bishop
of
Exeter
;
where
he
dy'd
A.
D.
1184.
5.
E.
a
Monk
of
Evesham
,
who
dedicated
his
Book
(
or
wrote
by
way
of
Epistle
)
to
Henry
Abbot
of
Croyland
.
6.
Will
.
Stephens
(
or
Fitz-Stephen
)
a
Monk
of
Canterbury
;
and
,
for
that
reason
,
some
times
call'd
Guilielmus
Cantuariensis
.
He
is
said
to
have
written
three
several
Treatises
of
the
Life
Martyrdom
and
Miracles
,
of
this
precious
Saint
;
which
we
are
[
c
](A52335-e77780-b)
c
See
W.
Petyr's
praef.
to
his
Right
of
the
Commons
,
&c.
p.
64.
told
,
are
now
in
Cottons
Library
.
But
that
which
there
carrys
his
Name
seems
to
have
been
penn'd
by
Joh.
Carnotensis
,
who
is
the
same
Person
with
[
a
](A52335-e77840-b)
a
Vid
G●dw
.
de
Praesul
.
p.
459.
Salesburiensis
above
mention'd
;
since
in
the
Quadripartite
History
,
what
we
have
from
him
,
is
often
(
in
the
same
Words
)
in
that
Life
there
attributed
to
Fitz-Stephen
.
7.
Benedictus
Petroburgensis
,
Abbot
of
Peterborough
;
who
dy'd
in
the
Year
1200.
8.
Alanus
Teukesburiensis
,
Abbot
also
of
the
Monastery
,
from
whence
he
had
that
surname
,
who
liv'd
and
dy'd
about
the
same
time
.
9.
Roger
Monk
of
Croyland
;
who
liv'd
about
the
Year
1214.
'T
is
[
b
](A52335-e77930-b)
b
Fuller's
Worthies
.
p.
164.
in
Lincolnsh
.
observ'd
that
St.
Thomas's
Miracles
encreased
so
fast
in
his
time
,
that
,
as
late
as
he
was
started
,
he
had
matter
enough
for
Seven
full
Volumes
;
in
composing
whereof
,
he
spent
no
less
then
Fifteen
Years
.
10.
Stephen
Langton
,
a
famous
Successor
of
his
in
the
See
of
Canterbury
;
whose
Work
on
this
Subject
,
is
said
to
be
in
the
Library
of
Bennet
College
.
11.
Alexander
de
Hales
,
so
call'd
from
the
Monastery
of
Hales
in
Glocestershire
,
where
he
was
sometime
Educated
;
one
of
the
most
eminent
Schoolmen
of
his
Age
,
Master
to
Thomas
Aquinas
and
S.
Bonaventure
,
&c.
12.
John
Grandison
,
or
Graunston
,
Bishop
of
Exeter
,
who
dy'd
in
the
Year
1369.
13.
Quadrilogus
,
or
the
Author
of
the
Book
,
entitled
,
De
Vita
&
Processu
&
Thom●
Cantuariensis
&
Martyris
super
Libertate
Ecclesiastica
.
'T
is
[
a
](A52335-e78090-b)
a
See
Dr.
Brady's
Pref.
to
his
English
Hist.
collected
out
of
Four
Historians
,
who
were
Cotemporary
and
conversant
with
him
,
in
his
height
of
Glory
and
lowest
depression
;
Herbert
de
Hoscham
,
Joh.
Carnotensis
,
Will
.
of
Canterbury
,
and
Alan
of
Tukesbury
:
who
are
brought
in
,
as
so
many
several
Relators
of
Matters
of
Fact
,
interchangeably
.
This
Book
was
long
since
[
b
](A52335-e78160-b)
b
Paris
.
1495.
printed
in
an
Old
Character
and
senseless
Method
;
and
is
often
quoted
by
our
Historians
,
in
the
Reign
of
Henry
the
Second
,
by
the
Name
of
Quadripartita
Historia
.
14.
Thomas
Stapleton
,
the
Translator
of
Bede
;
in
whose
[
c
](A52335-e78200-b)
c
De
tribus
Thomis
.
Fol.
Duac
.
1588.
Pair-royal
of
Thomas's
,
this
Gentleman
makes
as
considerable
a
Figure
as
either
Thomas
the
Apostle
or
Thomas
Aquinas
.
15.
Laurence
Vade
,
or
Wade
,
a
Benedictine
Monk
of
Canterbury
,
who
liv'd
and
dy'd
we
know
not
when
or
where
;
unless
perhaps
he
be
the
same
Person
with
,
16.
An
Anonymous
Writer
of
the
same
Life
,
who
appears
to
have
been
a
Monk
of
that
Church
;
and
whose
Book
is
now
in
Manuscript
in
the
[
a
](A52335-e78260-b)
a
Angl.
Sacr.
vol.
2.
p.
523.
Vid.
&
Bibl.
Cott.
Vitellius
,
C.
12.
Vespasiamus
,
B.
14.
Library
at
Lambeth
.
17.
Rich.
James
(
Nephew
to
Dr.
Tho.
James
,
our
Bodleyan
Library-keeper
)
a
very
industrious
and
eminent
[
b
](A52335-e78320-b)
b
Athen.
Oxon.
p.
524
,
525.
See
also
AB
.
Vsher's
Letters
,
p.
303.
Antiquary
;
who
endeavour'd
to
overthrow
the
great
Design
of
the
foremention'd
Authors
,
in
his
Decanonizatio
Thomae
Cantuariensis
&
suorum
,
which
(
with
many
other
MSS.
of
his
Composure
)
is
in
the
Publick
Library
at
Oxford
.
CHAP.
IV.
Histories
of
the
Reformation
,
and
of
our
Church-Affairs
,
down
to
the
end
of
Queen
Elizabeth's
Reign
.
THE
first
Man
that
engaged
in
the
History
of
our
Reformation
was
Mr.
John
Fox
,
Acts
and
Monuments
were
first
written
in
Latin
,
for
the
Instruction
of
Foreigners
;
and
were
so
publish'd
,
during
his
own
Exile
in
the
Reign
of
Queen
Mary
.
They
afterwards
grew
into
two
large
English
Volumes
,
which
have
had
several
[
a
](A52335-e78490-b)
a
Lond.
1583
,
1596.
Impressions
;
and
have
(
at
last
)
been
publish'd
in
[
b
](A52335-e78500-b)
b
Ibid.
1684.
three
,
with
fair
Copper-Cuts
.
In
behalf
of
this
last
Edition
,
the
Publishers
had
well
nigh
prevail'd
with
King
Charles
the
Second
to
revive
Queen
Elizabeth's
Order
and
AB
.
Parker's
Canon
,
for
the
having
a
Set
of
these
Volumes
in
the
Common
Halls
of
every
Archbishop
,
Bishop
,
Dean
,
Archdeacon
,
&c.
But
that
Project
fail'd
,
and
came
to
nothing
:
And
indeed
it
would
have
look'd
a
little
odly
,
to
have
paid
such
a
respect
to
the
Works
of
an
Author
,
[
a
](A52335-e78550-b)
a
Hist.
&
Antiq.
Oxon.
lib.
2.
p.
195.
Qui
Matri
Ecclesiae
Anglicanae
non
per
omnia
Amicus
deprehenditur
,
ut
pote
qui
Puritanis
faveret
,
&
Ritibus
Ecclesiae
se
non
Conformem
praestiterit
.
The
Design
of
the
Author
is
to
discover
the
Corruptions
and
Cruelties
of
the
Romish
Clergy
;
together
with
the
Sufferings
and
Constancy
of
the
Reform'd
,
and
of
the
Maintainers
of
their
Doctrins
in
all
Ages
of
the
Church
:
which
he
has
done
so
throughly
,
that
't
is
no
wonder
to
find
those
of
the
Papal
Communion
very
much
gall'd
with
his
Writings
.
Hence
the
Jesuite
Parsons
[
b
](A52335-e78590-b)
b
De
tribus
Convers.
vol.
1.
took
such
Pains
to
represent
him
as
a
Corrupter
of
Antiquity
,
an
impertinent
Arguer
,
&c.
And
Nich.
Harpsfield
treated
him
as
coursely
;
in
those
[
c
](A52335-e78620-b)
c
4to
.
Antverp
.
1566.
six
Dialogues
of
his
,
which
were
printed
beyond
Seas
in
his
Friend
Alan
Cope's
Name
,
during
their
true
Author's
residing
in
England
.
It
must
be
confess'd
that
these
Volumes
(
being
large
and
penn'd
in
haste
)
have
some
Mistakes
in
them
that
are
not
to
be
dissembl'd
:
But
in
the
main
,
't
is
an
Honourable
Character
that
[
a
](A52335-e78660-b)
a
G.
Burnet
,
Praef.
ad
Hist.
Reform
.
vol.
1.
one
of
the
greatest
Historians
of
our
Age
gives
of
them
,
That
having
compared
these
Acts
and
Monuments
with
the
Records
,
he
had
never
been
able
to
discover
any
Errors
or
Prevarications
in
them
,
but
the
utmost
Fidelity
and
Exactness
.
Indeed
,
where
his
Stories
are
of
a
more
modern
Date
,
and
depend
on
common
Reports
,
or
such
Informations
as
were
sent
him
from
distant
parts
of
the
Kingdom
,
the
like
exactness
is
not
always
to
be
look'd
for
;
since
the
Author
's
hasty
Zeal
against
the
Papists
,
furnish'd
him
with
a
large
Stock
of
Faith
,
and
a
readiness
to
avouch
any
thing
that
might
effectually
blacken
them
and
their
Religion
.
One
[
b
](A52335-e78690-b)
b
Young
Lawyer
's
Recr
.
p.
161.
and
Roll's
Reports
.
p.
87.
unlucky
Tale
occasion'd
a
deal
of
Trouble
to
a
Clergy-man
;
who
very
innocently
reporting
from
him
that
one
Greenwood
had
by
Perjury
taken
off
a
Martyr
in
Queen
Mary's
Reign
,
and
came
afterwards
to
a
shameful
End
;
the
said
Greenwood
was
(
it
seems
)
present
at
the
Sermon
,
and
brought
an
Action
of
Scandal
against
the
Preacher
.
However
the
Judge
clear'd
him
at
the
Trial
;
as
only
harmlesly
quoting
an
Author
,
without
any
malicious
intent
,
of
slandering
his
Neighbour
.
Such
Slips
as
these
were
pretty
numerous
in
some
of
the
first
Editions
:
But
as
many
of
them
as
came
to
the
Author's
knowledge
were
rectified
by
himself
;
and
others
have
been
corrected
since
his
Death
.
Several
Papists
were
provok'd
to
write
Counterparts
to
these
Volumes
;
Maurice
Chancey
(
by
some
call'd
Chamney
,
and
by
others
Chawney
)
a
famous
Carthusian
Friar
in
the
Monastery
of
that
Order
near
London
;
who
fled
upon
starting
the
Question
of
the
King's
Supremacy
,
and
dy'd
in
a
voluntary
Exile
A.
D.
1581.
He
wrote
a
large
Account
of
the
Sufferings
of
Sir
Thomas
Moor
,
Bishop
Fisher
,
and
others
;
as
also
of
Eighteen
Monks
of
his
own
Order
.
This
Work
bears
the
Title
of
[
a
](A52335-e78860-b)
a
4to
.
Mogunt
.
1550.
&
.
Colon.
1607.
Historia
aliquot
nostri
saeculi
Martyrum
;
and
is
falsly
subdivided
into
three
several
Books
by
John
Pits
.
2.
John
Fenn
,
sometime
a
Civilian
of
New
College
in
Oxford
,
and
afterwards
a
Member
of
the
University
of
Lovain
;
who
clubb'd
with
one
John
Gibbon
,
a
Jesuite
,
for
such
another
Martyrology
:
which
they
publish'd
under
the
Title
of
[
b
](A52335-e78930-b)
b
8vo
.
Trev.
1583.
Concertatio
Ecclesiae
Catholicae
in
Anglia
adversus
Calvino-Papistas
&
Puritanos
.
This
Book
was
afterwards
enlarg'd
by
John
Bridgwater
(
or
Aquaepontanus
,
as
he
stiles
himself
)
another
Jesuite
;
who
,
having
corrected
many
faulty
Particulars
,
and
added
about
a
hundred
new
Martyrs
,
dedicated
his
[
c
](A52335-e78980-b)
c
4to
.
Trev.
1594.
Edition
to
the
AB
.
of
Triers
.
3.
Thomas
Worthington
,
Doctor
in
Divinity
,
and
sometime
President
of
the
English
College
at
Doway
;
who
dy'd
in
England
,
A.
D.
1626.
His
Book
or
Pamphlet
(
for
it
consists
only
of
Four
Sheets
)
bears
the
Name
of
[
a
](A52335-e79040-b)
a
8vo
.
Duac
.
1612
,
1614.
Catalogus
Martyrum
pro
Religione
Catholica
in
Anglia
occisorum
ab
Anno
1570.
ad
Ann.
1612.
and
is
mostly
taken
out
of
the
Book
last
mention'd
.
'T
is
chiefly
valuable
upon
the
Account
of
a
Preliminary
Discourse
;
wherein
the
Author
gives
the
History
of
our
English
Seminaries
beyond
Seas
,
and
the
Success
that
has
attended
several
Missions
out
of
them
.
4.
John
Musheus
,
sent
from
Doway
into
England
;
where
he
liv'd
A.
D.
1612.
somewhere
in
his
Native
County
of
York
.
He
is
[
b
](A52335-e79130-b)
b
J.
Pits
,
p.
810.
said
to
have
drawn
a
Register
of
the
Sufferings
of
all
the
Roman-Catholicks
in
the
Northern
parts
of
this
Kingdom
.
Nicolas
Sanders
deserves
a
peculiar
Respect
,
[
c
](A52335-e79190-b)
c
Pag.
775.
Pits
)
is
this
:
He
was
born
in
Surrey
,
Educated
at
Winchester
and
New
College
in
Oxford
;
where
he
was
sometime
Regius
Professor
of
the
Canon-Law
.
He
afterwards
fled
to
Rome
:
whence
he
attended
Cardinal
Hosius
to
the
Council
of
Trent
,
as
also
into
Poland
,
Russia
,
&c.
At
last
Pope
Gregory
the
13th
sent
him
,
as
his
Nuncio
,
into
Ireland
;
where
he
dy'd
about
the
Year
1580.
He
was
an
indefatigable
Writer
,
as
well
as
Warrior
,
for
the
Roman
Cause
;
and
stuck
at
nothing
that
he
thought
might
advance
it
.
Amongst
his
many
Treatises
,
those
that
fall
under
our
present
Consideration
,
are
[
a
](A52335-e79320-b)
a
8vo
.
Colon.
1610.
De
Martyrio
quorundam
temp.
Hen.
8.
&
Elizab.
running
in
the
same
Strain
with
those
of
the
like
Title
already
mention'd
.
[
b
](A52335-e79350-b)
b
8vo
.
Colon.
1585.
Rom.
1586.
&c.
2.
De
Origine
&
Progressu
Schismatis
Anglicani
,
with
such
Enlargements
as
were
made
to
it
by
Edward
Rishton
,
another
Popish
Emissary
,
[
c
](A52335-e79400-b)
c
Camd.
Annal.
R.
Eliz.
ad
An.
1584.
Qui
impie
ingratus
in
Principem
cui
vitam
debuit
,
publicatis
scriptis
malitiae
Virus
illieo
evomuit
.
This
Libellous
Invective
was
mainly
design'd
for
a
Calumny
upon
Queen
Elizabeth
,
in
her
Birth
and
Parentage
.
It
was
not
in
her
Reign
allow'd
to
be
answer'd
:
because
such
an
impudent
Slander
(
't
was
thought
)
would
soonest
fall
to
nothing
,
if
slighted
and
despised
.
But
this
allowance
,
of
its
walking
abroad
without
controul
,
has
embolden'd
some
in
our
Days
to
magnifie
its
Authority
;
and
to
quote
it
as
a
Story
of
great
Truth
and
Gravity
.
Hence
it
has
had
the
Honour
to
be
translated
,
by
a
Polite
Pen
,
into
[
a
](A52335-e79430-b)
a
8vo
.
Par.
1673
,
1674.
French
:
A
respect
which
had
formerly
been
pay'd
it
in
Italian
by
[
b
](A52335-e79470-b)
b
L'
Hist.
Eccles.
della
Rivoluzion
d'
Inghil
terra
.
8vo
.
Rom.
1594.
Pollini
,
who
(
tho'
he
pretended
to
write
a
History
of
his
own
,
yet
)
in
reality
was
no
more
than
a
Translator
of
Sanders
.
But
sufficient
care
has
been
taken
by
our
Learn'd
Bishop
[
c
](A52335-e79510-b)
c
In
fi●e
utriusque
Tomi
Hist.
Reform
.
Burnet
,
to
guard
the
English
Protestant
Reader
against
any
Mistake
that
this
bold
Romancer
might
lead
him
into
;
by
publishing
a
Catalogue
and
Refutation
of
his
Calumnies
and
Lies
.
His
Stile
is
generally
clean
and
pretty
;
and
his
way
of
telling
his
Tales
is
facetious
enough
and
pleasant
:
So
that
the
Book
may
pass
,
with
Argenis
and
Euphormio
,
for
good
Diversion
;
but
ought
not
to
be
rely'd
on
for
sound
History
.
Great
were
the
Clamours
of
many
other
Romanists
upon
this
Kingdom
's
breaking
the
Papal
Tyranny
,
Roger
Twisden
,
in
his
most
elaborate
[
a
](A52335-e79610-b)
a
4to
.
Lond.
1675.
Historical
Vindication
of
the
Church
of
England
in
point
of
Schism
;
as
it
stands
separated
from
the
Roman
,
and
was
reform'd
1
Eliz.
Wherein
he
shews
,
1.
How
the
Papal
Usurpations
grew
upon
us
;
and
what
immense
Sums
they
extorted
from
the
English
Clergy
.
2.
That
our
Kings
were
always
believ'd
to
be
invested
with
a
Plenary
Power
in
sacris
;
as
much
as
is
at
this
Day
acknowledg'd
by
our
Laws
.
3.
That
the
Procedure
of
our
Princes
,
in
this
Separation
from
the
Roman
See
,
was
agreeable
to
that
Power
;
and
consistent
with
the
legal
and
primitive
Constitution
of
our
Government
.
These
Particulars
he
proves
at
large
,
by
the
irrefragable
Authorities
of
a
vast
number
of
our
old
Histories
and
Records
;
wherein
no
Man
was
ever
better
vers'd
than
this
truly
Learned
and
Religious
Baronet
.
Tho'
Sir
Henry
Spelman
[
a
](A52335-e79710-b)
a
In
Praefat.
ad
Tom.
1.
p.
2.
speaks
of
a
third
Tome
of
his
Councils
(
which
should
give
us
a
Collection
of
all
the
Acts
and
Constitutions
of
our
Reform'd
English
Church
)
as
of
a
Work
already
finish'd
,
[
b
](A52335-e79760-b)
b
Vid.
Car.
Spelm.
Praef.
ad
Tom.
2.
he
says
,
not
only
Corrected
the
Press
,
but
brought
in
a
deal
of
Materials
,
yet
)
he
says
nothing
of
any
such
Provision
like
to
be
made
for
the
sending
abroad
his
Grandfathers
third
Tome
.
The
Truth
is
,
the
Gentleman
takes
no
notice
of
his
chief
Benefactor
in
that
Matter
;
who
was
(
as
has
been
already
observ'd
)
Sir
Will
.
Dugdale
;
and
who
seems
to
have
had
a
Resolution
to
have
compleated
the
whole
Work
.
Amongst
his
MSS.
at
Oxford
,
there
's
one
Volume
of
his
own
Collections
,
which
he
has
Entitled
,
[
a
](A52335-e79800-b)
a
Inter
MSS.
Dugd.
in
Musaeo
Ashmol
.
lit
.
Y.
Papers
to
be
made
use
of
for
a
Third
Volume
of
the
Councils
;
or
History
of
the
Reformation
:
And
there
's
no
doubt
but
they
will
be
found
to
contain
most
of
what
was
any
where
to
be
had
on
that
Subject
.
Thomas
Fuller's
[
b
](A52335-e79840-b)
b
Fol
Lond.
1655.
Church-History
must
have
the
next
Place
:
for
,
Peter
Heylin
,
in
his
[
a
](A52335-e79910-b)
a
8vo
.
Lond.
1658.
Examen
Historicum
:
to
which
was
added
Dr.
Cosin's
Apology
in
Answer
to
some
Passages
in
that
History
,
which
concern'd
himself
.
We
have
formerly
observ'd
that
his
Worthies
were
sent
abroad
to
Apologize
for
the
mistakes
in
his
Church-History
;
and
we
have
here
an
ample
instance
of
the
Truth
of
that
Remark
.
Upon
the
King's
Restauration
,
Dr.
Cosin
was
deservedly
advanc'd
to
the
See
of
Durham
;
and
't
was
then
high
time
to
harp
upon
another
string
,
and
to
turn
his
Eloquence
another
way
.
The
late
wavering
Doctor
,
is
now
the
very
[
a
](A52335-e79980-b)
a
Fuller's
Worthies
,
p.
295.
in
Durham
.
Atlas
of
the
Protestant
Religion
;
confirming
the
same
with
his
Piety
and
Learning
,
&c.
But
to
what
purpose
should
we
insist
upon
Particulars
?
Through
the
whole
he
is
so
full
of
his
own
Wit
that
he
does
not
seem
to
have
minded
what
he
was
about
.
The
Gravity
of
an
Historian
(
much
more
an
Ecclesiastical
one
)
requires
a
far
greater
care
,
both
of
the
Matter
and
Style
of
His
Work
,
than
is
here
to
be
met
with
.
If
a
pretty
Story
comes
in
his
way
,
that
affords
scope
for
Clinch
and
Droll
,
off
it
goes
with
all
the
gayety
of
the
Stage
;
without
staying
to
enquire
whether
it
have
any
Foundation
in
Truth
,
or
not
;
and
even
the
most
serious
and
most
authentic
Parts
of
it
are
so
interlac'd
with
Punn
and
Quibble
,
that
it
looks
as
if
the
Man
had
design'd
to
ridicule
the
Annals
of
our
Church
into
Fable
and
Romance
.
Yet
,
if
it
were
possible
to
refine
it
well
,
the
Work
would
be
of
good
use
:
since
there
are
in
it
some
things
of
Moment
,
hardly
to
be
had
elsewhere
;
which
may
often
illustrate
dark
Passages
in
more
serious
Writers
.
These
are
not
to
be
despised
,
where
his
Authorities
are
cited
and
appear
Credible
:
But
,
otherwise
(
in
matters
wherein
he
's
singular
,
and
without
his
Vouchers
)
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
.
The
first
that
attempted
a
formal
History
of
our
Reformation
was
Dr.
Peter
Heylyn
;
[
a
](A52335-e80070-b)
a
Fol.
Lond.
1661.
Restaurata
;
wherein
he
pretends
to
give
a
punctual
account
of
the
rise
and
progress
of
that
great
Work
.
But
the
first
Agitations
in
Religion
(
as
he
calls
them
)
are
very
slenderly
touch'd
;
his
Story
beginning
at
the
Year
1537.
What
he
chiefly
design'd
by
it
,
I
cannot
well
apprehend
;
unless
't
was
to
shew
K.
Charles
the
Second
the
Errors
and
Mistakes
of
our
first
Reformers
,
and
to
direct
him
how
to
settle
the
Church
on
a
better
Foundation
:
For
he
falls
foul
on
all
the
Princes
of
those
Times
,
without
any
regard
to
their
good
or
ill
Wishes
to
the
Protestant
Interest
.
He
represents
K.
Edward
the
Sixth
as
one
of
ill
Principles
,
and
Soft
;
and
Censures
his
Mother's
Relations
with
a
more
than
ordinary
Freedom
.
He
intimates
as
if
the
Zwinglian
Gospellers
would
have
carri'd
all
before
them
,
had
that
Prince
Liv'd
;
and
observes
they
were
far
too
rife
in
the
beginning
of
Queen
Elizabeth's
Reformation
,
when
many
were
rais'd
to
great
Preferments
,
who
were
too
much
inclin'd
to
the
Platform
of
Geneva
.
On
the
other
hand
;
Queen
Mary's
Bloodiness
is
no
where
set
off
in
so
lively
a
Paint
as
where
he
tells
us
,
[
a
](A52335-e80160-b)
a
Pag.
139.
She
admitted
of
a
Consultation
for
burning
the
Body
of
her
Father
,
and
cutting
off
the
Head
of
her
Sister
.
'T
is
a
good
Rule
which
a
modern
[
b
](A52335-e80180-b)
b
Le
Moyne
.
Dissert.
4.
cap.
3.
Critick
gives
his
Historian
,
That
he
should
have
a
Regard
to
his
own
Birth
;
and
not
forget
the
Respect
due
to
the
Memory
of
those
Princes
that
have
Govern'd
his
native
Country
.
As
this
should
restrain
a
Man
from
exposing
the
Failures
of
such
Governours
in
their
own
Persons
;
so
it
ought
to
caution
him
against
making
too
free
with
the
Frailties
of
their
Kindred
and
Councellors
.
He
concludes
with
the
Act
of
Establishing
the
Government
of
the
Church
by
Archbishops
and
Bishops
,
in
the
Eighth
Year
of
Queen
Elizabeth
;
whose
famous
Court
of
High
Commission
,
he
calls
the
Principal
Bulwark
and
Preservative
of
the
Church
of
England
.
If
the
Reader
desires
any
further
Character
of
this
Writer
and
his
History
,
't
is
given
him
by
one
[
a
](A52335-e80220-b)
a
G.
Burnet
,
Praef.
ad
Hist.
Reform
.
Tom.
1.
who
should
be
best
acquainted
with
it
:
He
wrote
(
says
he
)
Smoothly
and
Handsomly
;
His
Method
and
Style
are
good
;
and
his
Work
was
generally
more
read
,
than
any
thing
that
had
appear'd
before
him
.
But
either
he
was
very
ill
inform'd
,
or
very
much
led
by
his
Passions
;
and
,
being
wrought
on
by
some
Violent
Prejudices
against
some
that
were
concern'd
in
that
Time
,
he
delivers
many
things
in
such
a
manner
,
and
so
strangely
,
that
one
would
think
he
had
been
secretly
set
on
to
it
,
by
those
of
the
Church
of
Rome
.
Tho'
I
doubt
not
but
he
was
a
sincere
Protestant
;
but
violently
carri'd
away
by
some
particular
Conceits
.
In
one
thing
,
he
is
not
to
be
excused
,
That
he
never
vouch'd
any
Authority
for
what
he
wrote
:
which
is
not
to
be
forgiven
any
who
write
of
Transactions
beyond
their
own
Time
,
and
deliver
new
things
not
known
before
.
[
The
most
of
his
Materials
(
I
guess
)
were
had
from
the
Transcript
which
AB
.
Laud
caus'd
to
be
made
of
all
that
related
to
the
Story
of
the
Reformation
,
out
of
those
eight
large
Volumes
of
Collections
that
are
still
in
the
[
a
](A52335-e80280-b)
a
Cleopatra
,
E.
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
,
6.
F.
1
,
2.
Vid.
etiam
Hist.
&
Synops.
Bibl.
Cott.
p.
43.
Cottonian
Library
.
]
So
that
upon
what
Grounds
he
wrote
a
great
deal
of
his
Book
we
can
only
conjecture
;
and
many
,
in
their
Guesses
,
are
not
apt
to
be
very
favourable
to
him
.
I
know
endeavours
have
been
used
to
blunt
the
Edge
of
this
Censure
;
by
one
[
b
](A52335-e80320-b)
b
G.
Vernon
,
in
vita
D.
P.
H●yli●
,
8vo
.
Lond.
1682.
who
has
done
all
,
that
a
true
Friend
could
do
,
to
place
the
Doctor
and
his
Writings
in
a
better
Light
.
But
what
would
that
kind
Gentleman
have
said
to
a
sharper
Sentence
pass'd
by
[
c
](A52335-e80350-b)
c
B.
Bar.
Re.
p.
18●
.
another
Learn'd
Prelate
on
this
Book
?
How
would
he
have
resented
the
telling
the
World
that
Dr.
Heylin's
representing
our
first
Reformers
as
Fanaticks
,
was
an
Angry
and
Scandalous
injury
to
Truth
and
our
Church
?
This
,
I
confess
,
is
very
hard
Language
;
but
,
perhaps
,
it
may
more
easily
be
digested
than
refused
.
The
Defects
of
the
foremention'd
Author
were
abundantly
supply'd
in
the
more
compleat
History
of
our
Reformation
by
[
a
](A52335-e80420-b)
a
Fol.
2.
vol.
Lond.
1681.
Dr.
Burnet
,
[
a
](A52335-e80540-b)
a
Ant.
Harmer
,
in
Praefat.
Reputation
firmly
and
deservedly
establish'd
.
Indeed
,
some
of
the
French
Writers
have
cavill'd
at
it
:
But
the
most
eminent
of
them
(
Mr.
Varillas
and
Mr.
Le
Grand
)
have
receiv'd
due
correction
from
the
Author
himself
[
b
](A52335-e80600-b)
b
Reflections
on
Varill
.
12ᵒ.
Amstel
,
1686.
Defence
of
those
Reflections
.
Ibid.
1687.
Continuation
of
Reflect
.
Ib.
1687.
Answer
to
Joach.
Le
Grand's
Defence
of
Sanders
,
&c.
4to
.
Ibid.
1688.
.
It
was
no
wonder
to
see
some
Members
of
the
Roman
Communion
,
laying
out
their
best
endeavours
to
raise
themselves
a
Name
by
so
glorious
a
Service
to
their
Church
,
as
the
disparagement
of
this
Writer
(
and
the
disgracing
his
History
)
might
justly
have
been
reckon'd
:
But
't
was
a
little
unaccountable
that
the
same
Rancour
should
possess
Men
within
the
Pale
of
our
Reform'd
English
Church
;
and
such
as
desired
to
be
looked
upon
as
Zealous
maintainers
of
Her
Honour
,
and
the
Justice
and
Honesty
of
her
Reformation
.
The
first
of
these
was
[
a
](A52335-e80680-b)
a
Of
the
Subject
of
Church
power
,
8vo
.
Lond.
1685.
S.
Lowth
;
who
pretended
only
to
batter
the
Erastian
Tenets
in
Mr.
Hobbes's
Leviathan
:
But
took
occasion
,
in
the
conclusion
of
his
Book
,
to
Censure
the
Account
Dr.
Burnet
had
given
of
some
of
Arch-bishop
Cranmer's
singular
Opinions
.
This
Gentleman
had
the
confidence
to
assert
,
That
both
our
Historian
and
Dr.
Stillingfleet
had
impos'd
upon
the
World
in
that
Particular
;
and
had
unfaithfully
joyn'd
together
in
their
endeavours
to
lessen
Episcopal
Ordination
.
I
am
not
now
concern'd
with
his
Charge
against
Dr.
Stillingfleet
;
who
did
him
the
Honour
,
which
he
ought
not
to
have
hoped
for
,
to
expose
his
Folly
in
a
short
Letter
to
the
Bishop
of
London
.
His
Quarrel
with
Doctor
Burnet
,
is
wholly
about
Method
and
the
[
a
](A52335-e80810-b)
a
See
Dr.
Burnet's
Letters
in
Answer
to
Mr.
Lowth
,
4to
.
Lond.
1685.
Art
of
Composure
;
wherein
,
most
certainly
,
these
two
Authors
have
extreamly
differ'd
.
And
yet
,
notwithstanding
the
awkardness
of
Mr.
Lowth's
Stile
,
't
is
thought
the
Man
himself
was
not
Master
of
so
much
Venome
and
Ill-Nature
,
as
appears
in
his
Book
:
But
that
he
had
a
great
share
of
his
spiteful
Language
put
into
his
Mouth
by
a
warm
Neighbour
;
who
is
now
dead
,
and
ought
to
be
forgotten
.
The
next
Assailant
was
a
peevish
Gentleman
in
Masquerade
;
who
,
under
the
feign'd
Name
of
Anthony
Harmer
,
publish'd
a
[
b
](A52335-e80860-b)
b
8vo
.
Lond.
1693.
Specimen
of
some
Errors
and
Defects
in
the
History
of
the
Reformation
,
&c.
As
if
what
he
there
gives
were
only
a
Sample
of
what
he
had
in
store
for
us
:
when
it
appears
that
he
has
stoop'd
to
such
mean
and
pitiful
Remarks
,
as
sufficiently
shew
that
he
had
pump'd
himself
to
the
bottom
,
and
that
his
Malice
was
upon
the
Lees.
'T
is
a
great
Indignity
which
some
have
put
upon
the
Memory
of
a
late
most
Reverend
,
Learn'd
and
Pious
,
Prelate
;
in
reporting
him
to
have
been
the
Author
of
that
malicious
Libel
:
For
,
whatever
other
unhappy
Mistakes
he
might
be
guilty
of
,
he
could
never
fall
so
low
as
to
write
at
such
an
unmanly
and
uncharitable
Rate
.
The
Historian
vouchsaf'd
this
Book
a
short
Answer
,
in
a
[
a
](A52335-e80890-b)
a
4to
.
Lond.
1694.
Letter
to
the
Bishop
of
Litchfield
;
to
which
the
Animadverter
made
no
Reply
.
To
those
that
are
still
inclin'd
to
favour
the
Specimen
,
I
shall
only
say
that
the
whole
150
Particulars
,
therein
summ'd
up
,
will
fall
under
these
six
Heads
;
as
being
either
,
1.
Such
aery
and
superficial
Matters
as
we
usually
call
Impertinencies
.
2.
Some
inconsiderable
Mistakes
of
the
Printer's
or
Copiers
.
3.
Others
that
have
a
little
Weight
;
but
might
have
been
corrected
without
Noise
;
and
do
not
affect
the
Reformation
.
4.
Some
few
(
a
very
few
)
that
do
touch
upon
its
Justice
and
Honour
:
In
most
of
which
't
is
easie
to
discern
the
Affection
which
the
Animadverter
pretends
to
bear
it
,
if
Apologies
for
the
old
Monks
and
N.
Sanders
be
any
Argument
of
such
Affection
.
5.
Others
wherein
he
himself
is
mistaken
.
6.
Several
Objections
are
raised
purely
for
the
sake
of
Calumny
and
Reflection
.
These
are
the
Thoughts
I
had
of
this
Piece
,
upon
my
first
perusal
of
it
;
and
I
am
throughly
confirm'd
in
them
from
the
successful
Pains
that
has
been
since
taken
with
it
by
my
modest
and
industrious
Friend
.
Something
of
a
fresh
Attaque
was
afterwards
made
by
[
a
](A52335-e80940-b)
a
Discourses
on
Dr.
Burnet
and
Dr.
Tillotson
,
&c.
4to
.
Lond.
1695.
one
,
who
had
set
himself
to
discredit
,
whatever
had
been
publish'd
by
this
Historian
:
And
yet
all
that
even
such
a
Writer
could
find
chargeable
on
his
History
of
the
Reformation
,
was
only
,
that
[
b
](A52335-e80980-b)
b
See
the
Bishop
of
Sarum's
Vindication
,
8vo
.
Lond.
1696.
p.
83
,
87.
In
a
Matter
of
no
great
Consequence
there
was
too
little
Care
had
in
Copying
or
Examining
a
Letter
writ
in
a
very
bad
Hand
;
and
that
there
was
since
probability
that
Dr.
Burnet
was
mistaken
in
one
of
his
Conjectures
.
I
think
I
may
justly
observe
thus
much
of
all
those
that
have
hitherto
endeavour'd
to
lessen
the
Repute
of
this
History
;
That
they
have
apparently
shewn
their
Inclinations
rather
to
bespatter
the
Author
than
his
Work
:
And
,
whatever
Success
such
Persons
may
meet
with
in
their
Attempts
,
they
have
commonly
the
Misfortune
to
discover
themselves
to
be
(
at
least
)
Men
of
like
Passions
with
their
Adversary
.
The
Reverend
Author
of
these
Volumes
publish'd
also
an
[
a
](A52335-e81050-b)
a
8vo
.
Lond.
1682.
Abridgment
of
them
;
I
have
wholly
wav'd
every
thing
that
belong'd
to
the
Records
,
and
the
proof
of
what
I
relate
;
or
to
the
Confutation
of
the
Falshoods
that
run
through
the
Popish
Historians
.
All
that
is
to
be
found
in
the
History
at
large
.
And
therefore
in
this
Abridgment
,
every
thing
is
to
be
taken
upon
Trust
;
and
those
that
desire
a
fuller
Satisfaction
,
are
to
seek
it
in
the
Volumes
I
have
already
published
.
The
Memorials
of
Archbishop
Cranmer
,
which
were
lately
publish'd
by
[
b
](A52335-e81120-b)
b
Fol.
Lond.
1693.
Mr.
Strype
,
CHAP.
V.
Histories
of
our
Bishops
in
general
,
and
those
of
their
several
Sees
.
THAT
Joceline
de
Fourness
(
an
Historian
quoted
by
Stow
and
Fitzherbert
)
wrote
several
Books
concerning
the
ancient
British
Bishops
,
John
[
a
](A52335-e81300-b)
a
Pag.
884.
Pits
is
very
certain
:
But
,
whether
he
was
an
English-man
,
or
(
as
he
rather
fancies
)
a
Welch-man
,
he
dares
not
be
positive
.
One
Book
,
indeed
,
of
that
kind
,
was
written
by
Joceline
a
Monk
of
Fourness
in
Lancashire
;
and
is
still
[
b
](A52335-e81370-b)
b
Vid.
Vsser
.
Antiq.
Eccles.
p.
36.
extant
:
But
(
as
the
Author
himself
could
not
be
of
any
great
Age
,
so
)
his
Collections
seem
to
have
been
made
out
of
Histories
that
were
penn'd
since
the
Conquest
.
Of
somewhat
less
Account
(
I
fear
)
is
that
of
the
Saxon
Prelates
,
whereof
Ethelwold
,
Bishop
of
Winchester
,
is
said
to
be
the
Author
;
whereof
a
MS.
Copy
is
likewise
[
a
](A52335-e81420-b)
a
J.
Pits
,
p.
178.
reported
to
be
in
the
publick
Library
at
Cambridge
.
After
the
Conquest
,
[
b
](A52335-e81490-b)
b
De
Gest.
Pontif.
lib.
2.
p.
246.
Will
.
of
Malmesbury
;
who
himself
more
largely
commented
upon
them
in
Prose
.
His
four
first
Books
were
publish'd
by
[
c
](A52335-e81520-b)
c
Fol.
Lond.
1596.
Sir
Henry
Savil
,
from
a
very
faulty
Manuscript
;
and
his
Edition
was
Copy'd
more
faultily
in
that
of
[
d
](A52335-e81540-b)
d
Fol.
1601.
Francfurt
.
In
these
we
have
all
that
could
be
had
out
of
the
many
old
Catalogues
which
swarm'd
in
our
English
Monasteries
;
together
with
what
the
Author
was
able
to
inform
us
of
his
own
Knowledge
,
touching
his
Cotemporaries
.
Henry
of
Huntingdon's
[
e
](A52335-e81590-b)
e
Angl.
Sac.
vol.
2.
p.
694.
Letter
,
to
his
Friend
Walter
,
describes
the
Prelates
of
his
own
Time
,
which
immediately
succeeded
to
Malmesbury's
;
and
't
is
done
with
all
the
heartiness
that
becomes
a
familiar
Epistle
,
and
a
Freedom
inclining
to
Satyr
.
Ralph
de
Diceto
follow'd
these
with
a
Catalogue
of
his
own
drawing
,
from
the
coming
in
of
Augustine
the
Monk
,
to
the
beginning
of
King
John's
Reign
:
But
there
's
little
in
it
worth
the
publishing
.
Joh.
Eversden
,
a
Monk
of
Bury
(
who
dy'd
,
says
[
a
](A52335-e81670-b)
a
Pag.
435.
Pits
,
about
the
Year
1636.
)
is
said
to
have
written
de
Episcopis
Anglìae
,
as
well
as
de
Regibus
:
But
Mr.
Wharton
could
never
meet
with
any
such
Treatise
.
He
found
,
he
says
,
some
of
Mr.
Joceline's
Collections
out
of
Eversden's
Chronicle
:
So
that
perhaps
he
's
the
same
Man
with
that
Johannes
Buriensis
,
whom
we
have
mention'd
in
the
[
b
](A52335-e81750-b)
b
Pag.
172.
First
Part.
We
are
also
told
of
a
like
Book
by
one
Nicolas
Montacute
,
or
[
c
](A52335-e81770-b)
c
J.
Pits
,
p
656
,
657.
Manacutius
;
who
is
believed
to
have
been
sometime
Master
of
Eaton
School
,
because
(
forsooth
)
most
of
his
Works
were
in
the
Library
of
that
College
.
What
good
Things
were
heretofore
in
that
Library
,
I
know
not
:
But
,
upon
a
[
d
](A52335-e81810-b)
d
Praefat.
ad
Angl.
Sac.
vol.
1.
p.
14.
late
Search
,
nothing
could
be
found
that
bore
this
Author's
Name
;
save
only
a
pitiful
Treatise
(
at
Lambeth
)
de
Pontificibus
Romanis
,
not
worth
the
reading
.
I
fancy
somebody's
quoting
this
under
the
Title
de
Pontificibus
(
simply
)
has
given
occasion
to
Bale
and
Pits
,
who
collected
and
wrote
in
haste
,
to
Naturalize
all
his
Bishops
.
Polydore
Virgil's
Book
,
or
[
a
](A52335-e81870-b)
a
Id.
Ibid.
Scrowl
,
of
our
English
Prelates
,
is
boasted
of
in
our
Seminaries
beyond
Seas
:
And
(
his
great
Antagonist
)
John
Leland
assures
us
,
he
had
taken
mighty
care
to
collect
their
Remains
,
[
b
](A52335-e81900-b)
b
Comment.
in
Cyg
.
Cant.
voc.
Antoninus
Beccus
.
Et
majori
[
cura
]
propediem
in
ordinem
redigam
.
He
had
many
other
grand
Projects
in
his
Head
,
which
came
to
nothing
.
John
Pits
likewise
very
gravely
refers
his
Readers
(
in
many
parts
of
his
Book
de
Illustribus
Angliae
Scriptoribus
)
to
another
of
his
own
composure
de
Episcopis
:
which
we
are
[
c
](A52335-e81960-b)
c
Hist.
&
Antiq.
Oxon.
lib.
2.
p.
142.
credibly
inform'd
,
is
only
a
poor
and
silly
Abstract
of
the
first
(
and
worst
)
Edition
of
that
which
falls
next
under
our
Thoughts
,
and
deserves
to
be
separately
consider'd
.
Francis
Godwine
[
a
](A52335-e82030-b)
a
Ath.
Oxon.
vol.
1.
p.
497.
for
the
good
Services
that
(
as
Queen
Elizabeth
thought
)
he
had
done
the
Church
by
that
Book
.
It
was
twice
published
in
[
b
](A52335-e82050-b)
b
4to
.
Lond.
1601
,
1615.
English
;
equally
full
of
the
Authors
and
Printer's
Mistakes
.
The
Faults
of
the
latter
Edition
(
especially
)
were
so
very
gross
,
that
they
put
him
upon
the
speedy
dispatch
of
another
in
Latine
;
[
c
](A52335-e82090-b)
c
Comment.
de
Praesul
.
4to
.
Lond.
1616.
which
came
out
the
next
Year
.
The
Style
of
this
is
very
neat
and
clean
;
and
he
seems
to
have
taken
more
Pains
in
polishing
it
,
than
in
gathering
together
all
the
Materials
of
his
History
.
He
quotes
no
Authorities
;
excepting
(
belike
)
that
Posterity
should
acquiesce
in
his
singly
,
without
enquiring
any
further
.
He
is
particularly
ungrateful
to
the
Author
of
the
Antiquitates
Britannicae
;
from
whom
he
has
borrow'd
(
by
the
Great
)
his
Account
of
the
See
of
Canterbury
;
varying
only
the
Phrase
,
and
that
sometimes
for
the
worse
.
The
like
Carriage
he
is
guilty
of
towards
Bale
,
Camden
,
and
others
:
But
what
is
most
especially
notorious
,
is
his
transcribing
out
of
Josseline
and
Mason
,
what
he
pretends
to
have
had
immediately
from
the
Archives
and
Registraries
,
from
the
Year
1559
,
to
his
own
Time
.
He
is
also
frequently
guilty
of
Chronological
Mistakes
;
a
too
confident
Reliance
on
the
Authorities
of
counterfeit
Charters
in
Ingulfus
and
others
;
an
uncertain
Calculation
of
Years
,
beginning
some
at
Michaelmas
,
and
others
at
Christmas
,
&c.
as
his
Authors
blindly
led
him
:
and
lastly
,
a
contenting
himself
with
false
and
imperfect
Catalogues
of
the
Prelates
in
almost
every
Diocess
.
These
are
the
Failures
where
with
he
stands
charg'd
by
[
a
](A52335-e82190-b)
a
Praefat.
ad
Angl.
Sac.
vol.
1.
p.
17.
Mr.
Wharton
;
who
modestly
assures
us
that
a
better
Progress
had
been
made
in
these
Matters
by
himself
,
within
the
compass
of
Eighteen
Months
,
than
by
this
Bishop
in
Twenty
Years
.
Our
Oxford
,
[
b
](A52335-e82220-b)
b
4th
.
Oxon.
vol.
1.
p.
496.
Antiquary
further
complains
,
that
he
Puritanically
vilified
Popish
Bishops
;
with
a
Design
thereby
to
advance
the
Credit
of
those
since
the
Reformation
:
whereby
he
had
given
unlucky
Advantages
to
William
Prynne
(
the
profess'd
Enemy
of
Episcopacy
)
who
made
ill
use
of
his
Book
.
I
will
not
say
that
either
of
these
Censurers
are
mistaken
:
but
I
must
observe
to
the
Reader
,
that
each
of
them
intended
to
have
furnish'd
us
with
a
View
of
this
part
of
our
Ecclesiastical
History
,
of
his
own
drawing
;
and
therefore
,
like
all
new
Builders
,
they
must
be
allow'd
to
spy
more
Faults
in
the
old
Fabrick
,
than
others
can
.
The
former
has
help'd
us
to
a
noble
Stock
of
old
Writers
upon
the
Affairs
of
a
great
many
of
our
Sees
,
from
their
Foundation
,
in
his
Anglia
Sacra
:
and
the
latter
has
given
us
almost
an
entire
History
of
our
Bishops
,
for
the
two
last
Centuries
,
in
his
Athenae
Oxonienses
.
These
are
good
Materials
;
and
such
as
will
direct
to
more
of
the
same
kind
;
whereof
there
are
good
store
in
the
Bodleian
and
Cottonian
Libraries
.
We
long
only
for
a
skilful
Architect
,
to
put
them
into
the
Figure
we
desire
.
And
(
I
hear
)
the
Work
is
at
last
put
into
the
Hands
of
a
Person
,
who
wants
none
of
those
Helps
or
Qualifications
that
are
necessary
to
the
Undertaking
.
Hitherto
we
have
mention'd
only
such
as
have
written
the
History
of
our
Prelacy
with
an
honest
Intent
,
Thomas
Gibson
,
a
Fanatical
Physitian
in
the
beginning
of
Queen
Elizabeth's
Reign
;
who
entitl'done
of
his
Treatises
A
History
of
the
Treasons
of
the
Bishops
since
the
Norman
Conquest
.
Whether
this
was
ever
Printed
my
[
a
](A52335-e82340-b)
a
Ath.
Oxon.
vol.
1.
p.
109.
Author
cannot
inform
me
.
The
next
was
Sir
John
Harring
ton
of
Kelweston
;
who
,
soon
after
K.
James
the
First
's
arrival
in
England
,
began
to
draw
together
some
malicious
Remarks
upon
the
Bishops
of
his
Time
;
which
he
at
last
finish'd
under
the
Title
of
[
b
](A52335-e82390-b)
b
8vo
.
Lond.
1653.
A
brief
view
of
the
state
of
the
Church
of
England
,
as
it
stood
in
Queen
Elizabeth
's
and
King
Jame
's
Reign
,
to
the
Year
1608.
It
was
presented
by
the
Author
,
in
Manuscript
,
to
Prince
Henry
;
from
whom
the
Presbyterian
Faction
expected
great
Alterations
in
Church-Government
.
After
the
downfal
of
Episcopacy
,
it
fell
into
such
Hands
as
brought
it
to
the
Press
;
believing
it
to
be
a
proper
Antidote
against
the
return
of
the
plaguy
Hierarchis
.
The
last
of
this
Gang
was
(
that
eternal
Scribler
)
Will
.
Prynne
;
who
rak'd
together
all
the
Dirt
that
had
been
thrown
at
any
of
our
Bishops
,
by
the
most
inveterate
and
implacable
of
all
their
Enemies
;
and
hap'd
it
into
a
large
Dunghil-Book
inscrib'd
[
a
](A52335-e82470-b)
a
4to
.
Lond.
1641.
The
Antipathy
of
the
English
Lordly
Prelacy
,
both
to
legal
Monarchy
and
civil
Vnity
:
Wherein
he
pretends
to
give
an
Historical
Collection
of
I
know
not
how
many
Hundreds
of
exercrable
Treasons
,
Conspiracies
,
&c.
of
the
British
,
English
,
French
,
Scotch
and
Irish
Bishops
,
against
our
Kings
and
Kingdom
.
But
—
't
is
time
to
rid
our
Hands
of
this
Filth
and
Nastiness
.
The
most
ancient
Register
Books
and
Records
of
our
several
Dioceses
and
Cathedral
Churches
will
less
sully
our
Fingers
.
S.
ASAPH
.
[
a
](A52335-e82580-b)
a
Historia
de
Episcopis
et
Decanis
Londinensibus
;
necnon
de
Episcopis
et
Decanis
Assavensibus
,
a
prima
utriusq
sedis
Fundatione
ad
.
An.
1540.
8vo
.
Lond.
1695.
publish'd
soon
after
his
Death
;
as
a
Specimen
of
what
his
general
Work
(
of
all
the
Dioceses
in
England
)
would
have
been
if
he
had
liv'd
to
have
finish'd
it
.
To
this
Treatise
(
as
well
as
to
the
other
that
is
prefix'd
to
it
)
there
is
an
Appendix
of
Authentic
Instruments
out
of
the
Register
Books
,
&c.
According
to
the
Method
first
taught
him
by
Dr.
Burnet
.
In
the
Lives
of
the
Bishops
he
frequently
quotes
the
Liber
ruber
Assavensis
,
an
old
Cartulary
of
that
Church
of
good
Value
.
BANGOR
.
[
b
](A52335-e82700-b)
b
De
Praesul
.
p.
644.
mentions
a
Catalogue
of
the
Bishops
of
this
See
,
in
the
Archives
of
the
Church
of
Bangor
;
which
I
suppose
was
a
very
Empty
one
,
since
(
upon
the
two
first
Editions
of
his
Book
)
he
had
not
any
thing
to
say
of
this
Diocese
.
BATH
[
a
](A52335-e82760-b)
a
Not.
Monast.
p.
195.
Mr.
Tanner
;
whose
Collections
and
References
(
let
it
be
here
observ'd
,
once
for
all
)
I
shall
not
repeat
,
but
shall
wish
the
Reader
himself
to
consult
his
very
useful
Book
,
saving
only
,
that
some
of
those
Authors
he
barely
quotes
(
where
I
am
able
to
do
it
)
shall
be
set
in
the
truest
Light
I
can
give
them
.
Let
it
be
here
also
noted
,
that
when
ever
he
refers
his
Readers
(
as
he
does
in
this
place
)
to
one
or
the
other
Volume
of
Anglia
Sacra
,
they
are
there
sure
to
meet
with
a
good
view
of
such
old
Writers
as
have
treated
of
the
ancient
History
of
this
or
that
Diocess
;
or
else
they
have
(
at
least
)
a
composure
of
Mr.
Wharton's
,
very
valuable
for
the
Pains
that
Author
took
in
adjusting
the
true
Chronological
succession
of
our
Bishops
.
Dr.
Thomas
Chandler
(
sometime
[
b
](A52335-e82810-b)
b
Hist.
et
Antiq.
Oxon.
par.
2.
pag.
134.
Warden
of
New
College
in
Oxford
,
and
Chancellour
of
this
Church
)
wrote
a
Treatise
,
de
Laudibus
Bathoniae
&
Welliae
;
which
,
I
suppose
would
afford
us
some
such
Light
as
the
same
learn'd
Person
has
given
in
those
Lives
,
that
have
been
gratefully
penn'd
by
him
,
and
will
be
taken
notice
of
in
another
place
.
I
guess
the
Historia
de
tempore
Primaevae
inchoationis
Sedis
Episcopalis
Wellensis
,
&c.
which
was
made
ready
for
the
Press
by
the
noble
Publishers
[
a
](A52335-e82870-b)
a
See
Kennet's
Life
of
Somn.
p.
66.
of
the
Decem
Scriptores
,
is
part
of
what
we
have
had
since
from
Mr.
Wharton
;
who
also
must
be
thought
to
have
enrich'd
his
own
Notes
out
of
the
[
b
](A52335-e82920-b)
b
Vid.
Praefat.
ad
Angl.
Sacr.
vol.
1.
p.
51.
52.
great
Treasure
of
Collections
which
was
gather'd
and
communicated
to
him
by
the
Reverend
and
Learn'd
Dr.
Matt.
Hutton
.
BRISTOL
.
CANTERBVRY
,
[
a
](A52335-e83040-b)
a
J.
Pits
,
p.
109.
said
to
have
recorded
the
Acts
of
all
his
Predecessors
;
which
was
no
mighty
Undertaking
,
since
himself
was
only
the
Sixth
from
Augustine
.
The
eldest
of
those
Writers
,
whose
Works
are
now
Extant
,
is
Gotseline
the
Monk
;
who
(
besides
the
Life
of
Augustine
,
publish'd
by
Mr.
Wharton
)
wrote
also
those
of
the
Six
following
Arch-bishops
.
These
are
now
in
MS.
in
[
b
](A52335-e83100-b)
b
Vespasianus
,
B.
20.
Sir
Joh.
Cotton's
Library
:
but
(
being
only
Collections
out
of
Bede
,
with
the
enlargement
of
a
few
Romantic
Miracles
)
they
have
not
hitherto
been
thought
worth
the
Printing
.
About
the
same
time
Osbern
was
Precentor
of
Christ-Church
;
and
(
upon
the
[
c
](A52335-e83160-b)
c
Vid.
Praefat.
ad
Ang.
Sac.
vol.
2
p.
9.
unhappy
Fire
,
which
destroy'd
most
of
their
Records
,
A.
D.
1070.
)
took
a
deal
of
Pains
in
recovering
the
Histories
of
the
Arch-bishops
;
several
of
whose
Lives
were
written
by
him
,
besides
those
we
have
in
Print
.
Gervasius
Dorobernensis
(
that
is
,
Monk
of
Canterbury
)
has
left
three
good
Treatises
on
this
Subject
;
which
bear
the
following
Titles
;
[
a
](A52335-e83200-b)
a
Inter
X
Script
.
Edit.
Lond.
1652.
1.
Tractatus
de
Combustione
&
Reparatione
Dorobernensis
Ecclesiae
.
2.
Imaginationes
de
Discordiis
inter
Monachos
Cantuarienses
&
Archiepiscopum
Baldewinum
.
3.
Vitae
Dorobernensium
Diceto's
History
of
these
Primates
was
discover'd
in
the
Norfolk
Library
,
after
some
others
(
amongst
whom
he
should
have
been
rank'd
)
were
publish'd
:
And
't
would
not
have
been
any
great
loss
if
we
had
still
wanted
it
;
being
[
b
](A52335-e83280-b)
b
Angl.
Sac.
vol.
2.
p.
677.
very
short
,
and
mostly
stuff'd
with
Matters
foreign
to
the
Purpose
.
Mr.
Pits
[
c
](A52335-e83300-b)
c
pag.
304.
sends
us
to
the
Library
at
Bennet
College
to
enquire
after
a
Manuscript
Copy
of
Arch-bishop
Langton's
Annals
of
his
Predecessors
:
But
he
that
runs
on
his
Errand
,
will
find
himself
mistaken
.
There
are
,
indeed
,
in
that
Library
some
Collections
out
of
the
last
mention'd
Author's
History
of
our
Kings
,
which
relate
chiefly
to
the
Affairs
of
this
See
;
the
transcriber
whereof
had
some
thoughts
of
Copying
out
St.
Langton's
History
of
Richard
the
First
,
and
so
prefaced
his
Work
with
the
Title
of
Annales
Stephani
Archiepiscopi
:
But
he
soon
quits
that
Subject
,
and
so
imposes
upon
a
careless
Catalogue-monger
.
The
next
,
in
Order
of
time
,
was
Tho.
Spott
,
Spottey
or
Sprott
,
a
Benedictine
Monk
of
Canterbury
in
the
Year
1274.
[
a
](A52335-e83380-b)
a
So
Pits
,
p.
355.
But
Bale
knew
not
when
he
liv'd
.
whose
Book
has
been
vainly
enquired
after
by
some
of
our
most
Industrious
Antiquaries
,
and
(
particularly
)
by
[
b
](A52335-e83410-b)
b
W.
Somner
,
Pref.
to
Antiq.
of
Canterbury
.
p.
8.
one
whom
hardly
any
thing
on
this
Subject
could
escape
.
The
Truth
is
,
Mr.
Somner
seems
to
think
't
was
rather
a
Chronicle
of
the
City
of
Canterbury
than
of
the
Arch-bishops
;
and
,
if
W.
Thorn
(
who
was
a
Monk
of
the
same
House
,
in
the
Year
1380.
)
either
Epitomiz'd
or
[
c
](A52335-e83470-b)
c
Vid.
Pits
,
p.
355.
et
529.
V.
etiam
Thorn
inter
X.
Script
.
Enlarged
it
,
it
may
probably
prove
only
the
same
with
his
History
of
the
[
a
](A52335-e83500-b)
a
Bibl.
Cott.
Vitellius
,
D.
11.
Abbots
of
St.
Augustines
.
St.
Birchington's
Performance
,
is
largely
accounted
for
by
his
late
[
b
](A52335-e83540-b)
b
H.
Wharton
,
in
Praefat.
ad
Angl.
Sac.
vol.
p.
18.
19
,
&c.
Publisher
;
who
has
assur'd
us
that
nothing
that
either
this
Writer
,
or
any
of
the
former
can
afford
us
has
been
omitted
by
the
diligent
Author
of
the
[
c
](A52335-e83570-b)
c
Fol.
Lond.
1572.
&
Hanov.
1605.
Antiquitates
Britannicae
.
Archbishop
Parker
was
generally
reputed
the
Author
of
this
admired
Book
;
till
[
d
](A52335-e83600-b)
d
Hist.
of
Tythes
,
cap.
9.
Mr.
Selden
transferr'd
the
Honour
of
it
to
(
His
Grace's
Chaplain
)
Mr.
Josseline
,
who
has
since
enjoy'd
it
.
I
confess
,
I
am
far
from
being
of
AB
.
[
e
](A52335-e83630-b)
e
Consecration
,
&c.
of
Protestant
Bishops
,
p.
165.
Bramhal's
Opinion
,
That
the
conclusion
of
the
Preface
proves
the
Acrhbishop
himself
to
have
been
the
Author
of
that
Book
:
But
it
does
fairly
intimate
that
the
Composer
of
it
(
whoever
he
was
)
did
desire
the
World
should
believe
that
most
of
his
Materials
were
handed
to
him
by
that
Learn'd
Metropolitan
;
who
was
also
,
he
saies
,
the
Directer
and
Overseer
of
the
whole
Work
.
In
the
same
place
the
Hannow
Edition
is
blam'd
for
omitting
Parker's
own
Life
;
which
perhaps
was
no
fault
in
those
that
had
the
care
of
it
.
There
were
only
a
few
Copies
of
the
First
Edition
(
such
as
were
design'd
for
[
a
](A52335-e83670-b)
a
Ath.
Oxon.
vol.
1.
pag.
588
,
589.
public
Libraries
,
and
the
accomodation
of
a
few
choise
Friends
)
that
had
the
29
Pages
,
which
make
up
that
Life
:
so
that
't
was
not
to
be
expected
that
the
Foreign
Publishers
should
Print
it
otherwise
than
as
't
was
commonly
sold
by
our
English
Booksellers
.
Mr.
Wharton
every
where
gives
this
Writer
more
respect
than
any
other
he
's
pleased
to
cite
:
and
yet
he
[
b
](A52335-e83700-b)
b
In
notis
ad
Canon
.
Lichfield
,
de
Succes
.
Archiep.
Cant
passim
.
observes
a
great
many
of
his
mistakes
;
and
,
I
do
not
doubt
but
any
skilful
Antiquarie
will
easily
take
notice
of
many
and
many
more
.
So
imperfect
will
always
be
the
most
compleat
Works
of
any
single
Man
[
c
](A52335-e83720-b)
c
For
the
Controversy
betwixt
the
Chapter
of
Canterbury
and
the
Arch-deacon
,
about
the
Right
of
Jurisdiction
Sede
Vacante
,
see
Bibl.
Cott.
Nero
,
c.
9.
Galba
,
E.
4.
Vitellius
,
A.
2.
8.
D.
7.
E.
4.
!
CARLILE
.
Halton
,
Rosse
,
Kirkby
and
Welton
:
and
these
will
furnish
us
with
little
more
than
the
History
of
one
Century
.
The
Records
of
the
Dean
and
Chapter
go
not
much
higher
than
their
new
Denomination
given
them
by
Henry
the
Eighth
;
and
are
very
broken
and
imperfect
since
that
Epoche
.
Out
of
these
,
and
what
other
helps
could
be
had
from
some
Neighbouring
and
Distant
Libraries
,
Dr.
Hugh
Todd
(
Prebendary
of
this
Church
)
has
made
a
Volume
of
Collections
which
is
lately
placed
in
the
Dean
and
Chapter
's
Library
,
under
the
Title
of
,
[
a
](A52335-e83880-b)
a
MS.
in
Fol.
An
History
of
the
Diocese
of
Carlile
;
containing
an
Account
of
the
Parishes
,
Abbies
,
Nunneries
,
Churches
,
Monuments
,
Epitaphs
,
Coats
of
Arms
,
Founders
,
Benefactors
,
&c.
with
a
perfect
Catalogue
of
the
Bishops
,
Priors
,
Deans
,
Chancellours
,
Arch-deacons
,
Prebendaries
;
and
of
all
Rectors
and
Vicars
of
the
several
Parishes
in
the
said
Diocese
.
My
worthy
Brother
hopes
that
the
Additions
which
will
hereafter
be
made
to
this
Work
,
will
(
at
last
)
make
it
answer
its
Title
;
and
I
heartily
wish
I
could
do
so
too
:
But
(
to
me
)
the
prospect
is
so
discouraging
,
that
I
know
not
which
way
to
look
for
such
Helps
as
would
be
necessary
for
the
compleating
of
so
full
and
ample
an
Account
of
our
Church
and
Diocess
.
Our
Sufferings
in
the
days
of
Rapine
and
Rebellion
,
equal'd
or
exceeded
those
of
any
other
Cathedral
of
England
;
and
(
after
our
Chapter-House
and
Treasury
had
been
turn'd
into
a
Magazine
for
the
Garrison
,
and
our
very
Charter
sold
to
make
a
Taylor
's
Measures
)
it
can
hardly
be
expected
that
so
many
of
our
Records
will
ever
be
retriev'd
as
are
requisite
to
finish
out
such
a
History
.
CHESTER
,
[
a
](A52335-e83980-b)
a
MS.
penes
Tho.
Brotherton
Arm.
Account
of
the
State
of
Religion
in
Lancashire
(
part
of
this
Diocess
)
in
the
beginning
of
King
James
the
First
's
Reign
.
CHICHESTER
.
William
Waller
in
our
late
Civil
Wars
;
and
,
after
the
Restauration
,
they
never
recover'd
more
than
three
Books
belonging
to
the
Chapter
,
and
a
Register
or
two
of
the
Bishops
.
These
do
not
reach
above
230
Years
backwards
:
so
that
,
the
prime
Antiquities
of
this
See
(
before
the
Episcopal
Throne
was
removed
from
Selsey
to
this
Place
,
and
for
some
Ages
afterwards
)
are
either
wholly
lost
,
or
in
such
private
Hands
,
as
have
hitherto
very
injuriously
detain'd
them
from
their
right
Owners
.
'Till
a
Restitution
is
made
,
we
must
content
our selves
with
such
poor
Fragments
as
Bede
,
Malmesbury
and
others
,
will
afford
us
of
the
first
Foundation
of
the
Diocess
by
our
Nothern
Saint
Wilfrid
;
who
(
with
his
Successors
,
in
the
same
Order
that
Godwine
has
given
them
)
stands
yet
pictur'd
on
the
backside
of
the
Quire
.
Here
are
the
chief
Remains
of
their
History
,
as
far
as
they
are
now
to
be
had
within
the
Verge
of
their
own
Cathedral
:
to
which
if
more
shall
be
added
,
by
such
Foreigners
as
are
Masters
of
their
dispersed
Records
;
't
will
be
a
very
gratefull
(
as
well
as
just
)
service
to
the
present
Members
of
that
Church
.
St.
DAVID'S
.
[
a
](A52335-e84170-b)
a
J.
Pits
,
p.
104.
Jurisdictionis
Sedis
Menevensis
.
Bishop
Godwine
quotes
a
Catalogue
of
the
Bishops
of
St.
David's
,
not
taken
notice
of
either
by
Gyraldus
or
the
Annales
Menevenses
;
which
he
[
a
](A52335-e84240-b)
a
De
Praesul
.
p.
602.
says
is
in
the
Archives
of
that
Church
.
There
's
also
an
Anonymous
Manuscript
in
the
Library
at
[
b
](A52335-e84250-b)
b
Hist.
&
Antiq.
Oxon.
lib.
1.
p.
56.
Magdalen
College
in
Oxford
which
treats
de
Gestis
&
Ritibus
Cler'
Cambrensis
;
and
may
probably
afford
some
discoveries
of
the
ancient
State
of
this
Diocess
.
DVRHAM
.
[
c
](A52335-e84330-b)
c
J.
Seldon
,
Praef.
ad
.
X.
Script
.
Prior
,
Arch-deacon
and
Vicar
General
,
of
that
Diocess
.
He
was
afterwards
Bishop
of
St.
David's
:
But
,
upon
the
death
of
Queen
Margaret
,
return'd
to
Durham
;
where
he
dy'd
,
A.
D.
1115.
and
lyes
bury'd
in
the
Chapter-House
.
His
Book
bears
the
Title
,
[
d
](A52335-e84390-b)
d
MS.
in
Bibl.
Cott.
Faustina
,
A.
5.
see
also
AB
.
Vsher's
Letters
,
p.
315.
321.
De
Exordio
&
progressu
Ecclesiae
Dunelmensis
;
that
is
,
from
K.
Oswald's
Time
to
the
Year
1097.
This
was
transcrib'd
by
[
a
](A52335-e84440-b)
a
Inter.
X.
Scrip.
Sim.
Dunelm
.
mention'd
in
the
former
part
of
this
Work
;
who
also
continu'd
it
to
the
Year
[
b
](A52335-e84460-b)
b
Praef.
ad
Angl.
Sacr.
vol.
1.
p.
48.
1129.
from
whence
it
has
been
drawn
downwards
by
Jeoffery
de
Coldingham
,
R.
de
Greystanes
,
&c.
There
are
still
some
latent
Manuscript
Histories
of
this
Church
;
which
(
if
discover'd
)
would
undoubtedly
supply
a
great
many
defects
in
those
that
are
already
publish'd
.
Prior
Laurence
(
who
dy'd
in
the
Year
1154.
)
wrote
a
Treatise
in
Meeter
,
[
c
](A52335-e84490-b)
c
Vid.
Angl.
Sac.
vol.
1.
p.
787.
De
Civitate
&
Episcopatu
Dunelmensi
.
There
are
several
MS.
Tracts
of
that
Author's
Composure
,
in
the
Libraries
at
Lambeth
,
Durham
and
elsewhere
;
and
yet
we
cannot
hitherto
learn
where
this
is
to
be
had
.
Tho.
Rudburn
,
in
the
very
heart
of
his
[
d
](A52335-e84530-b)
d
MS.
in
Bibl.
Cott.
Lambeth
&
Bened.
Historia
Major
,
has
a
large
History
of
the
Bishops
of
this
See
,
from
the
first
Foundation
at
Lindisfarn
,
to
the
Year
1083.
which
tho'
mostly
taken
out
of
Turgot
and
Simeon
,
has
some
remarkable
passages
never
yet
Printed
.
John
Wessington
(
who
dy'd
Prior
of
Durham
,
A.
D.
1446.
)
wrote
a
Book
,
[
a
](A52335-e84600-b)
a
Bibl.
Cott.
Vitellius
,
A.
9.
De
Juribus
&
Possessionibus
Ecclesiae
Dunelmensis
;
wherein
,
amongst
other
choice
Matters
,
't
is
prov'd
that
the
Priors
of
that
Church
were
always
invested
with
the
Dignity
and
Priviledges
of
Abbots
.
Sir
H.
Spelman
[
b
](A52335-e84640-b)
b
Glossar
.
in
voce
〈◊〉
.
quotes
some
Synodical
(
or
rather
Consistorial
)
Constitutions
made
by
Bishop
Lewis
in
the
Year
1319.
which
certainly
must
be
very
learn'd
ones
,
if
they
answer
the
Account
[
c
](A52335-e84660-b)
c
De
Praesul
.
p.
121.
Godwine
gives
of
that
Prelate
.
The
Cotton
Library
is
hardly
better
stock'd
with
the
Records
of
any
Cathedral
Church
in
England
,
than
that
of
Durham
;
whereof
the
chief
is
a
large
[
d
](A52335-e84710-b)
d
D●mitianus
,
7.
Catalogue
of
their
Benefactors
,
from
King
Edwine
down
to
the
Reign
of
King
Henry
VIII
.
The
beginning
of
the
Book
is
in
an
old
Saxon
Character
,
as
ancient
as
the
time
of
K.
Aethelstane
;
in
whose
Possession
't
is
very
probable
(
from
his
Name
in
the
Title
Page
,
supposed
to
be
written
with
his
own
[
e
](A52335-e84760-b)
e
Hist.
&
Synops.
Bibl.
Cott.
p.
38.
Hand
)
it
sometime
was
.
There
is
also
a
[
a
](A52335-e84770-b)
a
Julius
,
C.
2.
6.
Miscellany
Collection
of
a
great
many
curious
Particulars
relating
to
St.
Cuthbert
,
and
his
Successors
in
that
See
;
the
[
b
](A52335-e84800-b)
b
Julius
,
D.
4.
Contests
of
the
Prior
and
Convent
with
their
own
Bishops
and
the
Archbishops
of
York
,
about
the
Visitatorial
Power
;
an
entire
[
c
](A52335-e84830-b)
c
Claudius
,
D.
4.
History
of
that
Church
,
from
its
Foundation
at
Lindistarn
(
through
all
its
changes
of
Fortune
and
Place
)
as
low
as
the
death
of
Bishop
Hugh
,
A.
D.
1194.
with
many
other
[
d
](A52335-e84870-b)
d
Vitellius
,
A.
9.
20.
C.
9.
D.
20.
E.
1.
12.
Vespesianus
,
A.
5
,
6.
Titus
,
A.
2.
Domitianus
,
A.
7.
8.
Faustina
,
A.
5
,
6.
remarkable
Fragments
of
its
History
.
There
's
also
in
the
Bishops
Library
at
Durham
,
a
MS.
Collection
of
the
Antiquities
of
this
Church
,
transcribed
by
the
Directions
of
Bishop
Cosin
;
wherein
there
's
a
different
Account
of
some
Particulars
from
what
we
have
in
the
Rites
and
Monuments
,
published
by
[
e
](A52335-e84960-b)
e
8vo
.
Lond.
1672.
Mr.
Davies
.
Nor
is
this
last
mention'd
Piece
such
an
ignorant
and
pitiful
Legend
,
as
a
very
[
f
](A52335-e85000-b)
f
Wh.
Kennet
,
in
vit
.
Somneri
,
p.
21.
worthy
Person
has
represented
it
;
since
there
's
no
where
extant
so
full
and
exact
an
Account
of
the
State
of
this
Cathedral
,
at
the
suppression
of
Monasteries
.
The
Author
seems
to
have
been
an
Eye-witness
of
all
that
pass'd
at
that
time
;
and
his
Descriptions
of
such
Matters
as
are
still
remaining
,
appear
to
be
so
nicely
true
,
that
we
have
great
Reason
to
credit
him
in
the
rest
.
Besides
these
,
there
are
now
in
the
Possession
of
the
Dean
and
Chapter
,
a
great
many
Authentick
Records
,
Original
Charters
,
Endowments
,
&c.
which
will
enable
one
to
furnish
out
a
much
more
compleat
History
of
this
Church
,
than
has
yet
appear'd
:
And
I
hope
the
Ingenious
and
Learn'd
Dr.
Iohn
Smith
,
now
Prebendary
of
that
Cathedral
,
will
think
the
Undertaking
most
proper
for
himself
.
ELY
.
William
Dugdale
,
and
wholly
by
Mr.
Wharton
,
is
not
the
Work
of
Thomas
and
Richard
,
whose
Names
it
carries
;
but
an
Abstract
,
by
a
nameless
Author
,
out
of
their
much
larger
Volumes
,
which
still
remain
in
[
a
](A52335-e85130-b)
a
Bibl.
Cott.
Domitianus
,
A.
15.
〈◊〉
.
A.
1.
Claudius
,
C.
9.
New
,
A.
15
,
16.
〈…〉
.
Vespasians
,
A.
19.
Manuscript
.
Some
parts
of
the
former
have
been
printed
,
out
of
other
Copies
,
by
L.
D'
Achery
and
Dr.
Gale
;
if
those
Learn'd
Gentlemen
be
not
mistaken
(
as
I
suspect
they
are
)
in
their
Conjectures
.
Dr.
Brady
[
a
](A52335-e85190-b)
a
In
Praefat.
ad
Hist.
Angl
vide
etiam
Bibl.
Cott.
Tiberius
,
B.
2.
quotes
a
Survey
of
all
the
Mannors
belonging
to
this
Bishoprick
,
taken
in
the
Year
,
1248.
but
does
not
direct
us
where
to
find
it
.
That
S.
Birchington
(
or
Brickington
,
as
he
calls
him
)
wrote
a
Catalogue
of
the
Bishops
of
Ely
,
[
b
](A52335-e85240-b)
b
P.
910.
Mr.
Pits
is
very
positive
:
But
how
he
fell
into
that
Mistake
(
wherein
he
is
follow'd
by
Vossius
)
has
been
discover'd
by
a
late
[
c
](A52335-e85270-b)
c
H.
Wharton
,
Praefat.
ad
Angl.
Sacr.
vol.
1.
p.
20.
Writer
,
of
much
better
Credit
.
He
probably
conjectures
that
,
staging
over
the
Margin
of
one
of
our
Learn'd
Church-Historians
,
he
met
with
this
Quotation
,
[
d
](A52335-e85290-b)
d
Antiq.
Brit.
p.
246
,
248
Edit.
Hanov.
Steph.
Birch
.
Catal.
Episc.
Eliens
.
and
thence
presently
concluded
,
that
Stephen
must
be
the
Author
of
the
Catalogue
there
cited
:
Whereas
the
Historian
referr'd
his
Readers
to
two
several
Manuscripts
(
Birchington's
History
of
the
Archbishops
of
Canterbury
,
and
an
ano●ymous
Catalogue
of
the
Bishops
of
Ely
)
for
the
proof
of
what
he
had
there
advanced
.
EXETER
.
John
Grandeson
(
who
dy'd
Bishop
of
this
See
,
A.
D.
1369.
)
is
[
a
](A52335-e85460-b)
a
J.
Pits
,
p.
500.
said
to
have
written
Martyrologium
Exoniense
:
for
a
Manuscript
whereof
we
are
advised
to
consult
the
Library
at
Bennet
College
.
John
Hooker
(
or
Vowel
,
Chamberlain
of
Exeter
,
where
he
dy'd
,
A.
D.
1601.
)
wrote
a
lean
Catalogue
of
the
Bishops
of
that
See
;
first
publish'd
by
him
in
Quarto
,
and
afterwards
inserted
into
[
b
](A52335-e85540-b)
b
Edit.
Lond.
1587.
pag.
1300.
Ralph
Holinshead's
Chronicle
.
It
begins
with
Eadulph
,
whom
he
unaccountably
calls
Werstant
,
and
ends
at
Bishop
Woolton
;
who
was
consecrated
in
the
Year
,
1579.
There
's
no
want
of
Materials
for
the
composure
of
a
much
fuller
History
:
Since
the
Registers
of
a
good
many
of
the
Bishops
(
Stapleton
,
Brantingham
,
Stafford
,
&c.
)
are
cited
by
[
a
](A52335-e85600-b)
a
Hist.
de
Episc.
&
Dec.
Lond.
&c.
Mr.
Wharton
;
and
many
more
pointed
at
by
Mr.
Ta●●er
.
GLOCESTER
,
[
b
](A52335-e85680-b)
b
Bibl.
Cott.
inter
Codd
.
nondum
in
loculo●
reposit.
Num.
9.
Erection
of
St.
Peter's
Church
into
a
Cathedral
:
But
there
are
many
Venerable
Remains
of
Ecclesiastical
History
,
which
are
to
be
had
in
the
Register-books
of
those
Religious
Houses
and
Parochial
Churches
which
were
then
brought
within
that
Jurisdiction
.
Out
of
these
Dr.
R.
Parsons
(
the
present
worthy
Chancellor
of
that
Diocess
)
has
collected
two
MS.
Volumes
;
which
are
also
digested
into
so
good
a
Method
,
that
they
well
deserve
the
Title
of
a
Compleat
History
.
The
first
of
these
he
stiles
Memoirs
of
the
ancient
Abbey
and
present
Cathedral
of
Gloucester
:
wherein
he
gives
an
Account
of
the
Foundation
of
the
Great
Abbey
of
St.
Peter's
in
this
City
,
and
the
Succession
of
its
Abbots
,
down
to
the
Dissolution
;
with
the
History
and
Succession
of
the
Bishops
,
Deans
,
Chancellors
,
Archdeacons
and
Prebendaries
,
ever
since
the
dismembering
of
it
from
the
See
of
Worcester
.
This
Work
was
happily
undertaken
at
the
Request
of
the
late
Mr.
Wharton
;
who
design'd
to
have
oblig'd
the
Publick
with
it
,
in
some
future
Volume
of
his
Anglia
Sacra
.
We
are
not
in
despair
of
seeing
the
good
Services
that
were
intended
our
Church
by
that
Learn'd
Person
,
fully
finish'd
and
brought
to
Perfection
by
some
other
able
Hand
:
So
that
,
't
is
to
be
hop'd
,
we
shall
not
long
want
the
Benefit
of
such
successful
Labours
.
His
other
Volume
bears
the
Inscription
of
A
Parochial
Visitation
of
the
Diocess
of
Gloucester
;
wherein
the
Matters
treated
on
are
chiefly
Ecclesiastical
,
tho'
some
Affairs
of
a
Civil
Nature
are
also
intermix'd
.
The
Observations
that
occur
in
this
are
partly
owing
to
the
Author
's
own
View
and
Enquiries
,
made
in
the
several
Parishes
;
and
partly
to
such
Helps
as
could
be
had
out
of
the
Registry
at
Worcester
,
and
his
own
at
Gloucester
.
HEREFORD
.
H.
Spelman
[
a
](A52335-e85830-b)
a
Glossar
.
in
voce
Panagia
.
quotes
one
of
'em
;
and
we
have
heard
of
several
others
,
besides
that
of
Bishop
[
b
](A52335-e85850-b)
b
Hist.
Episc.
&
Dec.
Londin
.
&
Assav
.
Booth
.
The
Library
and
Archives
here
fell
under
the
like
Misfortunes
,
during
the
Ravage
of
our
late
Days
of
Usurpation
,
with
those
of
other
Cathedral
Churches
:
being
made
a
very
improper
Prey
to
a
Fanatical
and
Illiterate
Army
of
Rebellious
Blockheads
.
Amongst
these
Silas
Taylor
was
an
Officer
of
a
more
than
ordinary
Fancy
and
Respect
for
Books
and
Learning
;
and
,
having
gotten
part
of
the
[
c
](A52335-e85880-b)
c
Ath.
Oxon.
vol.
2.
p.
464.
Bishop's
Palace
into
his
Possession
,
thought
it
was
also
convenient
to
seize
as
many
of
the
Churches
Evidences
and
Records
,
as
he
could
possibly
get
into
his
Clutches
.
With
these
(
and
many
of
the
like
kind
from
the
Church
at
Worcester
)
he
troop'd
off
,
upon
the
happy
return
of
our
old
English
Government
;
and
near
Twenty
Years
afterwards
,
dy'd
with
some
of
'em
in
his
Possession
at
Harwich
.
His
Books
and
Papers
,
together
with
the
other
few
Moveables
he
left
behind
him
,
fell
into
the
Hands
of
his
Creditors
;
from
whom
(
if
any
care
was
taken
to
preserve
them
)
it
will
now
be
a
very
difficult
Matter
to
retrieve
them
.
LANDAFF
.
Bishop
Godwine
[
a
](A52335-e85960-b)
a
De
Praesul
.
p.
618.
assures
us
,
that
all
he
says
of
the
Archbishops
and
Bishops
of
this
See
,
down
as
far
as
the
Year
1110.
was
taken
out
of
an
old
Manuscript-Register
of
that
Church
;
which
seem'd
to
him
to
have
been
penn'd
about
that
Time
.
This
,
he
tells
us
,
was
most
particular
in
the
Account
of
the
Acts
and
Miracles
of
St.
Teliau
,
the
second
Bishop
of
that
Diocess
;
and
therefore
I
take
it
to
be
the
very
same
with
that
which
is
,
now
in
Sir
John
Cotton's
Library
,
and
(
for
that
very
Reason
)
bears
there
the
Title
of
[
a
](A52335-e85990-b)
a
Vid.
Praefat.
ad
Angl
Sacr.
Par.
2.
p.
27.
Teilo
.
From
〈◊〉
[
b
](A52335-e86010-b)
b
Concil
tom.
1.
p.
381.
Sir
Henry
Spelman
had
the
whole
Account
he
gives
us
of
the
several
Synodical
Decrees
of
divers
Bishops
in
that
Church
:
As
Mr.
Wharton
had
also
those
good
Pieces
which
he
afterwards
[
c
](A52335-e86040-b)
c
Angl.
Sacr.
vol.
2.
p.
667.
publish'd
,
as
being
overlook'd
both
by
Godwine
and
Spelman
.
There
's
yet
another
Book
,
in
the
same
[
d
](A52335-e86080-b)
d
Titus
,
D.
22.
Library
,
that
affords
a
History
or
Chronicle
of
this
Church
;
which
seems
to
have
escap'd
the
notice
of
both
these
diligent
Antiquaries
.
It
commences
at
Brute
,
and
ends
A.
D.
1370.
LINCOLN
.
[
e
](A52335-e86160-b)
e
Julius
,
C.
6.
Library
;
which
brings
down
the
Succession
of
them
from
Birinus
to
John
Longland
,
who
was
Consecrated
,
A.
D.
1521.
'T
is
much
the
List
of
these
Prelates
should
be
so
compleat
;
when
our
[
a
](A52335-e86210-b)
a
Vid.
Godw.
de
Praesul
.
p.
388.
Historians
are
at
a
loss
for
the
very
Place
where
a
good
many
of
them
〈◊〉
Some
Letters
(
from
Pope
Martin
and
his
Cardinals
)
about
the
Struggle
that
happen'd
upon
the
Advancement
of
Rich.
Fleming
to
this
See
,
may
be
[
b
](A52335-e86250-b)
b
Bibl.
Cott.
ribe●ius
,
B.
6.
had
;
but
in
the
main
,
we
are
very
deficient
in
all
the
parts
of
its
History
,
and
shall
hardly
recover
any
great
Matters
more
than
its
own
Registries
will
supply
us
with
.
What
those
are
I
know
not
.
LITCHFIELD
.
In
the
perusal
of
the
History
of
this
Diocess
,
[
c
](A52335-e86300-b)
c
Godwine
,
p.
337.
et
365.
Ang.
Sacr.
vol.
1.
p.
428
,
&c.
Church-Historians
)
is
to
be
observ'd
to
our
Reader
:
And
that
is
,
we
are
told
that
(
upon
the
subdivision
of
the
Kingdom
of
Mercia
into
three
Dioceses
,
about
the
Year
740.
)
there
was
a
Bishop
placed
at
Leicester
.
We
do
indeed
meet
with
one
[
d
](A52335-e86350-b)
d
Vid.
H.
Spelm.
Concil.
Tom.
1.
p.
247.
Totta
,
who
is
said
to
have
been
Episcopus
Legecestriae
,
about
that
Time
:
But
Legercestria
is
the
old
name
of
Leicester
,
as
Legecestria
is
of
Chester
.
It
was
therefore
(
in
Truth
)
at
West-Chester
that
the
New
Diocess
was
erected
,
and
not
at
Leicester
;
which
is
too
near
to
Litchfield
,
were
there
no
other
Argument
against
it
.
With
these
Cautions
we
are
to
peruse
the
two
valuable
MSS.
in
[
a
](A52335-e86460-b)
a
Cleopatra
,
D.
9.
Vespasianus
,
E.
16.
Sir
John
Cotton's
Library
;
which
have
(
in
a
great
measure
)
been
Printed
in
the
Anglia
Sacra
and
are
very
probably
[
b
](A52335-e86510-b)
b
Praefat.
ad
Angl.
Sacr.
vol.
1.
p.
34.
35
,
36.
ascrib'd
to
Tho.
Chesterton
and
Will
.
Whitlock
,
two
Canons
of
this
Church
.
Of
the
former
of
these
there
are
several
ancient
Copies
;
and
't
is
that
venerable
Book
which
is
quoted
by
many
of
our
late
Writers
under
the
Name
of
Chronicon
Lichfeldense
.
These
are
the
chief
Registers
of
the
old
Records
of
the
Church
of
Lichfield
,
that
are
now
Extant
:
Unless
perhaps
their
Cartulary
or
[
c
](A52335-e86560-b)
c
H.
Spelman
,
Gloss.
in
voce
Putura
.
Black-Book
,
and
the
[
d
](A52335-e86600-b)
d
Monast.
Angl.
Tom.
3.
p.
216.
Description
of
their
Close
(
or
College
)
be
still
to
be
met
with
.
The
little
that
was
to
be
sav'd
out
of
the
Ruins
,
into
which
this
Cathedral
fell
in
our
late
Days
of
Confusion
,
was
pick'd
up
by
(
one
of
the
great
Preservers
of
our
English
Antiquities
)
Elias
Ashmole
Esq
late
Garter
King
at
Arms
;
and
is
now
,
amongst
many
other
of
his
precious
Remains
,
in
his
[
a
](A52335-e86640-b)
a
Vid.
Catalog
.
MSS.
Oxon.
nuper
Edit.
Num.
7484.
et
7496.
Musaeum
at
Oxford
.
This
excellent
Person
had
a
Design
to
have
honour'd
the
Place
of
his
Nativity
,
with
the
writing
a
History
and
Description
of
its
ancient
and
present
State
;
and
had
collected
a
good
number
of
choice
Materials
for
that
Purpose
.
LONDON
.
[
b
](A52335-e86700-b)
b
De
Praesul
.
p.
226.
Godwine's
Misfortune
,
that
his
best
diligence
could
not
recover
a
right
Catalogue
of
the
British
Arc-bishops
of
this
City
.
Whatever
became
of
Theanus
and
Theonus
(
the
Alpha
and
Omega
of
those
Sixteen
Metropolitans
)
I
should
be
mightily
pleased
to
hear
that
its
History
is
entire
since
Mellitus's
time
;
or
even
that
we
had
every
thing
mention'd
in
that
List
of
Records
,
Registers
and
other
Books
belonging
to
this
Cathedral
,
which
was
[
a
](A52335-e86780-b)
a
Monast.
Angl.
Tom.
3.
pag.
299.
deliver'd
by
Dean
Cole
to
his
Successor
Dr.
May
,
in
the
Year
1559.
What
or
where
the
Annales
Londinenses
are
,
Mr.
Wharton
(
who
[
b
](A52335-e86830-b)
b
Angl.
Sacr.
vol.
1.
p.
638.
quotes
them
)
does
not
tell
us
:
nor
whether
they
treat
only
of
the
Affairs
of
this
Diocess
,
or
(
what
I
rather
Suspect
)
present
us
with
such
a
short
History
and
Chronicle
of
the
Kingdom
in
general
,
as
almost
every
one
of
our
Monasteries
afforded
.
'T
is
enough
that
he
has
left
behind
him
an
elaborate
[
c
](A52335-e86840-b)
c
8vo
.
Lond.
1695.
History
of
the
Bishops
and
Deans
of
this
See
,
of
his
own
composure
;
wherein
(
following
the
Method
to
which
he
had
confin'd
himself
in
his
two
larger
Volumes
)
he
brings
their
Story
down
to
the
Year
1540.
To
this
Treatise
(
as
well
as
that
of
St.
Asaph
,
which
is
joyn'd
with
it
)
is
annex'd
an
Appendix
of
Authentic
Instruments
;
and
he
has
further
let
us
know
that
(
of
the
Prelates
before
the
Reformation
)
we
have
the
Registers
of
Gravesend
,
Sudbury
,
Courtney
,
Braybrook
,
Walden
,
Clifford
,
Gilbert
,
Kemp
,
Grey
,
Savage
,
Warham
,
Barnes
,
Fitz-James
,
Tonstal
,
Stokesley
and
Bonner
.
The
Sepulchral
Monumnts
of
St.
Paul's
Church
were
first
drawn
out
and
publish'd
by
(
Mr.
Camden's
grateful
Scholar
)
[
a
](A52335-e86910-b)
a
8vo
.
Lond.
1614.
Hugh
Holland
the
Poet
:
But
this
was
only
a
mean
and
dull
Performance
in
comparison
of
that
more
absolute
one
of
Sir
Will
.
Dugdale
,
in
his
[
b
](A52335-e86950-b)
b
Fol.
Lond.
1658.
History
of
that
Cathedral
from
its
first
Foundation
;
extracted
out
of
Lieger
Books
and
other
Manuscripts
,
and
beautified
with
sundry
Prospects
of
the
Church
,
and
the
Figures
of
the
Tombs
.
The
greatest
part
of
the
Cartularies
and
Records
,
refer'd
to
in
this
Book
,
were
happily
communicated
to
the
Author
by
one
[
c
](A52335-e86960-b)
c
Ath.
Oxon.
vol.
2.
p.
697.
Mr.
Reading
;
who
thereby
encouraged
his
Zealous
Engaging
in
the
Work
,
at
a
very
proper
and
seasonable
Juncture
.
For
,
soon
after
he
had
taken
Copies
of
the
Inscriptions
,
a
great
many
of
the
Monuments
were
defaced
,
and
the
Church
it self
turn'd
into
a
common
Stable
by
the
Rebel
Army
;
as
it
was
(
within
ten
Years
after
that
)
into
a
heap
of
Rubbish
by
the
dreadful
Fire
of
London
.
NORWICH
.
[
a
](A52335-e87030-b)
a
Angl.
Sac.
vol.
1.
p.
397.
could
pick
up
was
out
of
a
couple
of
General
Histories
of
England
,
written
by
Bartholomew
de
Cotton
,
and
another
(
anonymous
)
Monk
of
that
Church
.
He
quotes
indeed
a
short
Chronicle
of
Norwich
in
the
same
Library
,
whence
he
had
the
former
of
these
;
But
the
late
Publisher
of
the
Catalogue
of
those
Manuscripts
is
mistaken
if
there
be
any
such
Book
,
in
the
[
b
](A52335-e87070-b)
b
Bibl.
Cott.
Vitellim
,
C.
9.
Place
referr'd
to
.
There
is
indeed
,
in
[
c
](A52335-e87090-b)
c
Julius
,
B.
7.
another
Class
,
a
piece
which
bears
the
Title
of
Festa
synodalia
Norwicensis
Dioeceseos
;
which
begins
with
St.
Foelix
the
Burgundian
,
their
first
Bishop
.
The
oldest
Register-Book
which
I
have
yet
heard
of
in
this
See
,
is
that
of
Bishop
[
d
](A52335-e87130-b)
d
Citat
.
in
Hist.
de
.
Episc.
&
Dec.
Londin
.
Bateman
;
the
Magnanimous
Founder
of
Trinity
Hall
in
Cambridge
.
A
short
Account
of
the
Bishops
and
Deans
of
this
Church
(
by
Tho.
Searle
,
A.
D.
1659.
)
is
among
the
MSS.
of
the
present
worthy
Bishop
of
the
Diocess
.
OXFORD
[
a
](A52335-e87220-b)
a
Vid.
Par.
1.
p.
54.
already
observ'd
,
that
its
Parochial
Antiquities
(
preceeding
that
Time
)
are
happily
preserv'd
by
an
Ingenious
and
Learn'd
Person
,
who
has
spar'd
no
Pains
in
Collecting
(
out
of
a
vast
number
of
Neighbouring
Records
and
Evidences
)
whatever
was
worth
the
Treasuring
up
,
and
transmitting
to
Posterity
.
Anth.
Wood
Collected
the
Sepulchral
and
Fenestral
Inscriptions
of
the
several
Parishes
in
the
County
of
Oxford
;
which
are
now
amongst
those
many
Papers
he
left
to
the
University
.
PETERBVRGH
,
[
a
](A52335-e87290-b)
a
Notit
Monast.
p.
160
,
161.
Mr.
Tanner
;
tho'
some
few
have
escap'd
his
great
Diligence
.
He
has
taken
no
notice
of
two
old
Registers
,
given
by
my
Lord
Hatton
to
the
[
b
](A52335-e87320-b)
b
Vespastanus
,
E.
21
,
22.
Cottonian
Library
;
nor
of
some
ancient
[
c
](A52335-e87350-b)
c
Faustina
,
B.
3.
Grants
and
Donations
to
that
Monastery
.
He
has
also
omitted
Hugh
White
,
Abbot
of
Peterburgh
:
who
in
Leland's
Character
is
,
[
d
](A52335-e87400-b)
d
Comment.
in
Cygn
.
Cant.
voce
Petropolis
.
Rerum
Petroburgi
gestarum
luculentus
plane
Scriptor
.
To
these
there
's
little
to
be
added
,
since
the
Foundation
of
the
Episcopal
See
,
of
any
great
value
;
saving
what
has
been
carefully
preserv'd
in
[
e
](A52335-e87430-b)
e
Fol.
Lond.
1686.
St.
Gunton's
History
,
which
will
be
this
Churches
[
f
](A52335-e87450-b)
f
Kennet's
Life
of
Somn.
p.
20.
everlasting
Monument
.
Some
Inscriptions
are
said
,
indeed
,
to
have
been
defaced
before
the
Survey
taken
by
this
Author
:
but
those
,
we
[
g
](A52335-e87490-b)
g
Athen.
Oxon.
p.
319.
are
told
were
also
to
be
had
amongst
the
Manuscripts
of
Franc.
Thynne
,
who
Collected
them
in
the
Year
1592.
'T
was
happy
that
Sir
William
Dugdale
and
Mr.
Gunton
drew
up
their
Collections
at
so
seasonable
and
lucky
a
time
as
the
Year
1641.
For
(
within
two
years
after
that
)
in
April
,
1643.
this
Cathedral
was
most
miserably
abused
by
Cromwell's
Regiment
;
who
,
among
other
shameless
outrages
,
[
a
](A52335-e87550-b)
a
Dr.
Patrick's
Supplement
to
History
of
Peterburg
,
p.
337.
broke
into
the
Chapter-House
,
ransack'd
the
Records
,
broke
the
Seals
,
tore
the
Writings
,
and
left
the
floor
cover'd
over
with
torn
Papers
,
Parchments
and
Seals
.
ROCHESTER
.
[
b
](A52335-e87640-b)
b
Angl.
Sac.
vol.
1.
p.
329.
Mr.
Wharton
)
furnishes
us
with
the
Laws
of
four
Kentish
Kings
,
(
Ethelbert
,
Hlothere
,
Eadred
and
Withred
)
omitted
by
Lambard
;
together
with
the
Saxon
Form
of
Oaths
of
Fealty
and
Wager
of
Law
;
the
old
Form
of
[
c
](A52335-e87710-b)
c
Vid.
H.
Spelman
Gols
.
in
voce
Excommunicatio
.
cursing
by
Bell
,
Book
and
Candle
;
of
[
a
](A52335-e87730-b)
a
Iid.
ibid.
voce
Ordale
,
&
apud
E.
Brown
,
in
Append
.
ad
Fascic
.
Rerum
Expetend
.
&c.
p.
903.
Ordale
,
&c.
I
suppose
this
Book
was
wisely
committed
to
the
care
of
Sir
Roger
Twisden
,
during
the
confusions
of
our
late
Civil
Wars
:
For
in
his
Custody
I
find
it
often
referr'd
to
by
Sir
William
Dugdale
,
in
a
[
b
](A52335-e87800-b)
b
Orig.
juridic
.
passim
.
Work
which
he
Compos'd
during
those
Troubles
.
Hadenham
and
Dene's
Histories
have
been
pickt
,
and
their
choicest
Flowers
are
preserv'd
in
the
Anglia
Sacra
:
And
the
[
c
](A52335-e87840-b)
c
Sub
hoc
Titulo
citatur
Saepius
in
Monast.
Angl.
Chronicon
Claustri
Roffensis
is
the
same
with
the
Textus
.
SALISBVRY
.
[
d
](A52335-e87920-b)
d
Bibl.
Cott.
Otho
,
D.
7.
Collections
;
and
the
defects
of
those
(
down
to
the
Year
1357.
)
may
be
supply'd
from
the
Chronicle
of
the
Church
of
Sarum
.
This
Chronicle
begins
at
the
Creation
;
and
has
some
[
e
](A52335-e87950-b)
e
Vid.
Vsserii
Antiq.
Eccles.
Brit.
p.
73.
special
Remarks
touching
the
Affairs
of
our
ancient
British
Church
,
wherein
it
seems
to
be
singular
.
The
Registers
also
of
several
of
their
Bishops
(
as
[
a
](A52335-e87980-b)
a
Citat
.
ab
.
H.
Wharton
,
in
Hist.
Episc.
London
.
Mortival
,
Wivil
,
Waltham
,
Medford
,
Aiscough
and
Beauchamp
)
are
still
extant
.
WINCHESTER
.
[
b
](A52335-e88050-b)
b
Angl.
Sac.
vol.
1.
p.
179.
&c.
Tho.
Rudburn
and
other
Authors
,
lately
publish'd
out
of
Sir
John
Cotton's
inexhaustible
Treasury
:
Unless
,
for
the
more
modern
Times
,
we
had
that
Continuation
of
the
Bishops
,
which
was
made
by
[
c
](A52335-e88090-b)
c
Ath.
Oxon.
vol.
1.
p.
380.
John
Trussel
;
who
brought
their
History
as
low
as
the
Sufferings
of
Bishop
Curl
(
and
his
Order
)
in
the
beginning
of
our
English
Anarchy
.
WORCESTER
.
William
Dugdale
drew
a
Catalogue
of
no
less
than
92
such
original
Donations
,
none
whereof
fell
lower
than
the
Reign
of
Henry
the
First
.
To
these
there
have
been
fifteen
more
(
now
in
the
Archives
of
that
Church
,
and
not
mentioned
in
the
Monasticon
)
added
by
[
a
](A52335-e88200-b)
a
Vid.
Catal.
Libb
Sept.
ad
finem
Gram.
Anglo
.
Sax.
p.
169
,
170
,
171.
&
177.
Dr.
Hickes
;
who
also
believes
that
among
Mr.
Lambard's
MSS.
(
now
in
the
Archives
at
Canterbury
)
there
are
several
Saxon
Grants
belonging
to
the
Church
of
Worcester
.
After
these
we
are
to
have
recourse
to
the
Anonymous
Compilers
of
the
Annals
of
this
Cathedral
,
and
the
continuation
of
them
by
their
learn'd
Publisher
;
who
(
by
the
way
)
[
b
](A52335-e88260-b)
b
Praefat
ad
Angl.
Sacr.
vol.
1.
p.
37.
tells
us
that
[
c
](A52335-e88270-b)
c
Bibl.
Cott.
Tiberius
,
A.
13.
Hemming's
Book
has
much
more
in
it
,
than
either
he
or
Sir
W.
Dugdale
have
given
themselves
the
trouble
of
transcribing
.
John
Rosse
(
the
Renown'd
Hermit
of
Guy's
Cliff
)
is
said
to
have
written
a
Treatise
,
de
Episcopis
Wigorniae
;
which
I
should
not
much
have
believed
upon
the
single
Credit
of
my
first
[
d
](A52335-e88340-b)
d
J.
pits
,
p.
683.
Author
,
had
I
not
seen
the
Book
it self
quoted
by
(
our
late
industrious
Naturalist
)
Doctor
[
a
](A52335-e88360-b)
a
Hist.
Nat.
Stafford
,
p.
407.
Plott
.
Some
part
of
Mr.
Abingdon's
Collection
of
the
Antiquities
of
Worcestershire
(
mention'd
in
the
former
part
of
this
Historical
Library
)
is
also
reported
to
bear
the
Title
of
,
[
b
](A52335-e88410-b)
b
Ath.
Oxon.
vol.
1.
p.
88.
A
History
of
the
Bishops
of
Worcester
:
which
I
cannot
but
once
more
heartily
wish
were
committed
to
the
Inspection
and
Care
of
the
Learn'd
Dr.
Hopkins
,
Prebendary
of
that
Church
;
who
(
we
[
c
](A52335-e88440-b)
c
Praef.
ad
Angl.
Sac.
vol.
1.
p.
52.
know
)
is
throughly
versed
in
the
Antiquities
of
his
own
Cathedral
,
as
well
as
in
those
of
the
English
Church
in
General
.
I
am
well
assured
there
are
some
failures
in
it
,
which
he
is
abundantly
able
to
Correct
.
'T
would
do
a
deal
of
right
to
the
worthy
Author's
Memory
,
to
have
the
Style
(
which
in
most
Antiquaries
,
is
usually
a
little
too
Austere
)
new
polish'd
;
and
to
have
some
defects
supply'd
,
out
of
such
Libraries
and
Ancient
Monuments
as
did
not
fall
in
his
way
.
YORK
.
Albinus
,
Alcuinus
or
Alcwinus
;
whose
Poem
(
de
Pontificibus
&
Sanctis
Ecclesiae
Eboracensis
)
was
first
discover'd
by
Mr.
Mabillon
,
and
publish'd
by
[
a
](A52335-e88530-b)
a
Inter
15
Script
.
p.
703.
Dr.
Gale
.
He
begins
his
Story
with
such
an
Account
of
the
Ancient
State
of
that
City
,
and
the
first
appearances
of
Christianity
among
the
Northern
Saxons
,
as
Bede
furnish'd
him
with
;
and
concludes
with
the
Death
of
(
his
Patron
)
AB
.
Eanbald
the
first
.
The
next
(
if
indeed
he
deserve
the
Name
)
was
Simeon
Dunelmensis
;
whose
Epistle
(
to
Hugh
Dean
of
York
,
about
the
Succession
of
these
Arch-bishops
,
to
the
Year
1136.
)
is
in
several
of
our
[
b
](A52335-e88610-b)
b
Bibl.
Cott.
Otho
,
D
7.
Coll.
Ben.
Eborac
.
&c.
Libraries
.
After
these
came
T.
Stubbs
(
or
Stobaeus
,
as
some
are
pleas'd
to
write
his
Name
)
a
Dominican
Friar
,
and
Dr.
in
Divinity
about
the
Year
1373.
whose
Chronica
Pontificum
are
publish'd
amongst
our
Decem
Scriptores
.
He
is
highly
magnified
by
Gesner
,
Bale
and
Vossius
;
and
he
deserves
some
part
of
the
Applause
:
But
he
had
merited
much
more
,
if
he
had
copy'd
(
or
stoln
)
less
from
Richard
of
Hexham
.
Arch-bishop
Vsher
[
a
](A52335-e88730-b)
a
Antiq.
Eccles.
p.
25.
quotes
a
MS.
History
of
our
York
Primates
written
about
the
Year
1460.
which
I
cannot
observe
to
be
the
same
with
any
of
those
in
the
[
b
](A52335-e88750-b)
b
Titus
,
A.
19.
Cleopatra
,
C.
4.
Vitellius
,
A.
2.
Cottonian
Library
.
However
,
here
we
have
a
large
[
c
](A52335-e88800-b)
c
Claudius
,
A.
3.
Register
of
all
the
Affairs
of
St.
Peter's
in
York
;
from
the
Reign
of
King
Henry
the
First
,
to
that
of
Edward
the
First
:
to
which
is
annex'd
a
Catalogue
of
the
Prebendaries
of
that
Church
,
and
their
several
Corpses
.
Here
is
likewise
another
remarkable
[
d
](A52335-e88860-b)
d
Galba
,
E.
9.
Register
of
the
Acts
of
the
Chapter
,
during
the
vacancy
of
both
the
Arch-bishoprick
and
Deanery
;
Commencing
the
6th
of
January
,
A.
D.
1396.
To
which
is
subjoyn'd
a
Third
(
of
the
Dean
and
Chapter
,
as
Guardians
of
the
Spiritualties
)
upon
the
Death
of
Arch-bishop
Rotheram
,
A.
D.
1500.
In
other
hands
we
have
the
Registers
of
[
e
](A52335-e88910-b)
e
Inter
Cod.
MSS.
D.
Com.
Clarendon
.
Greenfeld
,
Melton
,
Thoresby
,
Scroop
,
[
f
](A52335-e88940-b)
f
Apud
.
H.
Wharton
,
Hist.
Episc.
Lond.
Bowet
,
Rotheram
,
and
some
other
Arch-bishops
;
as
also
the
[
g
](A52335-e88970-b)
g
Monast.
Ang.
Tom.
2.
p.
57.
&
Tom.
3.
p.
164.
Doomesday
and
White-Book
of
St.
Peter's
,
with
many
more
Records
,
in
the
possession
of
the
present
Arch-bishop
,
or
his
Chancellour
,
and
the
Dean
and
Chapter
.
Out
of
all
(
or
most
)
of
these
very
Voluminous
Collections
have
been
lately
taken
by
[
a
](A52335-e89010-b)
a
Vide
Praefat.
ad
Angl.
Sacr.
vol.
1.
p.
52.
Dr.
Matthew
Hutton
(
descended
from
an
Arch-bishop
of
this
Province
,
of
both
his
Names
)
and
Mr.
Torr
,
a
great
Favourer
of
these
Studies
;
by
whose
Beneficial
Labours
,
we
hope
,
the
History
and
Antiquities
of
this
Church
will
effectually
be
preserv'd
:
But
whoever
he
be
that
attempts
the
whole
History
of
the
Diocess
,
ought
to
know
,
that
he
may
have
store
of
choice
Materials
amongst
Mr.
Dodsworth's
Manuscripts
at
Oxford
.
CHAP.
VI.
Writers
of
the
Lives
of
some
particular
Bishops
,
and
other
eminent
Church-men
.
THere
's
no
part
of
History
more
Instructive
than
that
which
falls
under
the
care
of
Biographers
;
if
the
Subject
be
rightly
chosen
,
and
the
Author
a
skilful
Artist
.
The
great
Concerns
of
both
Church
and
State
pass
through
the
Hands
of
a
Few
;
who
only
are
acquainted
with
the
true
Spring
and
Cause
of
all
those
Changes
that
inferiour
People
admire
and
feel
,
but
cannot
comprehend
.
The
secret
Memoirs
of
these
Men
of
Business
give
a
quite
different
prospect
of
Things
,
than
what
we
see
in
Mercuries
and
Gazettes
;
and
they
that
have
the
perusal
of
them
(
if
otherwise
qualify'd
for
the
Undertaking
)
must
also
afford
an
Account
widely
different
from
that
of
a
Monkish
Chronicle
,
where
nothing
of
moment
(
more
than
a
great
Frost
or
Pestilence
,
occurs
for
some
Years
together
.
They
that
sit
at
the
Helm
,
and
are
entrusted
with
the
Mysteries
of
Government
,
have
all
their
private
Affairs
so
interwoven
with
the
Publick
,
that
they
are
not
to
be
consider'd
asunder
:
So
that
he
that
can
justly
give
the
Features
of
one
of
these
,
must
be
likewise
able
to
present
us
with
the
exact
Lineaments
of
that
whole
Community
whereof
he
was
a
Member
.
Whoever
attempts
a
Work
of
this
high
Nature
,
must
come
prepar'd
with
suitable
Parts
and
Judgment
;
such
as
will
enable
him
to
discover
many
considerable
and
grand
Truths
from
(
sometimes
)
very
poor
and
slender
Hints
.
To
this
purpose
,
it
will
be
necessary
that
he
have
a
good
general
Notion
of
the
several
Matters
,
Men
and
Times
,
that
will
come
under
his
Consideration
;
as
well
as
that
he
be
perfectly
acquainted
with
the
Abilities
,
Inclination
and
Interests
,
of
that
particular
Person
whose
Picture
he
chiefly
intends
to
draw
.
His
Affections
must
also
be
as
clear
and
spotless
as
his
Reason
.
No
Byass
of
Love
or
Duty
,
of
Malice
or
Revenge
,
must
govern
or
direct
his
Thoughts
or
Pen
;
nor
must
he
be
a
Zealot
(
or
so
much
as
a
Party
)
in
any
of
the
Modish
Factions
of
the
Age
he
treats
on
.
He
must
have
nothing
in
Common
with
the
Man
he
describes
;
so
as
neither
to
reap
any
Advantage
by
his
Fame
,
nor
to
suffer
any
Damage
by
his
Disrepute
.
'T
is
true
,
the
Remains
of
deceas'd
Heroes
(
Ecclesiastical
and
Civil
,
as
well
as
Military
)
fall
usually
into
the
Hands
of
their
dearest
Friends
and
Kindred
;
who
are
too
often
so
unhappily
tender
of
their
Reputation
,
that
they
will
not
entrust
them
with
Strangers
of
the
best
Experience
and
Integrity
.
What
we
have
of
such
a
Man's
Story
must
come
from
These
;
who
most
commonly
send
it
abroad
so
tinctur'd
with
Prejudice
(
the
Glories
of
their
Friend
or
Patron
being
so
fulsomely
daub'd
,
and
his
Frailties
so
slovenly
dash'd
and
blotted
)
that
it
makes
only
a
very
awkard
Piece
,
how
Good-like
and
Personable
soever
this
Gentleman
himself
may
have
been
.
Whereas
,
the
best
Service
and
the
fairest
Respect
that
we
can
pay
to
the
Memories
of
those
that
have
been
publick
Blessings
to
the
Religion
or
Government
of
their
Native
Country
,
is
the
taking
Care
to
have
their
Actions
recorded
by
just
and
dis-interested
Writers
;
who
have
Sagacity
enough
to
discern
what
is
fit
for
Posterity
to
know
,
and
Honesty
enough
to
transmit
and
represent
it
duly
.
These
are
the
proper
Qualifications
of
those
that
take
upon
them
the
writing
the
Lives
of
other
People
:
And
the
Reader
will
be
easily
directed
by
them
,
how
to
judge
of
such
Performances
.
Thus
,
when
he
has
learn'd
the
Relation
there
is
betwixt
the
Historian
,
and
the
Patriot
or
Confessor
,
he
will
be
able
to
make
Abatements
proportionably
:
He
will
see
how
to
distinguish
Truth
from
the
additional
(
garnishing
)
Devoirs
of
a
Subaltern
,
a
Nephew
or
a
Cousin
:
He
will
readily
discover
the
Allowances
that
are
to
be
given
to
Flesh
and
Blood
,
and
in
what
Particulars
they
have
the
upper
Hand
of
Honour
and
Justice
.
In
like
manner
,
where
he
finds
a
great
Man's
Life
undertaken
by
his
profess'd
Enemy
,
he
will
be
sure
to
read
it
with
a
Curb
upon
his
Faith
:
He
will
critically
weigh
and
examine
his
Author's
Conclusions
and
Inferences
;
And
,
if
he
finds
those
good
and
logical
,
he
will
yet
suspend
his
Belief
till
Matters
of
Fact
are
attested
by
some
other
(
indifferent
)
Authority
.
And
lastly
,
where
Miracles
and
Revelations
are
in
Vogue
and
carry
a
Price
,
he
will
attentively
consider
whether
the
Penman
will
not
be
a
Gainer
by
having
his
Story
credited
:
And
whether
he
's
not
in
hazard
of
wanting
some
part
of
his
daily
Bread
if
it
miscarries
.
In
such
a
Case
,
a
complaisant
Respect
to
the
Fashions
of
a
Country
,
may
prevail
upon
a
Man
to
be
silent
and
say
nothing
;
but
Reason
will
direct
him
what
to
think
.
By
these
Rules
we
are
to
judge
of
the
Lives
of
those
Saints
which
have
been
taken
notice
of
in
some
of
the
foregoing
Chapters
,
as
well
as
of
those
Religious
Persons
that
are
here
to
follow
;
I
mean
,
those
good
Bishops
and
other
pious
Ecclesiasticks
(
of
a
lower
Form
of
Sanctity
,
and
second-rate
Merit
)
who
,
though
they
have
not
the
Honour
to
come
in
the
Kalendar
,
are
acknowledg'd
to
have
done
the
Church
very
eminent
Services
in
their
several
Generations
.
The
Lives
of
these
are
not
very
numerous
:
At
least
,
they
are
but
a
few
that
have
come
to
my
Knowledge
.
In
the
ancient
British
and
Saxon
Churches
all
that
were
worth
the
having
their
Names
register'd
by
an
Ecclesiastical
Historian
,
are
Saints
(
of
some
degree
or
other
)
and
are
all
to
be
had
in
the
Catholick
Almanack
:
where
Joseph
of
Arimathea
,
Venerable
[
a
](A52335-e89190-b)
a
Vid.
I.
Pits
,
p.
142.
&
H.
Spelm.
Gloss.
p.
245.
voce
Fossa
,
&c.
Bede
,
Bishop
[
b
](A52335-e89240-b)
b
Monast.
Angl.
Tom.
3.
Erkenwald
,
&c.
(
who
are
sometimes
Saints
,
and
sometimes
only
Confessors
or
Reverend
old
Church-men
)
have
the
Days
of
their
several
Obits
assign'd
them
.
Having
therefore
nothing
more
to
write
of
the
Lives
of
the
Holy
Men
of
these
Ages
,
I
shall
take
my
leave
of
them
;
with
the
Observation
of
a
witty
[
c
](A52335-e89270-b)
c
Th.
Fuller's
Holy
War
,
ch.
8.
pag.
11.
Author
on
some
following
Times
,
which
I
think
may
be
as
applicable
to
these
:
One
may
wonder
,
says
he
,
that
the
World
should
see
most
Visions
,
when
it
was
most
blind
;
and
that
that
Age
,
most
barren
in
Learning
,
should
be
most
fruitful
in
Revelations
.
After
the
Conquest
we
have
several
Ecclesiastical
Champions
,
that
have
had
a
very
profound
Respect
paid
them
by
their
Cotemporary
Writers
;
and
yet
could
never
arrive
at
a
legal
Canonization
.
These
(
as
many
of
'em
,
that
is
,
as
have
had
their
Lives
penn'd
by
such
particular
Historiographers
as
I
have
heard
of
)
were
mostly
either
Archbishops
or
Bishops
:
To
which
a
third
Class
of
inferiour
Clergy-men
shall
be
added
;
to
be
inlarg'd
by
those
that
have
better
opportunities
(
than
I
have
had
)
of
making
just
and
full
Enquiries
.
The
Archbishops
of
Canterbury
have
always
presided
in
the
British
Church
tanquam
Papae
alterius
Orbis
;
Archbishops
of
Canterbury
.
and
therefore
in
their
Lives
,
well
written
,
we
may
justly
expect
the
most
considerable
part
of
our
Ecclesiastical
History
.
During
the
Contests
betwixt
the
Crown
of
England
and
the
Court
of
Rome
,
it
was
commonly
the
mishap
of
these
Primates
to
side
with
the
latter
;
which
brought
them
sometimes
into
disgraceful
Circumstances
with
their
Sovereigns
;
but
made
their
Memories
precious
in
the
esteem
of
those
bigotted
Monks
,
to
whose
Lot
it
fell
to
write
their
Elogies
.
Hence
we
have
already
met
with
Anselm
,
Edmund
and
Thomas
,
among
the
Saints
;
and
must
here
mennion
such
of
their
Successors
as
have
had
particular
Pens
engag'd
in
their
Service
,
tho'
never
so
much
as
honour'd
with
(
even
the
diminutive
Saintship
)
a
Beatification
.
Simon
Sudbury
,
who
was
beheaded
by
the
Rebels
in
Wat.
Tyler's
Insurrection
,
is
the
first
that
I
can
meet
with
of
this
kind
:
And
we
have
only
a
Fragment
of
his
Life
,
written
by
one
[
a
](A52335-e89430-b)
a
Angl.
Sacr.
vol.
1.
p.
49.
William
Chartham
.
It
tells
us
,
that
't
was
prophesy'd
such
an
untimely
Death
should
befal
him
,
because
(
when
Bishop
of
London
)
he
met
some
Pilgrims
on
their
way
to
Canterbury
,
designing
to
pay
their
Devotion
to
St.
Thomas's
Shrine
,
and
advised
them
to
let
the
Journey
alone
;
assuring
them
Quod
illa
Indulgentia
plenaria
quae
apud
Cantuarios
fore
sperabatur
,
nullius
commodi
fuerat
vel
valoris
.
Such
Doctrin
as
this
in
his
Life-time
,
and
the
sealing
his
Loyalty
to
his
Prince
with
his
Blood
at
his
Death
,
ought
indeed
to
be
remember'd
with
Honour
.
That
of
Henry
Chicheley
(
the
pious
Founder
of
All-Soul's
College
in
Oxford
)
is
written
by
Arth.
Duck
;
and
was
lately
publish'd
,
with
some
others
of
the
like
kind
,
by
[
a
](A52335-e89540-b)
a
4
to
.
Lond.
1681.
Dr.
Bates
.
John
Morton's
was
written
and
publish'd
by
[
b
](A52335-e89570-b)
b
8vo
.
Lond.
1607.
Dr.
Budden
,
Principal
of
New-Inn-Hall
;
who
had
,
in
this
Primate
,
as
noble
a
Subject
as
any
Historian
could
well
treat
on
.
He
had
approv'd
himself
a
most
faithful
Servant
to
Henry
the
Sixth
,
a
true
Subject
to
Edward
the
Fourth
,
and
an
admirable
Counsellor
to
Henry
the
Seventh
;
who
gain'd
the
English
Sceptre
(
chiefly
)
by
his
Management
,
and
had
therefore
good
Reason
to
bestow
a
Crosier
upon
him
.
Since
the
Reformation
,
so
much
of
Archbishop
Parker's
Life
as
related
to
his
Consecration
has
been
enquir'd
into
by
several
worthy
Patriots
of
our
Church
;
provok'd
to
it
by
the
impudent
and
senseless
Fable
of
the
Nags-Head
Tavern
.
The
first
that
engag'd
in
this
Controversy
,
was
[
c
](A52335-e89670-b)
c
Of
the
Consecration
of
Bishops
in
the
Church
of
England
,
Fol.
Lond.
1613.
&
Latine
,
Fol.
Ibid.
1625
,
1646.
Fran.
Wilson
;
who
,
from
the
Register-books
of
the
Diocess
of
Canterbury
,
discover'd
the
Villanies
(
and
stop'd
the
Mouths
)
of
those
Romanists
that
had
first
started
this
Slander
.
The
Dispute
was
again
renew'd
a
little
before
the
Restoration
of
King
Charles
the
Second
;
and
then
our
Church's
Cause
was
as
happily
asserted
by
Bishop
[
a
](A52335-e89740-b)
a
Consecration
and
Succession
of
Protestant
Bishops
,
8vo
.
Lond.
1664.
Bramhal
,
afterwards
Primate
of
Ireland
.
In
the
late
Reign
,
the
University
of
Cambridge
thought
it
a
proper
Season
to
publish
an
Account
of
that
whole
Procedure
,
from
the
Original
Record
in
the
Library
of
Bennet
College
;
which
they
order'd
to
be
printed
with
two
excellent
[
b
](A52335-e89800-b)
b
4to
.
Cantabr.
1688.
Sermons
upon
the
same
Subject
,
preach'd
by
Mr.
Edwards
,
a
Member
of
that
University
.
Archbishop
Whitgift's
many
sharp
Conflicts
with
the
Nonconformists
,
together
with
the
other
Occurrences
of
his
Life
,
are
recorded
by
Sir
George
Paul
;
a
Writer
much
commended
by
Bishop
[
c
](A52335-e89850-b)
c
De
Praesul
.
p.
223.
Godwine
.
The
Metropolitical
Church
of
York
,
Geoffry
Plantagenet
,
Natural
Son
to
Henry
the
Second
,
had
great
variety
of
Fortune
;
being
promoted
by
his
Brother
King
Richard
the
First
,
and
driven
out
of
the
Kingdom
by
(
another
of
his
brethren
)
King
John
.
His
Story
is
given
us
at
large
by
[
a
](A52335-e89950-b)
a
MS.
in
Bibl.
Cott.
Ben.
Gyraldus
Cambrensis
;
who
says
he
did
not
think
fit
to
put
its
Author's
Name
to
it
,
there
being
(
belike
)
some
of
his
warm
Truths
in
it
,
which
the
Times
would
not
bear
.
In
the
[
b
](A52335-e89970-b)
b
Angl.
Sacr.
vol.
●
.
p.
445.
Catalogue
of
his
own
Labours
he
tells
us
that
't
was
a
Book
quod
nec
in
cunabulis
aut
celsitudine
generis
,
nec
in
Divitiis
aut
Fortunae
blanditiis
spes
ponenda
,
exemplum
praebens
.
Rich.
Scroop
,
Brother
to
the
Earl
of
Wiltshire
,
was
put
to
death
(
for
his
Gratitude
and
Loyalty
to
his
lawful
Sovereign
and
kind
Master
,
Richard
the
Second
)
by
Henry
the
Fourth
;
against
whom
he
conspir'd
with
the
Earl
of
Northumberland
and
others
.
His
Declaration
against
the
said
Henry
,
giving
his
Reasons
why
he
cannot
submit
to
his
Government
,
has
been
lately
[
a
](A52335-e90040-b)
a
Ibid.
p.
362
,
369.
Publish'd
;
as
is
likewise
Clement
Maydestone's
History
of
his
Martyrdom
.
Cardinal
Wolsey's
purple
will
give
him
a
rank
with
the
greatest
of
our
Prelates
,
how
mean
soever
the
Circumstances
of
his
Birth
and
Parentage
may
have
been
;
and
the
Figure
that
he
made
in
the
State
,
as
well
as
the
Church
,
during
his
Rule
and
Government
(
rather
than
Ministry
)
in
the
Reign
of
King
Henry
the
Eighth
,
very
justly
challeng'd
the
pains
of
a
special
Historian
:
Such
was
Cavendish
,
his
menial
Servant
,
who
was
also
in
good
esteem
with
that
King
.
He
has
left
us
an
impartial
Account
of
his
Master's
Life
;
which
has
had
several
[
b
](A52335-e90090-b)
b
4to
.
Lond.
1590
,
&c.
Editions
.
Dr.
Burnet
[
c
](A52335-e90130-b)
c
Hist.
of
Reform
.
par.
1.
p.
8.
quotes
a
MS.
Copy
,
different
from
what
we
have
in
Print
:
And
so
does
the
Lord
[
d
](A52335-e90140-b)
d
Hist.
of
Hen.
8.
p.
78.
Herbert
;
but
whether
this
be
not
the
same
with
the
former
I
know
not
.
We
have
another
History
of
his
Life
and
Death
,
in
elegant
Verse
,
by
Tho.
Storer
;
who
was
a
Student
of
Christ-Church
,
and
dy'd
(
a
famous
Poet
)
in
the
Year
,
1604.
They
that
know
how
many
of
our
Bishops
[
a
](A52335-e90190-b)
a
Vid.
Chronic.
Seriem
Cancellar.
&c.
E●it
.
a
D.
Guil.
Dugdale
.
Offices
of
Chancellours
,
Treasurers
,
Judges
,
&c.
will
readily
believe
that
most
of
those
left
such
Memoirs
as
might
easily
have
been
fram'd
into
very
exquisite
Histories
of
their
Lives
.
And
yet
our
Monks
,
to
whom
the
Trust
of
writing
all
our
Historis
was
usually
committed
,
were
so
much
Strangers
to
Affairs
of
this
Nature
,
that
we
rarely
find
any
thing
among
them
that
looks
this
way
.
Their
Business
was
to
pick
up
,
or
invent
,
as
many
amazing
Stories
as
they
could
of
the
Exemplary
Courage
of
some
choice
Prelates
in
asserting
the
Papal
Usurpations
;
of
their
extraordinary
Sanctity
;
of
their
Benefactons
to
some
Church
or
Monastery
;
of
their
Miracles
,
&c.
And
with
such
Narratives
as
these
we
shall
find
the
Lives
of
most
of
the
following
Prelates
are
Stuff'd
and
Glutted
.
That
of
Gundulf
Bishop
of
Rochester
by
a
[
a
](A52335-e90260-b)
a
Angl.
Sacr.
vol.
2.
p.
273.
Monk
of
that
Church
(
his
intimate
Acquaintance
)
is
the
earliest
of
these
;
and
the
rebuilding
of
the
Cathedral
,
the
Enlargement
of
the
Monastery
and
the
Foundation
of
the
Hospital
at
Chatham
,
were
Acts
of
Piety
that
very
well
deserv'd
such
a
Respect
.
The
like
was
done
for
Robert
de
Betun
,
Bishop
of
Hereford
,
by
his
Chaplain
(
and
Successor
in
the
Priory
of
Lanthony
)
William
de
Wycumb
;
who
had
a
very
noble
Subject
for
the
two
[
b
](A52335-e90310-b)
b
Ibid.
p.
299
,
&c.
Books
he
has
left
us
,
if
we
may
believe
William
of
Malmesbury
.
He
pretends
to
have
known
this
Robert
very
well
;
and
assures
us
that
he
was
the
most
familiarly
entertain'd
at
the
Court
of
Rome
,
of
any
of
our
Bishops
of
that
Age.
We
have
only
a
Fragment
of
Gyraldus
Cambrensis's
[
c
](A52335-e90380-b)
c
Ibid.
p.
351.
Life
of
Hugh
Nonant
of
Norwich
;
and
such
as
is
hardly
worth
the
mentioning
.
He
is
somewhat
more
copious
in
his
History
of
the
[
d
](A52335-e90410-b)
d
Ibid.
p.
420
,
&c.
Six
chief
Bishops
of
his
own
Age
;
to
which
we
may
add
the
Three
Books
he
wrote
[
a
](A52335-e90430-b)
a
Ibid.
p.
457.
&
Praefat.
p.
22.
De
rebus
a
se
gestis●
,
since
he
was
(
at
least
)
Bishop
Elect
of
St.
David's
.
Robert
Grostest
of
Lincoln
was
a
Prelate
of
great
Worth
,
a
mighty
Stickler
against
the
prevailing
Crime
of
Symony
and
the
modish
Appeals
to
Rome
;
and
we
have
a
full
History
of
his
Life
by
[
b
](A52335-e90490-b)
b
Ibid.
p.
325.
Richard
a
Monk
of
Barden
(
or
Burton
in
Hartfordshire
)
and
another
Anonymous
Writer
.
We
have
also
a
Letter
from
the
Dean
and
Chapter
of
St.
Paul's
for
his
Canonization
:
But
it
appears
,
from
many
of
his
own
Writings
,
that
his
Request
was
not
like
to
be
granted
;
notwithstanding
the
fair
Caresses
that
he
had
from
the
Pope
(
who
fear'd
him
more
than
he
lov'd
him
)
in
his
Life-time
.
William
of
Wickham
,
the
great
Founder
of
two
famous
Colleges
in
Oxford
and
Winchester
,
could
not
avoid
the
having
his
Benefits
carefully
Register'd
by
some
of
those
that
daily
tasted
of
the
Sweets
of
them
:
And
indeed
there
have
been
several
of
those
who
have
thus
paid
their
grateful
Acknowledgments
to
his
Memory
.
The
first
of
'em
(
I
think
)
was
Tho.
Chaundler
,
sometime
Warden
of
New-College
;
who
wrote
the
[
a
](A52335-e90600-b)
a
MS.
in
Coll
Novo
,
Oxon.
Founder's
Life
,
by
way
of
Dialogue
,
in
a
florid
and
good
Stile
.
This
is
contracted
(
by
the
Author
himself
,
as
is
suppos'd
)
into
a
[
b
](A52335-e90610-b)
b
Angl.
Sac.
vol.
2.
p.
355.
Couple
of
Pages
;
together
with
which
is
publish'd
a
piece
of
his
larger
Colloquy
,
wherein
he
touches
upon
the
Life
of
(
his
Patron
)
Tho.
Bekinton
,
Bishop
of
Bath
and
Wells
.
He
commends
this
latter
Prelate's
Skill
in
the
Civil
Law
;
but
says
nothing
of
(
what
won
the
Heart
of
King
Henry
the
Sixth
)
his
writing
against
the
Salic
Law
of
France
.
The
next
Writer
of
Wickham's
Life
was
[
c
](A52335-e90690-b)
c
4to
.
Lond.
1597.
&
Oxon.
1690.
Dr.
Martyn
,
Chancellour
of
Winchester
under
Bishop
Gardiner
;
who
had
the
greatest
part
of
his
Materials
out
of
Chaundler's
Book
.
After
him
,
Dr.
Johnson
(
sometime
Fellow
of
New-College
,
as
well
as
the
two
former
,
and
afterwards
Master
of
Winchester-School
)
gave
a
short
view
of
their
Founder
in
Latin
Verse
;
which
,
being
a
small
thing
of
it self
has
been
several
times
[
a
](A52335-e90780-b)
a
Vid.
Ath.
Oxon.
vol.
1.
p.
251.
Printed
with
other
Tracts
.
Bishop
Godwine
is
[
b
](A52335-e90800-b)
b
Praef.
ad
Angl.
Sac.
vol.
1.
p.
19.
censur'd
for
having
a
little
unfairly
borrow'd
the
Account
he
gives
us
of
this
Prelate's
Life
(
one
of
the
best
in
his
Book
)
from
Mr.
Josseline
;
without
taking
any
notice
of
his
Benefactor
.
Henry
Spencer
Bishop
of
Norwich
(
a
more
proper
Officer
for
a
Camp
than
a
Cathedral
)
had
his
active
Life
written
by
[
c
](A52335-e90840-b)
c
Angl.
Sacr.
vol.
2.
p.
359.
John
Capgrave
;
who
takes
occasion
to
state
the
Case
,
how
far
a
Prelate
may
engage
in
Military
Affairs
.
There
's
no
doubt
but
there
may
be
some
Junctures
wherein
't
is
not
only
allowable
(
but
a
Duty
)
in
every
Man
,
that
is
able
,
to
bear
Arms
;
and
this
Bishop's
Suppressing
the
Rebellious
Insurrection
in
his
own
Diocess
was
so
far
from
being
a
Crime
,
that
't
was
highly
commendable
and
becomingly
Brave
.
But
his
Atchievements
in
Flanders
and
other
Foreign
Parts
(
against
the
express
Command
of
his
Sovereign
)
were
such
extraordinary
Efforts
of
Lay-Gallantry
,
as
are
not
easily
to
be
defended
:
Nor
do
I
see
that
honest
John
ever
thought
of
Apologizing
for
them
.
William
of
Wainfleet
(
Bishop
of
Winchester
and
Lord
Chancellour
of
England
)
was
bred
in
Wickham's
Colleges
;
and
did
his
Founder
the
Honour
to
Write
very
fairly
after
his
Copy
.
His
Magdalene
may
vye
with
the
other
's
two
St.
Maries
,
being
(
Modestly
)
one
of
the
richest
Seminaries
of
Learning
in
the
whole
World
:
And
his
magnificent
Charity
has
been
celebrated
by
the
eloquent
Pen
of
Dr.
Budden
(
the
Writer
of
Arch-bishop
Morton's
Life
)
who
was
a
while
Reader
of
Philosophy
in
that
College
.
His
Book
bears
the
Title
of
[
a
](A52335-e90970-b)
a
4to
.
Oxon.
1602.
&
Lond.
1681.
inter
Collect
.
D.
Bates
.
Guilielmi
Pateni
,
cui
Waynfleti
Agnomen
fuit
,
Wintoniensis
Ecclesiae
Praesulis
,
&
Coll.
Beatae
Mariae
Magd.
apud
Oxon.
Fundatoris
,
Vita
Obitusque
A
Treatise
much
applauded
by
Godwine
,
who
(
nevertheless
)
seems
not
to
have
perus'd
it
:
For
he
calls
the
Author
William
Budden
,
tho'
his
Name
was
certainly
John
.
Richard
Hall
Doctor
in
Divinity
(
who
dy'd
at
[
a
](A52335-e91040-b)
a
Joh.
Pits
,
p.
803.
St.
Omers
,
in
the
Year
1604.
)
wrote
the
Life
of
John
Fisher
,
Bishop
of
Rochester
;
who
could
hardly
be
call'd
a
Cardinal
,
since
his
Head
was
off
before
the
Red
Hat
pass'd
through
Calais
.
This
Treatise
was
gravely
quoted
and
referr'd
to
by
Tho.
Fuller
,
before
(
as
I
suppose
)
he
had
seen
it
:
Since
he
seems
to
Apologize
for
his
oversight
by
telling
us
,
that
't
was
a
[
b
](A52335-e91110-b)
b
Hist.
of
Cambr.
p.
94.
99.
Book
which
,
when
in
Manuscript
,
he
priz'd
more
for
its
Rarity
,
than
(
since
't
is
Printed
)
he
trusts
for
its
Verity
.
A
more
modern
[
c
](A52335-e91130-b)
c
H.
Wharton
,
Angl.
Sacr.
vol.
1.
p.
382.
Author
mentions
the
Life
of
the
same
Bishop
written
by
George
Lily
;
which
,
I
guess
,
is
no
more
than
one
of
the
short
Characters
in
his
Elogia
virorum
Illustrium
.
John
Jewel's
(
of
Salisbury
)
was
compos'd
by
one
that
was
a
great
Admirer
of
his
Performances
against
Harding
and
other
Papists
,
Lawrence
Humphrey
;
out
of
whose
[
d
](A52335-e91200-b)
d
4to
.
Lond.
1573.
copious
Tract
in
Latin
another
small
English
Account
of
his
Life
was
afterwards
drawn
by
a
[
e
](A52335-e91240-b)
e
8vo
.
Lond.
1685.
Person
of
Quality
,
as
the
Author
was
pleas'd
to
Style
himself
.
These
are
all
the
Writers
,
that
I
know
of
,
which
have
attempted
the
History
of
any
of
our
particular
Prelates
,
before
the
end
of
Queen
Elizabeth's
Reign
;
which
is
as
low
as
my
Enquiries
are
to
come
.
I
do
not
question
but
that
,
upon
a
diligent
Search
into
our
English
Libraries
,
a
good
Number
may
be
added
to
them
;
tho'
I
cannot
hope
they
will
ever
prove
either
so
many
,
or
so
exact
,
as
those
that
have
been
written
of
the
Bishops
since
the
uniting
of
the
Kingdoms
.
There
are
few
inferiour
Clergymen
that
have
had
the
Honour
done
them
to
be
remember'd
in
any
special
Discourses
on
their
several
Lives
;
[
a
](A52335-e91350-b)
a
Bibl.
Cott.
Tiberius
,
A.
8.
Capgrave
,
is
not
worth
the
Readers
notice
or
Mine
;
)
and
they
both
fall
within
the
Reign
of
Queen
Elizabeth
,
and
the
single
Diocess
of
Durham
.
The
former
of
these
is
that
of
Dean
Whittyngham
,
one
of
the
sorry
Translators
of
David's
Psalms
;
whose
Life
the
Oxford
[
b
](A52335-e91430-b)
b
Hist.
&
Antiq.
Oxon.
lib.
2.
p.
34.
Antiquary
tells
us
he
had
in
Manuscript
.
The
other
is
that
of
(
our
Northern
Apostle
)
Bernard
Gilpin
,
Rector
of
Houghton
;
who
had
his
[
a
](A52335-e91460-b)
a
4to
.
Lond.
1628.
&
inter
Collect.
Dr.
Bates
,
Life
written
,
in
elegant
Latin
,
by
his
grateful
Scholar
,
Dr.
George
Carlton
,
Bishop
of
Chichester
.
There
's
one
passage
in
this
History
which
has
been
ill
apply'd
by
some
of
its
Readers
.
The
Refusal
of
the
Bishoprick
of
Carlile
has
been
interpreted
as
an
Instance
and
Argument
of
the
good
Man's
mean
opinion
of
the
Order
of
Episcopacy
:
Whereas
(
not
to
mention
the
extraordinary
Humility
wherewith
he
is
noted
to
have
been
endow'd
)
they
that
know
the
values
of
that
Bishoprick
,
and
the
Rectory
of
Houghton
,
will
easily
apprehend
there
might
be
other
Motives
to
incline
one
to
Modesty
upon
such
an
Offer
.
CHAP.
VII
.
Of
the
Histories
,
Chronicles
,
Cartularies
,
&c.
of
our
English
Monasteries
.
THE
great
Usefulness
of
the
Leiger
Books
and
other
Monastic
Records
is
so
apparent
to
any
Man
that
has
had
the
least
acquaintance
with
them
,
that
I
need
not
much
insist
on
so
known
a
Subject
.
The
most
Eminent
of
our
Historians
are
visibly
indebted
to
them
for
their
chief
[
a
](A52335-e91580-b)
a
See
the
Pref.
to
Tanners
Notitia
,
p.
22
,
23.
Materials
;
and
't
is
from
hence
that
they
are
enabled
to
clear
the
Descents
and
Pedigrees
of
many
Noble
Families
;
the
Tenures
of
Estates
,
the
Ancient
Customs
of
Counties
,
Cities
and
great
Towns
;
the
Foundation
and
Endowment
of
Churches
,
&c.
For
how
sparing
,
or
defective
,
soever
the
old
Monks
might
be
in
Recording
the
Public
Affairs
of
the
State
,
we
are
sure
they
were
extreamly
diligent
in
noting
down
those
of
their
own
Monasteries
:
Whence
it
is
that
the
Histories
of
those
Cathedrals
,
which
were
anciently
in
their
Possession
,
are
the
most
entire
of
any
in
the
Kingdom
.
This
sufficiently
appears
from
the
late
Collections
of
the
Publisher
of
Anglia
Sacra
,
who
soon
furnish'd
out
one
[
a
](A52335-e91620-b)
a
Vol.
I.
De
Archiepiscopis
&
Episcopis
Ecclesiarum
quas
Monachi
possiderunt
.
Volume
of
this
sort
of
Writers
,
but
was
forced
to
patch
up
the
second
out
of
a
more
incoherent
Medly
of
Shreds
.
He
would
certainly
have
driven
very
heavily
in
the
succeeding
ones
that
he
had
promised
;
since
(
't
is
plain
)
his
best
Fund
was
already
exhausted
.
Nor
are
these
Registers
only
more
particular
and
full
in
Matters
relating
to
their
own
History
,
than
that
of
the
Public
;
but
they
are
also
much
more
Authentic
and
Credible
in
these
.
They
have
always
been
allow'd
as
good
Evidence
in
our
Courts
of
Judicature
;
and
do
often
effectually
determine
such
Causes
as
have
been
thought
to
labour
under
in
extricable
difficulties
.
Their
Authority
,
indeed
,
is
not
so
Venerable
in
those
Passages
that
concern
the
Grandeur
,
Priviledges
and
Immunities
,
of
their
respective
Houses
;
where
the
private
Zeal
or
Interest
of
the
Pen-man
may
be
suspected
to
have
transported
him
a
little
,
beyond
the
exact
Limits
of
Truth
.
The
Monks
are
rarely
so
strait-lac'd
,
as
to
boggle
at
an
Officious
Lye
;
and
therefore
,
where
the
Subject
will
admit
of
such
a
pious
piece
of
Knavery
,
they
are
to
be
read
with
Caution
and
Judgment
.
In
reporting
the
several
Grants
of
their
Founders
and
Benefactors
,
with
the
Number
and
Boundaries
of
the
Acres
they
gave
,
we
may
readily
and
safely
trust
them
:
because
an
interpolation
in
such
a
Case
would
be
hazardous
,
and
what
might
probably
destroy
an
old
Title
instead
of
creating
a
new
one
.
But
when
a
Story
comes
to
be
told
that
may
advance
the
Repute
of
the
whole
Fraternity
,
or
discover
the
extraordinary
Sanctity
of
a
single
Brother
,
we
are
to
look
for
its
being
set
off
to
the
best
Advantage
;
and
the
Historian
uses
us
kindly
,
if
he
Romances
only
a
little
.
I
am
apt
to
believe
(
says
Father
[
a
](A52335-e91640-b)
a
Critic
.
Hist.
of
N.
Test.
par.
1.
p.
20.
Simon
)
that
these
Letters
[
of
Christ
and
King
Agbar
]
were
really
found
in
the
Archives
of
the
City
of
Edessa
:
But
we
ought
not
too
easily
to
give
Credit
to
the
first
Originals
of
Churches
.
Every
one
strives
to
advance
their
Antiquity
as
much
as
is
possible
;
and
they
make
no
scruple
(
on
such
Occasions
)
to
counterfeit
Acts
,
when
they
have
none
that
are
true
.
Mr.
Whelo●
[
a
](A52335-e91720-b)
a
In
Notis
ad
Beda
Hist.
Eccles
p.
260.
quotes
an
old
Saxon
Schedule
of
the
endowments
of
our
ancient
Monasteries
before
the
Conquest
,
[
b
](A52335-e91790-b)
b
Bibl.
Cott.
Otho
▪
B.
11.
where
(
if
at
all
)
it
ought
to
have
been
mention'd
.
We
are
also
told
of
an
Historical
Account
of
the
Benedictines
in
England
,
from
King
Edgar's
time
to
the
Conquest
;
which
is
as
high
as
that
Order
could
be
traced
in
this
Kingdom
.
For
,
whatever
may
be
argued
to
the
contrary
,
't
is
very
plain
that
our
first
Saxon
Monks
knew
nothing
of
St.
Bennet's
Rule
;
but
lived
under
the
Discipline
brought
from
Ireland
,
which
was
very
much
different
from
what
was
afterwards
introduced
by
St.
Dunstan
.
If
Augustine
himself
was
of
this
Order
,
and
planted
it
at
Canterbury
,
(
which
is
much
questioned
by
very
Learn'd
Men
)
't
is
demonstrable
the
Rules
were
soon
forgotten
or
laid
aside
,
even
in
the
southern
Parts
of
the
Island
;
and
,
in
the
North
,
Columbanus
and
the
Men
of
Hy
were
the
Founders
of
all
our
Monastic
Schemes
.
After
the
Norman
Invasion
,
we
had
several
Members
of
particular
Monasteries
that
apply'd
themselves
to
write
the
Histories
of
their
own
Houses
;
[
a
](A52335-e91960-b)
a
Vid.
Hist.
Antiq.
Oxon.
lib.
1.
ad
ann.
1381
&
1391.
&
lib.
2.
p.
61.
Crump
,
a
Cistertian
Monk
(
about
the
Year
1380
)
and
Dr.
of
Divinity
in
the
University
of
Oxford
;
who
wrote
an
Account
of
the
Foundation
of
all
the
Monasteries
of
England
from
the
time
of
St.
●irin
(
the
first
,
Bishop
of
Dorchester
)
down
to
that
of
Bishop
〈◊〉
:
But
't
is
to
be
fear'd
this
is
now
lost
;
since
it
could
not
be
found
by
[
a
](A52335-e92040-b)
a
See
Mr.
〈◊〉
Pref.
to
his
Notitia
,
pag.
8
,
9.
one
whom
hardly
any
thing
of
that
kind
could
escape
.
After
him
John
Boston
(
a
Monk
of
St.
Edmondsbury
,
who
will
be
remember'd
hereafter
on
another
Occasion
)
Collected
the
Histories
of
the
Foundations
of
his
own
and
some
other
Religious
Orders
;
which
,
I
suppose
,
was
done
in
those
three
Books
which
bore
the
Title
of
,
[
b
](A52335-e92090-b)
b
J.
●it●
,
p
393.
Speculum
Coenobitarum
.
The
next
Writer
on
this
Subject
,
was
William
Buttoner
(
who
is
also
named
Buttonius
,
[
c
](A52335-e92140-b)
c
Id.
pag.
649
,
8●1
,
8●1
.
and
William
of
Worcester
)
who
is
said
to
have
written
,
De
Civitatibus
,
Monasteriis
,
Abbatiis
;
deque
Longitudine
&
Latitudine
eorum
:
which
Treatise
we
are
assured
is
in
the
Library
of
Bennet
College
.
I
am
very
confident
that
the
Topographical
Description
of
England
,
which
has
been
already
mention'd
in
the
first
part
,
is
the
whole
of
this
Gentleman's
Labours
;
and
that
this
Treatise
has
been
sub-divided
into
〈◊〉
deal
of
lesser
Tracts
(
such
as
his
Itinerary
of
Bristol
,
History
of
Osney
,
&c.
)
by
the
same
Powers
that
sliced
the
Man
himself
into
three
several
Authors
.
Sir
Henry
Savile
did
certainly
make
a
draught
of
a
future
History
of
the
English
Monasteries
:
but
is
supposed
to
have
laid
aside
those
Thoughts
,
upon
John
Speed's
intermixing
something
of
that
Nature
in
his
General
History
.
The
Annual
Revenues
of
the
Abbies
,
&c.
in
Speed
were
had
from
Sir
Robert
Cotton
;
whose
[
a
](A52335-e92280-b)
a
Bibl.
Cott.
Cleopatra
,
E.
4.
Copy
has
a
double
Valuation
,
of
computed
and
clear
Profits
:
whereof
the
former
is
only
given
by
Speed
,
and
the
latter
by
Dugdale
.
The
Reason
why
the
former
of
these
Writers
is
so
frequently
mistaken
,
in
assigning
the
right
Counties
to
the
several
Monasteries
,
was
because
he
follow'd
the
List
brought
in
by
Cromwell's
Commissioners
;
who
were
chiefly
sollicitous
in
learning
the
Value
and
Income
,
without
being
too
nice
in
the
Topographical
part
of
their
Account
.
This
is
what
we
have
from
a
very
[
a
](A52335-e92330-b)
a
Hist.
&
Synops.
Bibl.
Cott.
p.
39
,
40.
learn'd
Pen
:
To
which
let
me
add
what
another
[
b
](A52335-e92340-b)
b
T.
Tanner
,
in
Praefat
ad
Notit
.
Monast.
pag.
5
,
6
,
20
,
21.
worthy
Person
(
who
has
been
very
happy
in
his
searches
into
these
Matters
)
has
further
told
us
.
That
Catalogue
,
he
observes
,
was
drawn
up
by
William
Burton
,
out
of
Leland's
Papers
and
the
Original
Book
of
Valuations
;
which
Book
differs
,
indeed
,
from
that
ancient
Copy
which
Sir
William
Dugdale
transcrib'd
from
the
Cottonian
Library
.
Nor
are
these
to
be
reconcil'd
by
deducting
of
Reprises
;
as
appears
from
the
History
of
those
in
Dugdale's
Warwickshire
,
where
all
those
common
Burthens
(
of
Pensions
,
Corrodies
,
Alms
,
&c.
)
are
summ'd
up
:
so
that
he
inclines
to
the
Opinion
that
there
were
several
Rates
taken
of
our
Monasteries
,
upon
various
Surveys
and
at
different
Times
;
especially
since
he
meets
with
some
Valuations
in
Leland's
Notes
,
that
will
not
agree
with
either
of
these
.
Richard
Broughton
(
who
has
been
once
remember'd
before
)
wrote
a
small
Book
of
indigested
Tales
;
which
he
entitl'd
,
Monasticon
[
a
](A52335-e92450-b)
a
8vo
.
Lond.
1655.
Britannicum
;
or
,
A
Historical
Narration
of
the
first
Founding
,
and
flourishing
State
of
the
Ancient
Monasteries
,
Religious
Rules
and
Orders
of
Great
Britain
,
in
the
Times
of
the
Britains
and
Primitive
Church
of
the
Saxons
,
&c.
This
was
printed
a
dozen
Years
after
the
Death
of
the
Author
,
by
some
of
his
Friends
:
so
that
't
is
probable
we
have
it
much
more
imperfect
than
he
intended
;
and
in
such
an
unfinish'd
Condition
,
as
the
mistaken
Kindness
of
Executors
too
frequently
send
things
abroad
.
The
same
Year
was
publish'd
the
First
Volume
of
the
famous
Monasticon
Anglicanum
:
[
b
](A52335-e92550-b)
b
Fol.
Lond.
1661
,
1673.
Second
and
Third
were
afterwards
added
.
The
two
former
of
these
were
(
as
the
Title-Pages
will
inform
us
)
owing
to
the
joint
Labours
of
Sir
Will
.
Dugdale
and
Mr.
Dodsworth
:
who
had
also
the
Assistance
of
a
great
many
other
eminent
Antiquaries
and
Well-wishers
to
our
English
History
.
These
were
indeed
chiefly
the
Work
of
R.
Dodsworth
,
whose
Father
was
Register
at
York
;
and
Dugdale
had
only
so
much
share
in
it
,
Vt
Authoris
alterius
Titulum
optime
meritus
sit
,
as
Sir
John
Marsham
[
a
](A52335-e92640-b)
a
In
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
.
ad
vol.
1.
expresses
it
.
That
is
,
as
the
Oxford-Antiquary
[
b
](A52335-e92670-b)
b
Ath.
Oxon
,
vol.
2.
p.
explains
it
to
us
,
He
took
care
in
the
Methodizing
and
Publishing
of
them
;
in
Correcting
the
Sheets
at
the
Press
,
and
in
Composing
very
useful
Indexes
.
Accordingly
(
tho'
Dodsworth
was
dead
before
the
printing
of
the
First
Volume
,
yet
)
he
has
the
glory
given
him
,
in
the
Title
,
of
the
principal
Author
of
both
Tomes
.
The
former
of
these
gives
us
the
Records
of
the
Benedictine
Monasteries
,
and
(
their
Off-spring
)
,
the
Cluniacenses
,
Cistertians
and
Carthusians
:
And
the
latter
affords
those
of
the
Canons
Regular
of
St.
Augustine
,
Hospitalers
,
Templars
,
Gilbertines
,
Praemanstratenses
,
and
the
Maturines
or
Trinitarians
.
We
have
in
them
the
Remains
of
all
those
Orders
,
digested
into
a
good
Method
;
without
any
thing
intermix'd
,
either
by
the
Collector
or
Publisher
.
The
Latin
Pieces
are
printed
off
exactly
as
they
found
them
;
and
those
in
Saxon
(
as
also
Leland's
English
Notes
)
were
translated
by
Will
.
Somner
.
The
Collector
ought
to
be
reckon'd
amongst
those
worthy
Benefactors
to
the
Publick
,
that
have
made
it
their
Business
to
preserve
our
ancient
Historians
;
such
as
Twisden
,
Fell
,
Gale
,
&c.
Great
and
many
are
the
Advantages
which
all
the
several
Branches
of
our
History
(
not
only
in
Ecclesiastical
,
but
Civil
and
Martial
Occurrences
)
will
derive
from
this
Work
:
And
hardly
a
private
Family
(
of
any
Consideration
)
in
the
Kingdom
,
but
will
here
meet
with
something
of
its
Genealogy
and
Pedigree
.
He
is
most
scrupulously
exact
in
transcribing
the
ancient
Records
:
So
that
,
the
bald
Latin
,
barbarous
Expressions
,
and
other
Deformities
of
the
Monkish
Stile
,
are
to
be
reckon'd
Beauties
in
him
.
By
the
Catalogue
of
the
Monasteries
,
in
the
end
of
the
First
Volume
,
it
appears
how
far
the
Industry
of
this
Writer
has
exceeded
that
of
the
People
employ'd
by
Henry
VIII
.
to
bring
in
a
List
of
all
the
Religious
Houses
in
this
Nation
:
many
being
added
(
as
more
might
have
been
,
in
almost
every
County
)
to
the
Schedule
by
them
transmitted
into
the
Exchequer
.
And
yet
the
old
Register-Books
,
that
are
cited
in
the
Monasticon
,
have
a
deal
more
in
them
than
is
there
made
use
of
.
Sir
William
Dugdale
,
(
on
second
Thoughts
)
transcrib'd
many
Things
into
the
Additamenta
of
the
latter
Tome
;
which
both
he
and
Mr.
Dodsworth
had
overlook'd
or
did
not
(
at
first
)
think
Material
enough
.
The
Third
Volume
was
publish'd
under
the
sole
Name
of
Sir
.
William
:
though
Mr.
Wood
does
not
question
(
he
[
a
](A52335-e92890-b)
a
Ath.
Oxon.
vol.
2.
p.
700.
says
)
but
,
in
this
also
,
he
was
very
much
indebted
to
Dodsworth's
Collections
.
He
seems
the
rather
to
suspect
such
a
thing
,
because
many
Records
were
communicated
by
himself
,
which
are
not
duly
acknowledg'd
as
they
ought
to
have
been
;
and
he
verily
believes
the
like
good
Assistance
was
given
him
by
Sir
Tho.
Herbert
,
tho'
his
Benefaction
is
also
disregarded
.
These
Three
Tomes
were
lately
[
b
](A52335-e92920-b)
b
Fol.
Lond.
1693.
See
Mr.
Tanner's
Praef.
p.
7
,
8.
Epitomiz'd
or
Abridg'd
by
some
modest
Gentleman
or
other
,
that
did
not
think
fit
to
put
his
Name
to
his
Work
:
which
might
have
been
of
some
good
use
,
if
a
little
more
care
had
been
taken
of
the
Numerals
;
which
direct
to
the
Pages
in
the
Monasticon
it self
,
and
(
being
frequently
mistaken
)
do
not
only
render
the
Book
useless
,
but
very
dangerous
.
Besides
,
we
are
so
far
from
wanting
any
Abridgment
of
these
Tomes
,
that
we
rather
complain
of
their
too
great
Conciseness
;
and
could
wish
there
were
some
more
added
,
out
of
such
Leiger-Books
and
Records
,
as
never
came
to
the
knowledge
of
either
of
the
worthy
Authors
of
these
Three
.
Towards
the
furtherance
of
such
an
acceptable
Service
as
this
,
[
a
](A52335-e92980-b)
a
8vo
Oxon.
1695.
Notitia
Monastica
does
not
only
afford
us
a
short
History
of
the
Foundation
and
chief
Revolutions
of
all
our
Religious
Houses
,
but
presents
us
also
with
a
Catalogue
of
such
Writers
(
noting
the
Places
where
we
may
find
them
)
as
will
abundantly
furnish
us
with
such
further
Particulars
as
we
shall
have
occasion
for
.
The
foremention'd
Compilers
of
the
Monasticon
Anglicanum
took
care
to
make
the
like
References
;
and
to
let
the
World
know
from
whose
Hands
they
had
the
perusal
of
the
Records
of
this
or
the
other
Monastery
.
But
,
as
many
new
Discoveries
have
been
made
since
their
Time
,
so
several
of
the
Books
they
met
with
have
changed
their
owners
;
and
therefore
their
Defects
are
not
only
here
supply'd
,
but
the
present
Proprietors
of
what
they
mention
much
better
ascertain'd
.
Some
Volumes
indeed
,
and
several
single
Charters
and
other
Instruments
,
are
still
appropriated
to
their
old
Masters
;
where
't
is
not
known
how
,
or
to
whom
,
they
have
been
lately
transfer'd
.
And
this
may
possibly
prove
an
obliging
piece
of
Service
to
the
Executors
,
Administrators
or
Legatees
,
of
the
Persons
so
mention'd
;
who
will
be
hereby
directed
and
encouraged
to
make
Enquiry
after
their
unknown
Chattels
,
and
to
claim
them
where-ever
they
shall
find
them
.
This
industrious
Author
has
superseded
some
Pains
I
had
long
since
taken
to
the
like
purpose
;
and
whereof
I
should
have
given
the
Reader
an
Account
in
this
Chapter
.
The
Informations
he
has
here
,
are
beyond
what
I
could
have
afforded
him
;
and
I
hope
(
upon
a
second
Edition
of
the
Book
,
which
I
much
long
for
)
will
be
yet
a
great
deal
fuller
.
'Till
that
can
be
had
,
give
me
leave
to
offer
a
slender
Tast
of
the
large
Editions
we
may
look
for
from
the
Author
himself
.
In
the
Cottonian
Library
alone
there
are
Histories
and
Register-Books
of
the
following
Monasteries
;
which
(
for
want
of
such
a
Catalogue
as
we
now
have
)
had
not
come
to
his
Knowledge
.
-
ABINGDON
.
Julius
,
A.
9.
Claudius
,
C.
9.
-
St.
ALBANS
.
Otho
,
D.
3.
Nero
,
D.
1.
7.
Julius
,
D.
3.
Claudius
,
D.
1.
-
BARDNEY
.
Vespasian
,
E.
20.
-
BINHAM
.
Claudius
,
D.
13.
-
CANTERBURY
,
Christ's
Galba
,
E.
4.
-
—
St.
Augustine's
.
Tiberius
,
A.
9.
Otho
,
B.
15.
-
DAVENTRY
.
Claudius
,
D.
12.
-
DELACRES
.
Nero
,
C.
3.
-
DERBY
.
Titus
,
C.
9.
-
DUNSTABLE
.
Tiberius
,
A.
10.
-
St.
EDMUNDSBURY
.
Tiberius
,
B.
9.
Claudius
,
A.
12.
-
ELY
.
Tiberius
,
A.
6.
Vespasianus
,
A.
6.
-
GLASTONBURY
.
Vespas
.
D.
22.
-
HULM
,
Nero
,
D.
2.
-
HUNTINGDON
.
Faustina
,
C.
1.
-
KIRKSTEDE
.
Tiberius
,
C.
8.
-
〈◊〉
.
E.
18.
-
LEICESTER
.
Vitellius
,
F.
17.
-
LENTON
.
Otho
,
B.
14.
-
MALMESBURY
.
Faustina
,
B.
8.
-
PARCO-STANLEY
.
Julius
,
C.
11.
Vespas
.
E.
26.
-
PIPEWELL
.
Caligula
,
A.
13
,
14.
-
RAMSEY
.
Vespasian
,
E.
2.
-
READING
.
Vespasian
,
E.
5.
25.
Domit.
A.
3.
-
ROCHESTER
.
Domitian
,
A.
9.
Vespasian
,
A.
22.
Faustina
,
C.
5.
-
SELBY
.
Vitellius
,
E.
16.
-
SMITHFIELD
.
Vespasianus
,
B.
9.
-
SOUTHWARK
.
Faustina
,
A.
8.
-
STONE
.
Vespasianus
,
E.
24.
-
WALSINGHAM
.
Nero
,
E.
7.
-
WESTWOOD
in
Com.
WIGORN
.
Vespasian
,
E.
9.
These
are
the
most
Eminent
of
those
Writers
that
instruct
us
in
the
general
History
of
our
Monasteries
;
tho'
(
as
a
very
[
a
](A52335-e93790-b)
a
D.
Smith
,
in
Hist.
&
Synops.
Bibl.
Cott.
p.
38.
learn'd
Person
has
observed
)
we
still
want
a
more
copious
Notitia
than
any
of
them
have
hitherto
seem'd
to
have
thought
on
:
such
an
one
as
should
give
us
a
just
account
of
the
Foundation
of
those
Houses
;
the
Men
of
Learning
that
flourish'd
in
them
;
their
Rules
,
Interests
,
Contests
,
&c.
There
are
others
that
have
taken
great
Pains
in
writing
Histories
of
some
particular
Orders
of
Monks
,
[
b
](A52335-e93880-b)
b
Reyner●
Apostolat
.
Bened.
p.
11.
of
them
asserts
)
that
,
from
King
Edgar's
Reign
to
the
Conquest
,
there
was
not
a
Monastery
in
England
,
but
what
was
Model'd
according
to
this
Rule
.
Will
.
Gillingham
[
a
](A52335-e93920-b)
a
J.
Pits
,
p.
552.
of
Canterbury
(
about
the
Year
1390.
)
is
said
to
have
written
De
Illustribus
Ordinis
sui
Scriptoribus
;
and
,
if
we
could
meet
with
this
Treatise
,
we
should
not
much
lament
the
loss
of
his
other
De
Rebus
Cantuariensibus
.
Edward
Maihew
(
sometime
Scholar
to
John
Pits
)
publish'd
a
little
Book
under
the
[
b
](A52335-e93980-b)
b
8vo
.
Rem.
1619.
Title
of
Congregationis
Anglicanae
Ordinis
St.
Benedicti
Trophaea
;
wherein
he
takes
frequent
occasion
to
quote
his
Master's
Manuscript
Treatise
of
the
Apostolical
Men
of
England
,
now
kept
as
a
pretious
Rarity
in
the
Archives
of
the
Church
of
Liverdune
.
He
is
commended
for
his
Modesty
in
the
Account
he
gives
of
their
Writers
;
honestly
quitting
his
Inclinations
to
serve
a
[
c
](A52335-e94040-b)
c
Vid.
Vss.
rij
Hist.
Eccles.
Brit.
p.
216.
Party
,
where
he
observes
Truth
to
be
on
the
other
side
.
The
Obits
and
Characters
of
the
English
Benedictines
,
of
greatest
note
since
the
Reformation
,
were
penn'd
by
Tho.
White
alias
Woodhop
,
a
Monk
of
Doway
;
where
he
dy'd
of
the
Plague
in
1654.
A
Manuscript
Copy
of
this
was
in
[
a
](A52335-e94110-b)
a
Ath.
Oxon.
vol.
1.
p.
415.
Mr.
Wood's
possession
;
and
I
suppose
,
is
now
(
among
those
Books
that
he
Bequeath'd
to
the
University
)
in
the
Musaeum
at
Oxford
.
But
the
chief
of
our
Historians
of
this
Order
,
Clement
Reyner
;
whose
elaborate
Book
is
Entitl'd
,
[
b
](A52335-e94180-b)
b
Fol.
Duac
.
1626.
Apostolatus
Benedictinorum
in
Anglia
,
sive
Decerptatio
Historica
de
Antiquitate
Ordinis
Congregationisque
Monachorum
Nigrorum
in
Anglia
.
His
Business
is
to
prove
that
the
Order
was
brought
hither
by
Augustine
,
Arch-bishop
of
Canterbury
;
and
he
is
thought
by
some
of
our
[
c
](A52335-e94220-b)
c
W.
Semner
,
Antiq.
Canterb.
p.
153.
best
Antiquaries
to
have
effectually
prov'd
his
Point
,
and
to
have
fairly
Answer'd
all
the
Objections
against
it
.
He
is
said
to
have
had
great
helps
from
the
Collections
made
by
John
Jones
(
or
Leander
de
Sancto
Martino
,
as
he
nam'd
himself
)
Prior
of
St.
Gregory's
,
and
Publick
Professor
of
Divinity
,
at
Doway
;
who
sojourning
sometime
in
England
with
his
heretofore
Chamber-fellow
Arch-bishop
Laud
,
had
frequent
access
to
the
[
d
](A52335-e94300-b)
d
Hist.
&
Spnops
.
Synops.
Bibl.
Cott
p.
38.
Cotton-Library
:
where
he
transcrib'd
whatever
he
could
find
that
related
to
the
History
a●d
Antiquities
of
his
own
Order
.
Others
say
that
the
most
of
the
Collections
out
of
this
Library
,
which
were
used
by
our
Author
Reyner
,
were
made
by
[
a
](A52335-e94330-b)
a
Ath.
Oxon.
vol.
1.
p.
515.
&
vol.
2.
p.
388.
Augustine
Baker
,
another
Monk
of
Doway
;
who
left
several
Volumes
(
in
Folio
)
of
Select
Matters
,
very
serviceable
towards
the
Illustrating
of
this
and
other
parts
of
our
English
History
.
However
it
was
,
Sir
Thomas
Bodley's
Library
was
thought
the
most
proper
Magazine
to
furnish
out
Artillery
against
the
Man
that
had
already
seiz'd
on
that
of
Sir
Robert
Cotton
;
and
to
this
purpose
Father
[
b
](A52335-e94400-b)
b
Ibid.
vol.
1.
p.
473.
John
Barnes
(
a
Brother
Benedictine
,
but
of
different
Sentiments
with
Reyner
)
betakes
himself
to
Oxford
,
and
there
Composes
a
sharp
Refutation
of
the
Apostolatus
.
This
was
very
ill
resented
by
those
of
the
Fraternity
,
and
other
Members
of
the
Roman
Church
:
And
they
had
some
reason
to
be
Angry
at
one
of
their
own
Body's
using
the
Book
more
Scurvily
than
any
of
the
Protestant
Writers
had
done
.
There
are
several
Learn'd
Foreigners
,
in
France
and
Flanders
,
that
have
lately
made
very
Voluminous
Collections
of
the
Acta
Benedictinorum
in
General
;
wherein
are
some
Tracts
written
by
English-Men
,
and
such
as
wholly
treat
on
our
own
Historical
Matters
.
These
have
been
occasionally
mention'd
in
other
parts
of
this
Work
:
And
my
Design
will
not
allow
me
to
consider
them
any
further
.
The
Cistercians
Robert
Harding
an
English-Man
.
Hugh
Kirkstede
(
or
rather
Kirkstall
)
was
a
Monk
of
this
Order
,
about
the
Year
1220.
and
collected
the
Memoirs
of
all
the
English
that
had
been
of
it
;
which
he
Dedicated
to
John
Abbot
of
Fountains
.
This
is
attested
by
[
a
](A52335-e94610-b)
a
V.
J.
Pits
,
p.
297.
Leland
;
who
acquaints
us
further
,
(
that
in
the
Library
at
Rippon
)
he
saw
his
Book
entitl'd
Historia
rerum
a
Monachis
Cisterciensibus
gestarum
.
[
a
](A52335-e94670-b)
a
Cent.
3.
cap.
81.
Bale
tells
us
that
he
was
greatly
assisted
in
this
Work
by
Serlo
,
Abbat
of
Fountains
,
about
the
Year
1160.
And
,
because
there
appears
to
be
a
good
distance
betwixt
the
reputed
Times
of
these
two
Writers
,
he
assures
us
that
Hugh
liv'd
very
near
a
hundred
Year
.
I
am
apt
to
believe
that
Serlo
was
the
[
b
](A52335-e94730-b)
b
Vid.
Monast.
Angl.
Tom.
1.
p.
854.
b.
sole
Author
of
another
Treatise
(
ascrib'd
to
this
Monk
)
De
Origine
Fontani
Coenobij
;
and
that
this
is
the
true
bottom
of
Bale's
fine
Contrivance
.
The
Canons
Regular
of
St.
Augustine
pretend
to
be
Founded
by
that
famous
Father
(
and
Bishop
of
Hippo
)
whose
Name
they
bear
:
Jeoffrey
Hardib
,
Canon
of
Leicester
,
and
Privy
Councellour
to
King
Edward
the
Third
,
in
the
Year
1360.
who
was
an
eminent
Preacher
,
a
great
Divine
,
and
(
amongst
many
other
things
)
wrote
[
a
](A52335-e94850-b)
a
J.
Pits
,
p.
492.
De
rebus
gestis
Ordinis
sui
.
The
next
,
and
the
last
that
I
know
of
,
was
John
Capgrave
,
who
was
sometime
Provincial
of
the
Order
;
and
he
alotted
one
his
many
Volumes
the
Subject
[
b
](A52335-e94890-b)
b
Id.
p.
672.
De
Illustribus
Viris
Ordinis
S.
Augustini
.
The
Dominicans
,
Tho.
Ecleston
;
whose
Book
,
De
adventu
Minorum
in
Angliam
,
is
in
[
c
](A52335-e95010-b)
c
MS.
in
Bibl.
Dec.
&
Capit.
Ebor.
&
alibi
.
several
of
our
Libraries
.
Mr.
Pits
[
d
](A52335-e95030-b)
d
pag.
442.
says
he
wrote
also
another
Book
De
Ordinis
impugnatione
per
Dominicanos
:
Which
,
I
am
afraid
,
is
only
a
part
of
the
former
;
for
they
had
Battail
given
soon
after
their
first
Landing
.
Their
History
afterwards
is
pretty
well
accounted
for
,
by
[
a
](A52335-e95050-b)
a
Inter
Opera
ejus
,
Tom.
1.
Duac
.
1665.
Fran.
a
Sancta
Clara
;
and
we
have
a
formal
[
b
](A52335-e95070-b)
b
Vid.
Hist.
&
Antiq.
Oxon.
lib.
1.
p.
68.
71
,
&c.
Register
of
that
Colony
of
them
that
was
seated
in
London
,
with
some
Fragments
of
those
of
other
Places
.
The
Records
of
the
University
of
Oxford
,
with
those
in
the
Neighbourhood
,
have
afforded
us
a
diverting
View
of
their
frequent
Bickerings
with
the
Dominicans
in
our
publick
Schools
;
which
for
an
Age
or
two
make
up
a
good
share
of
the
Annals
of
that
Place
.
The
Carmelites
[
c
](A52335-e95170-b)
c
J.
Pits
,
p.
493.
de
Adventu
Carmelitarum
in
Angliam
.
Bale
quotes
some
of
his
Words
;
and
Writes
as
if
he
had
seen
his
Book
.
About
a
Hundred
Years
after
this
,
Will
.
Green
(
a
Cambridg-Man
)
collected
out
of
the
most
of
the
Libraries
in
England
the
noted
Exploits
of
the
great
Men
of
this
Order
;
which
he
afterwards
published
under
the
Title
of
[
a
](A52335-e95230-b)
a
Id.
p.
662.
Hagiologium
Carmelitarum
.
And
lastly
,
Robert
Bale
(
a
Carmelite
Fryar
at
Norwich
,
and
afterwards
Prior
of
Burnham
,
where
he
dy'd
,
A.
D.
1503.
)
wrote
[
b
](A52335-e95300-b)
b
Id.
p.
686.
Annales
Breves
Ordinis
sui
.
'T
is
much
that
this
Gentleman's
name-sake
,
the
famous
Mr.
John
Bale
,
never
penn'd
any
thing
of
this
kind
:
For
he
was
also
a
Carmelite
of
Norwich
,
and
assures
us
(
in
the
Account
he
gives
of
his
own
dear
Self
,
in
the
Tail
of
his
Writers
)
that
the
Libraries
of
that
Order
were
the
chief
Treasury
out
of
which
he
had
his
Riches
.
Perhaps
he
[
c
](A52335-e95350-b)
c
Mr.
Tanner
says
he
has
seen
his
Collections
for
such
a
purpose
.
did
Write
some
such
Thing
:
but
did
not
afterwards
think
fit
to
own
the
Respects
he
once
had
for
those
Antichristian
Locusts
,
as
he
there
most
greatefully
calls
them
.
CHAP.
VIII
.
Of
the
Histories
of
our
Vniversities
and
Writers
.
WHAT
Sir
John
Marsham
[
a
](A52335-e95430-b)
a
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
.
ad
.
Monast.
Angl.
in
fine
.
says
of
the
old
Monks
of
this
Isle
,
may
be
well
apply'd
to
the
Zealous
Antiquaries
of
our
two
Universities
,
Illos
in
illustrandis
suorum
Natalibus
Antiquitati
plus
quam
Veritati
incubuisse
.
In
the
days
of
Henry
the
Eighth
,
during
the
Storm
against
Abbies
and
Colleges
,
the
Controversy
was
seemly
enough
.
For
,
whilst
nothing
but
Ruin
was
within
their
view
,
such
a
concern
was
as
natural
as
't
is
for
decaying
Families
to
value
themselves
on
their
Pedigrees
:
But
,
in
their
flourishing
condition
under
Queen
Elizabeth
,
it
might
have
been
hoped
that
the
Members
of
both
would
have
found
themselves
better
Employment
.
This
the
contending
Parties
in
that
Reign
seem
to
have
been
somewhat
sensible
of
;
and
therefore
the
most
violent
and
fierce
of
'em
declin'd
the
owning
of
their
several
Brats
,
the
affixing
their
Names
to
Pleadings
and
Apologies
.
The
Truth
is
,
the
greatest
part
of
what
was
offer'd
on
either
side
was
so
aery
and
vapid
,
that
't
was
fit
only
for
young
Sophisters
,
or
Men
that
had
left
the
School
for
thirty
[
a
](A52335-e95480-b)
a
Vid.
J.
Caii
,
de
Antiq.
Cantab.
lib.
1.
in
princip.
Years
,
to
argue
at
such
a
rate
:
whereas
the
grave
and
residing
Doctors
were
justly
asham'd
of
such
Practices
,
and
(
for
some
time
)
modestly
play'd
their
Puppets
from
behind
the
Curtain
.
What
was
done
for
either
of
these
Noble
Seminaries
by
King
Sigebert
or
King
Aelfred
may
possibly
endure
the
Canvasing
:
But
when
the
contesting
Antiquaries
begin
to
be
so
hardy
as
to
launch
farther
(
into
the
vast
and
dark
Ocean
of
the
Times
of
Iren
or
Rydychen
and
Caer-grant
,
)
I
think
the
wisest
Course
is
to
divide
the
Laurel
,
and
to
call
in
King
[
b
](A52335-e95550-b)
b
Hist.
&
Antiq.
Oxon.
lib.
1.
p.
3.
Bladud
to
be
Founder
of
our
first
University
at
Stanford
.
Thus
the
pitching
of
our
Tents
in
a
third
place
ends
the
Controversy
;
and
we
may
quietly
,
and
at
leisure
,
draw
off
our
Colonies
,
to
Oxford
or
Cambridge
,
as
we
have
occasion
.
Some
Writers
we
have
that
have
behaved
themselves
with
tolerable
indifferency
in
treating
of
these
Matters
,
John
Ross
(
the
Warwick
Antiquary
)
has
been
already
observ'd
to
mix
a
deal
of
this
kind
of
History
in
that
which
he
wrote
of
the
Kings
of
England
:
And
't
is
certain
he
also
design'd
a
particular
Treatise
of
the
Antiquities
of
our
Universities
.
This
very
Treatise
(
tho'
he
acknowledges
't
was
an
imperfect
Copy
that
came
to
his
hands
)
is
frequently
quoted
by
John
Leland
;
and
yet
Mr.
Wood
[
a
](A52335-e95670-b)
a
Id.
ibid.
lib.
2.
pag.
77.
believes
't
is
now
lost
,
as
confidently
as
his
Predecessor
(
Brian
Twine
)
thought
it
never
had
a
being
.
I
presume
his
other
Tract
,
Contra
Historiolam
Cantabrigiensem
,
was
only
a
Fragment
of
this
Fragment
;
and
therefore
,
if
the
one
be
irrecoverably
gone
,
there
's
little
encouragement
to
look
after
the
other
.
Amongst
Master
Leland's
own
Works
we
have
also
one
that
bears
the
Title
,
[
b
](A52335-e95710-b)
b
J.
Pits
,
pag.
743
,
744.
De
Academiis
Britannicis
;
which
was
once
in
such
forwardness
as
that
himself
spoke
of
it
as
of
a
piece
that
would
suddainly
appear
abroad
:
[
c
](A52335-e95740-b)
c
Comment.
in
Cyg
.
Cant.
voce
Granta
.
Vid.
&
ibid.
voc.
Isidis
vadum
.
Quin
Grantae
gloriam
accuratius
in
Opusculo
,
quod
de
Academiis
Britannicis
sum
propediem
editurus
,
collaudabo
.
I
cannot
see
how
this
Expression
could
give
any
Foundation
to
[
d
](A52335-e95790-b)
d
Tho
Key
,
Assert
.
Antiq.
Oxon.
p.
m.
5.
one
of
our
Queen
Elizabeth's
Antiquaries
to
assert
that
if
this
Book
were
publish'd
in
that
intire
Condition
in
which
its
Author
left
it
,
it
would
infallibly
stop
the
Mouths
of
those
that
contend
for
the
Antiquity
of
Cambridge
:
But
I
think
't
was
a
sufficient
Reply
to
such
a
Supposition
,
that
,
[
a
](A52335-e95830-b)
a
John
Caii
,
De
Antiq.
Cantab.
lib.
1.
If
the
Sky
should
fall
we
should
as
infallibly
catch
Lar●s
.
John
Pits
prefaced
his
Account
of
our
Writers
,
with
a
small
History
of
our
Universities
;
which
he
desir'd
might
be
taken
notice
of
in
the
Title
of
that
Work
,
inscrib'd
by
himself
,
[
b
](A52335-e95860-b)
b
Pits
,
p.
817.
De
Academiis
&
Illustribus
Scriptoribus
Angliae
There
's
nothing
in
him
,
on
the
former
head
,
but
what
he
has
Epitomiz'd
out
of
some
of
those
that
wrote
on
the
same
Subject
a
little
before
his
Time
:
from
whom
he
borrows
all
the
new
Light
he
pretends
to
give
,
De
Academiis
,
tam
Antiquis
Britonum
,
quam
recentioribus
Anglorum
.
About
the
same
time
(
as
I
guess
)
liv'd
Robert
Hare
;
[
c
](A52335-e95920-b)
c
Fuller's
Hist.
of
Cambr.
p.
15.
who
was
an
Esquire
of
good
Worship
and
Wealth
,
and
a
great
lover
and
preserver
of
Antiquities
.
He
carefully
Collected
the
precious
Monuments
of
both
Vniversities
;
caus'd
them
fairly
to
be
transcrib'd
,
and
freely
bestow'd
a
Duplicate
(
or
double
Copy
)
on
each
of
them
.
This
industrious
Gentleman
was
sometimes
a
Member
of
Gonvil
and
Caius
College
in
Cambridge
;
and
therefore
,
tho'
he
pretends
to
give
a
fair
History
of
the
Priviledges
of
Oxford
;
yet
he
[
a
](A52335-e95990-b)
a
Vid.
Hist.
&
Antiq.
Oxon.
Lib.
2.
p.
386
,
390.
&
Lib.
1.
p.
83.
inclines
too
much
(
upon
occasion
)
the
other
way
.
In
Howes's
Edition
of
[
b
](A52335-e96010-b)
b
Fol.
Lond.
1632.
Stow's
Chronicle
we
have
an
Appendix
or
Corollary
of
the
Foundations
and
Descriptions
of
the
three
most
famous
Vniversities
of
England
,
viz.
Cambridge
,
Oxford
and
London
.
The
Story
of
the
two
first
of
these
,
we
are
told
,
was
compiled
by
John
Stow
,
and
continu'd
by
his
Publisher
:
and
't
is
not
much
that
we
owe
to
the
pains
of
either
of
'em
,
since
the
whole
is
only
a
lean
Tract
of
half
a
dozen
Pages
.
There
's
,
in
the
[
c
](A52335-e96060-b)
c
Hist.
Ox.
lib.
1.
p.
42.
Archives
of
Bodley's
Library
,
a
Poetical
Piece
,
entitul'd
,
Britannia
Scholastica
;
which
was
written
by
one
Robert
Burhil
,
about
the
beginning
of
King
James
the
First
's
Reign
,
and
Treats
of
the
prime
Antiquities
of
our
two
Universities
.
The
zealous
stickling
for
Seniority
in
the
last
Age
did
this
Service
to
both
our
famous
Nurseries
of
good
Learning
,
that
many
of
their
most
ancient
Records
were
hereupon
enquir'd
out
and
carefully
preserv'd
;
which
may
be
as
beneficial
to
our
English
History
,
as
some
officious
Forgeries
(
on
the
same
occasion
)
are
injurious
to
it
.
We
have
no
less
than
[
a
](A52335-e96130-b)
a
Bibl.
Cott.
Faustina
,
C.
7.
one
and
twenty
several
Volumes
relating
to
the
Antiquities
of
the
University
of
Oxford
;
as
Charters
,
Orders
,
Statutes
,
Decrees
,
Letters
,
&c.
the
last
whereof
bears
this
Title
.
About
the
Burghesses
for
the
Vniversity
;
and
what
may
be
answer'd
in
case
their
Right
of
sitting
in
Parliament
should
be
impugn'd
.
These
are
all
in
Manuscript
;
and
are
the
[
b
](A52335-e96180-b)
b
Vid.
Hist.
&
Antiq.
Oxon.
lib.
1.
p.
203
,
&
alibi
.
Fountain
whence
some
of
our
best
Printed
Accounts
have
been
deriv'd
.
Amongst
the
latter
kind
the
Historiola
Oxoniensis
is
look'd
upon
the
most
Authentic
;
and
(
as
such
)
has
had
[
c
](A52335-e96200-b)
c
In
princip.
Assert
.
Antiq.
Oxon.
Thomas
Key
,
Hist.
Oxon.
lib.
1.
p.
4.
&c.
several
Impressions
.
'T
is
only
a
short
Fragment
of
a
single
Page
in
Octavo
;
wherein
we
are
told
that
the
Britains
began
an
University
at
Grekelade
,
which
the
Saxons
remov'd
to
Oxford
.
This
is
the
Summ
of
that
little
Narrative
;
which
(
tho'
't
is
found
in
some
of
their
Manuscript
Statute-Books
,
as
old
as
the
Reigns
of
Edward
the
Third
and
Henry
the
Fourth
,
yet
)
is
not
much
insisted
on
by
Mr.
Wood
,
who
was
sensible
that
it
was
Penn'd
too
carelesly
to
be
of
any
great
use
in
the
grand
Controversy
.
John
Ross
seems
(
soon
after
this
)
to
have
written
particularly
of
the
Antiquities
of
Oxford
;
besides
the
Treatise
he
left
upon
the
two
Universities
in
common
:
for
such
a
Book
of
his
Leland
refers
to
,
tho'
he
gives
the
Author
of
it
the
tart
Character
of
[
a
](A52335-e96340-b)
a
Comment.
in
Cygn
.
Cant.
voc.
Isidis
vadum
.
Vir
majoris
longe
Diligentiae
quam
Judicii
.
'T
is
perhaps
the
same
which
we
elsewhere
meet
with
under
the
Title
of
[
b
](A52335-e96370-b)
b
J.
Pits
,
p.
683.
Contra
Historiolam
Cantabrigiensem
.
About
the
same
time
(
or
,
it
may
be
,
a
little
sooner
)
William
Wircester
,
Worcester
or
Buttoner
,
wrote
his
Polyandrum
Oxoniensium
,
&c.
wherein
he
gave
a
List
of
all
the
eminent
Persons
that
had
been
educated
in
this
University
;
which
might
possibly
be
had
amongst
[
a
](A52335-e96430-b)
a
See
his
Apolog.
lib.
2.
§.
144.
Brian
Twine's
Collections
.
The
first
Champion
that
appear'd
in
the
Cause
against
Cambridge
,
was
Tho.
Key
,
Master
of
University
College
;
who
,
having
for
some
time
been
employ'd
in
the
Registrary's
Office
,
was
the
best
acquainted
with
the
public
Instruments
and
Records
.
His
[
b
](A52335-e96470-b)
b
8vo
.
Lond.
1568.
&
4to
.
Ibid.
1574.
Assertio
Antiquitatis
Oxoniensis
Academiae
was
written
in
Defence
of
this
University
,
in
opposition
to
what
had
been
advanc'd
(
two
years
before
)
by
the
public
Orator
of
Cambridge
;
who
,
in
an
Harangue
to
Queen
Elizabeth
,
had
affirm'd
his
own
Mother
to
be
the
Elder
Sister
of
the
two
.
That
Princess
coming
afterwards
to
Oxford
,
the
foresaid
Treatise
was
hastily
drawn
up
and
presented
to
Her
in
Manuscript
:
And
,
a
Copy
of
it
falling
afterwards
into
the
hands
of
Dr.
Caius
,
it
was
publish'd
with
his
Answer
;
which
will
be
further
mention'd
anon
.
This
usuage
provok'd
the
Author
to
take
more
leisure
in
Composing
a
Reply
,
which
he
communicated
to
several
of
his
Friends
under
the
Title
of
,
Examen
Judicii
Cantrabrigiensis
cujusdam
,
qui
se
Londinensem
dicit
,
nuper
de
Origine
utriusque
Academiae
lati
.
Mr.
Wood
[
a
](A52335-e96560-b)
a
Ath.
Oxon.
vol.
1.
p.
137.
says
he
once
met
with
a
Transcript
of
this
Book
,
and
found
some
things
in
it
worth
his
observation
:
but
he
could
not
direct
his
Reader
where
it
was
afterwards
to
be
had
;
and
speaks
so
coldly
of
it
,
that
the
obscure
owner
(
in
whose
hands
he
saw
it
)
does
not
appear
to
be
worth
the
enquiring
after
.
He
rather
offers
to
our
perusal
the
Mystical
Oxon.
of
Oxonford
,
&c.
by
Henry
Lyte
;
which
(
he
[
b
](A52335-e96590-b)
b
Ibid.
p.
293.
says
)
is
amongst
Twine's
Manuscripts
at
Oxford
,
and
has
several
Crotchets
in
it
which
may
be
serviceable
to
the
Man
that
shall
hereafter
engage
in
these
weighty
Disputes
.
To
these
fanciful
pieces
may
be
added
the
[
c
](A52335-e96620-b)
c
8vo
.
Hanov.
1605.
Laudes
Academiae
Parisinoe
&
Oxoniensis
,
by
the
eminently
learned
Dr.
Alberic
Gentilis
;
whose
Panegyrick
on
this
University
is
penn'd
with
the
like
accuracy
as
the
other
Works
of
that
noted
Author
.
After
him
follows
Isaac
Wake
's
[
a
](A52335-e96670-b)
a
4to
.
Oxon.
1607.
&
8vo
.
Ibid.
Saepius
.
Rex
Platonicus
;
wherein
the
Author
(
who
was
then
publick
Orator
,
afterwards
a
Knight
and
Ambassador
)
elegantly
describes
the
Entertainment
given
by
the
University
to
King
James
the
First
,
and
occasionally
intermixes
the
History
and
Antiquities
of
the
whole
and
all
its
parts
.
Brian
Twine
(
Fellow
of
Corpus
Christi
,
and
sometime
Custos
Archivorum
to
the
University
)
made
a
more
diligent
search
into
the
History
and
Records
of
this
place
than
any
of
the
former
;
and
oblig'd
the
Lovers
of
these
Studies
with
his
[
b
](A52335-e96750-b)
b
4to
Oxon.
1608.
Antiquitatis
Academiae
Oxoniensis
Apologia
,
which
(
in
three
Books
)
very
amply
refutes
all
Dr.
Caius's
Arguments
for
the
Seniority
of
his
Cantabrigians
.
The
industrious
Author
intended
another
Edition
of
this
Book
:
and
,
to
that
purpose
,
had
largely
augmented
an
interleav'd
Copy
;
which
(
't
is
suppos'd
)
was
lost
during
those
unhappy
Confusions
which
at
first
retarded
the
publishing
of
it
.
What
is
printed
has
been
censur'd
as
[
c
](A52335-e96800-b)
c
T.
Fuler's
Hist
of
Cambr.
p.
14.
an
Heap
,
rather
than
a
Pile
;
and
the
Writer
himself
declar'd
to
be
no
methodical
Antiquary
:
And
yet
(
how
strangely
different
are
the
Judgments
of
Men
of
contrary
Affections
and
Interests
!
)
this
is
the
Character
we
have
of
the
Book
from
another
hand
,
[
a
](A52335-e96850-b)
a
Hist.
&
Antiq.
Oxon.
lib.
2.
p.
241.
In
eo
libro
praeter
Subactissimum
Judicium
,
etiam
varia
Lectionis
indicia
passim
sparguntur
.
The
same
year
,
with
this
Apology
,
was
publish'd
[
b
](A52335-e96870-b)
b
8vo
.
Oxon.
1608.
Ilium
in
Italiam
,
written
by
John
Sansbury
of
St.
John's
College
;
wherein
are
the
Arms
of
the
several
Colleges
in
this
University
,
and
Verses
upon
them
.
'T
is
not
much
more
considerable
than
what
(
not
long
before
)
was
written
at
Rome
by
Nich.
Fitzherbert
,
a
Reteiner
to
Cardinal
Allen
;
and
was
there
printed
under
the
Title
of
,
[
c
](A52335-e96950-b)
c
8vo
.
Rome
1602.
Oxoniensis
in
Anglia
Academiae
Descriptio
.
A
[
d
](A52335-e96980-b)
d
Vid.
Ath.
Oxon.
vol.
1.
p.
498.
slight
Discourse
on
the
Oxford-Antiquities
,
by
way
of
Letter
to
a
Friend
,
was
penn'd
by
Dr.
Leonard
Hutton
;
who
dy'd
Canon
of
Christ-Church
,
A.
D.
1632.
and
left
also
behind
him
a
Manuscript
Treatise
in
Latin
,
entitl'd
,
Historia
Fundationum
Ecclesiae
Christi
Oxon.
una
cum
Episcoporum
Decanorum
&
Canonicorum
Ejusdem
Catalogo
.
Of
the
like
Complection
with
the
latter
of
these
(
Meager
in
it self
,
and
of
a
narrow
Subject
)
is
Dr.
Savage's
[
a
](A52335-e97050-b)
a
4to
.
Oxon
,
1668.
Ballio-Fergus
;
which
pretends
to
give
a
true
History
of
all
the
great
Men
that
have
been
Members
of
Baliol
College
,
whereof
the
Author
was
Master
.
This
Writer
is
observ'd
to
have
had
a
Genius
somewhat
averse
to
the
Business
he
was
here
engag'd
in
,
being
too
much
a
Courtier
to
turn
Antiquary
:
so
that
(
having
also
a
very
imperfect
stock
of
Materials
)
't
was
no
wonder
that
a
great
many
Errors
and
Defects
were
discover'd
in
his
Book
;
that
Duns
Scotus
(
for
example
)
was
transplanted
hither
from
Merton
,
and
Bishop
Tonstal
wholly
overlook'd
.
The
[
b
](A52335-e97120-b)
b
4to
.
Oxon.
1665.
&
Lond.
1675.
Notitia
Academiae
Oxoniensis
was
the
Work
of
the
late
learned
Mr.
Fulman
;
who
also
began
the
History
of
(
his
own
College
)
Corpus
Christi
,
but
did
not
live
to
finish
it
for
the
Press
.
Above
all
,
this
famous
University
is
chiefly
indebted
to
the
indefatigable
pains
of
honest
Anthony
Wood
;
whose
Industry
,
joyn'd
with
Camden's
Learning
and
Judgment
,
would
have
made
a
compleat
English
Antiquary
.
His
[
a
](A52335-e97200-b)
a
Fol.
Oxon.
1674.
Historia
&
Antiquitates
Vniversitatis
Oxoniensis
gives
abundantly
more
than
the
whole
Tribe
of
the
foremention'd
Authors
could
afford
us
;
and
,
in
two
large
Books
,
runs
through
every
particular
of
her
Story
.
In
the
former
of
these
we
have
her
Annals
,
from
the
eldest
date
of
her
Records
,
down
to
the
Year
1648.
wherein
our
ancient
British
Government
,
Religion
,
Liberties
,
Laws
and
Learning
,
were
all
sacrificed
together
.
The
Confusions
that
ensu'd
,
and
continu'd
for
above
eleven
long
Years
after
King
Charles's
Martyrdom
,
made
a
Scene
too
Tragical
;
and
therefore
our
Historian
wisely
drop'd
the
Curtain
before
Ignorance
had
entirely
usurp'd
the
Schools
,
Blasphemy
the
Pulpits
and
Oliver
the
Throne
.
The
latter
Book
presents
us
with
an
Account
of
the
Foundations
,
Endowments
,
&c.
of
the
Publick
Lectures
,
Library
,
Colleges
and
Halls
;
with
a
List
of
their
Benefactors
,
Governours
and
eminent
Writers
:
To
which
is
added
a
Catalogue
of
the
Chancellors
,
Vice-Chancellors
,
Proctors
,
Stewards
and
Representatives
in
Parliament
.
This
Work
was
first
penn'd
in
English
;
and
translated
into
Latin
by
several
Persons
appointed
by
the
Curators
of
the
Press
:
So
that
the
Style
is
not
very
uniform
,
and
sometimes
the
original
Sense
a
little
mistaken
and
perverted
.
Some
instances
of
these
failures
are
given
by
a
late
[
a
](A52335-e97280-b)
a
Bp.
Barlow's
Rem
.
p.
181
,
183
,
184.
Learned
Prelate
of
our
Church
;
who
is
a
little
too
severe
in
his
Reflections
upon
the
chief
Publisher
of
these
Antiquities
.
The
Author
himself
complain'd
of
several
[
b
](A52335-e97300-b)
b
Athen.
Oxon.
vol.
2.
p.
605.
Additions
and
Alterations
,
made
without
his
Privity
and
Consent
;
and
seem'd
to
hope
that
his
own
English
Copy
(
the
Language
whereof
,
I
dare
say
,
was
not
over
Charming
)
would
sometime
or
other
[
c
](A52335-e97320-b)
c
Ibid.
p.
28.
hereafter
be
Publish'd
.
The
Black
Book
at
Cambridge
makes
as
considerable
a
Figure
there
,
[
a
](A52335-e97400-b)
a
Vid.
Joh.
Caii
Antiq.
Cantab.
lib.
1.
p.
〈…〉
William
Buckenham
,
Master
of
Caius
College
,
and
Vice-Chancellor
of
that
University
.
In
this
we
have
the
Story
of
King
Gurguntius's
bestowing
the
Eastern
part
of
Great
Britain
upon
Cantaber
,
a
Spaniard
;
who
(
forsooth
)
had
sometime
study'd
at
Athens
,
and
(
after
Caer-Grant
was
built
by
his
Son
Grantanus
)
invited
thence
his
old
Friends
Anaximander
and
Anaxagoras
,
to
teach
Philosophy
in
this
City
.
Centum
sunt
ibi
(
says
[
b
](A52335-e97540-b)
b
Comment.
ad
Cygn
.
Cant.
voce
Granta
.
John
Leland
)
praeterea
ejusdem
farinae
Fabulae
.
Profecto
nihil
unquam
legi
vanius
,
sed
neque
Stultius
aut
Stupidius
.
Missas
igitur
facio
has
Antiquitatis
delicias
.
Out
of
the
same
Book
[
c
](A52335-e97570-b)
c
Hist.
et
Antiq.
Oxon.
lib.
2.
p.
390.
Robert
Hare
borrow'd
his
Catalogue
of
the
Chancellors
(
or
Rectors
,
if
the
other
Word
should
prove
too
young
for
the
purpose
)
of
this
University
;
which
are
most
exactly
continu'd
from
St.
Amphibalus
(
who
was
Rector
,
A.
D.
289.
)
down
to
the
Conquest
.
'T
is
[
a
](A52335-e97630-b)
a
J.
Pits
,
p.
635.
reported
,
that
a
certain
Historia
Cantabrigiae
was
written
by
Nicholas
Cantelupe
,
a
Welch
Gentleman
;
who
dy'd
Prior
of
a
Monastery
of
Carmelites
at
Northampton
,
A.
D.
1441.
Archbishop
Vsher
takes
this
to
be
the
same
with
what
we
have
already
observ'd
to
be
in
the
Black
Book
;
and
therefore
he
[
b
](A52335-e97720-b)
b
Antiq
Eccles.
Brit.
p.
69
,
112
,
268.
frequently
quotes
Cantelupe's
Historiola
for
the
Benefactions
of
King
Lucius
and
King
Arthur
,
to
the
University
of
Cambridge
,
Pelagius's
studying
there
,
&c.
Our
later
Antiquaries
agree
with
this
learned
Primate
;
and
allow
this
Author
,
and
that
very
Work
,
to
be
the
first
that
appear'd
in
defence
of
the
British
part
of
her
Story
:
And
they
further
tell
us
,
that
here
[
c
](A52335-e97800-b)
c
Hist.
et
Antiq.
Oxon.
lib.
1.
p.
36.
began
the
Quarrel
betwixt
the
two
Sisters
,
and
that
John
Ross
professedly
engag'd
on
the
behalf
of
Oxford
.
Indeed
,
Tho.
Fuller
[
a
](A52335-e97840-b)
a
Hist.
of
Cambr.
p.
65.
66.
speaks
of
a
Treatise
concerning
the
ancient
Priviledges
of
this
University
,
which
seems
to
carry
a
little
more
Age
;
being
written
by
one
Thomas
Markant
,
Fellow
of
Peter-House
,
and
Junior-Proctor
,
A.
D.
1417.
This
Book
,
he
says
,
was
bestow'd
on
the
University
by
the
Author
himself
;
and
,
at
his
request
,
carefully
kept
(
for
some
time
)
in
a
lock'd
Chest.
It
was
afterwards
lost
or
stoln
;
but
recover'd
and
restor'd
by
R.
Hare
.
It
was
again
lost
;
and
recover'd
by
Matt.
Wren
,
Bishop
of
Ely
.
A
third
time
't
is
lost
:
And
this
Relapse
(
says
he
)
I
suspect
to
be
mortal
.
The
Life
of
King
Sigebert
was
amongst
[
b
](A52335-e97940-b)
b
Comment.
in
Cygn
.
Cant.
voce
Gran●a
.
John
Leland's
many
Designs
;
and
broad
Hints
he
gave
that
in
it
he
would
discover
the
true
Original
of
the
University
of
Cambridge
:
But
the
bulkiest
Promises
of
such
noted
Writers
,
commonly
prove
the
most
abortive
;
Despair
of
answering
the
World
's
rais'd
Expectations
,
very
much
contributing
to
their
Miscarriage
.
The
most
learn'd
Cantabrigian
Antiquary
that
has
yet
appear'd
was
John
Caius
,
Doctor
of
Physick
,
and
Physician
in
Ordinary
to
Queen
Mary
;
who
[
a
](A52335-e98010-b)
a
J.
Pits
,
p.
756.
&
Fuller's
Worthies
,
p.
275.
276.
in
Norwich
.
was
born
at
Norwich
,
and
was
the
generous
Founder
of
Caius
College
out
of
Gonvil-Hall
.
His
two
Books
[
b
](A52335-e98080-b)
b
8vo
.
Lond.
1568.
&
4to
.
Ibid.
1574.
De
Antiquitate
Cantabrigiensis
Academiae
were
written
,
in
defence
of
the
Cambridge-Orator
,
against
Tho.
Key
.
The
former
Edition
of
them
was
under
the
feign'd
Name
of
Londinensis
:
But
in
the
second
the
Author
himself
thought
it
no
disparagement
to
own
his
Work
.
His
first
Attempt
is
to
establish
the
lately
advanc'd
Doctrin
of
his
Mother's
great
Age
and
Seniority
;
which
he
endeavours
to
do
from
the
exemplify'd
Charters
of
King
Arthur
and
King
Cadwallader
,
together
with
those
of
the
Popes
Honorius
and
Sergius
.
This
done
,
his
next
Business
is
to
overthrow
the
pretended
Antiquity
of
Oxford
;
which
(
in
his
second
Book
)
he
dispatches
as
effectually
as
he
had
done
his
former
Argument
.
He
seems
to
have
intended
a
much
larger
History
of
this
University
,
than
is
here
given
us
:
For
(
speaking
[
c
](A52335-e98200-b)
c
Edit.
1586.
of
the
frequent
Depopulations
and
Miseries
of
the
Town
,
during
the
Wars
betwixt
the
Saxons
and
the
Danes
)
he
concludes
,
De
quibus
in
libris
nostris
de
Historia
Cantabrigiensis
Academiae
explicatius
egimus
.
I
am
very
confident
that
a
good
part
of
the
Collections
which
he
made
for
this
purpose
,
are
still
in
[
a
](A52335-e98240-b)
a
Bibl.
Cott.
F●ustina
,
C.
3.
Sir
John
Cotton's
Library
;
where
we
are
told
of
a
Volume
of
Collectanea
ex
antiquis
Rotulis
&
variis
Auctoribus
de
Academia
Cantabrigiensi
,
ejus
Antiquitate
&
Privilegiis
,
cum
multis
Literis
Originalibus
ejusdem
Academiae
ad
Regem
Henricum
VIII
.
Thomam
Cromwellum
,
&c.
The
same
Year
with
the
first
Edition
of
Dr.
Caius's
Book
,
was
publish'd
[
b
](A52335-e98300-b)
b
8vo
.
Lond.
1568.
Regina
Litera
,
sive
,
De
Adventu
Elizabethae
Reginae
Angliae
ad
Academiam
Cantabrigiensem
;
a
Treatise
of
the
same
Nature
with
that
of
Rex
Platonicus
(
afterwards
)
at
Oxford
.
In
the
same
Queen's
Reign
,
wherein
the
Civil
Wars
betwixt
our
two
Universities
were
the
most
violent
,
was
Printed
a
[
c
](A52335-e98370-b)
c
Impress
.
Cantabr
.
per
Th●m
.
Thomasium
.
Catalogue
of
the
Rectors
and
Chancellors
of
Cambridge
,
from
Mauritius
(
in
the
Time
of
Constantine
the
Great
)
to
the
Year
1585.
written
by
Matt.
Stokys
,
Beadle
and
Registrary
of
that
University
.
Since
his
Time
the
only
Person
(
as
far
as
I
know
)
that
has
publish'd
any
History
of
this
place
(
for
I
do
not
think
Sir
Simonds
D'Ewes's
[
a
](A52335-e98440-b)
a
4to
.
Lond.
1641.
Vid.
&
Hist.
Oxon.
lib.
1.
p.
30.
Speech
deserves
such
a
Name
)
is
Tho.
Fuller
;
who
was
pleas'd
to
annex
his
[
b
](A52335-e98470-b)
b
Fol.
Lond.
1655.
History
of
the
University
of
Cambridge
to
that
of
the
Churches
of
Great
Britain
;
and
most
People
think
they
ought
not
to
be
separated
.
He
begins
(
modestly
)
at
the
Conquest
;
and
ends
at
the
Year
1643.
for
the
like
Reasons
that
prevail'd
with
our
Oxford-Antiquary
to
break
off
Five
Years
after
.
The
Foundation
of
the
University
by
King
Sigebert
,
he
had
discuss'd
before
;
in
the
Body
of
his
[
c
](A52335-e98520-b)
c
Cent.
7.
lib.
2.
ad
An.
631.
Church-History
:
And
the
potent
Arguments
he
there
produces
have
been
nicely
examin'd
and
consider'd
by
[
d
](A52335-e98530-b)
d
Hist.
&
Antiq.
Oxon.
lib.
1.
p.
35
,
36
,
&c.
Mr.
Wood.
Parker's
[
e
](A52335-e98560-b)
e
Citat
.
a
Tho.
Fuller
,
in
Hist.
Cantab.
p.
31
,
&c.
Sceleton
Cantabrigiense
does
not
promise
any
great
Matters
in
its
Title
:
and
Mr.
Hatcher's
[
a
](A52335-e98610-b)
a
Ibid.
p.
139.
And
in
his
Worthies
frequently
.
Catalogue
of
the
Fellows
of
King's
College
(
tho
it
may
have
some
things
of
Note
in
it
,
yet
)
is
of
too
confin'd
a
Subject
to
deserve
any
more
than
the
bare
nameing
in
this
Place
.
It
had
been
a
happy
thing
if
all
those
that
,
Tree
of
Knowledge
have
thriven
under
the
Influences
of
their
Charity
;
what
mighty
Numbers
of
great
Doctors
and
Masters
(
in
all
Faculties
)
have
been
fed
at
their
Expence
,
and
flourish'd
by
their
Bounty
.
'T
is
true
,
our
Universities
were
not
always
the
sole
Fountains
of
good
Literature
in
this
Island
;
many
of
our
eminent
Writers
having
had
their
Education
in
Monasteries
:
But
(
since
St.
John
of
Beverly
has
been
made
a
Member
of
that
at
Oxford
,
and
venerable
Bede
a
Student
at
Cambridge
)
I
wish
they
had
rank'd
all
our
antient
Men
of
Knowledge
on
one
Hand
or
the
other
,
provided
they
had
given
us
full
Accounts
of
their
Persons
and
Labours
.
I
think
we
may
(
without
Vanity
)
affirm
that
hardly
any
Kingdom
in
the
World
has
outdone
England
,
either
in
the
Number
or
Goodness
of
her
Authors
;
and
that
,
even
in
the
darkest
Ages
,
our
Lamps
shone
always
as
bright
as
any
in
our
Neighbourhood
.
When
School-Divinity
was
in
Fashion
,
we
had
our
Doctores
Subtiles
,
Irrefragabiles
,
&c.
and
,
as
Learning
grew
to
a
better
Ripeness
and
Stature
,
we
had
plenty
of
good
Books
in
other
(
as
useful
)
Sciences
.
The
first
that
attempted
the
History
of
our
Writers
was
John
Boston
,
[
a
](A52335-e98770-b)
a
J.
Pits
,
p.
593.
view'd
most
of
the
Libraries
in
England
,
drew
a
Catalogue
of
all
the
British
Authors
,
and
gave
short
censures
upon
them
.
He
could
hardly
have
flourish'd
so
early
as
Pits
here
speaks
of
,
if
his
Progress
was
(
as
a
later
[
a
](A52335-e98820-b)
a
T.
Gale
,
in
Praesat
.
ad
15.
Script
.
p.
1.
Writer
informs
us
)
in
the
Reign
of
King
Henry
the
Seventh
:
But
we
shall
not
quarrel
with
him
for
such
small
Mistakes
as
this
.
He
ought
indeed
to
have
been
a
little
better
vers'd
in
the
Story
of
his
great
Grandfather
;
for
the
three
following
Johns
(
Leland
,
Bale
and
Pits
)
handed
from
one
another
what
was
first
borrow'd
from
him
.
Arch-bishop
Vsher
[
b
](A52335-e98880-b)
b
Th.
Fuller's
Worthies
,
p.
166.
in
Lanca●
.
Vide
etiam
ipsum
Vsher.
de
Script
.
Vernac
.
p.
124.
had
the
most
curious
MS.
Copy
of
his
Book
:
And
our
Oxford
Antiquary
[
c
](A52335-e98930-b)
c
Hist.
&
Antiq.
Oxon.
vol.
1.
p.
58.
cites
another
(
smaller
)
Catalogue
of
the
same
Author's
Composure
.
Whether
Alanus
de
Linna
(
Prior
of
a
Carmolite
Monastery
at
Lyn
in
Norfolk
,
A.
D.
1420.
)
did
[
d
](A52335-e98980-b)
d
Vid.
J.
Pits
,
p.
603.
enlarge
this
Catalogue
or
the
other
,
I
dare
not
determine
:
Possibly
,
he
only
made
an
Index
to
them
;
as
he
did
to
[
e
](A52335-e99000-b)
e
Bale
,
Edit.
Wesal
.
fol.
185.
forty
other
Volumes
in
the
Library
at
Norwich
.
The
next
that
thought
this
Matter
worth
his
consideration
was
John
Leland
;
Greek
,
Latin
,
Welsh
,
Saxon
,
Italian
,
French
and
Spanish
Languages
.
In
the
Year
1534.
King
Henry
the
Eighth
gave
him
a
Commission
to
Search
all
the
Libraries
of
England
,
and
to
make
what
Collections
he
thought
Good
:
in
which
Employment
he
Spent
Six
whole
Years
.
He
afterwards
turn'd
Protestant
,
and
was
siez'd
with
a
Frenzy
;
losing
(
says
my
[
a
](A52335-e99100-b)
a
J.
Pits
,
p.
743.
Author
,
very
uncharitably
)
his
Understanding
with
his
Faith
.
In
this
Condition
he
dy'd
at
London
,
A.
D.
1552.
leaving
a
vast
number
of
Historical
Treatises
behind
him
.
Amongst
these
,
the
most
valuable
(
at
least
,
that
which
we
are
now
chiefly
concern'd
to
enquire
after
)
is
said
to
have
been
entitl'd
De
Illustribus
Britanniae
Scriptoribus
;
containing
the
Lives
and
Characters
of
most
of
the
eminent
Writers
of
this
Kingdom
.
This
Work
is
now
in
the
publick
[
b
](A52335-e99140-b)
b
Vid.
Ath.
Oxon.
vol.
1.
p.
69.
Library
at
Oxford
;
where
it
makes
the
fourth
Volume
of
his
Collectanea
(
being
354
Pages
in
Folio
)
given
by
Will
.
Burton
to
that
University
.
John
Bale
[
a
](A52335-e99270-b)
a
Cent
8.
cap.
100.
says
)
converted
from
Popery
by
the
procurement
of
Thomas
Lord
Wentworth
;
tho'
(
in
truth
)
his
wife
Dorothy
seems
to
have
had
as
great
Hand
in
that
happy
Work
.
In
the
Year
1552.
he
was
made
[
b
](A52335-e99310-b)
b
Puller's
Worthies
,
p.
60.
61.
in
Suffolk
.
Bishop
of
Ossory
in
Ireland
:
But
,
returning
from
Exile
in
Queen
Elizabeth's
Reign
,
he
did
not
think
it
advisable
to
go
any
more
into
that
Kingdom
;
contenting
himself
with
a
Prebend
of
Canterbury
,
where
he
dy'd
,
A.
D.
1563.
His
Summarium
Illustrium
Majoris
Britanniae
Scriptorum
was
first
presented
to
King
[
c
](A52335-e99410-b)
c
4
to
.
Ipsw
.
&
Wesal
.
1549.
Edward
the
Sixth
;
and
contain'd
only
five
Centuries
of
Writers
.
To
these
he
afterwards
added
[
d
](A52335-e99440-b)
d
Fol.
Basil.
1559.
three
more
;
and
made
several
Corrections
and
Additions
throughout
the
whole
Book
.
The
Ground-plot
of
this
Work
(
as
has
been
observ'd
)
was
borrow'd
from
Leland
;
and
the
chief
of
his
own
Superstructure
is
malicious
and
bitter
Invectives
against
the
Papists
.
The
Character
which
a
late
learned
Person
gives
of
him
and
his
Writings
is
too
just
[
a
](A52335-e99460-b)
a
H.
Wharton
,
in
Praefat.
ad
.
Angl.
Sac.
vol.
1.
p.
31.
&
47.
Veritas
Balaeo
Parum
curae
erat
,
dummodo
Romanae
Ecclesiae
Inimicorum
Numerum
augere
posset
.
And
again
,
Clausis
plerunque
oculis
Scriptorum
Anglicorum
aetates
definivit
.
Some
have
thought
his
making
[
b
](A52335-e99510-b)
b
H.
Spelm.
Concil.
Tom.
1.
p.
210.
Books
of
some
little
Saxon
Epistles
excusable
,
and
what
would
admit
of
an
Apology
:
But
,
if
we
mark
him
well
,
he
's
continually
multiplying
the
Writings
of
all
his
Authors
at
a
very
unsufferable
and
unjustifiable
rate
.
In
Opposition
to
Bale's
hard
Treatment
of
the
Romanists
came
forth
J.
P's
[
c
](A52335-e99590-b)
c
4
to
.
Paris
1619.
Relat.
Histor
de
rebus
Anglicis
,
Pitseus
de
Scriptoribus
.
This
Author
Stuy'd
in
New-College
in
Oxford
;
and
was
at
last
Dean
of
Liverdune
in
Lorain
,
where
he
dy'd
,
A.
D.
1616.
Tho'
he
quotes
Leland
with
great
Familiarity
and
Assurance
,
't
is
very
probable
he
never
[
a
](A52335-e99700-b)
a
Athen.
Oxon.
vol.
1.
p.
345
,
346
,
&c.
&
Hen.
Wharton
,
Praefat
,
ad
Angl.
Sac.
vol.
1.
p.
15.
saw
any
such
thing
as
his
Collectanea
de
Scriptoribus
;
but
that
his
only
true
Author
,
for
all
he
pretends
to
bring
out
of
that
Store-house
,
was
John
Bale
himself
.
His
Latin
is
clean
enough
;
and
his
giving
an
Account
of
some
eminent
Popish
Writers
,
that
liv'd
beyond
Sea
in
the
beginning
of
the
Reformation
,
is
an
acceptable
Piece
of
Service
.
Mr.
Wood
has
taken
the
pains
to
Correct
a
great
many
of
his
Mistakes
;
and
might
have
noted
some
hundreds
more
.
He
must
needs
have
been
too
much
in
hast
to
write
accurately
,
who
,
even
in
the
Catalogue
he
gives
of
his
own
Uncle
[
b
](A52335-e99770-b)
b
Pag.
775.
Nich.
Sanders's
Writings
,
is
guilty
of
so
gross
an
Error
as
to
reckon
the
Treatise
entitl'd
,
[
c
](A52335-e99790-b)
c
4
to
.
Lond.
1573.
Fidelis
Servi
subdito
infideli
responsio
among
that
infamous
Writer's
Works
,
when
on
the
contrary
,
the
Book
was
written
against
him
,
and
he
's
the
Subditus
Infidelis
mention'd
in
the
Title-page
.
Our
Writers
of
these
two
last
Ages
have
been
pretty
well
accounted
for
by
Anthony
Wood
;
whose
[
a
](A52335-e99860-b)
a
Fol.
Lond.
1691.
&
1692.
Athenae
Oxonienses
give
us
a
large
Collection
of
Reports
(
good
and
bad
)
of
the
most
minute
Circumstances
of
almost
all
the
Authors
that
have
flourish'd
in
either
of
our
Universities
since
the
Year
1500.
The
Writer
of
these
two
Volumes
(
or
his
Friend
,
who
penn'd
the
Prefaces
for
him
)
thought
it
convenient
to
excuse
the
extraordinary
Respect
he
paid
to
the
Members
of
the
Roman
Communion
;
telling
us
that
he
had
found
those
the
most
communicative
,
as
(
on
the
contrary
)
the
Fanaticks
were
generally
the
most
reserv'd
and
morose
.
Some
fancy'd
there
were
other
secret
Reasons
for
these
mutual
Civilities
betwixt
the
Gentlemen
of
that
Persuasion
and
our
Author
;
who
,
by
his
long
conversation
amongst
them
,
was
thought
to
be
a
little
too
deeply
tinctur'd
with
their
Principles
.
'T
will
be
a
difficult
Task
to
prove
him
a
Papist
from
any
thing
that
he
has
here
advanc'd
;
since
in
some
places
he
falls
as
foul
on
those
People
,
as
his
Praises
of
'em
are
extravagant
in
others
.
The
truth
is
,
His
Books
are
little
more
than
a
Medly
of
Notes
and
such
Informations
as
were
sent
in
from
his
several
Correspondents
;
without
being
digested
into
any
other
method
than
the
throwing
them
under
that
particular
Author's
Name
,
to
whom
they
chiefly
related
.
'T
is
no
Blemish
on
his
Memory
to
observe
that
he
had
his
share
of
that
Peevishness
and
Austerity
(
both
in
his
Stile
and
Manners
)
which
is
commonly
incident
to
Antiquaries
;
and
thus
much
we
ought
gratefully
to
acknowledge
that
he
has
furnish'd
us
with
a
larger
Stock
of
useful
Materials
than
perhaps
any
one
Man
of
this
Age
has
Collected
.
If
he
was
too
sullen
among
Courtiers
,
he
paid
sufficiently
for
all
the
Liberty
he
took
;
and
't
is
illegal
to
object
a
Crime
for
which
a
suitable
Penance
has
been
already
enjoyn'd
and
perform'd
.
It
were
highly
to
be
wish'd
that
we
had
a
general
Account
of
all
our
Writers
done
with
the
like
accuracy
and
exactness
as
those
of
Oxford
(
for
the
last
200
Years
)
are
in
these
two
Volumes
;
The
End
of
the
Second
Part.
AN
INDEX
OF
THE
Authors
in
the
Second
Part.
The
Capital
Figures
refer
to
the
Preface
.
A.
-
Abbo
Floriacensis
Pag.
52.
-
Abingdon
151
-
Adalard
51
-
Adam
75
-
Adeodatus
118
-
Aelfric
45
,
51
,
54
,
57.
-
Albanensis
24
-
Albert
,
Pruss
74
-
Alcuinus
152
-
Alfred
,
Malmsburiensis
47
-
—
Beverlac
xxvi
,
55
-
Alford
71
-
Allen
xxiv
-
Andreas
xlv
-
Anglicus
22
-
Aquaepontanus
85
-
St.
Asaph
27
-
Ashmole
141
-
Asketel
55
-
Avesbury
xxxviii
-
Augustine
5
,
33
-
Ayscue
xxxii
B.
-
Bacon
xlvii
,
74
-
Baker
196
-
Bale
160
,
201
-
Barden
169
-
Barnes
xxxix
,
21
-
Basire
20
-
Battely
xvi
-
Bede
34
,
47
,
48
-
Benedict
xxxvi
,
26
,
78
-
Beulanius
xvii
,
xx
-
Biondi
xliii
-
Birchington
121
,
132
-
Blaneford
xxxviii
-
Blegorede
xxi
-
Blesensis
xxxvi
,
59
-
Boseham
76
-
Boston
182
,
225
-
Bracland
76
-
Brady
xxxii
,
xlii
-
Bramhal
164
-
Bravonius
57
,
60
-
Bridferth
50
-
Bridgewater
85
-
Britannus
xvii
,
xx
-
British
Laws
xxi
-
Brome
xxvii
-
Broughton
11
,
184
-
Budden
163
,
172
-
Burhil
207
-
Buriensis
108
-
Burchardus
51
-
Burnet
88
,
98
,
104
-
Burton
184
-
Burtonenses
Annales
63
-
Buttoner
182
,
209
C.
-
Caius
xiii
,
210
,
212
,
219
-
Cambrensis
26
,
28
,
52
,
75
,
165
,
168
-
Cantabrigiensis
Historiola
217
-
Cantelupe
218
-
Capgrave
31
,
171
,
175
,
199
-
Cardiffe
xxii
-
Carlton
176
-
Carnotensis
73
,
77
,
79
-
Cavendish
166
-
Caxton
xxiii
,
31
-
Chancey
84
-
Chartham
162
-
Chaundler
170
-
du
Chesne
xxxv
-
Chesterton
140
-
Chettel
55
-
Clapham
xxxii
-
Clara
200
-
Clarentius
44
-
Clerk
xlviii
-
Colman
xi
-
Corbet
xiv
-
Cosin
92
-
Cotton
xiv
,
12
,
144
,
183
-
Coventriensis
200
-
Cressy
72
-
Croylandensis
,
Will
.
52
-
—
Faelix
54
-
—
Roger
78
-
Crump
181
D.
-
Daniel
47
-
Davies
130
-
Dene
148
-
Dent
xiii
-
Devisiensis
xxxvii
-
Deusdedit
118
-
D'Ewes
xv
-
Diceto
xxxvi
,
107
,
119
-
Digges
xlvii
-
Dinoth
6
,
126
-
Dodsworth
154
,
185
-
Dorobernensis
119
-
Drayton
xi
-
Duck
162
-
Dugdale
66
,
90
,
143
,
184
,
185
-
Dunelmensis
,
Laur.
49
,
128
-
—
Simeon
128
,
152
-
—
Reginald
49
-
—
Nicolas
74
-
Dunstable
24
E.
-
Eadmerus
47
,
57
,
59
-
Ecleston
199
-
Eddius
58
-
Edwards
164
-
Egwine
44
,
47
-
Elerius
30
-
Eliensis
,
Tho.
53
-
Elmham
xlv
-
Elwamus
4
-
Enderby
xxiii
-
Enquerrant
xliv
-
Ernulph
147
-
Ethelwold
106
-
Eversden
108
-
d'
Ewes
222
-
Eveshamensis
xli
,
77
-
Eulogium
xxxi
-
Exoniensis
77
F.
-
Felix
54
-
Fenn
85
-
Fitzherbert
213
-
Fitzstephen
77
-
Folcard
55
,
57
-
Fox
81
-
Fridegod
59
-
Froissard
xxxix
-
Fuller
91
,
222
-
Fulman
214
G.
-
Gardiner
xvi
-
Gemeticensis
xxxv
-
Gentilis
211
-
Gibbon
85
-
Gibson
113
-
Gillingham
193
-
Godwine
109
-
Good
23
-
Gotseline
48
,
118
-
Gourmelene
25
-
St.
Graal
7
-
le
Grand
99
-
Grandison
79
,
133
-
Green
200
-
Greystanes
128
-
Guntan
146
H.
-
Hadenham
148
-
Hales
78
-
Hall
172
-
Hardib
198
-
Hare
206
,
217
-
Harmer
101
-
Harpesfield
67
,
82
-
Harrington
113
-
Hatcher
223
-
Hayward
xxxiv
,
xlvii
-
Hegge
49
-
Hemmingford
xxxviii
-
Hemming
60
,
150
-
Herbert
188
-
Herd
xlv
-
Herman
52
-
Heylin
53
,
92
,
94
-
Heywood
xlvi
-
Hildyard
xvi
-
Holland
143
-
Hooker
133
-
Hopkins
151
-
Hoscham
77
,
79
-
Humphery
173
-
Huntington
44
,
107
-
Hutten
213
-
Hutton
154
I.
-
James
80
-
Ingulfus
55
-
Johnson
170
-
Jones
195
-
Josceline
27
,
28
,
106
-
Joseph
of
Atimathea
2
-
Josseline
111
,
121
,
171
-
Iscanus
77
-
Junius
43
K.
-
Key
212
,
220
-
Kirkstall
197
-
Kirkstede
197
-
Knighton
xli
-
Kynder
xiv
L.
-
Laire
xiv
-
Landavensis
26
,
28
-
Langhorn
xxiv
-
Langtoft
xxxvii
-
Langton
78
,
119
-
Lantfred
58
-
Lavingham
39
-
Leland
109
,
205
,
219
,
226
-
Lichfedense
Chron.
140
-
Lily
173
-
Linna
226
-
Linwood
64
-
Livius
xliv
-
Lloyd
15
-
Londinensis
xxx
,
220
-
Lowth
100
-
Lucius
3
-
Lydgate
25
,
51
-
Lyte
211
M.
-
Mackenzie
14
,
16
,
17
,
20
-
Maidstone
xl
,
166
-
Maihew
194
-
Malmsbury
46
,
60
,
107
-
Marcellinus
56
-
Markant
219
-
Marsham
xii
,
17
-
Martyn
170
-
Mason
111
-
Maurice
xxii
-
May
xxxv
,
xxxix
-
Medvinus
4
-
Mela
x
-
Merlyn
xviii
-
Monmouth
xxvi
-
Montacute
108
-
Moryson
xlvii
-
Mushens
86
N.
-
Nennius
xvii
,
xx
-
Neve
xv
-
Noel
148
-
Nothelmus
47
O.
-
Ocland
xxxi
,
xlvi
-
Odo
59
-
Ogilby
xi
-
Osbern
51
,
52
,
118
-
Osmund
47
-
Oxenedes
xxx
-
Oxoniensis
Historiola
208
P.
-
Paris
24
,
55
,
64
,
74
-
Parker
121
,
222
-
Parsons
69
,
82
,
134
-
Paul
164
-
Philip
,
Monachus
55
-
Pits
109
,
194
,
206
,
220
-
Pliny
x
-
Pluto
63
-
Pollini
88
-
Porter
46
-
Powel
xxiv
-
Proctor
xlvi
-
Prynne
112
,
114
Q.
-
Quadrilogus
79
R.
-
Ramsey
54
,
56
,
57
-
Ray
xiii
-
Regina
Literata
221
-
Reyner
195
-
Ricemarchus
23
,
26
-
Rich
74
-
Rievallensis
28
-
Ripponensis
59
-
Rishton
87
-
Robinson
xxiii
-
Rocking
76
-
Rosse
150
,
204
,
209
-
Rudburn
128
,
149
S.
-
Saints
,
British
21
-
—
Saxon
44
-
—
English
73
-
Salisburiensis
73
,
78
-
Salopiensis
29
-
Sancta
Clara
200
-
Sanders
86
-
Sansbury
213
-
Savage
214
-
Savil
183
-
Schelstract
20
-
Schaffhausen
29
-
Searl
144
-
Selden
xi
-
Serlo
198
-
Slatyer
xxxii
-
Smith
70
,
131
-
Solinus
x
-
Somner
44
,
67
,
120
-
Speed
183
-
Spelman
15
,
40
,
66
,
90
-
Spott
120
-
Stanyhurst
28
-
Stapleton
38
,
79
-
Stephens
60
,
77
,
90
-
Stillingfleet
17
,
100
-
Stokys
222
-
Stonestreet
xiii
-
Storer
166
-
Stow
207
-
Strabo
x
-
Strype
104
-
Stubbes
152
T.
-
Tanner
50
,
116
,
189
,
232
-
Taylor
136
-
Taxston
xxx
-
Teilo
138
-
Teukesbury
78
,
79
-
Textus
Roffensis
148
-
Thorn
120
-
Thynne
146
-
Tinmuthensis
30
,
31
-
Tood
123
-
Torr
xvii
,
154
-
Trokelow
xxxvii
-
Trussel
149
-
Tuke
xxxi
-
Turgot
127
-
Turner
xvi
-
Twine
212
-
Twisden
89
V.
-
Vade
79
-
Varillas
99
-
Virgil
109
-
Vitalis
62
-
Unwon
24
-
Vowel
133
-
Urmston
125
-
Usher
xxiii
,
12
W.
-
Wade
79
-
Wake
212
-
Wall
xlv
-
Wallingford
xxix
-
Wantner
xiv
-
Warner
xxxi
-
Wendover
xxix
-
Wessington
128
-
Wharton
111
,
115
,
116
,
142
,
178
-
Wheloc
37
,
38
-
White
146
,
194
-
Whitlock
140
-
Wilson
45
,
163
-
Wintoniensis
107
-
Wood
111
,
145
,
128
,
215
,
231
-
Woodhop
194
-
Worcester
182
,
209
-
Worthington
85
-
Wulstan
53
,
58
-
Wycumb
168
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English
Historical
Library
,
Part
I.
A
short
View
and
Character
of
most
of
the
Writers
now
extant
,
either
in
Print
or
Manuscript
,
which
may
be
serviceable
to
the
Undertakers
of
a
General
History
of
this
Kingdom
.
By
W.
Nicolson
.
Octavo
.
Now
newly
Published
,
Archaeologiae
Greciae
:
Or
,
the
Antiquities
of
Greece
,
containing
an
Account
of
the
Civil
Government
of
Athens
.
The
Religion
of
the
Greeks
,
&c.
By
John
Potter
.
M.
A.
and
Fellow
of
Lincoln
College
,
Oxon.
Illustrated
with
Sculptures
.
Octavo
.
To
be
Published
by
the
end
of
this
Month
of
June
,
1697.
The
Lives
and
Characters
of
the
Ancient
Greek
Poets
.
By
Basil
Kennet
of
C.
C.
C.
Oxon.
Adorn'd
with
their
Heads
in
Sculpture
.
Octavo
.
C.
Crispi
Sallustij
Opera
quae
Extant
.
D.
Crispinus
Notis
&
Interpretatione
illustravit
in
usum
Delph
.
Octavo
.
FINIS
.