The History of the Worthies of England, Illustration – Errata
The Graver here hath well thy Face design'd.
But no hand FULLER can expresse thy Mind
For That a RESURRECTION giues to those
Whom Silent Monuments did long enclose.
THE HISTORY OF THE WORTHIES OF ENGLAND, VVho for Parts and Learning have been eminent in the several COUNTIES. TOGETHER WITH An Historical NARRATIVE of the Native Commodities and Rarities in each County. Endeavoured by Thomas Fuller, D. D.
LONDON, Printed by J. G. W. L. and W. G. for Thomas Williams, and are to be sold at the sign of the Bible in Little Britain. MDCLXII.
TO HIS Sacred Majesty.
Most Dread Soveraign:
THE tender of these ensuing Collections is made with as much Fear and Reverence, as it was intended with Duty and Devotion by the Author whilest living. The Obligation that lieth upon me to endeavour him all right, forced me unto this presumption. It is the first voice I ever uttered in this kind, and I hope it will be neither displeasing to Your MAJESTY, or blamed by the VVorld; whilest (not unlike that of the Son of Croesus) it sounds Loyalty to my Soveraign, and Duty to my Father.
The matter of this Work, for the most part, is the description of such native and peculiar Commodities as the several Counties of Your Kingdom afford, with a revival of the Memories of such Persons which have in each County been eminent for Parts or Learning. If this Age abound with the like, it is their Glory; if not, the perusal may perhaps beget in them a Noble Emulation of their Ancestors. May Your MAJESTIES Raign be Happy and Long, to see Your Countries COMMODITIES improved, and Your WORTHIES multiplied.
So prayeth, Your MAJESTIES meanest Subject, the Authors Orphan, JOHN FULLER.
To the Reader.
READER,
THou hast here presented to thy view a Collection of the VVorthies of England, which might have appeared larger, had God spared [my dear Father] the Author life. At his death there remained unprinted, the Bishoprick of Durham, the Counties of Derby, Dorset, Gloucester, Norfolk, Northampton, Northumberland, Nottingham, Oxford, Rutland, with part of Kent, Devonshire, and the Cities of London and Westminster, which now at length (according to the Copy the Author left behind him, without the least Addition) are made publick.
It is needless here to acquaint thee with the nature of the Work, it being already fully set down in the first sixteen sheets thereof. Yet thou mayst be pleased to take notice, that (although the Title promiseth thee only the History of the Worthies of England) in the end there is added a short Description of the Principality of Wales.
The discounting of Sheets (to expedite the Work at severall Presses) hath occasioned the often mistake of the Folio's. What ever faults else occur in this Impression, it is my request, that thou wouldest score them on my want of Care or Skill in Correcting the same, that they may not in the least reflect on the Credit of my dead Father.
JOHN FULLER.
ERRATA.
First Book
PAg. 27. Line 7. for mutive read mutire. l. 8. for Commoreat …. Commoveat. l. 13. for Proselytes r. Prose to its.
Gloucestersh.
Pag. 366. l. 6. add, were many. l. 7. for may seem to be, r. many.
London
Pag. 213. l. 44. for unius r. unus. l. 45. for duellum r. duellam. l. 47. for suscipiendum r. suscipiendam, p. 214. l. 6. for primus acie r. primâ acie.
York shire
Pag. 220. l. 40. for Or, a Fess betwixt three Water bougets, Or, r. Argent, a Fess betwixt threee Water bougets, Gules.
Wales
Preface l. 43. for grains r. pains, p. 4. l. 31. add phrase, p. 17. l. 16. dele half. p. 25. l. 23. for Castro r. Castor, p. 27. l. 9. for Gold r. no Gold, p. 34. l. 30. for is here, r. might have been here, p. 44. l. 19. for freed r. free, p. 47. l. 39. for must, r. might, p. 59. l. 39. for awarded r: avoided, l. 43. for as r. then.