The Exact Recorder, Errata
Omissions and Errataes. Kinde Reader, I present thee with some Historical Passages, casually omitted in their due places; and such Errors as have hapned at the P…ess, which I desire thee to correct.
PAge 10. line 8.Anno 654. One (a)Mat. W…stm. Anno 654. p. 229, 230.Thunder maliciously accused Aethelbert, and Aethelred, two kinsmen of Egbert King of Kent, educated and brought up in his Court, that they intended some time or other to take away his kingdom from him; and thereupon advised the King, either to banish them both into some farr Country, or to deliver them unto him to destroy and murder, Proposit. 2, 6.without any legal Trial, or conviction of their guilt. Which Thunder often instigating the King to doe, and he but coldly prohibiting, or disliking; thereupon Thunder, in the Kings absence rashly presumed ignominiously to murder them in the Kings Palace, and then buried them under his Royal Chair, in a Village called Estria. The King returning to his Court, in the dead of the night there appeared a bright pillar sent from heaven, which filled his whole royal Palace with an unspeakable brightnesse: which the Kings servants beholding, were so terrified, that they fell down to the ground, and became almost distracted. The King being awaked, with the tumult of his Guard, and being ignorant of the cause thereof, arose, that he might go and hear Mattens as he was accustomed: And going out of his house, he saw the City shining with the beams of the new splendor. Upon which missing his Kinsmen, he sent for Thunder, and demanded of him where they were? who answered him like Cain; Am I thy Kinsmens keeper? To which the King replied, Thou hast always sinisterly accused them unto me, and therefore, most wicked wretch, thou oughtest to shew me where they are: Whereupon he informed him of their murder and burial; whereat the King was very angry with him; But returning at last to himself, he refunded the Crime & whole wickednesse on himself, and being confounded beyond measure, spent the residue of the night in tears. When the day appeared, he sent for the Archbishop Adeo-datus, et Magnates quos habere potuit convocari praecepit, and causing the Nobles to be called together, related the whole businesse to them. The Archbishop gave counsel, that the bodies of these Innocents should be removed to the Cathedral Church, and there interred in a royal manner. Thereupon putting their bodies with Saints reliques into Coffins and Carts, they intended to carry them to Christs Church, in Canterbury, but in vain, because they could not stirre their corps, nor remove them out of the place, although they attempted it with much endeavour and force. VponUpon this, changing their counsel, they intended to remove them to St. Augustines Church, neither yet could they effect it. At last they resolved they should be removed to the most famous Monastery of Waermen, …pon which the Carts presently removed with eas…, as if they had no burden; and they were buried by the High Altar in this Monastery.
(b)Malm…y, de G…s…is R…g. l. 1. c. …. p. 1…. Mat. West. …n. 671.Kinewalchus King of the West-Saxons, deceasing Anno 672.Anno 672. Regni arbitrium Uxori Sexburgae delegandum putavit: nec deerat mulieri spiritus ad obeunda regia munia: ipsa novos exercitus mo…iri, veteres tenere in officio, ipsa subjectos clementer moderari, hostibus minaciter infremere, prorsus omnia facere, ut nihil praeter s…xum di…cerneres: Veruntamen plus quam animos foemineos anhelantem vita destituit, Proposit. 6, 8, 10.vi… annua potestate perfunctam. When she had reigned thus one year Indignantibus Regni Magnatibus (assembled most likely in a Parliamentary Council) …xpulsa est a Regno, nolentes sub sexu Foemineo militare; The Nobles thereupon made Eschwin King in her place, being Regali prosapia proximus, next of the royal bloud: quo d…cedente vel morte sua, vel vi aliena, vacantem aulam successione legitima implevit Kentianus; He being the next right heir.
Page 24. l. 24. About the year 783,Anno 793. [c]…ill. Malms. de G…st. R…g. l. 1. c. 4 p. 3…, 31, 32. Mat. P…rker Antiqu. Eccl. Bri…. p. 27.28, 29 Ma…. W…st. Anno 789, 797, 798. G… v…sius Acta Pontif. Can…. col. 1642. Proposi…. 5, 6.Kenulph King of Mercia, Cum Episcopis, Duc…bus, et omni sub nostra ditione dignitatis gradu, with the Bishops, Dukes, and Nobles of every degrée of Honor under his Dominion, (assembled in a Parliamentary Council) writ a Letter to Pope Leo the 3d. …o reunite those Bishopricks to the Metropolitical See of Canterbury, which King Offa, (out of his hatred to Archbishop Living) had severed from it, and united to a new-erected Archbishoprick at Liche…ield, alleging in the Letter; Uisum est cunctis gentis nostrae Sapientibus, quatenus in illa Civitate Metropolitanus honor hab…retur ubi corpus beatae recordationis Augustini (qui verbum Dei imperante beato Gregorio, Anglorum genti remonstrabat, et gloriosissime Ecclesiae praefuit Saxoniae) pansat, qui his partibus fidei veritatem inseruit. This Letter, with Pope Leo his answer thereunto (worth the reading) are at large registred in Malmsbury and Mathew Parker: Hereupon the new Archbishoprick of Lichfield was dissolved, and the antient Metropolitical Iurisdiction of the See of [d]S…e here, …. 32.Canterbury restored. Anno 798. by the Iudgement and decree of the Council of Bacanc…ld, and advice of Pope Leo; who being advanced to the Papacy, and saying his first Masse, a certain woman to whom he formerly had accesse, as was reported, coming up to offer, wringing him sweetly by the hand and kissing it, thereby stirred up an incentive of lust in the Pope; Who after the Masse ended, sitting in his Chamber and reprehending himself, sodenly cut off his hand, according to that Gospel-saying: *Mat. 5 29, 30.If thy f…ot or hand shall offend, …ut it off and cast it from thee, &c. After which, concealing the fact, and retiring to a solitary place, he prayed to the blessed Virgin to restore hi… hand cut off from his arm; which she miraculously did. And thereupon it was then decreed: Statutum est tunc quod nunquam ex tunc manus Papae ab offer…ntibus deoscularetur, sed Pes; that never from thenceforth the Popes hand should be kissed by such who offered (or resorted to him, but his foot:) as [e]Anno 799. p. 293. S…e Onuphrius, Ba…eus, and o…hers in his Life.Matthew Westminster, and others record: The original ground of kissing the Popes foot instead of his hand ever since [f]S…m. Dunelm. de Ge…t. R…g. Angl. Col. 116. R…dulph. de Dice…o, Col. 799. Se… Platina, Onuph…ius, Baronius, H…rmannus Schedel. Balaeus, Opmcerus, and others in his ….Some write, this Popes tongue and eyes were once or twice cut off, and pulled out by the Citizens of Rome, and yet again miraculously restored to him, as well as his hand: which the blind Papists may credit, though few else believe to be a truth, but a ridiculous lying Romish Legend for the whetstone.
ERRATA.
PAge 35. line 37. r. malitiam, p. 37. l. 16. r. preceeded, p. 4…, l. 36. Heabert, p. 46. l. 31. dele sent, p. 64. l. 26. r. him himse…f, p. 69. l. 16. him and them, p. 80. l. 10. largest, r. longest, l. 30. Churche…s, p. 83. l. 35. of the, p. 91. l. 21. this, p. 206. l. 9. at, or, p. 107. l. 2. imitator, p. 113. l. 34. King, p. 120. l. 30. hoc, haec… p. 126. l. 8. jura, l. 21. Edelna…o, p. 135. l. 14, again, p. 144. l. 5. r. Edric, p. 146. l. 3. Ely, p. 147. l. 29. affecto, p. 148. l… 21. exterorum, p. 197. l. 8. cariage, r. Courage, p. 235. l. 2. …egis, p. 241. l. 4. r. 1032. p. 246… l. 26. dele as, p. 250. l. Harold, Ha…d…-cnute. Godwin, Harold. p. 267. l. 6. of, as, p. 271. l, 1…. sactus, Sanctis, p. 279. l. 34. Abbatem, p. 286. l. 17. crunt, p. 288. l. 28. Solium, l. 36. limina p. 297. l. 8. Hoveden, l. 28. pater, l. 32… Edward, p. 298. l. 21. Hoveden, l. 29. regina, p. 300. l. 5.31. one hundred thousand, p. 301. l. 28. cure of the Kings evil. p. 302. l. 12. gentilitium, l. 13. Francor…m, l. 27. King, l. 33. Fabian, p. 303. l. 36. harm. p. 304. l. 17. Beverston, p. 305. l. 5. Bononians, Castle, p. 307. l. 30. dele in, p. 310. l. 25, ignominia, p. 316. l. 9. denominated, p. 328. l. …. Hereford, p. 331. l. 8. which, with, p. 341. l. 20. impletam, l. 27. …ocii, l. 35. huic, p. 355. l. 31. King, Duke, p. 357. l. 30. may, many, p. 361. l. 28. tired forces, p. 365. l. 7. occidentem, p. 368… l. 22. their, the. p. 387. l. 36. them, him. p. 291. l. 32.1069.
Margin. p. 6. l. 3. r. 1. p. 65. l. 9. & p. 115. r. Antoninus, p. 8. l. 31. Brit. p. 104. l. 4. Propos. l. 9.7, r. 8. p. 275. l. 12. Regum, p. 276 l. 2. Epistl…, l. 4… Scriptor, p. …82. l. 2. miraculis, p. 314. l. 12. & 1134.
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