Censura Literaria: Containing Titles, Abstracts, And Opinions of Old English ... 4
Censura Literaria: Containing Titles, Abstracts, And Opinions of Old English ... 4
Egerton Brydges
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Wateline. 385. * WateoOe. 386.Woly. 887. fryveil. An old Yorkshire family, but does not occur in Domesd.B. m This ignorant and disgusting forgery persons at all acquainted with our old records will require no arguments for rejecting. • There seems to bq a great number of names in it, which, after making every allowance for the corruptions of time and tran- scribers, could pot, even at any subsequent period to the Conquest, ever have been in .use. But per* haps there are many not habituated to t...ravel in the dull and thorny paths of antiquity, who will not be displeased to be furnished with a few digested observations, in addition to the. remarks already given, which will enable them to form a judgment of the authenticity of this often-cited memorial. These observations I shall' divide into two heads. I. Prooft of insertion of names that could not be known in England till long afterwards. II. Proofs of omission of several of the great names, which persons known to have accompanied the Conqueror, then bore i riot'to insist on the great variation of the different copies of this roll, because these remarks will apply to all; otherwise it might be replied, that the Roll itself may be genuine, .though some of the copies should be found to be inter polaiecL First then I shall give proofs of insertion, 1st, of families who did not 'come to England till a subse- quent period : and Sdly, of surnames which were not adopted till the lapse of some ages after the Conquest ; and that of such, the greater part of the list is composed; I..
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