Historick, you say?

The website that text was lifted from was called "AskOxford" and is in some way related to the Oxford English Dictionary website. Yet somehow they've managed to spell "historic" as "historick". Googling for historick seemed to yield only German results, and googling for "an historick flavour" yielded only the same page and another one that had quoted it. Seems they made a cock-up.

Perhaps it's "cartogropher's folly"? They've put mistakes in on purpose to catch people copying the text from them :)