A hen: Eng. hift. library. alfo upon publishing the fecond part of that learned knight's Gloflary. The firft part was published in 1626, folio, and afterwards confiderably augmented and corrected by fir Henry. He did not live to finish the fecond, but left much of it loosely written; with obfervations, and fundry bills of paper pinned thereto. Thefe mr. Dugdale took the pains to dispose into proper order, tranfcribing many of thofe papers; and having received the first part, caufed both to be printed together in 1664, under the title of " Gloffarium Archaiologicum, conti"nens Latino-Barbara, peregrina, obfoleta, & novæ fignifi"cationis vocabula." The second part, digefted by mr. Dugdale, began at the letter M; but mr. Wood obferves, that" it comes far fhort of the firft." There was another edition of this work in 1687. In the year 1666, he published in folio "Origines Juri"diciales or, Hiftorical memorials of the English laws, "courts of juftice, forms of trial, punishment in cafes crimi"nal, law-writers, law-books, grants and fettlements of "eftates, degree of ferjeants, inns of court and chancery "Alfo a chronology of the lord chancellors, and keepers of "the great feal, lord treasurers, juftices itinerent, justices of "the king's bench and common pleas, barons of the exche"quer, mafters of the rolls, king's attornies and follicitors, "and ferjeants at law." This book is adorned with the heads of fir John Clench, fir Edward Coke, fir Randolph Crew, fir Robert Heath, Edward earl of Clarendon, to whom it is dedicated, fir Orlando Bridgman, fir John Vaughan, and mr Selden. There are alfo plates of the arms, in the windows of the Temple-hall, and other inns of court. A fecond edition of this work was published in 1671, and a pretended third in 1680; but neither of them fo good as the first. Bishop Nicholfon recommends this book, as a proper introduction to the hiftory of the laws of this kingdom. Mr. Dugdale's next work was "The Baronage of England:" of which the first volume appeared in 1675, and the fecond and third in 1676, folio. The first gives "An Historical account of the lives and "most memorable actions of our English nobility in the "Saxons time to the Norman conqueft; and, from thence, "of those who had their rife before the end of king Henry the "third's reign." The fecond-" of those, who had their "rife after the end of king Henry the third's reign, and before "the eleventh year of king Richard II." The third-“ of "those who had their rife from the tenth year of king Ri "chard "chard II, until this present year 1676," fays the author in the title. Though the collecting materials for this work coft him, as he tells us, a great part of thirty years labour, yet Life, p. xix. there are many faults in it: fo many, that, it feems, the gentlemen at the heralds office dare not depend intirely upon its authority. Mr. Wood informs us, that mr. Dugdale fent to him copies of all the volumes of this work, with an earnest defire, that he would perufe, correct, and add to them, what he could obtain from record and other authorities: whereupon, spending a long whole vacation upon it, he drew up at leaft fixteen fheets of corrections, but more additions; which, being fent to the author, he remitted a good part of them into the margin of a copy of his Baronage on the large paper. With all its faults however, the work is a very useful one; and might be made much more fo, were it well reviewed and corrected. In February 1676-7, our antiquarian was appointed Garter principal king of arms. He was folemnly created Garter, the 24th of May following; and the day after received from his majesty the honour of knighthood, much against his will, by reafon of the smallness of his eftate. In the year 1681, he Life, p. xxi, published "A fhort view of the late troubles in England: "briefly setting forth their rife, growth, and tragical conclu «fion. "fect "fect catalogue of the nobility of Ireland; with a lift of all "the fhires, cities, and boroughs of Ireland, which make re"turns of parliament, &c." All three compiled by Charles Wood, &c. Hatton, efq; fon of Chriftopher lord Hatton. The last thing he published, was, "A perfect copy of all fummons of the "nobility to the great councils and parliaments of this realm, "from the 49th of king Henry III, until thefe prefent times. "With catalogues of fuch noblemen, as have been fummoned "to parliament in right of their wives; and of fuch noblemen 66 as derive their titles of honour from the heirs-female of their "family; and of fuch noblemen's eldest fons, as have been fummoned to parliament by fome of their father's titles." Lond. 1685, folio. He wrote fome other things relating tỏ the fame fubjects, which were never publifhed; and was likewife the chief promoter of the Saxon dictionary by mr. Wil liam Somner, printed at Oxford in the year 1659. His collections of materials for The Antiquities of Warwickshire, and Baronage of England, all written with his own hand, being twenty-feven volumes in folio, he gave by will to the univerfity of Oxford; together with fixteen other volumes, fome of his own hand writing; and they are now preferved in Afhmole's Mufæum. He gave likewife feveral books to the heralds office in London, and procured many more for the Life, p.xxii. fame. At length this very induftrious perfon, contracting a great cold at Blythe-hall, died of it in his chair, about one o'clock in the afternoon, February the 10th, 1685-6, in the 81ft year of his age and was interred at Shuftoke on the 12th, in a little vault, which he had caused to be made in the church there. Over that vault he had erected in his life-time an altartomb of free ftone; and had caufed to be fixed in the wall above it a tablet of white marble, with an epitaph of his own writing, in which he tells us of his afcending gradually through all the places in the office of heralds, till he was made Garter principal king of arms, which is the higheft. "Had this indefatigable perfon, fays mr. Wood, fequeftered himself from worldly troubles, and totally addicted himself to his ftudies, and had minded the public more than his private "concerns, the world might have juftly enjoyed more of his lucubrations; and those more true and accurate, than fuch as are already published, especially thofe in his latter days. "Yet, however, what he hath done is prodigious, confidering the great troubles that he had endured for his loyalty, and the cumbrances of this world that he had run through; "and and therefore his memory ought to be venerated, and had "in everlasting remembrance, for those things which he hath already published, which otherwife might have perifhed, Athen. "and been eternally buried in oblivion." His wife died upon the 18th of December 1681, aged 75, after they had been married 59 years. He had feveral children by her, both fons and daughters. One of his daughters, named Elizabeth, was married to the famous Elias Ashmole, efq. All his fons died young, except John, who was created mafter of arts at Oxford, upon the 9th of September 1661; being then chief gentleman in the chamber of Edward earl of Clarendon, lord chancellor of England. On the 26th of October 1675, he was appointed Windfor-Herald, upon the refignation of his brother-in-law Elias Afhmole, efq; and Nor roy king of Arms in March 1685-6, about which time he was knighted by king James II. He published " A Catalogue of "the nobility of England, according to their respective pre❝cedencies, as it was prefented to his majesty on New-year's"day 1684. To which is added, the blazon of their pater"nal coats of arms, and a lift of the present bishops.' Printed at London, on a broad fide of a large fheet of paper, in 1685; and again, with additions, in 1690. This fir John Dugdale died August 31, 1690. Oxon. Wood, &c. bern. DUNS (JOHN) commonly called Duns Scotus, was celebrated theologue of the order of St. Francis, and born in England at Dunftane in Northumberland. He was fent to Tanner's Merton-hall in Oxford, and chofen fellow of it. Then he Biblioth. went to Paris, and joined himself to the fociety of the Francif- Britan. Hicans; where he diftinguished himself fo much by the acuteness of his parts, and especially by his manner of disputing, that he acquired the name of "The Subtil Doctor." He affected to maintain opinions contrary to thofe of Thomas Aquinas, which produced two parties in the schools, the Thomifts and the Scotifts. He was a writer of prodigious fubtilty; and, like all fubtil writers, refined upon every subject he handled, till it had no meaning at all left in it. The best edition of his works is that of Lyons, printed in 1639 in ten volumes folio, They are now mere wafte paper. Some have faid, that Duns Scotus was the firft who taught, in the university of Paris," the immaculate conception of the bleffed Virgin :" but this is not true. He went afterwards to Cologne, where he died upon the 8th of November 1308. Paul Jovius and others have told a terrible ftory, relating to the manner of his death. 督 death. They fay, that, falling down of an apoplexy, he was immediately interred as dead; but that, coming afterwards to his fenfes, he languished in a moft miferable manner in his coffin, beating his head and hands against its fides, till he died in good earneft. This has generally been treated as a fable, yet it gave birth to the following epitaph upon him: Quod nulli ante hominum accidit, viator, DUPIN (LEWIS ELLIS) a very learned doctor of the Sorbonne, and one of the greateft critics of his time, especially in what regarded ecclefiaftical matters, was born at Paris on the 17th of June 1657, of an ancient and noble family. He difcovered early a strong inclination for books, which was cherished by his father, who educated him with great care. After having gone through his course of grammar learning and philofophy in the college of Harcourt, he embraced the ecclefiaftical ftate, and frequented lectures of divinity in the Sor-. bonne. Afterwards he applied himfelf intirely to the reading of councils, fathers, and ecclefiaftical writers, Greek as well as Latin; and, being found at his examination among the first rank, he was admitted doctor of the Sorbonne upon the 1ft of July 1684. Then he fet about his Bibliotheque univerfelle des auteurs ecclefiaftiques, the firft volume of which appeared in the year 1686. He had published the eight first centuries, when the liberty with which he treated fome ecclefiaftical writers, as to their file, their doctrines, and other qualities, gave offence to certain perfons, who carried their complaints to M. de Harlay, archbishop of Paris. This prelate obliged Dupin to retract a great number of propofitions, which were judged exceptionable; and his work was fuppreffed in Auguft 1693. Nevertheless, he was permitted to carry it on, by only making a fmall change in the title of it, from Bibliotheque univerfelle to Bibliotheque nouvelle. This great work, continued in feveral fucceffive volumes to the end of the fixteenth century, though it might eafily have taken up the whole life of a common man, did not hinder mr. Dupin from obliging the public with many other works: the chief of which are, 1. Prolegomena to the Old and New Testaments, by way of fupplement to his Bibliotheque. 2. A Bibliotheque of authors feparate from the communion of the church of Rome, |