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ginning of the volume. The same great personages employed him also to publish the second part of that learned knight's "Glossary." The first part was published in 1626, folio, and afterwards considerably augmented and corrected by sir Henry. He did not live to finish the second, but left much of it loosely written; with observatious, and sundry bits of paper pinned thereto. These Dugdale took the pains to dispose into proper order, transcribing many of those papers; and, having revised the first part, caused both to be printed together in 1664, under the title of "Glossarium archaiologicum, continens Latino-barbara, peregrina, obsoleta, & novæ significationis vocabula." The second part, digested by Dugdale, began at the letter M; but Wood observes, that "it comes far short of the first." There was another edition of this work in 1687.

In 1666, he published in folio, "Origines Juridiciales; or, historical memoirs of the English laws, courts of justice, forms of trial, punishment in cases criminal, law-writers, law-books, grants and settlements of estates, degree of serjeants, inus of court and chancery, &c." This book is adorned with the heads of sir John Clench, sir Edward Coke, sir Randolph Crew, sir Robert Heath, Edward earl of Clarendon, to whom it is dedicated, sir Orlando Bridgman, sir John Vaughan, and Mr. Selden. There are also plates of the arms in the windows of the Temple-hall, and other inns of court. A second edition was published in 1671, and a third in 1630. Nicolson recommends this book as a proper introduction to the history of the laws of this kingdom. His next work was, "The Baronage of England," of which the first volume appeared in 1675, and the second and third in 1676, folio. Though the collecting of materials for this work cost him, as he tells us, a great part of thirty years' labour, yet there are many faults in it; so many, that the gentlemen at the Heralds' office said they could not depend entirely upon its authority. Wood informs us, that Dugdale sent to him copies of all the volumes of this work, with an earnest desire that he would peruse, correct, and add to them, what he could obtain from records and other authorities; whereupon, spending a whole long vacation upon it, he drew up at least sixteen sheets of corrections, but more additions; which being sent to the author, he remitted a good part of them into the margin of a copy of his Baronage on large paper (which

copy, we believe, still exists). With all its faults, bowever, the work was so acceptable, that the year following its publication, there were very few copies unsold.

In May 1677, our antiquary was solemnly created Garter principal king at arms, and the day after received from his majesty the honour of knighthood, much against his will, on account of the smallness of his estate. In 1681 he published "A short View of the late Troubles in England; briefly setting forth their rise, growth, and tragical conclusion, &c." folio. This is perhaps the least valued of all his works, or rather the only one which is not very much valued. He published also at the same time, "The ancient usage in bearing of such ensigns of honour as are commonly called Arms, &c." 8vo; a second edition of which was published in the beginning of the year following, with large additions. The last work he published, was, "A perfect copy of all summons of the nobility to the great councils and parliaments of this realm, from the 49th of king Henry III. until these present times, &c." 1685, folio. He wrote some other pieces relating to the same subjects, which were never published; and was likewise the chief promoter of the Saxon Dictionary by Mr. William Sommer, printed at Oxford in 1659. His collections of materials for the Antiquities of Warwickshire, and Baronage of England, all written with his own hand, contained in 27 vols. in folio, he gave by will to the university of Oxford; together with sixteen other volumes, some of his own hand-writing; which are now preserved in Ashmole's Museum. He gave likewise several books to the Heralds' office, in London, and procured many more for their library.

At length, this very industrious man, contracting a great cold at Blythe-hall, died of it in his chair, Feb. 10, 1686, in his eighty-first year; and was interred at Shustoke, 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 altar-tomb of free-stone, and had caused to be fixed in the wall about it a tablet of white marble, with an epitaph of his own writing, in which he tells us of his ascending gradually through all the places in the office of heralds, till he was made Garter principal king of arms.

His wife died Dec. 18, 1681, aged seventy-five, after they had been married fifty-nine years. He had several children by her, sons and daughters. One of his daugh

ters was married to Elias Ashmole, esq. All his sons died young, except John, who was created M. A. at Oxford, in 1661, and was at that time chief gentleman of the chamber to Edward earl of Clarendon, lord chancellor of England. In Oct. 1675, he was appointed Windsor-herald, upon the resignation of his brother-in-law, Elias Ashmole, esq. and Norroy king of arms in March 1686, about which time he was also knighted by James II. He published" A Catalogue of the Nobility of England, &c." printed at London, a large broadside, in 1685, and again, with additions, in 1690. This sir John Dugdale died in 1700, leaving two sons, William and John, who both died single, the latter in 1749; and four daughters, the third of whom, Jane, married Richard Geast, esq. by whom she had a son named Richard, who took the name and arms of Dugdale only. This gentleman died in 1806, leaving a son, Dugdale Stratford Dugdale, esq. the present member of parliament for the county of Warwick.'

DUGUET (JAMES JOSEPH), a learned priest of the oratory, was born December 9, 1649, at Montbrison, the son of Claude Duguet, king's advocate in the presidial of that city. Having entered the congregation of the oratory at Paris, in 1667, he taught philosophy at Troyes, and was afterwards recalled to St. Magloir, at Paris, where he gained great reputation, as professor of divinity, by his "Ecclesiastical Conferences." I health obliged him to resign all his employments in 1680, and in 1685 he quitted the oratory, and retired to M. Arnauld, at Brussels; but returned to Paris afterwards, where he lived in a very retired manner, at the house of M. the president de Menars, 1690, where he continued till the death of that magistrate and his wife. He was afterwards frequently forced to change his dwelling and country, in consequence of his opposition to the Constitution Unigenitus. He was successively in Holland, at Troyes, Paris, &c. and died in the last-named city October 25, 1733, aged eighty-four. His works are numerous, and well written in French. The principal are, 1. "Lettres de Pieté et de Morale," 9 vols. 12mo; 2. "La Conduite d'une Dame Chrétienne," 12mo; 3. "Traité de la Priere publique, et des Saints Mysteres,' 12mo; 4. "Traité dogmatique sur l'Eucharistie, sur les Exorcismes, et sur l'Usure." The three last are much

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admired by Catholics, and are printed together, 1727, 12mo; 5. "Commentaires sur l'Ouvrage des 6 jours,' 12mo; 6. "Sur Job," 3 tom. in 4 vols. 12mo; 7. "Sur la Genese," 6 vols. 12mo; 8. "Explication sur les Pseaumes," 5 tom. in 8 vols. 12mo; 9. "Explication des Rois, Esdras, et Nehemias," 6 tom. in 7 vols. 12mo; 10. Explication du Cantique des Cantiques, et de la Sagesse,' 2 vols. 12mo; 11. "Explication sur Isaïe, Jonas, et Habacuc," 6 tom. in 7 vols. 12mo; 12. "Regles pour l'Intelligence de l'Ecriture Sainte," 12mo. The preface to this work is by M. d'Asfeld. 13. "Explication du Mystere de la Passion de N. S. J. C." 9 tom. in 14 vols. 12mo; 14. "Les Characteres de la Charité," 12mo; 15. “Traité des Principes de la Foi Chretienne," 3 vols. 12mo; 16. "De l'Education d'un Prince," 4to, or in 4 vols. 12mo; 17. "Conferences Ecclesiastiques," 2 vols. 4to; 18. "Jesus crucifié," 1 vol. or 2 vols. 12mo; and some other pieces, which procured him considerable reputation while works of piety remained popular in France. The history, and an analysis of his work on the education of a prince, may be seen in our third authority.'

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DUISBOURG or DUSBURG (PETER OF), the anthor of a Prussian Chronicle, flourished in the beginning of the fourteenth century, as appears by the dedication of that work. He was probably born at Duisbourg, in the duchy of Cleves, and took his name from the place of his nativity. His "Chronicle of Prussia" contains the history of that kingdom from 1226 to 1325, is written in Latin, and was continued by an anonymous hand, to 1426. Hartknock, a learned German, published an edition of it in 4to, in 1679, with nineteen dissertations, which throw considerable light on the early history of Prussia. About 1340, Nicolas Jeroschin, a chaplain of the Teutonic order, translated this Chronicle into German verse, which was continued in the same by Wigand of Marpurg, as far as 1394. Duisbourg himself was a priest of the Teutonic order in Prussia, but we have no farther account of his life.

DUKE (RICHARD), was a divine and a poet, the effusions of whose nuse have been honoured with a place in Dr. Johnson's collection, but of whose early history little

Moreri.-Dict. Hist.-Works of the Learned for 1740.

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is known, nor do we know who his parents were, or where he was born. His grammatical education he received under the famous Dr. Busby, at Westminster-school, into which he was admitted in 1670, and from which he was elected in 1675, to Trinity-college, Cambridge. In 1678 he took the degree of B. A. and that of M. A. in 1682. He became likewise a fellow of the college, and it is related that he was for some time tutor to the duke of Richmond. Having entered into holy orders, he was presented to the rectory of Blaby, in Leicestershire, in 1687-8, made a prebendary of Gloucester, and in 1688 chosen a proctor in convocation for that church, and was chaplain to queen Anne. In 1710 he was presented by sir Jonathan Trelawny, bishop of Winchester, to the wealthy living of Witney, in Oxfordshire, which, however, he enjoyed but a few months; for, on the 10th of February, 1710-11, having returned from an entertainment, he was found dead the next morning.

When Mr. Duke left the university, being conscious of his powers, he enlisted himself among the wits of the age. He was in particular the familiar friend of Otway, and 'was engaged, among other popular names, in the translations of Ovid and Juvenal. From his writings he appears not to have been ill-qualified for poetical composition. "In his Review," says Dr. Johnson, says Dr. Johnson, "though unfinished, are some vigorous lines. His poems are not below mediocrity; nor have I found in them much to be praised." With the wit, Mr. Duke seems to have shared the dissoluteness of the times; for some of his compositions are such as he must have reviewed with detestation in his later days. This was especially the case with regard to two of his poems; the translation of one of the elegies of Ovid, and the first of the three songs. "Perhaps," observes Dr. Johnson, "like some other foolish young men, he rather talked than lived viciously, in an age when he that would be thought a wit was afraid to say his prayers; and whatever might have been bad in the first part of his life was surely condemned and reformed by his better judgment;" and this, it is hoped, was the case.

Mr. Duke, in his character as a divine, published three sermons in his life-time. The first was on the imitation of Christ, preached before the queen in 1703, from 1 John, ii. 6. The second was from Psalm xxv. 14, and was likewise preached before the queen in 1704. The third was an assize sermon, on Christ's kingdom, from John xviii.

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