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In some excellent pamphlets drawn forth by the occasion, from Mr. Duppa, for instance, and several others, the whole subject was well probed, and many aspects, little noticed by the public, were exposed of that extreme injustice attached to the law as it then stood.
It was built by Sir Richard Clough, an eminent merchant, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. The initials of his name are in iron on the front, with the date 1567, and on the gateway 1569. DUPPA. Bishop Shipley, whom Johnson described as 'knowing and convertible' Ante, iv. 246. Johnson, in his Dictionary, says that 'conversable is sometimes written conversible, but improperly.
In 1642 he had the place of succentor in the church of Salisbury, conferred on him by bishop Duppa, and in 1643 was chosen junior proctor of the university; he was also metaphysical reader, and it was generally said, that those lectures were never performed better than by Mr. Cartwright, and his predecessor Mr. Thomas Barlow of Queen's College, afterwards lord bishop of Lincoln.
Here Mr. and Mrs. Thrale and Dr. Johnson staid three weeks. DUPPA. Mrs. Piozzi wrote in 1817: 'Poor old Lleweney Hall! pulled down after standing 1000 years in possession of the Salusburys. Hayward's Piozzi, ii. 206. Johnson's name for Mrs. Thrale. Ante, i. 494. Johnson wrote to Mrs.
He had the management of the race-chorses which the king kept at Newmarket, and which cost his Majesty £600 a year. He worked his will on the king's wardrobe, from which the Knights of the Garter are furnished with their robes of ceremony. He was saluted to the ground by the usher of the Black Rod, who belongs to the king. That usher, under James II., was the knight of Duppa. Mr.
Duppa in editing this Journal received assistance from Mrs. 'I am sadly afraid, she writes, 'of Lady K.'s being displeased, and fancying I promoted this publication.
Duppa died, and a young man came to minister to his congregation who thought the baptism of the spirit of more importance than the most correct of opinions concerning even the baptizing spirit. From him Mary found she could learn, and would be much to blame if she did not learn. From him Betty also heard what increased her desire to be worth something before she went to rejoin Tom.
Duppa without however giving his authority says that this was Dr. Wheeler, mentioned ante, iii. 366. The Birmingham Directory for the year 1770 shews that there were two tradesmen in the town of that name, one having the same Christian name, Benjamin, as Dr. Wheeler. Boswell visited these works in 1776. Ante, ii. 459.
But Juxon's tenure of the office was little more than nominal, and, even during his lifetime, Sheldon was the foremost representative of the Church. Duppa, the Bishop of Winchester, had been the man closest in the confidence of Laud, and had been the chief agent in carrying out his reforms in the University of Oxford.
It seems unlikely that Johnson should not at Streatham have had all the wall-fruit that he wished. DUPPA. Johnson wrote to Mrs. Thrale in 1771: 'I would have been glad to go to Hagley in compliance with Mr.
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