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But law bless you! He never reads the books, or opens one of them; except that in which he keeps his bands a Dugdale's "Monasticon," which looks like a book, but is in reality a cupboard, where he has his port, almond-cakes, and decanter of wine. He gets up his classics with translations, or what the boys call cribs; they pass wicked tricks upon him when he hears the forms.
Young Owen Dugdale's heart thrilled within him. In all his life he could not exactly remember a single time when he had been thus warmly welcomed to any camp. Why, it was almost worth shooting the rapids and meeting with disaster to hear such words, and feel that every one was meant. Who were these lads, and why were they here in this faraway land?
The ancient drawing to which I am referring was made after 1325, when St. Ethelbert was added to the Apostles Peter and Paul and St. Augustine in the dedication of the high altar. It was copied for Sir William Dugdale's purposes in 1652, at which time it had passed into the safe hands of one of the Cambridge Colleges, Trinity Hall. The altar is shewn as deeply recessed into a structural reredos.
Here Halliwell is accused of suppressing the truth; if he invented his minute details about the repeated reparation of the writing hand, not represented in Dugdale's design, he also lied with circumstance.
Dugdale's pleasantness, had begun to feel quite at home, and had laughed till she was fairly tired out he said, in a half whisper: "Now, dear, I think we ought to go and see Elizabeth." In the confusion of her arrival, Agatha had forgotten that there was another sister in truth, the Miss Harper of the family Mary, its head and housekeeper, being properly only "Miss Mary."
Richard had married her daughter; but what claim had Henry to her inheritance? This attachment of Rous to the house of Beauchamp, and the dedication of his work to Henry, Would make his testimony most suspicious, even if he had guarded his work within the rules of probability, and not rendered it a contemptible legend. Vide Dugdale's Warckshire in Beauchamp.
Thence I to my new bookseller's, and there bought "Hooker's Polity," the new edition, and "Dugdale's History of the Inns of Court," of which there was but a few saved out of the fire. Carried my wife to see the new play I saw yesterday: but there, contrary to expectation, I find "The Silent Woman." 16th.
The archives of the Northern monasteries had been kept for a time in eight chests in St. Mary's Tower at York. Roger Dodsworth, Sir William Dugdale's colleague in the preparation of the Monasticon, made copies of many of these documents; and when the tower was blown up in the siege of 1644 he was one of the zealous antiquarians who saved the mouldering fragments on the breach.
Suffer me to tell the mournful tale from Dugdale's Antiquities of Warwickshire. John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, a man of great wealth, unbounded ambition, and one of the basest characters of the age, was possessor of Dudley-castle, and the fine estate belonging to it: He wished to add Birmingham to his vast domain.
Dugdale's figures of delinquency in the Jukes family are doubtless much too high. A large percentage of facts was gained from gossip and hearsay about those long since dead. The details show that many crimes charged were not even proved, others were evidently not crimes, and in any small community suspicion would rest upon a member of this family who was accused.
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