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The Ashmolean books were some years ago transferred to the Bodleian, but for several generations there was a strange assortment of antiquarian libraries gathered together in the Museum which Ashmole developed out of Madam Tradescant's 'closet of curiosities. Here were the books of the shiftless John Aubrey, described by Wood as 'sometimes little better than crazed': and here, according to Wood's dying wish, lay his own books, 'and papers and notes about two bushels full, side by side with Dugdale's manuscripts.
I could not tell whether to lay out my money for books of pleasure, as plays, which my nature was most earnest in; but at last, after seeing Chaucer, Dugdale's History of Paul's, Stows London, Gesner, History of Trent, besides Shakespeare, Jonson, and Beaumont's plays, I at last chose Dr.
Paul's Church Yard, to my bookseller's, and could not tell whether to lay out my money for books of pleasure, as plays, which my nature was most earnest in; but at last, after seeing Chaucer, Dugdale's History of Paul's, Stow's London, Gesner, History of Trent, besides Shakespeare, Jonson, and Beaumont's plays, I at last chose Dr.
It is at least probable that this family was not much different from the other families who lived in like circumstances in the community. Dugdale's original examination covered 709 cases out of about 1200 that were supposed to be living at the time. Of this number, 180 are put down as having received institutional and outdoor relief. The criminals and offenders are put down at 140.
MARY at LINCOLN; containing an exact Copy of all the Monumental Inscriptions there, in Number 163, as they stood in 1641; most of which was soon after torn up, or otherwise defaced. Collected by ROBERT SANDERSON, S.T.P., afterwards Lord Bishop of that Church, and compared with and corrected by Sir WILLIAM DUGDALE'S MS. Survey." Dr.
In Hollar's engraving, in a later print in Dugdale's "Monasticon" , and in Willis's "Cathedrals" , these buttresses are represented as existing, but the accuracy of the pictures in these books cannot be trusted.
There is in the first volume of Dugdale's Monasticon a copy of an ancient drawing of St. Augustine's, Canterbury. This is not, of course, the Cathedral Church, which was an old church of the British times restored by Augustine and dedicated to the Saviour; "Christ Church" it still remains. St.
All these were trivial things yet in the early sunrise of married life the least molehill throws a long black shadow. "I will be a wise woman. I will not disquiet myself in vain," said the little wife to herself, as her husband left her, in answer to repeated calls from some feminine voice which had just entered the house, and was immediately audible half over it. Harriet Dugdale's, of course.
She moved her head in thanks, and he continued: "If in this or any other form of the mad gold-fever I can heap up a little of that cursed I mean blessed dust, you may possibly see me in England. Till then or till death which seems equally likely, I remain, "Your affectionate Uncle, "Brian Locke Harper. "P.S. I send this through Marmaduke Dugdale's late agent in New York.
Habitual thieves convicted and unconvicted are listed at 60. Common prostitutes are put down at 50. After Dugdale's investigation the family, from industrial and other conditions, became scattered and spread out over many states. A record has lately been made of the descendants of this family, the later record showing much improvement in the stock. This must be due to environment.
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