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SIR WILLIAM DUGDALE (16o5-1686)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 647 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:WILLIAM See also:DUGDALE (16o5-1686)  , See also:English See also:antiquary, was See also:born at Shustoke, near Coleshill, in See also:Warwickshire, on the 12th of See also:September 16o5, the son of a See also:country See also:gentleman of an old See also:Lancashire stock; he was educated at See also:Coventry . To please his See also:father, who was old and infirm, he married at seventeen . He lived with his wife's See also:family until his father's See also:death in 1624, when he went to live at Fillongley, near Shustoke, an See also:estate formerly See also:purchased for him by his father . In 1625 he purchased the See also:manor of Blythe, Shustoke, and removed thither in 1626 . He had See also:early shown an inclination for antiquarian studies, and in 1635, See also:meeting See also:Sir Symon See also:Archer (1581-1662), himself a learned antiquary, who was then employed in See also:collecting materials for a See also:history of Warwickshire, he accompanied him to See also:London . There he made the acquaintance of Sir See also:Christopher (afterwards See also:Lord) See also:Hatton, See also:comptroller of the See also:household, and See also:Thomas, See also:earl of See also:Arundel, then earl See also:marshal of See also:England . In 1638 See also:Dugdale was created a See also:pursuivant of arms extraordinary by the name of Blanch See also:Lyon, and in 1639 See also:rouge croix pursuivant in See also:ordinary . He now had a lodging in the Heralds' See also:Office, and spent much of his See also:time in London examining the records in the See also:Tower and the Cottonian and other collections of See also:MSS . In 1641 Sir Christopher Hatton, foreseeing the See also:war and dreading the ruin and spoliation of the See also:Church, commissioned him to make exact drafts of all the monuments in See also:Westminster See also:Abbey and the See also:principal churches in England, including See also:Peterborough, See also:Ely, See also:Norwich, See also:Lincoln, See also:Newark, See also:Beverley, See also:Southwell, See also:Kingston-upon-See also:Hull, See also:York, See also:Selby, See also:Chester, See also:Lichfield, See also:Tamworth and See also:Warwick . In June1642 he was summoned to attend the See also:king at York . When war See also:broke out See also:Charles deputed him to summon to surrender the castles of See also:Banbury and Warwick, and other strongholds which were being rapidly filled with See also:ammunition and rebels . He went with Charles to See also:Oxford, remaining there till its surrender in 1646 .

He witnessed the See also:

battle of Edgehill, where he made afterwards an exact survey of the See also:field, noting how the armies were See also:drawn up, and where and in what direction the various movements took See also:place, and marking the See also:graves of the slain . In See also:November 1642 he was admitted M.A. of the university, and in 1644 the king created him Chester See also:herald . During his leisure at Oxford he collected material at the Bodleian and See also:college See also:libraries for his books . In 1646 Dugdale returned to London and compounded for his estates, which had been sequestrated, by a See also:payment of £168 . After a visit to See also:France in 1648 he continued his antiquarian researches in London, collaborating with See also:Richard See also:Dodsworth in his Monasticon Anglicanum, which was published successively in single volumes in 1655, 1664 and 1673 . At the Restoration he obtained the office of Norroy king-at-arms, and in 1677 was created garter principal king-at-arms, and was knighted . He died " in his See also:chair " at Blythe See also:Hall on the loth of See also:February 1686 . Dugdale's most important See also:works are Antiquities of Warwickshire (1656) ; Monasticon Anglicanum (1655-1673) ; History of St See also:Paul's See also:Cathedral (1658); and Baronage of England (1675-1676) . His See also:Life, written by himself up to 1678, with his See also:diary and See also:correspondence, and an See also:index to his See also:manuscript collections, was edited by See also:William Hamper, and published in 1827 .

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