William Dugdale (1605 - 1686)

Born 12 Sep 1605 in Shustoke, Warwickshire, England

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Died 10 Feb 1686 at age 80 in Blythe Hall, Shustoke, Warwickshire, England

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Biography

William Dugdale is Notable.

William Dugdale was born in Warwickshire, England.

Introduction

Sir William Dugdale was an English antiquary and a pre-eminent medievalist scholar in his time.

Early Life

William Dugdale was born 12 September 1605 in Shustoke, Warwickshire to John Dugdale, a steward of the local landowner, and Elizabeth Swynfen. He was Christened two days later on 14 September.^[1] He had one older sister, Mary, who was three years his senior.

Family

He married Margery Huntbach on 17 March 1623. Two years later, William bought the mansion house Blyth Hall in Shustoke.^[2]

In 1628, Margery and William welcomed a son, John. In the years until Margery's death in 1681, the couple had seventeen more children including Elizabeth, Jane, Sarah, Martha, Judith, Margery, and Leticia.

Public Involvement

Over time, William became involved in transcribing documents and collecting church notes, making acquaintances with fellow antiquaries such as Sir Thomas Habington and Sir Symon Archer. Although he initially worked as Archer's assistant, William's growing involvement in public affairs gave rise to him taking over the lead which resulted in the 1656 publication of The Antiquities of Warwickshire, which included in the dedication an acknowledgement of Archer's work. While researching with Archer in the public record archives of London, William also met Sir Henry Spelman, Sir Edward Dering, and Sir Simonds D'Ewes, and Sir Christopher Hatton. Sir Christopher became his primary patron while he provided William with hospitality while he was in Holborn.

Through his friends, William was created a pursuivant of arms extraordinary in 1638, and in the following year he was promoted to the office of Rouge Croix Pursuivant of Arms in Ordinary. Through the income he received from his post and the accommodation provided to him in the College of Arms, William was able to further pursue his research in London. According to him at a later date, Sir Christopher Hatton foresaw the war in 1641, and dreading the ruin and spoliation of the Church, commissioned William to make exact drafts of all of the monuments in Westminster Abbey and the principal churches in England.

Involvement with King Charles I

William was summoned with other heralds in order to attend King Charles I in York in June 1642, and as war broke out Charles instructed William to summon the castles of Banbury and Warwick to surrender. He was a witness of the Battle of Edgehill, later returning with a surveyor to create a survey of the battlefield. In November that year he arrived in Oxford with the king and was admitted Master of Arts of the University. William worked in the royalist capital as a bureaucrat, particularly after December the following year when his friend Sir Christopher was appointed Comptroller of the Household, an ancient position in the British royal household that stood as the second-ranking member of the Lord Steward' department. William himself was appointed as the Chester Herald of Arms in Ordinary by the king in 1644.

He met his future son-in-law, Elias Ashmole while collecting material at the Bodleian Library and college libraries for his books during his leisure at Oxford. William returned to Blyth Hall in 1646 following the surrender of Oxford, and compounded for his estates under the terms of the Oxford articles. In 1648 he visited Sir Christopher in France, who went into exile over his opposition to the Oxford surrender.

In 1655, the first volume of the Monasticon Anglicanum was published, which William collaborated on with Roger Dodsworth. At the time of the Restoration, William secured the office of Norroy King of Arms^[3] through the influence of Sir Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon. William was knighted in 1677 and promoted to the office of Garter Principal King of Arms.^[4]

Death

On 10 February 1685/6 William passed away at the family home, age 79. He was buried two days later on 12 February.^[5]

Publications

• Dugdale, William, and Wenceslaus Hollar. The Antiquities of Warwickshire Illustrated : From Records, Leiger-Books, Manuscripts, Charters, Evidences, Tombes, and Armes : Beautified with Maps, Prospects, and Portraictures. London : Printed by Thomas Warren, 1656. Internet Archive. For more editions see The Antiquities of Warwickshire

• Dugdale, William. The History of Imbanking and Drayning of Divers Fenns and Marshes, Both in Foreign Parts and in this Kingdom, and of the Improvements Thereby Extracted from Records, Manuscripts, and Other Authentic Testimonies. London : Printed by Alice Warren, 1662. Early English Books Online.

• Dugdale, William. Monasticon Anglicanum. London : Printed by Sam Keble, 1693 Internet Archive.

• Dugdale, William. The Life of That Learned Antiquary, Sir William Dugdale. London : Printed by E. Curli, 1713. Internet Archive.

• Dugdale, William. The History of St. Paul's Cathedral in London, From its Foundation Northamptonshire : Printed by Edward Maynard, 1716 Internet Archive. For more editions see The History of St. Paul's Cathedral.

• Dugdale, William, and King, Gregory. Heraldic Miscellanies, Consisting of the Lives of Sir William Dugdale and Gregory King. London: T. Cadell, 1793. Internet Archive.

• Dugdale, William, and Saint-George, Richard. Pedigrees Recorded at the Heralds' Visitations of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmorland. Carlisle : Published by Chas. Thurman, 1891. Internet Archive.

• Dugdale, William. The Life, Diary, and Correspondence of Sir William Dugdale; With an Appendix, Containing an Account of His Published Works, an Index to His Manuscript Collections, Copies of Monumental Inscriptions to the Memory of the Dugdale Family, and Heraldic Grants and Pedigrees.. London : Printed by Harding, Lepard, and Co., 1827. Internet Archive.

• Dugdale, William. The Visitation of the County of York. London : J. R. Nichols and Sons, 1859.Internet Archive.

• Dugdale, William, and Flower, William, and Saint-George, Richard. Pedigrees Recorded at the Visitations of the County Palatine of Durham. London : Joseph Foster (Printed Privately), 1887. Internet Archive.

Sources

1. ↑ "England, Warwickshire, Parish Registers, 1535-1963," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XFM3-35W : 8 December 2017), William Dugdale, 14 Sep 1605; from parish registers of the Church of England, database and images, citing Christening, Shustoke, Warwickshire, England, Warwick County Record Office, England.
2. ↑ Wikipedia contributors, "Blyth Hall," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Blyth_Hall&oldid=792868198 (accessed October 19, 2018).
3. ↑ Walter H Godfrey and Anthony Wagner, 'Norroy King of Arms', in Survey of London Monograph 16, College of Arms, Queen Victoria Street (London, 1963), pp. 101-118. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/bk16/pp101-118 [accessed 29 October 2018].
4. ↑ Hamper, William., (1827)., The life, diary, and correspondence of Sir William Dugdale ... : London: Harding, Lepard, and Co. Retrieved from the Internet Archive (p.139;) Accessed 1 Apr 2022.
5. ↑ "England, Warwickshire, Parish Registers, 1535-1963," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XFM3-L48 : 8 December 2017), William Dugdale, 12 Feb 1685; from parish registers of the Church of England, database and images, citing Burial, Shustoke, Warwickshire, England, Warwick County Record Office, England.

See also:

• Wikipedia: William Dugdale
• Wikidata: Item Q783318, en:Wikipedia
• "Dugdale, William (1799/1800–1868), publisher." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 29 Oct. 2018. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-65592.
• Time Team, Season 9, Episode 11, "Every Castle Needs a Lord" (Beaudesert, Warwickshire)

• The National Archives; Kew, England; Prerogative Court of Canterbury and Related Probate Jurisdictions: Will Registers; Class: PROB 11; Piece: 382, William Dugdale probate date 8 April 1686, of Shustoke, Warwickshire England. Ancestry.com. England & Wales, Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013.Ancestry

• British History online: Parishes: Shustoke Pages 205-210 A History of the County of Warwick: Volume 4, Hemlingford Hundred. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1947

• Healey, Jonathan. "William Dugdale, Historian, 1605–1686: His Life, His Writings and His County, Ed. Christopher Dyer and Catherine Richardson." The English Historical Review CXXVI, no. 519 (2011): pp. 440-42.

• Raines, Francis. The Visitation of the County Palatine of Lancaster, Made in the Year 1664-5, by Sir William Dugdale. Printed by the Chetham Society, 1873. Internet Archive.

• Dugdale, William, and Clay, John William. Dugdale's Visitation of Yorkshire, With Additions Exeter : Printed by William Pollard & Co., 1899 Internet Archive.

• King, Gregory. Staffordshire Pedigrees Based on the Visitation of that County Made by William Dugdale. London : Mitchell Hughes, 1912. Internet Archive.

• Records of the Family of Deacon, of Kettering and London, with notices of allied families