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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 162. 



and came with his mother into England, to avoid Per- 

 secution in y« year 1686, and succeeded to y* Vicarage 

 of Brotherton in y" year 169f, where he wrote this 

 Book, besides educating a Number of Pupils, who 

 were y' sons of Neighbouring Gentlemen. When he 

 had Knished his Book, he went to consult Doctor 

 Bentley (the then great Critic of the Age) ; but y' 

 Doctor (as is supposed) thinking Mr. Daubuz would 

 outshine him in Learning, and eclipse his glory, did 

 not encourage him to publish it. Upon which poor 

 Mr. Daubuz returned Home, unhappy in Mind and 

 weary in Body, sickened of Pleuritic Fever, and died 

 in a few days (June y« 14th, 1717, aged 43 years). 

 His book, however, was printed soon after his Deatli, 

 and has been much esteemed by all learned men. Mr. 

 Daubuz was a tall, stout, strong, hale man, of a swarthy, 

 black complexion, wore his own strong, black, curled 

 hair, and had a very loud voice. He was a worthy, 

 good man, a man beloved and respected by all. The 

 above I wrote from the accounts given me of him by 

 Old People who knew him. John Law, Vicar.'' 



"Mr. Daubuz built y'' Barn, y« Garden Walls, y<= 

 little Parlour and Chamber over it." 



The following inscription on a white marble 

 tablet on the south wall of the chancel in the 

 church at Brotherton, records the memory of Mr. 

 Daubuz, and others of his family, and the tomb- 

 stone over his remains still exists in the church- 

 yard: 



" Near the East Window in the Churchyard 

 Lie interred the Remains 

 of 

 Charles Daubuz, formerly Vicar of this Parish, 

 Who departed this Life 14th June, 1717, aged 43 Years. 

 And of 

 Claudius Daubuz, his Son, late Rector of 

 Bilsthorp, and Prebend of Southwell in Nottingham- 

 shire, 

 Who died the 13th of September, 1760, 

 Aged 54 Years. 

 Both 

 Eminent for Piety, Virtue, and Learning. 

 They 

 Lived beloved and died universally lamented. 

 Also 

 Julia Daubuz, Widow and Mother of Charles 

 Daubuz 

 (Who with her Family in the Year 1686 left France, 



Their Native Country, 



To avoid the severe Persecution against the Reformed), 



Died the 8th of December, 1714, 



Aged 77 Years. 



And 



. John and Charles, Sons of Charlfs Daubuz. 



John died June 21st, 1723, aged 8 years. 



Charles November 18th, 1728, aged 18 years." 



Chalmers, in his " Memoir of Daubuz " in the 

 Biographical Dictionary, vol. xi. p. 352., has been 

 sadly misled by some manuscript notes of Mr. 

 Whiston, who wrongly supposed that he died in 

 1740, instead of 1717, and that " he had a son, a 



clergyman, also beneficed in Yorkshire, near 

 Ferry Bridge, a studious man, who lived in ob- 

 scurity, and died a bachelor about 1752," whereas 

 it will be seen from the monumental inscriptionv 

 that he was Rector of Bilsthorp in Nottingham- 

 shire, and died in 1760. He is also wrong in 

 calling the elder Daubuz Vicar of Brotherton in 

 Cheshire, instead of Yorkshire. This latter mis- 

 take has been perpetuated by Dr. Hook in his 

 Ecclesiastical Biographi/, and may probably have 

 arisen from confounding him with the later editor 

 of his work, the Rev. Peter Lancaster, M.A., who 

 was Vicar of Bowden, in Cheshire, from 1716 to 

 1763, and to whom there is a memorial in the 

 middle aisle of the church. 



I will conclude this Note with a Query to your 

 correspondents, whether any of the descendants 

 of this worthy family, who were driven from their 

 native country by the persecutions consequent 

 upon the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, are 

 still living in England ? Thos. Corsek.. 



Stand Rectory. 



THE VALE OF NORMAISDY. 



An old antiquarian friend of mine, born in the 

 city of Coutances in Normandy, and still resident 

 in this province, possesses not only a copy of the 

 Neustria Pia, to which you have referred your 

 correspondent H. T. E. (Vol. vi., p. 293.), but he 

 also possesses another Latin folio, entitled Gallia 

 Christiana, published in 1758, which gives an ac- 

 count of all the bishops' sees in Normandy, as well 

 as all the abbeys, with a list of all the abbots, &c. 

 This book may probably be found in the British 

 Museum. Dumonstier did not live to complete 

 what he commenced of the Monasiicum Gallicum. 



Comparisons have been made between the Vale 

 of Normandy and the Vale of York ; and we have- 

 also the Vale of Pickering in Yorkshire, exhibit- 

 ing many beauties. Yet if we are to judge from 

 the number of religious establishments which were 

 generally posited in a fertile neighbourhood, we- 

 cannot compare with Normandy. The Abbatia 

 de Valle, in the diocese of Bayeux, was founded 

 in 1156. The Vallis Dei, or Val Dieu, in the 

 diocese of Seez, founded in 1137 by the Earl of 

 Perth. Vallis Sanctae Maria?, or La Vallee, of tl>e- 

 Cistertian Order, in the diocese of Evereux, 

 founded by Walter Giffard, who was a former 

 Earl of Buckingham. Vallis Mons, or Valmont,. 

 in the diocese of llouen. Vallis Richerii, or Val 

 Richer, in the diocese of Bayeux, now the pro^- 

 perty of M. Guizot. And in the neighbourhood 

 of Coutances, the abbey of Sancta Maria de la 

 Terrine, and the priory of St. Freniond, founded 

 by the family of Hurneto, barons by tenure in 

 England, from the time of Stephen to that of King 

 John, and connected with the barony of Stamford 

 in Lincolnshire : to the latter priory of St. Fre- 



