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DALLAWAY DARTMOOR. 



vol. xiv. In 170'_' hi- wrote the introduction to 

 Naylor's " Collection of Coats of Arms borne by 

 the Mobility and Gentry of the County of Glou- 

 cester." 



On the 1st of JaQ. 1797, Mr Dallaway was ap- 

 pointed secretary to the earl marshal, which office 

 brought him in close connection with the college 

 of arms, but did not constitute him a member of 

 the corporation. He continued secretary until the 

 death of his patron in 1815; and was re-appointed 

 to it by lord Henry Howard, who, in 1816, was 

 nominated deputy earl marshal; and upon his lord- 

 ship's death, in 1824, a bill having passed to enable 

 the present duke of Norfolk to execute the func- 

 tions of his office in person, Mr Dallaway was a 

 third time appointed to the official situation of 

 secretary to the earl marshal. In 1799 the duke 

 of Norfolk presented him to the rectory of South 

 Stoke in Sussex; which he resigned in 1803, on his 

 grace procuring him the vicarage and sinecure 

 rectory of Slynfold, which is in the patronage of 

 the see of Chichester. In 1801, in exchange for 

 the rectory of Llanmaes in Glamorganshire, which 

 had been given to him by the marquis of Bute, he 

 obtained the vicarage of Letherhead, in the gift of 

 the dean and chapter of Rochester. The two 

 benefices of Letherhead and Slynfold he held until 

 his death. In 1811 he also obtained the prebend 

 of Hova Ecclesia in the cathedral church of 

 Chichester ; which in 1816 he exchanged for that 

 of Ferring; the latter he afterwards resigned in 

 1826 to the late Rev. Edmond Cartwright, on that 

 gentleman's succeeding him in the editorship of the 

 History of Western Sussex. 



In 1800 Mr Dallaway published in 8vo. " Anec- 

 dotes of the Arts in England, or comparative Re- 

 marks on Architecture, Sculpture, and Painting, 

 chiefly illustrated by Specimens at Oxford." In 

 1803 be edited, in five volumes 8vo. " The Letters 

 and other Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montague, 

 from her original MSS. with Memoirs of her Life." 

 In 1806 he published in 8vo. " Observations on 

 English Architecture, Military, Ecclesiastical, and 

 Civil, compared with similar Buildings on the Con- 

 tinent, including a critical Itinerary of Oxford and 

 Cambridge, &c., and Historical Notices of Stained 

 Glass, Ornamental Gardening, &c." In 1816 he 

 published a work entitled " Of Statuary and 

 Sculpture among the Ancients, with some account 

 of Specimens preserved in England," 8vo. ; all but 

 a small portion of which perished in the fire at Mr 

 Bensley's printing office. Previously to this time, in 

 the year 1811, he had been engaged, by the late 

 duke of Norfolk, to edit, at his grace's expense, 

 " The History of the Three Western Rapes of 

 Sussex," for which very ample collections had been 

 made by Sir William Burrell, and deposited in the 

 British Museum. The first volume, containing the 

 Rape and city of Chichester, was published in 

 1815 ; the first part of the second volume, contain- 

 ing the Rape of Arundel, appeared in 1819 ; the 

 Rape of Bramber he relinquished to the late Rev. 

 Edmund Cartwright, F.S.A., who published it in 

 1830. In 1821 he privately printed, as an accom- 

 paniment to thirteen etchings by Mrs Dallaway, 

 two letters descriptive of the vicar's garden at 

 Letherhead, addressed to his friend R. Duppa, Esq., 

 a very lively and animated description of a beauti- 

 ful spot. In 1823 he communicated to the society 

 of antiquaries, " Observations on the first Common 

 Seal used by the Burgesses of Bristol," printed 

 (with a plate) in the " Archzeologia," vol. xxi. In 



1824 he published in 4to. " William Wyrcestre 

 Redivivus. Notices of Ancient Church Architec- 

 ture in the Fifteenth Century, particularly in Bris- 

 tol ; with Hints ibr Practical Restorations." An 

 article from his pen entitled " Bristol in the Fif- 

 teenth Century," appeared in " The Retrospective 

 Review," new series, vol. ii. in 1828; and these 

 several papers were reprinted at Bristol, under the 

 title of " Antiquities of Bristol in the Middle 

 Centuries, including the Topography, by William 

 Wyrcestre, and the Life of William Canynge." 

 This last was an essay by Mr Dallaway, read at the 

 Bristol institution in April, 1831. In 1826 Mr 

 Dallaway superintended, for Mr Major, the book- 

 seller, a finely embellished edition of Walpole's 



' "Anecdotes of Painting," which includes Vertue's 

 "Memoirs of the English Painters and Engravers." 

 However accomplished in his acquaintance with 

 art, and refined in his taste, Mr Dallaway may have 

 been, it cannot be concealed that he was by no 

 means calculated for either a biographical or a to- 

 pographical historian ; and both this work and his 

 History of Sussex abound with marks of haste, 

 carelessness, and inaccuracy. His last work was 

 an extended and revised edition of the work of 

 1806 on " Architecture in England ;" this was pub- 

 lished early in the year 1834. His death took 

 place on the 6th of June in the same year. 



DARLINGTON ; a market-town in the county 

 of Durham, distant from Newcastle thirty-three 

 miles, from York forty-eight. It is situated near 

 the Skerne, a small liver which falls into the Tees. 

 It consists of several streets, diverging from a spa- 

 cious square, or market-place. The principal manu- 

 factures of Darlington are carpets, and flax and 

 worsted spinning; there are also several breweries, 

 tanneries, roperies, and iron and brass foundries ; 

 the Skerne, in its course, turns mills for corn, &c., 

 and propels the machinery of very extensive worsted 

 mills ; and many of the working class are employed 

 in wool-combing, and other avocations connected 

 with the mills. The Darlington and Stockton 

 railway has been of great benefit to the town. 

 Population in 1841, 11,033. 



DARTFORD; a market-town in Kent, fifteen 

 miles from London, on the great road to Canter- 

 bury. Near it are some extensive powder mills ; 

 also silk mills and paper mills. The powder manu- 

 factured here is famed for its fineness, and is much 

 used by sportsmen. Dartford is noted as the place 

 where Wat Tyler's insurrection commenced. Po- 

 pulation in 1841, 5619, 



DARTMOOR (a.) ; a remarkable moorish dis- 



! trict in Devonshire, extending about twenty miles 

 in length and eleven in breadth. The external as- 

 pect of this interesting district (the beauties of 

 which have been sung by Carrington, q. v.~) is ex- 

 tremely wild and dreary, presenting an almost end- 

 less continuation of lofty hills, craggy rocks, and 

 narrow valleys strewed with enormous masses of 

 granite, which some convulsion of nature in by- 



: gone days has probably severed from the surround- 



' ing eminences. Indeed, innumerable masses of 



! stone of various dimensions lie scattered over the 

 general surface of the moor, and those which lie 

 on the sides of the hills, are moulded into the 



I wildest and most impressive forms imaginable. 



' Some of these heights rise abruptly into peaks, 



: crowned with huge piles of stone, and are called 



t " Tors." 



There are several Druidical or Celtic remains on 



: the moor, as the circles, the logans, and the rock 



