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Samuel Lee, the Appendix on the Isle of Man being by James 
Chaloner. The Dedication alone is by King, who, as Dugdale 
told Wood, was not able to write one word of true English, 
being “ a most ignorant, silly fellow,” and, moreover, “ an 
arrant knave.” The engravings, however, are done by King 
himself in admirable style. He also executed a work on the 
Cathedral Churches and one or two other works, and etched 
a few plates for Dugdale’s Monasticon. Wood says he made 
an unfortunate marriage, and after his wife had robbed and 
left him, he died heartbroken near York House in the Strand, 
about 1664. 
1656. The | Vale-Boyall | of | England. | Or | The County Palatine of 
Chester | Illustrated. | Wherein is contained a Geographical and 
Historical | description of that Famous County, with all its 
Hundreds and Seats of | the Nobility [etc. 5 lines] | Performed 
by William Smith, and William Webb, Gentlemen | Published 
by Mr. Daniel King, | To which is annexed, | [etc. 5 lines]. . . . 
An Excellent Discourse of the Island of Man [etc. 2 lines] | London, 
| Printed by John Streater, in Little S. Bartholomews, and are 
to be sold at the | Black-spread-Eagle at the West-End of Pauls, 
1656. 
Collation — 1 vol. sm. folio, engr. title + pp. 411 un. + pp. 239 + 
table 5 11. +pp. 55 + Treatise on Isle of Man, title and ded. 3 11. 
+ pp. 34, with numerous plates and maps. 
At p. 18 of First Part, paragraph on Wild Fowl ; at p. 2 of the 
Isle of Man, passage on Birds of the Island. 
King (William Doubleday), 1801-70 
The subject of this notice, a member of the Society of 
Friends, was a cousin of Henry and Edward Doubleday, 
and was born at Sudbury, Suffolk, in 1801. According to 
Mr. Miller Christy {Birds of Essex, p. 24), his early education 
was limited, and he was by trade a draper. While the chief 
aim of his life was the “ elevation of the working classes,” 
he took a warm interest in the study of natural history, 
especially ornithology, and formed a large and valuable 
collection of British birds, mostly obtained in the vicinity 
of Sudbury, and stuffed by himself. At his death, which 
occurred at Sudbury, November 15, 1870, his collection 
passed to his nephew, John Grubb of Birmingham, where 
