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beth in 1757; and in the next year was appointed com- 
miflary and official of the city and diocefe of Canterbury. 
He had been admitted into the fociety of antiquaries in 
1737, and was one of the firft fellows nominated upon its 
incorporation in 1755. To this body he addrefled A Se¬ 
ries of above two hundred Angdo-Gallic or Norman and 
Aquitaine Coins of the ancient Kings of England, exhi¬ 
bited in fixteen Copper-plates, and illuftrated in twelve 
Letters, quarto, 1757. In making this collection he had 
the abidance of M. de Boze, keeper of the king of France’s 
medals. He printed, in 1760, A Biographical Account of 
Browne Willis, the Antiquary, read before the fociety. 
Having been eleCted into the royal fociety in 1762, he 
contributed to its memoirs a letter to prove that the chef- 
nut is indigenous to England, and an account of the early 
cultivation of botany in this country. In 1763 he was 
appointed by the commiffioners of the treafury, in con¬ 
junction with fir Jof. Ayloffe and Mr. Adle, to methodife 
the records in the date-paper-office in 'Whitehall, and in 
the augmentation-office. He contributed to feveral anti¬ 
quarian works in the enfuing years; and in 1779 he had 
a large diare in the Account of Alien Priories, two vols. 
8vo, printed by Mr. Nichols. In 1782 he publiflied The 
Hidory of the Royal Hofpital and Collegiate Church of 
St. Catharine, 410, with plates. He publiflied, in 1783, 
Some Account of the Town, Church, and Archiepifcopal 
Palace, of Croydon, 4to ; and in the Bibliotheca Topo- 
graphica Britannica he gave The Hidory and Antiquities 
of the Archiepifcopal Palace of Lambeth, from its Foun¬ 
dation to the Year 1785. He alfo contributed largely to 
the Hidory of the Pariflt of Lambeth, publiflied in 1786. 
He continued his application to his favourite dudies till 
his death, which happened at his houfe in South Lam¬ 
beth, in May, 1785. 
DU'CAS, a learned Greek, who wrote an hidory of 
what palled under the lad emperors of Condantinople, 
till the ruin of that city. This work, which is much 
edeemed, was printed at the Louvre, in 1649, with the 
Latin tranflation and notes of Boillaud. 
DUCAS'SE (Francis), a celebrated French canonid, 
native of the diocefe of LeiCloure. His fird ecclefiadical 
promotion was the appointment of grand-vicar and official 
of CarcafTone. Afterwards he became canon, archdea¬ 
con, and official, of Condom, where he died in 1706. 
He is reprefented to have been profoundly {killed in fcrip- 
tural learning, the writings of the fathers, and the works 
of ancient and modern canonids; and in his conduct and 
manners to have conducted himfelf with credit to his 
character and profeffion. He was the author of two trea- 
tifes, much edeemed by canon-lawyers; the fird intitled 
De la Jurifditlion Ecclefiajlique contcnticufe, 8vo, 1695; and 
the other De la JuriJdiElion voluntairc, 8vo, 1697. 
DU'CAT,/. [from duke .] A coin druck by dukes: in 
diver, valued at about four fiiillings and fixpence ; in 
gold, at nine {hillings and fixpence : 
I cannot indantly raife.up the grofs 
Of full three thoufand ducats. Shakcfpcare. 
The origin of ducats is referred to Longinus, governor 
of Italy; who, revolting againd the emperor Judin the 
Younger, made himfelf duke of Ravenna, and called 
himfelf Exarcha, i. e. without lord or ruler ; and, to fiiow 
his independence, druck pieces of money of very pure 
gold in his own name, and with his own damp, which 
were called ducati, ducats. 
DUCATOO'N,/. A filver coin, druck chiefly in Italy; 
particularly at Milan, Venice, Florence, Genoa, Lucca, 
Mantua, and Parma. They are valued at about four 
fiiillings and eightpence derling. There is alfo a gold 
ducatoon, druck chiefly in Holland : it is equivalent to 
twenty florins, of one {hilling and elevenpence halfpenny 
the florin. 
DUCE, or Deuce,/, [deux, Fr. of duo, Lat.] The 
two on cards or dice. 
D U C 
Duce take you, [probably from buey, Sax. a fpe&re.J 
The devil take you. 
DUCENA'RIUS, f. in antiquity, an officer in the Ro¬ 
man army, who had the command of two hundred men. 
In the infcription at Palmyra, the word dacenarius, in 
Greek ^aneva^oc, occurs very often. 
DUCENTE'SIMA,/. in antiquity, a tax of the two 
hundredth penny, exacted by the Romans. 
DU'CES TE'CUM, f. in law, a writ commanding a 
perfon to appear at a certain day in the court of chancery, 
and to bring with him fome writings, evidences, or other 
things which the court would view. So fubpcenas duces 
tecum, are often fued out at common law, to compel wit- 
nefles to produce, on trials at niji prius, deeds, bonds, 
bills, notes, books, or memorandums, &c. which are in 
their cudody or power, and which relate to the iflue in 
quedion. But if they are in the pofleffion or power of 
the adverfe party or his attorney, it is cudomary to give 
notice to the attorney to produce them, and on proof 
made in open court, before the judge of nifi prius, of 
fuch notice, the court generally compels the attorney, or 
his client, to produce the fame, if material. If not pro¬ 
duced, parol evidence may be given of their contents. 
Duces tecum licet Languidus, a writ directed 
to the dierifl', upon a return that he cannot bring his pri- 
foner without danger of death, he being adeo languidus ; 
then the court grants a habeas corpus, in the nature of a 
duces tecutn licet languidus. But this is now out of ufe; for 
where the perfon’s life would be endangered by removal, 
the law will not permit it to be done. 
DU'CEY, a. town of France, in the department of the 
Channel, and chief place of a canton, in the didridt of 
Avranchcs: one league and a half fouth-fouch-ead of 
Avranches. 
DU'CI-IAL (James), an eminent Irifii nonconformid 
divine, born mod probably at or near Antrim, in 1697. 
His collegiate dudies he purfued at the univerlity of 
Glafgow, where he continued till he was of a proper 
danding to take the degree of mafler of arts. Soon af¬ 
terwards he entered upon the work of the minidry, and 
had his fird fettlement with a fmall congregation at Cam¬ 
bridge. To the diligence with which, during this pe¬ 
riod, he cultivated ethics and divinity, and other branches 
of learning more immediately connected with his profef¬ 
fion, may in a confiderable degree be attributed the repu¬ 
tation by which he was afterwards didinguidied among 
the Iriffi nonconformid divines. Whild he was at Cam¬ 
bridge he publiflied, in 1728, three valuable fermons, 
intitled The PraCtice of Religion recommended, in 8vo. 
Upon the death of Mr. Alaernethy, in 1740, he became 
that gentleman’s fuccedor, and fettled with the protedant 
diflenling congregation in Wood-dreet, Dublin. In 1752, 
Mr. Duchal publiflied a very excellent collection of dif- 
courfes, abounding in judicious and pointed reafoning, 
found philofophy, and liberality of fentiment. It is inti- 
tled Prefumptive Arguments for the Truth and Divine 
Authority of the Chriflian Religion ; in ten Sermons: to 
which is added, a Sermon upon God’s Moral Govern¬ 
ment, 8vo. Soon after the appearance of this work, the 
author had the degree of doctor in divinity conferred 
upon him by the univerfity in which he had been edu¬ 
cated. He died in 1761, deeply regretted by numerous 
friends. His character appears to have been truly efti- 
mable for piety, morality, modefty, candour, and bene¬ 
volence. Since his death three volumes of his fermons 
have been publiflied, taken, for the greatefi: part, indif- 
criminately from the vaft mafs which he left behind him. 
Befides fermons, Dr. Duchal is faid to have been the 
author of various occalional publications, both in Eng¬ 
land and Ireland, which molt probably related to the 
theological controverfies of the times : and in the fecond 
volume of The Theological Repofitory may be found two 
eflays by him, one On the Obligation of Truth, and the 
other On the DoCtrine of Atonement. 
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