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yy IT. The modern cattle is a fpacious building, with 
trenches hewn out of the rock, and ftands on a lofty hill, 
having an extenfive profpeCt into five counties, and a 
great part of Wales. Oldbury chapel is one mile eaft of 
Dudley cattle, where Tame has its rife. Near it is a Ro¬ 
man camp, and the portway patted near it. 
DUD'LEY, a townlhip of the American States, in 
Worcetter county, Malfachufetts, containing 1114 inha¬ 
bitants: eighteen miles fouthward of Worcetter, and 
■fifty-five miles fouth-weft of Button. 
DUD'LEY (Edmund), an eminent lawyer and ftatef- 
man, in the reign of Demy VII. who, with fir Richard 
Empfon, another lawyer of the lame complexion, aflifted 
in filling that rapacious monarch’s coffers by arbitrary 
profecutions of the people on old penal ftatutes. They 
w'ere beheaded on the acceflion of Henry VIII. to pacify 
the clamours of the people for juftice. 
DUD'LEY (John), duke of Northumberland, fon of 
the above, a ftadman ; memorable in the Englifh hiftory 
for his unfuccefsful attempt to place the crown on the 
bead of his daughter-in-law, lady Jane Grey, who fell a 
victim to his ambition, was born in 1502, and beheaded 
in 1553. Ambrcfe Ids eldett Ion was a brave general and 
able (fatefman under queen Elizabeth ; and received the 
appellation of the good carl of Warwick. Henry, the duke’s 
fecund fon, was killed at the liege of St. Qjnntin. Ro¬ 
bert, the third fon, was created earl of Leicefter ; and 
was one of queen Elizabeth’s favourites. His fourth fon 
was the unfortunate lord Guildford Dudley, whole only 
crime was his being the hufband of lady Jane Grey, for 
which he was beheaded in 1554. 
DUD'LEY (Robert), earl of Leicefter, third fon of 
John duke of Northumberland, above-mentioned, born 
anno 153?-. He was admitted early into the fervice and 
favour of Edward VI. but with the reft of his family fell 
into difgrace at the acceflion of Mary ; no fooner, how¬ 
ever, did Elizabeth fucceed, than he was received at 
court as a principal favourite; in a fliort fpace he was 
mailer of the horfe, knight of the garter, and privy-coun- 
fellor, and was propofed by queen Elizabeth (though 
probably not ferioufly) as a proper hufband for the queen 
of Scots, an otter which was generally thought to have 
been made, to afford Elizabeth an excufe for taking him 
berfelf; the death of Dudley’s lady at this period gave 
rife to many dark fufpicions ; fine was conducted by her 
hufband to the houfe of a domeftic at Cnmnor, in Berk- 
fliire, where, as it was laid, after fome attempts to poifon 
her had proved inefficacious, fhe was fir ft ftrangled, and 
then thrown from a high Hair-cafe, that Ikc death might 
appear to have been occalioned by the fall. I11 1564, he 
was created baron Denbigh, and earl of Leicefter, and 
elected chancellor of the univerfity of Oxford ; about 
this time he married the dowager baronets of Sheffield, 
but afterwards, fearing it would occalion the diminution of 
his influence over Elizabeth, he exerted himlelf by va¬ 
rious means to induce his lady to delilt from her preten¬ 
tions ; finding her, however, immoveable, he recurred to 
his former expedient of poifon, which the ltrong confti- 
fcution of the lady fo far refilled as to enable Her to efcape 
with the lofs of her hair and nails ; fhe had a fon whom 
Leicefter called his bafe fon, but to whom lie left tiie bulk 
of his fortune. In 1575, the queen paid him a viiit at 
Kenilworth, where he entertained her feventeen days, at 
the expence of lixty thoufand pounds. At this period 
appeared a pamphlet written with great force, entitled, 
A Dialogue between a Scholar, a Gentleman, and a Law ¬ 
yer, in which the whole of Leiceftet’s conduct wasinvef- 
tigated with equal truth and bitternefs; the queen herfelf 
caufed letters to Le written from the privy-council, deny¬ 
ing tiie charges, and vindicating her favourite’s innocence.; 
the pamphlet, however, was not the fefs read nor cre¬ 
dited. In 1585, lie was lent as generaliliimo to the Low 
Countries, where his conduct was Inch a tilfue of info- 
ience and caprice, that he was recalled^ but loft nothing 
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in bis miftrefs’s favour, who confulted liim on the arduous 
affair of Mary, queen of Scots, and it is reported his ad¬ 
vice was fo have recourfe to his old expedient poifon. 
He died in September 158S, after having been appointed 
lieutenant-general under the queen, of the army aftembled 
at Tilbury. With one of the blacked hearts, this man 
attested great regularity in religious duties ; lie was tho¬ 
roughly converiant in the Latin and Italian languages, 
fpoke well, and wrote at 1 e a ft equal to any man of histime. 
DUD'LEY (fir Robert), natural fon of Robert earl of 
Leicefter, mentioned in the preceding article, bi rn at 
Sheen in 1573. He was educated at Chrift church col¬ 
lege, Oxford, and acquired the character of one of the 
nioft learned and accomplilhed among the young men of 
quality in England. His enterprifing difpolition prompted 
him to undertake a voyage of adventure and difeovery; 
and he planned an expedition at his own expence to the 
South Seas,with a final) fquadron under his own command, 
in 1594, and failed up the river Oronoque ; in which ex¬ 
pedition he took and deftroyed feveral Spanilh fhips. An 
account of it, written by himfelf, was publilbed in Hack- 
luyt’s collection. He was prefent at the taking of Cadiz 
in 1596, and diftjnguifhed his courage in that glorious ac¬ 
tion, fo as to 00tain the honour of knighthood. He now 
made an attempt to cftablilh the legitimacy of his birth ; 
but was oppofed by the countefs-dowager of Leicefter, 
who found means to put a flop to his proceedings. In 
confequence of this difappointment, he refolved to take 
up his relidence at Florence, where he was made chamber- 
lain to the wife of the grand duke Cofmo II. lifter to the. 
emperor Ferdinand. Through her intereft he was created 
a duke of the holy Roman empire, and thereupon a (fumed 
his grandfather’s title of Northumberland, and was after¬ 
wards enrolled among the Roman nobility. He is faid to 
have been of great life to the duchy of Tu r cany, by means 
of various projects for improving, navigation and conl- 
merce ; and, in particular, the draining of. the morals be¬ 
tween Pifa and the lea, and the improvement of the port 
of Livorno, or Leghorn, and railing it to a free port, is 
imputed to him by the Englifh writers. He publilbed a 
large work, entitled Del Arcano del Mare, &c. in two vo¬ 
lumes folio, Flor. 1630 and 1646, full of charts, plans, 
and fchemes, and fuggefting a great variety of projects 
relative to maritime affairs, which are (aid to dilplay 
great extent of knowledge and fertility of invention. He 
died at his feat near Florence in 1649, leaving a numerous 
foreign pofterity. Among the various talents and inven¬ 
tions of this lingular character, he is faid to have been 
the firftwho broke fetting-dogs. 
DUD'MAN,/. A malkin, a fcare-crow ; a hobgoblin, 
a fpright. Bailey. 
DUE, adj. The part. pa(f. of owe-, [du, Fr.] Owed ; 
that which any one lias a right to demand in confequence 
of a compact, or for any other reafon.—Mirth and cheer- 
fulnels are but the due reward of innocency of life. More. 
—There is a refpeCt due to mankind, which Ihould incline 
even the vvifeft of men to follow innocent cnitoms. Watts. 
— Proper ; fit ; appropriate.—Opportunity may be taken 
to excite, in perlons attending on thole folemnities, a due 
lenle of the vanity of earthly fatisfactions. Atterbury. — 
ExaCt; without deviation : 
And Eve within, due at her hour, prepar’d 
For dinner favoury fruits. Milton. 
Confegutnt to, occafioned or effeCted by. Proper, but not 
ufual. — fhe motion of the oily drops may be in part due 
to fome partial (olution made by the vinous (pint, which 
may tumble them to and fro. Boyle. 
DUE, adj. ExaCtly ; directly; duly. The courfe is 
due eaft, or due weft : 
lake the Pontic fea, 
Whofe icy current, and rompulftve courfe, 
Ne’er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due. oil 
To the Propontic and the Hellefpont. 
F f 
ShaheJl care. 
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