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of human beings.-—-They arc firfl fed and nouriflied with 
the milk of a ftrange dug. Raleigh. 
Then fhines the goat, whofe bruitifh dugs fupply’d 
The infant Jove, and nurft his growing pride. Creech. 
It feems to have been ufed formerly of the bread, with¬ 
out reproach : 
As mild and gentle as the cradle-babe. 
Dying with mother’s dug between its lips. Shakefpeare. 
DUG, pret. and part. pajf. of dig. —They had often 
•found medals, and pipes of lead, as they dug among the 
rubbifli. Addifon. 
DUFRES'NY (Charles Riviere), a man of various ta¬ 
lents, but chiefly known as a comic writer, born at Paris 
in 1648. He puffed for a grandfon of Henry IV. and is 
faid to have refembled him. He difplayed a general tafte 
for the arts, without having fludied any. tie wrote and 
fet longs, made curious landfcapes, and excelled in laying 
out gardens; which talent procured him from Louis XIV. 
(to whom he was a fervant of the bed-chamber) the office 
of comptroller of the royal gardens. He had alfo the pa¬ 
tent for the manufacture of looking-glades. Such, howe¬ 
ver,was hisextravagance, that he was reduced to fell all his 
places and privileges. Dufrefny, after quitting the court, 
began to write for the ftage in company with Regnard. 
Though he did not attain to the excellence of this writer, 
he compofed many pieces which agreeably entertained 
the public. His reputation was high enough to have in¬ 
duced D’Alembert, in his academical eulogy of Def- 
touches, to give a refined and elaborate comparifon of 
his fubject and Dufrefny, with refpeCt to their comic 
talents. He died poor, in 1724. His works were col¬ 
lected in 1731, in 6 vols. nnto. Belides his dramatic 
pieces, they contain cantatas fet by himfelf, fongs, ferious 
and comic axmiCements, hiltorical anecdotes, &c. in all 
which are fixokes of a lively and Angular imagination. 
DUG'DALE (lir William), an eminent Englifh anti¬ 
quary, fon of a Warwickfhire gentleman of Shulioke near 
Colefhill, where he was born in 1605. He was educated 
at the free-fehool in Coventry, and received inftructions 
in law and hi Tory under his father, after whofe death he 
purchafed Blythe-hall in Shuftoke, and there fixed his 
refidence. His acquaintance with fome gentlemen at¬ 
tached to antiquarian purfuits, engaged him in fimilar 
fiudies, and he began to make collections for a hiftory of 
his native county. In 163S he vifited London, and was 
introduced to fir Henry Spelman, and other learned anti¬ 
quaries. Through their recommendation he obtained a 
purfuivant’s place in the herald’s office, where he came 
to refide in 1640. He made ufe of the opportunities this 
afforded him, to enlarge his collections front the records 
in the Tower and other repofitories. He fucceeded to 
the place of Chefter-herald in 1C44. He continued at 
Oxford till its furrender in 1646, where he employed 
himfelf in fearching the Bodleian and other libraries, 
and laying up materials for the Monafticon, in which he 
was, engaged along with Mr. Roger Dodfworth. This 
great work afterwards employed them both in London; 
and Dugdale paying a vifit to Paris with lord Hatton in 
1648, obtained the perufal of the collections of Andrew 
du Chefne, whence he copied many things relative to 
the priors alienin England. The fir ft volume of the Mo- 
najlicon Anglicanum, or Account of all the Religious Hoitfes 
in England, from their Foundation to their DiiTblution, 
was pnblifhed in 1655, folio. This, and the fecond vo¬ 
lume, publilhed in 1661, were entirely written by Dodf¬ 
worth ; but Dngdale took great pains in methodizing 
and digefting them. The third volume did not appear 
till 1673. .We are told that the publication of the Mo¬ 
nafticon produced the effect of caufing many law-fuits, 
in confequence of the old writings it brought to light ; 
and th<r. it gave great alarm and offence to the puritans, 
as tending to bring back popery. Two volumes of ad¬ 
ditions were printed by John Stephens in 1722 and 1723; 
and Mr. Peck promifed another volume, which has never 
appeared. The whole is a valuable collection of national 
matter, and is now become fcarce. In 1656, Dugdale 
publilhed his Antiquities of Warwickfhire illuftrated, 
folio, a work of twenty years labour, and characterized 
by Mr. Gough as “ Handing at the head of all our county 
hiftories.” A fecond edition of it by William Thomas, 
D. D. appeared in 1730, in 2 vols. He employed his 
refidence in London, during the printing of this work, 
in collecting materials for a Hiftory of St. Paul’s cathe¬ 
dral in London, publilhed in 1638, folio. Upon the re- 
ftoration he was advanced to the office of Norroy king of 
arms. His induftry was next employed in the Hiftory of 
Embanking and Draining of divers Fens and Marllies, 
both in foreign Parts and in this Kingdom, 1662, folio, 
He edited, in 1664, the fecond volume of Sir Henry Spel- 
nian’s Councils, and the fecond part of his Glollary. A 
compilation which he had made from his frequent exa¬ 
minations of records, &c. relative to the Englifh courts 
of jultice, their forms, rules, and offices, with chronolo¬ 
gical tables of all the principal law offices, appeared in 
1666, under the title of Origines Judiciales, folio : this is 
recommended by bifltop Nicolfon as an ufeful introduc¬ 
tion to the legal hiftory of England. Another great per¬ 
formance in which he appeared as a genealogift and hif- 
torian, was the Baronage of England, or an Account of 
all the Families of Nobility, in 3 vols. folio, 1675, 1676. 
This work has incurred fome fevere criticifms from Inis 
brother antiquaries, on account of numerous miftakes and 
deficiencies ; yet it is allowed by candid judges to polfefs 
great merit as a foundation for an hiltorical peerage, 
which after-refearches might render more perfect. In 
1677, he was advanced to the high eft heraldic poft, that 
of Garter principal king of arms; to which was joined 
the honour oP'knighthood ; an honour, which the fmall- 
nefs of his eftate rendered him unwilling to accept. He 
proceeded in publifhing the fruits of his various enqui¬ 
ries ; of which were, 1. A fttort View of the late Trou¬ 
bles in England, with a perfect Narrative of the Treaty 
of Uxbridge, 168r, folio. 2. The ancient Ufage in beard¬ 
ing Arms, with a Catalogue of the Nobility, and of 
Knights of the Garter and Baronets, 1681, 8vo. 3. A per¬ 
fect Copy of all Summons of the Nobility to the great 
Councils and Parliaments, from 49 Hen. III. to the pre- 
fent Times, 1685, folio. He compiled a number of other 
volumes, which he left in manufeript to the univerfity 
of Oxford, and the herald’s college. This very induf- 
trious writer, who appears to have- had a conliderable 
fhare of worldly trouble, died at his hotife of Blythe- 
hall, in his eighty-firft year, in February 1686. He left 
a fon, John, who alio belonged to the heraldic profefi- 
fion, and was knighted. He had a daughter, married to 
the well-known Elias Afhmole. 
DUG'GA, or Tugga, a town of Africa, in the king¬ 
dom of Tunis : feventy miles fouth-weft of Tunis. 
DUGIN'SKOJ, a cape of Ruffian Siberia, in the fea 
of Ochotfkoi. Lat. 59. 15. N. Ion. 167. E. Ferro. 
DU'GNY, a town of France, in the department of the 
Meufe, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrict of Ver¬ 
dun : three miles fouth of Verdun. 
DU'GUET (James Jofeph), a French prieft, much 
efteemed among the favourers of the Junfenift tenets, 
born at Montbrifon, near Lyons, in 1649. He early dis¬ 
covered an aftonilhing ftrength of memory and aptitude 
at acquiring learning; and after palling through the ufnal 
preliminary courfes, he was fent to Sautriur, to ftudy 
theology. In 1671, he was appointed by the fathers 
profeflbr of philofuphy in their college at Troyes; where 
the admirable and fucceLful manner in which he dif- 
charged the duties of that office, did ample juftice to the 
difeernment of thole-who had feleCted him for it. It was 
while he retained this profefforffiip that he eftabliflied his 
celebiated ecclefiaflical conferences, wh-ic-h were attended 
w ith crowded audiences, and procured him a high repu¬ 
tation for extendve knowledge, judgment, .and piety. 
