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 much difficulty. He apparently printed each work separately, and if, on its first issue, it did not sell quickly, he bound it up with older works and gave the whole a collective title. All of the separate issues and many of the collected editions are very rare indeed. The following is a chronological list of his works: 1. The translation from P. Jovius, 1585. 2. The twenty-seven sonnets appended to Sidney's ‘Astrophel and Stella,’ 1591. 3. ‘Delia,’ 1592. 4. ‘The Complaynt of Rosamonde,’ 1592. 5. ‘Cleopatra,’ 1594. 6. ‘First Fowre Bookes of the Civile Wars,’ 1595; the fifth book, 1595; sixth book, 1601; seventh and eighth books, 1609. 7. ‘Musophilus,’ 1599. 8. ‘Letters from Octauia,’ 1599. 9. ‘Defence of Ryme,’ 1602. 10. ‘A Panegyricke Congratulatorie,’ 1603. 11. ‘Poetical Epistles,’ 1603. 12. ‘The Vision of the Twelve Goddesses,’ 1604. 13. ‘The Queenes Arcadia,’ 1605. 14. ‘Philotas,’ 1605. 15. ‘Vlisses and the Syren,’ 1605. 16. ‘Tethys Festival,’ 1610. 17. ‘The History of England,’ pt. i. 1612, pt. ii. 1617. 18. ‘Hymens Trivmph,’ 1615. The collected editions are: 1. ‘Delia and Rosamond augmented,’ 1594. 2. ‘The Poeticall Essayes of Sam. Danyel. Newly corrected and augmented,’ 1599. 3. ‘The Works of Samuel Daniel,’ 1601, 1602. 4. ‘Certaine small Poems lately printed,’ 1605. 5. ‘Certaine small Workes heretofore divulged,’ 1607, 1611. 6. ‘The Whole Workes of Samuel Daniel,’ 1623. A later collection was issued in 1718 with the ‘Defence of Ryme.’ Dr. Grosart is now engaged on a complete edition.

[Corser's Collectanea Anglo-poetica, iv. passim; Hunter's MS. Chorus Vatum, in Addit. MS. 24489, ff. 223–45; Dr. Grosart's reprint of Daniel's Works in the Huth Library (Mr. George Saintsbury contributes a valuable notice of Daniel's tragedies to the third volume); Wood's Athenæ Oxon. (Bliss), ii. 268–74; Langbaine's Poets; Notes and Queries, 1st ser. vii. 344, 3rd ser. viii. 4, 35, 40, 52, 97; Collier's Bridgwater Catalogue; Fuller's Worthies; Elizabethan Sonnets, ed. Lee. i. xlix–lxi.] 

DANIEL, THOMAS (1720–1779), jesuit. [See .]

DANIEL or O'DOMHNUILL, WILLIAM (d. 1628), archbishop of Tuam, translator of the New Testament into Irish, was a native of Kilkenny. His name appears in the patent (3 March 1592) for the foundation of Trinity College, Dublin, as one of three youths who were nominated to scholarships. The second vacancy which occurred in the fellowships was filled up by his election as junior fellow in the summer of 1593. He graduated M.A. in 1595. On 24 Feb. 1602 he was made D.D. at the first commencement.

While at Trinity College Daniel took up the work of translating the New Testament into Irish. This had been begun by Nicholas Walsh [q. v.], chancellor of St. Patrick's Cathedral, and afterwards (1577) bishop of Ossory. After the murder of Walsh at Kilkenny (14 Dec. 1585) it was continued by John Kearney (O'Cearnuidh), treasurer of St. Patrick's, and by Nehemias Donellan, who became archbishop of Tuam in 1595. What use Daniel was able to make of the efforts of his predecessors is not known. He claims to have translated from the original Greek. The printing was begun in 1602, in the house of Sir William Usher, clerk of the council, the printer being John Francke. The types employed had been presented by Queen Elizabeth in 1571 to John Kearney, and used by him in printing a catechism, the first work printed in Irish. The fount is a curious mixture of roman, italic, and Irish. Besides the Irish address to the reader there is an English dedication to James I, showing that the printing was not finished till 1603 or later. No reprint appeared until the edition of 1681, 4to, brought out in London at the cost of Robert Boyle [q. v.] This was printed by Robert Everingham in small pica Irish, full of contractions, cut by Joseph Moxon in 1680. Though it professes to be a reprint, it is not an exact one. An edition further revised by R. Kirke, M.A., was published in English character, London, 1690, 12mo. The modern editions issued by the Bible and Christian Knowledge Societies are reprints, more or less carefully corrected, of the 1681 edition. A version modernised from Daniel, in the existing Munster dialect, was brought out by Robert Kane, 1858, 4to.

About the time of the issue of his Irish Testament Daniel was preferred to the treasurership of St. Patrick's Cathedral. In 1606 he undertook, at the instance of Sir Arthur Chichester [see, (1563–1625)], a translation of the Book of Common Prayer, which occupied him for two years. In 1608 he put it to the press, employing the same printer as before, who now had an establishment of his own, and called himself John Francke, alias Franckton, printer to the king of Ireland. The type is the same, with one new character, the dotted c. ‘Hauing translated the Booke,’ says Daniel, ‘I followed it to the Presse with ielousy, and daiely attendance, to see it perfected.’ During the progress of the work he was promoted to the archbishopric of Tuam (consecrated in August 1609), holding his treasurership in commendam. The dedication to Chichester is