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 dated ‘from my House in Sainct Patricks Close, Dublin, the xx. of October. 1609.’ He prays his patron ‘to send it abroad into the Country Churches, together with the elder brother the new Testament.’ The version includes the special rites and the catechism, but not the psalter; prefixed is James's proclamation for uniformity, 5 March 1604, in Irish.

Daniel had the repute of being a good Hebraist, but it is not known that he took in hand the translation of the Old Testament. That was reserved for William Bedell [q. v.] Early in 1611 Daniel was sworn of the Irish privy council. Later in that year there was a project for removing the seat of his archbishopric to Galway, the cathedral at Tuam being in ruins. This, however, was not carried out; Tuam was erected into a parliamentary borough in the protestant interest (1612), and the cathedral was repaired. Daniel attended the parliament at Dublin in 1613, and the convocation of 1615 which adopted unanimously the Irish articles, with their strong Calvinistic bias. He did not join the protest (26 Nov. 1626) of ‘divers of the archbishops and bishops of Ireland,’ against the toleration of popery. Daniel died at Tuam on 11 July 1628, and is buried there in the tomb of his predecessor Donellan. His will, dated 4 July 1628, mentions his wife, Mary, his daughter, Catelin, and his nephews, Richard Butler, John Donellan, and Edmund Donellan, archdeacon of Cashel; these latter were sons of Archbishop Nehemias Donellan [q. v.], who had married Daniel's sister Elizabeth.

He published: 1. ‘Tiomna Nvadh ar Dtighearna agus ar Slanajghtheora Josa Criosd, ar na tarruing gu firinneach as Gréigis gu Gáoidheilg,’ &c., Athá Cliath [Dublin], 1602, sm. fol. five leaves at beginning unpaged, pp. 214 paged on one side only (i.e. 220 leaves in all, the paging 57 being repeated); separate titles to Matthew, Mark, and Luke. The Duke of Sussex's copy in the British Museum (465 c. 17) is perfect; the Grenville copy (G. 11753) imperfect. 2. ‘Leabhar na Nvrnaightheadh Gcomhchoidchiond agus Mheinisdraldachda na Sacrameinteadh,’ &c., Athá Cliath [Dublin], 1608, sm. fol. unpaged; fifteen leaves at beginning; then A to V2, AA to VV2, AAa to VVv2; at end is leaf with Chichester arms (so rightly in Grenville copy, G. 12086; misplaced before title in copy C. 24. b. 17).

[Ware's Works (Harris), 1764, i. 616; Taylor's Hist. University of Dublin, 1845, pp. 7, 16, 268; Lowndes's Bibliographer's Manual (Bohn), 1864, iii. 1946 (not quite correct as to collation of prayer book); Reid's Hist. Presb. Ch. in Ireland (Killen), 1867, i. 17, 53, 92, 146; Calendar of State Papers (Ireland, 1611–14), 1877, pp. 1, 161, 189, 345; Reed's Hist. of Old English Letter Foundries, 1887, pp. 75, 186 (underestimates the number of Irish characters employed by Francke); information from Sir Bernard Burke, and from the assistant registrar and the assistant librarian, Trinity College, Dublin.] 

DANIEL, WILLIAM BARKER (1753?–1833), author of ‘Rural Sports,’ was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge, taking the degree of B.A. in 1787 and that of M.A. in 1790. It does not appear that he was ever beneficed, although he took holy orders in the English church, and his name has no place in Gilbert's ‘List of Beneficed Clergy’ (1829). He seems to have indulged in sporting tastes to a degree which shocked even his tolerant age. A correspondent in the ‘Gentleman's Magazine’ (1802, lxxii. 621) writes contemptuously of him as though he had no benefice, and adds, ‘I cannot help thinking he is fitter to act the character of Nimrod than that of a dignitary in the church of England,’ but is rebuked by the editor in a note. At the end of 1833 he died, at the reputed age of eighty, in Garden Row, within the rules of the King's Bench, where he had resided for twenty years. No particulars of his character or habits have been preserved.

Daniel's ‘Rural Sports’ were the delight of sportsmen at the beginning of the century. The book appeared in 2 vols. 4to 1801, dedicated to J. H. Strutt, M.P., confessedly a compilation in great part, but with much new matter. Hunting, coursing, shooting, &c., are fully described, and the plates in both volumes are excellent. A new edition in 3 vols. 8vo was issued in 1812, and a supplementary 4to vol. in 1813, dedicated to the Marquis of Blandford. This volume contains a miscellaneous collection of anecdotes and receipts, with a bibliography of angling (transferred from Sir H. Ellis's list), ‘to entertain the sportsman and give a hint to the naturalist.’ It is written altogether in a more careless style than the rest of the book. ‘This admirable work, now almost forgotten,’ says a writer in the ‘Quarterly Review’ (No. 235, vol. cxviii.), ‘has nevertheless been the basis of many a later book on field sports.’ Herein it has only shared the fate of many other old fishing and hunting treatises. The book will always be valued as a general record of sport before the introduction of modern guns and methods to kill game more speedily and surely. Sir R. P. Gallwey remarks (Moor and Marsh Shooting, 1886, p. 314) that it ‘contains one of the earliest, if not the earliest, authentic accounts of wild-