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 was issued, with an adulatory dedication to Charles II, the second volume of the ‘Monasticon,’ ‘Monastici Anglicani Volumen alterum, de Canonicis Regularibus Augustinianis, scilicet Hospitalariis, Templariis, Gilbertinis, Præmonstratensibus & Maturinis, sive Trinitariis, cum appendice ad volumen primum de Cœnobiis aliquot Gallicanis, Hibernicis et Scoticis, necnon quibusdam Anglicanis antea omissis.’ As in vol. i., Dodsworth's and Dugdale's names appear together on the title-page of vol. ii., the issue of which had been deferred until the proceeds of the sale of the other enabled Dugdale to bear the expense of publishing it. He was allowed to import the paper for it duty free. Several of the plates (see catalogue of them in, ii. 685) are engraved by Hollar. In 1662 appeared Dugdale's ‘History of Imbanking and Drayning of divers Fenns and Marshes, both in foreign parts and in this Kingdom, and of the improvements thereof’—a work conspicuous for its prolixity as well as for its exhibition of research. It was written at the instance of Lord Gorges, surveyor-general of the great level of the fens, of which it contains a history and minute topographical description, illustrated by maps and plans, and preceded by a vast mass of matter very little relevant to that undertaking. There is an account of the volume, with extracts, in the article ‘Agriculture: Draining’ in the ‘Quarterly Review’ for December 1844. Dugdale received for it from Lord Gorges 150l. Five hundred copies of it having been destroyed in the fire of London (see Dugdale's letter of 15 Oct. 1666, printed in the catalogue of the Grenville Library, Brit. Mus., pt. i. p. 215), the volume became so scarce that a copy of it fetched ten guineas when in 1772 it was reissued, with the spelling modernised, at the expense of the corporation of the Bedford Level, and edited by their registrar, C. N. Cole, partly from the copy used by Dugdale himself. In 1666 (not 1664, the date given by Dugdale in his autobiography) were published two works of Sir Henry Spelman's, edited by Dugdale for Sir Henry's grandson, Charles Spelman: (1) the ‘Glossarium Archæologicum,’ mainly a reissue of part 1 of the ‘Archæologus’ published in 1626, with the addition of part ii., which had remained in manuscript. A groundless charge was brought against Dugdale of having interpolated this work to gratify his political prejudices (cf. Life, by himself, p. 29 n., and Life of Spelman, a. 4); (2) vol. ii. of the ‘Concilia,’ greatly enlarged by Dugdale's contributions, which are marked with an asterisk. Clarendon and Sheldon were contributors to the fund of 316l. subscribed to defray the cost of the publication of both books, the sale of which yielded a profit of 20l., though the ‘greater part’ of the impression, in which Dugdale had a pecuniary interest, was destroyed in the fire of London. His account of the expenditure in the publication of these works contains the curious item (Correspondence, p. 360 n.) of 1l. 9s. 6d. ‘spent in entertainments upon the booksellers when I did receive moneys from them.’ In 1666 was published his ‘Origines Juridiciales, or Historical Memorials of the English Laws, Courts of Justice,’ &c. ‘Also a Chronologie of the Lord Chancellors’ and other holders of judicial offices. The information given respecting the inns of court and chancery is particularly copious and curious. With the exception of a few presentation copies, the whole impression of this volume was destroyed in the fire of London. A second edition of it was published in 1671 and a third in 1680, in both the lists of chancellors, &c., being continued up to date. Abridgments of it, with similar continuations, appeared in 1685 and 1737. A ‘History and Antiquities of the Inns of Court,’ extracted from Dugdale, published with a view to correct abuses in their administration, and said to be edited by John Brayner (Brit. Mus. Cat.), appeared in 1780, and reappeared in the same year as part ii. of ‘History and Antiquities relative to the Origin of Government,’ almost wholly extracted from Dugdale. Both parts were reissued in 1790 as ‘Historical Memorials of the English Laws’ (, p. 762).

The third and final volume of the ‘Monasticon’ was issued in 1673 without Dodsworth's name on the title-page, though doubtless it contained material collected by him (, Fasti, ii. 25). The full title is ‘Monastici Anglicani Volumen tertium et ultimum: Additamenta quædam in volumen primum ac volumen secundum jampridem edita: Necnon Fundationes sive Dotationes Ecclesiarum Cathedralium ac Collegiatarum continens: ex archivis Regiis, ipsis autographis, ac diversis codicibus manuscriptis decerpta, et hic congesta per Will. Dugdale Warwicensem.’ In a prefatory address Dugdale acknowledges his obligations to Sir Thomas Herbert and Anthony à Wood, who contributed many charters to the volume. For the copyright Dugdale received 50l. and twenty copies of the volume. An outcry, by no means wholly puritan, was, with its completion, renewed against the work as furnishing details respecting the landed property taken from the Roman catholics during Reformation times, and thus aiding them to claim its recovery when, as was then dreaded by many, their religion should be