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Ducarel 85 Ducarel

his topographical and archæological notes, which after his death were purchased by Richard Gough. In Vertue's plate of London Bridge Chapel the figure measuring is Ducarel, and that standing is Gale. With his antiquarian friends Ducarel associated on the most liberal terms, and 'his entertainments were in the true style of old English hospitality.' He was in the habit of declaring that, as an old Oxonian, he never knew a man till he had drunk a bottle of wine with him. During more than thirty years' connection with Lambeth Palace he was the valued friend or official of five primates— Herring, Hutton, Secker, Cornwallis, and Moore. He was a strong athletic man, and had a firm prepossession that he should live to a great age. The immediate cause of the disorder which carried him off was a sudden surprise on receiving at Canterbury a letter informing him that Mrs. Ducarel was at the point of death. He hastened to his house in South Lambeth, took to his bed, and three days afterwards died, on 29 May 1785. He was buried on the north side of the altar of St. Katharine's Church. His wife survived him more than six years, dying on 6 Oct. 1791 (Gent. Mag. lxi. 973).

His coins, pictures, and antiquities were sold by auction, 30 Nov. 1785, and his books, manuscripts, and prints in April 1786. The greater part of the manuscripts passed into the hands of Richard Gough and John Nichols.

His portrait, engraved by Francis Perry, from a painting by A. Soldi, executed in 1746, is prefixed to his 'Series of Anglo-Gallic Coins' (1757). This portrait has also been engraved by Rothwell and Prescott.

The following is a list of his works: 1. ‘A Tour through Normandy, described in a letter to a friend’ (anon.), London, 1754, 4to. This tour was undertaken, in company with Dr. Bever, in 1752, and his account of it, considerably enlarged, was republished, with his name, under the title of ‘Anglo-Norman Antiquities considered, in a Tour through part of Normandy, illustrated with 27 copperplates,’ London, 1767, fol.; inscribed to Bishop Lyttelton, president of the Society of Antiquaries. A French translation, by A. L. Léchaudé D'Anisy, appeared at Caen, 1823-5, 8vo, with thirty-six plates of the tapestry, 4to. 2. ‘De Registris Lambethanis Dissertatiuncula,’ London, 1756, 8vo. 3. ‘A Series of above 200 Anglo-Gallic, or Norman and Aquitain Coins of the antient Kings of England,’ London, 1757, 4to. 4. Letters showing that the chestnut-tree is indigenous to Great Britain. In ‘Philosophical Transactions,’ arts. 17-19. 5, ‘Some Account of Browne Willis, Esq., LL.D.,’ London, 1760, 4to. 6. Letter to Gerard Meerman, grand pensioner at the Hague, on the dispute about Corsellis being the first printer in England. This was read to the Society of Antiquaries in 1760. A Latin translation by Dr. Musgrave and Meerman's answer were published in vol. ii. of Meerman's ‘Origines Typographicæ,’ 1760. They were reprinted by Nichols, with a second letter from Meerman, in a supplement to Bowyer's ‘Two Letters on the Origin of Printing,’ 1776. 7. ‘A Repertory of the Endowments of Vicarages in the Diocese of Canterbury,’ London, 1763, 4to; 2nd edition, 1782, 8vo, to which were added the endowments of vicarages in the diocese of Rochester. 8. ‘A Letter to William Watson, M.D., upon the early Cultivation of Botany in England; and some particulars about John Tradescant, gardener to Charles I,’ London, 1773, 4to. This appeared originally in ‘Philosophical Transactions,’ lxiii. 79. 9. ‘Notes taken during a Tour in Holland, 1775,’ manuscript. 10. Account of Dr. Stukeley, prefixed to vol. ii. of his ‘Itinerary,’ 1776. 11. ‘A List of various Editions of the Bible and parts thereof in English, from the year 1526 to 1776, from a MS. (No. 1140) in the Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth, much enlarged and improved,’ London, 1776, 8vo (see, Lit. Anecd. vi. 390; , Bibl Man., ed. Bohn, p. 198). 12. ‘Some Account of the Alien Priories, and of such lands as they are known to have possessed in England and Wales,’ collected by John Warburton, Somerset herald, and Ducarel, 2 vols., London, 1779, 8vo; new edit. 1786. 13. ‘History of the Royal Hospital and Collegiate Church of St. Katharine, near the Tower of London,’ 1782, with seventeen plates. 14. ‘Some Account of the Town, Church, and Archiepiscopal Palace of Croydon,’ 1783. In Nichols's ‘Bibl. Topographica Britannica,’ vol. ii. 15. ‘History and Antiquities of the Archiepiscopal Palace of Lambeth,’ 1785. In ‘Bibl. Topographica Britannica,’ vol. ii. A valuable appendix to this work by the Rev. Samuel Denne [q. v.] was published in 1795. 16. ‘Abstract of the Archiepiscopal Registers at Lambeth, compiled by Ducarel, with the assistance of E. R. Mores, Mr. Hall, and Mr. Pouncey,’ Addit. MSS. 6062-6109. 17. Account of Doctors' Commons, manuscript prepared for the press. 18. ‘Testamenta Lambethana; being a complete List of all the Wills and Testaments recorded in the Archiepiscopal Register at Lambeth, 1312-1636.’ Another manuscript intended for Mr. Nichols's press. 19. Memoirs of Archbishop Hutton. Manuscript purchased at Ducarel's sale, for the Hutton family. 20. Correspondence; letters to him, Addit. MSS. 23990 and 15935; and correspondence