D'OYLY, THOMAS (fl. 1585), antiquary, the second son of Sir Henry D'Oyly, knight, of Pondhall in the parish of Hadleigh, Suffolk, by his wife Jane, daughter and sole heiress of William Ellwyn of Wiggenhall St. Germans, Norfolk, was born in or about 1530. Electing to follow the profession of the law, he was admitted a member of Gray's Inn in 1555 (Harl. MS. 1912, f. 27 b). In 1559 he is found acting as steward to Archbishop Parker (Strype, Life of Parker, 8vo ed. i. 116; Memorials of Cranmer, 8vo ed. i. 565). He soon rose into high favour with the archbishop, had the degree of D.C.L. conferred upon him, doubtless by the archbishop himself, and on the institution of the Society of Antiquaries by Parker, about 1572, became a member of it (Archæologia, i. ix, where he is confounded with Thomas D'Oylie, M.D. [q. v.]). Two of his contributions to the society are preserved in Hearne's ‘Collection of Curious Discourses’ (ed. 1771, i. 175–6, 183–4), from transcripts made by Dr. Thomas Smith from the Cotton MSS. The subject of one is ‘Of the Antiquity of Arms;’ the other (written in French) treats ‘Of the Etymology, Dignity, and Antiquity of Dukes.’ D'Oyly appears to have lived variously at Croydon, Surrey; at Layham, Suffolk; and at St. Dunstan's-in-the-West, London. He was alive in 1585. He was twice married: first, when scarcely seventeen, to Elizabeth, only child of Ralph Bendish of Topsfield Hall in Hadleigh, Suffolk, who died 2 Aug. 1553; and, secondly, at Hadleigh, 11 Feb. 1565, to Anne Crosse of that place. By both marriages he had issue. The eldest surviving son of the second marriage, Thomas D'Oyly, married Joane Baker, niece of Archbishop Parker (Parker Pedigree in Strype's Life of Parker, vol. iii., Appendix; Correspondence of Archbishop Parker, Parker Soc., p. xiii).
[Bayley's Account of the House of D'Oyly, pp. 102, 169–71; Nichols's Collectanea, v. 220; authorities cited.]
DRAGE, WILLIAM (1637?–1669), medical writer, a native of Northamptonshire, was born in or about 1637. He practised as an apothecary at Hitchin, Hertfordshire, where he died in the beginning of 1668–9. His will, dated 10 Oct. 1666, with a codicil dated 12 Nov. 1668, was proved on 9 March 1668–9 by his widow Elizabeth Drage, otherwise Goche, who was probably the sister of ‘my brother John Edwards of Baldock,’ Hertfordshire (Reg. in P. C. C. 31, Coke). He left issue three sons, William, Theodorus, and Philagithus, and a daughter, Lettice. To them he assigned his patrimony at Raunds, Northamptonshire, and land, house, malting, and homestead at Morden, Cambridgeshire. Drage, who was a profound believer in astrology and witchcraft, and a disciple of Dr. James Primrose, the coarse opponent of Harvey, wrote the following curious treatises: 1. ‘A Physical Nosonomy; or a new and true description of the Law of God (called Nature) in the Body of Man. To which is added a Treatise of Diseases from Witchcraft,’ 2 parts, 4to, London, 1665 (a reissue, with new title-page, ‘The Practice of Physick,’ &c., appeared 4to, London, 1666, and was followed by a third issue, entitled ‘Physical Experiments,’ 4to, London, 1668). From the notice at the beginning and in his ‘monitory Proœmium to the Candid Readers,’ Drage, it would seem, had ready another work, to be called ‘Physiology, Iatrosophy, and Pneumatography,’ but ‘was frustrated in his expectation, as to the time, it being not yet printed.’ 2. ‘Pretologie, a Treatise concerning Intermitting Fevers,’ 16mo, London, 1665. The same in Latin, with the title, ‘Πυρετολογία: sive G. Dragei … Observationes et Experientiæ de Febribus intermittentibus,’ &c., 16mo, London, 1665.
[Prefaces to Works; Watt's Bibl. Brit. i. 316 z; Hazlitt's Collections and Notes (1867–1876), pp. 132–3; Brit. Mus. Cat.]
DRAGHI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA (17th cent.), Italian musician, generally supposed to be a brother of Antonio Draghi of Ferrara (1635–1700), settled in London soon after the Restoration. The first notice of him occurs in 1666–7, when Pepys (Diary, ed. Bright, iv. 233–5) met him at Lord Brouncker's on 12 Feb., and records that he ‘hath composed a play in Italian for the opera, which T. Killigrew do intend to have up; and here he did sing one of the acts. He himself is the poet as well as the musician, which is very much, and did sing the whole from the words without any musicque prickt, and played all along upon a harpsicon most admirably, and the composition most excellent.’ There is no record of this opera having been performed. The statement in Miss Strickland's ‘Life of Catherine of Braganza’ [q. v.], that ‘the first Italian opera performed in this country was acted in her presence,’ probably arises from the fact that Shadwell's ‘Psyche,’ with vocal music by Matthew Lock (the queen's organist) and instrumental interludes by G. B. Draghi, which is sometimes considered the first English opera, was produced at the Dorset Garden Theatre in February 1673–4. This work, the scenery of which cost 600l., was only played for eight days. Lock's music was published in 1675, but Draghi's was omitted, by the composer's consent. On
