Salmasius's ‘Defensio regia pro Carolo primo’ in 1649–50. The council of state committed him to Newgate, ordered the destruction of his presses and implements, and directed the Merchant Taylors' Company to dismiss him from their school. His wife and family were turned out of doors, and his printing effects, worth 1,000l., seized. After a month's imprisonment, however, his release was effected by his friend Milton. It is said by Dr. Gill , that Milton found Dugard printing an edition of the ‘Eikōn Basilikē’ about the time of his arrest, and compelled the insertion of the prayer from Sidney's ‘Arcadia,’ which he afterwards ridiculed in the ‘Eikonoklastes.’ Milton's answer to Salmasius was printed at Dugard's press.
On Dugard's release from Newgate he opened a private school on St. Peter's Hill. Bradshaw, however, a few months afterwards, ordered the Merchant Taylors' Company to replace him for his special services to the public as schoolmaster, and as printer to the state, and after a third peremptory letter Dugard was reinstated 25 Sept. 1650. In 1651–2 some of his books were publicly burnt by order of the House of Commons, such as ‘The Racovian Catechism.’ Yet in the same year he printed a French translation of Milton's ‘Eikonoklastes,’ and calls himself ‘Guill. Dugard, imprimeur du conseil d'état.’ The governors of the school, on the burning of his works, desired him to relinquish his press-work, but his imprint appears year by year until his death. In June 1661, after public warning by the school authorities of various breaches of order, chiefly in taking an excessive number of scholars (275), he was dismissed. A month after he opened a private school in White's Alley, Coleman Street, and soon had 193 pupils under his care. He died 3 Dec. 1662. From his will, made a month before, he seems to have survived his second wife, and left only a daughter, Lydia, not of age. His first wife, Elizabeth, died at Colchester in 1641. Two sons, Richard (b. 25 June 1634) and Thomas (b. 29 Nov. 1635), entered Merchant Taylors' School in 1644, the former being elected to St. John's College 1650. He lived at Newington Butts in 1660, when he concealed in his house James Harrington, author of ‘Oceana,’ and gave a bond for him of 5,000l. Harrington had previously done him like service.
His works are: 1. ‘Rudimenta Græcæ Linguæ, for the use of Merchant Taylors' School,’ before 1656. 2. ‘The English Rudiments of the Latin Tongue,’ London, 1656, 12mo. 3. ‘Vestibulum Linguæ Latinæ,’ London, 1656. 4. ‘Lexicon Græci Testamenti Alphabeticum,’ London, 1660, 8vo, pp. 752. The manuscript of a new edition by the younger Bowyer, who took great pains with it, was prepared in 1774, but not published. 5. ‘Rhetorices Compendium, London, 8vo. 6. ‘Egcheiridion … sive manuale Græcæ Linguæ—Caspario Seidelio,’ 3rd edition, London, 1665. 7. ‘Rhetorices Elementa quæstionibus et responsionibus explicata,’ &c., several editions, the 7th, London, 1673, 8vo.
[Dugard's Works; Stow's Survey, i. 169, 170, 203; Wood's Athenæ (Bliss), ii. 178; Kennett's Register, p. 447; Milton's Works; Journals of the House of Commons, 1652; Nichols's Lit. Anecd. i. 525, iii. 164, 290; Reading's Sion College Library, p. 41; Wilson's Merchant Taylors' School, pp. 159, 268–71, 276, 288, 289, 304–14, 318, 323–8; Morant's Essex, i. 177.]
DUGDALE, RICHARD (fl. 1697), the Surey demoniac, who was born about 1660, was the son of Thomas Dugdale of Surey, near Whalley, Lancashire, a gardener, and servant to Thomas Lister of Westby in Yorkshire. In 1689 (or according to another account about 1694), when about eighteen years of age, he went to the rush-bearing fête at Whalley, and getting drunk, quarrelled and fought with one of the revellers about dancing, an exercise in which he considered he excelled. On returning to his master's house he professed to have seen apparitions, and the following day, being unwell and lying down, he declared that he had been alarmed by the door opening and a mist entering, followed by various supernatural appearances. Becoming subject to violent fits, Dugdale left his situation and went home, when a physician was called in without benefiting him, as the fits continued and increased. Dugdale's father now applied to Thomas Jolly, the ejected minister of Altham, who with eight or nine other nonconformist ministers met almost every day at the house and endeavoured to exorcise the devil, which Dugdale affirmed to possess him, by prayer, examination, and fasting, but without result for at least a year. Meanwhile Dugdale's fame had spread abroad, and he was visited by several thousand persons, some dozens making declarations of his strange condition before Lord Willoughby and other magistrates. It was claimed for Dugdale that he foretold future events, spoke languages of which he was ignorant, and sometimes with two voices at once, was at times wildly blasphemous, and at others preached sermons, that he was possessed of extraordinary strength, and was sometimes ‘as light as a bag of feathers, and
