Palatines of Durham,' printed at Birmingham, 4to. 1780; his next, 'A Genealogical History of the Present Royal Families of Europe, the Stadtholders of the United States, and the succession of Popes, from the fifteenth century to the present time, with the character of each Sovereign; illustrated with Tables of Descent,' 1781. In 1784 he first published bis Memoirs of the Protectorate House of Cromwell, deduced from an early period and continued down to the present time,' 2 vols. 8vo. So unfortunately numerous were the errors of this compilation, that Mr Gough, whose attention was soon after directed to the same subject, occupies fourteen quarto pages of preface to his 'Short Genealogical View of the Family of Oliver Cromwell,' (printed as a portion of the Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica, in 1785) in little more than exposing Mr Noble's errors. The latter, however, was not discouraged from the work, to which he was certainly unequal; and supported by a numerous body of subscribers, he printed a second edition, with improvements, in 1787. The principal consequences of this were that Mr Gough pointed out further inaccuracies (Gent. Mag. vol. lvii. p. 516); and Mr. Richards, author of the History of Lynn,' published as a separate pamphlet, A Review of the Memoirs of the Protectoral House of Cromwell, by the Rev. Mr Noble, in which the numerous errors of those Memoirs are pointed out,' (noticed in Gent. Mag. vol. Iviii. p. 248.) That so little reliance can be placed on a work of which the design is so good, and in which so vast a collection of materials is assembled, is truly lamentable but it is only recently that we were foiled in some researches respecting the Fleetwoods, by the maze in which Mr Noble has entangled them.

"In 1805 Mr Noble published, in 4to. his History of the College of Arms, and the Lives of all the Kings, Heralds, and Pursuivants, from the reign of Richard III, the founder;' and in 1806, his last important work, a Continuation of Granger's Biographical History. of England.' The latter is reviewed in Gent. Mag. vol lxxvii. pp. 55 and 1040.”*

Mr Noble was a fellow of the Antiquarian Societies, both of London and Edinburgh; and he contributed a few papers to the 'Archæologia.' His death took place on the 26th of May 1827, at the parsonage at Barming in Kent, of which parish he was

rector.

Prefixed to the first edition of his Memoirs of the Protectorate House of Cromwell' is a very juvenile portrait of the author.

* Gent. Mag. N. S. vol. xx. part 2, p. 278.

CATALOGUE OF THE WORKS OF THE REV. M. NOBLE, F. S. A. L. & É.

1. Two Dissertations on the Mint and Coins of the Episcopal Palatines of Durham. Birmingham, 1780, 4to.

2. A Genealogical History of the Present Royal Families of Europe, the Stadtholders of the United States, and the Succession of the Popes, from the 15th century to the present time, &c. 1781, 8vo.

3. Memoirs of the Protectorate House of Cromwell; deduced from an early period, and continued down to the present time; collected chiefly from Original Papers and Records; with Proofs and Illustrations, together with an Appendix; and embellished with elegant Engravings. Birmingham, 1784. 2 vols. 8vo.; 2nd edit. London, 1787, 2 vol. 8vo.

4. Historical Genealogy of the Royal House of Stuart, from the reign of King Robert II, to that of King James VI. 1795, 4to.

5. Memoirs of the Illustrious House of Medici, from Giovanni, the founder of their greatness, who died in 1428, to the death of Giovanni Gaston, the last grand duke of Tuscany, 1737; illustrated with several Genealogical Tables. 1797, 8vo.

6. The Lives of the English Regicides and other Commissioners of the High Court of Justice, appointed to sit in Judgment upon their Sovereign King Charles I. 1798, 2 vols. 8vo.

7. History of the College of Arms, with a Preliminary Dissertation, relative to the different Orders in England, particularly the Gentry, since the Norman Conquest; with the Lives of all the Kings, (at Arms), Heralds and Pursuivants, from the Reign of Richard III, the Founder of the College, to this present time. 1805, 4to.

8. A Biographical History of England, from the Revolution to the end of George the First's Reign; being a continuation of the Rev. J. Granger's Work, consisting of characters disposed in different classes, and adapted to Methodical Catalogues of engraved British Heads; interspersed with a variety of Anecdotes and Memoirs of a great number of Persons, not to be found in any other Biographical Work; the materials being supplied by the MSS. left by Mr Granger, and the Collections of the Editor. Lond. 1806. 3 vols. 8vo.

9. Some Observations upon the Life of Cecily, Duchess of York, daughter of Ralph de Nevil, Earl of Westmoreland and of Richmond, by Joan, natural daughter of John Duke of Lancaster.-Archæologia, vol. xiii. p. 7.

10. A Description of a Gold Medal struck upon the Birth of King Charles II.-Idem, p. 20.

11. A Description of an unpublished Gold Coin of King Charles I. Idem, p. 23.

12. Extracts from the Parish Register of St Benet's, St Paul's Wharf, London.-Idem, p. 274.

13. Observations on a Medal struck to commemorate the Death of Charles I. Idem, vol. xiv. p. 281.

ARCHDEACON DAUBENY.

THE subject of this memoir is said to have been the descendant of a Norman baron, who came to England with William the Conqueror, and was present at the battle of Hastings. His character and conduct did not discredit such an origin. For though destitute of aristocratic pride in any offensive degree, there was something of hauteur in his air and manners, and a spirit of patronising benevolence in his intercourse with the objects of his pastoral care, which showed a consciousness of belonging to a privileged class in society. Yet he did not forget that duties as well as advantages necessarily appertained to the rank, station, and office, with which he was invested. He was, in every sense of the expression, a high churchman; always a warm, and doubtless a sincere defender of what he regarded as the orthodox faith; in support of which he combated, with equal spirit and activity, if not with equal success, Methodists and Evangelicals within the pale of the establishment, and Dissenters and Roman Catholics without.

CHARLES DAUBENY was born in the year 1744, and he was probably a native of Wiltshire, in which county he was beneficed, and chiefly resided, during the principal part of his life. Being destined for the ecclesiastical profession, he was sent to the university of Oxford, to receive a suitable education, and was consequently entered as a student at New College in 1764. He took the degree of Bachelor of the Civil Law in 1773, and two years after he quitted the university. Having been ordained, he appears to have held a curacy in the city of Bath; and in 1784 Bishop Barrington made him a minor canon in the cathedral of Salisbury. In 1792 he published a sermon delivered at St Margaret's Chapel, Bath, pointing out the necessity of establishing some place of worship for the more free accommodation of the parish of Walcot at large, and of the poor in particular. This discourse led to the foundation of Christ Church, the lower aisle of which is appropriated to the use of the public in general. His principal literary production is intitled A Guide to the Church,' in a series of discourses, first published in 1798, and

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reprinted, with the appendix, in two volumes, octayo, in 1804. An appendix to the Guide' appeared in 1799, and a second in 1800, in which the most important arguments in that work are more fully maintained, in answer to the objections brought against them by Sir Richard Hill, Bart. in his letters to the author, under the title of An Apology for Brotherly Love.' In 1802, our author printed Eight Discourses on the Connection between the Old and New Testaments,' in opposition to the opinions of Dr George Campbell; and these were followed by his Vindiciæ Ecclesiæ Anglicana,' in which some of the false reasonings, incorrect statements, and palpable misrepresentations, in a publication intitled The True Churchman ascertained, by John Overton, A. B.' are pointed out, 1803. The Blagdon Controversy,' as it was termed (in which Mrs Hannah More, and some clergymen of the Evangelical party, attained provincial notoriety), also called forth the talents of Mr Daubeny, in support of the principles to which he had ever been attached as the genuine doctrines of the Church of England. He was likewise the author of various single sermons and tracts on topics of temporary interest; and he is said to have been a chief contributor of the theological articles in the Anti-Jacobin Review,' a literary journal, the plan and design of which his sentiments both with respect to religion and politics led him to approve. It has been stated, that at the earnest recommendation of a friend he had undertaken an autobiographical composition, and had made a considerable progress in the work, which was interrupted by his

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Mr Daubeny obtained the presentation to the vicarage of North Bradley, a parish situated between the towns of Trowbridge and Westbury, in Wiltshire, where he long resided, exercising most laudably the virtues of a respectable parish priest. He also held the living of Rode, near Frome, in Somersetshire; and in 1804 he was appointed, by Bishop Douglas, archdeacon of Sarum; besides which, he was a fellow of Winchester College. In 1822 the degree of Doctor of the Civil Law was conferred on him, in his absence, by the university in which he had been educated; and this honour was bestowed in recognition of the eminent services he had rendered to the church establishment. More substantial benefits might, but for accidental circumstances, have rewarded his labours in the cause of orthodoxy. Dr Daubeny was, on royal suggestion, under three successive administrations, destined for a seat on the episcopal bench, to which he was amply entitled by his character as a man of learning and integrity; but intervening contingencies prevented his promotion, and the author of The Guide to the Church' remained destitute of the mitre.

His death, which took place July 10, 1827, was sudden, as he was able to deliver an address to his congregation at Rode only forty-eight hours before the occurrence of that event. He was married early in life, and left children and grandchildren, by his wife, who died in 1823. In addition to his many munificent benefactions while living, Dr Daubeny bequeathed the following sums, free of the legacy-duty: 2,000l. for the support of a charitable asylum which he had established at North Bradley, and for the benefit of which, besides erecting the building, he had previously invested the sum of 1,800.; to the Bath General Hospital, 100%; to the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 2007.; to the Society for Propagating the Gospel in Foreign Parts, 2007. Within a few days only of his decease the archdeacon contributed the sum of 500l. towards the support of the episcopal clergy in Scotland.*

An animated sketch of Dr Daubeny, in his professional and private character, has been drawn by a writer who seems to have enjoyed ample opportunities for studying his subject; and though the partiality of friendship is everywhere visible, it does not materially detract from the accuracy of the delineation.

"The church [of Rode] is a perfect picture. Built in the most beautiful style of Gothic architecture, on the summit of a hill, in the midst of the most enchanting landscape, looking down with an air of protection upon the hamlet that is scattered at irregular intervals below it, and completely isolated from every other object; it forms a feature on which the eye of the most fastidious critic may repose with transport. Its cost is reputed to have exceeded 10,000l., of which the archdeacon alone contributed three. It is my legacy,' he said to me at Bradley, after the consecration was over, to the church of England.' The books for the reading-desk are the gift of the archdeacon's grandchildren; being, as I heard the little ones joyfully relate, the savings of our pocket-money towards grandpapa's church. The plate for the communion was presented by the archdeacon; and there is a fact connected with it so emblematic of his simplicity of heart, and to my mind so expressive of his character, that I cannot forbear recording it.-Some months previous to the completion of Rode church, its indefatigable supporter was so severely attacked with. illness, that his recovery was deemed hopeless. Acquainted with the opinion of his medical men, and perfectly coinciding in it, he calmly. and steadily betook himself to settle his affairs, and especially every particular relating to the church. 'Let the communion vessels,' said he, to his old friend Mr Hey, be as handsome as can be made, but plated. I have always condemned those who have placed unnecessary temptations in the path of their fellow-mortals; and I am

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* Gentleman's Magazine ;-Monthly Magazine.