Sir William Dugdale

Sir William Dugdale (1605-86) is the archetypal English antiquary of the seventeenth century. His most significant works for the purposes of this website are the three volumes of the Monasticon Anglicanum (1655–73), covering the Benedictine houses (1655), other religious orders (1659), and cathedrals (1673). Further content to be provided, on Dugdale’s correspondence, surviving papers, and publications.

For a transcript of the agreement between William Dugdale and Alice, widow of Robert Dodsworth, for the printing of the second volume of the Monasticon, dated 10 May 1658, see Marion Roberts, Dugdale and Hollar: History Illustrated (London, 2002), pp. 119-21 (from the Dugdale papers at Merevale Hall, Atherstone, Warwicks.).

Dugdale, aged 50, in 1656. Engraving by Wenceslaus Hollar, for Dudgale’s Antiquities of Warwickshire (1656) [Pennington, Descriptive Catalogue, no. 1392].