Index

James Dallaway 1763-1834 Notes to Letters

Note 1.

Unpublished History of the Thames and Severn Canal by I-1. G. W. House- hold.

Note 2

" See Iryine Gray, 'James Dallaway, b. 1763: A Gloucestershire Antiquary and Writer', in Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, vol. 81 (1963), pp. 208-10. Information in this article has been used in compiling the outline pedigree of the Dallaway family.

Note 3

Matriculated 4 June 1778, aged 15; B.A., 1782; M.A., 1784: J. Foster, Alumni Oxonienses, 1715-1886, vol. 1 (1888), p. 333. H. E. D. Blakiston in his Trinity College (1898), p. 197, lists Dallaway as a distinguished member of the foundation. The librarian of Trinity College (Mr. J. P. Cooper) tells me that to the best of his knowledge no letters or other papers of Dallaway are there.

Note 4

Dallaway's first publications illustrate this interest; they were: Verses addressed to Sir G. 0. Paul, bart., on his benevolent scheme for the improvement of the countyprisons (Gloucester, 1785) and Sonnets ... on the death of Chatterton (privately printed by Dallaway on his Press at Rodborough Fort, 1788).' Print- ing was a hobby of Dallaway's and he carried types with him to Constantinople. In John Nichols, Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century, vol. 7 (1848), pp. 565-6, is reproduced Dallaway's letter to the Gentleman's Magazine, vol. 57, part 11 (1787), p. 954, dealing with Chatterton's knowledge of heraldry.

Note 5

Obituary notice in Gentleman's Magazine, vol. 2, new series, part 2 (1834), pp. 318-20.

Note 6

I have not ascertained the dates and places where Dallaway was admitted to Holy Orders.

Note 7

Gray, op. cit., p. 208, and P. H. Fisher, Notes and Recollections of Stroud, Gloucestershire (2nd ed., 1891), esp. p. 69. I am much indebted to Mr. G. L. Remnant for the excellent photograph of Rodborough Fort (Plate 11).

Note 8

Not 1796 as generally stated because Dallaway left England in 1794.

Note 9

The publication of Bigland's Collections continued until 1889, for details, see Hyett and Bazeley, The Bibliographer's Manual of Gloucestershire Literature, vol. 1 (1895), pp. 31-44. An exceptional copy was in the Bruton Collection, lot 234, Sotheby's, 10 June 1921.

Note 10

See Lindsay Fleming, Memoir and Select Letters of Samuel Lysons (1934). The letter, not addressed, is in the L.F. Collection.

Note 11

Etchings of Views and Antiquities in the County of Gloucester, hitherto imperfectly, or never engraved, of which the first part appeared in May 1791. Richard Bigland. The Reverend Daniel Lysons, 1762-1834.

Note 12

Dallaway usually put the apostrophe before instead of after the final 's' when referring to the Heralds' Office [College of Arms].

Note 13

The Rev. Daniel Lysons was at this time curate of Putney. Note 14 Nayler (1764?-183I) was the son of George Nayler, a surgeon of Stroud, he was created Garter King of Aims in 1822; see W. H. Godfrey and others, The College of Arms (London Survey Committee,1963), p. 63. Note 15 L.F. Collection. The letter is not addressed.

Note 14

A man in armour seated on a rocky coast, near a castle, and gazing over a moonlit sea. His right hand rests on a shield charged with the arms of Dallaway.

Note 15

Vol.64,partl(1794),pp.54-57. In the library of His Grace The Duke of Norfolk, E.m., K.G., is one copy of the Inquiries presented by Dallaway, and another, in two volumes, extra illustrated and coloured, but with no indication of its provenance.

Note 16

The original letter, in L.F. Collection and pasted in Dallaway's own copy of Inquiries, is printed, with notes, in Wilmarth S. Lewis, ed., The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence, vol. 15 (1952), p. 249-50. The letter is addressed to Lysons in King's Bench Walk, Temple, London. In his familiar letters, Walpole usually subscribed himself with an " 0 " for Orford. Walpole's copy of Inquiries is now in Dr. Wilmarth Lewis's library at Farmington, Connec ticut; it is bound in green morocco with Walpole's arms on the sides, a binding which was a mark of special approbation.

Note 17

This rare book seems to have escaped the attention of compilers of lists of Dallaway's works. A copy is in the library of F.W.S.

Note 18

Dallaway's Constantinople is dedicated to the Marquess of Bute who, in accepting the compliment, wrote as follows:- Madrid. 30 July. 1796. Dear Sir I received your letter from Rome, and though disappointed, that with your thirst after information, and your unwearied diligence in procuring it, you should have found it necessary so soon to abandon the Fast, I nevertheless am happy to learn that you mean to favor the world with the result of those observations and inquiries you have had in your power to make. In regard to your inscribing such a work to me you may be assured of my never failing wish to render you all the good services which happen to fall in my way, and on that account I should recommend your selecting some more powerful name, at the same time assuring you that mine is extremely at your command. With my best wishes I remain Dear Sir your faithful humble Servant Bute Reverend James Dailaway This letter is in L.F. Collection.

Note 19

R. T. Giinther, Oxford Gardens (1912), p. 20. See also Francis W. Steer, ed., I am, my dear Sir ... (1959), esp. pp. x, xi and Plate ix.

Note 20

Printed, 72 pp., inlaid in Dallaway's personal copy of Constantinople

Note 21

Francis II(1768-1835), last Emperor of Rome and King of Germany who, from 11 Aug. 1804, became hereditary Emperor of Austria.