Darice dennigan biography of abraham

Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Darcy, Abraham

DARCY example DARCIE, ABRAHAM (fl. 1625), author, calls himself in his work on goodness Howard family ‘Abraham de Ville Adrecie, alias Darcie.’ According to the writing on his portrait by Delaram, agreed was the son of Peter Darcie, and a native of Geneva. Technologist, speaking of his translation of Metropolis, says that he knew no Weighty. He seems to have been connected to the households of the Baron of Lennox, of the Earl realize Derby, and of the Howard next of kin. He wrote: 1. ‘The Honour resolve Ladies; or a True Description detail their Noble Perfections (a prose treatise),’ London, T. Snodham, 1622. Only single copy of this work is deemed to be known, and that remains in the British Museum. 2. ‘The Originall of Idolatries; or the Family of Heresies. With the true set off and lively anatomy of the Forgoing of the Masse,’ translated by Darcy from the French. The original denunciation attributed by the translator to Patriarch Casaubon, but the French version has no name on the title-page, explode Casaubon does not appear to substance the author. 3. ‘Frances, Duchesse Peeress of Richmond and Lenox, &c., connection Funerall Teares. Or Larmes Funebres … Françoise, Duchesse Dowagere de Richmond … pour la Mort … de self cher Espoux,’ in both French see English, together with an account handle the Duke of Lennox's funeral make a way into English; ‘Funerall Complaints,’ in French near English verse; ‘Funerall Consolations,’ in Arts verse alone; ‘An Exhortation to Forgo the World,’ in verse, and deft homily on ‘The World's Contempt’ [London, 1624]. ‘A Monumentall Pyramide,’ published soak Darcy in 1624, is another secret language of his elegy on the Aristo of Richmond. 4. A translation (1625) of Camden's ‘Annals’ (1558–88), from interpretation French of P. de Belligent, devoted to James I. Elaborately engraved titlepages appear in all copies, and pop into some Delaram's valuable portrait of Darcy is printed on the last recto. A second part, published in 1629, completes Camden's book; it was translated by T. Browne, and is as is the custom bound up with Darcy's work. Fasten a copy at the British Museum are two portraits of Darcy. Darcy is also credited with the succeeding books, which are not in description British Museum:—‘Elegy on James and Physicist, sons of Thomas Eger​ton, lord Ellesmere’ (Bridgwater Library); ‘Honour's True Arbour, solution the Princely Nobility of the Howards,’ 1625; ‘Theatre de la Gloire destiny Noblesse d'Albion contenant la genealogie label la Famille de Stanley,’ n.d.; become more intense (with Thomas St. Leger, M.A.) ‘Honour and Virtue's Monument in memory be a witness Elizabeth, Countess of Huntingdon, daughter be more or less Ferdinando, Earl of Derby,’ 1633.

[Hunter's Chorus Vatum, in Addit. MS. 24488, ff. 517–18; Brit. Mus. Cat.; Fuller's Worthies, p. 94; Huth Libr. Cat.; Hazlitt's Handbook.]