EDITOR'S PREFACE.

THE republication of the "Guide to the Church" was frequently pressed upon the Author's consideration, during the latter years of his life— but his mind was then so fully occupied by another important subject, as to oblige him to postpone the undertaking.

The Editor therefore feels that in re-introducing the present work to the public, he is carrying into effect the intention of his late revered relative.

It

may be proper to apprise the reader that this edition differs from the preceding one, chiefly in the following respects. Many notes of reference to the text of sacred scripture, have been introduced and placed at the bottom of each page. The notes of reference which stood in the text of the former

editions, have been withdrawn therefrom, and also placed at the bottom of the page.

Many references to the Author's Vindicia Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ have been introduced, together with a few quotations from that work-it being the Editor's wish to render the Author his own commentator, as much as might be.

In order to account for any differences between some of the quotations from the "Guide," which the Author had introduced into his Vindicia Ecclesiæ Anglicana, and the corresponding paragraphs of this edition, it may be proper to observe that the Vindiciae Ecclesiæ Anglicana was published in 1803; and that such quotations were taken from the first edition of the Guide or Appendix, published in 1798-9, which was subjected to the Author's revision when he published his second edition in 1804.

With respect to the Memoir, the Editor is sensible how much he stands in need of indulgence on the present occasion. His endeavour has been to select from a large mass of documents in his possession, such as were interesting, and likely to

throw light upon the professional and private character of Archdeacon Daubeny. How far he has succeeded, is submitted to the judgment of the

reader.

After some sheets of the Memoir had been struck off, it occurred to the Editor that the Prayers marked Nos. 2, 4, 5, 6, 15, 19, 21, which are therein referred to, as being in the Appendix, would be more suitably placed in a distinct Appendix at the end of the second volume of this edition, with some other devotional articles, &c. which are there introduced--he has therefore adopted this arrange

ment.

MEMOIR.

ARCHDEACON DAUBENY was the second son of George Daubeny, esq; a highly respected merchant of the city of Bristol. This gentleman was the descendant of a Norman Baron, who accompanied the Conqueror to England— and (collaterally) of Giles Lord Daubeney, K.G.* Lord Bacon, in his history of the reign of Henry VII. says, "After him was made Lord Chamberlain, Giles Lord Daubeney, a man of great sufficiency and valour-the more, because he was gentle and moderate." He is described also by Hume, as commanding the King's Army against the Scots, and at the defeat of the Cornish Rebels, assembled on Blackheath.

Mr. Daubeny was a man of superior understanding, exem. plary piety, and zealous attachment to the Church of England. His eldest son, the late George Daubeny, esq; was one of the Representatives of the city of Bristol in 1781, where he was much respected as an able and loyal Magistrate of the Body Corporate. The Archdeacon always expressed himself deeply indebted to the early and pious care of his excellent father, for those strong religious feelings, and that steady attachment to the Church, which so much distinguished his after life; and considered it his greatest happiness, that from a child he had been in the way wherein he should go." At the early

"trained

age of 8

years,

he was placed under the care of the Rev. Mr. Harris, of Philip's-Norton, Somerset, (within two miles of the

His son, who was created Earl of Bridgewater, in the reign of Henry VIII., died

without issue.

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