William Dugard, or Du Gard, was an English schoolmaster and printer.
12 Facts About William Dugard
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Until the age of 17, William Dugard was instructed in classical learning at the King's School, Worcester as a King's Scholar.
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William Dugard is attributed with the enlargement of the school from nine to sixty-nine boys.
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Cromwell was duly incensed when William Dugard started to print copies of Defensio Regia pro Carolo primo, Claudius Salmasius' defence of Charles I, his bitter opponent in the civil war.
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William Dugard's activities had been uncovered by a parliamentarian spy, Elizabeth Alkin.
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William Dugard appealed against his dismissal but to no avail.
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William Dugard did not live to expand the school further, however.
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For printing a strongly pro-Royalist book, Defensio regia pro Carolo primo, written by Claudius Salmasius, William Dugard was incarcerated at Newgate and dismissed from the school.
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Apparently at the behest of Milton, William Dugard took part in an attempt to disrupt royalist literature and introduced a non-genuine chapter into an edition of the Eikon Basilike that he was printing.
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Conversely, William Dugard published Catechesis Ecclesiarum Poloniae et Lithuaniae, a work critical of Luther, Oliver Cromwell and Protestantism, in 1652.
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The work was seized and publicly burned, yet William Dugard escaped further imprisonment, and only had his printing press confiscated .
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William Dugard was an editor and author of books on rhetoric and language, as well as a publisher of textbooks, other educational, theological, scientific, and political works, and a newspaper.