Authority Cited: Davenant
Author name and dates: Charles Davenant (1656-1714)
BKG Bio-tweet: Son of Wm. D'Avenant; playwright; anti-Whig economist, MP, Minister under Q. Anne; SJ quotes political tract in 4th ed
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: two [Charles] Davenant cites identified as added in vol. 1 of the 1773 Dict., and about 54 Davenant cites added in vol. 2 of the 1773 Dict., indicatrdf in bold italic below.]
Author name and dates: Charles Davenant (1656-1714)
BKG Bio-tweet: Son of Wm. D'Avenant; playwright; anti-Whig economist, MP, Minister under Q. Anne; SJ quotes political tract in 4th ed
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: two [Charles] Davenant cites identified as added in vol. 1 of the 1773 Dict., and about 54 Davenant cites added in vol. 2 of the 1773 Dict., indicatrdf in bold italic below.]
- Discourse upon grants and resumptions. Showing how our ancestors have proceeded with such ministers as have procured to themselves grants of the crown-revenue; and that the forfeited estates ought to be applied towards the payment of the publick debts. By the author of the Essay on ways and means. 1700, London: Printed for J. Knapton. [BKG Note: This essay is also the first title in Volume 3 of the 1771 edition of Davenant's Works, in which all of the citations noted below were found in the Introduction. Per Reddick in The Making of Johnson's Dictionary (154, 155, 229), SJ quotes from Preface [Introduction] in the 1773 Dict.]; govern; grants; obnoxious; obtain; odium; one another; order; original; parcel; partial; patrimonially; pattern; physick; poisoned; preferment; press; profuse; promise; province; publick; pull down; purple; rank; ready; redress; rescue; resent; resty; resume; resumption (cited as Dav.); revolution; robber; rub; rubbish; stake; statesmen; stick; straight; strength; strife; subject; surprise; surrender; sway; tall; theft; thing; throne; topheavy; trust; turn; vigorous; wade; warmth; wherewithal; whisper;
- Davenant (no work cited); [BKG Note: William D'avenant is cited once in the 1755 and 1773 Dict. under unlearned. (Cited as Davenant in the 1773 Dict.)]