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tec.tors of the East India company, or have, been so within twoyears, or be an agent, husband, consignee, or owner, to the valueof 500/. or upwards, of East India shipping. The present divi-dend is at the rale of five per cent, per annum, and is payable atLady-day and Michaelmas, every day except Fridays, betweentl.e hours of eleven and two o’clock. The dock was opened inAugust, 1806.

DOCKE T, a little bill tied to wares or goods, directed to theperson or place they are to be sent to.

Docket, or Dogget, inlaw, signifies a brief in writing, madeon a small piece of paper, or parchment, containing the purportand elfect of a large writing. 'The rolls of judgement, whenbrought into the court of common pleas, are entered on the docketof that term: and attorneys keep docket-books, wherein they en-ter judgements.

DOCKUM, a river and town of llatavia, in the department ofEems, 10 miles N. E. of Lewardeu.

DOCTOR, in the Greek church, is a particular

officer appointed to interpret part of the -scriptures: lie who in-terprets the Gospels, is called doctor of the Gospels; lie who in-terprets St. Paul’s Epistles, doctor of the Apostle; he who inter-prets the t’. ahns, doctor of the'Psalter .

Doctor is also an appellation adjoined to several specific epi-thets, expressing the merit of the schoolmen: thus, Alexanderllales is called the irrefragable doctor; 'Thomas Aquinas , the an-gelic doctor; St. Bonaventure , the seraphic doctor; John DunsScolus, the subtile doctor; Kaimond Lully, the illuminated doc-tor; Roger Bacon, the admirable doctor , &c.

Doctor of the Church , a title given to certain fathers whosedoctrines and opinions have been the most generally followed andauthorized.

Doctor of the Law, a title of honour among the Jews . Theinvestiture of this order was performed bv putting a key and tablebook in their hands; which is what some authors imagine our Savi-our alluded to, when, speaking of the doctors of the law, (Luke xi.52,) he says, “ Wo unto you doctors of the law, for ye havetaken away the key of knowledge: ye enter not in yourselves,and them that were entering ye hindered.”

Doctor, Origin of the Degree of. The establishment ofthe doctorate, such as now in use among us, is ordinarily attributedto Ireneus , who himself drew up the formulary. The first cere-mony of this kind was performed at Bologna, in the person of Bul-garus, who began to profess the Roman law, and on that occasionwas solemnly promoted to the doctorate, i. e. installed juris utri-usque doctor. But the custom was soon transferred from the fa-culty of law to that of theology; the first instance whereof wasgiven in the university of Paris, where Peter Lombard , and Gil-bert de la Portree, the two chief divines of those days, w ere cre-ated doctors in theology, sacra theologix doctores. Spehnantakes the title of doctor not to have commenced till after the publi-cation of Lombard ’s sentences, about 1140; and affirms, that suchas explained that work to their scholars were the first that had theappellation of doctors. Others go much higher, and hold Bede to have been the first doctor at Cambridge, and John de Beverlyat Oxford, which last died A. D. 721. But Spelman will notallow doctor to have been the name of any title or degree in Eng-land, till the reign of king John, about I‘i07. By stat. 37 HenryVIII . c. 17. sect. 4. a doctor of the civil law may exercise eccle-siastical jurisdiction, though a layman.

Doctor, Pre-requisites for Passing in England. 'Topass D. D. at Oxford , it is necessary the candidate have been fouryears bachelor of divinity. For I.,L: D. he must have been sevenyears in the university to commence LL. B. five years after whichhe mav be admitted doctor. Otherwise, in three years after tak-ing the degree of M. A. he may take the degree of I.L. B. and infour years more that of I.L. D. which method and time are like-wise required to obtain the degree of M. D. At Cambridge, totake the degree of D. D. it is requisite that the candidate havebeen seven years B. D. though in several of the colleges the tak-ing of the bachelor’s degree is dispensed with, and they may goout per saltum. 'To commence LI,. I), the candidate must havebeen five years LL. B. or seven M. A. 'To pass M. D. he musthave been five years B. D. or seven years M. A.

Doctors Commons. See College.

DOCUMENT, in law, some written monument produced inproof of any thing asserted.

DODARTIA, a genus of the angiospermia order, and didv,namia class of plants; natural order, Personata:. Calyx quinque-'dentaled ; under lip of the corolla twice as long as the upper ;capsule bilocular, globose. Two species, natives of India.

DODBROOK, a town in Devonshire, 15| miles S.W. of Dart-mouth, and 219 \V. S. \V of London .

DODD, Dr. William, an unfortunate English divine, eldestson of the rev. \V. Dodd, vicar of Bourne, in Lincolnshire , was howMay 29, 1729. lie was sent to Cambridge, in 1745. In 1749-50 lietook the degree of B.A. with great honour, being updli that occa-sion in the list of wranglers. Leaving the university, he marriedMiss Mary Perkins in 1751; was ordained a deacon tlie sameyear; priest in 1753, ami soon became a celebrated and popular,preacher. By the patronage of bishop Squire, lie, in 1763, ob-tained a prebend of Brecon, and by the interest of some cityfriends, was appointed one of the king’s chaplains; soon afterwhich he had the care of the education of the earl of Chesterfield.In 1766 he took the degree of LL. D. At this period, the esti-mation in which he was held by the world was sufficient to givehim expectations of preferment, and hopes of riches and honours;and these he might probably have acquired, had he possessed acommon portion of prudence. But, impatient of his situation,and eager lor advancement, he rashly fell upon means which in theend were the occasion of his ruin. When the living of St. George,Ilanovcr-square, became vacant, he wrote an anonymous letterto the chancellor’s lady, offering 3000 guineas if by Iter assistancehe was promoted lo it. This being traced to him, complaint wasimmediately made to the king, and Dr. Dodd was dismissed w ithdisgrace from his office of chaplain. From this period he livedneglected, if not despised ; and his extravagance and difficultiesincreasing, he forged lord Chesterfield’s name to a bond for 4200/.in hopes of being able to take it up before it was due, but thefraud was discovered, and lie was tried and condemned, February24, 1777. Great exertions were made to save his life, but in vain",and be was executed at 'Tyburn, June 27th following. He ex-pressed deep contrition for bis crimes, and for the scandal whichlie had brought on his profession. lie published a translation of thepoems of Callimachus ; four volumes of sermons on the Miraclesand Parables; a collection of Poems; Rellections on Death , 12mo.Comfort for the Afflicted, 8vo, and after his death appeared hisThoughts in Prison , with his life prefixed.

DODECAHEDRON, [from MJixa, twelve, and ity«, base,3 is one of the Platonic bodies, or five regular solids, and is con-tained under twelve equal and regular pentagons. 'The solidityof a dodecahedron is found by multiplying the area of one of thepentagonal faces of it by twelve ; and then this latter product by'one-third of the distance of that face from the centre of the dode-cahedron, which is the same as the centre of the circumscribingsphere.

DODDRIDGE, Philip, D.D. an eminent Presbyterian mi-nister, the son of Daniel Doddridge, an oilman in London , wherelie was born on the 26th of June, 1702. Having completed thestudy of the classics, lie was, in 1719, placed under the tuition ofthe rev. John Jennings, who kept an academy at Kilworth in Lei-cestershire . He was first settled as a minister at Kilworth, wherehe preached to a small congregation in an obscure village; but, onMr. Jennings’s deatii, succeeded to the care of his academy ; andsoon after was chosen minister by a large congregation of “Dissen-ters at Northampton, to which he removed his academy, andwhere the number of his pupils increased. He instructed themwith the freedom and tenderness of a father; and never desiredthat they should blindly follow his sentiments, but encouragedthem to judge for themselves. He cheeked any appearance ofbigotry and uncharitableness, and endeavoured to cure them byshewing what might be said in defence of those principles they dis-liked. Yet while he was thus liberal as to the opinions of others,lie was so steady to his own principles that he refused a verygenteel offer of patronage made him by the Duchess of Bedford,on condition of his turning over to the church of England . Apulmonary complaint brought on a consumption, for which lie wasadvised to try the Bristol waters, and these proving ineffectual, liewent to Lisbon , where he died in 1751. 'Though ti nder in his con-stitution, he published a number of excellent works, the principalof which are, his Family Expositor on the New Testament , 6 vols.,4to. ; the Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul, of which nu-merous editions iiave been printed ; the Lite of Colonel Gardiner;