Excerpt from Poetical Works: With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes
The orthography of family names in the 17th century being so loose, it is not surprising that wo should find that of Dryden varying considerably. It would have been unnecessary to notice this fact, had not Malone asserted that the poet was the first to change the spelling from Driden to Dryden; a change which, he tells us, gave offence to Sir Robert Driden, Bart., the then head of the family. It is probable however that Dryden did not originate this change, but merely adhered to an orthography which had been frequently in use before. Thus in the "Admission Book" of Trinity College, Cambridge, p. 15, is the entry, "John Driden, Northampton, admissus Pens. Maij 18, 1650, [Tutor] Mr. Templar;" yet in the "Scholars' Register" of the College, under the date October 2, 1650, we find amongst those admissi discipuli e Schola West-monasteriens. "Johannes Dryden, Northamptoniensis." And when his name occurs under less honourable circumstances in the College Books of 1652, it is spelt Dryden.
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