JOHN, a Protestant minister near Paris, was one of the most learned divines of the 17th century, and was the most esteemed by the Catholics of all the controversial writers among the Protestants. He was tutor to two of the grandsons of the illustrious M. Du Plessis Mornai. M. Daille having lived 14 years with so excellent a master, travelled into Italy with his two pupils; one of them died abroad; with the other he saw Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Flanders, Holland, and England, and returned in 1621. He was received minister in 1623, and first exercised his office in the family of M. Du Plessis Mornai; but this did not last long, for that lord died soon after. The memoirs of this great man employed M. Daille the following year. In 1625 he was appointed minister of the church of Saumur, and in 1626 removed to Paris. He spent all the rest of his life in the service of this last church, and composed several works. His first piece was his masterpiece, and an excellent work, Of the Use of the Fathers, printed 1631. It is a strong chain of reasoning, which forms a moral demonstration against those who would have religious disputes decid- DAL

DAIRI, or DAIRO, in the history of Japan, is the sovereign pontiff of the Japanese; or, according to Kœmpier, the hereditary ecclesiastical monarch of Japan. In effect, the empire of Japan is at present under two sovereigns, viz. an ecclesiastical one called the dairo, and a secular one who bears the title of kubo. The last is the emperor, and the former the oracle of the religion of the country.