HAMMOND, HENRY (1605-1660)

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HAMMOND, HENRY (1605-1660) , English divine, was born at Chertsey in Surrey on the 18th of August 16o5. He was educated at Eton and at Magdalen College, Oxford, becoming demy or scholar in 1619, and fellow in 1625. He took orders in 1629, and in 1633 in preaching before the court so won the approval of the

earl

EARL

of Leicester that he presented him to the living of Penshurst in Kent. In 1643 he was made archdeacon of Chichester. He was a member of the convocation of 164o, and was nominated one of the Westminster Assembly of divines. Instead of sitting at Westminster he took part in the unsuccessful rising at Tunbridge in favour of King Charles I., and was obliged to flee in disguise to Oxford, then the royal headquarters. There he spent much of his time in writing, though he accompanied the king's commissioners to London, and afterwards to the ineffectual convention at Uxbridge in 1645, where he disputed with Richard Vines, one of the parliamentary envoys. In his absence he was appointed canon of Christ Church and public orator of the university. These dignities he relinquished for a time in order to attend the king as chaplain during his captivity in the hands of the

parliament

PARLIAMENT (Anglo-Lat. parliamentum, Fr. parlement, from parler, to speak)

. When Charles was deprived of all his loyal attendants at Christmas 1647,

Hammond

returned to Oxford and was made subdean of Christ Church, only, however, to be removed from all his offices by the parliamentary visitors, who imprisoned him for ten weeks. After-wards he was permitted, though still under quasi-confinement, to retire to the

house

HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
Gothic
- GOTHIC
it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

of Philip Warwick at Clapham in

Bedford

BEDFORD

-shire. In 165o, having regained his full liberty,

Hammond

betook himself to the friendly

mansion

MANSION (through O. Fr. mansion, mod. maison, from Lat. mansio, dwelling-place, stage on a journey; manere, to remain)

of Sir John Pakington, at Westwood, in Worcestershire, where he died on the 25th of April 166o, just on the eve of his preferment to the see of Worcester. Hammond was held in high esteem even by his opponents. He was handsome in person and benevolent in disposition. He was an excellent preacher; Charles I. pronounced him the most natural orator he had ever heard. His range of reading was extensive, and he was a most diligent scholar and writer.
His writings, published in 4 vols. fol. (1674-1684), consist for the most part of controversial sermons and tracts. The Anglo-Catholic
Library contains four volumes of his Miscellaneous Theological Works (1847-1850). The best of them are his

Practical

PRACTICAL

Catechism, first published in 1644; his Paraphrase and Annotations on the New Testament; and an incomplete

work

WORK

of a similar nature on the Old Testament. His Life, a delightful piece of biography, written by Bishop Fell, and prefixed to the collected Works, has been re-printed in vol. iv. of Wordsworth's Ecclesiastical Biography. See also Life of Henry Hammond, by G. G. Perry.

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