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HICKES, GEORGE (1642-1715)

This article appears in Volume V13, Page 447 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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HICKES, GEORGE (1642-1715) , English divine and scholar, was born at Ness-sham near Thirsk, Yorkshire, on the loth of June 1642. In 1619 he entered St John's College, Oxford, whence after the Restoration he removed to Magdalen College and then to Magdalen
Hall
 . In 1664 he was elected fellow of Lincoln College, and in the following year proceeded M.A in 167,3 he graduated in divinity, and in 1675 he was appointed
rector
  of St Ebbe's, Oxford. In 1676, as private chaplain, he accompanied the duke of Lauderdale, the royal commissioner, to Scotland, and shortly afterwards received the degree of D.D. from St Andrews. In 168o he became vicar of All Hallows, Barking, London; and after having been made chaplain to the king in 1681, he was in 1683 promoted to the deanery of Worcester. He opposed both James II.'s declaration of indulgence and Monmouth's rising, and he tried in vain to save from death his nonconformist brother John Hickes (1633-1685), one of the Sedgemoor refugees harboured by Alice Lisle. At the revolution of 1688, having declined to take the oath of allegiance, Hickes was first suspended and afterwards deprived of his
deanery. When he heard of the appointment of a successor he affixed to the cathedral doors a " protestation and claim of right." After remaining some time in concealment in London, he was sent by Sancroft and the other
nonjurors
  to James II. in France on matters connected with the continuance of their episcopal succession; upon his return in 1694 he was himself consecrated suffragan bishop of Thetford. His later years were largely occupied in controversies and in writing, while in 1713 he persuaded two Scottish bishops, James Gadderar and Archibald Campbell, to assist him in consecrating Jeremy Collier, Samuel
Hawes
  and Nathaniel Spinckes as bishops among the
nonjurors
 . He died on the 15th of December 1715.
The
chief
  writings of Hickes are the Institutiones Grammaticae Anglo-Saxonicae et Moeso-Gothicae (1689), and Linguarum veterum Septentrionalium Thesaurus grammatico-criticus et archaeologicus (1703-1705), a work of great learning and industry.
Apart from these two works Hickes was a voluminous and laborious author. His earliest writings, which were anonymous, were suggested by contemporary events in Scotland that gave him great satisfactionthe execution of James
Mitchell
  on a charge of having attempted to murder Archbishop
Sharp
 , and that of John Kid and John King, Presbyterian ministers, " for high treason and rebellion " (Ravillac Redivivus, 1678; The Spirit of Popery speaking out of the Mouths of Phanatical Protestants, 1680). In his Jovian (an answer to S. Johnson's Julian the Apostate, 1683), he endeavoured to show that the Roman empire was not hereditary, and that the Christians under Julian had recognized the duty of passive obedience. His two treatises, one Of the Christian Priesthood and the other Of the Dignity of the Episcopal Order, originally published in 1707, have been more than once reprinted, and form three volumes of the Library of Anglo-Catholic Theology (1847). In 1705 and 1710 were published Collections of Controversial Letters, in 1711 a collection of Sermons, and in 1726 a volume of Posthumous Discourses. Other treatises, such as the Apologetical Vindication of the Church of England, are to be met with in Edmund Gibson's Preservative against Popery. There is a manuscript in the Bodleian Library which sketches his life to the year 1689, and many of his letters are extant in various collections. A posthumous publication of his The Constitution of the Cat/talkie Church and the Nature and Consequences of Schism (1716) gave rise to the celebrated Bangorian controversy.
See the article by the Rev. W. D. Macray in the Dictionary of National Biography, vol. xxvi. (1891); and J. H. Overton, The Nonjurors (1902).


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