jeant Widdrington to Lord Whitlock, mention is made of another fellow of the same profession as Hopkins. This wretch received twenty shillings a-head for every witch that he discovered, and thereby obtained rewards amounting to thirty pounds. Dr. Grey supposes, with great reason, that Hopkins is the man meant in the following lines by Butler:— "Has not the present parliament Hud. Part II. Cant. 3. HOWARD (DOCTOR) of pleasant memory, was chaplain to the last princess dowager of Wales, and Rector of Saint George, Southwark. Delighting much in the good things of this world, he so far indulged his hunger and thirst after delicacies, that he found himself much in arrear to many of his trading parishioners. Fortunately for him, he lived in the rules of the King's Bench, which shielded him from the rude intrusions of clamorous creditors. The Doctor, however, was a man of humour, and frequently hit upon expedients to keep them in good temper. He once preached a sermon to them, from the following text-" Have patience and I will pay ye all.” He expatiated at great length on the virtue and advantage of patience. And now, my brethren, said he, I am come to the second part of my discourse, which is "And I will pay you all"but that I shall defer to a future opportunity. One other anecdote of him may tend to elucidate his * In Essex. character. led Jeffreidos, on a battle between him and a turkey-cock; and in 1638 was published a very small book, called a New Year's Gift, presented at court by the lady Parviula to the lord Minimus (commonly called Little Jeffry) her Majesty's servant, &c. written by Microphilus, with a little print of Jeffry prefixed. Before this period, Jeffry was employed on a negociation of great importance: he was sent to France to procure a midwife for the queen; and on his return with a lady of that profession, and her Majesty's dancing master, together with many rich presents for the queen, from her mother Mary de Medicis, he was taken by the Dunkirkers. Jeffry being thus become a man of consequence, began to think himself so in reality. He had frequently been chagrined with the teazing of the courtiers and domestics, and had many squabbles with the queen's gigantic porter. At length being provoked by Mr. Crofts, a young gentleman of family, a challenge ensued, and Mr. Crofts coming to the rendezvous armed with a squirt, the little creature was so enraged that a real duel ensued; and the appointment being on horseback with pistols, to put him more on a level, Jeffry, with the first fire, shot his antagonist dead. This happened in France, whither he had attended his mistress in the troubles. Jeffry was again taken prisoner by a Turkish rover, and sold in Barbary. In 1644, he attended the queen to France, where he remained till the Restoration. At last, upon suspicion of his being privy to the Popish plot, he was taken up in 1682, and con HUNTINGDON HUTCHINSON: 171 She fined in the Gatehouse, Westminster, where he ended his days in the 63d year of his age. HUNTINGDON, (SELINA, countess of) was the second daughter of Washington Shirley, earl Ferrers, born in 1707. She married Theophilus earl of Huntingdon, June 3, 1728, by whom she had issue four sons and three daughters. She had, when a young woman, great vivacity and pleasantry; but a very severe illness brought her into a serious frame of mind, to the great surprise of the fashionable world. Her ladyship became the patron of Mr. Whitfield, Mr. Romaine, and the Calvinistic methodists in general. opened her house in Park-street for the preaching of the gospel, and erected several chapels in various parts of the kingdom. She also built a college in Wales for the instruction of serious young men in the ministry. Her unbounded benevolence bore the best testimony of the purity of her intentions, having, in the course of her life, expended upwards of 100,000 7. in public and private acts of charity. Her labours were unwearied, and her whole deportment expressed piety and humility. This lady died in 1791, after having been a widow forty-five years. HUTCHINSON, (JOHN HELY) a celebrated Irish statesman and lawyer, was born in 1715, being principal secretary of state, and prime serjeant at law. In the senate he commanded attention by his eloquence; at the bar he delighted his auditors and clients by the force of his language, and astonished the Bench with his uncommon powers. In his office of Provost of Trinity College, Dublin, he was in a continual state of warQ 2 fare. fare. He was, at one and the same time, a privy-counsellor, reversionary secretary of state, major of the 4th regiment of horse, provost of Trinity College, Dublin; and searcher, packer, and gauger of the port of Strangford. He also accumulated a number of other lucrative places; and so great was his avidity, that Lord North humourously said-" If England and Ireland were given to this man, he would solicit the Isle of Man for a potatoe garden." Mr. Hutchinson had great talents and great eccentricity: He died September 5, 1794. JENKINS, (HENRY) a native of Yorkshire, re markable for having lived to the extraordinary age of 169 years. He remembered the battle of Flodden-Field, and was examined in court on a circumstance that happened 140 years before. He retained his faculties, but as he was born before parochial registers were kept, no parish would support him, so that he subsisted by alms. He died in 1670, at Ellerton upon Swale in Yorkshire, after living 169 years; viz. sixteen years longer than Old Par. The interesting events that happened in this man's life are very extraor dinary he was born when popery was established by law; he saw the papal supremacy thrown off; two queens beheaded; the monasteries dissolved; the protestant religion established; and popery again set up as before. In his time the king of Spain was crowned king of England, a third queen beheaded, the whole navy of Spain destroyed by the English, the republic of Holland formed, and the protestant religion firmly settled in England. In his time the king of Scot land land was crowned at Westminster, and his son and succesor beheaded before the gates of his own palace; the government of the church and state overturned; the royal family proscribed as traitors, and again settled on the throne. JOAN OF ARC (or JOAN -D'ARC) the famous and intrepid Maid of Orleans, who, in the obscure condition of a peasant's daughter of Dom Reimi, near Vaucouleur, a shepherdess, and a servant of all work in a country inn, felt the impulse of inspiration, enthusiasm, or good sense, and attained the reputation of a victorious warrior, a saint and a martyr. John, duke of Bedford, was regent of France for Henry VI. and laid siege to the city of Orleans. Anxious to deliver her country, and to restore her sovereign to his crown, she became enthusiastic, and assumed the dress of a warrior. By her exertions and declarations she encouraged the besieged to an active resistance, and in a few weeks compelled the English to retire. She then conducted her king through the midst of his enemies, to Rheims, where he was crowned. Instructed by the deep policy of a French commandant, and after much prophetic declaration, and miraculous or mysterious conduct, admirably calculated to infuse religious and patriotic zeal into the terrified minds of soldiers, enfeebled by repeated defeats, this extraordinary woman rescued her king, the lascivious Charles the Seventh, and her bleeding country from English thraldom But was at length taken prisoner, tried, and found guilty of schism, heresy, and witchcraft, by her judges, the bishops of Con |