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He is mentioned in Pepys' diary in the entry of August 21, 1660, as having dined with him at Westminster Hall. |
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On being ejected from his fellowship after the Restoration, he went to Holland. |
On being ejected from his fellowship after the Restoration, he went to Holland. His name, however, appears in a proclamation of 26 March 1666 summoning certain persons back to England from abroad (Cal. State Papers Dom. 1665-6, p. 318). Returning to England, for some time taught logic and philosophy to pupils near Stourbridge in Worcestershire [where his family lived]. Oliver Heywood in his Diary (i. 296), 19 May 1673, notes " we set upon our Journey I and my two sons and Uttle Jer: Baxter we set forward (together with Mr. Richardsons son and Mr. Cottons two sons and man who met us there) towards Worcestershire so to Bromesgrove at last came to Mr. Hickmans." In another entry (1.204) he says he has heard from his boy at ' Dusthorp ' in Warwicks., where he is with Mr. Hickman. In Jany. 1673/4 ^^^ boys were exchanging Hickman's school for the academy of Ric. Frankland. Adam Martindale also sent his boy Thomas to Hickman and says that while the boy was there Hickman " had a good free time though he was quickly after involved in great sutes and troubles, and not long after went into Holland." Back in Holland he preached for several years in the English church at Leyden. On 18 April 1675, he entered as a medical student at [[Leyden University]]. He died at Leyden in 1692 {{sfn|Goodwin|1891}}, and his gravestone may be seen in the Grote Kerk there. |
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==Works== |
==Works== |
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Henry Hickman (1629-1692) was an English ejected minister and controversialist.
Life
A native of Oldswinford, Worcestershire, he was educated at St Catharine Hall, Cambridge, where he proceeded B.A. in 1648.[1] At the end of 1647, he entered Magdalen Hall, Oxford, and the next year obtained by favour of the parliamentary visitors a demyship and subsequently a fellowship of Magdalen College. After graduating M.A. on 14 March 1649, he was licensed as a preacher and officiated at St Aldate's Church in Oxford and afterwards at Brackley in Northamptonshire. On 29 May 1658, he was admitted B.D.[2]
He is mentioned in Pepys' diary in the entry of August 21, 1660, as having dined with him at Westminster Hall.
On being ejected from his fellowship after the Restoration, he went to Holland. His name, however, appears in a proclamation of 26 March 1666 summoning certain persons back to England from abroad (Cal. State Papers Dom. 1665-6, p. 318). Returning to England, for some time taught logic and philosophy to pupils near Stourbridge in Worcestershire [where his family lived]. Oliver Heywood in his Diary (i. 296), 19 May 1673, notes " we set upon our Journey I and my two sons and Uttle Jer: Baxter we set forward (together with Mr. Richardsons son and Mr. Cottons two sons and man who met us there) towards Worcestershire so to Bromesgrove at last came to Mr. Hickmans." In another entry (1.204) he says he has heard from his boy at ' Dusthorp ' in Warwicks., where he is with Mr. Hickman. In Jany. 1673/4 ^^^ boys were exchanging Hickman's school for the academy of Ric. Frankland. Adam Martindale also sent his boy Thomas to Hickman and says that while the boy was there Hickman " had a good free time though he was quickly after involved in great sutes and troubles, and not long after went into Holland." Back in Holland he preached for several years in the English church at Leyden. On 18 April 1675, he entered as a medical student at Leyden University. He died at Leyden in 1692 [2], and his gravestone may be seen in the Grote Kerk there.
Works
He wrote in defence of nonconformity and had fierce controversies with Thomas Pierce, dean of Salisbury, John Durel, Peter Heylyn, Matthew Scrivener, Laurence Womack and other churchmen. His writings are:
- 1. ‘Πατρο-σκολαστικο-δικαίωσις, or a Justification of the Fathers and Schoolmen: shewing that they are not selfe-condemned for denying the positivity of sin. … Being an Answer to so much of … T. Pierce's Book called Αὐτοκατάκρισις as doth relate to the foresaid opinion,’ Oxford, 1658; 2nd edit. 1659. John Durel, in his ‘Sanctæ Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ Vindiciæ,’ 1669 (ch. ii. pp. 100–1), asserts that this book was plagiarised from various authors.
- ‘Πόθεν ζιζαγια [i.e. ζιζάνια], sive Concio [on Matt. xiii. 27, the reference is wrongly given as iii. 27] de Hæresium Origine, Latine habita ad Academicos Oxonienses, 12 Aprilis pro inchoando Termino. Adjicitur brevis refutatio Tileni,’ Oxford, 1659. Tilenus found a defender in Womack.
- ‘A Review of the Certamen Epistolare betwixt P. Heylin and H. Hickman. Wherein the exceptions of the Dr. against Mr. H.'s arguments are all taken off. … Also a Reply to Mr. Pierce his late virulent Letter to the aforesaid Dr. By Theophilus Churchman,’ 12mo, London, 1659.
- ‘Laudensium Apostasia: or a Dialogue in which is shewn that some Divines risen up in our church since the greatness of the late Archbishop are in sundry points of great moment quite fallen off from the Doctrine received in the Church of England,’ London, 1660.
- ‘Χειροθεσία τοῦ πρεσβυτερίου, or a Letter to a Friend tending to prove, i. That valid Ordination ought not to be repeated, ii. That valid Ordination by Presbyters is valid; with an appendix containing some animadversions on J. Humfrey's discourse concerning re-ordination, by R. A.,’ London, 1661. In spite of the initials R. A., ‘Hickman was supposed by many learned men to be the author’.[3]
- ‘Apologia pro ministris in Anglia, vulgo Non-Conformistis, Anno 1662, Aug. 24 … ejectis,’ ‘Eleutheropolis,’ 1664; 2nd edition (1665), written under the pseudonym of ‘Irenæus Eleutherius.’ Durel replied in his ‘Vindiciæ,’ mentioned above.
- ‘The Believer's Duty towards the Spirit, and the Spirit's Office towards Believers’ (anon.), London, 1665; another edition 1700.
- ‘Bonasus Vapulans’ (anon.), London, 1672, against J. Durel.
- ‘Historia Quinq-Articularis Exarticulata; or Animadversions on Doctor Heylin's Quinquarticular History,’ 2nd ed. London, 1674.[2]
In 1660, ‘M. O., Bachelour of Arts,’ published ‘Fratres in Malo, or the Matchless Couple, represented in the Writings of Mr. E. Bagshaw and Mr. H. Hickman.’ [2]
References
- ^ "Hickman, Henry (HKMN647H)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ a b c d Goodwin 1891.
- ^ Wood, Athenæ Oxon. iv. 371; Hearne, Coll. Oxf. Hist. Soc. i. 73.
- Attribution
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Goodwin, Gordon (1891). "Hickman, Henry". In Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney (eds.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 25. London: Smith, Elder & Co.