HERFORD 



Herford, CHARLES HAROLD (b. 

 1858). British scholar. The son of 

 a Manchester merchant, he was 

 born in that city and was educated 

 at Lancaster, Owens College, 

 Manchester, and Cambridge (Trin- 

 ity). At Cambridge he took a high 

 place in the classical tripos, and at 

 Berlin began the study of German 

 literature. In 1887 he was made 

 professor of English language and 

 literature at University College, 

 Aberystwyth, but in 1901 he 

 moved to Manchester as professor 

 of English literature. He helped 

 to found the English Goethe 

 Society. Herford's literary works 

 include editions of Shakespeare 

 and Jonson. He is author of The 

 Relations between England and 

 Germany in the 16th century, 

 and The Age of Wordsworth ; re- 

 views in the press, especially The 

 Manchester Guardian, articles in 

 The Dictionary of National Bio- 

 graphy, and translations of Ibsen. 



Hergenrdther, JOSEPH VON 

 (1824-90). German theologian and 

 historian. He was born at Wiirz- 

 burg, Sept. 15, 1824, and educated 

 at Rome and at Munich, where he 

 became professor of church history 

 in 1855. In his anti- Janus (Eng. 

 trans. 1870), a reply to Dollinger's 

 Janus, he upheld the infallibility of 

 the pope. In 1868 he undertook 

 the arrangements of the Vatican 

 Council, and in 1879 was raised to 

 the cardinalate, and was appointed 

 curator of the Vatican archives, 

 He was the author of a Life of 

 Photius, Patriarch of Constanti- 

 nople ; a Universal Church History ; 

 a History of the Papal States since 

 the Revolution ; and a treatise on 

 Church and State. 



Hergest, THE RED BOOK OF. A 

 14th century MS. in the library of 

 Jesus College, Oxford, containing 

 many old Welsh tales and poems. 

 Its contents include a brief chron- 

 ology from Adam to 1318, and a 

 chronological history of the Saxons 

 to 1376, also many of the poems 

 ascribed to Taliesin (see Mabin- 

 ogion and Taliesin). An exact 

 copy of the Red Book of Hergest 

 was published by Rhys and Evans 

 in 1887. 



Heriot (A.S. here, army : geatu, 

 apparel, equipment). The arms of 

 a vassal which on his death were 

 returned to his lord. Later it be- 

 came customary to pay something 

 in kind or in money in lieu of 

 handing over the weapons, and 

 this relief was sometimes called a 

 heriot. Similarly it became the 

 custom, where the manorial system 

 prevailed, for the lord to take on 

 death a beast or some other portion 

 of the property of a tenant, which 

 was also called a heriot. See 

 Feudalism ; Relief. 



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Heriot, GEORGE (1563-1624). 

 Founder of Heriot's Hospital, Edin- 

 burgh, Scotland. A goldsmith by 

 trade, he was 

 appointed 

 goldsmith for 

 life to Queen 

 Anne, wife of 

 James VI, in 

 1597, and 

 jeweller to the 

 king in 1601. 

 After James's 

 accession t o 



George Heriot, 

 Scottish philan- 

 thropist 



From an old print 



the throne of 

 England he 

 settled in Lon- 



don in 1603, and in 1609 took as 

 his second wife a daughter of 

 James Primrose, grandfather of the 

 first earl of Rosebery. He left the 

 residue of his property to found 

 the hospital which bears his name. 

 Heript's Hospital. Charitable 

 institution founded in Edinburgh 

 by George Heriot. A combination 

 of Roman and Gothic architecture, 

 erected 1628-59, 162ft. square with 

 an inner quadrangle 92 ft. square, 

 it is said to have been designed by 

 Inigo Jones. Of its 213 windows, 

 only two are of one pattern. Crom- 

 well used it as a barrack, but it 

 reverted to its , 

 original use when ? 

 Charles II ascend- I 

 ed the throne. : 

 Extensively reno- 

 vated in 1828, it 

 is now a technical 

 college and day 

 school, managed 

 by the Heriot 

 Trust, which, from 

 the funds derived 

 from the invest- 

 ment of Heriot's 

 bequest of 23,625, 

 contributes to the 

 endowment of the 

 College, and has founded a 

 number of bursaries for govern- 

 ment - aided schools in the 

 city. Near the hospital is a frag- 

 ment of the old citv wall. 



HERITABLE 



Heriot Watt College. Tech- 

 nical college and school of art, 

 Edinburgh. Originally named after 

 James Watt, inventor of the steam 

 engine, of whom there is a statue in 

 the front, it is supported partly 

 by funds of the Heriot Trust. 

 Close by are the Royal Scottish 

 Museum and the Minto House 

 School of Medicine. With Minto 

 House are associated the names of 

 James Syme, the surgeon, and Dr. 

 John Brown, author of Rab and 

 His Friends. 



Heri Rud. Alternative spelling 

 of the name of the river in 

 Afghanistan also called Hari 

 ($..). 



Herisau. Town of Switzerland, 

 the largest in the canton of Ap- 

 penzell, Outer Rhodes. It is 6 m. by 

 rly. S.W. of St. Gall, and is a sta- 

 tion on the Bodensee-Toggenburg 

 Rly. It stands on the Glatt tor- 

 rent, at an alt. of 2,549 ft. There 

 are thriving manufactures of 

 machinery, cotton, and muslin, and 

 an old (partly 1 1th century) church. 

 In the vicinity are the goats' 

 whey cure and chalybeate spring of 

 Heinrichsbad. Herisau was go- 

 verned by the abbots of St. Gall 

 from the 9th to the 15th century, 



Heriot's Hospital, Edinburgh, from the south-west 

 Heriot Watt when the canton joined the Swiss 

 Confederation. Pop. 15,500. 



Heritable and Movable. 

 Term used in Scots law to distin- 

 guish the part of a property which 

 descends to the heir, the heritable 

 property, and the 

 part which goes 

 to the next-of-kin, 

 : the movable pro- 

 1 perty. As exam- 

 ples of the first 

 may be cited 

 ', land, leases, cer- 

 tain fixtures, etc., 

 and of the second, 

 household furni- 

 ture, money, etc. 

 Such a distinc- 

 tion applies not 

 only in problems 

 of succession but 

 between land- 

 lord and tenant, 

 husband and 



Henot Watt College, Edinburgh. Tecumcal college and 

 school of art erected in 1887 



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