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HUMPHREY HENCHMAN, BISHOP OF LONDON 



(1592-1675). 



" They who have steeped their souls in prayer 

 Can every anguish calmly bear ; 

 They who have learnt to pray aright 

 From pain's dark well draw up delight." 



Houghton. 



He was the son of a citizen of London, and 

 was born at Barton Seagrove, in Northampton- 

 shire; he was educated at Christ's College, 

 Cambridge, and three years after taking his B.A. 

 degree became a Fellow on the " Freeman " Founda- 

 tion at Clare College, then Clare Hall. His grand- 

 mother was a near relation of the founder, one John 

 Freeman of Billing, in Northamptonshire. Hench- 

 man married a niece of John Davenant, Bishop of 

 Salisbury, and had issue. When Prebend of 

 Salisbury he arranged the escape of Charles H. 

 from England, after the battle of Worcester (1651). 

 Clarendon, in giving the account, spells his name 

 Hinchman, which is wrong. He suffered depriva- 

 tion during the rebellion. He was one of those 

 who attended at the Savoy Conference, and his 

 great learning was recognised by Baxter. In 1630 

 he married. It has been suggested that he was the 

 author of The Whole Duty of Man. Walton says 

 he was indebted to Henchman for some inform- 

 ation as to George Herbert. During the plague 



