HAY HA Y 
“of the Sepraagtuti? ~ His next piece, intended to afcertain lency will be longer remembered than his abilities, of which 
‘the true year of Chrift’s nativity; was * A Critical Exami- he has left no example that we can recolleé worthy to bere. 
nation of the ‘Gofpels of Matthew and Luke,’” &c. In bred 
1753, 0n the diflolution of the Royal Afric -an'Co ompany, he Hayes, The, in Geagiuaphy yy, rocks near the «coat 
‘retired to Down in Kent, when he undertook the — labour: of the ifland of ory between the {mall iflands of - 
compiling a work under the title of «« Chrorographia Harnit and Humm 
Afiatica et’ /Egyptiaca ab orbe condito ad Chrittur natum HAYLING, ian oF, in the hundred of Bofmere and 
per Annos 5500, ad fidem Scripturorum Vetuttiffimorum Portfdown divifion es the county of Hants, England, in- 
-reftituta et illuftrata.”’? This work he did not live to print, cludes about 5coo a s of land, is completely {urrounded 
: ee it was finifhed when he died in 1760: and inthe pre- by the fea, and vided into the parifhes of North Hayling 
ding year he apprifed the world of the dniploydiedt in and South Hayling, in each of which is a {mall church. 
which he thad been engaged by publifhing a {pecimen si houfes, which are pene conftructed of brick, 
ee in the year 1801, as 102, inhabited by 578 
there Wir.ram, Dr. in mufic, who began his, career pi distin The chief branch of trade carried on in this ifland 
‘early in life, as organift of St. Mary’s in Shr ewfbury, is the sieking of tet which has been an article of manufacture 
“being the  firit appointment to the office, after the here from time immemorial. One faltern is recorded ip the 
ereGtion of an inftrument, in that church, by Harris and -Domefday furvey, whack paid fix fhillings and eight-pence: 
Byfield. We believe that he quitted Shrewibury on the at prefent there are five. T'wo fifheries are alfo mentioned 
death of Goodfon, organift of lee bane Rete where in the fame record, as being then exifting here. A priory 
he fettled, and was fucceffively graduated ted pro- was founded on the ifland previous to the Norman conque vel ; 
feffor of mufic, organift of — colleges, wd role pron a to which Hen nry I. granted the manor of Feyling. ‘After 
“of the choral meetings, concerts, and encenia, and’ every th® diffolution, the priory lands were regranted to Henry | 
-‘mufical exhibition in that univertiey re the time of his death, earl of Arundel, and now belong to his defcendant, the 
‘about 1779. duke of Norfolk. Warner’s Collection for Hampthire , 
Dr. William Hayes was a {tudious and aétive profeffor ; 3 6 vols. ato. 
a great colleétor of curious and old compofitions, and pof- *HAYM,: Nicotra Fracesce, in Bi iagraphy, born at 
fred of confiderable genius and abilities for producing new. Rome, but defcended-from a German family. This i 1D; 
‘ballads, his maiden compofition. But at Oxford his eccle- ee on various accounts. Firit, as ap actical mu- 
—_— arg tne for mg pr ate were innumer- and compofer ; 2dly, asa mS a and 3dly, asa meda- 
ed him the moft general celebrity were his canons, sithens But as he vefided long in En gland, Ww eres a end 
years of its inftitution ; fers of which were juftly crowned. cerning him, 
is canon of “ Let’s drink and a t’s fing together,’’ is He arrived in England, feemingly on sion 3 in Dah 
perhaps the mot P pote: of po laboured compofitions and we hear of him firft as a finging-matter; 
“which go under the name of ca : ourant informing us, that onthe opening of ie (aia 
was a ap good o digas player, and at the inftallation theatre in the Hay-market Seen by fir John Vanburgh, and 
of lord North as chancellor of the “univerfity of Oxford, . before it was called an opera houfe) ¢ eens be finging 
‘ Avifou’s 5 well-written’ “ Effay on Mufical Ea peefion,” ed in bringing on the ery in the Feliod rans ied ae 
. “ : 5 nee! lo o. 
and Marcello, were geeatly his fuperiors, Dr. Hayes took * * afligned the principal part, on that ea TE which during 
Ely and produc uceda puniphhet, intitled « Remarks on the this early attempt at a —— dram in the Italian sittasod 
Jout the falfe reafoning i in his effay, but falfe Spon in Handel's arrival, and the poorest of "Rinaldo ‘half 
_ ‘his own works. difgraced all attempts at Englifh operas, and oper#s 
oe Fie, Dr. Parti, fon, and fucceffor to the preceding Englith and half Italian; he affociated with Die upart 
“mufic profeffor at Oxford, was regularly educated by his fa- Clayton in eftablifhing a concert at York buildings. In37?® 
‘ther, inthe fame art. When grown up, after he had loft his he wrote the operas of ‘ Etearco” and ¢ Coriolanus; aie 
‘treble | voice, which dropped into a tolerable tenor, he was fore the arrival of Rolli as opera poet he 
nitted one of the gentlemen of the pe chapel, = re- In 1912, he entered the opera band, asa pelo 
3 worthy father ; . violoncello ; and was o in the followin, Poles 
ps ey eftablithed a ae intereft in the shiserhey,- by Handel : Flavi wa Roden TPamerlanoy % 
‘ Siroe 
hy and uninited vanity, envy and fpleen, he for Bononcini, the moft celebrated of all the oper#® vi 
was parce on the fret fret ; and; ' athe his | Piuation,: hada power, “he compofed while he refided in England. eae ae 
“rwhich he never fpared, to render all other muficians uncom- — During all thefe ‘mufical and poetical held 
“fortable. No one entered the univerfity eccafionally, or fed and) ork on medals, whichs: fill Bi 
from curiofity, that _—— alarm him, “Hisextreme corpu- in high eftimation by the curious, entitled “* Hl Tolono cet 
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