HES 
wards the abode of the barons Hungerford. Thomas, lord 
Hungerford, about the year 1400, built or greatly enlarged 
the church, which was collegiate before the year 1300 
Walter, lord Hungerford, lord high es of England, 
founded an eee: for twelve poor men and one woman ; apd 
n. 
ned ‘a licence 
aret, . 
from king Edward IV. to perfeé this cine and fettle a 
chaplain in it, to celebrate divine aires i the parifh church, 
for the fouls of herfelf and other e church is Colley 
giate, having four prebends in it, er kc to the cathedral 
church of Salifbury. The building is fpacious and ftrong, 
in the form of a crofs, in the centre - which is a tower, 
ieee, which confitts chiefly of o 
ly burnt down in the year 1766, find which it has been 
rebuilt to its former extent, and greatly improved in its ap- 
feemce e and. refpeCtability, principally owing to the intro- 
uction of the clothing manufactories, aie now Car- 
ried on toa confiderable extent. Here were for 
telbury is 92 
m London; the ocealaane ssseebe E in the 
year og was I ; the number of a - 210. Sir 
W. P. A. A’Court has-a feat clofe to the to 
This town was the refidence, if not the Siecle place, of a 
very worthy man, and valuable antiquary, William Cunning- 
ton, who laudably devoted his sade pours to wee inveftiga- 
e: barrows, encam are ve 
S very curious 
rnifhes valuable and we information re- 
si the contents of barrows, and the ¢ 
isa inhabitants of Britain. 
HENGE, Tu. UMULI, and Wirtsuire, we fhall have 
to revert to it again. In a-valley between this town and 
Warmi » m a meadow called Pitmead, was difcovered, 
in the 1486, the foundation, with teffellated. pavements, 
&e. ¢, Roman villa; and in 1800 other veftiges of the 
were found here. At the end of this vay is a lofty 
+ plain, ooo8 which are the earth-works of two 
of great extent ;. and, from their 
tions, Cale have been alma impregnable. 
land: the other. 
a treble intrenchment, ae, $ ea ies 
2 HEL Rivzn, i in Cock. falls seers Falmouth bay at 
Little Dinnis, and from thence, about 54 miles W., to 
k, near Mawgan, is na le for {mall veffels. 
aczbaoua, 2 tawact. Nubin,ond the lat fabio to 
the Ottoman Porte ; it eee a sepiiesntte garrifon, and 
“gg environs, which coloquintida and 
“Heessarres. ibe arr ‘. 
. Cos, — bw an ulcer, or ulceration. 
4 » om erxor, an ulcer, a fimall ulcerated 
. ELCYSMa.  F EAKDS » 
EP ERTS BO fignify the fcorie of filver, called alfo by 
Briers tom, this has the fame v vistucs 
> 
_‘near the S. coaft of Shetland. 
Sate 
aword ufed by fome of the 1 
HEL 
with the molybdana, and that it was in his time ufed like 
that in platters 
HELCYSTER, of Anwy draw, in jSurserys a hook 
ufed to extra& the foetus in difficult parturi 
- HELDAZOO, in Geography, a {mall ifand of fee 
N. lat. 60° 13'. W. lon 
43’. 
HELDBURG, a town of Germany, i in the ee 
- of Coburg; 8 miles W. of Cob 
ELDER, | oltind, at the en- 
uae of the Texel, erected for the defence of Mars-Diep ; 
taken by the Englih under fir Ralph Ohi ie 
28, 1799 3 24 miles N. of Alcmaer. N. lat. i Bie 
long..42° 34 
HELDRUNGEN, a town of Germany, rive ing to 
fap principality of Querfurt, ina —_ ftream n ke 
eift; n 
ne 
rit are two other towns, viz. “ Fefiury -Hel- 
drungen’’ and Ober- Fialinine 3 ” 5 miles W. of Quer- 
oe lat. 320 
furt. gi° 17’. E 
HELEGUG, in Oeettbelagy. a name by which the peo- 
ple in fome parts of England call the anas o Oe 
a web-footed fowl common on our fhores, 
LEL, in Geography, a town of Africa, in a coun- 
try of Sugulmeta ; 40 miles N.W. of Sugulmeffa. 
H n Fabulous Hi fers» the daughter of Tynda- 
rus, king of aang and Leda, was married to Menelaus, 
the brother of Agamemnon, and ftolen from him by Thefeus 
inthe year 1213 B. “ but afterwards reftored ; fhe was car- 
ried off a fecond time by Paris and taken to Troy, B.C. 
1198, which eee: ihe war of Troy ; which fee. After 
the death of Menelaus fhe was banifhed to Rhodes, and 
there hung upon a ‘ed. Temples were ereéted to her 
honour. : 
HELENA, in Afcenny. See Castor and Pox- 
LUX. 
$ journeys, and was naan married to him. 
It was as a.condition by Maximian, when he adopted 
Conitantius in 292, that he fhould divorce Helenaand take a 
wife of imperial blood, and from this time fhe lived in ob- 
feurity till the death of her hufband, and the fucceffion of 
er own fon Conftantine, who ever treated her with the re- 
ect and attachment due toamother, Upon his converfion 
to hang: fhe followed _ ale ti and became zealous 
in ca oe faith s her fwa dtp at cis mis that 
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gered as the empre vefs at court ‘and in S Rae 
had the entire difpofal of a large ye nue. Sh 
be e 3 d influence to keep from all public em~ 
ployments the thr - of Conitantine, _ and 
en he andfon Crifpus had fallen a facrifice to 
Fauita his cic t ob the refolved to avenge th 
id difcovered to the ror the infidelity of that emprefs, 
which caufed her defiruction. In 326 the paid a vifit to the 
sap of Jerufalem, which was the epoch of that me- 
le event in (BER CET oF the invention of the 
true crofs. (See C. ye ving canfed a temple of Venus, 
built over the (sire cite of the holy fepulchre, to be demo- 
: mot was difcovered, in which were depofited three 
tto be lee on which Chritt and the tw o tierce 
a vrealure Raps Ei 
c 
a ifs y as- ‘ahat- on: which’ the fate chee Th. 
tus the facred relic was ¢ ¥ in es one half F being left 
4. aes with 
