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buildings which he added to Trinity-college ; - and after¬ 
wards, by legacies to other colleges, and the bequeft of 
all his books to the univerfity library. He died at Lich¬ 
field in 1670, in the feventy-eighth year of his age. The 
only pieces of his publifhed during Ins life were the co¬ 
medy above-mentioned, and a fingle fermon preached 
before the king; But after his death Dr. Plume pub- 
Jidied A Century of his Sermons, upon feveral remark¬ 
able Subjects, 1675, folio; and in 1693 appealed his 
learned and valuable Life of Archbifhop Williams, in 
folio;.of which an abridgment was publifhed in 1700, 8vo. 
by Ambrofe Philips. 
HACK'ETSTOWN, a poft-town of the American 
States, in Suflex county, New Jerfey, on the north-weft 
fide of Mufconecunk river. It is about three miles 
above the mineral fpring near Roxbury, on the oppofite 
fide of the river, twenty-two miles weft-by-north of 
Morriftown, fixteen fouth-weft-by-weft of Suftex court- 
lioufe, and 120 north-north-eaft of Philadelphia. 
HACK'ING, ft. The art'of cutting with repeated 
blows ; the art of fpeaking unreadily. 
FIACK'INSACK, a river of the American States, in 
New Jerfey, which rifes in New York, and runs.a fouth- 
ei'ly co’urfe four or five miles weft of Hudfon’s river. It 
unites with Paflaic river at the head of Newark bay, and 
is navigable about fifteen miles. 
HACK'INSACK, a town of the American States, in 
Bergen county, New Jerfey, fituated near the weft bank 
of the abov'e river, twenty miles north-weft of New York 
city. The inhabitants are moftly Dutch. The houfes 
are chiefly built of flone, in the Dutch tafte. Here are 
a Dutch, and epifcopal church, a court-houfe, and a 
flourifhing academy. The people, who are moftly far¬ 
mers, carry their produce to New York. 
HACK'LE,/. An inftrument for drefling flax ; raw 
'filk; any flindy fubftance unfpun.—Take the hackle of 
a cock or capon’s neck, or a plover’s top : take off one 
fide of the feather, and then take the hackle filk, gold or 
filver thread, and make them fa ft at the bent of the 
hook. Walton. 
To HACK'LE, v. a. To drefs flax, hemp, See. with 
a hackle. 
HACK'NEY, ft. [ hacknai , Welfh ; hackeneye, Teut. 
haquenee, Fr.] A pacing horfe. A hired horfe hired 
horfes being ufually taught to pace, or recommended as 
good pacers.—Light and lewd perfons were as eafily 
fuborned to make an affidavit for money, as poft-horfes 
and hackneys are taken to hire. Bacon. —An hireling ; a 
proftitute : 
Three kingdoms rung. 
With his accumulative and hackney tongue. Rofcommon. 
That is no more than every lover 
Does for his hackney lady fuffer. Hudibras. 
Any thing let out for hire: 
A wit can ftudy in the ftreets : 
Not quite fo well, however, as one ought; 
A hackney coach may chance to fpoil a thought. Pope. 
Much ufed ; common.—Thofe notions young ftudents in 
phyfic derive from their hackney authors. Harvey. 
HACK'NEY, adj. Let out for hire.—The feventh 
branch of the extraordinary perpetual revenue, is the 
duty arifing from licenfes to hackney coaches and chairs 
in London, and the parts adjacent. Blackjlone. 
To HACK'NEY, v.a. To praftife in one thing to 
accuftom, as to the road.—He is long hackney'd in the 
ways of men. Skakefpcare. 
HACK'NEY, a neat town in the county of Middle- 
fex, on the north-eaft of London. The parifh comprifes 
feveral hamlets, among which are Upper and Lower 
Clapton on the north, Dorlelton and Shacklewell on the 
weft, and Homerton on the eaft. The parifn-church is 
an elegant ftrurtitye, ererted in confequence of an art of 
parliament in 1792. The old church had fubfifted ever 
' knee the reign of EdWard II. Here are two free-lchools, 
• and feventeen alms-houfes. 
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On the fonth fide of the church-yard, ftands an ancient 
fabric, partly modernized, which is fuppofed. to have 
been the refidence of fome part of the royal family in 
the reign of James I. as the arms of England are in one 
iof the windows; on a fecond pane are the fame arms, 
with the initials C. P. for the prince of Wales; nnd, on 
a third, are the arms of Frederic, elertor palatine, the 
unfortunate king of Bohemia, with his confort Eliza¬ 
beth, daughter of James, and grandmother of George I. 
At that period, when the refidences of our princes and 
nobility were fcattered over the metropolis and its en* 
virons, Hackney was diftinguifhed by many capital man- 
fions.. An ancient houfe in Well-ftreet, called St.John’s' 
palace, is fuppofed to have been the refidence of the 
prior of the order of St. John of Jerufalem. The Tem¬ 
ple Mills, fo called'from having once been part of the 
pofleftions of the Knights Templars, as they were after¬ 
wards, on the extirpation of that order, of the Knights 
of St. John, ftand at a frnall diftance. Thefe mills, by 
a fimple machinery, are now made to bore the trunks 
of trees for water-pipes, to grind the points of pins and 
needles, and to fupply Clapton and Hackney with water. 
H ACK'NEY-COACH, f. A coach expofed to hire; 
as thofe which ply in the ftreets of London, &c. for the 
origin, regulations, and fares of which, fee the article 
Coach, vol.iv. p.702. 
HACK'SPAN (Theodore), or according to fome 
writers Thierri, a learned German Lutheran divine, 
born at Weimar in Thuringia, in 1607. He commenced 
his academic career at Jena, where he fpent feven years 
in the ftudy of philofophy, theology, and the oriental 
languages. Afterwards he removed to the univerfity 
of Altdorf; whence he went to Helmftadt, where he- 
completed his. theological ftudies under the celebrated 
George Calixtus, and other eminent profelfors.. Re¬ 
turning afterwards to Altdorf, he fixed his abode in that 
univerfity, and publicly taught the oriental languages. 
On this employment he entered in the year 1636, and 
profecuted it with great reputation and fuccefs during 
the remainder of his life, which terminated in 1659, in 
the 52d year of his age. He was the author of, 1. Syl-. 
loge Dijputationum tkeologicarum & pkilologicarum, 1663, 4to. 
2. Inter pres Errabundus ; hoc ejl , brevis Difquijitio de Ca lifts 
errandi Interpretum & Commentatorum Sacra Scriptures, omni- 
unique adco qui circa Sacras utriufque Feeder is occupantur Litte- 
ras, annexed to a treatife en itled, Lucubrationes Franktat- 
lenfes ; five Specimen aliquod Interpretationum & Expofttionum, 
quas plvrimas in difficillima queeque utriufque Tejiamenti Loco, 
meditatus eft Bonaventura Cornelius Bertramus, Pitta Thoarfen- 
fts, &c: 1645, 8vo. 3. Mi/cellaneorum Sacrorum Libri duo, 
1660. 4. Notes Philologico-thcologicee in varia & difficiliora 
Veteris & Novi Tejiamenti Locd, 1664, 3 vols. 8vo. 5. Ob- 
fervationes Arabico-Syriacee in quadam Loca. Veteris & Novi 
Tejiamenti, 1662, 4to. 6 . Specimen Theologies Talmudicee , 
7 . Fides & Leges Muhammedis. 8. Liber Nizachon Rabbi Lip- 
manni. 9. Termini, Diftinttiones, & Divifiones, Pkilofophico- 
theologica:, &c. 
H AC'QUETON,y. \haquet, old French, a little horfe.] 
A piece of armour.— fou may fee the very faftfibn of 
the Irifti horfeman in his long hofe, riding (hoes of coftly- 
cordwain, his hacqueton, and his habergeon. Spenfer. 
H ACQ'UEVILLE, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Eure : five miles weft of Gifors. 
HA'CUB; ft in botany. See Gundelia. 
HAC'ZEG, a town of Tranfilvania: thirty miles 
fouth of Hunyad. 
HAD, the' preterite arid part. paff. of have. I had 
better, you had better, it would be better forme or you-, or 
it would be more eligible : it is always ufed potentially; not 
indicatively : nor is have ever ufed to that import. We 
fay tikewile, it had been better or worfe. 
I heed rather be a country fervant maid > 
Than a queen with this condition. Shakefpeare . 
Had we not better leave this Utica, 
To arm Numidia in ®ur caufe ? Addfton. 
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