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to the Office e'f-le&urer in natural philofophy. He now 
began to apply with great diligence to the ftudy of di¬ 
vinity;. and in 1629 he entered into holy orders. In 
3633, Dr. Fr.ewen, who was then prelident of his col- 
' lege, and one of his majefty’s chaplains, having ap¬ 
pointed him to l {apply one of his turns at court, the earl 
of Leicefter, who happened to be one of his auditors, 
was fo much 'truck with his fe'rmon, fil'd t he prefented 
- him to the reCtory of Penftiurft in Kent, which was then 
vacant, and in his patronage. In 1633-4 he proceeded 
bachelor in divinity ; was admitted to the degree of doc¬ 
tor in'*that : faculty in 1638-9; and in 1640 was chofen 
one of the members of the convocation. In 1643 he was 
made archdeacon of Chichefter, by theupfoliciled favour 
of Dr. Duppa, then bifhop pf that diocefe ; and in tiie 
- fame year he was nominated one of thealfembly ot divines 
at Weflininffer, but never took his feat among them. Up- 
, on the commencement of the civil war between the king 
and parliament, Dr. Hammond having joined in a fruit- 
lefs attempt that was then made at Tunbridge in favour 
• of the king, and a reward of hundred pounds being 
. offered for his apprehenfion, he found it neceffary to 
abfcond, and with fome difficulty efcaped to Oxford. 
Having there procured an apartment in his own college, 
he gave himfelf up to ftudy and retirement, and pub- 
lilhed his Pradtical Catechifm,' in 1644, which was fo 
favourably received by the public, that it paffed through 
feveral editions during the author’s lifetime, and in 1715 
the fifteenth made its appearance. In-the lame year he 
ptibliHied fome pieces in fupport of the political princi¬ 
ples to which he adhered, and in defence of the confti- 
tution and liturgy of the church of England. In De¬ 
cember, 1644, he attended, as chaplain, the duke of 
Richmond, and the earl of Southampton, who were 
fent to London by king Charles, with his anfwer to the 
propofitions for peaee which had been tendered to him 
by the parliament. And when a treaty was held in the 
..following month at Uxbridge, he was appointed one of 
the affiftants to Dr. Steward, the clerk of the king’s 
clofet, who was the divine feleeted to be one of the 
king’s cominiffioners. In 1643, Dr. Hammond Was pre¬ 
fented by .the king to a canonry of Chrift-clnirch, Ox¬ 
ford ; and ,he was about the fame time chofen public 
oratqr by the univerfity. ' His majefty alfo appointed 
him one of his chaplains in ordinary. He attended the 
king during liis feveral confinements at Woburn, Caver- 
.ftiam, Hampton-Court, and Curilbrook caftle in the I fie 
of Wight ; at: which laft place he continued till Chrift- 
ipas, 1647, when, the little houfehold which ftill adhered 
to the king was diffolved. Being thus finally deprived 
of his employment, Dr. Hammond returned to Oxford, 
where he was chofen fubdeaco’n of Chrift-church ; in 
■which office hfe continued managing the affairs of the 
college , with ability and diligence," till March 1648, 
when he was ejected by the parliamentary vilitors. He 
was now removed to the houfe of his friend fir Philip 
Warwick, at Clapham in Bedfordftiire, who became re- 
fponfible for his pejfon. The trial of king Charles 
.drawing on, made the only effort in his power to ferve 
liis, royal mafter, by writing on his behalf to the men in 
power. What lie wrote on this occalion was publilhed 
by him, under the title of, To the Right Honourable 
the Lord Fairfax, and his Council of War ; the humble 
Addrefs of Henry Hammond ; 1649,410. His applica¬ 
tion, however, was without effect; and the execution 
of the king, which followed foon afterwards, excited in 
him the 1110ft poignant grief. The rigour of his re- 
ftraint being taken off in 1649, lie removed toWeftwood, 
in. Worcefterfhire, the feat of lij; John Packington, un¬ 
der whofe holpitable roof he (pent the remainder of his 
days, In this fituation he puiTued his ftudies with un¬ 
wearied diligence, publiftiing at different periods, be- 
fides his greater.works, a vaft number of controverfial 
treatises' in defence of epifcopacy, againft tlie church of 
Rome. In 1 633 lie publilhed his Paraphrafe aiid An. 
HAM 
notations on the New Teftament, in folio. The bell; 
edition of it is the learned Le Clerc’s Latin tranflation 
of the Paraphrafe and Annotations, with the text of the 
vulgatq, accoihpanied with animadverfions and original 
oblervatioas by the editor, publilhed in 1698. But Dr. 
Hammond’s labours for the elucidation of the feriptures 
were not. confined to the New Teftament. In 1659, he 
publilhed, A Paraphrafe and Annotations on the Book 
of Pfalms, in folio ; and he had proceeded with A Pa- 
rapiirafe and Annotations on the Book of Proverbs, to 
the end of 'the tentli chapter, when his Itrength,,' which 
had been gradually declining for fome years, was inca¬ 
pable of withftanding the attacks of a complication of 
diforders, which proved fatal to him in 1660, in the 
fifty-fifth year of his age. His Paraphrafe on the Pro¬ 
verbs was publilhed in 1683, folio. His natural abili¬ 
ties were very coiiliderable, and his learning, the re Suit 
of indefatigable ftudy and application, great and exten- 
live. Asa preacher, lie was admired for his free, grace¬ 
ful, and comnianding eloquence; and king Charles I. 
faidofhim, “that he was the moft natural orator he 
ever heard.” He was of a focial, benevolent, and 
friendly, difpofition, and. extremely liberal to the poor 
and diftreffed. Befides the articles above-mentioned. 
Dr. Hammond publilhed a great number of other works, 
Which, with many p^ofthumous pieces, were collected 
.together by Mr. William Fulman, and publilhed in 
4 vo'ls. folio, in 1684. 
HAM'MOND (Anthony),an ingeniousEnglifli writer, 
born at Somerlham-place in Huntingdonlliire, in 166S. 
After a liberal education at St. John’s college, Cam¬ 
bridge, he was chofen member of parliament, and dif- 
tinguilhed himfelf as an orator. He became a conuuif- 
■ffioner of the royal navy, which place lie quitted in 1712. 
He publilhed, A Mifcellany of original Poems by the 
moft eminent hands; in which himfelf as appears b,y 
the poems marked with his own name, had no inconli- 
derable Ihare. He alfo wrote the life of Walter Moyle, 
prefixed to his works. He died about the year 17 26. 
’ HAM'MOND (James), an elegiac poet, fecond ion 
of the above-mentioned Anthony Hammond, efq. born 
at Somerfiiam-place in Huntingdonlliire, in 1710. He 
was educated at Weftminfter fchool; and early in life 
obtained the fiiendfiiip of feveral perlons of diftinftion, 
among whom were lords Cobham, Chefterfield, ana 
Lyttleton. He was appointed to the place of equerry 
to Frederic prince of Wales, and in 1741 was brought 
into parliament for Truro in Cornwall. A11 unfortu¬ 
nate paffion for a young lady, Mifs Dafiiwood, who was 
cold to his addreffes, is faid to have difordered his mind, 
and perhaps contributed to his premature death, which 
took place in June, 1742, at the feat of lord Cobhahi, 
at Stowe. He was a man of an amiable character, and 
was much regretted by his friends. His Love Elegies, 
almoft the foie production of his literary hours, were 
publilhed foon after his death with a preface by lord 
Chefterfield. They have been many times reprinted, 
and have obtained him a lafting place among the Eng- 
lilh poets. 
HAMO'AZE, the weftern branch or main river which 
falls into Plymouth Sound, and is the harbour for the 
royal navy. It extends from the entrance at Crimble 
Paffage and the Obelilk quite up to Saltafli, near to 
which the moorings for the king’s fiiips have been car¬ 
ried. It is at the mouth of the river Tamar, which in 
its courfe i’eparates the connties.of Devon and Cornwall 
almoft from the north fide of the two counties. It is 
capable of containing a large quantity of (hipping, and 
it has been afferted that it has moorings for eighty failj 
but we tlnnk, from our perfonal knowledge of the har¬ 
bour, that it cannot have much ftiort of one hundred 
mooring buoys. They lie principally in three tiers, of 
which the middle is appropriated to three-decked fiiips, 
that on the weft fide to fiiips of lefs force, and that ot 
the eaft fide to frigates. On this tide, however, there 
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