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are fhoals off tlie mouth of Wefton Lake, that change 
the regular direftion of thefe moorings, which are moft- 
]y ftationed in the quincunx form, at fueh diftances that 
the {hips always fwing round with the tide and current. 
The river of St. Germain’s is towards the upper end of 
this harbour, which runs up into the land of Cornwall 
to the westward; and lower down the fpacious lakes of 
St. John’s and Millbrook, facing the dock-yard, which 
are dry at low,water. Barges and fmall velfels go up 
them at high water, by certain channels that are marked 
out, with fuch materials as are wanted by the inhabi¬ 
tants of the adjacent villages. 
HAM'ON-GOG, [i. e. the multitude of Gog.] Val¬ 
ley of, mentioned Ezck. xxxix. n, 15. 
HAMO'NAH, [i. e. the multitude.] A place men¬ 
tioned Ezeli. xxxix. 16. 
HAM'ONT, or Helmont, a town of Germany, in 
thecircle ofWeftphalia, and bifhopric of Liege : thirty* 
fix miles north of Liege. 
HA'MOR, [Heb. an afs.] The name of a man. 
HAMORPAI'CHAM, a town of Chinefe Tartary: 
forty-five miles eaft of Piloutai. 
HAM'OTE, along iHand in Queen Charlotte’s Sound, 
between the two iflands of New Zealand. 
HAMOTHDAR', [Heb.] The name of a cily. 
HAMP'DEN (John), one of the mod celebrated names 
among the oppofers of arbitrary power, deficended from 
an ancient family at Great Hampden in Buckinghamfliire. 
He was born at London in 1594, and entered at an early 
age a gentleman-commoner at Magdalen college, Ox¬ 
ford. After an abode of three years in that univerfity, 
he took chambers at one of the inns of court, and ap¬ 
plied himfclf to the fiudy of the law. He had made a 
confiderable progrefs in his ftudies, when the death of 
his father prevented his further purfuit of the law, by 
putting him in pofieflion of an ample fortune. He was 
confin-german by the mother’s fide to Oliver Cromwell, 
and joined the party in oppofition to the court. He en¬ 
tered into public life in 1626, as a member of the fe- 
cond parliament under Charles I. About this time he 
married a lady of the family of Foley, the widow of 
E. Knightley, efq. of Northaniptonlhire. For fome 
years, though an uniform oppofer of arbitrary power, 
he acted no very diftinguiflied part in parliament. He 
was, however, one of thofe, who in 1637 had engaged a- 
{hip to convoy them to New England, rather than fub- 
mit to the payment of illegal taxes, or the tyrannical 
proceedings of the fiar-chamber and ecclefiaftifal courts. 
He firft came into public notice by his refiftance to the 
unconftitutional demand of fliip-money ; but it was not 
till after the declaration of the judges in favour of the 
"king’s right to levy fliip-money, that Hampden flood 
• forward and refqfed the payment. He was profecuted in 
the court of exchequer, and he himfelf, with his coun¬ 
cil, for .twelve days together, argued the cafe againfl 
the crown lawyers'before the twelve judges. It was 
decided againfl him by eight of the number; but the 
victory, in, the popular opinion', was on his fide ; and 
liis reputation Was railed to fuch a height by this bold 
fluggle, that he thenceforth received the appellation of 
patriot Hampden-, a title which, fo far, feems generally to 
be admitted to have been his juft due. His temper and 
modefty on this occafion did him as much credit as his 
firmnefs and perfeverance. From this period lie was a 
leading man in the great contefi between the crown and 
.the people; and, according to lord Clarendon, “.his 
power and intereft was'greater to do good or hurt than 
any man’s in the kingdom, or thap any man of his rank 
hath had in any time.” He was a member of the long- 
parliament, and was appointed to watch the king’s mo- 
.tions in Scotland, and to treat on the part of the parlia¬ 
ment with that nation. He was alio of the committee 
for preparing the charge againfl lord Strafford, and ar¬ 
ranging the evidence. 
.When a fcheme took place for admittingTome of the 
ii a -hi m 
popular party into the miniftry, Hie poll of preceptor to 
the young prince was defigned for Hampden, which 
feems to prove that he was efteemed for his literary ta¬ 
lents, as well as for the purity of his cliarafter. This 
intention was not brought 'to effect; the breach after¬ 
wards widened, and his parliamentary conduft became 
lo obnoxious toTfiiarles I. that he was one of the five 
members whom, in 1640, the king fo imprudently caufed 
to be accufed of high-treafon, and attempted in perfon 
to feize in the houfe. When the civil war unfortu¬ 
nately began, Hampden accepted the command of a re¬ 
giment of foot in the parliament army under the earl of 
Eflex ; but his military Career only permitted him to 
make a brief difplay of the .fame courage in the field 
which he had fliewn in civil debate. Prince Rupert 
having attacked the quarters of the parliament troops 
near Thame in Oxfordshire, on June 18, 1643, Hamp¬ 
den eagerly joined a few cavalry who were rallied in 
hafle, and proceeded to Chalgrave-field, where the ene¬ 
my faced about. The reft of the officers would have 
waited for a reinforcement; but Hampden perfuaded 
them to advance. In.the flcirmifli that enfued, he re¬ 
ceived a fliot in the {boulder which broke the bone; and 
after fufl'ering extreme pain for fix days, his wound 
proved fatal 011 the 24th of that montli. It is faid that 
the king teftified his relpeft for him, by fending his own 
phyfician to vifit him, and offering the aid of his fur- 
geons. In fa ft, it was the moral character of Hampden, 
and the undeviating reftitude which marked all his ac¬ 
tions, that placed him high in the eftimation of both 
parties. W'hen, by an appeal to the laws of his coun¬ 
try, he expofed himfelf to the fury of Charles and his 
miniftry, he violated no friendfliip, lie. tranfgrefled no 
duty, public or private; and while he flood forth to .de¬ 
fend the caufe of liberty, he muft have been fen'fible 
that his efforts, if ineffectual, would foon be neglected 
and forgotten ; and that even if fuccefsful, they were 
lefs calculated to procure the applaufe of his cotempo¬ 
raries, than to excite the admiration and efteem of a 
grateful pofterity : for from the exertions of this and 
other firm fupporters of the true- fpirit of the Britifh 
conftitution, we are in a great meafure indebted for the 
prelervation and enjoyment of that freedom, which we 
now fee banifhed from moft of the. other countries of Eu¬ 
rope. His death, however,, proved at the time, a fub- 
jeft of rejoicing to the royal party, and of grief t® his 
own, with whom, lie flood in profpeft of a fuperior com¬ 
mand ; and it is fcarceiy to be doubted that, had he 
lived, he would have been a.powerful check upon the 
unprincipled ambition of his kinfman, Cromwell. 
HAM'PER,/". [Suppofed by Minfhew to be contraft- 
ed from hand-panier ; but henaperium appears to have 
been a word, long in ufe, whence hanaper, hamper . ] A 
large balket for carriage : - 
What powder’d wigs! what flames and darts ! 
What hampers full of bleeding hearts i - Swift. 
'[From the verb.] Some iron inftrument by way of 
{hackle : 
The fwarthy fimith fpits in his buckfliorne fift, 
And bids the men bring out the five-fold twill, 
His {hackles, fliacklockes, hampers , gives, and chains. 
IV. Browne. 
To HAM'PER, v. a. [The original of this word, in 
its prefeiit meaning, is "uncertain : Junius obferves that 
hamplyns in Teutonic is a quarrel : others imagine that 
hamper, or hanaper , being the treafury to which fines arc 
paid, to hamper, which is commonly applied'to the laves, 
means originally to fine.] To fliiickle ; to entangle, as 
in chains or nets.—Sins hamper and entangle our fouls, 
and hinder their flight upwards. Tillotfon. 
0 lo.ofe this frame, this knot of man untie ! 
That my free foul may ufe her wing, 
Which is now pinion’d with mortality, 
Asian eritanglbd, h'mmr’d, "thing, Herbert'. 
To 
