394 HEN 
gave him a benefice in the country ; he had likewife a 
ieClurein the city ; and preached more charity-fe.rmons, 
was more numeroufly followed, and raifed more money 
for charitable purpofes, than any other preacher, how¬ 
ever dignified or diftinguifhed. During thefe pulpit, 
orations, he had received a promife from a great man of 
being fixed in town ; but, when he prefled for the ful¬ 
filment of it, he met with an anfwer that completely 
ruined his hopes of any London preferment. Irritated 
by thefe disappointments', and poflefling abundant confi¬ 
dence in his own powers, which he doubted not would 
fecure him the fupport of the public, he laid the plan 
of his lectures, and refigned his benefice, and the other 
appointments which he held in the church. 
Mr. Henley now opened a chapel, which he called 
the Oratory , in the neighbourhood of Newport-market. 
Here he alfumed, or acquired, the title of Orator Hen¬ 
ley, and for fome time, by poflefling a good voice and 
forcible delivery, he attracted crowded auditories, par. 
ticularly from among the lower dalles. After fome 
years he removed his lectures to a large room between 
Lincoln’s-inn-fields and Clare-market, where he con¬ 
tinued them fill his death ; but with declining popula¬ 
rity, and frequently pra&ifing the mod miferable tricks 
to draw a crowd together, and to colled money. For 
fome time he preached on Sundays upon theologi¬ 
cal fubjecfs, and on Wednefdays upon mil'cellaneous to¬ 
pics ; but in the latter part of lfis life, he confined the 
difplay of his talents to Sundays only. Among other 
fubjeds, politics were frequently introduced by him 
into the pulpit; and in 1746, he exercifed fo much in¬ 
decency in his refledions on the reigning family, and 
the zealous fupporters of government, that by the war¬ 
rant of the earl of Chefterfield, then one of the princi¬ 
pal fecretaries of liate, he was taken into the cuftody of 
a meflenger, in order to be examined on a charge of en¬ 
deavouring to alienate the minds of his majefty’s fub¬ 
jeds from their allegiance. After a confinement of fome 
days, however, he was admitted to bail. Occafionally, 
as Dr. Warburton remarks, he did Mr. Pope the ho¬ 
nour of declaiming againlt him ; and in return, that poet 
paid him the compliment of holding him up to infamy, 
in the following lines of his Dunciad : 
4 ‘But, where each fcience lifts its modem type, 
Hiftory her pot, divinity his pipe, 
While proud philofophy repines to fhow— 
Difhoneft fight!—his breeches rent below ; 
Imbrown’d with native bronze,To ! Henley hands, 
Tuning his voice, and balancing his hands. 
Flow fluent nonfenfe trickles from his tongue! 
How fweet the periods, neither faid nor lung! 
Still break the benches, Henley ! with thy ftrain, 
While Kennet, Hare, and Gibfon, preach in vain. 
Oh great reftorer of the good old ftage, 
Preacher at once, and zany of thy age ! 
Oh worthy thou of Egypt’s wife abodes, 
A decent prieft, where monkeys were the gods! 
But fate with butchers plac’d thy prieftly ftall, 
M«ek modern faith to murder, hack, and mawl : 
And bade thee live, to crown Britannia’s praife. 
In Toland’s, Tindal’s, and in Woolfton’s,- days. 
This eccentric character ftruck medals, which he fold 
as tickets among his fub.fcribers; of which the device 
was a ftar riling, .to the meridian, with this motto, Ad 
fumma ; and below, Inveniam viam aut faciain. His other 
auditors paid one fhilling each for admittance. In or-, 
der to fill his oratory, he was accuftomed every Satur¬ 
day to print an advertifement in the daily papers,, con¬ 
taining the fubjefit of his intended difcourle on the fol¬ 
lowing Sunday evening. This advertifement bad a fort 
of motto prefixed to it, which was generally a fne.er at 
fome public tr.anfaCtion of th.e preceding week. He 
died October 14, 1756. He was the editor of a weekly 
HEN 
paper, called The Hyp DoCtor, for which he received z 
hundred pounds per annum. 
HEN'LEY-IN-ARDEN, county of Warwick, is ioz 
miles from London, near the river Arrow. It was anci¬ 
ently a member of Watton-Waven, but afterwards an¬ 
nexed to Beaudefert, where was once a caftle, and a 
market kept at it by grant of king Stephen, which was 
the occafion of building the town for the reception of 
the market.people, at the bottom of the hill whereon 
the caftle flood. The market is on Tuefday ; fairs, 
March 25 and Whit-Tuefday. About the time of the 
battle of Evelham it was burnt j but in the reign of Ed¬ 
ward I. it recovered, and was called the Borough of 
Henley. Here is a chapel of eafe to Waveney, the pa- 
rifll-church, which chapel was firft built in the 41ft of 
Edward III. 
HEN'LEY HOUSE, a ftationorfettlement of the Hud- 
foil’s Bay Company, on the north bank of Albany river, 
in New South Wales : 150 miles fouth-weft of Albany 
Fort, and no north-weft-by-weft of Brunfwick Houfe. 
Lat. 51. 14. 27. N. Ion. 85. 5. $4. W. 
HEN'LEY-UPON-THAMES, a rich and populous 
town in Oxfordfhire, fuppofed to be the moft ancient 
town in the county, its name being derived from the 
Britifh word Henilley, i. e. Old Place. It was formerly 
part of the eftate of the barons of Hungerford. It is 
now a corporate town, governed by a high fteward, re¬ 
corder, mayor, ten aldermen, and fixteen burgefles. It 
formerly was a borough, and fent two members to par¬ 
liament. It is moft delightfully fituated on the weft fide 
of the river Thames, over which has lately been ereCted 
a handfome ftone bridge. On the key-ftones of the cen¬ 
tre arch are two well-executed heads in fculpture (done 
by the Hon. Mrs. Darner,) emblematically reprefenting 
Thame and Ills. Dr. Plott, in his Hiftory of Oxford¬ 
fhire, fays, that Henley is very ancient, and notices there 
having been a glafs-houfe here. It lias of late>under- 
gone very confiderable improvements ; the buildings in 
general being modernized, and the ftreets widened, 
paved, and lighted, fo that few traces of its antiquity 
are now to be feen. Roman coins have been often found 
in its market-place. The Chiltern-hills run in a ridge 
from hence, and feparate this county from Buckinghain- 
fliire. A confiderable trade is carriedonfrom hence to Lon¬ 
don by means of the Thames* in malt, grain, flour, and 
beech-wood ; about thirty thoufand quarters of malt 
are annually made here. It has a weekly market on 
Thurfdays for grain, cattle, poultry, and fifli, with all 
of which it is well fupplied. Here are alfo four annual 
fairs, on March 7, Holy Thurfday, the firft Thurfday 
after Trinity-Sunday, and the firft Thurfday after the 
aift of September. 
The church is an ancient and fpacious edifice, having 
a handfome lofty tower, built by cardinal W.olfey, and a 
good peal of eight bells. Here are three free-fchools ; a 
royal grammar- fchool, founded and endowed by J ames I. 
for educating twenty-five boys in the claftics, A blue- 
coat fchool,, founded and endowed by Dame Elizabeth 
Periam, for educating and clothing twenty poor boys, an¬ 
nually apprenticing the four fenior boys, and allowing 
a fee of five pounds to each. And a green-coat fchool, 
founded and endowed-by John Stevens, efq. for edu¬ 
cating and clothing four b.oys and four girls, with an an¬ 
nual donation of thirty iliillings.to each. Here are alfo 
almfhoufes for twenty poor perfons, founded by Dr. 
Longland, fome time hilltop of Lincoln,, and others. 
There are likewife various other benefactions to a con¬ 
fiderable amount for the relief of the poor. Henley is 
twenty-three miles from Oxford, eight from Reading, ele¬ 
ven from Wallingford, and thirty-five weft from London. 
HENLO'PEN-, a cape of the American States, which 
forms the fouth-weft fide of the entrance of Delaware 
Bay, a'nd Cape May the north-,eaft fide, .twenty-eight 
nuks .apart. Cape Henlopen lies in lat. 3.8,50. N. and in 
Ion. 
