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HEN'RY of HUNTINGDON, an Englifli hiftorian, 
of the twelfth century, was canon of Lincoln* and after, 
w ards archdeacon of Huntingdon. He wrote, i. A hif- 
tn y of England, which ends with the year 1154. 2. A 
continuation of that of Bede. 3. Chronological tables 
of tlie king's of England. 4. A treatife on the contempt 
of the world. 5. Several books of epigrams. 6. A poem 
on herbs g all in Latin. 
HEN'Rf of SU'SA, in Latin de Segvjio , a famous 
civilian and canon id of the thirteenth century, who ac¬ 
quit ed fuch reputation by his learning, that he was 
called “ the fource and fplendour of the law.” He was 
archbifliop of Embrun about the year 1258, and cardinal 
bifhop of Oftia in 1262. He wrote A Summary of the 
Canon and Civil Law ; and A Commentary on the Book 
of the Decretals, compofed by order of Alexander IV. 
HEN'RY the MIN'STRKL, commonly called Blind 
Harry, an ancient Scottifh writer, diltinguifhed by no 
particular furnanve, but well known as the compofer of 
an hiftorical poem reciting the achievements, of lir.Wil¬ 
liam Wallace. This poem continued for feveral centu¬ 
ries to be in great repute; but afterwards funk into 
negledf, until very lately that it has been again releafed 
from oblivion by a very neat and corredt edition pub- 
tifhed under the infpcciioii and patronage of the earl of 
Buchan. It is difficult to afcertain the precife time in 
which this poet.lived, or when he wrote his hiftor.y, as 
tiie two authors who mention him fpeak fomewhat dif¬ 
ferently. Dempfter fays that lie lived in the year 1361: 
but Major, who was born in 1446, fays that lie com¬ 
pofed his book during the time of his infancy, which we 
mult therefore fuppofe to have 1 been a few years pofte- 
rior to 1446 ; and that he died when about eighty-three 
years of age. 
HEN'RY duke of Vifeo, an illuftrious Portuguefe 
prince, fourth foil of John I. king of'Portugal, born in 
1393. From his infancy he fhowed a great attachment 
to the ffudy of mathematics and cofmography. At an 
early period he fent out a veflel upon a voyage of difco- 
very on the Barbary coalt, which reached Cape Boja- 
dor, and its fuccefs caufed him entirely to devote him- 
felf to that qJoje6l. Near Cape St. Vincent in Algarve, 
lie cliofe a commodious fituation for a fea-port, and 
there built his town of Sagrez, which in its plan and 
fortifications furpafled any other.in Portugal. He eredfed 
arfenals, made docks and yards for Ihip-building, and 
invited naval adventurers from all parts to enter into 
his fervice. He himfelf was indefatigable in his atten¬ 
tion to maritime lubjedffs. He confiderably improved 
the art of Uiip-building, extended the ufe of the com- 
pafs, and determined the modes of afcertaining the lon¬ 
gitude and latitude by aftronomical obfervations. An 
expedition which he fent out in 1418 under Zarco and 
Vaz, failed in the attempt to double Cape Bojador, and 
proceeded only to an ifland which they named Puerto 
Santo. In the next year they difcovered the ifland of 
Madeira, which from that time has remained in poflef- 
fron of the crown of Portugal. In 1442, his captain 
Gonfalez brought back from the coaft of Africa fome 
Guinea negroes and a quantity of gold-dull, which oc- 
safioned the eftablifhmdnt of a trading company at La¬ 
gos. The difcovery of the Azores took place, in 1448 ; 
and in 1449 prince Henry’s fleets difcovered the Cape 
de Verd illands, and coalled fixty leagues beyond that 
cape. It is alferted that fome of his commanders palled 
the equinoctial line; for his motto, Talent de bun faire, 
was found in the next century cut upon a tree in the 
fecond degree of fouth latitude. Henry, during this 
courfe of vigorous profecution of his favourite plans, 
. had received every alliltance from the court of Portu¬ 
gal ; but at length a mifunderftanding between his bro¬ 
ther don Pedro and his nephew king Alonzo V. threw 
<obftacles in his way. He went to court in order to pro¬ 
tect his brother, but failing in his purpofe, he returned 
io his town of Sagrez, and there ended his ufeful life 
in 1463. He was iinqueftionably one of the greateff cha¬ 
racters his nation ever produced ; and. may be regarded 
as the author of all the commercial profperity to which 
Portugal aftenvards attained by heir Ealt-Indian pof- 
feflions. 
HEN'RY (Francis),- a French advocate and mathe¬ 
matician, defrauded from an ancient and noble family 
at Lyons, where he was born in 1615. He was educated 
in the college of the Jefuits at Lyons, and attracted the 
elteem of thofe fathers by the ftrength of his memory, 
his Itudious application, and his progrefs in literature. 
After palling through his claffical and philofophicaf 
courfes, he took the degree of mailer of arts, and, ap¬ 
plying to the ffudy of'the law, was made doctor in that 
faculty at Orleans. He officiated as an advocate before 
the parliament of Paris for many years with diftinguifhed 
reputation ; but his infirm (late of health obliged him 
to.decline all practice in the courts, and to confine him- 
felf to the labours of the ffudy. The principal fubjeCts 
which engaged his attention were the mathematical 
fciences, and in*particular aftronomy,' geometry, alge¬ 
bra, experimental philofophy, and natural hiftory. In 
connection with Henry Louis Habert de Montmor, lie 
prepared for publication the works of Gaffrndi. He 
carefully reviewed all the productions of that philofo- 
plier; arranged them according to the order of their 
fubjeCts; collected all the letters of Gaffendi which he 
could meet with, and placed them in chronological or¬ 
der. About the fame time he employed fimilar atten¬ 
tion on the works of the celebrated Paracelfus, of which 
a new edition was publifhed through- his means at Ge¬ 
neva, in 1658, in 3 vols. folio. He died at Paris in 1683, 
in the feventy-fecond year of his age. 
HEN'RY de St. Ignatius, a learned Flemiffi Car^. 
melite monk, who flourifhed in the beginning of the 
eighteenth century, and embraced the ecclefiaftical life 
at Aeth. 1-Ie taught theology with much reputation, 
and filled fucceflively the moff confiderable polls in his 
order. He made a long flay at Rome, in the commence¬ 
ment of the pontificate of Clement XL who entertained 
a great regard for him ; and he died at Cavee, a houfe 
belonging to his order in the bifhopric of Liege, in 1720, 
at a very advanced period of life. His principal work 
is a complete body of moral .theology, entitled EtJdca 
Amoris, 1709, in 3 vols. folio, which, on account of its 
maintaining the ultramontane doCtrines relating to the 
power and jurifdicfion of the court of Rome was not 
favourably received in France. He was alfo the author 
of a theological work, in folio, in which he explained 
the firft part of the Summa of St. Thomas; and of a 
work, entitled MoHniJmusprojligatus, in a vols. Svo. which, 
as well as the preceding, is held in much eftimation by 
catholic divines. 
HEN'RY (Nicholas), a learned French profeflor of 
the Hebrew language, born at Verdun in 1692. He 
became tutor to the Ions of M. Joly de Fleury, attor- 
ney-general to the parliament of Paris ; and he gave 
fuch fatisfadlion in this employment, that in 1723 his 
patron procured for him the appointment to the chair 
of profeffor of Hebrew in the College-royal. Of his 
erudition he afforded fufficient evidence in the new edi¬ 
tion of Vatable’s Biblia Sacra, 2 vols. folio, which was 
publifhed chiefly under his infpedfion, with additional 
notes. He reviewed the firft volume, which appeared 
in 1729; and took the foie fuperintendence of the fe- 
cond, which was not publifhed till the year 1745. To 
a profound fkill in the llebrew language, he united a 
happy talent at introducing others to an acquaintance 
with it. Hence he had numerous pupils, to whofe in- 
ftrudtion he devoted himfelf with the moff zealous affi- 
duity. He was unfortunately killed by the fall of.par* 
of a building in 1752, in the fixtieth year of his age. 
HEN'RY (Matthew), a learned Englifh nonconformif! 
divine, born at Broad-oak in Flintlhire, in 1663. - His 
father, Mr. Philip Henry, was a clergyman of confide- 
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