HEN 
rable learning and abilities j and his Ton was initiated in 
grammar-learning at his own houfe, under his own per¬ 
sonal inftrudfions. The ftudy of the Scriptures foon be¬ 
came his favourite employment. At this period of life 
he was fent to an academy for the education of young 
perfons for the miniftry at Iflington, where he applied 
to his ftudies with uncommon diligence and fuccefs. In 
1685 he was fent to Gray’s-inn, with the defign of flu¬ 
dying the law. In this new fituation he diftinguiflied 
himf'elf by his ufual diligence ; and it was the opinion 
of thofe that converfed with hirii, that his great induf- 
try, quick apprehenfion, and tenacious memory, would 
have rendered him very eminent in the praflice of the 
law, if lie had chofen it as his bufinefs. But preferring 
the ftudy of, the Scriptures, he returned to his father’s 
houle at Broad-oak, in 1686, and foon afterwards began 
to preach, as a Candidate for the office of the miniftry. 
In the following year he was invited to fettle as paftor 
with a congregation of diftenters atChefter; where he 
foon found himfelf agreeably fituated, infomuch that he 
continued with his congregation there for the fpace of 
twenty-five years. In 1712, however, he was prevailed 
upon to remove , to Hackney, in the vicinity of the me¬ 
tropolis, where his-labours were unintermitt jng, - both 
in his public capacity and his private application. He 
died of a ftroke of apoplexy, at Nantwieh in Chefbire, 
in 1714, when he had only reached the. fifty-fecond year 
of his age. 
Of Mr. Henry’s learning and extenfive knowledge as 
a divine, his works afford abundant evidence. His re¬ 
ligious principles were thofe of the Calviniftic body. 
He was an eloquent and pathetic preacher, and fre¬ 
quently difplayed much judgment and perfpicuity in 
his explanation of the facred writers. He was diftin¬ 
guiflied by the fervency of his piety, and the unblame- 
ablenefs of his manners. His grea,teft work confifts' of 
Expofitions on the Bible, in 5 vols. folio, of which four 
contain the Old Teftament, and the fifth the Evange- 
lifts and the Adls-of the Apoftles. He intended to have 
finifhed the New Teftament in another volume, but 
lived only to go through a,part of the expedition of the 
Epiftle to the Romans; wliich was afterwards finifhed 
by Dr. Evans. It has undergone various, impreffions ; 
and, as it was very favourably received by the public at 
its firft appearance, fo it ftill retains its popularity yn. 
diminished. Mr. Henry was alfo the author of, 1. A 
Difcourfe concerning the Nature of Schifm, 1689, 8vo. 
3. An Account of the Life and Death of Mr. Philip 
Henry, his father, 1696, 8vo. 3. A Scripture Catechifni, 
1 702, 8vo. 4. Family Hymns, 1702, Svo. 5. A plain 
Catechifm for Children, to which is added another for 
the Inftru6tion of thofe that are to be admitted to the 
Lord’s Supper, 1702, 8vo. 6. The Communicant’s 
Companion, or Inftruftions and Helps for the right Re¬ 
ceiving of the Lord’s Supper,. 1704, 8vo. 7. A Method 
of Prayer, with Scripture Expreflions proper to-be tiled 
undereach Head, 1710, Svo. 8. Directions for 'daily 
Communion, with God, in three Sermons, &c. 1712, 
8vo. 9. The Pleafantnefs.of a religious Life, 1714, Svo. 
•10. Four Difcourfes again!!: Vice and Immorality, 1715, 
8vo. and feveral fingle fermons. 
HEN'RY (Robert), an eminent hiftorian, the foil of 
a farmer at Muir-tow* in the parifti of St. Ninian’s,. Scot¬ 
land, where-he was born in 1718. He received his early 
education at Stirling, and went, through a courfe of aca-' 
demical ftudy at the univerfity of Edinburgh. He after¬ 
wards became mallei' of the gfammar-fchool of Annan ; 
• and in 1746 was licenfed as a preacher in the church of 
Scotland. He accepted an invitation tokiffieiafe as paf¬ 
tor to a congregation of diftenters >it •Carlifle,-in which 
fituation he continued twelve years. In 1760 lie removed 
to a fitnilar ftation at Berwick-upon-Tweed, where he 
married the daughter of a'furgeon,' with whom he en¬ 
joyed much domeftic felicity to the end of his life. 
Vo I.. IX. No.-594. 
HEN 897 
Befides an affiduous attention to the duties tf his office, 
h.e had not ceafed to cultivate general literature; and 
about 1763 he began to turn his-trhoughts to the labo¬ 
rious talk which has made him fo refpeftable, the com- 
jiofition of an extenfive hiftory of England upon an im¬ 
proved plan. He foon found it impoffible to carry on 
the refearches neceffary in an undertaking of that kind, 
at Inch a place as Berwick ; and therefore he removed 
in 1768 to Edinburgh, where he was appointed minifter 
to the New Grey Friars’ Church. After fome years lie 
exchanged this for the Old Church, which he ferved 
during the reft of his life. The degree of doftor in di¬ 
vinity was conferred upon liim in 177a; arid in 1774 he 
was unanimoufty chofen moderator of tlie general allein- 
bly of the church of Scotland. 
He employed with fo much induftry the advantage of 
free accefs to.the public libraries in Edinburgh, tiiat 
the firft volume of his Hiftory in quarto was publiftied 
in 1771. It was followed by four more in the years 
J 774 . 1777, 1781, and 1-785. The plan of Dr. Henry’s 
work is to throw the feveral topics of hiftorical infor¬ 
mation into feparate fedfions, feven in number, all of 
which treat of their refpedfive fubjedts detached from 
the reft. With relpefft to the merit of its execution, 
the public voice may be confidered as having fairly and 
deliberately railed it above mediocrity. The firft vo¬ 
lume excited much malignant criticifm from a party of 
his countrymen, and uiiufual pains were taken to write 
it down. Fie went on, however, in the profecution of 
his .defign, and each fticceflive volume difplayed im¬ 
provement in the accuracy of his inveftigations, till the 
whole were completed. Lord Mansfield entertained fuch 
an idea of its merit, that he procured from his majefty, 
‘in 1781, a petition of'one hundred pounds per annum for 
.the; writer,'-which he enjoyed till his death. This hif¬ 
tory was the principal obje<5t of Dr. Henry’s attention 
for almoft thirty, years of his life. His health began to 
decline in 1785, but he was not difabled from- purfuing 
his ftudies till the fummer. of 1790 •> and he died on the 
24th of November of that year, in the feventy-third year 
of his.age. Fie bequeathed his books to the magiftracy 
of Linlithgow, as the foundation of a public library in 
that town. Dr. Henry's private character was amiable 
and eftimable. He polfefted a large (hare of public fpi- 
rir, with the pureft integrity. He was' a member of the 
Royal Society, and that of Antiquarians in Edinburgh, 
and very affidtioufiy attended their meetings. The five 
volumes of his Fliftory of England, publiftied in his life¬ 
time, carried the fubjett from the earlieft periods down 
to the acceffion of Fienry VII. A fixth volume, which 
he had prepared for the prefs, and which concludes the 
reign of Henry VIII. was publiftied, with a Iketch of the 
author’s Life, in 1793, by James Petit Andrews, efq. 
FIEN'RY, a cape of the American States, in the 
north-eaftern extremity of Princefs Ann county, Virgi¬ 
nia, twelve miles fouth-by-weft of Cape Charles in Nor¬ 
thampton county. Thefe capes form the entrance of 
Chefapeak Bay. Cape Fienry lies in lat. 37.N. Ion. 
76. 16. W. 
FIEJn'RY, a fort of Petmfylvania, eight miles north-' 
by-weft of Myeps Town, .at the head of Tulpehocken 
creek, thirty-two north of Lancafter, and nearly thirty- 
feven fouth-ea-ft pf Sunbury. 
HEN'RY, a/nountaiiious and Killy county of the Ame¬ 
rican States, ifi Virginia, boh tided north by Franklin, 
fouth and fouth-eaft by Patriqk, fiouth-weft: by Grifon, 
and north-weft and weft by Montgomery. It is about 
forty miles long, fifteen broad, ,and contains .6938 inha¬ 
bitants. , 
HE.N.S-JFEET,yi A trivial name for hedge fumitory, 
gee 1 'umaria. 
HEN^SHAW, a village in Cheftiire. 
HENSCFlE'NIUS-(Godfrey), a Flemiffi jefuit; and 
ecclefiaftical liiftorian, born about the year jGoo. In 
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