h e n 
The word in this fenfe was ufed as a title to any lite¬ 
rary c unpolition in memory of the dead ; as, to the fu¬ 
neral ferpron on the earl of Elfex, who was the long 
parliament’s general. Mafon's Suppl .—[Ufed by Spenfer 
for] herfal or rehearfal: 
For the faire.damzell from the holy herfe 
Her love-ficke heart to other thoughts did lteale. Spenf. 
To HER 3 E, v. a. To inclofe as in a herfe: 
The houfe is htrs'd about with a black wood, 
Which nods with many a heavy-headed tree. Crajhaw. 
HER.SE, f. in fortification, a lattice or portcullis, in 
the form of a harrow, befet with iron fpikes, to block 
up a gateway, &c. 
HER'SE, in mythology, a daughter of Cecrops, king 
of Athens, beloved by Mercury. The god difclofed 
his love to Aglauros, Herfe’s filler, in hopes of procur¬ 
ing eafy admifiion to her; but Aglauros, through jea- 
loufy, difeovered the amour. Mercury was fo offend¬ 
ed at her behaviour, that he (truck her with his cadu- 
ceus, and changed her into a Hone. Herfe became mo¬ 
ther of Cephalus by Mercury ; and, after death, fire re¬ 
ceived divine honours at Athens. Ovid. 
HERSELF', pronoun. A female individual, as diltin- 
guilhed from others: 
The jealous o’er-worn widow and herfelf 
Since that our brother dubb’d them gentlewomen, 
Are mighty goffips in this monarchy. Skakcfpeare. 
Being in her own power ; miftrefs of her own thoughts : 
The more Ihe looks, the more her fears increafe. 
At nearer fight; and (he’s herfelf the. lefs. Dryd.cn. 
The oblique cafe of the reciprocal pronoun; as, fhe 
hurt herfdf .—The daughter of Pharaoh came down to 
wafh herfdf. Exodus. 
HER'SELIKE, adj. Funereal; fuitable to funerals. 
—Even in the Old Teftament, if you liften to David’s 
harp, you (hall hear as many herfclike airs as carols. Bacon. 
HER'SENT, or Her'san (Charles), a French writer, 
chiefly known as the author of a work publifhed under 
the title of Optalus Gallus. He became a member of the 
congregation of the Oratory in 1615, and preached with 
great reputation at Troyes, Dijon, Angers, Langres, and 
Paris. In 1625 he quitted the Oratory, and attacked 
their proceedings in different fatyrical pieces; and, in 
1626, lit; pubiilhed Notes and Commentaries on the myfii- 
cal theology falfely afcribed to Dionyfius the Areopagite. 
I11 1627 he was created chanceliorof thediocefe ofMetz ; 
and about the lame time he was admitted to the degree of 
doctor by the faculty of the Sorbonne. In 1633 he pub- 
lifted A Defence of the King’s Sovereignty over Meta, 
and the circumjacent Territory, which conftituted the 
ancient Kingdom of Aullria, or Lorrain, in Oppofition to 
the Pretenfions of the Empire, Spain, and Lorrain, See. 
8vo. and, in 1635, The Sacred Paftoral, or a Paraphrafe 
on the Song of Songs, &c. 8vo. But the molt noted 
of his produftions, as noticed above, was entitled Op- 
tad Galli de Cavendo Schifnate, Liber Paranedcus-, 1740, 8vo. 
in which he Hands forward as a champion for the papal 
claims, in oppofition to the liberties contended for by 
the Gallican church. It contains a violent fatire on the 
policy of cardinal Rtchlieu ; and, as this work wascalcu- 
lated to make impreffions on weak minds, the parlia¬ 
ment of Paris thought fit to condemn it to be burnt; 
■whence the genuine copies of it are exceedingly rare, 
.and fetch a high price.among collectors of books. The 
cardinal employed different writers to anfwer this trea- 
tife ; and of their productions the molt efteemed were 
tliofe of Ifaac Habert, De Confenfu Hierarchies & Monar- 
€ hia\ and of M. de Marca, entitled Concordia Sacenlotii 
S 3 Imperii. In the meantime the author had gone to 
Rome, where he delivered to pope Innocent X. a me¬ 
morial, with his fignature, on the bull of pppe Ur- 
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ban VIII. againft janfenius, which may be feen in the 
Journal of M.de Saint-Amour. He was not permitted, 
however, to fpend the remainder of his life in that city ; 
but returned to France, and died there in 1660. 
HBRS'FELD, or Hirsch'feld, a town of Germany, 
on the Upper Rhine, and capital of a principality of the 
fame name, belonging to the- houfe of Helfe Caffel. 
The town is furrounded with walls, flanked with towers, 
and contains about five hundred houfes, a chateau, a 
public feminary, a rich hofpital, and a fpring of medi¬ 
cinal water.- thirty-two miies fouth-fouth-ealt of Cafiel, 
and fifty welt of Erfurt. Lat. 30. 39. N. Ion. 27. 20. E. 
HERSIL'IA, one of the Sabines carried away by the 
Romans at the celebration of the Confualia,. She was 
given and married to Romulus.; and, being prefenled 
with immortality by Juno, received divine,honours un¬ 
der the name of Ora. Livy. 
HERSIL'LON,yi in fortification, a plank.armed,with 
iron fpikes, far the fame ufe.as the herfe, and alfo to 
impede the march of the infantry or cavalry. 
HER'SIN, a town of France, in the department of 
the Straits of Calais, and chief place of a canton, in the 
dillriCt of Bethone : two leagues fouth of Bethone. 
HER'SOU TOU'KA, a town of Chinefe Tartary. 
Lat. 43. 26. N. Ion. 14*. 15. E. Ferro. 
HER'STAL, or Her'istal, a town of Germany, is 
Weltphalia, and bilhopric of Liege, on the Meufe, with 
a caltle, which belonged to Pepin, father of Charles 
Martel. It was fold to the king of-Pruflia in the year 
1741 : . four miles north of Liege. 
HERSTEL'LE, a town of Germany, in Wefiphalia, 
and bilhopric of Paderborn : eleven miles eaft-north-eall 
of Warburg. 
HERT'FORD, the county town of Hertford ftire, 
pleafantly fituated on the ri\ier Lea, diltant twenty-on^ 
miles from London, to which city the river is navigable, 
and contributes much to the opulence of the town. 
The altizes for the county are holden here, as are the 
quarter-felfions and county-courts. The election of 
the knights of the (hire is likewife at this town; and 
there is a noble county-hall, which was built in 1780, 
by Mr. Adam, the architect of the Adelphi. 
Hertford was called by the ancient Britons, Durocobriva, 
or Red Ford, from the fuppolition that, the gravel at 
the ford over the Lea was red; whence Tome have 
thought the prefent name derived from the/ Saxon He- 
rudford, or Herotford, which has the fame fignification ; 
but Dr. Gibfon derives Hartford from a hart, this 
county formerly abounding with deer; and the arms 
of the town being a hart couchant in the water, feems 
to confirm the opinion ; befides, the foil in this part of 
the country is not red ; for thefe reafons fome choofe to 
write the name Hartford. It is fituated in a dry vale, 
celebrated for its fertility and falubrious air. It was 
of confiderable note in the time of the ancient Britons. 
The Saxon kings often kept their court here; and, 
upon the firlt divifion of the kingdom into counties, it 
was made the county-town. King Alfred built a caltle 
here, to defend the neighbourhood againlt the Danes, 
who in their light pinnaces came up from the Thames, 
by the river Lea, as far as Ware, which is only two 
miles from Hertford, and there erected a fort, whence 
they made frequent fallies to plunder the country. Th* 
prelent caftle conliltsof a gate-houfe, or lodge of brick, 
and a range of brick buildings, which feem of the time 
of James I. and alfo of a very ancient wall of rubble. 
Hone, with angular towers, fuppofed to have been (land¬ 
ing ever lince its firlt foundation. This caltle has lately- 
been fitted up in an elegant Hyle, and is the occafional 
refidence of themarquis of Devonlhire. The manor of 
Hertford was originally veiled in kind Edward the Elder, 
who built a borough, and fortified it with a wall of 
turf, for the defence of his tenant*. The barons took 
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