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armed force, attacked the dukes of Brunfwick and Lune- 
burg ; but in the year 1521, being put under the bann 
of the empire, the dukes took the beft part of his terri¬ 
tories from him, leaving him only the cathedral, with a 
few bailiwicks, under the title of the letter bifhopric. In 
the year 1643, mod of thefe pofleffions were reftored to 
Ferdinand, the then bifhop. The inhabitants are partly 
Lutherans and partly Roman-catholics. The matricular 
aflefl’ment for the bifhopric is 536 florins; to the cham¬ 
ber of Wetzlar the fee pays 72 rixdollars 38^ kruitzers. 
The principal towns are Hildefheim and Peina. 
HIL'DESHEIM, a city of Germany, in Lower Saxony, 
and capital of a bifhopric of the fame name, fituated near 
the Innerfee ; it is pretty large, old-fafhioned, and irre¬ 
gular, and confifts of the Old and New Town, which were 
united in the year 1583. The magiftrates, as well as the 
greater part of the citizens, are Lutherans ; the reft are 
Roman-catholics. The old town acknowledges the bifhop 
for its fovereign, but does no homage to him; but the 
new town does homage to the provoft of the cathedral. 
The Roman-catholics are in pofleflion of the cathedral; 
the proteftants have eight churches. Hildefheim was 
the capital of the dominions of Henry the Lion ; and the 
electoral houfe of Brunfwick Luneburg has the heredi¬ 
tary protection of it, and keeps a company of foot here, 
whicn are maintained by the city. In the taxes for the 
diocefe, this town pays one-ninth part of the whole. It 
was formerly one of the Hanfe-towns. It is feventy-two 
miles weft of Magdeburg, and twenty-fix weft-fouth-weft 
of Brunfwick. Lat. 52.12. N. Ion. 27.28. E. Ferro. 
HIL'DESLEY (Mark), a learned and exemplary 
prelate of the church of England, born at Murfton, near 
Sittingbourn, in Kent, in 1698. He received his claflical 
education at the Charter-houfe, in London; and was af¬ 
terwards admitted of Trinity-college, Cambridge; and 
in 1723, was eletled a fellow of his college. Having been 
admitted into holy orders, he was in the following year 
appointed one of the preachers at Whitehall, by Dr. 
Gibfon, bifhop of London; and was afterwards made 
chaplain to lords Cobham and Bolingbroke. In 1730, he 
was prelented by his college to the vicarage of Hitchin, 
in Hertfordfhire; and in 1735 was inducted into the rec¬ 
tory of Holwell, in Bedfordfhire, within three miles of 
his vicarage. Upon the death of Dr. Wilfon, bifhop of 
$o<lQr and Man, in 1755, Mr. Hildefley was nominated 
to that appointment. Before his confecration, he was 
created doCIor of divinity by archbifhop Herring ; and 
after taking an affectionate leave of his flock at Hitchin, 
he entered upon his epifcopal duties. The moft effica¬ 
cious meafure which he adopted for the propagation of 
the gofpel in hisdiocefe, was that of procuring an entire 
tranflation of the Old and New Teftament to be made 
into the Manks language. This work had been projected 
and begun by his predeceflor, bifhop Wilfon, vlho, at 
his own ex pence, had printed the gofpel of St. Matthew, 
and had prepared for the prefs the other Evangelifts, 
and the ACts of the Apoftles. Thefe were delivered by 
hiS foil to bilhop Hildefley, who undertook the laudable 
talk of completing the defign. For this purpofe he ob¬ 
tained pecuniary afliftance from the Society for promoting 
Chriftian Knowledge, and many perfons of eminence and' 
diftinttion who patronifed the generous undertaking. At 
firft he only printed the New Teftament, together with 
the Book of Common Prayer, the Chriftian Monitor, and 
Bifhop Wilfon’s Form of Prayer fo^the Herring Fifliery. 
But encouraged by the benefactions which he received, 
and the very aCtive and zealous co-operation of the clergy 
in the ifland, he ultimately completed a verfion of the 
whole Old Teftament. He had however no fooneraccom- 
plifhed this arduous tafk, than he funk under a ftroke of 
apoplexy, and died in December 1772, in the feventy- 
fourth year of his age. 
HI L'DING, f. [hilb, Sax. fignifies a lord : perhaps 
folding means originally a little lord in contempt, for a man 
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that has only the delicacy or bad qualities of high rank 5 
or a term of reproach abbreviated from kinderling, degene¬ 
rate. Hughes.'] A forry, paltry, cowardly, fellow: 
He was fome kilding fellow, that had ftol’n 
The horfe he rode on. Shakefpcare, 
It is ufed likewife for a mean woman : 
Laura, to his lady, was but a kitchen wench : 
Helen and Hero,' hildings and harlots. Shakefpcare. 
HIL'DUIN, a French writer and divine, was made 
abbot of St. Dennis about the year 814. Afterwards 
he was appointed abbot of St. Medard at Soiffons, and 
St. Germaine’s at Paris. In 818 lie was created chief 
chaplain to the emperor Louis le Debonnaire, and was 
admitted to a high degree of favour by that prince. In 
835, by order of the emperor, he undertook to write the 
life of St. Dennis, the patron-faint of France, which he 
entitled Areopagitica, feu de Rebus Gejlis & Scriptis S. Dionyfti 
Arcopagitee, from which, in his own country, he derived 
no little reputation, though at the expence of truth. It 
was defigned to (how, that Dennis, the legendary apoftle 
of France, was no other perfon than DiOnyfius the Areo- 
pagite. The time of Hilduin’s death is uncertain, fome 
writers placing it in 8 38,and others in 842. His Areopagitica 
was firft printed at Cologne, in 1562, with a letter from 
the emperor Louis to him, and his anfwer ; and it is 
placed by Surius among the Lives of the Saints. 
HIL'ELA, orHE'LEF, town of Africa, in the coun¬ 
try of Sejilmefla. 
HELEN, or Ho'lon, a city of Paleftine, belonging to 
the tribe of Judah, fituated in the mountains of that 
province; and a city of the Levites of the family of Ko- 
liath. Jojh. xv. 51. xxi. 15. 1 Chron. vi. 58. 
HILKI'AH, [Heb. the Lord is my portion.] A man’s 
name. 
HILL, f. [hi). Sax.] An elevation of ground lefs 
than a mountain : 
My (lieep are thoughts,. which I both guide and ferve ; 
Their pafture is fair kills of fruitlefs love. Sidney , 
Jerufalem is feated on two hills. 
Of height unlike, and turned fide to fide. Fairfax. 
HILL (Aaron), an Englifti poet and mifcellaneous 
writer, born in London in 1685. His father, a gentleman 
of good paternal eftate in Wiltfhire, left him almoft to¬ 
tally unprovided. His adventurous fpirit led him foon 
after to take a voyage to Conftantinople, where his rela¬ 
tion, lord Paget, was the Englifti ambaflador. He was 
received with kindnefs; and a tutor was provided for 
him, under whofe care he travelled through Paleftine, 
Egypt, and various parts of the- eaft. In 1703 he re¬ 
turned to England; and in 1709 he publifhed A Hiftory 
of the Ottoman Empire, from materials which lie had 
collected in that country. This piece met with fuccefs; 
and a poem, which he publifhed in the fame year in fa¬ 
vour of the earl of Peterborough, introduced him to the 
patronage of that nobleman. He married in 1710 a lady 
of beauty and merit, with a handfome fortune ; and, 
about the fame time, was appointed, manager of the 
Drury-lane theatre. This circumftance turned his pen 
to the ftage, and he wrote his firft tragedy of Alfred ; 
and an opera, entitled Rinaldo ; tile latter for the Hay- 
market theatre, of which he had alfo the direction. Such 
a fituation would now be thought equally favourable to 
fame and fortune; but upo'n fome difference with the 
duke of Kent,Jord chamberlain, Hill threw up his thea¬ 
trical management, which he had conducted highly to 
the fatisfaft ion of the public. But, though he had quitted 
the management of the theatres, he continued to write 
for them, and feveral of his pieces were brought upon 
the ftage. He alfo wrote poems, one of which, entitled 
The Northern Star, a panegyric upon the great czar Peter, 
was popular, and receiveda complimentary reward from 
the 
