276 HOP 
was admitted to the degree of M. A. in 1656 ; loon, after 
which he was appointed chaplain of his college. On the 
palling of the aft of .uniformity, he vvent to Exeter, and 
became miniller of St. Mary’s church in that city. Here 
he acquired the countenance and elteem of Dr. Seth Ward, 
bilhop of the diocefe 5 and was highly efteemed as aivele- 
gant and jmpreffive preacher. Having by accident among 
his hearers, John lord Roberts, afterwards earl of Truro, 
that nobleman was fo well pleafed with his preaching, that, 
upon his going lord lieutenant to Ireland in 1669, he took 
Mr. Hopkins with him as his chaplain ; gave him his 
daughter Araminta in marriage; and promoted him to 
the deanery of Raphoe. Upon his return to England, 
lord Roberts recommended his chaplain fo powerfully to 
his fuccefi'or, lord Berkeley, that in 1671 he was confe- 
crated bilhop of Raphoe. In 1681 he was tranllated to 
the fee of Londonderry, where he continued till the war 
commenced in Ireland between the fupporters of the re¬ 
volution under king William, and the partifans of king 
James headed by the earl of Tyrconnel, when he retired 
to England. In 1689 the parilhioners of St. Mary Alder- 
manbury, in London, felefted him their miniller; but he 
died in the following year, at the age of fifty-feven. He 
lent nothing to the prefs excepting fome fmgle Sermons, 
which were reprinted in an oftavo volume in 1685. Af¬ 
ter his death were published from the manufcripts which 
he left behind him, An Expofition on the Ten Command¬ 
ments, 1691, 4to. An Expofition of the Lord’s Prayer, 
169a, 4-to ; to which were afterwards added fome Sermons 
on Providence, and the excellent advantages of reading 
and ftudying the holy Scriptures ; and a fecond volume 
of Sermons, 1693, 8vo. Thefe works have been held in 
much efteem, and were printed in a colleftive form in 
1710, folio, 
HOP'KINS (William), a learned divine of the church 
of England, born at Monmouth in 1706. He received 
his education in grammar-learning at the free-fchool of his 
native town ; whence he was fent to All-Souls college, 
Oxford, in 172+. He took his degree of B. A. in 1728 ; 
and in the fame year was admitted-into deacon’s orders. 
1'n 1729, he undertook the curacy of Waldron, in Sulfex; 
and while he retained this fituation was ordained prieft, 
in 1730. In 1731, he was appointed curate to the reftor 
of Buxted, with the chapel of C'uckfield, in Sulfex, and 
alfo alTiftant to the mailer of the fchool at Cuckfield; foon 
after which he was prefented to the vicarage of Bolney, 
in the fame neighbourhood. Tn 1758, he was elefted 
mailer of the grammar-fchool of Cuckfield; and in 1763, 
he reviled and publilhed The Liturgy of the Church of 
England, in its ordinary Service, reduced nearer to the 
Standard of Scripture. When the propofal was made to 
prefent a petition to parliament, for relief in the matter 
of fubfcription to the liturgy and thirty-nine articles of 
the church of England, Mr. Hopkins molt heartily con¬ 
curred in that meafure; and he attended the firll meeting 
of the partizans of that petition, which was held in Lon¬ 
don in 1771 ; and tliQijgh his houfe at Cuckfield was 
forty miles diftant from the metropolis, and he was then 
upwards of fixty years of age, he performed his journey 
on foot. In the following year Mr. Hopkins publilhed 
two able treatifes in defence of the caufe in which he had 
embarked ; entitled, Queries recommended to the Conii- 
deration of the Public, with Regard to the thirty-nine 
Articles; and A Letter to the Rev. Dr. Joliah Tucker, 
Dean of Gloucelter, occafioned by liis Apology for the 
prefent Church of England, &c. wherein every material 
Article is examined, by a petitioning Clergyman. The 
lalt work which lie fent to the prefs was. Exodus, a cor- 
refted Tranflation ; with Notes Critical and Explanatory, 
3784, 4to* In the execution of this work, he has derived 
great advantages from Dr. Kennicott’s Collation, and the 
Samaritan Pentateuch ; and the notes, which are very ju¬ 
dicious, ferve to make an ufeful addition to the ltock of 
fcriptural criticifm. He died in 1786, in the eightieth 
year' of his age. 
H O ft 
HOP'KINS, or Hopkinsville, a townlhip of the Am'rt 
rican States, in Caledonia county, Vermont; fo called - , 
becaufe the dillrift was granted to Dr. Hopkins : eleven, 
miles north-well of the upper bar of tire Fifteen Mile 
Falls in Connecticut river. 
HOP'KINTON, a townlhip of the American States, in 
Hilllborough county, New Hamplhire, on Contoocook 
river, nine miles fouth-weft from its confluence with the 
Merrimack, and divided from Concord on the eaft by the 
Rockingham county line. It was firll granted by Mafia- 
chufetts, and incorporated in 1765 : forty-tivo miles eaft- 
by-fouth of Charleltown on Connefticut river, and fixty- 
four weft-by-north of Portfmouth. 
HOP'KINTON, a townlhip of tire American States, 
in Middlefex county, Mafiachuletts, incorporated in 1715. 
The rivers Concord, Providence, and Charles, receive each 
of them a branch from this town. Thefe llreams feed 
eight grill-mills, a number of faw-miils, iron-works, &c, 
HOP'KINTON, a townlhip of the American States, in 
Walhington county, Rhode-Ifland, fituated on the welt 
line of the State, on feveral branches of Pawcatuck river,. 
It contains by the cenfus 2462 inhabitants. 
HOP'LITES, oi’Hoplitte, in Grecian antiquity, were 
fuch of the candidates at the Olympic games as ran races, 
in armour. One of the finelt pieces of the famous Par- 
rhafius, was a painting which reprefented two hoplitas ;■ 
the one running, and feeming to fweat large drops ; the 
other laying his arms down, as quite fpent and exliaufted,. 
HOPLITODRO'MOS, f. [from ottAov, Gr. armour, and. 
I run.] In the ancient gymnaftic fports, a term- 
applied to fuch perfons as went through thole robull ex- 
ercifes in complete armour, by which the exercife became 
much more violent, and the wearing of armour in the 
time of battle much more eafy. 
IIOPLOCRIS'MA, /. [from ow-Lov, Gr. a weapon, and 
■ a Halve.] A falve which was laid to cure wounds, 
by lympathy ; that is, by anointing the inllrament, though 
at ever lo great a diltance, with which the wound was- 
made. It was vulgarly called the fympathetic medicine. 
HOPLOM'ACHI, f. [ottTuji', Gr. armour, and y.u.yp^x.a 
to fight.] A fpecies of gladiators who fought in armour 3 
either completely armed from head to foot, or only with, 
a calk and cuirals. 
HOPLOS'MIA, one of the names of Juno. 
HOP'PER, f [from hop. ] He who hops or jumps on 
one leg. Ainfworth. 
HOP'PER, f. [fo called becaufe it is always hopping , 
or in agitation. It is called in French, for the fame rea- 
fon, tremie, or tremue.'\ The box or open frame of wood 
into which the corn is put to be ground.—-Granivorous 
birds have the mechanifm of a mill; their maw is the 
hopper which holds and foftens the grain, letting it drop 
by degrees into the ftomach. Arbuthnot. —A balket for car¬ 
rying feed. Ainfworth. 
H"OP'PING,yi The aft of leaping on one leg, or of 
impregnating with hops. 
HOP'TON HEATH, a place of England, in the county 
of Stafford, where the royalills were defeated by the troops 
of the parliament, on the 19th of March, 1642, near 
Stafford. 
HOR, a mountainous traft of Arabia Petnca, fituated 
in that circuit which the Ifraelites took to the lbutli and 
fouth-eall of Edom in their way to the borders of Moab : 
on this mountain Aaron died. The inhabitants were 
called Horites. This traft was alio called Seir , either from 
a native Horite, or from Eliiu, by way of anticipation 
from his hairy habit of body ; whole pofterity drove out 
the Horites. It was the thirty-third encampment of the 
Ifraelites in their journey from Egypt to Canaan. Numb . 
xx. 22, See. xxxiii. 37. 
HOR-HAGID'GAD. See Gudcodah, 
HO'RA, a goddefs at Rone, fuppofed to be Herfilia, 
who manned Romulus. She was laid to prefide over 
beauty. Ovid. 
HO'RA AURO'RyE,/! [Latin.] The morning-bell, or 
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