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of Sixty-three. He was buried in the neighbourhood of 
CherJon, and all honours were paid to Ins memory- by 
prince Potemkin, and other nobles then in office. 
The bare recital of what Mr. Howard did, in the caufe 
of humanity, is fufficient to place him among the greatest 
benefactors of mankind, as well as the moll extraordinary 
private characters recorded in biography. He was, in¬ 
deed, lingularly calculated for the talk he undertook. 
Accuftomed to the molt rigorous temperance, fo as to 
difeafd from his diet animal food and fermented liquors, 
he found no difficulty to live in the pooreft countries. In 
all other■ fefpefts, his mind was equally mailer of his' 
body, and.he incurred hardships of every kind without 
repugnance. In temper he was-calm and compofed, but 
firm and refolute ; proof agajnft every allurement or inti¬ 
midation that might divert him from his purpofe; Eco¬ 
nomical in private expences, he knew no bounds in his 
expenditure on objects of public utility, and regarded 
money only as an inftrument or beneficence; In honour, 
integrity, and attachment to principle, he was not fur- 
paired by any human being. His talents were rather of 
the ufefiil than the Shining kind, but peculiarly adapted 
for that collection of faCts and observations in which he 
furpaffed all who have gpne before him. The testimony 
of public refpect which he refufed when living, lias been 
conferred upon his memory; and his monumental Statue 
was one of the-firSt of thofe by which the chathedral of 
St. Paul’s has been made a receptacle of national worthies. 
HOW'BE, or Howbei't, adv. Nevertheless; notwith¬ 
standing; yet; however. Not in life. 
Hozube I am but rude and borrel, 
Yet nearer ways I know. Spcnfer. 
There is a knowledge which God hath always revealed 
unto men in the works of nature; this they honour and , 
eSteem as profound wisdom, kowbeit this wifdom favetlr 
them not. Hooker. 
HOW'DEN, a confiderabie town in the Eaft Riding 
of YorShire, distant 180 miles from London. It Stands 
on the north fide of the Oufe, has a large market every 
Saturday, and fairs on the Second Tuefday in January, 
Tuefday before March 25, Second Tuefday in July, and 
October 2 ; at thefe fairs there is generally a large (how 
of YorkShire-bred hones. The fair, or mart, held here 
for eight days .together, was formerly very confiderabie 
for inland trade, and Several wholefale tradefmen came to 
it from Condon; but it has lately much declined. Here 
was formerly a collegiate church of five prebendaries, 
erefted in the fifteenth century, to which the biShops of 
Durham, who have many eltates hereabouts with a tem¬ 
poral jurifdiction, have a palace adjacent. One of them 
built a very tall Steeple to the church, that the inhabitants 
might retire to it in cale of inundations ; to which the 
town is very liable, from the great freShes that come down 
the Oufe Sometimes at ebb. .The church is an ancient 
building, fuppoled to have been erefted about the year 
1100. 
This part of the county is called HowdenShire, and is 
abundantly watered by a conflux of Several large rivers 
that empty themielves into the Humber, which, receiving 
the Aire, the Oufe, the Don, and the Trent, becomes ra¬ 
ther a Sea than a river. The middle of this diviflon of 
Yorkshire is very thin of towns and people, being over- 
fpread with wolds, i. e. plains and downs, like thofe of 
Salisbury, which feed great numbers of Sheep, black cat¬ 
tle, and horfes, and produce corn. The northern part es¬ 
pecially is more mountainous, which makes part of the 
North Riding. But the eaft and weft parts are populous 
and rich, and full of towns; the one lying on the fea- 
coaft, and the other upon the river Derwent. The Sea- 
coaft, or fouth-eaft fide, is called Holdernefs. 
Hovvden is famous for the birth or refidence of one of 
our ancient historians, Roger of Hoveden, or Howden, a 
monk of this abbey. Mr. Camden’s Continuator mistakes 
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in faying this town Stands upon the Derwent, for it is 
above three miles 1 'outh-eaft of it. Here is a good free- 
ichool, two other charity-*Schools; and two large Sunday- 
Schools, one for boys and another for girls. The river 
Aire runs from the OuSe, near Booth-ferry, up to Leeds, 
Halifax, See. alfo a canal froftv Thorne to Goole-bridge, 
and fo on to Hull, where trading-vefi’els pafs. Howden- 
dike is about a mile-and a half from Howden, where 
goods are dripped for, and landed from, the ports of Lon¬ 
don, Hull, See. And for the accommodation of travellers 
there is a ferry over Howden-dike above-mentioned, one 
at Swinfleet, one at Whitgift, one at Long Drax, each 
over the river Oufe, near Howden; one at Lof'dome ; and 
one at Menthrope, over the Derwent; and one at Booth, 
between Howden and Arinin. 
HOWD'YE. [Contracted from how do yc.~\ In what 
Slate is your health ? A meffage' of civility.—I now write 
no letters but of plain bufinefs, or plain/20a«S’jys’.r, to tliofe 
few I am forced to correfpond with. Pope. ' 
HOWE (Richard), earl, an eminent English naval com¬ 
mander, for an account of whom, fee the article Heral¬ 
dry, vol. i'x. p. 662. 
HOWE (Jphn), a learned English nonconformist divine,, 
born at Loughborough in Leicestershire,..of which place 
his father was minister, in 1630. The latter being.after¬ 
wards ejefted by archbishop Laud, on account of his con¬ 
necting himfelf with the Puritans, 1 removed with his fon. 
to Ireland, where they continued till the rebellion in that 
country obliged them to return to England, when they 
fettled in Lancashire. The fon was now fent to Chrilt 
college, in the univerfity of Cambridge, where he became 
acquainted with Dr. Henry More, and Dr. Cud worth, 
both of whom he greatly admired ; and it is'probable that 
during his intimacy with them he imbibed that Platonic 
tinfture, which fo remarkably appears in the writings 
which he published, and more or lefs marked the pur- 
fuits of his whole, life, which was fpent in religious con¬ 
troversy, till the time of his death in 1705. He was a 
•perfon of distinguished piety and virtue, of eminent in¬ 
tellectual endowments,- and of extensive learning. Dr. 
Calamy Says, that “ he was one of great abftfa&edriefs of 
thought, a Strong reafoner, and one that had a very pe¬ 
netrating judgment, which carried him as deep into a. 
fubjeCt as molt men ever went that handled it. His mi¬ 
nisterial qualifications were Angular : he could preach off¬ 
hand with as much exaCtneis as many others upon the 
clofeft Study. He delivered his fermons without notes,, 
though he did not impofe that method upon others.. He 
did not look upon religion as a lyftera of opinions, ora 
fet of forms, fo much as a divine difeipline to'reform the 
heart and life. In fmaller matters he could freely give 
others the liberty of their own Sentiments; and was as un¬ 
willing to impofe as to be impofed upon. There is an 
uncommon depth of thought in feveral-of his works.”' 
He was the author of, 1. The Bleflednefs of the Righteous 
laid open, 1673, 8vo. 2. ATreatife of delighting in God, 
in two parts, 1674, 8vo. 3. The Living Tymple; or, a de¬ 
signed Improvement of that Notion, that a Good Man is 
the Temple of God, 1674, 8vo. 4. The Reconcileablenefs 
of God’s Prefcience of the Sins of Men, with the Wisdom 
and Sincerity of his Counfels and Exhortations, and what- 
foever other Means he ules to prevent them, 1677, 8vo.. 
5. A View.of Antiquity; presented in a Short, but Suffi¬ 
cient, Account of fome Fathers, See. 1677, 8vo. 6. Of 
Thoughtfulnefs for To-morrow; with an Appendix con¬ 
cerning the immoderate Defire of foreknowing Things to 
come, &c. 7. Annotations on the three Epiftles of St. 
John, published in the Second volume, or Continuation, of.' 
Pool’s Annotations. 8. A calm and fober Enquiry con¬ 
cerning the Pofiibility of a Trinity in the Godhead, &c.r 
1604, 8vo. 9. The fecond Part of the Living Temple,. 
containing animadversions on Spinofa, and a French wri¬ 
ter pretending to refute him, &c. 1702, 8vo. and numer¬ 
ous Sermons, together with Some controversial treatifes in, 
Support. 
