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HAMMOND, HENRY (1605-1660)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 900 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HAMMOND, See also:HENRY (1605-1660) , See also:English divine, was See also:born at See also:Chertsey in See also:Surrey on the 18th of See also:August 16o5. He was educated at See also:Eton and at Magdalen See also:College, See also:Oxford, becoming demy or See also:scholar in 1619, and See also:fellow in 1625. He took orders in 1629, and in 1633 in See also:preaching before the See also:court so won the approval of the See also:earl of See also:Leicester that he presented him to the living of See also:Penshurst in See also:Kent. In 1643 he was made See also:archdeacon of See also:Chichester. He was a member of the See also:convocation of 164o, and was nominated one of the See also:Westminster See also:Assembly of divines. Instead of sitting at Westminster he took See also:part in the unsuccessful rising at Tunbridge in favour of See also:King See also:Charles I., and was obliged to flee in disguise to Oxford, then the royal headquarters. There he spent much of his See also:time in See also:writing, though he accompanied the king's commissioners to See also:London, and afterwards to the ineffectual See also:convention at See also:Uxbridge in 1645, where he disputed with See also:Richard Vines, one of the See also:parliamentary envoys. In his See also:absence he was appointed See also:canon of See also:Christ See also:Church and public orator of the university. These dignities he relinquished for a time in See also:order to attend the king as See also:chaplain during his captivity in the hands of the See also:parliament. When Charles was deprived of all his loyal attendants at See also:Christmas 1647, Hammond returned to Oxford and was made subdean of Christ Church, only, however, to be removed from all his offices by the parliamentary visitors, who imprisoned him for ten See also:weeks. After-wards he was permitted, though still under quasi-confinement, to retire to the See also:house of See also:Philip See also:Warwick at Clapham in See also:Bedford-See also:shire. In 165o, having regained his full See also:liberty, Hammond betook himself to the friendly See also:mansion of See also:Sir See also:John See also:Pakington, at Westwood, in See also:Worcestershire, where he died on the 25th of See also:April 166o, just on the See also:eve of his preferment to the see of See also:Worcester.

Hammond was held in high esteem even by his opponents. He was handsome in See also:

person and benevolent in disposition. He was an excellent preacher; Charles I. pronounced him the most natural orator he had ever heard. His range of See also:reading was extensive, and he was a most diligent scholar and writer. His writings, published in 4 vols. fol. (1674-1684), consist for the most part of controversial sermons and tracts. The Anglo-See also:Catholic Library contains four volumes of his See also:Miscellaneous Theological See also:Works (1847-1850). The best of them are his See also:Practical See also:Catechism, first published in 1644; his See also:Paraphrase and Annotations on the New Testament; and an incomplete See also:work of a similar nature on the Old Testament. His See also:Life, a delightful piece of See also:biography, written by See also:Bishop See also:Fell, and prefixed to the collected Works, has been re-printed in vol. iv. of See also:Wordsworth's Ecclesiastical Biography. See also Life of Henry Hammond, by G. G. See also:Perry.

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