Hach'moni (Heb. Chakmoni', '^'i^zT}, wise ; Sept. 'Axanavi v. r. 'Axa/(',Vulg. Ilachamoni), a man only known as the father (or ancestor; comp. 1 Chron. xxvii, 2) of Jashobeam, the chief of David's warriors (1 Chron. xi, 11, where son of Hachmoni is rendered " Hachjio- NiTK," for which the parallel passage, 2 Sam. xxiii. 8, has " Taciimoxite") ; .and also of Jchiel,the companion of the princes in the royal household (1 Chron. xxvii, 32). B.C. considerably ante 1046. Hachmon or Hach- moni was no doubt the founder of a family to -which these men belonged: the actual fatlicr of .lashobeam was Zabdiel (1 Chron. xxvii, 2), and lie is also said to have belonged to the Korhites (1 Chron. xii, 6); possi- bly the Le-i-ites descended from Korah. But the name Hachmon nowhere appears in the genealogies of the Levites. See Kennicott, Diss. p. 72, 82, who calls at- tention to the fact that names given in Chronicles with Ben are in Samuel given without the Ben, but with the definite article. A less probable view is that which makes this term a title of office, q. d. counsellor. See Jashobeam.
Hach'inonite (1 Chron. xi. IG). See Haciimoxt.
Hacket, John, an EngUsh prelate, distinguished for his talents in controversy, was born at London in 1592. He studied at Westminster School, and entered Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1G08. He took orders in 1618, and soon after became chaplain of the bishop of Lincoln. At the beginning of the Civil War he was one of the divines chosen to prepare a report on Church reforms, to be presented by a committee of the House of Lords. This plan failed from the opposition of the bishops. Hacket was a zealous partisan of Charles, and
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liis house became tlie lieail-quarters of the Royalists in his neiKhborh<w<l. This brout,'ht him into trouble, and lie was even imprisone.l for a short time. After the Hestoration he was made bishoj) of Licliliold and Coven- try, and he caused the cathedral ol Liclilield, which had been miicli injured during the war, to be repaired, most- ly at his own expense. He died at Lichfield in 1670. Hacket was a Calvinist ; yet his writings abound, says t:oleridj,'e, " in fantastic rags and laiipcts of Popisli monkerv." He wrote also A Sermon preached before the Kiny March 22, IGGO :— 1 Century of Sermons upon several remarkable Subjects (publislied by Thos. Plume, with a life of the author, 1G75, fol.):— 7%e Life of Archbuilwp Williams (1G93, fob). See Biof/r. Britan- uirn ; A\'ood, A theiuB OTonien.ies, \o\. ii ; Gentleman's Mayazine, vol. Lwi; Hook, Eccles. Bioyraphu, v, 471; Alliboiip, Diet, of A utlwrs, i, 752 ; Coleridge, Works (New York edition), V, 123.
Hacket, William, an English cntluisiast and fa- natic of the ICth century. He was at first the servant of a gentleman named llussey,but married a rich wid- ow, wliose fortune he .soon spent in dissipation. He next appears at York and in Lincolnshire, giving him- self out as a prophet, and announcing the downfall of the papacy; that England would suffer .from famine, jiestilence," and war unless the consistorial discipline were established. He was whipped and driven out of the county, but coiUinuod his prophecies elsewhere. According to Bayle, he was a very ready and grandilo- rjuent sf)eaker, .so that many among the i)eople thought he had received a special gift of the Holy < ihost. He affected to place great reliance on his i)rayers, and as- serted that if all iMigland were to pray for rain there should fall none if he prayed for dr\' weather. Edmund Coppinger and Henry .\rthington became associated with him, the former under the name of Prophet of Mercy, the latter Prophet of Judyment. They pro- claimed Hacket the true king of the world, and next in jKJwer to .le.sus Christ. On Jan. 16, 1591, he sent his disciples through the streets of London crying that Je- sus had arrived, was sto]ipiiig at a certain hotel in the town, and that this time none should undertake any- thing against him. They ended with the cry, Repent, Kiiylaml, repent .' Thej* were finally arrested and put in pristm. Coppinger let himself die of starvation ; Ar- thingtoii published a recantation and was forgiven. As for Hacket. be persisted to the la.st, and was condemned to death as guilty of impiety and rel)cllion, and hung in I^ndon in July, l.VJl. Even on the scaflbld he prayed (iod for a miracle to confouii<l his enemies. See Henry Fitz-.Simon, liritannomachia Ministrorum, lib. ii, cap. vi, p. 202, 2()(); (^amden. Annates, an. l.^'.tl, pars iv, p. 618- 623; Hayle, Diet. hist, et aril.; Hoefer, Kouv. Bioy. Ge- nerale, xxiii, 31.
Hackley, Cii.M{i.i..s ^V., D.D., a clergyman of tlio Protestant Episco])al Churcli, and late iirofcs-^or of math- ematics ami astronomy in Colum!)ia College, New York, wa.H born March !l. lHii«. in Herkimer County, N. York, and di(d in the city of New York Jan. 10, 1861. Prof. Hackley gr.idualcd at the :\Iilitary Academy, West Point, ill l«2!t. and was a.s.sistant profcs,sor of matliemat- ics there until 1K32, when he engage<l in the study of law, but subse(piently abandoned it for theology, and was ordained in \K\;t. lie wa.s professor of mathemat- iii the I'liivcrsily of New York until 1K!K, then became president of .letl'erson College, Mississippi, and subse- <|uently rector of St. Peter's Protestant Episcopal Church, Auburn, N.Y. He w.xs elected profes.sor in Columbia College in 1843, and continued in that post until his death. He was the author of several excellent mathe- matical works, and a contributor to scientific jjcriodicals and weekly and daily journals. — .1 merican A nnual Cy- rlopadia. IHCl, p. 362*; Alliboiie, Diet, of A uthors, i, 753. (J.^V.M.)