Speculum Perfniionis (Venice, 1524, 12mo; transl.into
Italian, 154G, 12mo) ■.—Expliralio succincfa et perspicua Novem Rupium (of Suso), -wTitten first in Low Dutcli, then transl. into Latin by Surius, and inserted in the 0])era omnia of Henrv Suso (Cologne, 1533, 1555, 1588, and 1615, 12mo; Naples, 16.58, 12mo) :—De Mortifica- tione pravorum Affectuum (Cologne, 1604, IGmo) :—Can- tici Canticorum mystica Exjilicatio (Cologne, 1564, fol.). See Trithemius, De Scriptorihus ecclesiasiicis (col. 817) ; BeUarmin, Z<e Scriptorihus ecclesiastic^, p. 415; Wad- ding, Sc7-ij)f. Ordinis Minorum, p. 164; Fleurj-, I/ist. Ec- clesiastique, vol. xvi, lib. Ixxix, p. 5 ; Quetif and Echard, Script. Ordinis PrmKcatorum, ii, 558 ; Hoefer, Nonr. Bi- o^r.Cenera??; xxiii, 439; Dw\vm, Eccles. UoVcrs, cent. xv.
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Harpsfeia or Harpsfield, John, was bom about ir.lit. and <lic(l in l-nndon in 1.".78. He was educated at ^\■in^■llcste^ Sflioul and New College, Oxford, whereof he was admitted feUow in 1534. He became chaplain to bishop IJonner, whose bitter persecuting spirit he shared, and was coUated to St. Martin's, Ludgate, in 1554, but resigned in 1558, on being presented to the living of Layndon in Essex, Shortly before tlie death of queen Mary he was made dean of Norwich, but on the acces- sion" of Elizabeth was deprived of that post, and com- mitted to the Fleet Prison until he ga^'e seciu-ity for his good behavior. His published works are Concio ad Cle- rum (London, lbb3,8vo) ■.—Homilies (London, 1554-5(5; he wrote 9 of Bonner's Homilies) •.—Siipputaiio iempo- rum (I dilnvio ad a. D. 1559 (London, 1560). He wrote also some Dv'puiahons and Epistles to be fomid in Fox's A els and Monumeti(s.—}iose, New Gen. Biog. Did. viii, 212; IIoefer,.Vottf. £207. 6'^«(Sto/c, xxiii,442; Allibone, IHclionarij of A uthors, i, 788 ; Wood, A then. Oxon. i. (J.
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Harpsfield, Nicholas, an English Roman Catho- lic historian, and brother of the preceding, was also edu- catetl at Winchester School and New College, Oxford, where he was admitted fellow in 1536, and bachelor of laws in 1543. He was made principal of Whitehall in . 1544, regius professor of Greek in 1546, archdeacon of Canterbury and prebendary of St. Paul's in 1554. He also received the living of Layndon, but resigned it to his brother John in 1558. He was a very zealous Ro- man Cathohc, and, on the accession of Elizabeth, refus- ing to acknowledge her supremacy, he was deprived of his iirefcmicnts and imprisoned, or at least kept under restraint until his death in 1583. During his imprison- ment (recci\ing everj' needed help from his custodian, bishop Parker) he .composed his Historia Anglicana Ec- desiastica (Douay, 1622, fol.). To this there is append- ed, according to Nutt's catalogue (1837), a treatise en- titled linris Xarratio de Divortio Henrici VIII . . . . ah E.Ciiiiipiiiiia, which may be the " Treatise concerning ^f(lrri(ll|(■" montioned by Wood (see Appendix to But- ler's Hi.<i. I'/ ]!' I'liniiiilidii). His other works are His- ln,i,i h„ I, //x 1 1 irUijIhiiHt' (published with Hist. A ng.) :— f'liniii'irnn II liiliirin \iie ad annum 1559; and a very bit- ter attack upon the Protestant ecclesiastical historians, Fox in particular, which was conveyed secretly to the Netherlands, and published by his friend Alan Cope un- der his own name, to screen the real author from pun- ishment at the hands of Elizabeth— the title in full is Aluni Copi Dialogi ri contra Sinnmi Pontijicatus, Mo- naslirtp Vitic Sanctonim, 8. Imaginum oppiignatores et pseudo- Martgres : in qiiibiis Centurionum Magdebur- gensium, Auctorum Apologia: Anglicaiia, Pseiido-Mar- ti/ro/iigiri)rvm nostri iempnris, maxim'e vera Joh. Foxi el a/ionim, varice fraudes. piitida- calumma' et insignia viendariii, deleguntur (.\ntwerp, Plautin, 1556, 4to). He left also many 1\LSS. — Kose, Nete Gen. Biog. Diet, viii, 212; Iloefer, A'oi/r. ^10^. 6"<'nfro^«', xxiii, 442; Allibone, Dirt, of A nt/iors, i, 788. (J. W. M).
Harris, Howell, an eminent Welsh evangelist, was born at 'I'rcvecca in 1711. In 1735 he went to Oxford to study for the Church, but disgust at the iiilidelity and immorality which prevailed there drove him away. Ke- tuniing to Wales, he began to exhort the neglected poor ni their cottages, and was so successful that in a few months he formed several societies among them, thus allirrding another of those providential coincidences wliicli mark the religious histury of the times. Thirty of tlicse organizations were sustained i)y him at the time of M'hitcfield's arrival in \\'ales in 1739, and in three years more they numbered three hundred. He lived and died a Churchman, but received little sympathy from tlie estaUishcd clergy, and, until the visits of the Methodist founders, pursued his evangelical labors al- most alone, ai)parently without anticipating that they Would n ^ult in a wide-spread evangelical dissent. In 1715 there were only thirty Dissenting chapels in the
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principality, and in 1736 only six in all north Wales; in 1860 there" were 2000. Harris was a lay preacher; lie applied repeatedly for ordination, but was denied it by the bishops on account of his irregular modes of labor. Whitetield passed from Kingswood to Cardiff, and there saw him for the first time. Their souls met and blend- ed like two flames, and " set the whole principality in a blaze." For years the laborious layman travelled, and preached twice or three times every day. " He is fuU of the Holy Ghost," wrote Whitetield ; " blessed be God, there seems a noble spirit gone out into Wales." Wes- ley speaks of him as "a powerful orator" (Journal, 1756). He was repeatedly assavdted by mobs, and suffered many forms of persecution from the magistrates, clergy, and people, but his courage and zeal never i'ailed. At last his health declined, and he retiu-ned to Trevecca, Mhere he organized a Christian household, built a chapel, and arranged his grounds with great taste. Wesley calls it "one of the most beautiful places in Wales" (Joiirncd, 1763, p. 156). In the French war, when England was threatened with invasion, he thought it his duty to take a commission in the army, which he held for three' years, preaching wherever he went with his regiment. He died in great peace, July 21, 1773. See Jackson, Chris- tian Biography, xii, 168 ; Stevens, Ilistor-y of Methodism, i, 118; ii,86.