History, Church. Src EccLiisiAsncAL Hisro- nv.
History of Doctrines. See Doctiunes, His- ToitY or.
Histriomastix is the name of a book written in 1663 by William Prynne, a Puritan barrister, against plays, masks, dancing, etc. It is a thick quarto of 1006 pages, and abounds with learning and curious quota- tions. The author of this work was arraigned before the Star Chamber Feb. 7, lOtSS, on account of passages wliich, it was alleged, reflected on the religious con- duct of the royal house. But the fact was that the au- thor condemned, and that justly, the levity and voluji- tuousness of the court, and the encouragement which even some of the prelates gave to its licentiousness. Prynne was sentenced '■ to have his book burned by the hands of the common hangman, to be put from the bar, and to be forever incapable of his profession, to be turn- ed out of the society of Lincoln's Inn. to be degraded at Oxford, to stand in the pillor}' at ^Vesfminster and Cheapside, to lose both his ears, one in each place, to pay a fine of £5000, and to suffer perjietual imprison- ment." But more remarkable than this, if possible, was
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the violent speech of an English earl (Dorset) on this occasion. "I declare you (Prynne) to be a schism- maker in the Church, a sedition sov,-er in the common- wealth, a wolf in sheep's clothing ; in a word, omnium malorum nequissimus," continuing in this strain, and closing thus : " I would have him branded in the fore- head, slit in the nose, and have his ears chopped off."— Neal, Hist, of the Puritans, i, 31G, 317; Wood, At/ience Oxon. ii, 315; Granger, Biog. Hist, ii, 230; Carwithen, Histonj of the Church of Enyland, ii, 78-80. (J. H.W.)
Hitciicock, EdAvard, D.D., LL.D., was born in Old Deerfield, Mass., May 24, 1793. Poverty, general ill health, and, worse than all, an affection of his eyes, prevented him from the completion of a collegiate course : but, despite this, he succeeded in obtaining in 1816 the principalship of the academy in his native place, and his success as a teacher received the recogni- tion of Yale College in the degree of M.A., which that institution of learning conferred on him only two years later. In 1819 he went to Yale, and studied theology' under Dr. Taylor for about three years. His first and only settlement in the ministry was at Conway, where he remained from 1821 to 1825, when again faiUng health induced him to accept the professorship of natu- ral history and chemistry in Amherst College, which gave him the prospect of more exercise and less ex- haustive labors. He entered this new position after some preparatory study under Prof. Silliman, senior, of Yale College. In 1845 he was elected president of Am- herst College, and professor of natural theology and ge- ology. In 1854 he resigned the presidency, but still continued in the chair of geology. He died Feb. 27, 18G4. Dr. Hitchcock is especially deserving of our rec- ognition in this place on account of his Relifion of Ge- ology and its connected Sciences (Boston, 1851, 12mo),the result of thirty years' study and reflection, which had a very extended circulation both in this country and in Eurojie. Among Dr. Hitchcock's peculiar literary traits (see the Biblioth. Sacra, July, 1851, p. 662, 663) may be mentioned "his mode of answering the objection to the resurrection of the body ; his prooi's from geology of the benevolence of God, of special prox-idence, and of special divine interposition in nature" (comp. his articles in Bib. Sacra, x, 166-194, " Relations and Duties of the Philos- opher and Theologian ;" and xi, 776-800, " Special Divine Interpositions in Nature"). Dr. William S. Tyler, pro- fessor in Amherst College, who preached a discourse at Dr. Hitchcock's funeral, which has been printed, gave "an admirable estimate and summary of his Hfe, char- acter, attainments, and influence." — Appleton's Cjichp. ix, 210, and Annuul, 1868, p. 1428; Chambers, Ci/c'lnp.v, 379; Amer. Presb. liev. July, I86i, p. b2S. (J. H.W.)
Hitchcock, Enos, D.D., a Congregational minis- ter, was born in Springfield, IMass., graduated at Harvard in 1767, and was ordained colleague of Mr. Chipman, pas- tor of the Second Congregational Church of Beverley, in 1771. In 1780 he became a chaplain in the army, and at the close of the war in 1783 he took a pastoral charge in Providence, K. I. He bequeathed at his death, which occurred in 1803, $2500 as a fund for the support of the ministr}'. He published a Treatise on Education (1790, 2 \o\s.) ■.—Sermons, tcith an Essay on the Lord's Supper (1793-1800).— Allibone, Diet, of Authors, i, 852.
Hitchcock, Gad, D.D., a Unitarian minister, was born at SpringHeld, Mass., Feb. 12, 1718 or 1719. He was educated at Harvard University, where he grad- uated in 1743, and was ordained and installed in Pem- broke (now Hanson, Mass.), in October, 1748. During the Revolutionary War he served as chaplain. In 1787 his alma mater conferred on him the degree of doctor of tlivinity. In 1797 he ^vas attacked with paralysis while preaching to his people, from which he never recovered so as to engage any fiu-ther in active service. He died Aug. 8, 1803. His >vritings were mainly sermons and a (Dudleian) lecture, delivered at Harvard College in 1779 — Sprague, Ann, of the Amer. Pulpit, viii, 29.