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e Rump Parliament, iii. 487. HEART of a lover, story of, i. 233, 234. HEAVY hours of literary men, i. 392. HELL, Purgatory, and Heaven, topographical descriptions of, i. 202; treatises on, 204, 205. HEMON DE LA FOSSE, a modern Polytheist, executed in 1503, i. 216. HENRIETTA, queen of Charles I., her character, ii. 337; anecdote illustrative of, ib.; after the Restoration, 338; various descriptions of her person, ib.; her contract with the Pope, 339; account of her journey to England on her marriage, 340; her French establishment, 341; anecdote of her confessor's conduct, 342; the dismissal of her French attendants, 345; the amount of her supposed influence over her husband, 348. HENRY the Seventh, anecdote of, ii. 10. HENRY the Eighth, anecdote of, ii. 10; his proclamation against reading the Bible in English, iii. 373, note. HENRY, prince, son of James I., anecdote of, iii. 186-194. HENRY, the English historian, loose and general in his references, ii. 418. HERETICS, a classification of, i. 350. HERMIPPUS REDIVIVUS, a curious jeu-d'-esprit, i. 320. HEYLIN, a popular writer, died in 1662, iii. 215; his rival biographers, 216-221; his History of the Puritans and Presbyterians, 239. HIGH SHERIFF'S Oath, exceptions taken to, by Sir Edward Coke, iii. 446. HISTORY, of events which have not happened, a good title for a curious book, ii. 428; speculative history of the battle of Worcester, had it terminated differently, 429; a history of this kind in Livy, ib.; subjects for, 430-438. HISTORY of New Words.--See NEOLOGY. Of suppressed opinion, iii. 150-163; of writing masters, 167-177. HISTORIANS, remarks on the infidelities of, i. 191; Italian, commended, iii. 177; notices of the most celebrated, 180-186; wrote for posterity, 182, 183; fate of Giannone, who published in his life-time, 185; observations on, 186. HOLYDAY, Barton, author of the comedy "The Marriage of the Arts," ii. 43. HOME, the author of the tragedy of "Douglas," persecuted for composing it, i. 197. HOMER, notice of his detractors, i. 24; profound knowledge of history, geography, arts, sciences, and surgery ascribed to, 303. HUDIBRAS, attacks upon Butler, the author of, ii. 491; various accounts of the original of the character, 492; indecency avoided in, 493; epitaph on the au
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