HAMMOND, HENRY, D. D. one of the most learned English divines in the 17th century, was born in 1605. He studied at Oxford, and in 1629 entered into holy orders. In 1633 he was inducted into the rectory of Penshurst in Kent. In 1643 he was made archdeacon of Chichester. In the beginning of 1645 he was made one of the canons of Christ-church, Oxford, and chaplain in ordinary to King Charles I. who was then in that city; and he was also chosen public orator of the university. In 1647 he attended the king in his confinement at Woodburn, Cavesham, Hampton-Court, and the isle of Wight, where he continued till his majesty's attendants were again put from him. He then returned to Oxford, where he was chosen sub-dean; and continued there till the parliament-visitors first ejected him, and then imprisoned him for several weeks in a private house in Oxford. During this confinement he began his Annotations on the New Testament. At the opening of the year 1660, when every thing visibly tended to the restoration of the royal family, the doctor was desired by the bishops to repair to London to assist there in the composure of the breaches of the church, his station in which was designed to be the bishopric of Worcester; but on the 4th of April he was seized by a fit of the stone, of which he died on the 25th of that month, aged 55. Besides the above work, he wrote, many others; all of which have been published together in four volumes folio.