HAMMOND, HENRY, one of the moſt learned English divines of the ſeventeenth century, was born in 1605. He ſtudied at Oxford, in 1629 entered into holy orders, and in 1633 was inducted into the rectory of Penhuſt in Kent. In 1643 he was made archdeacon of Chicheſter; and in the beginning of 1645 he was appointed one of the canons of Chriſt Church, Oxford, and chaplain in ordinary to King Charles I. who was then in that city. He was alſo choſen public orator of the university. In 1647 he attended the king in his confinement at Woodburn, Caverham, Hampton-Court, and the Iſle of Wight, where he continued till his majeſty's attendants were again diſmiſſed. He then returned to Oxford, where he was choſen ſub-dean; and continued there till the parliamentary 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 beginning of the year 1660, when every thing viſibly tended towards the reſtoration of the royal family, Dr Hammond was deſired by the biſhops to repair to London to aſſiſt there in compoſing the breaches of the church, his ſtation in which was deſigned to be that of Biſhop of Worceſter; but on the 4th of April he was ſeized with a fit of the ſtone, of which he died on the 25th of that month, at the age of fifty-five. Beſides the above work, he wrote many others; all of which have been publiſhed together in four volumes folio.