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 Christchurch, 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, Cavenham, 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-victors 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 everything 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 composition 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.

Anthony, Esq., an ingenious English poet, descended from a good family of Somerham Place in Huntingdonshire, was born in 1668. After a liberal education at St John's college, Cambridge, he was chosen member of parliament, and soon distinguished himself as a fine speaker. He became a commissioner of the royal navy, which place he quitted in 1712. He published A Miscellany of original Poems by the most eminent hands; in which himself, as appears by the poems marked with his own name, had no inconsiderable share. He wrote the life of Walter Mowle, Esq.; prefixed to his works. He was the intimate friend of that gentleman, and died about the year 1726.

James, known to the world by the Love-Elegies, Hampshire. Elegies, which some years after his death, were published by the earl of Chesterfield, was the son of Anthony Hammond above-mentioned, and was preferred to a place about the person of the late prince of Wales, which he held till an unfortunate accident deprived him of his senses. The cause of this calamity was a passion he entertained for a lady, who would not return it; upon which he wrote those love-elegies which have been so much celebrated for their tenderness. The editor observes, that he composed them before he was 21 years of age: a period, says he, when fancy and imagination commonly riot at the expense of judgment and correctness. He was sincere in his love as in his friendship; and wrote to his mistress, as he spoke to his friends, nothing but the genuine sentiments of his heart. Tibullus seems to have been the model our author judiciously preferred to Ovid; the former writing directly from the heart to the heart, the latter too often yielding and addressing himself to the imagination. Mr Hammond died in the year 1743, at Stow, the seat of Lord Cobham, who, as well as the earl of Chesterfield, honoured him with a particular intimacy.