a small well-built town in the east riding of Yorkshire, in that part called Holderness, seated on a river that falls into the Humber. It has now but one church, though there are the remains of two more; and had formerly a considerable trade, which is now lost, on account of its being so near Hull. It sends two members to parliament. Population 780 in 1811. W. Long. o. 55. N. Lat. 53. 46.

John, who sometimes assumed the name of Eugenius Theodidactus, was a great pretender to skill in the Rosicrucian philosophy and the celestial signs, in the reign of King Charles I.; and wrote a considerable number of chemical and astrological works, with very singular titles. This ridiculous author was much resorted to by the duke of Buckingham, who was infatuated with judicial astrology. He employed him to calculate the king's and his own nativity, and was assured that his stars had promised him great things. The duke also employed Heydon in some treasonable and seditious practices, for which he was sent to the Tower. He lost much of his former reputation by telling Richard Cromwell and Thurloe, who went to him disguised like cavaliers, that Oliver would infallibly be hanged by a certain time; this period, however, he outlived several years.

HELIN, Dr Peter, an eminent English writer, Heywood, was born at Burford, in Oxfordshire, in 1600. He studied at Hart Hall, Oxford; where he took his degrees in arts and divinity, and became an able geographer and historian. He was appointed one of the chaplains in ordinary to King Charles I.; was presented to the rectory of Hemingford in Huntingdonshire, made a prebendary of Westminster, and obtained several other livings: but of these he was deprived by the parliament, who also sequestrated his estate; by which means he and his family were reduced to great necessity. However, upon the Restoration, he was restored to his spiritualities; but never rose higher than to be subdean of Westminster. He died in 1662; and was interred in St Peter's church in Westminster, where he had a neat monument erected to his memory. His writings are very numerous: the principal of which are, 1. Microcosmus, or a description of the Great World. 2. Cosmographia. 3. The history of St George. 4. Ecclesia Vindicata, or the church of England Justified. 5. Historical and Miscellaneous Tracts, &c.