a city of Texas, United States of North America, capital of Harris county, and the second commercial city in the state. It is situated on Buffalo Bayou, at the head of its steamboat navigation, and 45 miles above its mouth in Galveston Bay. It is the principal shipping port for the cotton, sugar, and maize of the adjacent counties. Pop. (1853) estimated at 6000.

HOVEDEN, ROGER DE, an ancient English chronicler, was a native of Yorkshire, and is believed to have been born in the town of Hoveden or Howden, from which he took his name. The dates of his birth and death are not known with certainty, but he seems to have been born about the middle of the twelfth century, and to have lived some years into the thirteenth. He was well acquainted with civil law, and his knowledge of canon law recommended him to Henry II., who employed him to inspect the houses of the religious orders, and keep watch over such of their revenues as fell in to the king on the death of any of the superiors. Taking up the narrative of his History at the year 732 (the point at which that of the venerable Bede comes to a close), Hoveden brings it down to 1202, the third year of the reign of King John. By far the largest portion of the work is occupied with the reigns of Henry II., Richard, and John. The historical details of this period are very fully given, and are illustrated by a large number of letters of kings, popes, and leading nobles. The writing itself is the most condensed to be found in any of our old chronicles, and is in fact carried to such an extreme, that the chronicler never stops the dusty march of his narration to indulge in a single reflection, or indicate his own opinion by a solitary adjective. His strict accuracy and fidelity, however, are unanimously attested by all the best antiquaries. So high, indeed, did his character for these qualities stand in his own times, that Edward I. is said to have sought out his history with a view of settling, on its authority, the justice of his claims to homage from the king of Scotland. Hoveden's History is published in Sir Henry Savile's collection of the Scriptores post Bedam, and was reprinted at Frankfort in 1601. A translation of it by H. F.