or every other year; which with the MSS. he left be hind him, were published in 1748 in 12 vols 8vo,He died Aug. 28th, 1737.

HYDE, (SIR THOMAS) a most learned writer, was son of Mr. Ralph Hyde, a clergyman of Shropshire, in England, and born June 29, 1636. Having from his youth a strong inclination for the oriental languages, he studied them first under his father; and afterwards in 1652, being admitted to King's College in Cambridge, he became acquainted with Mr. Abraham Wheeler, who, being an admirable linguist, encouraged him to prosecute his study of them there, and afterwards recommended him to Walton, Bishop of Chester, as a person capable of helping him in the Polyglott Bible, in which work he was then engaged.

In 1958 he was admitted member of Queen's College, Oxford, where he was soon after made Hebrew Reader. In 1659 he was created M. A. and soon after made under keeper of the Bodleian library, in which employment he behaved so well that when the office of head keeper became vacant, he was elected into it with the unanimous approbation of the university. In 1665 he published a Latin translation from the Persian of Ulugh Beig's, "Observations on the longitude and latitude of the fixed stars," with notes. About this time Hyde became known to Mr. Boyle, to whom he was very useful, in communicating from Oriental writers several particulars relating to Chemistry, Physic, and Natural History. In 1666 he was collated to a prebend in the church of Salisbury. In 1674 he published "A catalogue of the books in the Bodleian library." In 1678 he was made Arch-Deacon of Gloucester, and in 1682 took the degree of D. D. In Dec. 1691 he was elected Arabic Professor, and the same year published the "Itinera Mundi," of Abraham Peritsol, a very learn

ed Jew. In 1698 he published his "De Ludis Ori», entalibus libri duo;" a work, which is held at pres ent in very high esteem. In 1697, he became regius professor of Hebrew and Canon of Christ Church, and three years afterwards had ready for the press, an excellent work on a subject very little known even to the learned themselves, "The Religion of the ancient Janisaries:" this was printed at Oxford in 1700, in 4to. containing 556 pages, and is now become exceeding scarce and dear. He published many others, and had many more ready for the press; but the study of Oriental literature was at that time overlooked, or rather the worth of it was not sufficiently, understood; consequently, this learned man's abili ties were neglected till it was too late, and the loss has ever since been deservedly regretted. In April 1701, he resigned the office of head keeper of the Bodleian li brary, on account of his age and infirmities, and died Feb. 1702, at his lodgings in Christ Church, in his 67th year. During the reigns of Charles II. James II. and William III. he had occupied the post of Interpreter and Secretary in the Oriental languages; and, in the course of this employment, made him. self surprisingly acquainted with the policy, cere monies and customs of the Oriental nations.

HUTTEN, (ULRIC DE) a gentleman of Franco nia, in Germany, of uncommon parts and learning, was born in 1488. He was sent to the abbe of Fal de, at eleven years of age, and took the degree of M. A. at eighteen, at Frankfort, on the Oder. His father, however, thinking the pursuit of literature unworthy of persons of exalted birth, would not af ford his son the necessary supplies for a life of study. He wished him to apply himself to the civil law, but Hutten had no inclination for that kind of study, and it was merely to oblige his father that he went to Pa VOL. III. No. 18.

via in 1511, where he stayed but a little time, that city being besieged and plundered by the Swiss, and himself taken prisoner. He returned afterwards to Germany, where, contrary to his father's wishes, he began again to apply himself to literature. His first publications were some pieces of poetry, which were greatly admired. He travelled to various places, among the rest, to Bohemia and Moravia; and waiting on the bishop of Olmutz, in a very poor condition, that prelate presented him with a horse, and gave him money to pursue his journey. The correspondence he held with the famous Erasmus, of Rotterdam, was of great advantage to him, and procured him respect from all the literati in Italy, and especially at Venice..

At his return to Germany in 1516, the emperor bestowed on him the Poetical crown. He was of a very military make and had given many proofs of cou rage, as well in the wars as in private rencounters. He had a cousin John de Hutten who was CourtMarshal to Ulric Duke of Wirtemberg, and was murdered by that Prince in 1515 for the sake of his wife, whom the Duke enjoyed afterwards as a mistress. Our poet and soldier as soon as he heard of it, breathed nothing but resentment. Having no opportunity of shewing it with his sword, he fell to work with his pen, and wrote several pieces in the form of Dialogues, Orations, Poems, and Letters, a collection of which was printed in the Castle of Meckelburg, in 1519..

In 1518 he went to Mentz, and engaged in the ser-vice of the Elector Albert,, whom he attended to the Diet of Augsburg. At this Diet, articles were exhibited against the Duke of Wirtemberg, on which occasion the murder of John de Hutten was not forgot :: and a league was formed against him. Our Hutten served in this war with great pleasure; but was soon disgusted with a military life, and grew hungry af ter his studies and retirement,

Luther's cause, which he believed to be a very good one, he joined with great warmth; and pubished Leo the Xth's Bull against Luther in 1520, with interlineary and marginal glosses, in which that Pope was made the object of the strongest ridicule. The freedom with which he wrote against the irregu larities and disorders of the court of Rome, exaspe rated Leo in the highest degree, and induced him to command the Elector of Mentz to send him to Rome, bound hand and foot, which however the Elec tor did not do, but suffered him to depart in peace. Hutten then withdrew to Brabant, and was at the court of the Emperor Charles the Vth. whence he retired to Ebernburg, where he was protected by Francis de Siekingen, Luther's great friend and guar dián: from whence he wrote in 1520 his complaint to the Emperor, to the Electors of Mentz and Saxony, and to all the States of Germany, against the attempts which the Pope's emissaries made against him.

During his stay at Ebernburg, he performed a very generous action in regard to his family. Being the eldest son, and succeeding to the whole estate, he gave it all up to his brothers, and even to prevent their being involved in the misfortunes and disgraces which he expected, by the suspicions that might be entertained against them, he enjoined them not to remit him any money, nor to hold the least correspondence with him. From that time he devoted himself wholly to the Lutheran party, to advance which, he laboured incessantly both by his writings and actions. We do not know the exact time when he quitted the estate of Ebernburg, but it is certain, that in January 1523, he left Basil, where he had flattered himself with the hopes of finding an assylum, but, on the contrary, he had been exposed to great dangers. He was forbid by his old acquaintance Erasmus to visit him. This provoked Hutten to attack him pretty severely, and accordingly he published an Expostulatio," in 1532, which chagrined

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Erasmus extremely; who answered it however, the same year, in a very lively piece enntitled, "Spanga Erasmi adversus Adspergines Hutteni." Hutten would certainly have made a reply, had he not been snatched away by death. He died in an island of the Lake Zurich, where he had hid himself to be safe. A collection of his " Latin Poems," was published at Frankfort in 1533, 12mo. He was the author of a great many works, chiefly satirical, in the way of dialogue.

HYDE, (EDWARD) Earl of Clarendon, and lord high chancellor of England was born in the year 1608. He studied in the university of Oxford, and afterwards applied to the law in the Middle Temple. In the year 1640, he was chosen a member of parlia ment, in which capacity he gave great proofs of su perior abilities; and was employed in several committees, to examine into diverse grievances; but at last being dissatisfied with the proceedings of the house, he returned to the king, and was made chancellor of the exchequer, a privy councillor and knight. Upon the declining of the king's cause, he went to France, where after the death of king Charles I. he was sworn of the privy council of Charles II. In 1649, he was sent ambassador extraordinary into Spain, to apply for that monarch's assistance in the recovery of his crown, but returned without success, in July 1651. In 1653, he was accused of holding a correspondence with Cromwell; but being declared innocent by the king, he was afterwards made Secretary of State. More attempts were made to ruin him with the king, but in vain; for in 1657 he was made chancellor of England. Upon the restoration, as he had been one of the greatest sharers in his master's sufferings, so he had a proportionable share in his glory. Besides the post of lord chancellor, in