place of authority over the fame? Hooker-Conftantinople was in an uproar, upon an ignorant jealousy that those words had fome heretical meaning. Decay of Piety..

*HERETICALLY. adv. [from heretical.] With

herefy.

(1.)*HERETICKsn. f. [heretique, Fr. 'aigeros.] 1. One who propagates his private opinions in op. polition to the catholick church.-These things would be prevented, if no known beretick or fchifmatick be fuffered to go into thofe countries. Bacon. No bereticks defire to spread

Their wild opinions like thefe Epicures. Davies. Bellarmin owns, that he has quoted a heretick inftead of a father. Baker on Learning.—When a Papift ufes the word hereticks, he generally means Proteftants; when a Proteftant ufes the word, he means any perfons wilfully and contentiously obftinate in fundamental errours. Watt's Logick. 2. It is or has been used ludicrously for any one whose opinion is erroneous.

Shakespeare.

I rather will fufpect the fun with cold Than thee with wantonnefs; thy honour stands, In him that was of late an heretick, As firm as faith. (2.) HERETICK is a general name for all fuch perfons under any religion, but especially the Chriftian, as profess or teach religious opinions contrary to the established faith, or to what is made the ftandard of orthodoxy. See HERESY, § 1, 2. *HERETO, adv. [here and to.] To this; add to this.

ftat. 1 Elif. c. r. all former ftatutes relating to he refy are repealed, which leaves the jurifdiction of herely as it ftood at common law; viz. as to the infliction of common cenfures, in the ecclefiaftical courts; and in case of burning the heretie, in the provincial fynod only. Sir Matthew Hale is indeed of a different opinion, and holds that fuch power refided in the diocefan alfo; though he agrees, that in either cafe the writ de hæretico comburendo was not demandable of common right, but grantable, or otherwife, merely at the king's difcretion. But the principal point now gained was, that by this statute a boundary is for the first time fet to what shall be accounted herefy; no thing for the future being to be fo determined, but only fuch tenets, which have been heretofore fo declared, 1. by the words of the canonical fcriptures; 2. by the first four general councils, or fuch others as have only used the words of the holy fcriptures; or, 3. which fhall hereafter be fo declared by the parliament, with the affent of the clergy in convocation. Thus was herefy reduced to a greater certainty than before; though it might not have been the worse to have defined it in terms ftill more precife and particular: as a man continued ftill liable to be burnt, for what perhaps he did not understand to be herefy, till the ecclefiaftical judge fo interpreted the words of the canonical fcriptures. For the writ de bæretico comburendo remained ftill in force, till it was totally abolished, and herefy again fubjected only to ecclefiaftical correction, pro falute animæ, by ftat. 29 Car. II. c. 9: when, in one and the fame reign, our lands: were delivered from the flavery of military tenures; our bodies from arbitrary imprisonment by the habeas corpus act; and our minds from the tyranny of fuperftitious bigotry, by demolishing this laft badge of perfecution in the English law. Every thing is now lefs exceptionable, with refpect to the fpiritual cognizance, and spiritual punishment of herefy: unless perhaps that the crime ought to be more strictly defined, and no profecution permitted, even in the ecclefiaftical courts, till the tenets in question are by proper authority previoufly declared to be heretical. Under thefe reftrictions, fome think it neceffary for the fupport of the national religion, that the officers of the church should have power to cenfure heretics; yet not to harass them with temporal penalties, much lefs to exterminate or deftroy them. The legiflature has indeed thought it proper, that the civil magiftrate should interpofe with regard to one fpecies of herefy, very prevalent in modern times; for, by ftat. 9 and 10 W. III. c. 32. if any perfon educated in the Chriftian religion, or profeffing the fame, fhall, by writing, printing, teaching, or advised speaking, deny any one of the perfons in the holy Trinity to be God, or maintain that there are more gods than one, he shall undergo the fame penalties and incapacities which were inflicted on apoftacy by the fame ftatute.

*HERETICAL. adj. [from heretick.] Containing herefy. How exclude they us from being any part of the church of Chrift under the colour of herefy, when they cannot but grant it poffible even for him to be, as touching his own perfonal perfuafion, beretical, who, in their opinion, not only is of the church, but holdeth the chiefeft,

HERETOCH, n.f. among the Anglo-Saxons, fignified the fame with Dux or duke, denoting the commander of an army. It appears, from Edward the Confeffor's laws, that the military force of this kingdom was in the hands of the heretochs, who were conftituted through every province and county in the kingdom, being selected out of the principal nobility, and fuch as were moft remarkable for being fapientes, fideles, et animof. Their duty was to lead and regulate the English armies, with a very unlimited power; on which account they were elected by the people in their folk-mote or full affembly, in the fame manner as fheriffs.

* HERETOFORE. adv. [bereta and fore.] Formerly; anciently.—I have long defired to know you heretofore, with honouring your virtue, though I love not your perfon. Sidney.So near is the connection between the civil ftate and religious, that heretofore you will find the government and the priesthood united in the fame perfon. South.

We now can form no move
Long schemes of life, as heretofore.

Savifi.

* HEREUNTO, adv. [bere and unto.] To this.They which rightly confider after what fort the heart of man hereunto is framed, must of neceffity acknowledge, that whofo affenteth to the words of eternal life, doth it in regard of his authority whofe words they are. Hooker-Agreeable here. unto might not be amifs to make children often to tell a story of any thing they know. Locke.

HEREWITH. adv. [here and with.] With this
You, fair fir, be not here with dismaid,
But conftant keep the way in which ye stand.
Spenfer.
Herewith the castle of Hume was suddenly fur-
prifed by the Scots. Hayward.

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HER.

HERFORDEN. See HERvorden. HERGRUNDT, a town of Upper Hungary, famous for its rich mines of vitriol. The miners have built a fubterraneous town, which is very populous. It is 65 miles N. of Buda. Lon. 18. IS. E. Lat. 48. 30. N.

ance.

HERICOUR, a town of France, in the department of Upper Saone, 12 miles SE. of Lure. Lon. 24. 24. E. of Ferro. Lat. 47. 34. N.

HERICY, a town of France, in the dep. of Seine and Marne, 5 miles NE. of Fountainbleau.

ety and toil to make up his rent."
HER.
of fecond laird, and the laft is oppressed with anxi-

of the above parish, and running E. divides it in
two, and falls into the Gala. It abounds with
(4.) HERIOT, a river which rifes in the W. end

trouts.

Thefe

HERI, a pleasant island in the Indian Ocean, pretty high, and only two miles in circumference. above parith, 16 miles from Edinburgh. The cultivated parts, contrafted with the brown (5.) HERIOT, or HERIOT-TOWN, a village in the • fhade of the trees, and the interfperfed fituation VI. and Charles I. the founder of the elegant of the houses, give it a very picturefque appear. Hofpital at Edinburgh which bears his name, (§ (6.) HERIOT, George, jeweller to King James vation, and well inhabited; as well as TERNATE, Lothian, It appears to be in a perfect state of culti-7.) was born in the parish of Gladsmuir, in E. from which it lies 2 miles NNW. tors of the fmail village of Trabrowne, and their "His ancestors (fays the Rev. George Hamilton, minifter of that parifh) were proprie321.) Mr Creech fays, " He furnished jewels to names appear on the roll of the Scotch parliament. (Sir F. Sinclair's Stat. Acc. Vol. VII. p. went to the Court of Spain, in 1623. jewels were never paid for by James; but when Prince Charles, afterwards K. Charles I. when he Charles I. came to the throne, the debt to Heriot was allowed to his truftees, in part of their pur chafe of the barony of Broughton, then crown lands in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh. Thefe lands are now a part of the foundation of the hofpital." (Ibid. Vol. VI. p. 597.) Mr Heriot died in 1627. Tradition reports, that he acquired his traded to Africa, had loaded his veffel by way of fortune, by purchafing for a trifle a large quantity of yellow fand, with which a thip-matter, who ballaft, from the coast of Guinea, without know. ing its value; but in which Heriot foon difcerned a confiderable proportion of gold duft, which he afterwards extracted.

(1.) * HERIOT. n. f. [beregild, Saxon.] A fine paid to the lord at the death of a landholder, com monly the best thing in the landholder's poffeffion. -This he detains from the ivy; for he should be the true poffeffory lord thereof, but the olive difpenfeth with his confcience to pass it over with a compliment and an heriot every year. Howel's Vo! cal Foreft.

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Though thou confume but to renew, Yet love, as lord, doth claim a heriot due. -I took him up, as your heriot, with intention to Cleaveland. have made the beft of him, and then have brought the whole produce of him in a purfe to you. Dryd. (2.) HERIOT, in law, is a cuftomary tribute of goods and chattels, payable to the lord of the fee on the decease of the owner of the land. See TENURE. It is of two forts, viz.

1. HERIOT CUSTOM, where heriots have been paid time out of mind by cuftom, after the death of a tenant for life. In some places, there is a cuftomary composition in money, as ro or 20 fhillings in lieu of a heriot, by which the lord and tenant are both bound, if it be an indifputably ancient cuftom: but a new compofition of this fort will not bind the reprefentatives of either party.

H. HERIOT SERVICE, when a tenant holds by fuch service to pay heriot at the time of his death; which fervice is expreffed in the deed of feoffment. For this latter the lord shall disftrain; and for the other he shall feize, and not diftrain. If the lord purchafe part of the tenancy, heriot fervice is extinguished; but it is not fo of heriot custom.

(3.) HERIOT, in geography, a parish of Scotland, in Midlothian, 10 miles long from E. to W. and 6 broad. The furface is hilly. The climate is falubrious; the foil thin and gravelly, but fertile; yielding good crops of oats, bear, peas, potatoes, grafs, and turnips. are of various extent, from 50 to 1ooo acres, and The sheep farms the fheep are of good fize, hardy and thriving. The roads are good, and one of them leads to London. The population in 1794, ftated by the Rev. Alex. Hunter, in his report to Sir J. Sinclair, was 300, and had increased 91, fince 1755. Mr Hunter complains of the practice of farmers fubfetting their farms. "in the barony of Sir J. Dalrymple fub-fub-fubfet "There are lands" (fays he) the confequence is, the original tackfman is a kind

(7.) HERIOT'S HOSPITAL See EDINBURGH, $12.

zel, feated on the Bulbach; 7 miles SW. of St
HERISAH, or an ancient town of Switzer-
Gall, and ro NW. of Appenzel.
HERISHAW, land, in the canton of Appen-

armed with a great number of iron spikes with
their points outwards, and fupported by a pivot,
(1.) HERISSON, n. f. in fortification, a beam
block up any paffage, and are frequently placed
before the gates, and more efpecially the wicket
on which it turns. These ferve as a barrier to
doors, of a town or fortress, to fecure those paf-
fages which must be often opened and fhut.

of Allier, 15 miles NW. of Montmarault.
(2.) HERISSON, a town of France, in the dept.

that may inherit whatever may be inherited.-By
the canon law this fon fhall be legitimate and he
(1.)* HERITABLE. adj. [bæres, Lat.] A perfon
ritable, according to the laws of England. Hule.

(2) HERITABLE RIGHTS, in Scots law, fignify
all rights affecting lands, houfes, &c. or any im-
moveable fubject.

heritance; estate devolved by fucceffion; estate in
general.-
(1.) * HERITAGE. n. f. [heritage, Fr.] 1. In-

He confiders that his proper home and heritage
is in another world, and therefore regards the
Let us our father's heritage divide. Hubb.Tale.
events of this with the indifference of a guest that
people of God.-O Lord, fave thy people, and
tarries but a day. Rogers.
bless thine heritage Common Prayer.
2. [In divinity.] The
(2.) HERI

(2.) HERITAGE, in Scots law, implies lands, houses, and all immoveable fubjects, in contradiftinction to moveables or moveable subjects. It also fignifies fuch immoveable property, as a perfon fucceeds to as heir to another, in contradiftinction to that which he himself purchases, or acquires otherwife, called conquest.

(1.) HERITIER, Nicholas L', a French poet of the 17th century, who was hiftoriographer of France, and treaturer to the guards. He wrote two tragedies, entitled, Hercule Furieux, and Clovis. He died in 1680.

(2.) HERITIER, Mary Jane L', de Villandon, a French poetefs, daughter of the above, (N° 1.) was born in 1664. She was a member of the academies of the Jeux Floraux, and the Ricovrati at Padua. She wrote, 1. Translation of Ovid's Epiltles: 2. La Tour Tenebreuse, an English tale: 3. Les Caprices du Deftin, a novel: and, 4. L'Avare puni, a tale in poetry.

(1.) HERK, a river of Germany, in the late bifhopric of Liege, which runs into the Demer; now included in the French republic.

(2.) HERK, a town of France, in the dept. of Ourte, and late bishopric of Liege, feated on the river, (N° 1.) near its confluence with the Demer, 20 miles NW. of Maeftricht. Lon. 5. 10. E. Lat. 50. 55. N.

(1.) HERKEMER, a county of New York, bounded on the E. by Clinton and Washington counties; S. by Oftego; NW. by the St Lawrence and lake Ontario; and N. by Canada. It was divided into 20 townships in 1796, when it contained, by the cenfus, 25,573 citizens, of whom 4161 were electors.

(2.) HERKEMER, a town in the above county, (N° 1.) on the N. fide of the Mohawk; 80 miles NW. by W. of Albany; containing 2073 citizens in 1796, of whom 338 were electors.

HERKENRODE, a town of France, in the dep. of Ourte, and ci-devant bishopric of Liege, 2 miles W. of Haffelt.

HERKLA, or HERACLEA, a town of Africa in Tunis, on the E. coaft, 50 miles S. of Tunis.

HERLE, a town of France, in the dep. of the Lower Meule, and late duchy of Limburg; 6 miles ENE. of Fauquemont.

HERM, a town of France, in the dep. of the Upper Garonne, 6 miles SW. of Muret.

HERMA. See HERMES, N° 3. HERMÆA, in antiquity, ancient Greek fef tivals in honour of Mercury. One of thefe was celebrated by the Pheneate in Arcadia; a ad by the Cyllenians in Elis; and a 3d by the Tanagræans, where Mercury was reprefented with a ram upon his fhoulder, becaufe he was faid to have walked through the city in that pofture in time of a plague, and to have cured the fick; in memory of which, it was customary, at this feftival, for one of the most beautiful youths in the city to walk round the walls with a ram upon his shoulder. A 4th feftival was obferved in Crete, when it was ufual for the fervants to fit down at the table while their mafters waited; a custom which was alfo obferved at the Roman Saturnalia.

Ourte, and late bishopric of Liege, near the Meuse; 3 miles SSW. of Viset.

HERMAN, Paul, a famous botanist in the 17th century, born at Hall in Saxony. He practifed phyfic in the ille of Ceylon, and was afterwards profeffor of botany at Leyden, where he died in 1695. He wrote, 1. A catalogue of the plants in the public garden at Leyden: 2. Cynofura Materia Medica: 3. Flora Lugduno-Batava flores: 4. Paradijus Batavus: and, 5. Mufaum Zeylanicum.

(1.) HERMANCE, a town of France, in the department of Mont Blanc, and ci-devant province of Chablais, in the late duchy of Savoy, on the coaft of the lake of Geneva, 7 m. NNE. of Geneva. (2.) HERMANCE, a river of France, in the dep. of Mont Blanc, which runs into the lake of Geneva. HERMAN-MIESTIZ, a town of Bohemia, 3 miles W. of Chrudim; famed for its fine marble.

HERMANN, James, a learned mathematician of the academy at Berlin, and a member of the academy of fciences at Paris, was born at Bafil in 1678. He was a great traveller, and for fix years was profeffor of mathematics at Padua. He afterwards went to Mufcovy, being invited thither by Peter the Great, in 1724. On his return to Bafil, he was made profeffor of morality and natural law; and died there in 1733. He wrote feveral mathematical works.

HERMANNIA, in botany; a genus of the pentandria order, belonging to the monadelphia clafs of plants; and in the natural method ranking under the 37th order, Columniferæ. The capfule is quinquelocular, the petals at the base are femi tubulated and oblique. There are 19 fpecies.

1. HERMANNIA ALNIFOLIA has a fhrubby ftalk and branches growing irregularly 4 or 5 feet high, with pale yellow flowers in fhort fpikes from the fides and ends of the branches, appearing in April or May.

2. HERMANNIA ALTHAIFOLIA has a fhrubby ftalk, and foft woolly branches, growing two feet high, with numerous yellow flowers in loose spikes growing at the end of the branches, and making their appearance in July.

3. HERMANNIA GROSSULARIFOLIA has a shrub. by ftalk and fpreading branches, growing 3 or 4 feet high, with bright yellow flowers coming out in great numbers at the ends of all the shoots and branches in April or May.

4. HERMANNIA HYSSOPIFOLIA has a shrubby upright ftalk, branching out laterally 6 or 7 feet high, with pale yellow flowers in clusters from the fides of the branches, appearing in May and June.

5. HERMANNIA LAVENDULIFOLIA has a shrub. by ftalk and flender branches, very bufhy, about a foot and an half high, fmail, fpear-fhared, ob tufe, and hairy leaves, with clusters of fmail yellow flowers along the fides of the branches continuing from June to autumn. All these plants are natives of Africa, and therefore must be kept in a green-house during the winter in this country. They are propagated by cuttings of their young fhoots, which may be planted in pots of rich earth from April to July,

HERMANNSBURG, a town of Lunenburg Zell. HERMANST, a town of European Turkey, in HERMAL, a town of France, in the dept. of Romania, 34 miles WNW. of Adrianople.

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