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 Verse) to King Charles on the Restoration (1660) and of a History of Isuf Bassa, Captain-General of the Ottoman Army in Candia (1684). His son (q.v.) was a member of the Middle Temple.

Admitted 5 January, 1733-4.

Son and heir of the Rev. Nathaniel Hill, D.D., of Rowell (Rothwell), Northampton. He was called to the Bar 27 Nov. 1741, but was admitted a member of Lincoln's Inn on 25 April, 1765. He was made a Serjeant, and King's Serjeant in 1772. His knowledge of Case Law was great, but his apprehension of general principles so contused as to earn for him the nickname of "Serjeant Labyrinth." He died 21 Feb. 1808, and was buried at Rothwell, Northampton, in which county his family was of ancient settlement. His legal MSS. are preserved in the Library of Lincoln's Inn.

Admitted 9 April, 1823.

Second son of James Hill of Doneraile, co. Cork, where he was born. He was educated in Dublin, and kept his terms for two years at the King's Inns, but then joined the Middle Temple. He practised for many years as a Special Pleader, and was not called to the Bar till 29 Jan. 1841. He was appointed Reader in 1856. He obtained silk in 1857, and was made a Serjeant and Judge of the Queen's Bench in 1858. This position he held for four years, when failing health obliged him to retire. His reputation as a Judge was, deservedly, a high one. He died 12 Oct. 1871.

Admitted, 27 November, 1716.

Third son of John Hill of Hereford. He was called to the Bar 19 May, 1721, but he is now remembered only in connexion with the collections he made from time to time for a history of the City and County of Hereford, which are referred to in Rawlinson's Topographer (1720). In 1715 he was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and four years later of the Royal Society. Before the former Society he exhibited a large collection of drawings and plans, including a view of Tintem Abbey, subsequently engraved for Stevens's History of Ancient Abbeys (1723), and a Survey of Ariconium. He was a friend and correspondent of the Antiquaries Drs. Gale and Stukeley. The last years of his life were spent in Herefordshire, where he died either in 1727 or 1728.

Second son of Benjamin Hoadly, Bishop of Salisbury, afterwards of Winchester, He was born in Broad Street, London, on 8 Oct. 1711. He soon quitted the profession of the law and entered into Holy Orders. He held several preferments, including a prebendal stall at Winchester. He died 1776.

He wrote some poems in Dodsley's Collection and edited his father's works,