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Mary le Strand (Parish Register, MS.). Snow's " Necrology of tlie English Benedictines" gives 22 September as the date of his death, but this is obviously wrong. Niuiierous contemporary writers, including Anthony a Wood and Sanuiel Pepys, mention Huddles- ton with respect and there seems no reason for Macau- lay's statement that he was ignorant and illiterate. He published " A .short and Plain Way to the Faith and Church" (London, KiS.S), a little treatise written by his uncle Richard Iluddleston, O.S.B., and read by Charles II in maiuiscript while hiding at Maseley. The volume also contains the famous "Two papers written by the late King Charles 11", found in his closet after his decease, and "A briefe account of Particulars occurring at the happy Death of our late Sovereign Lord King Charles H". At the end, under a separate title page, is "A summary of Occurrences Relating to the Miraculous Preservation of our Late Sovereign Lord King Charles II after the Defeat of his Army at Worcester in the Year 1651. Faithfully taken from the express testimony of those two worthy Roman Catholics, Thomas Whitgreave . . .Esq., and Mr. John Hudleston, Priest of the Order of St. Ben- net". The whole work was reprinted by Dolman (London, 1S44) as vol. 11 of the "English Catholic Library" edited by Canon Tiernay, and again later (London, IS.'iO). The account of the death-bed of Charles II is also reprinted in the "State "Tracts" (London, 1092-:^); its truth in every detail is con- firmed by the rare contemporary broadside "A true Relation of the late King's death, by P(ere) M(an- suete) A C(apuchin) F(riar), Chaplain to the Duke". Several portraits of Iluddleston exist; the best, by Houseman, 1685, "a'tatis SUK anno 78", is still pre- served at Hutton John; another at Sawston Hall, Cambridgeshire, was engraved for the " Laity's Directory" of 1816. Father Iluddleston seems to have spelled his name with a single or double "d" indiscriminately, and at times to have used the name "Denys" (Dionysius) after John, having presumably adopted it on receiving the Benedictine habit.

British Museum, MSS. Aildilimal, .'JS71, f. 27b; Huddle- STON, Short and Plain Way (London. 16SS): Blount, Boscobel (London, 1660); re-cditoil \\ith vulu;ilil<' notes by Thomas (Lon- don, 1894); Account nf Ihr I'nrirmliun of Kind diaries II alter Worcester (London, 160fjl. dir-t.-itcd by liimsc-lf to S. Pepys. with notes by the latter, obtained at per.'^cnial interviews with Father Hilddleston and others, reprinted in Thcmas's ed. of Blount, Boscobel; I3olan, Wetdon'a Chronological Notes of the English Benedictine Crmnregation (privately printed, Stanbrook, 1881); Oliver, Collections Illustratinn the . . . Catholic Religion in Cornwall, etc. (London. IS.W), 518; IIearne, Thomm Caii Vin- diciw (Oxford, I7:i), II, .lOS; Foley, Records of the English Province S. J. (London, 1879). V; A Wood, Autobiography, ed. Bliss ((Oxford. 18181, I. 176; Snow, Necrologii of the English BencdU-.tines (London, ISS:!). 78; Catholic Magazine and Re- vieu; V, .38.i-;W4; IaiUj/'s Dlmlor,/ for 1816 (London, 1815); Barker. The Three Daj/s of \l'riisl,ii,lalc: Harleian Society, Visitation of Ciimberland (London, 1872); Jackson, Papers and Pedigrees Relating to Cumberland and Westmoreland (Kendal, 1892); Hughes. Boscobel Tracts (l';dinburKh, 18.57); Fea. The Flight of the King (London, 1897); Catholic Record Society: Proceedings (London, 100.')), I; see also the standard histories for this time.

G. Roger Hudleston. Hudrisier, M.\kk. Sec Port-Victoria, Diocese

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Hudson, Jame.s. See James Thompson, Blessed.

Hueber, FoRTUNATrs, Franciscan historian and theologian, b. at Neustadt on the Danube; d. 12 Feb., 1706, at Munich. He entered the Bavarian province of the Franciscan Reformat i on 5 November, 16.">4. On account of his excellent character and great learn- ing he was appointed to different offices in the order. He was general lector in theology: cathedral preacher in Freising from 1670 to 1676; then in 1677 Provincial of Bavaria. In 1679 he was defmitor-general and chronologist of the order in Ciermany, and in 1698 was proclaimed acriplor ordinis:. He was also confes.sor to the ancient and renowned convent of the Poor Clares at Munich, c:iUed St. Jacob on the Anger. As com- missary of the general of the order in 1675 and 1701 he

visited the Bohemian province, and in 1695 the prov- ince of St. Salvator in Hungary. He was highly es- teemed by the nobility and by royalty, especially by the dukes of Bavaria. The Elector of Cologne ap- pointed Hueber as his theologian. He left after him over twenty works, amongst them some of great im- portance. The best known and most valuable is "Menologium Franciscanum" (Munich, 1698), lives of the beatified and saints of the Franciscan order, arranged according to months and days. He also publislied a smaller work in German on the same sub- ject, under the title "Stammenbuch . . . und jahr- lichcs Gediichtniss aller Heiligen . . . aus denen dreyen Ordens-Stiinden . . . S. Francisci " (Munich, 169:j). His "Dreyfache Chroniekh von dem drey- fachen Ordcn . . . S. Francisci so weith er sich in Ober- und Nider-Deutschland erstrecket" (Munich, 1686) is very important for the history of the Francis- cans in Germany. Amongst his other important works are: " Lil)eilus Thcsium de mirabilibus operibus Domini " (Munich, 1665) ; " Homo primus et secundus in munduni prolatus " (Slunich, 1670) ; " Leben des hi. Petrus von Alcantara" (Munich. 1670); "Seraphische Sehule des hi. P.von Ale. ' (Munich, 1670); " Ornitho- logia per discursus [iraedicabiles exhibita" (Munich, 1678), in fol. Written in the same style, but not printed, were his spiritual discounses, "Zoologia moralis", and " Ichthyologia moralis", each in two vols.; " Candor lucis aeterna; seu Vita S. Antonii de Padua" (Munich, 1670); "Sanctuarium Pnelatorum . . . i)ro visitationibus" (Munich, 1684). " (^juodlibetum Angelico-IIistoricum" (Augsl)urg, 1097), published in Latin and German, is a contribution dealing with the history of the cult of the angels.

Greiderer. Germania Franciscana, II (Innsbruck, 1789), 421 sqq.; .MiNtjES, Gescllichte der Franziskaner in Bayem (Munich, 1896), 146 sqq.

Michael Bihl.

Huelgas de Burgos. — The royal monastery of Las Huelgas de Burgos was founded by Alfonso VlII at the instance of his consort. Dona Leonor of Eng- land, about the year 1180, and, upon the completion of the work necessary for their installation the first nuns were lirought to it, conformably with the wishes of its founders, from the monastery of Tulebras in Navarre. Dona Misol, or Maria Sol, was its first ab- bess, and to her was addressed the charter of found- ation, in which .'\lfon.so VIII granted to the commu- nity the lordship of sundry villages and territories, entire exemption from taxes, numberless immunities and franchises, and the enjoyment of its possessions under the king's own pri\ilege. These grants were augmented until, at the entl of the fourteenth century, no feudal lonl in Castile, except the king, had a larger number of. vassals. In 1199 the monastery was solemnly incorporated with the Cistercian Order and became the burial-place of the royal family; the general chapter of the order made this monastery the mother-house of all the monasteries of Cistercian nuns established in Castile and Leon, and the annual meeting-place of the abbesses for the holding of their chapter. In 1212, two months before the liattle of Las Navas, Alfonso \U1 made the King's Ho.spital, with all its dependencies, subject to the Abbess of Las Huelgas. Immediately after its foundation, la- dies of the noblest families began to take the habit at Las Huelgas, following the example of the Infanta Dona Costanza, daughter of the founder, and another Doila Costanza, sister of St. Ferdinand, his daughter Doi'ia Berenguela, Dona Blanca of Portugal, and others. The most auspicious events took place here, such, for example, as the knightly consecration of St. Ferdinand and his succe.s.sors, the nuptials of Dona Leonor (IClcanor of Castile) with Prince Edward, heir to the throne of England, and of the Infante Don Fernando de la Cerda with Blanche, .second daughter of St. Louis, the coronations of Alfonso XI, Henry II,