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 ::  of Father 's ‘Synopsis Apostasiæ Marci Antonii de Dominis’ [q. v.], St. Omer, 1617, 8vo [see ].
 * 1) ‘Certaine selected Epistles of St. Hierome, as also the Lives of St. Paul, the first Hermite; of Saint Hilarion, the first Monke of Syria; and of St. Malchus, by the same Saint, translated into English,’ permissu superiorum, 1630, 4to.
 * 2) ‘Fuga Sæculi; or the Holy Hatred of the World. Conteyning the Lives of 17 Holy Confessours of Christ, selected out of sundry Authors. Translated by H. H.’ (from the Italian of the jesuit father Giovanni Pietro Maffei), Paris, 1632, 4to. The preface and the arguments by the translator are in verse.
 * 3) ‘The History of St. Elizabeth, Daughter of the King of Hungary. Collected from various authors by N. A.,’ sine loco, 1632, 12mo; dedicated to Lady Jerneghan.
 * 4) ‘Partheneia Sacra. Or the Mysteriovs and Deliciovs Garden of the Sacred Parthenes; Symbolically set forth and enriched with pious devises and emblemes of devovt sovles; Contriued al to the honovr of the Incomparable Virgin Marie, Mother of God; For the pleasure and deuotion of the Parthenian Sodalitie of her Immaculate Conception, by H. A.,’ Paris (John Cousturier), 1633, 8vo, illustrated with fifty plates. Oliver mentions an edition, Rouen, 1632, 8vo. The plates are neat and the verses above mediocrity.
 * 5) ‘The Life of St. Aldegunda,’ Paris, 1636, 12mo; translated, under the initials ‘H. H.,’ from the French of the jesuit father Binet.



HAWKINS, JAMES (1662–1729), organist and composer, was a chorister of St. John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated Mus.Bac. in 1719. In the same year he dedicated his anthem, ‘Behold, O God, our Defender’ (a manuscript in the library of the Royal College of Music), ‘to the Very Rev. Mr. Tomkinson, and the rest of the great, good, and just nonjurors of St. John's.’ Hawkins succeeded John Ferrabosco [see under, d. 1661] as organist of Ely Cathedral in 1682. He remained at Ely forty-six years. During that period he carefully arranged in volumes what fragments remained of the old manuscript choir books of the cathedral, many of which had been destroyed and many mutilated in the great rebellion. With these he bound up in manuscript seventeen services and seventy-five anthems of his own composition. Some doggerel lines by Hawkins in praise of Handel, inscribed on one of two copies of that master's ‘Jubilate’ (and quoted by Dickson), illustrate the ‘cheerfulness’ recorded in Hawkins's epitaph. He died on 18 Oct. 1729, in the sixty-seventh year of his age, and was buried ‘among many of his relations’ in the cathedral. Under the same black marble was laid (1732) Mary, his wife, ‘the tender mother of ten children.’

Vol. vii. of the music manuscripts in the Ely Cathedral library is lettered ‘Mr. Hawkins' Church Musick.’ It contains 532 pages of his compositions. These pieces, with others bound up in various volumes in the same library, comprise: ‘Services in A’ (two: one in Tudway's Collection); A minor (full score); B minor; B minor (chanting); B flat; C; C minor (chanting, founded on a chant ascribed to Croft, and generally sung in B minor); D (chanting); E minor (two); E flat (two); G (part of it in Tudway's Collection); F minor; ‘Burial Service;’ ‘Gloria in excelsis.’ Of Hawkins's seventy-five anthems, sketches, and fragments, nine are in the collection of Tudway, who was in correspondence with Hawkins (Harl. MSS. 7341–2).

His son, the younger, was organist of Peterborough Cathedral from 1714 to 1750. Manuscript copies of an anthem by him, ‘O praise the Lord,’ are preserved both in Tudway's Collection and at Ely. 

HAWKINS or HAWKYNS, JOHN (1532–1595), naval commander, second son of  (d. 1553) [q. v.], and younger brother of (d. 1589) [q. v.], was born at Plymouth in 1532, a date which seems established by the evidence of the legend on a contemporary portrait (, frontispiece), and of the inscription formerly on a tablet in the church of St. Dunstan's-in-the-East, in which his years, at his death in 1595, are said to have amounted to ‘six times ten and three’ (, Survey of London, vol. i. lib. ii. p. 45). He was admitted a freeman of Plymouth in 1556 (, p. 251). He was bred to the sea, and while quite a young man made ‘divers voyages to the isles of the Canaries,’ where he learned ‘that negroes were very good merchandise in Hispaniola, and that they might easily be had upon the coast of Guinea.’ The last of