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H 5. ‘The Christian Diurnal of F. N. Caussin, S.J., translated into English by T. H.,’ Paris, 1632, 18mo; 3rd edition, ‘reviewed and much augmented,’ 1686; dedicated to Viscountess Savage. It differs slightly from ‘The Christian Diary of F. N. Caussin, S.J., translated into English by T. H.’ [Cambridge], 1648, 12mo, and 1649, 12mo, which was issued rather for protestant than catholic use. 6. ‘The Lives and singular vertues of Saint Elzear, Count of Sabran, and of his Wife the blessed Countesse Delphina, both Virgins and Married,’ translated from the French of the jesuit Etienne Binet, Paris, 1638, 8vo; dedicated to John, earl of Shrewsbury, and his countess. 7. A poem in ‘Ionsonus Virbivs: or the Memorie of Ben. Johnson,’ 1638. 

HAWKINS, THOMAS (1810–1889), geologist, son of John and Edith Hawkins, was born at Glastonbury on 25 July 1810. He studied anatomy at Guy's Hospital under Sir Astley Cooper, but very soon became interested in geology. In 1831 he was made a fellow of the Geological Society. He became widely known as a collector of fossils. A collection which he had procured in the lias of Devon, Somerset, and Dorset was purchased by the government for 3,000l. and placed in the British Museum. A strong memorial was presented without success in March 1839 in favour of a public grant for the purchase of a second collection which Hawkins had formed. Hawkins generously presented a number of fine specimens of saurian fossils from the south of England lias to the geological museums of Cambridge (1856) and Oxford (1874). He died in the Isle of Wight in October 1889.

Hawkins wrote: 1. ‘Memoirs of Ichthyosauri and Plesiosauri,’ twenty-eight plates, imp. fol., London, 1834. 2. ‘The Book of the Great Sea-Dragons,’ with thirty plates, copied from the Hawkins collection in the British Museum, London, imp. fol., 1840. 3. ‘The Lost Angel and the History of the Old Adamites, found written on the Pillars of Seth. A Poem,’ 4to, London, 1840. 4. ‘One Centenary of Sonnets, to her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria,’ royal 16mo, London, 1841. 5. ‘The Wars of Jehovah in Heaven, Earth, and Hell,’ with eleven engravings by John Martin, imp. 4to, London, 1844. 6. ‘Victorian Verses,’ imp. fol., 1848. 7. ‘Prometheus: a Lyrical Drama,’ 4to, London, 1850. 8. ‘The Christian,’ crown 8vo, London, 1853. 9. ‘Cicero's (supposed lost) Book on Glory,’ demy 4to. 10. ‘Contra Judæos, Gentiles, et Hæreticos;’ a tract (supposed) by St. Chrysostom, demy 4to. 11. ‘My Life and Works’ (only 1 vol. published), London, 1887, 8vo. Also various pamphlets between 1846 and 1850. 

HAWKINS or HAWKYNS, WILLIAM (d. 1554?), sea-captain and merchant, son of John Hawkyns of Tavistock (d. before 1490) and his wife Joan, daughter of William Amadas of Launceston, was probably born at Plymouth, where his father held land under the corporation. His alleged kinship with the family of Hawkins of Nash in Kent is entirely unsubstantiated. Neither his son, Sir John Hawkyns, nor Sir John's son, Sir Richard, used the arms of the Nash family—argent, on a saltire sable, five fleurs-de-lys or. All evidence points to the Hawkynses being a Devonshire family, settled for many generations at Tavistock.

Early in the sixteenth century William Hawkyns was a well-to-do freeman of Plymouth. He seems to have combined the businesses of shipowner, captain, and merchant, also serving occasionally as an officer of the king's ships. He may probably be identified with the Hawkyns who in 1513 was master of the Great Galley, a ship of 700 tons and four hundred men. The captain of the Great Galley at this time was one John Flemyng, and in the same fleet William Gonson was captain of the Mary Grace (Letters and Papers of the Reign of Henry VIII, i. 552). In the next generation the families of Flemyng and Hawkyns intermarried with that of Gonson. We may suppose that he was the William Hawkyns who in 1523, and again in 1524, was associated with John Amadas as a collector of the subsidy in Devonshire (ib. iii. 1362; iv. 233).

Hawkyns is described by Hakluyt as ‘a man for his wisdom, valour, experience, and skill in sea causes, much esteemed and beloved of King Henry VIII, and one of the principal sea-captains in the west parts of England in his time.’ Only three of his many voyages are specially mentioned. In or about 1528, in command of his own ship, the Pole, of 250 tons, he sailed for the Guinea coast, where he traded with the negroes for ivory