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 Headda plo … by Francis Careless, one of the Discoverers,’ London, 1673, 4to (Bodl.). 4. ‘News from the Stars by Meriton Latroon,’ 1673, 12mo. 5. ‘Western Wonder, or O, Brazile, an Inchanted Island discovered, with a Description of a place called Montecapernia,’ London, 1674, 4to. Lowndes mentions an edition of 1675 entitled, ‘O Brazil, or the Inchanted Island.’ 6. ‘Jackson's Recantation, or the Life and Death of the notorious Highwayman now hanging in chains at Hampstead,’ London, 1674 (Bodleian). 7. ‘Life and Death of Mother Shipton,’ London, 1677, 4to (Brit. Mus.), 1684, 1687, and often reprinted. 8. ‘Madam Wheedle, or the Fashionable Miss Discovered,’ London, 1678, 8vo, possibly a later edition of ‘The Miss Display'd’ mentioned above. 9. ‘Nugæ Venales, or a Complaisant Companion, being new Jests, domestick and foreign, Bulls, Rhodomontados, pleasant Novels, and Miscellanies,’ the third edition corrected, London, 1686, 12mo (Brit. Mus.). No earlier edition seems known. It is an amusing but coarse collection of stories, for the most part old. Winstanley and Wood also ascribe to Head a pamphlet (not otherwise known) said to be entitled ‘Moonshine,’ London, 1672, written in reply to Robert Wild's ‘Letter to Mr. J. J. upon His Majesty's Declaration for Liberty of Conscience’ (1672). 

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HEADLAM, THOMAS EMERSON (1813–1875), judge advocate-general, eldest son of John Headlam, archdeacon of Richmond and rector of Wycliffe, Yorkshire, who was buried there on 9 May 1853, aged 85, by Maria, daughter of the Rev. Thomas W. Morley of Clapham, was born at Wycliffe rectory, and baptised on 25 June 1813. He was educated at Shrewsbury school and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he became sixteenth wrangler and B.A. 1836, and M.A. 1839. He was called to the bar at the Inner Temple on 3 May 1839, and practised as an equity draughtsman and conveyancer, going the northern circuit and attending the North Riding sessions. After a contest he was elected a member of parliament in the liberal interest for Newcastle-upon-Tyne on 30 July 1847, and sat for that town until the dissolution in 1874. During his political career he carried through the House of Commons the Trustee Act, 5 Aug. 1850. In 1851 he was appointed a Q.C., in the same year a bencher of his inn, in 1866 reader, and in 1867 treasurer. He was a magistrate and deputy-lieutenant for the North Riding of Yorkshire and for Northumberland, and in 1854 became chancellor of the dioceses of Ripon and of Durham. He was judge advocate-general from June 1859 till July 1866, and on 18 June in the former year was gazetted a privy councillor. After his retirement from parliamentary life his health gradually failed, and on his way to winter in a southerly climate, he died at Calais on 3 Dec. 1875. He married at Richmond, Yorkshire, on 1 Aug. 1854, Ellen Percival, eldest daughter of Thomas Van Straubenzee, major in the royal artillery.

Headlam was the author or editor of: 1. ‘The Practice of the High Court of Chancery, by E. R. Daniell,’ 2nd edition with additions, 1845; 3rd edition, 1857. 2. ‘A Speech on Limited Liability in Joint-Stock Banks,’ 1849. 3. ‘The Trustee Act, 13 and 14 Vict. c. 60,’ 1850; 2nd edition, 1852; 3rd edition, 1855. 4. ‘Pleadings and Practice of the High Court of Chancery, by E. R. Daniell,’ 2nd edition, 1851. 5. ‘A Supplement to Daniell's Chancery Practice,’ 1851. 6. ‘The New Chancery Acts, 15 and 16 Vict. c. 80, 86, and 87,’ 1853.

[Times, 9 Dec. 1875, p. 9; Law Times, 11 Dec. 1875, p. 114; Illustrated London News, 11 Dec. 1875, p. 590, and 25 Dec. p. 629, with portrait.] 

HEADLEY, HENRY (1765–1788), poet and critic, baptised at Irstead, Norfolk, 27 April 1765, was only son of Henry Headley, rector of that parish to 1768, and then vicar of North Walsham to his death on 6 Oct. 1785, at the age of fifty-seven. His mother, Mary Anne Barchard, married (on 21 Sept. 1789), after her first husband's death, Anthony Taylor of Gorleston, Great Yarmouth, and died 13 Oct. 1818, in her eighty-sixth year. Headley was one of Dr. Parr's pupils at Colchester school, and went with him to Norwich. At the former school he was idle, and at Norwich Parr was at first inclined to dismiss him on that ground, but through his father's persuasion was induced to give him another trial, and the experiment ‘succeeded speedily and amply. He displayed taste, he acquired learning, he composed well.’ On 14 Jan. 1782 he was admitted a commoner of Trinity College, Oxford, under the tuition of the Rev. Charles Jesse, and on the following 27 May (Trinity Monday) was elected scholar. Bowles, the poet, and William Benwell [q. v.], a man of literary taste,