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 4to; 2nd edit. same year; 3rd edit. [1696], 4to; reprinted W. ii. 377.
 * 1) ‘The Good Old Cause; or, The Divine Captain … Sermon preach'd in a Camp,’ &c., 1692, 4to; 1704, 4to; reprinted W. ii. 512.
 * 2) ‘The Lay-Clergy; or, the Lay Elder,’ &c., 1695, 4to; reprinted W. i. 318.
 * 3) ‘The Parliament Tacks … Account of the Tacking Affair,’ &c., 1703 (?); reprinted M. T.
 * 4) ‘Priestcraft; its Character and Consequences,’ 1705 (?); reprinted, 2nd edit. M. T. (new title, ‘A General History of Priestcraft’).
 * 5) ‘Priestcraft … Second Part,’ &c., 1705 (?); reprinted M. T.
 * 6) ‘The Vindication of Priestcraft,’ &c., 1706 (?); reprinted, 2nd edit. M. T. (Nos. 27, 28, and 29 form W. iii.; reissued 1721, with title, ‘The History of Priests and Priestcraft’).
 * 7) ‘The Survey of the Earth,’ &c., 1705 (?); reprinted, 2nd edit. M. T.
 * 8) ‘A Burlesque Poem in Praise of Ignorance,’ &c., 1708, 4to (dated, Pond-Hall in Essex, 15 Jan. 1707–8; chiefly written in 1650 at Cambridge; Hudibrastic metre).

 HICKES, FRANCIS (1566–1631), translator, son of Richard Hickes, an arras-weaver, of Barcheston or Barston, Warwickshire, was born in 1566 at Shipston, in the parish of Tredington, Worcestershire. He matriculated at St. Mary Hall, Oxford, at the age of thirteen. He proceeded B.A. 30 April 1583. He retired into the country and engaged himself in translating from the Greek. He spent most of his life at Barston and Shipston, died at Sutton in Gloucestershire, at the house of a kinsman, on 9 Jan. 1630–1, and was buried in the chancel of the adjacent church of Brayles, Worcestershire.

His only published translation was ‘Certaine Select Dialogues of Lucian: together with his True Historie, translated from the Greeke into English,’ Oxford, 1634, 4to, with a life of Lucian by his son Thomas. It was reprinted with Jasper Mayne's ‘Part of Lucian made English,’ Oxford, 1664, folio. Hickes left in manuscript: These manuscripts were placed by Hickes's son in the library of Christ Church, Oxford.
 * 1) ‘The History of the Wars of Peloponnesus, in 8 Books, written by Thucydides the Athenian.’
 * 2) ‘The History of Herodian, beginning from the Reign of the Emperor Marcus.’

His son, (1599–1634), graduated B.A. at Balliol College, Oxford, in 1620, and M.A. 1623; and later became chaplain of Christ Church. According to Wood he was a distinguished Greek scholar, a good poet, and an excellent limner.

 HICKES, GASPAR (1605–1677), puritan divine, son of a Berkshire clergyman, matriculated at Trinity College, Oxford, on 26 Oct. 1621, aged 16, graduating B.A. 1625, and M.A. 1628. His reputation in the west of England for preaching was great, and he was a good scholar. He held some benefice in 1628, possessed the incumbency of Launceston from 1630 to 1632, the vicarage of Lavnells from 1630 to 1636, and in 1632 was appointed to Landrake, all of these livings being in Cornwall, and the last being a parish in which Rous, the puritan provost of Eton, lived. When the royalists were dominant in Cornwall he withdrew to London, and on 20 April 1642 was, no doubt through the influence of Serjeant Maynard and Rous, named to parliament as one of the two Cornish divines whose advice should be sought on ecclesiastical matters. He was a member of the Westminster Assembly of Divines from July 1643, and as one of the ‘plundered ministers’ was placed in October 1644 in possession of the vicarage of Tottenham, then not above the yearly value of 50l., and a grant of 100l. per annum was assigned to him in addition out of the revenues of St. Paul's chapter in the parish. Subsequently he retired to Landrake, and as the leading presbyterian divine in the county was appointed in 1654 assistant to the commissioners for Cornwall for ejecting scandalous ministers and schoolmasters. In 1662 he was dispossessed of his benefice, but remained in the neighbourhood ministering to a few faithful friends. Some time after 1670 Hickes was prosecuted under the Conventicle Act for unlawful preaching, and when the justices of his own district refused to convict he was taken further west before Dr. Polwhele and others on the charge of keeping a conventicle in his house, and of preaching. He was fined 40l., whereupon he appealed, but without any result beyond increasing the excessive costs of the proceedings. In 1677 he died, and was buried in the porch of the parish church on 10 April, when many of the ‘godly party’ attended. 