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 and 1640; was a sturdy royalist, and suffered six weeks' imprisonment for his action at the siege of Colchester in 1648. He died at Ruckholt on 9 Oct. 1680, aged 84, having married Margaret, daughter of William, lord Paget. From his second son, Michael, descended the ninth baronet, Sir Michael Edward Hicks-Beach, who was created first Viscount St. Aldwyn in 1905.

[Wotton's Baronetage, ed. Kimber and Johnstone, i. 158; Spedding's Life of Bacon, vols. i. ii. iii.; Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1603–10, 17 May 1603, and 28 June 1604; Nichols's Progresses of James I.]  HICKS, WILLIAM (1621–1660), puritan, son of Nicholas Hicks, was born at Kerris in the parish of Paul, Cornwall, and baptised at Paul on 2 Jan. 1620–1. He was educated in the high school at Exeter and at Liskeard, and on 9 Feb. 1637–8 matriculated as a commoner at Wadham College, Oxford, where he ‘ran through the classes of logic and philosophy.’ Recalled to his native county at the beginning of the civil war, before he had taken a degree, he was, by his relatives, put in arms against the king, and, according to Wood, ‘became so fanatical in his opinion that he was esteemed by some to be little better than an anabaptist.’ He was appointed a captain in the trained bands, and was noted for his zeal against the royalists. He died at Kerris in February, and was buried in the parish church of Paul on 3 March 1659–60.

He published: ‘Ἀποκάλυψις Ἀποκάλυψεως, or the Revelation Revealed, being a practical exposition of the Revelation of St. John. Whereunto is annexed a small Essay, entituled Quinto-Monarchiæ, cum quarto Ὁμολογία, or A Friendly Complyance between Christ's Monarchy and the magistrates,’ Lond. 1659 and 1661, fol., dedicated to Sir Richard Chyverton, late lord mayor of London. Copies of the latter date have a portrait, engraved by David Loggan, of the author in a cloak. Wood states that the real author of the ‘Quinto-Monarchiæ’ was Hicks's kinsman, Alexander Harrie, a minister's son in Cornwall, B.D., and sometime fellow of Exeter College, Oxford.

 HICKS, WILLIAM, called (fl. 1671), editor of drolleries, was born in St. Thomas's parish, Oxford, of poor and dissolute parents. He began life as a tapster at the Star Inn, Oxford; at the outbreak of the civil war he became a retainer to the family of Lucas in Colchester; and afterwards was a clerk to a woodmonger in Deptford, where, ‘training the young men and putting them in a posture of defence, upon the restoration of King Charles II, he obtained the name of Captain Hicks, and was there living in 1669 when his book of jests was published’. In 1671 he published ‘Oxford Drollery; Being new Poems and Songs. The first Part, composed by W. H. The Second and third Parts being, upon several occasions, made by the most Eminent and Ingenious Wits of the said University,’ Oxford, 8vo. Prefixed is a rhyming address to the reader, dated from Shipton-upon-Cherwell, 25 July 1670. Among the poets whom Hicks laid under contribution were Cartwright, Lovelace, Suckling, &c. The pieces included are often somewhat licentious; and the captain's own verses are particularly indelicate. The success of the ‘Oxford Drollery’ led Hicks to issue ‘Grammatical Drollery, consisting of Poems and Songs. Wherein the Rules of the Nouns and Verbs in the Accedence are pleasantly made easie,’ London, 1682, 8vo. Pages 1–30 are taken up with the ‘Grammatical Drollery,’ and the rest of the book (pp. 31–117) consists of loose and humorous poems by various writers. Hicks's ‘Oxford Jests,’ first printed in 1669 (as we gather from Wood), were ‘refined and enlarged’ in 1684, 1720, &c. Another popular jest-book compiled by Hicks was ‘Coffee House Jests,’ of which a third edition appeared in 1684. Wood, who seems to have had personal knowledge of him, says: ‘This Hicks … was a sharking and indigent fellow while he lived in Oxon and a great pretender to the art of dancing (which he, forsooth, would sometimes teach).’ In addition to the works already mentioned, he issued ‘other little trivial matters merely to get bread and make the pot walk.’ The Drolleries are of some rarity.

 HICKS, WILLIAM, commonly known as (1830–1883), general, was born in 1830, and entered the Bombay army as ensign in 1849. He served as lieutenant (1856) with the first Belûchî battalion in the campaign of 1857–9, and as staff officer in the Panjâb movable column, also with General Penny in the Rohilkand campaign, and subsequently under Lord Clyde. In 1861 he obtained his company, and in the Abyssinian campaign of 1867–8 he acted as brigade-major in the first division, attaining the rank of lieutenant-colonel in 1875, and honorary colonel in 1880. It was after the conclusion of his services in the British army that Hicks 