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 mont and Fletcher; Stanmore in Southerne's ‘Oroonoko;’ Wildman in Mrs. Manley's ‘Lost Lover;’ Fairly in Thomas Scott's ‘Mock Marriage;’ Welborn in Mrs. Behn's ‘Younger Brother;’ and Artaban in ‘Neglected Virtue, or the Unhappy Conqueror,’ an anonymous play which Horden published, and to which he wrote and spoke the prologue. He is said by Davies to have written a Latin encomium on the ‘Treacherous Brothers’ of George Powell, who appears to have been his associate (Dramatic Miscellany, iii. 415, 416). Horden was killed (18 May 1696) in a frivolous and accidental brawl at the bar of the Rose Tavern in Russell Street, Covent Garden, a notorious haunt of gamblers and rufflers. Captain Burgess, who had been English resident in Venice, and other persons of distinction were charged with causing Horden's death. Burgess escaped, and received the king's pardon (30 Nov. 1697). The others were tried and acquitted. Colley Cibber credits Horden with the possession of a handsome person, a good deal of table wit and humour, and almost every natural gift that could promise an excellent actor, and says he was rising rapidly in public favour. Cibber continues: ‘Before he was bury'd it was observable that two or three days together several of the fair sex, well dressed, came in masks [then frequently worn], and some in their own coaches, to visit the theatrical heroe in his shroud’ (Apology, ed. Lowe, i. 303–4). The author of the ‘List of English Dramatic Poets,’ appended to Whincop's ‘Scanderbeg,’ credits him with the authorship of ‘Neglected Virtue’ before mentioned, no great honour, and says he was seven years on the stage. Genest abridges the period by four to five years. 

HORMAN, WILLIAM (d. 1535), vice-provost of Eton, was born at Salisbury, and educated partly at Winchester. According to Bale and Pits (De Illustr. Angl. Script. p. 722) he proceeded thence to King's College, Cambridge; but according to Wood (Athenæ Oxon. ed. Bliss, i. 78), he was fellow of New College, Oxford, from 1477 to 1485. In the latter year he became master of Eton, and in 1494 was presented by the college to the rectory of East Wrotham, Norfolk. In 1502 he became fellow of Eton; in 1503 he resigned his rectory, and subsequently he became vice-provost. He died at Eton 12 April 1535, and was buried in the college chapel, where there is a brass bearing his effigy and an epitaph. The latter, which is printed by Wood, suggests that he lived nearly one hundred years (‘lustra vicena’).

Horman was one of the most prolific writers of his time, many of his works being apparently compendia for school use; but he seems to have been a good critic and a scholarly divine. Only two of his works are known to have been printed, his ‘Vulgaria’ and ‘Antibossicon.’ The former, a valuable collection of sentences and aphorisms in Latin and English, was first printed by Pynson in 1519, 4to, and secondly by De Worde in 1540, both editions unpaged. The ‘Antibossicon’ (Pynson, 1521, 55 leaves, 4to, without pagination) is an attack in the form of a dialogue, partly written by Robert Aldrich [q. v.], on the grammatical works of Robert Whitynton, who had affixed to the door of St. Paul's verses written under the quaint pseudonym of ‘Bossus,’ abusing Horman's friend, William Lily [q. v.]. Horman is said to have written nearly thirty other works, but of these the titles are alone preserved by Bale, viz. ‘In Theologiam Gabrielis Biel;’ ‘Fascis rerum Britannicarum;’ ‘Farrago Historiarum’ and ‘Farrago plurium;’ ‘Compendium Historiæ Gul. Malmsburiensis;’ ‘Epitome Historiæ Joh. Pici com. Mirandulæ;’ ‘De secundo regis connubio;’ ‘Collectanea Diversorum;’ ‘Sophicorum flores;’ ‘Anatomia membrorum hominis’ and ‘Anatomia corporis humani;’ ‘Orationes et carmina;’ ‘Epistolæ ad diversos;’ ‘Elegiæ in mortem Gul. Lilii;’ ‘Apotheca carminum jucundorum;’ ‘De arte dictandi;’ ‘De orthographia;’ ‘Penultimarum syllabarum tempora;’ ‘Herbarum synonyma;’ ‘Indices Chronicorum;’ ‘In Chronica Sabellici;’ ‘Ejusdem Decades rerum Venetarum;’ ‘In Catonem, Varronem, Palladium;’ ‘In Columellam, de re rustica,’ and ‘In Moralia Æsopi.’ 

HORN, ANDREW (d. 1328), chamberlain of London and legal writer, born in London, carried on the trade of a fishmonger in Bridge Street. In 1315 he, with fifteen other fishmongers, was summoned before the sheriffs of London on a charge of using dorsers or baskets ‘not of rightful measure.’ Horn and one other person were acquitted (, Memorials of London, 1868, p. 116).