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Horneck tion; took a prominent part in the opening ceremony; gave 10l. towards the glazing of the chapel, and a number of vestments also. But he did not neglect Peterhouse, his own college. In the chapel, now the church of St. Mary the Less, he founded a chantry, building the necessary chapel, and in 1516 providing vestments for the services. Horneby died on 12 Feb. 1517–18, and was buried in Peterhouse chapel. By his will he directed masses to be said for him and for the Countess of Richmond in various churches; he also gave 20l. to poor scholars in the university of Cambridge, 40l. to the master and fellows of Peterhouse, and 60l. to the poor scholars there. It is said that Horneby founded a school at Boston in Lincolnshire. A portrait in ecclesiastical dress is in the college library.

Horneby wrote, according to Tanner, besides other works of a devotional character: 1. ‘Historia Nominis Jesu.’ 2. ‘Historia visitationis Beatæ Mariæ Virginis.’

 HORNECK, ANTHONY (1641–1697), divine, was born at Bacharach on the Rhine in 1641. His father was ‘recorder’ of the town, and brought him up as a protestant (, Life of Horneck). He studied at Heidelberg under Frederick Spanheim, then professor of divinity, and is said to have distinguished himself in a disputation upon Jephthah's vow. For unknown reasons, he came to England about 1661. He became a member of Queen's College, Oxford, 24 Dec. 1663, and was made chaplain by Thomas Barlow [q. v.], then provost, and afterwards bishop of Lincoln. He was incorporated M.A. (Wood says ‘from Wittenberg,’ probably a mistake for Heidelberg) 15 March 1663–4. He was presented by Lincoln College to the vicarage of All Saints, Oxford. In 1665 he became tutor to Lord Torrington, son of the Duke of Albemarle. The duke gave him the living of Dolton, Devonshire, and procured for him a prebend at Exeter Cathedral worth 20l. a year. He was admitted 13 June 1670. In 1669 he revisited Germany, and was honourably received at the court of the elector palatine. In 1671 he was appointed preacher at the Savoy, and soon afterwards married. He became so popular as a preacher that it was said that his parish extended from Whitechapel to Whitehall. Chairs, according to tradition, had to be placed outside the windows to accommodate his overflowing congregation. Kidder speaks of the crowds which made it necessary for him to obtain assistants in administering the sacrament, and Evelyn (18 March 1683) calls him ‘a most pathetic preacher and a person of saint-like life.’ He insisted upon resigning Dolton upon obtaining the Savoy preachership, although his salary at the Savoy was trifling, and he had to hire a house near his church. He became the father of four children, and his charity was so great as to impoverish him. Kidder also says that he injured any chance of preferment by the plainness of his reproofs to great men. In 1689 Tillotson was consulted by the Countess of Bedford upon the appointment to the church of Covent Garden. Horneck's name had been suggested, but he was rejected on account of his unpopularity in the parish (Life of Tillotson, 1752, pp. 227, 332). The causes, as Birch remarks, are not now ascertainable; but Kidder tells us that he lost many patrons at this time by taking the oaths to the new rulers. He further gave offence by his share in founding one of the societies for the reformation of manners. Burnet (Own Time, Oxford edit., v. 18) says that Horneck and William Beveridge [q. v.] were leaders in this movement just before the revolution. The rules of one society, apparently formed by Horneck at the suggestion of some young men of his congregation, are given by Kidder (pp. 13–16). Possibly the Covent Garden people may have thought him a renegade, or a fosterer of institutions leaning towards popery. He had received the D.D. degree from Cambridge in 1681, in compliment, says Wood, to the (second) Duke of Albemarle, his old pupil, soon afterwards chancellor of the university, and in January 1688–9 was appointed one of eight chaplains to King William (, Relation, i. 497). Edward Russell, afterwards Earl of Orford (commissioner of the admiralty in 1690), recommended him to the queen, who obtained for him a promise from Tillotson of the next vacant prebend at Westminster. He was accordingly installed 1 July 1693. He resigned his prebend at Exeter, but was admitted to a prebend at Wells, which required no residence, by his friend Bishop Kidder, 28 Sept. 1694. He died 31 Jan. 1696–7, after much suffering from stone, and was buried in Westminster Abbey.

Horneck appears to have been a man of singularly pure and amiable character. His friend Kidder says that he was exceedingly 