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* HIMMEL. So HIND. Alexis" and ''Es kann ja nicht immer so bleibcn" were best liked. He also composed much Church and instrumental music. HIM'YARITES. A name formerly used for a people of Southwestern Arabia, the Homerites of Ptolemy. According to tradition they came from a mythical ancestor, Himyar, who lived 3000 years before Mohammed. The more correct name of the people is Sabiean, from Saba, the capital of the district. See Sab.«;ans; Mi- If.EANS. HINCKLEY, hlnk'li. A manufacturing and market town in Leicestershire, England. 1.3 miles southwest of Leicester (Map: England, E 4). Its chief buildings are the Gothic Church of Saint Mary, the Roman Catholic priory and Academy of Saint Peter, and a town hall. It has manu- factures of cotton hosiery and boots. Hinckley stands on old Watling Street, the famous Roman road; it was created a barony soon after the Conquest, and had a castle and a Benedictine priory: its borough privileges were annulled by Edwa'rd IV. Population, in 1891, 9600; in 1901, 11,300. HINCKLEY, Thomas (IGIS-ITOO). Govern- or of Plymouth Colony from 1681, except during the administration of Sir Edmund Andros, until 1692, when Plymouth was united with ilassa- chusetts. Of English birth, he came to the New England Colonics in 16.3.5, and began to be active in the affairs of Plymouth in 1639, and was successively deputy, representative, and mag- istrate during 1645-80. In the latter year he was also Deputy Governor. Seven years before his appointment as Governor he held the office of commissioner on the central board of the Plym- outh and Massachusetts Colonies, and continued in that position until the end of his govenior- ship, and was afterwards a councilor. Governor Hinckley collected several volumes of papers which are now in the possession of the Boston Public Library. HINCKS, Edward (1792-1866). An Irish Orientalist, son of Thomas Dix Hincks, the Pres- byterian divine, and brother of Sir Francis Hincks, the Canadian statesman. Edward was born at Cork, and studied from 1807 to 1811 in Trinity College, Dublin. In 1825 he was ap- pointed rector of Killyleagh. County Down, where, in spite of his seclusion, he undertook studies in hieroglyphics (1833). and wrote for the Dublin University Ma(in~ine and the Journal of Sacred Literature. Simultaneously with Raw- linson he discovered the syllabic character of the Assyrian cuneiform letters, and he had earlier written on the Egyptian hieroglypliics, and ac- cording to Brugsch was the first to decipher them correctly. He began an Assyrian grammar, but did not leave materials for its completion. HINCKS, Sir Francis (1807-85). A Cana- dian statesman, born at Cork. He went to Canada at the age of twenty-four, entered into business at Toronto, where he also edited the Kxntniner (1838). and became a leader among the Liberals, taking his seat in the first I'nited Parliament in 1841. Three years afterwards, while his party was out of power, he directed the Montreal Pilot, and labored always for responsible government, and for the abolition of the clerg>' n^serves and of the seigneurial system of landholding. When Hincks was made Premier of the Canadas in 1851, he negotiated a commercial treaty with the L'nited States, and e.erted himself to further the development of mines and railways : but got the country into debt, and, being accused by the L'pper Canadian Protestants of favoring the Lower Canadian Roman Catholics, he gradually lost ground, and the Conservatives took the helm again in 1854. He was made Governor of Bar- bados (1855-62), and of British Guiana (1862 69), but afterwards returned to Canada, and was Minister of Finance until 1873, and edited after- wards the Montreal Journal of Commerce. He published: Canada: Its Financial Position and Resources (1849); Reply to the Speech of Sir J. Uoiee on the Union of the Xorth American Provinces (1855); Religioii.s Kndouments in Canada (1869) : The Political History of Canada Between 1S.',0 and 18.J.5 (1877) ; and The Bound- aries Formerly in Dispute Bettceen (Jreat Britain and the United States (1885). HINC'MAB (806-82). A celebrated church- man of the ninth century. He was born in 806. presumably in Toulouse, as he belonged to the family of the counts of that province' He was educated in the Monastery of Saint-Denis, near Paris, and was intrusted with the framing and carrying out of a plan for the reformation of the monastery. In 845 he was elected Arch- bishop of Rheims. In this position he had to deal with the case of the alleged heretic Gott- schalk (q.v. ). whom he treated with great .sever- ity. In 862 he became involved in a controversy with Pope Nicholas I. Rothadius, Bishop of Soissons and suffragan of Hincmar. deposed a priest of his diocese, who appealed to Hincmar, as metropolitan, and was ordered by him to be restored to office. Rothadius. resisting this order, and having been, in consequence, condemned and excommunicated by the Archbishop, appealed to the Pope, who ordered Hincmar to restore Rothadius, or to appear at Rome in person, or by his representative, to vindicate the sentence. Hincmar sent a legate to Rome, but refused to restore the deposed bishop: whereupon Nicholas annulled the sentence, and required that the cause should again he heard in Rome. Hincmar, after some demur, was forced to acquiesce. The cause of Rothadius was reexamined, and he was acquitted, and restored to his see. I'nder the successor of Nicholas, Adrian II.. a question arose as to the succession to the sovereignty of Lorraine on the death of King Lothaire. the Pope favoring the pretensions of the Emperor Louis II. in opposition to those of Charles the Bald of France. To the mandate which Adrian addressed to the subjects of Charles and to the nobles of Lorraine, accompanied by a menace of the censures of the Church. Hincmar oflrere<i a firm and persistent opposition. He was equally firm in resisting the undue extension of the" royal prerogative in ecclesiastical affairs. Hincmar died at Epernay, whither he had fled from the Normans. December 21. 882. His works were col- lected by Sirmond (Paris, 1645). reprinted in Migne. Patrol. Lat.. cxxv.-cx.xvi. Jfany others of his works are still in MSS. For his life, consult Schrtirs (Freiburg. 1884). HIND (AS.. Icel. hind. OHO. hinta. Oer. Hindc. hind: probably connected with Goth, hin- ]fan. to catch, related to .S. huntinn. Eng. hunt. possibly connected with Ok. Ktiiis. kema.'). ga- zelle). The female of the red deer, a correlative of 'stag' or liarf (q.v.). In strict use, accord-