HASLERIG, Sir ARTHUR (d. 1661), statesman. [See Hesilrige.]
HASLETON, RICHARD (fl. 1595), traveller, has related his travels in the very scarce ‘Strange and wonderful things happened to Rd. Hasleton, borne at Braintree in Essex, in his ten yeares travailes in many forraine countries. Penned as he delivered it from his owne mouth,’ 1595, 4to, printed by Adam Islip for William Barley. Another edition was printed in 1600 by Thomas Pavier. The 1595 edition has cuts, said to be taken from Poliphilo.
[Ames's Typogr. Antiq. (Herbert), pp. 1277, 1285, 1363; Lowndes's Bibl. Manual (Bohn).]
HASLEWOOD, JOSEPH (1769–1833), antiquary, was born in London (at the Lying-in-Hospital in Brownlow Street, Drury Lane) 5 Nov. 1769. At an early age he entered the office of his uncle, Mr. Dewberry, a solicitor in Conduit Street, afterwards became a partner, and ultimately succeeded to the business. He distinguished himself by his zeal for antiquarian studies; his editorial labours were considerable, and he collected a curious library. Among the works that he edited were ‘Tusser's Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry,’ 1810; Juliana Berners or Barnes's ‘Book of St. Albans,’ 1810; Painter's ‘Palace of Pleasure,’ 1813; ‘Antient Critical Essays upon English Poets and Poesy,’ 2 vols. 1811–1815; ‘Mirror for Magistrates,’ 2 vols. 1815; and ‘Drunken Barnaby's Journal,’ 1 vol. 1817–18, 2 vols. 1820. The 1820 edition of ‘Barnaby's Journal’ contains an elaborate notice of the works of Richard Brathwait, whose claim to the authorship of the famous ‘Itinerary’ Haslewood firmly established.
Haslewood supplied Brydges with occasional communications for ‘Censura Literaria,’ 1807–9, and ‘The British Bibliographer,’ 1810–14. He was one of the founders of the Roxburghe Club, and conducted some of the club books through the press. In 1809 he published ‘Green-Room Gossip; or Gravity Gallinipt,’ and in 1824 ‘Some Account of the Life and Publications of the late Joseph Ritson, Esq.,’ 8vo. Occasionally he contributed to the ‘Gentleman's Magazine.’
He died on 21 Sept. 1833 at Addison Road, Kensington. At the sale of his library Thorpe, the bookseller, bought for 40l. a collection of Haslewood's manuscript notes on the proceedings of the Roxburghe Club. This ill-written and insipid record of the club's achievements was entitled ‘Roxburghe Revels; or, An Account of the Annual Display, culinary and festivous, interspersed incidentally with matters of Moment and Merriment. Also, Brief Notices of the Press Proceedings by a few Lions of Literature, combined as the Roxburghe Club, founded 17 June 1812.’ Falling into unfriendly hands, the manuscript afforded material for a virulent attack on Haslewood's memory in the ‘Athenæum,’ January 1834. In 1837 James Maidment reprinted the ‘Athenæum’ articles at Edinburgh, with a memoir of Haslewood, under the title ‘Roxburghe Revels, and other Relative Papers; including Answers to the attack on the Memory of the late Joseph Haslewood, Esq., F.S.A., with Specimens of his Literary Productions,’ 4to (fifty copies, privately printed; uniform with the Roxburghe Club publications). A valuable collection of ‘Proclamations’ formed by Haslewood is now in the library of the Duke of Buccleuch at Dalkeith; nine volumes of newspaper cuttings, prints, &c., illustrative of stage-history, are preserved in the British Museum. Haslewood was a keen collector of fugitive tracts. It was his fancy to bind several together in a volume, and affix some absurd title, as ‘Quaffing Quavers to Quip Queristers,’ ‘Tramper's Twattle, or Treasure and Tinsel, from the Tewkesbury Tank,’ ‘Nutmegs for Nightingale,’ &c.
[Roxburghe Revels, Edinburgh, 1837; Gent. Mag. 1833, ii. 467.]
HASSALL or HALSALL, EDWARD (fl. 1667), royalist, born about 1627, was probably a member of an old family seated at Halsall, near Ormskirk, Lancashire. He fought in the defence of Lathom House in 1644, and was wounded. A diary which he kept of the siege, extending from 28 Feb. to 27 May 1644, is preserved among Wood's manuscripts in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford. Another copy in the British Museum (Harleian MS. 2074) has been printed in a modernised form in Draper's ‘House of Stanley.’ The authorship of the diary has, however, been also ascribed to both Colonel Edward Chisenhale [q. v.] and to Ralph Brideoake [q. v.], then one of Lord Derby's chaplains. Hassall, who attained the rank of major, was one of the four cavaliers who, on 5 June 1650, assassinated Anthony Ascham [q. v.] at Madrid (Cal. Clarendon State Papers, ii. 63, 220, 343). He was imprisoned there for four months, but in October was released, and went to England to act as a spy on the leaders of the commonwealth (ib. ii. 260). From a letter of his brother James to the king, dated 12 Feb. 1655, it would seem that he had planned to surprise and secure Liverpool for Charles (ib. iii. 16). He accompanied his brother to Flanders in June of that year, and in the following November
