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sion’ (anon.), 4to, 1689. 18. ‘A Letter to [Dr. Edward Fowler] the Author of a late paper entitled “A Vindication of the Divines of the Church of England”’ (anon.), 4to, n. p. 1689. 19. ‘A Word to the Wavering, in Answer to Dr. G. Burnet's Enquiry into the Present State of Affairs’ (anon.), 4to, 1689. 20. ‘An Apology for the New Separation’ (anon.), 4to, London, 1691. The lady mentioned here as not being convinced by a sermon of Archbishop Sharp, to which the tract is a reply, was Lady Gainsborough, who often contributed money to James II when in exile, and when he was in Ireland sent him 2,000l., as the king himself told Hickes. 21. ‘A Vindication of some among ourselves against the False Principles of Dr. Sherlock’ (anon.), 4to, London, 1692. 22. ‘Some Discourses upon Dr. Burnet and Dr. Tillotson’ (anon.), 4to, London, 1695. 23. ‘The Pretences of the P[rince] of W[ales] Examined and Rejected in a Letter to a Friend in the Country’ (anon.), 4to, dated from King Street, London, 7 Nov. 1701. A satirical tract in ridicule of the arguments against the birth of the prince. 24. ‘Several Letters which passed between Dr. Hickes and a Popish Priest,’ 8vo, London, 1705. The lady on whose account this book was written could not have been Robert Nelson's wife, Lady Theophila Nelson (cf. Secretan, Life of Nelson, 1865, p. 25). 25. A Latin letter to Sir Hans Sloane ‘de varia lectione inscriptionis quæ in statua Tagis exaratur, per quatuor alphabeta Hetrusca,’ printed in the ‘Philosophical Transactions,’ No. 302, 1705. 26. ‘Two Treatises: one of the Christian Priesthood, the other of the Dignity of the Episcopal Order,’ 2nd edit. 1707; 3rd edit., 2 vols., 1711. In answer to Tindal, ‘A Supplement of Additions’ was printed in 1714. 27. ‘A Second Collection of Controversial Letters relating to the Church of England and the Church of Rome, as they passed between Dr. Hickes and an Honourable Lady [Lady Gratiana Carew of Haccombe, Devonshire],’ 8vo, London, 1710. 28. ‘A Seasonable and Modest Apology in behalf of the Rev. Dr. G. Hickes and other Non-jurors, in a Letter to T. Wise, D.D.’ (anon.), 8vo, London, 1710. This is added by another hand in the manuscript list of Hickes's works, but Hearne in a note in a copy which belonged to him ascribes it to Hilkiah Bedford. 29. ‘A Discourse wherein some Account is given of Dr. Grabe and his MSS.,’ prefixed to Dr. Grabe's ‘Instances of Mr. Whiston's defects,’ &c., 8vo, London, 1712. 30. ‘Some Queries proposed to Civil, Canon, and Common Lawyers’ (anon.), in a folio half-sheet, 1712; reprinted in 8vo in 1714 with the title, ‘Seasonable Queries relating to the Birth and Birth-right of a certain Person.’ 31. ‘Sermons on Several Subjects,’ 2 vols. 8vo, London, 1713, with a preface by Nathaniel Spinckes. 32. ‘The Celebrated Story of the Thebæan Legion’ (anon.), 8vo, London, 1714. 33. ‘The Constitution of the Catholick Church and the Nature and Consequences of Schism,’ 8vo, n.p., 1716 and, abridged, 1719. Published by Thomas Deacon. 34. ‘Records of the New Consecrations.’ Narrative by Hickes of the proceedings beforehand, with the official records of the consecrations in 1694 and 1713, with facsimiles of signatures and seals, in eight pages, folio; probably printed after Hickes's death. 35. ‘A Sure Guide to the Holy Sacrament,’ 12mo, London, 1718 (British Museum Catalogue). 36. A volume of posthumous discourses, published [with a preface] by Nathaniel Spinckes, 8vo, London, 1726. 37. ‘Three Short Treatises never before printed’ [two by Hickes, the third by Kettlewell], 8vo, 1732. 38. ‘Thirteen Sermons,’ published by Nathaniel Spinckes, 8vo, London, 1741. 39. ‘A Declaration made by G. Hickes concerning the Faith and Religion in which he lived and intended to die,’ 8vo, London, 1743. To some twenty volumes he prefixed recommendatory prefaces, amongst which the best known are Susannah Hopton's reformed ‘Devotions [of John Austin] in the Ancient Way of Offices,’ a book which has gone through many editions, and ‘The Gentleman Instructed.’ F. Lee's ‘Life of Kettlewell’ is based upon papers derived from Hickes and Nelson. His editions of Thomas à Kempis and Fénelon's ‘Instructions for the Education of a Daughter’ are also well known.

[Unfinished MS. Life to 1689, followed by a complete list of his works, in Bodl. MS. Engl. Misc. e. 4; Wood's Athenæ Oxoniensis; Life in General Dict. Historical and Critical (founded on Bayle's Dict.), fol., London, 1738, vi. 153–62; from this the subsequent memoirs are abridged, and most of the notes appended to it appear to be derived from the manuscript above. (There is also a memoir among White Kennett's biographical collections in Lansdowne MS., Brit. Mus., 987, p. 184.) Notes and Queries, 2nd ser. 1860 ix. 128, 6th ser. 1885 xii. 401–3; English Historical Review, October 1887, pp. 752–4.]

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HICKES or HICKS, JOHN (1633–1685), nonconformist divine, elder brother of George Hickes [q. v.], was born in 1633 at Moorhouse, in the parish of Kirby Wiske, North Riding of Yorkshire. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and became a fellow there. For a short time he held the rectory of Stoke Damerel, Devonshire (cf. Walker, Sufferings of the Clergy,