in the early church was associated with an expectation that the second advent would occur on an Easter Sunday.
For details of the ceremonial observed in the Roman Catholic Church during this week, reference must be made to the Missal and Breviary. In the Eastern Church the week is marked by similar practices, but with less elaboration and differentiation of rite. See also Easter, Good Friday, Maundy Thursday, Palm Sunday and Passion Week.
HOLYWELL (Tre’ffynnon, well-town), a market town and
contributory parliamentary borough of Flintshire, N. Wales,
situated on a height near the left bank of the Dee estuary, 196 m.
from London by the London & North-Western railway (the
station being 2 m. distant). Pop. of urban district (1901) 2652.
The parish church (1769) has some columns of an earlier building,
interesting brasses and strong embattled tower. The remains of
Basingwerk Abbey (Maes glas, green field), partly Saxon and
partly Early English, are near the station. It is of uncertain
origin but was used as a monastery before 1119. In 1131
Ranulph, 2nd earl of Chester, introduced the Cistercians. In
1535, when Its revenues were £150, 7s. 3d., it was dissolved, but
revived under Mary I. and used as a Roman Catholic burial
place in 1647. Scarcely any traces remain of Basingwerk castle,
an old fort. Small up to the beginning of the 19th century,
Holywell has increasingly prospered, thanks to lime quarries,
lead, copper and zinc mines, smelting works, a shot manufactory,
copper, brass, iron and zinc works; brewing, tanning and
mineral water, flannel and cement works. St Winifred’s holy
well, one of the wonders of Wales, sends up water at the rate
of 21 tons a minute, of an almost unvarying temperature,
higher than that of ordinary spring water. To its curative
powers many crutches and ex voto objects, hung round the well,
as in the Lourdes Grot, bear ample witness. The stones at the
bottom are slightly reddish, owing to vegetable substances.
The well itself is covered by a fine Gothic building, said to have
been erected by Margaret, countess of Richmond and mother
of Henry VII., with some portions of earlier date. The chapel
(restored) is used for public service. Catholics and others visit
it in great numbers. There are swimming baths for general use.
In 1870 a hospice for poorer pilgrims was erected. Other public
buildings are St Winifred’s (Catholic) church and a convent,
a town hall and a market-hall. The export trade is expedited
by quays on the Dee.
HOLYWOOD, a seaport of county Down, Ireland, on the east
shore of Belfast Lough, 412 m. N.E. from Belfast by the Belfast
& County Down railway. Its pleasant situation renders it a
favourite residential locality of the wealthier classes in Belfast.
There was a religious settlement here from the 7th century, which
subsequently became a Franciscan monastery. The old church
dating from the late 12th or early 13th century marks its site.
A Solemn League and Covenant was signed here in 1644 for the
defence of the kingdom, and the document is preserved at Belfast.
HOLZMINDEN, a town of Germany, in the duchy of Brunswick,
on the right bank of the Weser, at the foot of the Sollinger
Mountains, at the junction of the railways Scherfede-Holzminden
and Soest-Börssum, 56 m. S.W. of Brunswick. Pop.
(1905) 9938. It has an Evangelical and a Roman Catholic
church, a gymnasium, an architectural school and a school of
engineering. The prosperity of the town depends chiefly on
agriculture and the manufacture of iron and steel wares, and of
chemicals, but weaving and the making of pottery are also
carried on, and there are baryta mills and polishing-mills for
sandstone. By means of the Weser it carries on a lively trade.
Holzminden obtained municipal rights from Count Otto of
Eberstein in 1245, and in 1410 it came into the possession of
Brunswick.
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HOLZTROMPETE (Wooden Trumpet), an instrument somewhat resembling the Alpenhorn (q.v.) in tone-quality, designed by Richard Wagner for representing the natural pipe of the peasant in Tristan and Isolde. This instrument is not unlike the cor anglais in rough outline, being a conical tube of approximately the same length, terminating in a small globular bell, but having neither holes nor keys; it is blown through a cup-shaped mouthpiece made of horn. The Holztrompete is in the key of C; the scale is produced by overblowing, whereby the upper partials from the 2nd to the 6th are produced. A single piston placed at a third of the distance from the mouthpiece to the bell gives the notes D and F. Wagner inserted a note in the score concerning the cor anglais for which the part was originally scored, and advised the use of oboe or clarinet to reinforce the latter, the effect intended being that of a powerful natural instrument, unless a wooden instrument with a natural scale be specially made for the part, which would be preferable. The Holztrompete was used at Munich for the first performance of Tristan and Isolde, and was still in use there in 1897. At Bayreuth it was also used for the Tristan performances at the festivals of 1886 and 1889, but in 1891 W. Heckel’s clarina, an instrument partaking of the nature of both oboe and clarinet, was substituted for the Holztrompete and has been retained ever since, having been found more effective.[1] (K. S.)
HOMAGE (from homo, through the Low Lat. hominaticum, which occurs in a document of 1035), one of the ceremonies used in the granting of a fief, and indicating the submission of a vassal to his lord. It could be received only by the suzerain in person. With head uncovered the vassal humbly requested to be allowed to enter into the feudal relation; he then laid aside his sword and spurs, ungirt his belt, and kneeling before his lord, and holding his hands extended and joined between the hands of his lord, uttered words to this effect: “I become your man from this day forth, of life and limb, and will hold faith to you for the lands I claim to hold of you.” The oath of fealty, which could be received by proxy, followed the act of homage; then came the ceremony of investiture, either directly on the ground or by the delivery of a turf, a handful of earth, a stone, or some other symbolical object. Homage was done not only by the vassal to whom feudal lands were first granted but by every one in turn by whom they were inherited, since they were not granted absolutely but only on condition of military and other service. An infant might do homage, but he did not thus enter into full possession of his lands. The ceremony was of a preliminary nature, securing that the fief would not be alienated; but the vassal had to take the oath of fealty, and to be formally invested, when he reached his majority. The obligations involved in the act of homage were more general than those associated with the oath of fealty, but they provided a strong moral sanction for more specific engagements. They essentially resembled the obligations undertaken towards a Teutonic chief by the members of his “comitatus” or “gefolge,” one of the institutions from which feudalism directly sprang. Besides homagium ligeum, there was a kind of homage which imposed no feudal duty; this was homagium per paragium, such as the dukes of Normandy rendered to the kings of France, and as the dukes of Normandy received from the dukes of Brittany. The act of liege homage to a particular lord did not interfere with the vassal’s allegiance as a subject to his sovereign, or with his duty to any other suzerain of whom he might hold lands.
The word is also used of the body of tenants attending a manorial court, or of the court in a court baron (consisting of the tenants that do homage and make inquiries and presentments, termed a homage jury).
HOMBERG, WILHELM (1652–1715), Dutch natural philosopher,
was the son of an officer of the Dutch East India Company,
and was born at Batavia (Java) on the 8th of January 1652.
Coming to Europe with his family in 1670, he studied law at
Jena and Leipzig, and in 1674 became an advocate at Magdeburg.
In that town he made the acquaintance of Otto von Guericke,
and under his influence determined to devote himself to natural
science. He, therefore, travelled in various parts of Europe for
study, and after graduating in medicine at Wittenberg, settled
in Paris in 1682. From 1685 to 1690 he practised as a physician
at Rome; then returning to Paris in 1691, he was elected a
member of the Academy of Sciences and appointed director of
- ↑ Communicated by Madame Wagner, December 28th, 1897.
