Sovereign Lord King Charles II. in regard to religion, etc.," appears in the
" State Tracts," 1693, &c, fol. Charles Dolman repub. the entire work in his
" English Catholic Library," vol. ii., Lond. 1844, sm. 8vo., edited by Canon
Tierney ; Lond. 1850, 8vo.
Speaking of his uncle's treatise in his address to the reader, Fr. John
Huddleston says — " that (God so ordaining) it became an occasional instru-
ment towards the conversion of our late Sovereign Lord King Charles II. to
the faith and unity of the Catholic Church." When Charles was hiding in
Mr. Whitgreave's house at Moseley, he entertained himself with perusing
the MS. of Fr. Richard's treatise, which lay on the table of his nephew, who
was then chaplain at Moseley Court. Charles seriously considered it, and,
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after mature deliberation, said, " I have not seen anything more plain and
clear upon this subject. The arguments here drawn from succession are so
conclusive, I do not conceive how they can be denied."
" Charles II.'s Papers" had previously been prefixed to " Reasons of her
leaving the communion of the Church of England, and making herself a
member of the Roman Catholick Church. Written by her grace the Duchess
of York, for the satisfaction of her friends," pub. in " Copies of two Papers,"
Lond. 1686, 4to., pp. 14, and elicited—" An Answer to some papers lately
printed, concerning the authoritie of the Catholick Church in matters of Faith,
and the Reformation of the Church of England," Lond. 1686, 4to. pp. 72, by
Edw. Stillingrleet, D.D., afterwards Bishop of Worcester, which gave great
offence to James II., who engaged Dryden to write " A Defence of the Papers
written by the late King of blessed memory, and Anne, Duchess of York,
against the answer made to them," Lond. 16S6, 4to. pp. 126. There also
appeared an anonymous pamphlet, entitled, " A Reply to the Answer made
upon the three Royal Papers," (Lond.), 1686. 4to. pp. 56. Stillingfleet rejoined
with " A Vindication of the Answer to some late Papers concerning the Unity
and Authority of the Catholick Church, and the Reformation of the Church
of England," Lond. 1687, 4to. pp. 118. Next appeared " An Answer to Father
Huddleston's Short and Plain Way, &c," anon., and "Remarks on the
two Papers, written by his late Majesty King Charles II., concerning Reli-
gion," Hague, 1687, 4to., by Gilbert Burnet, D.D. At a later period
appeared, "An Answer to a book, entituled, A Short and Plain Way to
the Fauh and Church. By Samuel Grascome, a Priest of the Church of
England," Lond. 1702, Svo. pp. 210; 1715, Svo. Fr. Huddleston's account
of the death of Charles was confirmed by a curious broadside, entitled, "A
true Relation of the late King's death," one folio half sheet, by " P[ere]
M[ansuete] A C[apuchin] F[riar], Confessor to the Duke."
2. He left several other treatises in MSS., which appear to have been lost.
Hughes, Philip, musician, for more than a quarter of a
century laboured assiduously for the cause of Church music in
and around Manchester. The many choirs he conducted were
all a credit to his untiring energy and industry. His constant
attendance at Mass and Benediction, year after year, was a most
powerful example, and inspired many with his fervent spirit.
His tact and perseverance in making himself master of a vast
amount of Church and popular music for the benefit of religion
cannot be too much admired. Above all, he gave his entire
services in the Church, and in popular entertainments for the
benefit of schools, without pay or reward, although he was in
but humble circumstances. The fulfilment of his duties as
choirmaster, together with the earning of his daily bread by
the sweat of his brow, must have been most exhausting ; and
were it not for his enthusiasm for the musical services of the
Church, this gifted musician must have earlier succumbed under
his arduous duties.
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He died at West Gorton, Manchester, leaving behind him a
widow and six children, Feb. io, 1880.
CatJi. Times, March 12 and April 9, 1880.
I. He composed the music to many hymns, such as " The Hymn to
St. Alban's," " The Green Boughs meet," "O turn to Jesus' Mother, turn,"
" The Resurrection," " Jesu, dulcis memoria," " Jesus, the only Thought of
Thee," &c. He also harmonised many accompaniments. His musical works
in MS. would form a very large vol. in print.
Hull, Francis, O.S.B., a native of Devonshire, and of an
ancient family in that county, was professed in 161 5 at the
English Benedictine monastery of St. Laurence, Dieulward, in
Lorraine. He was appointed vicar of the Benedictine nuns at
Cambrai in 1629. Four years later he was made definitor, and
from 1639 to 1645 was vicar or vice-president of the English
Benedictine congregation in France. He resided at St. Edmund's
monastery at Paris, and afterwards at St. Benedict's monastery
at St. Malo, in Brittany, where he died Dec. 31, 1645.
He was the first person buried in the monastic church at St.
Malo, and on account of his being prccdicator generalis he was
honoured with a grave near the pulpit. He was a most devout
man, and possessed excellent parts, but a misconception of the
spiritual conduct of Fr. David Austin Baker, O.S.B., led him
into very great troubles, of which, says Weldon, he sorely re-
pented on his death-bed.
Do Ian, We/don's C/iron. Notes; Oliver, Collections, pp. 331, 518;
Snoiv, Bcned. Necrology.
1. Without naming his works, Weldon says that he was the author of
several pious books.
Hulme, Benjamin, Monsignor, a native of Lane-End
with Longton, co. Stafford, was born of Protestant parents, in
which religion he was brought up. His father was a master-
potter in Longton, and his son Benjamin was engaged with him
in the business until he became a Catholic. When grown up,
about 1 8 19, he became acquainted with a Catholic shoemaker
named Peter Myatt, who introduced him to the Rev. Robert
Richmond, chaplain to the Benedictine convent at Caverswall
Castle, the nearest Catholic chapel to Longton, where the nuns
now at Oulton then resided. By him he was received into the
Church, and shortly afterwards proceeded to Sedgley Park
School, and thence, in 1824, passed to Oscott College to study
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for the priesthood. There he showed his possession of more
than average abilities. When he was in Holy Orders, about
1830, his father died, and his brother was unfortunately killed
by being thrown from a horse or carriage. In order to carry
on the business till affairs could be settled, Mr. Hulme was
permitted by Bishop Walsh to return to Longton to superintend
the works. After about a year he returned to Oscott, and
resumed his studies till his ordination to the priesthood in
1831.
His first mission was Leicester, in succession to Fr. C. B.
Caestryck, O.P., who erected the chapel of the Holy Cross
there in 1817, and removed to Hartpury Court in 1831.
There he remained until 1833, when he was sent to commence
a mission at Loughborough, in the same county. The chapel
which he erected there was the signal for a wanton attack upon
Catholic doctrines by a clergyman of the Establishment, under
the signature of " Aristogeiton." Mr. Hulme published a reply
in the spring of 1 834, which he followed with a second pamphlet
in the following year. In 1840 he was removed to the mission
of Newcastle-under-Lyne. A sudden attack of illness, however,
obliged him to resign it immediately. After recovery he was
appointed in the same year to the mission of Aston Hall,^ near
Stone. Whilst there he discovered under the altar the relics of
St. Chad, which had been transferred thither from Swinnerton
and had been lost for many years. He took them to Oscott
College, and delivered an address to the students upon the
occasion.
In Feb. 1842 the mission at Aston Hall was given by the
bishop to the Passionists, then just introduced into England,
and Mr. Hulme withdrew. He took this opportunity to visit
Rome, where the dignity of monsignor was conferred upon him
by the Sovereign Pontiff. After his return to England, in
1843, he was appointed chaplain at Mawley Hall, Shropshire, a
seat of Sir Edward Blount, Bart. He retained this position
until 1847, when he took charge of the mission of Hathersage,
in Derbyshire. His mind now began to give way, and shortly
before his death he retired to his native place, Longton, and
resided with his mother, who had become a Catholic. There
he died, attended by the Rev. Edward Daniel, Aug. 9, 1852,
and was interred at Aston, where a plain cross marks his
resting-place.
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Mgr. Hulme was a priest of ability and of considerable
eloquence. He possessed the friendship of Cardinal Wiseman
and other eminent men. To judge from the stories he told of
himself before his conversion, he must have been of a romantic
disposition. He was at times somewhat eccentric, and during
the last months of his life his mind entirely gave way.
He bequeathed a considerable sum of money for the founda-
tion of a convent of the tertiaries of the Third Order of St.
Dominic somewhere in the Potteries. At that time there was
a community of this Order established at Longton. Its removal
had become necessary, and Mgr. Hulme's legacy was used to
transfer it to Stoke-upon-Trent.
Laity s Directories; Cath. Mag., vol. iii. p. 33, vol. v. p. 268,
vol. vi. p. 242 ; Orthodox Journal, 1834, vol. ii. pp. 423, 472,
vol. iii. pp. 364, 394 ; Original Letters of the Rev. Fris. Fairfax,
Rev. James Massam, and Very Rev. Thomas Cajwn Longman, to
Rev. J. Caswell, V.P., Oscoit.
1. A Reply to Aristogeiton's "Address to the Inhabitants of
Loughborough and the Vicinity, on the Erection of a Roman
Catholic Chapel in that town. By the Rev. Benj. Hulme. Lond.
(Leicester pr.), Keating & Brown, 1834, nmo. pp. 27.
This controversy was occasioned through a virulent attack on the Catholic
religion by a neighbouring clergyman (the Rev. P. Frazer), of the Hugh
McNeile type. It first appeared in the columns of the Times, and afterwards
was republished by one of the Protestant no-popery societies, in the shape of
a penny tract, and extensively distributed in Loughborough and the neigh-
bourhood. The writer was a pluralist parson and a placeman, and from his
influence in the latter capacity was enabled to get his address published in
the Times. An answer was sent by Mr. Samuel Swarbrick, but was refused
insertion by the editor, on the ground that it was a controversial letter.
Mr. Hulme, therefore, published his exposure of the anonymous writer,
which is written in an eloquent and animated style.
2. A Letter on Transubstantiation ; being the Second in Reply
to Aristogeiton's "Address, &e." Lond., Andrews, 1835, 8vo. pp. 28.
It is a compact abstract of the arguments from Scripture and ecclesiastical
antiquity in favour of the great mystery of Christian worship. The style is
pure and lofty, and the argument is irresistibly convincing.
3. Address to the Students at Oscott College on the Discovery
of the Relies of St. Chad at Aston Hall. MS.
These relics were originally in the church of St. Peter, Lichfield, and were
translated to the great church built in 1148, under the invocation of the B.V.
and St. Chad, which is now the cathedral. There they remained till the
change of religion. Arthur Dudley, prebend of Colwich, in Lichfield
Cathedral, a relative of Baron Dudley, reverentially removed the relics, and
entrusted them to two noble ladies of the house of Dudley, who resided at
HUM.] OF THE ENGLISH CATHOLICS. 473
Russell Hall, near Dudley Castle. These Catholic ladies, through fear of
the penal laws, entrusted them to the care of Henry Hodsheads, of Wood-
saton, near Sedgley, co. Stafford, and of his brother William, and thus the
relics were divided between the two brothers. The portions preserved by
Henry were handed over by him on his death-bed to Father Peter Marshall,
alias Turner, S.J., who wrote a relation of the manner in which they came
into his hands, attested by four other fathers. From that time the relics were
kept in the Staffordshire district, their history being clearly traced until their
removal from Swynnerton Hall, the seat of the Fitzherberts. Thence they
were transported to Aston Hall for the sake of security. This fact seems to
have been forgotten until Mr. Hulme discovered them under the altar,
although the key to the box in which they were deposited was kept at
Swynnerton, and had attached to it a label notifying their removal. Parti-
culars of these relics will be found in a letter by Dr. Lingard, Cath. Mag.,
iii. 298, the little " Hist, of St. Chad's Cathedral," and Br. Foley's " Records
S.J.," iii. 794-
Humberston, Augustina, O.S.A., a member of the
ancient family of this name seated at Chedgrave, co. Norfolk,
was probably a niece of FF. Edvv. and Henry Humberston,
S.J. She was a nun at the Augustinian convent of St. Monica,
Louvain, where she died.
$tk Report of the Hist. MSS. commiss.
1. Account of the Convent of Augustianesses at Louvain,
5 Oct. 1718, MS., in the old Chapter Records, Spanish Place, London,
printed in the Archceology, xxxvi. 74, 4 pp.
Humberston, Henry, Father S. J., alias Hall, born in
1638, was a younger son of Henry Humberston, of Ched-
grave, co. Norfolk, Esq., and his second wife, Mary, daughter
of Henry Yaxley, of Bowthorpe, co. Norfolk, Esq. He made
his humanity studies at St. Omer's College, entered the Society
of Jesus Sept. 14, 1657, under the alias of Hall, and was
professed of the four vows Feb. 2, 1676.
In 1672 he was camp missioner at Ghent. Two years later
he was teaching logic at Liege College, and in 1676 he was
sent to the English mission. He first served in the Yorkshire
district, and then, from about 1686, in the Worcester district
for ten years. At Worcester he injudiciously chose a text for
a sermon, preached April 18, 1686, which was open to mis-
interpretation in those times of religious animosity, and thus
excited the susceptibilities of Protestants. About three years
previous to this he was socius to Fr. John Warner, the pro-
vincial, who recommended him as a fit successor to his office,
" being strong, laborious, patient, industrious, and skilful in
474 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY [HUN.
business." On Dec. 10, 1697, he was declared provincial, and
wrote a remarkable letter when in office, dated St. Omer's
College, April 10, 1700, addressed to the father-general,
detailing the then wretched condition of Catholics in England.
At the expiration of his office, in 1701, he was appointed
rector of St. Omer till 1705, and died at Watten, Dec. 13,
1708, aged 70.
Foley, Records S.J., vols. v. and vii. ; Olivet', Collectanea S.J. ;
Kirk, Biog. Collns. MSS., No. 24.
1. A Sermon preached at Worcester, Ap. 18, 1686, being the
Second Sunday after Easter, by H. H., of the Society of Jesus.
Lond. 1686, 4to. pp. 22.
It was on the sign of the Cross, Ezech. ix. 5, 6, " Go ye after him through
the city, and strike : let not your eye spare, nor be ye moved with pity.
Utterly destroy old and young, maidens, children, and women : but upon
whomsoever you shall see Thau, kill him not, and begin ye at my
sanctuary.'' On hearing the text, Protestants said, " Here must be a bloody
sermon." The author in consequence printed it to convince the public that
it was not what they took it for. It was afterwards reprinted in " Catholic
Sermons," ii. p. 61.
Hungate, Francis, colonel, was the only son of Sir
Philip Hungate, of Saxton, co. York (created a baronet, Aug.
1642, for his loyalty to Charles I.), and Dorothy, daughter of
Roger Lee, of Hatfield, Esq., M.D., relict of Andrew Young, of
Bourn, co. York. Sir Philip not only lost his son in the cause,
but had his estates confiscated for his loyalty by act of parlia-
ment in 1652. He did not live to see the Restoration, or to
have his property restored to him, for he died in 1655.
The Hungates were one of the most ancient families in
Yorkshire, and were inter-married with the leading families of
the county. They stoutly refused to conform to the new
religion, in spite of persecution by fine and imprisonment. Sir
Philip's father, William Hungate, Esq., was a very great sufferer
for the faith, as, indeed, were all his children and their mother.
Her maiden name was Margaret Sotheby, daughter and heiress
of Roger Sotheby, of Pocklington, Esq., and because she would
not abjure the faith she was imprisoned by the northern inquisi-
tion, under the lord president of the north, in Sheriff Hutton
Castle, with numbers of other Yorkshire ladies. Her children
were equally staunch in their religion. The eldest son, Sir
William Hungate, Knt, married Jane, daughter of George
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Middleton, of Leighton Hall, co. Lancaster, Esq., but died
without surviving issue in 1634, his second son, Francis,
having accompanied his uncle, the Rev. George Middleton, to
the English college at Valladolid, in 1632, and died there in
1633 ; Roger Augustine, O.S.B., born in 1584, educated at
the English secular college at Douay,and professed at Montserrat,
served the Yorkshire mission till his death, Jan. 2, 1672,
having held the office of president-general of his order from
1 66 1 -9 ; Thomas, O.S.B., educated at Douay, was professed
in Spain, and died on the English mission in 1657 ; Robert
Gregory, O.S.B., also educated at the English college at Douay,
afterwards was professed at the Benedictine college there, in
1 610, and, passing to the English mission in Yorkshire, was
appointed provincial of York in 1653, and died before the
expiration of his office ; Sir Philip, referred to above ; Eliza-
beth, married first to Sir Marmaduke Grimston, Knt. and
secondly to Sir Henry Browne, Knt. ; Mary, married first
to Richard Cholmeley, of Brandesby, Esq., and secondly to Sir
William Howard, third son of Lord William Howard, of
Naworth ; and Katharine, wife of Sir Gilbert Stapleton, of
Carlton. The second daughter, Mary, was married to Richard
Cholmeley by an old priest named Francis Smith, in Jan. 1602,
" in a close in Saxton parish, about ten of the clock in the night."
This was the subject of another inquisition, and brought down
fresh troubles upon the heads of the devoted family.
Francis Hungate, son of the loyal Sir Philip, became a
colonel of horse in the service of his king, and was slain at
Chester in 1645.
His wife, according to Burke, was Joan, daughter of Robert
Middleton, of Leighton Hall, co. Lancaster, and co-heiress of
her brother Francis. This is evidently incorrect as regards the
Leighton family. It probably refers to one of the families of
Middleton of Westmoreland or Yorkshire. After her husband's
death, Mrs. Hungate became the wife of William Hammond, of
Scarthingwell, co. York, Esq. Colonel Hungate left a son and
namesake, Francis, who succeeded his grandfather to the
baronetcy, and a daughter, Mary, wife of John Fairfax,
younger son of Thomas, Viscount Fairfax, by a daughter of
Sir Philip Howard, of Naworth Castle. It is noteworthy that
the martyr, Fr. Nicholas Postgate, was chaplain to Lady Hun-
gate, at Saxton, until her death. The baronetcy became
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extinct on the death of Sir Charles Hungate, sixth baronet,
Dec. 3, 1749.
Castlemain, Cath. Apol. ; England's Black Tribunal; Pea-
cock, YorksJiire Papists ; Morris, Troubles, Third Series ;
Foster, Visit, of Yorks. ; Foley, Records S.T., vol. v. ; Ticrney,
TJodd's Ch. Hist,, vol. iii. pp. 122, 125 ; Burke, Extinct
Baronetcies ; Valladolid Diary, MS.
Hunt, Edward, B.A., analytical chemist, born at Ham-
mersmith, Sept. 29, 1829, was the son of Mr. Thomas Hunt,
and his wife, Maria Windsor. In 1847 he matriculated as a
student of University College, London, and was the only can-
didate who obtained honours in chemistry at the annual
examination for the degree of B.A. in 1850. Shortly after
this he went to Manchester, and for a time was engaged as
assistant to the late Mr. Crace Calvert, in the laboratory of the
Royal Institution. After being there for some time, he became
acquainted with Mr. H. D. Pochin, of the firm of H.D.Pochin and
Co., manufacturing chemists, Salford and Manchester, and from
that time to his death a very intimate relationship existed between
them. It was in the laboratory in Quay Street, in 1857, while
working with Mr. Pochin, that the important discovery was made
of the process by which- resin could be distilled without decom-
position. For that discovery a patent was taken in April, 1858.
This patent was afterwards put into very extensive working
at Runcorn Gap, and for a considerable period a very large
portion of the resin used for the production of pale yellow
soaps was made by that process. About 1861 Mr. Hunt and
Mr. Pochin joined Mr. S. Barlow as partners in the important
bleaching, dyeing, and finishing works conducted at Stakehill,
near Middleton, which partnership continued until the death of
Mr. Hunt.
During the last years of his life he devoted the whole of
his time to the consideration of chemical questions bearing upon
the industrial operations conducted in Manchester and its
neighbourhood, his knowledge of which probably was not
second to that of any existing chemist. He made many sug-
gestions and improvements which were invaluable in connection
Avith his own business at Stakehill, and was engaged in many
important trials involving very large interests, in which it was
necessary to establish the effect of many of the processes con-
HUN.] OF THE ENGLISH CATHOLICS. 4/7
nected with paper-making - , bleaching, dyeing, and finishing of
cloths for the market. The effect of certain processes in elastic-
web making was established by a most elaborate inquiry. In
all such cases, the loss of Mr. Hunt to the district of Man-
chester has been severely felt.
In 1874, Mr. Hunt married a Manchester lady, who survives
him. After a painful illness, extending over a period of nearly
twelve months, he died at his residence in Whalley Range,
Manchester, Aug. 12, 1883, aged 53.
He was elected fellow of the Chemical Society in Dec. 1 85 1,
and likewise of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Man-
chester in 1857. He also took an active part in the proceedings
of the Manchester Academia of the Catholic Religion, established
by Dr. Vaughan, Bishop of Salford, towards the close of 1875.
Journal of the Chemical Soc, vol. xlv. p. 616; Tablet, vol. lxii.
p. 292 ; Communication of the Very Rev. Canon Toole, D.D.
1. Notices of Mr. Hunt's patent for the treatment of resin for the manu-
facture of soap, April 27, 1858, will be found in the scientific and technological
journals of the period — The Chemical News, i. 274, &c.
2. " The Sanitary Precepts of the Bible. An Address delivered to the
Members of the Manchester Academia of the Catholic Religion. By
Edward Hunt, B.A., F.C.S.' 5 Pr. as a supplement to the Tablet, Lond.
Dec. 1, 1877, fol. pp. 8.
Hunt, Eleanor, confessor of the faith, was the widow of
Mr. Hunt, of Carlton Hall, near Leeds, co. York, son of Gilbert
Hunt, of the same, Esq., and Dorothy, daughter of Wm. Mallett,
of Normanton, co. York, Esq., by his third wife, Bridget, daughter
and sole heiress of Robert Fleming, of Sharlston, Esq. Another
member of this family, John Hunt, possibly Gilbert's father,
married Frances, relict of Wm. Wadeby, and daughter of James
Thomson, of Langton, co. York, Esq. Her brother Richard
Thomson married Bridget, daughter of John Fleming, and sister
of Sir Francis Fleming, master of the ordnance to Edw. VI. and
Queen Elizabeth.
Mrs. Gilbert Hunt married secondly, about 1581, Mr.
Grosvenor, of the ancient family of Bellaport, Salop, related to
the Grosvenors of Eaton Hall, Cheshire, and was the mother of
Fr. Robert Grosvenor, S.J. Her third husband, whom she
married in 1593, was a Bland, of the family seated at Kippax
Park, in Yorkshire, a Protestant, who not only refused to allow
her to attend to her religion, but seized her children's patrimony.
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She had also a son, Gilbert Hunt, born in 1576, who received
the sacrament of confirmation at Douay College on March 22,
1605, was ordained priest June 4, 1 606, and four days later was
sent to the English mission. He suffered imprisonment and
was exiled in 16 10, but returned to England, and, after some
years, entered the Society of Jesus at London, and served the
missions in the Leicestershire district, where he died March 31,
1647, aged 71. His uncle, Thurstan Hunt, was also ordained
priest at Douay College, and was martyred at Tyburn in 1601.