- and present state, civil and ecclesiastical,’ London, 1806, 4to.
- An edition of Sampson Erdeswicke's ‘Survey of Staffordshire … collated with manuscript copies and with additions and corrections,’ Westminster, 1820, 8vo, and again, London, 1844, 8vo.
- ‘Annotations, Ecclesiastical and Devotional: intended to illustrate the Liturgy and the XXXIX Articles of the United Church of England and Ireland; with an Historical Introduction,’ London, 1826, 8vo.
An engraved portrait appears in Harwood's edition of Erdeswicke's ‘Staffordshire.’
[Brit. Mus. Addit. MS. 19167, f. 266; Baker's Biog. Dramatica, i. 313, ii. 156; Biog. Dict. of Living Authors, p. 148; Gent. Mag. 1843, pt. i. 202; Erdeswicke's Survey of Staffordshire, 1844, p. lxxv; Graduati Cantabr. 1873, p. 186; Literary Memoirs of Living Authors, i. 240; Lowndes's Bibl. Man. (Bohn), pp. 751, 1009; Nichols's Illustr. of Lit. vi. 313–15.]
HASELDEN, THOMAS (d. 1740), mathematician, was for some time schoolmaster at Wapping Old Stairs, and afterwards ‘head-master of the Royal Academy at Portsmouth.’ In 1722 he published ‘Description and Use of … that most excellent Invention commonly call'd Mercator's Chart; to which is added the Description of a new Scale whereby Distances may be measured at one extent of a Pair of Compasses.’ To this was prefixed a letter to Dr. Halley, concerning the Globular Chart, which produced a reply the same year by Henry Wilson in his ‘Description of the Globular Chart,’ with ‘proof that his [i.e. Haselden's] principal argument is false, the rest invalid, and the whole incoherent.’ Haselden soon after printed ‘Reply to Mr. Wilson's Answer to my Letter,’ with a further vindication of the ‘Mercator's Chart,’ and a second letter to Dr. Halley prefixed (1722, 8vo). At that time Haselden designates himself ‘Teacher of Mathematics to his Majesty's Volunteers in the Royal Navy.’ In 1730 he published ‘Mathematic Lessons for Students in the Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, composed by the Abbot de Molières; done into English by T. H.’ In 1788 there was issued a new edition of the ‘Seaman's Daily Assistant,’ said to be by Haselden. Haselden was elected to the Royal Society 17 Jan. 1739–40; but from the tables in Thomson's history of the society it seems doubtful if he was admitted fellow. He died in May 1740. His portrait by T. Faye (1735) was engraved by Faber (1740).
[Evans's Cat. of Engraved Portraits, vol. ii.; Thomson's Hist. Roy. Soc. p. xli.]
HASELEY, WILLIAM de (fl. 1266), a monk of Westminster, 'magister novitorum,' and finally sub-prior there, compiled, at the request of Richard de la Ware, abbot of Westminster, in 1266 the 'Consuetudinarium Monachorum Westmonasteriensium,' part of which is extant among the Cotton. MSS. (Otho C. xi.) On 3 May 1283 Hugh Balsham (or Belesale), then bishop of Ely, granted an indulgence of twenty days to all persons visiting Westminster Abbey and praying at Haseley's tomb. A copy of the indulgence is among the muniments of Westminster Abbey (Hist. MSS. Comm. 4th Rep. p. 183).
[Tanner's Bibl. Brit.]
HASELL, ELIZABETH JULIA (1830–1887), miscellaneous writer, was the second daughter of Edward Williams Hasell of Dalemain, near Penrith. She was born on 17 Jan. 1830, and was carefully educated at home. At the same time she taught herself, with little or no assistance, Latin, Greek, Spanish, and Portuguese. About 1858 she began to contribute to ‘Blackwood's Magazine’ and also to the ‘Quarterly Review,’ reviewing in the latter Lord Derby's translation of the ‘Iliad.’ At this time her attention was largely concentrated on Greek literature. Subsequently she devoted herself chiefly to the literatures of Southern Europe, of which she acquired a knowledge at once accurate and extensive; and after writing sundry magazine articles on Spanish and Portuguese authors, she compiled two of the most scholarly volumes in the series of ‘Foreign Classics for English Readers,’ those on Calderon and Tasso, both published in 1877. She also reviewed occasionally in the ‘Athenæum.’ But besides pursuing her studies she gave a large portion of her time to promoting education and the general welfare of the district in which she lived, walking long distances across the hills to teach in village schools or deliver extempore addresses, in which she showed a quite unusual facility. Her philanthropic exertions probably hastened her death, as in her desire to do good to a scattered population she made light of fatigue and exposure to rain and cold. A deeply religious woman, she was well read in theology, and published:
- ‘The Rock: and other short lectures on passages of Holy Scripture,’ 1867.
- ‘Short Family Prayers,’ 1879, 1884.
- ‘Bible Partings,’ 1883.
A devotional work, ‘Via Crucis et Lucis,’ was the last book she wrote. She died on 16 Nov. 1887.
[Private information; Brit. Mus. Cat.]
HASELWOOD, THOMAS (fl. 1380), historian, was a canon regular at the monastery of Leeds in Kent, where he was employed as a schoolmaster. Bale, on the au-
