Whiston, the mathematician. In opinions he was a Unitarian, though he attended the services of the Church, and he left behind him A Brief Enquiry relative to the Right of His Majesty's Royal Chapel within the Tower (1728), and Causa Dei contra Novatores; or the Religion of the Bible and the Pulpit compared (1747). Also, published posthumously, The Scripture Account of God and Christ (1750). He died 19 Nov. 1749.
Admitted 14 July, 1830.
Eldest son of Joseph Hayward of Upway, Somersetshire. He was born at Wilton, near Salisbury. He was educated at Blundell's School, Tiverton, and subsequently under a private tutor. He entered at the Middle Temple from the Inner Temple, and was called to the Bar 15 June, 1832, but devoted himself chiefly to literary studies. In 1828 he established the Law Magazine, and between 1858 and 1874 published Biographical and Critical Essays. He is best known, however, as the translator of Faust (1833), as an able but somewhat acrimonious controversialist, and also as a conversationalist of accurate information and knowledge. He died in St. James's Street 2 Feb. 1884.
Admitted 28 June, 1721.
Eldest son of Benjamin Heath, a merchant of Exeter, where he was born on 20 April, 1704. On 3 Jan. 1724, he passed to the Inner Temple, but was re-admitted at the Middle 6 June, 1729. He inherited a large fortune from his father, and was thus able to devote himself to travel and study without dependence on the law. He was, however, Town Clerk of Exeter from 1752 to his death. In 1762 he was made a D.C.L. of Oxford by diploma. He took an active part in the resistance of Devonshire to Lord Bute's excise duty on cider. He died at Exeter 13 Sept. 1766. The following are his published works: An Essay towards a Demonstrative Proof of the Divine Existence, Unity, and Attributes (1740); Notæ, sive Lectiones, ad Tragicorum Græcorum veterum Æschyli, Sophoclis, Euripidis Dramata (1752); Excise Duty on Cyder and Perry [Pamphlet] (1763); A Revival of Shakespeare's Text (1765).
Admitted 26 May, 1579.
Son of John Helwys of Askham, co. Nottingham, where he was baptized 1 Sept. 1561. He was admitted to the Middle Temple from New Inn. His uncle, Geoffrey, Alderman of the City of London, and Sheriff in 1610, was also a member of the Inn. The nephew was knighted by James I. 7 May, 1603. On the committal of Sir Thomas Overbury (q.v.) to the Tower in 1613, Helwys was appointed Lieutenant of the prison through the influence of the Earl of Northampton and Robert Carr (Lord Rochester), and he is supposed to have become their instrument for doing him to death, for which he was tried and condemned on 18 Nov. 1615, though it may be doubted whether he was directly concerned in the matter. He was hanged on Tower Hill two days later, the only instance which has come to light of a Middle Templar sharing such a fate.
