cluded in W. Bradshaw's ‘A Preparation to the Receiving of the Sacrament,’ &c.); 7th edit, 1623, 12mo. 3. ‘Lectures upon the Fourth of John,’ &c., 1629, fol. (edited by ‘J. C.,’ i.e. John Carter of Bramford, Suffolk); reprinted 1632, fol., and 1647, fol. Posthumous were: 4. ‘The Doctrine of Fasting, and Praier, and Humiliation,’ &c., 1633, fol. (sermons at Ashby in 1625 and 1629, edited by his son Samuel). 5. ‘CLII Lectures upon Psalme LI,’ &c., 1635, fol. (lectures at Ashby, edited by his son Samuel); reprinted 1642, fol.; a translation into Hungarian, with additions by M. Nogradi, was published at Kolozsvár, 1672.
[Clarke's Lives of Thirty-two English Divines, 1677, pp. 142 sq. (portrait; the account was drawn up by Simeon Ashe from materials furnished by Samuel Hildersam from his father's papers); Middleton's Biographia Evangelica, 1784, iii. 25 sq.; Brook's Lives of the Puritans, 1813, ii. 196, 376 sq.; Goadby's Memoirs of Hildersam, 1819 (on the basis of Clarke, with quotations from Hildersam's works; Goadby had lent his manuscript to Brook); Fuller's Church Hist., 1655, xi. 142 sq.; W. Lilly's Life and Times, 1774, p. 6; Neal's Hist. of the Puritans, 1822, i. 387, 394, ii. 197; Nichols's Leicestershire, ii. 626; Cole's manuscript Athenæ Cantabr.]
HILDERSAM or HILDERSHAM, SAMUEL (1594?–1674), nonconformist divine, only son of Arthur Hildersam [q. v.], was born at Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, about 1594. He was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and became fellow and B.D. In 1628 he was presented by William Cokayne, a merchant in Austin Friars, to the rectory of West Felton, Shropshire, having been ordained by an Irish bishop, without subscription. The reputation he attained was that of a good preacher and sound expositor, of quiet habits, kindly to the younger clergy, and ‘very much a gentleman.’ He was a member, but not an original member, of the Westminster Assembly, which he seldom attended. His signature to the testimony of Shropshire ministers in 1648 is evidence of his presbyterianism. Ejected from West Felton by the Uniformity Act of 1662, he made no attempt to continue his ministry, but retired to the house of a relative at Erdington, a hamlet in the parish of Aston, near Birmingham, Warwickshire. Here he died in April 1674, at the age of eighty, and was buried in Aston churchyard, without funeral sermon, by his own order. He married Mary daughter of Sir Henry Goodyear of Polesworth, Warwickshire, who survived him. Baxter and Matthew Henry speak highly of his abilities and character. He is the author of dedicatory epistles to the two posthumous volumes of his father's sermons and lectures.
[Calamy's Account, 1713, pp. 566 sq.; Calamy's Continuation, 1727, p. 723; Neal's Hist. of the Puritans, 1822, iii. 47; Hildersam's Works; Williams's Life of P. Henry, 1825, p. 458.]
HILDESLEY, JOHN (d. 1538), bishop of Rochester. [See Hilsey.]
HILDESLEY, MARK, D.D. (1698–1772), bishop of Sodor and Man, born at Murston, Kent, on 9 Dec. 1698, was eldest surviving son of Mark Hildesley, rector of Murston and also vicar of Sittingbourne from 1705. In 1710 the father became rector of Houghton, which he held with the chapel of Witton or Wyton All Saints, Huntingdonshire. About that time the son was sent to the Charterhouse School, London, where the learned Jortin was a schoolfellow. At the age of nineteen he was removed to Trinity College, Cambridge, and graduated B.A. in 1720, and M.A. in 1724. He was elected a fellow of his college in October 1723, and about the same time was appointed steward. He had been ordained deacon in 1722, and on 29 March 1723 Lord Cobham appointed him one of his domestic chaplains. In February 1724–5 he was nominated a preacher at Whitehall by Dr. Edmund Gibson, bishop of London. From 1725 till the end of 1729 he was curate of Yelling, Huntingdonshire. In February 1730–1 he was presented to the college vicarage of Hitchin, Hertfordshire, and married in the same year. He incurred great expense in improving the vicarage house, and, to augment his income, took six pupils as boarders. On 18 Jan. 1733–4 he was appointed chaplain to Henry St. John, the famous lord Bolingbroke; in October 1735 rector of Holwell, Bedfordshire, and on 10 May 1742 chaplain to John, viscount St. John. In 1750 he became an honorary member of the Gentlemen's Literary Society, established at Spalding, Lincolnshire. On 20 Feb. 1753–4 he was collated to the prebend of Marston St. Lawrence in the church of Lincoln (Le Neve, Fasti, ed. Hardy, ii. 184). His tenure of the rectory of Holwell extended over thirty-two years (1735–67), and his exemplary conduct there recommended him to the notice of the Duke of Atholl, lord of the Isle of Man, who nominated him to the see of Sodor and Man. After being created D.D. at Lambeth by Archbishop Herring on 7 April 1755 (Gent. Mag. 1864, pt. i. 637), he was consecrated in Whitehall Chapel on the 27th, and on 6 Aug. following was installed in the cathedral of St. German, Peel Castle, Isle of
