ministry, and very conscientious in the discharge of it.' He published eight single sermons and left many others prepared for the press. After his death were published:
- 'Forty-six Sermons upon the whole Eighth Chapter of the Epistle to the Romans,' Lond. 1674, fol., edited by Dr. William Dillingham.
- 'A Choice and Practical Exposition upon the 4, 47, 51, and 63 Psalms,'Lond. 1675, fol.
- 'One Hundred Select Sermons upon Several Texts: Fifty upon the Old Testament, And Fifty on the New,' Lond. 1679, fol., with the author's life by Dr. Wallis.
He and Dillingham prepared for press a treatise written by Dr. John Arrowsmith, entitled 'Armilla Catechetica,' Cambridge, 1659, 4to.
[Memoir by Wallis; Addit. MSS. 5808 pp. 154, 156. 5672 p.202; Baxter's Life and Times, book i. pt. ii. pp. 303, 307; Kennett's Register and Chronicle, p. 42: Nea1's Puritans, iii. 15l, iv. 124; Newcourt's Repertorium, i. 363, 919; Peck's Desiderata Curiosa, vol.ii.lib.xiv p. 46; Thurloe State Papers, v. 322. 406; Ward's Gresham Professors, p. 65, with the author's manuscript additions; Waters's Family of Chester. pp. 640-1; Wood's Fasti Oxon. (Bliss), li. 172.]
HORTOP, JOB (fl. 1591), seaman and traveller, describes himself as a powder-maker, born at Bourne in Lincolnshire, and from the age of twelve brought up as a powder-maker at Redriff, now called Rotherhithe. In 1567 he was entered on board the Jesus with Captain (afterwards Sir John) Hawkyns [q. v.] as one of the gunner's crew, and served in her during the voyage which was rudely ended at San Juan de Lua. Hortop was one of those who escaped in the Minion and were afterwards landed to the north of the river Panuco. Thence he and his companions made their way to the city of Mexico, where he was detained two years. He was afterwards sent to Vera Cruz for a passage to Spain; had a narrow escape of being hanged on the way for an attempt to escape, and on arriving at San Lucar was consigned to a prison at Seville. He contrived to escape, in company with Barrett, who had been master of the Jesus, a man named Gilbert, and four others. They were caught and brought back; Barrett and Gilbert were sentenced to death and executed; Hortop was sent to the galleys for ten years, the others for shorter times. Hortop's ten years was extended to twelve, and he was then sent back to prison, from which he was taken to work ‘as a drudge’ in the house of ‘the treasurer of the king's mint.’ In October 1590, while at San Lucar, he stowed himself away on board a ship of Flanders, which was captured by the Galeon Dudley, and Hortop was thus brought to England. He landed at Plymouth on 2 Dec. 1590, and returned to Rotherhithe. His own narrative, published in 1591 separately, and in 1598 by Hakluyt, which supplies all that is known of him, ceases at this point. As he professes to repeat the exact words of conversations twenty-three years old, of which he had no memorandum, the details of his adventures cannot be considered altogether trustworthy.
[Hakluyt's Principal Navigations, iii. 487.]
HORWITZ, BERNARD (1807–1885), writer on chess, born in 1807, was a native of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg, and received his training in the game under Mendheim at Berlin, becoming one of the seven great players known as the Pleiades. After passing some time in Hamburg he settled in England about 1845. He increased his reputation for chess-playing, took part in nearly all the tournaments which were held in England before 1862, and wrote to illustrate the strategy of the game. Horwitz died suddenly in London on 29 Aug. 1885. As joint author with J. Kling, Horwitz in 1851 published ‘Chess Studies,’ a book mainly devoted to ‘endings’ of games, previous books having rather considered ‘openings.’ In the same year they also issued a periodical called ‘The Chess Player,’ of which four volumes appeared, 1851–3. It chiefly consisted of complete games and several analyses. Horwitz's last work was ‘Chess Studies and End-games systematically arranged,’ London, 1884.
[Times, 30 Aug. 1885; Chess Monthly, vii. 8; Ann. Reg. 1885.]
HOSACK, JOHN (d. 1887), lawyer and historical writer, was the third son of John R. Hosack of Glenaher, Dumfriesshire. He became a student of the Middle Temple in 1838, was called to the bar in 1841, and practised on the northern circuit and at the Liverpool sessions. In 1875, though not a Q.C., he was made a bencher of his inn, and in 1877 he became police magistrate at Clerkenwell. He died at his house in Finborough Road, West Brompton, on 3 Nov. 1887, and was buried at Lytham in Lancashire.
Hosack wrote:
- ‘A Treatise on the Conflict of Laws of England and Scotland’ (only one part published), London, 1847, 8vo.
- ‘The Rights of British and Neutral Commerce, as affected by recent Royal Declarations and Orders in Council,’ London, 1854, 12mo.
- ‘Mary Queen of Scots and her Accusers,’ London, 1869, 8vo; 2nd edit., 2 vols., Edinburgh, 1870–4, 8vo—a defence
