HAMMOND, HENRY, a learned and excellent divine of the Church of England, was born at Chertsey, August 18, 1605. Having been educated at Eton, and Magdalen College, Oxford, of which he became Fellow, he was presented to the rectory of Penshurst in Kent, in 1633, ten years after which he was appointed archdeacon of Chichester. By birth and education a confirmed royalist, he retired to Oxford soon after the civil war broke out, continued to reside there while that city was held by the king, and attended the king's commissioners to Ux bridge, where he disputed with Vines, a Presbyterian minister. Ho was appointed canon of Christchurch and publio orator in 1645, and attended Charles L as his chaplain from the time when be fell into 'the hands of the army until the end of 1647, when the king's attend ants were sent away from him. Hammond then returned to Oxford, and was chosen sub-dean of Christchurch, from which situation ho was expelled in March 1648, by the parliamentary visitors, and placed for some time in confinement. On his release he repaired to IVest wood in Worcestershire, the seat of Sir John Packwood, where the remainder of his life was spent in literary labour, "doing much good to the day of his death, iu which time he had the disposal of great charities reposed in his hands, as being the most zealous promoter of almsgiving that lived in England since the change of religion." . . .
He died after long euffering from a complication of disorders, April 25, 1660. It is said that Charles II. intended for him the bishoprio of Worcester. Hammond was a man of great learning, as well In the classics and generil philology, as in doctrinal and school divinity, and possessed considerable natural ability. Of his numerous works, chiefly controversial, the following are some of the most remarkable : —' Practical Catechism,' 1644; Humble Address to the Right lion. the Lord Fairfax and his Council of War,' 1649, concerning the im pending trial of Charles I.; Paraphrase and Annotations on the New Testament,' 1653, beat edition 1702. Ho began a similar para phrase of the Old Testament, but advanced no farther than the Psalnas, 1659, and one chapter of Proverbs. His works, in four volumes folio, were collected by his amanuensis Fulman, 4 vols. folio, 1674-84. (Bishop Fell, Life; Wood, A that. Oxon.)