George Hickes

She appointed both an executor, William Brome , and a literary executor, Richard Lloyd of Yarpole, a Nonjuror who, however, later conformed and took the oath of allegiance to the new monarchs. Lloyd saw to...

SH 's revised or reformed version of John Austin 's popular Roman CatholicDevotions in the Ancient Way of Offices, 1668, was published through George Hickes . Austin concealed himself under the name of William Birchley.

A Collection of Meditations and Devotions, now believed to be all the work of SH , was published by Nathaniel Spinckes , who had the text from George Hickes after Hopton's death.

In his preface to A Second Collection of Controversial LettersGeorge Hickes wrote that he had in his possession, transcribed fair, and ready for the Press, copies of two works by SH : a scribal...

In 1708, the year of her Scudéry translation, George Hickes had some of EE 's work printed in a scholarly text known as Conspectus brevis by William Wotton , which condensed Hickes's own Grammatica Anglo-Saxonica...

Her letter, addressed to her prebendary uncle, Charles Elstob , mentions her deference to his judgement, and the favour she has received from both Oxford and Cambridge Universities . Female modesty, she says, prevents her...

Hopton may have begun adapting Austin/Birchley purely for her own use. Her annotated copy of his text (now at Trinity College , Cambridge; excerpts reproduced in the modern facsimile edition of her works) does...

Her timing may have had to do with the death of the former James II on 3 September 1701, though she had apparently been praying for William III during his reign so far. During the...

Material that she kept relating to the school included legal views of the canonical jurist Sir Edward Coke on charitable institutions, a sermon by George Hickes on endowing a school for poor girls, and information...

She was a fine artist, drawing letters from manuscripts for typecasting and printing, creating her own illuminated letters, and producing a portrait of George Hickes from which a print was taken. The print was judged...

Hickes 's selection of her work was of course a testimonial of his confidence in its quality.

George Hickes had strongly supported the forthcoming edition. He thought Elstob's work the most correct I ever saw or read,and that her edition will be of great advantage to the Church of England against...

After 1689 SH became a good friend of George Hickes , antiquarian, sometime Dean of Worcester, and patron of Elizabeth Elstob . Hickes, a member of a generation younger than Hopton, was a Non-juror (one...

The same year that her brother died, the death of her fellow-scholar George Hickes removed yet one more anchor from EE .

Most important among EE 's scholarly circle were George Hickes and her brother . The group of scholars known as the Oxford Saxonists, to their credit, seems to have welcomed her on terms of equality...