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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Hatfield, Martha

​HATFIELD, MARTHA (fl. 1652), ‘the wise virgin,’ the daughter of Anthony Hatfield, by his wife Faith Westley, was born at Leighton, Yorkshire, 27 Sept. 1640. The Hatfields were puritans. In April 1652 Martha was seized with an illness which the physicians were unable to define, but which seems to have been a form of catalepsy. For seventeen days she lay stiff and was unable to speak, and it was said that she could neither see nor hear. When she recovered her voice she uttered rambling recollections of pious discourses abounding in quotations of Scripture. Her friends regarded her ravings as a new revelation, and her words were taken down, generally by the two sons of Sir Edward Rhodes and by John Cromwell. From 8 Sept. 1652 till 7 Dec. Martha was again speechless, but after her recovery gave no further proof of exceptional powers. The circumstances of Martha Hatfield's illness impressed her friends, and her uncle, James Fisher, the founder of the first presbyterian congregation in Sheffield, published the story of her case and her reported sayings. The book was called ‘The Wise Virgin, or a Wonderfull Narration of the hand of God, wherein his severity and goodness hath appeared in afflicting a Childe of 11 years of age when stricken Dumb, Deaf, and Blind …,’ 1653. It gained great popularity among the credulous, and was several times reprinted. The fifth edition (1664) has a curious portrait of Martha Hatfield prefixed. Contemptuous reference is made to Hatfield's vision in ‘A New Song on the strange and wonderful groaning board,’ London, 1682 (cf. Notes and Queries, 1st ser. viii. 310).
[The Wise Virgin; Hunter's Hallamshire, ed. Gatty, p. 288.]
A. V.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Hatsell, Henry

​HATSELL, Sir HENRY (1641–1714), judge, was son of Henry Hatsell of Saltram, in the parish of Plympton St. Mary, Devonshire, an active roundhead, who was M.P. for Devonshire in the parliaments of 1654 and 1656, and for Plympton in that of 1658. Henry Hatsell the younger was born in March 1641, and educated at Exeter College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. on 4 Feb. 1658–9. He entered the Middle Temple in the following year, was called to the bar in 1667, and to the degree of serjeant-at-law in May 1689, and in November 1697 was created a baron of the exchequer, and knighted. He tried Spencer Cowper [q. v.], afterwards justice of the common pleas, on the charge of murdering Sarah Stout in 1699. His patent was renewed on the accession of Anne, but shortly afterwards (9 June 1702) he was removed. He died in April 1714. Hatsell married Judith, daughter of Josiah Bateman, merchant, of London, and relict of Sir Richard Shirley, bart., of Preston, Sussex. His son, Henry (d. 1762), was a bencher of the Middle Temple.
[Gent. Mag. 1849, ii. 2; Hist. MSS. Comm. 3rd Rep. 266 a, 7th Rep. 117 a, 691 b; Parl. Hist. iii. 1429, 1479, 1532; Wynne's Serjeant-at-Law; Luttrell's Rel. of State Affairs, iv. 309, v. 181; Lord Raymond's Rep. p. 250; Berry's County Genealogies, Sussex, p. 172; Burke's Extinct Baronetage, tit. ‘Shirley;’ Cat. of Oxf. Graduates; Foss's Lives of the Judges.]
J. M. R.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Hatcher, Thomas (1589?-1677)

​HATCHER, THOMAS (1589?–1677), captain in the parliamentary army, born about 1589, was son of Sir John Hatcher, knt., of Careby, Lincolnshire, by his first wife Anne, daughter of James Crowes (Blore, Rutland, p. 134). Thomas Hatcher, the antiquary [q. v.], was his grandfather. He was elected M.P. for Lincoln on 2 Feb. 1623–4, for Grantham on 29 Feb. 1627–8, and for Stamford on 24 March 1639–40. He also represented Stamford in the Long parliament, and sat for Lincolnshire from 1654 to 1659 (Members of Parliament, Official Return, pt. i.). At the outbreak of the civil war Hatcher sided with the parliament, and became captain of a horse regiment. On 28 April 1642 he was ordered to accompany the Earl of Stamford and other commanders into Lincolnshire, and thence to Kingston-upon-Hull (Dalton, Wrays of Glentworth, ii. 29). In June he was acting as one of the parliamentary committee for Lincolnshire (ib. i. 228), and in November he marched with others into the North Riding of Yorkshire to oppose the progress of the Earl of Newcastle (ib. ii. 39), taking part in the fight at Sherburn and probably other engagements (ib. ii. 44). He was included in the list of ‘traitors’ mentioned in Newcastle's proclamation of 17 Jan. 1643 (ib. i. 246). In the following August he was nominated a commissioner from the parliament to the estates and kingdom of Scotland (Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1641–3, p. 475). He was present at the battle of Marston Moor, and was with the leaguer before York in June ​and July 1644 (ib. Dom. 1644, pp. 287, 303, 311). Parliament dispensed with his residence with the Scots commissioners in the north in September (Commons' Journals, iii. 630). Hatcher was buried at Careby on 11 July 1677. By his wife Catherine, daughter of William Ayscoughe of South Kelsey, Lincolnshire, he had a son John and a daughter Elizabeth. Mrs. Hatcher was buried at Careby on 15 Dec. 1651.
[Authorities in the text.]
G. G.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Hathaway, Richard

​HATHAWAY, RICHARD (fl. 1702), impostor, was a blacksmith's apprentice of Southwark. In February 1700 he gave out that he was bewitched by an old woman named Sarah Morduck, the wife of a waterman, and that, as an effect of her sorcery, he vomited nails and pins, was unable to eat, speak, or open his eyes, and was otherwise strangely affected. His only remedy was to scratch Morduck until she bled, when he recovered for a time. He prepared a narrative of his case, but the printer to whom he took the copy refused to have anything to do with it. Morduck, the reputed witch, was brutally ill-used. She left Southwark, but Hathaway, accompanied by a mob, followed her to her new lodgings in the city of London in the spring of 1701, and created an uproar. He was carried before an alderman, who credited his story, committed Morduck to prison, and subjected her to gross ​personal indignities. She was tried for witchcraft at Guildhall assizes in July and acquitted, whereupon Hathaway was ordered to take his trial as a cheat and a rioter. Popular sympathy was in his favour. Bills were put up in several churches to pray for him against his trial, and subscriptions were started for his support. He was tried before Chief-justice Holt on two indictments for imposture, riot, and assault, found guilty on all charges, and on 8 May 1702 was fined two hundred marks, and sentenced to stand in the pillory at Southwark, Cornhill, and Temple Bar on three different days (Luttrell, Brief Relation, v. 172), after which he was to be well flogged and kept to hard labour for six months. Nothing further is known of him.
[Cobbett and Howell's State Trials, xiv. 639–696.]
G. G.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Manlove, Edward

1904 Errata appended.
​MANLOVE, EDWARD (fl. 1667), poet, a lawyer residing at Ashbourne in Derbyshire, published a rhymed chronicle of the ‘Liberties and Customs of the Lead Mines … composed in meeter’ for the use of the miners, London, 1653, 4to. It became a standard work of reference on the subject, being largely composed from the ‘Exchequer Rolls’ and from inquisitions taken in the various reigns (see Hist. of Ashbourn, 1839, pp. 90 sq.). From the title-page of the poem it is clear that Manlove filled the post of steward of barmote courts of the wapentake of Wirksworth, Derbyshire. An edition, to which is affixed a glossary of the principal mining and other obsolete terms used in the poem, was published by T. Tapping in 1851. In 1667 Manlove published ‘Divine Contentment; or a Medicine for a Discontented Man: a Confession of Faith; and other Poems’ (London, 8vo). A manuscript volume of ‘Essayes and Contemplations, Divine, Morall, and Miscellaneous, in prose and meter, by M[ark] H[ildesly],’ grandfather of Bishop Mark Hildesly [q. v.], and other members of Lincoln's Inn, dated 1694, was addressed by the editor to his friend ‘Philanthropus,’ i.e. Manlove (Harl. MS. 4726). The poet's son, Timothy Manlove, is separately noticed.
[Add. MS. 24188. f. 176 (Hunter's Chorus Vatum); Cat. of Harleian MSS.; Glover's Hist. of Derbyshire, vol. i. App. p. 108; Lowndes's Bibl. Man. (Bohn); Works in British Museum Library.]
A. E. J. L.
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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Manisty, Henry

​MANISTY, Sir HENRY (1808–1890), judge, second son of James Manisty, B.D., vicar of Edlingham, Northumberland, by his wife Eleanor, only daughter of Francis Foster of Seaton Barn Hall, Northumberland, was born 13 Dec. 1808. He was educated at Durham Cathedral grammar school, and was articled when still a boy in the offices of Thorpe & Dickson, attorneys, of Alnwick, Northumberland. He was afterwards admitted a solicitor in 1830, and practised for twelve years as a member of the firm of Meggison, Pringle, & Manisty, of 3 King's (now Theobald's) Road, near Bedford Row, London. On 20 April 1812 he became a student of Gray's Inn, and was called to the bar 23 April 1816. He became a bencher there in 1859, and treasurer in 1861. He joined the northern circuit, and soon obtained an important if not a leading practice. He was made a queen's counsel 7 July 1857, and appeared principally in mercantile and circuit cases. His opinions on points of law were always held in especial esteem. At length, but somewhat late, in November 1876, when Lord Blackburn quitted the high court, he was made a judge, and was knighted. Among his most important decisions were his judgments in Regina v. Bishop of Oxford (1879), Belt v. Lawes (1881), Adams v. Coleridge (1891), and O'Brien v. Lord Salisbury (1889). He was seized with paralysis in court 31 Jan. 1890, died 30 Jan. at 24a Bryanston Square, London, and was buried, 5 Feb., at Kensal Green cemetery. In August 1831 he married Constantia, fifth daughter of Patrick Dickson, solicitor, of Berwick-on-Tweed, who died 9 Aug. 1836, and in May 1838 Mary Ann, third daughter of Robert Stevenson, surgeon, of Berwick-on-Tweed, by whom he had four sons and three daughters.
[Times, 1 Feb. 1890; Solicitor's Journal, 8 Feb. 1890); Law Times. 15 Feb. 1890; Law Journal, 8 Feb. 1890; private information.]
J. A. H.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Maning, Frederick Edward

​MANING, FREDERICK EDWARD (1812–1883), the Pākĕhā Maori, born 5 July 1813, was son of Frederick Maning of Johnville, co. Dublin, and grandson of Archibald Maning, a wealthy Dublin citizen. His father emigrated in 1824 to Van Diemen's Land. In 1833, attracted by love of adventure, Maning went off on a small trading schooner to New Zealand, which was not a British colony until 1841, and was then hardly open even to traders, though he found one or two other white men before him. His great stature, strength, and audacity, combined with good humour and vivacity, won the hearts of the Maoris, who soon installed him as a Pākĕhā Maori, i.e. to all intents a naturalised stranger. He acquired land of the Ngapuhi tribe at Hokianga, and settled at Onaki, where he won the entire confidence of the natives. He married a Maori wife and adopted to a great extent the customs of the tribe, seeking, however, to set an example of greater humanity. He was thus enabled to render considerable services to both sides in the wars of 1845 and 1861.
On 15 Nov. 1866, when the native lands court was established for settling questions regarding the title of lands as between Maoris under their own customs and traditions, Maning was appointed one of the judges, and took a prominent part in the proceedings of the court. Many of his judgments give a graphic account of the customs of the Maoris.
In 1881 he was compelled by painful disease to relinquish his judicial duties, and returned to Great Britain in the hope of a cure, but died in London 25 July 1883. His body was by his own desire taken out to New Zealand for burial. His bust stands over the door of the Institute Library at Auckland.
Maning was the author of:
* 'Old New Zealand,' the best extant record of Maori life, 2nd edit. 1863.
* 'The History of the War in the North with Heke in 1845.' Both were republished in 1876. with a preface by the Earl of Pembroke.
[Mannell's Dict. ot Austral. Biog.; Rusden's New Zealand, s.v. ‘Maning;’ Auckland Woeklj Hews, 4 Aug. 1883.]
C. A. H.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Manini, Antony

​MANINI, ANTONY (1750–1786), violinist, belonged, it has been conjectured, to the Norfolk family of Mann, and italianised ​his name, as in the case of Coperario; but the register at Yarmouth, with which place he is associated, contains no notice of his birth, and an Italian composer named Manini was living in Rome in 1733 (Dict. of Musicians, 2nd edit. 1827).
Manini is first traceable in 1770, when at a performance for the benefit of 'Signior Manini,' the New Hall in Great Yarmouth, he played solos by Giardini and Chabran. He led the band in the same year at the opening of Christian's new Concert Room in Norwich, and performed at Beccles. In 1772 he was teaching 'ladies the Guittar and gentlemen the Violin' at Yarmouth.
In 1777 he appeared for the first time in Cambridge, as leading violinist at Miss Marshall's concert at St. John's College Hall, His programme containing music by Paradies, Boccherini, and Abel. In order to benefit by his instruction, Charles Hague [q. v.] settled in Cambridge in 1779. This and the following year Manini played first violin at Scarborough's annual concert at St. Ives, Huntingdonshire; while in 1780 two concerts, for his own benefit, were given in Trinity College Hall. In 1781 a similar concert was given in Emmanuel College, near where be was then living. In 1782 he was leading violinist at Peterborough, Huntingdon, and Stamford, and he received another benefit in the hall of Trinity College. In 1783 he was principal violinist at Mrs. Pratt's benefit concert in Caius College Hall; in Trinity Collt^e Hall for his own benefit, on which occasion 'Master Cramer' performed; and at Peterhouse for the benefit of Reinagle. In 1784 he started three subscription concerts on three successive days (July 1-3) in the halls of King's and St. John's; played first violin at Huntingdon, young Hague appearing in the vocal part; and later played there again for Leoni's benefit. He also gave Leoni a benefit concert in King's College Hall; Leoni and Hague singing, Hague and Manini playing the violin. In 1785, the year in which Madame Mara [q. v.] caused much stir at the Oxford Commemoration (Walderere, Sammlung musikal. Vorträge), she sang, for Manini's benefit, in the hall of Trinity College. In November, for the benefit of 'Master [William] Crotch' [q. v.], then aged ten, a concert was given in King's College Hall, at which the two future university professors (Crotch and Hague) sang, and Hague and Manini played. Manini also performed at the Earl of Sandwich's musical entertainments at Hinchingbrooke, dying at Huntingdon, soon after one of them, on 8 Jan. 1786. He was buried in the parish of St. Andrew's the Great in Cambridge. Manini shares some characteristics of his contemporary William Shield [q. v.] He was spoken of at his death in terms of the utmost praise, both as a musician and as a man.
The British Museum contains the only copy known of his 'Six Divertimentos for two Violins.' Each consists of two parts only.
[Norwich Mercury; Cambridge Chronicle; Earl of Sandwich's Hinchingbrooke MSS.]
C. S.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Knyvett, William

​KNYVETT, WILLIAM (1779–1856), musical composer, third son of Charles Knyvett (1752–1822) [q. v.], musician, was born on 21 April 1779, most probably in London, and educated by his father, by Samuel Webbe, the glee composer, and by Signor Cimador. In 1788 he sang in the treble chorus at the Concerts of Antient Music, and in 1795 appeared there as the principal alto. In 1797 he was appointed one of the gentlemen of the Chapel Royal, and soon after a lay vicar of Westminster Abbey. He succeeded Dr. Samuel Arnold in 1802 as one of the composers of the Chapel Royal. In singing he took the alto or contra-tenor parts, invariably employing his falsetto, though nature had supplied him with a deep bass. He attached himself to the Harrison and Bartleman school, and became the third of a fashionable vocal triumvirate. For upwards of forty years he sang at the best London concerts and at the provincial festivals. Callcott's glee, ‘With sighs, sweet Rose,’ was composed expressly for him. In 1832, on the death of Thomas Greatorex, he became conductor of the Concerts of Antient Music, an office which he resigned in 1840. He was the conductor of the Birmingham festivals from 1834 to 1843, and of the York festival of 1835. With the exception of Sir George Smart, he was the last of the musical leaders who inherited the Handel traditions as to the method of conducting an oratorio. He produced vocal works that were very popular, many of which will be remembered for their sweet melody and good harmony. Among them were ‘There is a flower,’ ‘My love is like the red, red rose,’ 1803; ‘The Bells of St. Michael's Tower,’ 1810; ‘The Boatie Rows,’ 1810; ‘The Midges' Dance,’ and ‘As it fell upon a day,’ 1812. He also wrote ‘When the fair rose,’ a glee for which he gained a prize at the Harmonic Society in 1800, presented to him by his steady patron, the Prince of Wales. Upwards of thirty-five of his compositions were printed. His unpublished works include the grand anthem, ‘The King shall rejoice,’ produced officially for the coronation of George IV, and ‘This is the day the Lord has made,’ written for the coronation of Queen Victoria.
Knyvett impoverished himself by unsuccessful speculations. He died at Clarges House, Ryde, Isle of Wight, 17 Nov. 1856. His second wife, whom he married in 1826, was Miss Deborah Travis of Shaw, near Oldham. She was celebrated in her day for her knowledge of Handel's music and her superior mode of delivering it. She sang at the Concerts of Antient Music in 1813 and at the principal London concerts from 1815 to 1843. She died on 10 Feb. 1876.
G. C. B.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Knox, William (1789-1825)

​KNOX, WILLIAM (1789–1825), Scottish poet, was born at Firth, parish of Lilliesleaf, Roxburghshire, 17 Aug. 1789. After receiving elementary education at Lilliesleaf and Musselburgh, he farmed without success near Langholm, Dumfriesshire, from 1812 to 1817. He ‘became too soon his own master,’ says Scott, ‘and plunged into dissipation and ruin’ (Journal, i. 39). His farming career over, he returned to his native place. In 1820 the family settled in Edinburgh, and Knox became ​a journalist. Sir Walter Scott, Professor Wilson, and others befriended him, and Scott frequently gave him substantial pecuniary relief. His convivial habits undermined his health, and he died at Edinburgh of paralysis, 12 Nov. 1825.
Besides a prose ‘Visit to Dublin’ and a Christmas tale, ‘Mariamne, or the Widower's Daughter,’ Knox published ‘The Lonely Hearth, and other Poems,’ 1818; ‘The Songs of Israel,’ 1824; and ‘The Harp of Zion,’ 1825. His lyrics are graceful and thoughtful. Scott thought Knox in ‘The Lonely Hearth’ superior to Michael Bruce, and ‘Mortality,’ in ‘Songs of Israel,’ was a favourite with President Lincoln. A complete edition of Knox's poems appeared in 1847.
[Sir Walter Scott's Journal as in text; Lockhart's Life of Scott, vi. 152, ed. 1837; Rogers's Scottish Minstrel, vol. iii.]
T. B.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Knyvet, John

​KNYVET or KNIVETT, Sir JOHN (d. 1381), chancellor of England, was eldest son of Richard Knyvet of Southwick, Northamptonshire, and custos of the forest of Clyve in that county, by Joanna, daughter and heiress of Sir John Wurth. Knyvet was practising in the courts as early as 1347; in 1357 he was called to the degree of serjeant-at-law, and on 30 Sept. 1361 was appointed a justice of the court of common pleas. On 29 Oct. 1365 he was raised to the office of chief justice of the king's bench (Fœdera, iii. 777, Record ed.) In the parliament of 1362 he served as a trier of petitions for Aquitaine and other lands over sea, and afterwards in each parliament down to 1380, except while he was chancellor, as a trier of petitions for England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland (Rot. Parl. vols. ii. and iii.) On 30 June 1372, after the death of Sir Robert Thorpe, who had been appointed chancellor in consequence of a petition by the commons that the great seal should be entrusted to laymen, Knyvet was appointed his successor. Knyvet held the office for four years and a half, acting with great wisdom and discretion; three speeches which he made at the opening of parliament in 1372, 1373, and 1376 respectively, are given in the ‘Rolls of Parliament’ (ii. 309 a, 316 a, 321 a). In January 1377 Edward III, under the influence of John of Gaunt, reverted to the custom of appointing ecclesiastical chancellors, and Adam de Houghton [q. v.] was appointed to succeed Knyvet on 11 Jan. Knyvet did not again hold judicial office, though he was appointed with the two chief justices to decide a question between the Earl of Pembroke and William la Zouch of Haryngworth (Rot. Parl. iii. 79). Knyvet died in 1381. Sir Edward Coke speaks of him as ‘a man famous in his profession,’ and praises his administration of the law (Fourth Inst. 78, 79). Further testimony to his worth is given by his appointment as executor of Edward III, and of other eminent persons. He married Eleanor, daughter of Ralph, lord Basset of Weldon, and by her left two sons, John and Ralph (cf. Bridges, History of Northamptonshire, ii. 354–5). He owned large estates in various counties, but especially in Northamptonshire (Cal. Inq. p. m. ii. 333, iii. 30).
[Authorities quoted; Foss's Lives of the Judges, iii. 451–3; Campbell's Lives of the Chancellors, i. 264–8.]
C. L. K.