Chapter Hic Jacet to Hinges of H by Brewer's Readers Handbook

he assumes the character of a country bumpkin from Essex, and places himself under the charge of his own butler, to learn the duties of a gentleman’s servant. As the master is away, Philip (the butler) invites a large party to supper, and supplies them with the choicest wines. The servants all assume their masters’ titles, and address each other as “My lord duke,” “sir Harry,” “My lady Charlotte,” “My lady Bab,” etc., and mimic the airs of their employers. In the midst of the banquet, Lovel appears in his true character, breaks up the party, and dismisses his household, retaining only one of the lot, named Tom, to whom he entrusts the charge of the silver and plate (1759).

Highgate (a suburb of London). Drayton says that Highgate was so called because Brute, the mythical Trojan founder of the British empire, “appointed it for a gate of London;” but others tell us that it was so called from a gate set up there, some 400 years ago, to receive tolls for the bishop of London.

Then Highgate boasts his way which men do most frequent,…
Appointed for a gate of London to have been.
When first the mighty Brute that city did begin.
   —Drayton: Polyolbion, xvi. (1613).

Highland Mary. (See Mary in Heaven.)

Highwaymen (Noted).

Claude Duval (*-1670). Introduced in White Friars, by Miss Robinson.

Tom King.

James Whitney (1660–1694), aged 34.

Jonathan Wild of Wolverhampton (1682–1725), aged 43. Hero and title of a novel by Fielding (1744).

Jack Sheppard of Spitalfields (1701–1724), aged 24. Hero and title of a novel by Defoe (1724); and one by H. Ainsworth (1839).

Dick Turpin, executed at York (1711–1739). Hero of a novel by H. Ainsworth.

Galloping Dick, executed at Aylesbury in 1800.

Captain Grant, the Irish highwayman, executed at Maryborough, in 1816.

Samuel Greenwood, executed at Old Bailey, 1822.

William Rea, executed at Old Bailey, 1828.

Higre (2 syl.), a roaring of the waters when the tide comes up the Humber.

For when my Higre comes I make my either shore
E’en tremble with the sound that I afar do send.
   —Drayton: Polyolbion, xxviii. (1622).

Hilarius (Brother), refectioner at St. Mary’s.—Sir W. Scott: The Monastery (time, Elizabeth).

Hildebrand, pope Gregory VII. (1013, 1073–1085). He demanded for the Church the right of “investiture” or presentation to all ecclesiastical benefices, and the superiority of the ecclesiastical to the temporal authority; he enforced the celibacy of all clergymen, resisted simony, and greatly advanced the dominion of the popes.

We need another Hildebrand to shake
And purify us.
   —Longfellow: The Golden Legend (1851).

Hildebrand (Meister), the Nestor of German romance, a magician and champion.

Maugis, among the paladins of Charlemagne, sustained a similar twofold character.