Robert Hegge (1599–1629) was an English academic and antiquary.
Life
Born at
Durham in 1599, he was the son of Stephen Hegge,
notary public
A notary public ( notary or public notary; notaries public) of the common law is a public officer constituted by law to serve the public in non-contentious matters usually concerned with general financial transactions, estates, deeds, powers- ...
there, by Anne, daughter of Robert Swyft, LL.D., prebendary of Durham.
On 7 November 1614, he was admitted scholar of
Corpus Christi College, and graduated B.A. on 13 February 1617 and M.A. on 17 March 1620.
He was elected probationer fellow of his college on 27 December 1624, but died suddenly on 11 June 1629, and was buried in Corpus Christi Chapel.
Works
Hegge wrote a ‘Treatise of Dials and Dialling,’ preserved in the college library, to which he also presented a manuscript of
Augustine of Hippo
Augustine of Hippo ( , ; ; 13 November 354 – 28 August 430) was a theologian and philosopher of Berber origin and the bishop of Hippo Regius in Numidia, Roman North Africa. His writings deeply influenced the development of Western philosop ...
's ''
De Civitate Dei
''On the City of God Against the Pagans'' (), often called ''The City of God'', is a book of Christian philosophy written in Latin by Augustine of Hippo in the early 5th century AD. Augustine wrote the book to refute allegations that Christian ...
''. Another treatise from his pen, entitled ''In aliquot Sacræ Paginæ loca lectiones'', was published at London in 1647 by
John Hall John Hall may refer to:
Academics
* John Hall (NYU President) (fl. c. 1890), American academic
* John A. Hall (born 1949), sociology professor at McGill University, Montreal
* John F. Hall (1951–2023), professor of classics at Brigham Young Univ ...
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A third treatise by Hegge, entitled ''Saint Cvthbert; or the Histories of his Chvrches at Lindisfarne, Cvncacestre, and Dvnholme'', was written in 1625 and 1626. Richard Baddeley, private secretary to
Thomas Morton, bishop of Durham, printed an edition of it from a copy in Lord Fairfax's library, and suppressed the name of the author; he called it ‘The Legend of St. Cvthbert, with the Antiquities of the Church of Durham. By B. R., Esq.,’ London, 1663. A very correct edition was printed in quarto by
George Allan at his press in
Darlington
Darlington is a market town in the Borough of Darlington, County Durham, England. It lies on the River Skerne, west of Middlesbrough and south of Durham. Darlington had a population of 107,800 at the 2021 Census, making it a "large town" ...
in 1777, and another by
John Brough Taylor, at
Sunderland
Sunderland () is a port City status in the United Kingdom, city and metropolitan borough in Tyne and Wear, England. It is a port at the mouth of the River Wear on the North Sea, approximately south-east of Newcastle upon Tyne. It is the most p ...
in 1816. Taylor's edition is printed from a manuscript, probably the author's autograph, which belonged to Frevile Lambton of Hardwick.
See also
*
N-Town Plays
The N-Town Plays (also called the Hegge Cycle and the Ludus Coventriae cycle) are a cycle of 42 medieval Mystery plays from between 1450 and 1500.
The manuscript
The manuscript is now housed in the British Library, London (BL MS Cotton Vespasian ...
, known as the Hegge cycle.
References
;Attribution
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1599 births
1629 deaths
17th-century English people
English antiquarians
People from Durham, England