Robert Hegge (1599–1629) was an English academic and antiquary.
Life
Born at
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in 1599, he was the son of Stephen Hegge,
notary public 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
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's ''
De Civitate Dei
''On the City of God Against the Pagans'' ( la, De civitate Dei contra paganos), 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. The book was in response ...
''. 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 (born 1951), professor of classics at Brigham Young Unive ...
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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. The River Skerne flows through the town; it is a tributary of the River Tees. The Tees itself flows south of the town.
In the 19th century, Darlington underwen ...
in 1777, and another by
John Brough Taylor, at
Sunderland
Sunderland () is a port city in Tyne and Wear, England. It is the City of Sunderland's administrative centre and in the Historic counties of England, historic county of County of Durham, Durham. The city is from Newcastle-upon-Tyne and is on t ...
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
English antiquarians
People from Durham, England