217. HETHERINGTON'S CHARITY, ii. 286. HEYDON, John, iv. 402, n. 2. HEYWOOD, i. 84, n. 2. HICKES, Rev. Dr., account of him, v. 357, n. 4; mentioned, iv. 287. HICKY, Thomas, ii. 340. HIERARCHY, English, Johnson's reverence for it, iv. 75, 197, 274; v. 61; its theory and practice, iii. 138. Hierocles, Jests of, i. l50; v. 308, n. 1. HIGGINS, Dr., iii. 354, 386. High, Johnson's use of the word, iii. 118, n. 3. HIGH DUTCH, resemblance to English, iii. 235. High Life below Stairs, iv. 7. HIGHWAYMEN, evidence of H. Walpole, Wesley, and Baretti as to their frequency, iii. 239, n. 1; Gay their Orpheus, ii. 367, n. 1; question of shooting them, iii. 239, 240, n. 1. HILL, Dr. Sir John, account of him, ii. 38, n. 2, 39, n. 2; wrote Mrs. Glasses Cookery, iii. 285; in the Heroic Epistle, iv. 113, n. 3. HILL, Joseph (Cowper's friend), i. 395, n. 2. HILL, Miss, of Hawkestone, v. 433-4. HILL, Professor, of St. Andrews, v. 64-5. HILL, Sir Rowland, of Hawkestone, v. 433. HILL, Thomas Wright, v. 455, n. 1. HINCHCLIFFE, John, Bishop of Peterborough, member of the Literary Club, i. 479; hated Whiggism, iii. 422. HINCHINBROOK, iii. 383, n. 3. HINCHMAN, ----, iv. 402, n. 2. HINDOOS, iv. 12, n. 2. Histoire de Pascal Paoli, ii. 3, n. 1. Historia Studiorum, Johnson's, iii. 321. HISTORIAN, great abilities not needed, i. 424; inferiority of English, i. 100, n. 1; ii. 236, n. 2; licence allowed, i. 355. HISTORY, almanac, no better than an, ii. 366; authentic, little, ii. 365; Bolingbroke's caution about reading it, ii. 213, n. 3; Bolingbroke, Burke, and Fox on it, ii. 366, n. 1; character and motives generally unknown, ii. 79; iii. 404; colouring and philosophy conjecture, ii. 365; Johnson's indifference to general history, iii. 206, n. 1; recommendation of many histories, iv. 312, n. 1; manners and common life, of, iii. 333; v. 79; oral at first, v. 393; 'painted form the taste of this age,' iii. 58; records only lately consulted, i. 117; v. 220; spirit contrary to minute exactness, i. 155; shallow stream of thought in it, ii. 195; unsupported by contemporary evidence, v. 403. History of the Council of Trent, i. 107. History of England, in Italian. See MARTINELLI. History of John Bull, i. 452, n. 2; written by Arbuthnot, i. 452, n. 2; quoted by Johnson, ii. 235, n. 1. History of the War, projected, i. 354. Historyes of Troye, v. 459, n. 2. HITCH, Charles, i. 183. HOADLEY, Archbishop, i. 318, n. 4. HOADLEY, Dr. Benjamin, Suspicious Husband, The, ii. 50, n. 2. HOADLEY, Dr. John, letter to Garrick, ii. 69, n. 1. Hob in the Well, ii. 465. HOBBES, Thomas, Bathurst's verses to him, iv. 402, n. 2; mentioned, iii. 448. HOCKLEY-IN-THE-HOLE, iii. 134, n. 1; 454. HODGE, the cat, iv. 197. HODGES, Dr., ii. 341, n. 3. HOG, William, i. 229. HOGARTH, William, Garrick's acting, describes, iii. 35, n. 1; Johnson's belief, describes, i. 147, n. 2; conversation, ib.; finds more like David than Solomon, iii. 229, n. 3; like his Idle Apprentice, i. 250; takes for an idiot, i. 146; Modern Midnight Conversation, iii. 348; partisan of George II, i. 146; physicians, his, iii. 288, n. 4; prints, his, at Slains Castle, v. 102; at Streatham, iii. 348; Wilkes, print of, v. 186. HOGG, James, Jacobite Relics, v. 142, n. 2. Hogshead of sense, v. 341. HOLBACH, Baron, anecdote of Hume and seventeen Atheists, ii. 8, n. 4; Systeme de la Nature, v. 47, n. 4. HOLBROOK, ----, Usher at Lichfield School, i. 44. HOLDER, ----, an apothecary, iv. 137, 144, 402, n. 2. HOLIDAYS OF THE CHURCH, ii. 458. HOLINSHED, quoted by Boswell, iv. 268, n. 2. HOLLAND, exportation of coin free, iv. 105, n. 1; Dutch fond of draughts and smoking, i. 317; free from spleen, iv. 379; English books printed there, iii. 162; France, pressed by, in 1779, iii. 408, n. 4; Johnson's proposed tour there, i. 470; iii. 454; lead from two Cathedrals shipped to it, v. 114, n. 2; populous, iii. 233; Scotch regiment at Sluys, iii. 447; suspension of arms in 1782-3, iv. 282, n. 1; torture employed there, i. 466; trade, i. 218, n. 3. HOLLAND, the actor, iv. 7. HOLLAND, Dr., ii. 94, n. 2. HOLLAND, first Lord, iv. 174, n. 5, 219, n. 3. HOLLAND, third Lord, Boswell and Horace Walpole, iv. 314, n. 5; Jeffrey's 'narrow English,' ii. 159, n. 6; Johnson and Fox, iv. 167, n. 1; and Garrick, i. 216, n. 3. HOLLAND HOUSE, iv. 174, n. 5. HOLLIS, Thomas, iv. 97. HOLLOWAY, Mr. M. M., autograph letters of Johnson, iv. 260, n. 2; v. 405, n. 1, 454. HOLROYD, John (Lord Sheffield), i. 465, n. 1; ii. 150, n, 7; iii. 178, n. 1. HOLY LAND, iii. 177. HOME, Francis, Experiments on Bleaching, i. 309. HOME, Henry. See LORD KAMES. HOME, John, Agis, ii. 320, n. 1; v. 204; Athelstanford, minister of, iii. 47, n. 3; Bute's errand-goer, ii. 354; and favourite, i. 386, n. 3; Carlyle, Dr. A., described by, v. 362, n. 1; Derrick's lines, parodied, i. 456; Douglas, Garrick rej

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