HENRY, PHILIP: English non-conformist; b. at Whitehall, London, Aug. 24, 1631; d. at Broad Oak, near Bangor-Iscoed, Wales, June 24, 1696. He studied at Westminster School, and at Christ Church, Oxford (B.A., 1649; M.A., 1652): In 1653 he went to Flintshire, North Wales, as tutor to the sons

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Hensohen Herbelot of John Puleston at Emral and preacher at Worth enbury Chapel, in the parish of Bangor-Iscoed. He was ordained in 1657 and presented with the donative of Worthenbury in 1658. For refusing to subscribe to the Act of Uniformity (see UNI FoRmITy, AcTs op) he was ejected from his liv ing in 1662; and in 1665 he was driven from his home by the Five Mile Act (q.v.) and forced to seek safety in concealment. He did not resume his regular ministry till the indulgence of 1672. For keeping conventicles he was fined in 1681; and during the Monmouth rebellion he was imprisoned in Chester Castle for three weeks. After the pro clamation of liberty of conscience by James II. in 1687, he preached daily at Broad Oak, Flintshire, the country estate of his wife, and at various places in the neighborhood. Nothing was published by Henry himself, but from his manuscripts several volumes have been edited which throw light on the inner life of early non-conformity. These are: Eighteen Sermons (London, 1816); Skeletons of Ser mons (1834); Exposition . . upon . . . Genesis (1839); Remains (1848); and Diaries and Letters, ed. M. H. Lee (1882). He was the father of Matthew Henry (q.v.), the commentator.

Bibliography: The beet source apart from the Diaries and Letters, ut sup., is the Memoirs, by his eon Matthew Henry, London, 1696, corrected and enlarged by J. B. Williams, ib. 1825; DNB, uvi. 124-126.

HENSCHEN, GOTTFRIED: The first pupil and collaborator of Bolland in the great work of his Acta Sanctorum (see Bolland, Jan, Bollandists); b. at Venray (22 m. n. of Roermond), Holland, Jan. 21, 1600; d. at Antwerp Sept. 11, 1681. He entered the Jesuit order at Mechlin in 1619, taught Latin and Greek in various Flemish schools, and was preparing to go as a missionary to the North when, in 1635, Bolland asked for help in his task. Henschen was chosen as the most suitable man, and so far justified the choice that he may almost be called the creator of the Acta Sanctorum Bollan distarum in its present shape; Bolland's plan con templated little more than an expansion of the collection of Surius, but Henschen's scholarly in fluence induced him to add the learned critical dissertations which constitute the special value of the work.

Bibliography: See the literature under Acta Martyrum, Acta Sanctorum, and consult RL, v. 1780--81.