HABERT, ha"bar', ISAAC: Bishop of Vabres; b. in Paris at the end of the sixteenth century; d. at Pont de Salara, near Rodez (230 m. s.w. of Lyons) Sept. 15, 1668. He was educated in Paris and in 1626, on receiving his doctorate in theology from the Sorbonne, was made a canon in the cathedral at Paris. In 1641, probably at the instigation of Richelieu, he started the attack on Jansenism and subsequently provoked Antoine Arnauld to publish his two apologies for the doctrine, which led to numerous polemic writings pro and con. He was responsible for the letter sent to Pope Innocent X. in 1650, signed by eighty-five bishops, praying him to suppress the Jansenistic heresy. He was bishop of Vabres from 1645 till his death. His principal writings are: De consenau hierarcha:Ie et tlwnurchiw (Paris, 1640); De cathedru sew primatu sancti Petri (1645); and Theologi- gra;corum Ixitrum trindicofce circa universam materiam graha= perpetua eolWione scripturce eonctaiorum . . . sari tree (1646; reprinted, Würzburg, 1863), his chief work against Jansenism.

Bibliography: J. Besoign^ Hist. de 1'abbaye de Port Royal, Vol. vi., Cologne, 1753; C. Cl6menoet, Hist. ohdrale de Port Roial, vol. iri., 10 vols., Amsterdam. 1755-57; W. H. Jervis, The Gallican Church, London, 1872; Lichtenberger, ESR, vi. 56-57.

HACKET, JOHN: Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield; b. in London Sept. 1, 1592; d. at Lichfield Oct. 28, 1670. He was educated at Westminster School, London; and at Trinity College, Cambridge (B. A.,1612; M.A., 1615), where he was

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elected to a fellowship. He was ordained in 1618 and soon afterward became chaplain to John Williams, through whose patronage he was instituted to the rectories of Stoke Hammond (Buckingbsmehire) and Kirkby Underwood m 1621. In 1623 he became proctor for the diocese of Lincoln, prebendary in Lincoln Cathedral, and chaplain to James I., and the following year he received the livings of St. Andrews, Holborn, and Cheam in Surrey. In 1631 he became archdeacon of Bedford, and in 1642 canon residuary of St. Paul's. He was a member of the committee for religion appointed by the House of Lords in Mar., 1641, to reconcile the Puritans by making certain concessions regarding church service and discipline; and in May, 1641, at the request of this committee, he spoke in the House of Commons against the so-called "root and branch" bill for the abolition of all offices connected with the episcopal form of church government. In 1643 he became a member of the Westminster Assembly, but, with other episcopal divines, he soon withdrew from that body. During the civil war he lost all of his preferments except his small benefice at Cheam. At the Restoration he was made chaplain to Charles II., and was consecrated bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, Dec. 22, 1661. He restored the cathedral at Lichfield, a work of eight years, and contributed largely to this and other causes. His only important book is his life of Archbishop Williams, Scrinia reserata: a Memorial Wered to the Great Desemngs of John W%Uiams, D.D. (London, 1693; abridged by A. Philips, 1715), an excellent biography, which S. T: Coleridge considered invaluable for the insight it gives into the times preceding the civil war.

Bibliography: T. Plume, An Account of the Life and Death of . . . John Hacket, ad. with . . . Additions and . . . Notes, by M. E. C. Walcott, London, 1885; John Walker, Sufferings of the Clergy, ib. 1714; Diary of Samuel Pepys, vol. iii., ib. 1858; DNB, mil. 418-920.