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Henry Hexham
Henry Hexham (1585?–1650?) was an English military writer.
==Life==
Hexham was born in Holland, Lincolnshire. His mother appears to have been a sister of Jerome Heydon, merchant, of London, who was probably related to Sir Christopher Heydon. The cousin, John Heydon, to whom Hexham dedicates his ''Appendix of Lawes'', has been identified with Sir John Heydon (died 1653), Sir Christopher's son, and Sir Christopher's daughter Frances married Philip Vincent, who has commendatory verses prefixed to Hexham's translation of Mercator's ''Atlas''.
Hexham was in early youth attached as a page to the service of Sir Francis Vere; he was with Vere throughout the siege of Ostend in 1601, and his narrative of that event is printed at the end of Sir Francis Vere's ''Commentaries'' (1657). Hexham seems to have served with Sir Francis until his return to England in 1606 and to have remained in the Low Countries, possibly in one of the towns garrisoned by the English; he was personally acquainted with Prince Maurice of Nassau and his brother, Frederick Henry. In 1611 he published a Dutch translation of ''The Highway to Heaven'', by Thomas Tuke, under the title ''De Konincklicke wech tot den Hemel …'' (Dordrecht); and in 1623 appeared ''A Tongue Combat lately happening between two English Souldiers … the one going to serve the King of Spain, the other to serve the States Generall'' (London, 1623). When Sir Horace Vere in 1625 went to the relief of Breda, Hexham was quartermaster to Vere's regiment, and he occupied a similar position under Vere during the siege of 's-Hertogenbosch in 1629, at the capture of Venlo, Roermond, and Strale, and the siege of Maastricht in 1631–2.
After Vere's death Hexham became quartermaster to the regiment of George Goring, with whom he served at the siege of Breda in 1637. In 1640 he was in England, and on 27 July he received a pass on going to Holland on private business. On 23 July 1641 Edward Conway, 2nd Viscount Conway wrote to Secretary Edward Nicholas that he had known Hexham as long as he could remember, and was sure that Hexham was a good Protestant and would take the oath of allegiance and supremacy, which he did four days later. Hexham, however, took no part in the civil wars in England; he returned to Holland before 1642, and remained there in the Dutch service and busy with his literary work. His ''English-Dutch Dictionary'' has a preface dated Rotterdam, 21 September 1647, and he probably died about 1650.
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