Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Hart, Henry (fl.1549)

by Ronald Bayne

HART, HENRY (fl. 1549), was author of 1. 'A Godly New short treatyse instructyng every parson howe they shulde trade theyr lyves in the Imytacyon of Vertu, and the shewing of vyce, and declaryng also what benefyte man hath receaved by christe, through the effusyon of hys most precyous bloude' (Robert Stoughton), 1548, 16 mo, (Brit. Mus.); and 2.' A Godly exhortation to all such as professe the Gospell, wherein they are by the swete promises therof provoked and styrred up to followe the same in living, and by the terrible threats feared from the contrary,' London (John Day and William Seres), 1549, 8vo.

[Ames's Typ. Antiq. (Herbert), pp. 623, 750; Brit. Mus. and Bodl. Libr. Cat.]

R. B.