family of Heigham or Higham, of Higham, Cheshire, who settled in Essex. He was a man of learning, and skilled in the Latin, French, Italian, and Spanish languages. He resided at Douay and St. Omer, chiefly in the latter city, where he appears to have been living in 1639. By his wife, Mary Garnett, he had a son John, who took holy orders, and left Rome for the English mission in 1649.
His works are: 1. ‘A Devout Exposition of the Holie Masse. With an Ample Declaration of all the Rites and Ceremonies belonging to the same,’ Douay, 1614, 12mo; St. Omer, 1622, 8vo; and again London, 1876, 12mo, edited by Austin Joseph Rowley, priest. 2. ‘A Mirrour to Confesse well for such persons as doe frequent this Sacrament. Abridged out of sundrie confessionals by a certain devout Religious man,’ Douay, 1618 and 1624, 12mo. 3. ‘A Method of Meditation,’ translated from the French of Father Ignatius Balsom, St. Omer, 1618, 8vo. 4. ‘The Psalter of Jesus, contayninge very devoute and godlie petitions,’ Douay, 1618, 12mo. This is a revised edition of Richard Whytford's ‘Psalter.’ It was reprinted, Douay, 1624, 12mo, with ‘A Mirrour to Confesse well’ and the four following works, in all six parts, each having a distinct title-page. 5. ‘Certaine very pious and godly considerations proper to be exercised whilst the … Sacrifice of the Masse is celebrated,’ Douay, 1624, 12mo. 6. ‘Divers Devout considerations for the more worthy receaving of the … Sacrament,’ Douay, 1624, 12mo. 7. ‘Certaine advertisements teaching men how to lead a Christian life,’ Douay, 1624, 12mo, translated from the Italian of St. Charles Borromeo. 8. ‘A briefe and profitable exercise of the seaven principall effusions of the … blood of … Jesus Christ,’ a translation from the French, Douay, 1624, 12mo. 9. ‘Meditations on the Mysteries of our holie Faith, with the Practise of Mental Prayer touching the same,’ from the Spanish of the jesuit father Luis de la Puente,’ St. Omer, 1619, 4to; reprinted, in a revised and corrected form, London, 1852, 8vo. This translation is distinct from that of Father Richard Gibbons [q. v.] in 1610. 10. ‘The True Christian Catholique; or the Maner How to Live Christianly,’ from the French of the jesuit Father Philippe Doultreman, St. Omer, 1622, 12mo. 11. ‘Villegas's Lives of the Saints translated, whereunto are added the Lives of sundry other Saints of the Universal Church, set forth by J. Heigham,’ St. Omer, 1630, 4to. 12. ‘Via Vere Tuta; or the Truly Safe Way. Discovering the Danger, Crookedness, and Uncertaintie of M. John Preston and Sir Humfrey Lindes Unsafe Way,’ St. Omer, 1631 and 1639, 8vo. In answer to the puritan divine Sir Humphrey Lynde's ‘Via Tuta.’
[Gillow's Bibl. Dict. of English Catholics; Duthillœul's Bibl. Douaisienne, 2nd edit. p. 197; Dodd's Church Hist. ii. 426; Foley's Records, vi. 340, 628; Granger's Biog. Hist. of England, 5th edit. ii. 79.]
HEIGHINGTON, MUSGRAVE (1690–1774?), musical composer, was son of Ambrose Heighington of White Hurworth, Durham, and of his wife, who was one of the four daughters of Sir Edward Musgrave, first baronet, of Hayton Castle, Cumberland. From the facts that his wife was an Irish lady, and that one of his most important works, ‘The Enchantress, or Harlequin Merlin,’ was produced in Dublin, it is supposed that he was settled there as a professor of music for some time. In 1738 he was appointed organist at Yarmouth, and was admitted a member of the Gentlemen's Society at Spalding. He was organist at Leicester in 1739, and while there composed the anniversary ode for the Spalding Society. In 1745 it appears from the rules of the Spalding Society that he was in the habit of giving concerts in the town hall there. He was organist before 1760 at the English episcopal chapel in Dundee. Bishop Pococke, in his ‘Tour through Scotland’ (Scottish History Society, 1887), when visiting Dundee in 1760, wrote: ‘They have a neat Chapel and Organ, of which Dr. Heyington, a very eminent Musitian (who took his degree in Musick at Oxford and Cambridge, and is about 80), is the Organist.’ His name, however, does not occur in the lists of Oxford and Cambridge graduates. Heighington died at Dundee about 1774. Besides the two works already named he published ‘Six Select Odes of Anacreon in Greek and Six of Horace in Latin, set to Music,’ said to have been performed in Fleet Street in 1745. He is described in the title as ‘sometime of Queen's College, Oxford.’ He also wrote several songs, and took an active part in the formation of the Dundee Musical Society, one of the earliest Scottish societies engaged in the study of classical music.
[Grove's Dict. of Music and Musicians; Nichols's Lit. Anecd. vi. 11, 32, 87; Notes and Queries, 4th ser. i. 435, 543; local information.]
HEINS, JOHN THEODORE (1732–1771), painter and engraver, born at Norwich in 1732, was son of John Theodore Heins, a German, resident at Norwich, who between 1736 and 1756 painted several portraits of eminent people at Norwich and Cambridge, and engraved a few portraits ‘ad vivum’ in
