detached operations were conducted with great skill, but his attempt to surprise Montr0se's camp at Auldearn ended in a complete disaster, partly on account of the accident of the men discharging their pieces before starting on the march. Soon afterwards he once more joined Charles's party, and he was taken prisoner in the disastrous campaign of Preston (1648) Sir John Hurry was Montrose’s Maior General in the last desperate attempt of the Scottish Royalists. Taken at Carbissdale, he was beheaded at Edinburgh, May 29th, 1650. A soldler of great bravery, experience and skill, his frequent changes of of fortune were due rather to laxity of political principles than to any calculated idea of treason.
HURST, JOHN FLETCHER (1834-1903), American Methodlst Episcopal bishop, was born In Salem, Dorchester county, Maryland, on the 17th of August 1834. He graduated at Dickinson College in 1854, and in 1856 went to Germany and studied at Halle and Heidelberg. From 1858 to 1867 he was engaged in pastoral work in America, and from 1867 to 1871 he taught in Methodist mrssion instnutes in Germany. In 1871-1873 he was professor of historical theology at Drew Theological Seminary, Madison, New Jersey, of which he was president from 1873 till 188O, when he was made a bishop, He died at Bethesda, Maryland, on the 4th of May 1903. Bishop Hurst, by his splendid devotion in 1876~1879, recovered the endowment of Drew Theologlcal Seminary, lost by the failure in 1876 of Daniel Drew, its founder, and with McClintock and Crooks he improved the quality of Methodist scholarship. The American University (Methodist Episcopal) at Washington, D.C, for postgraduate work was the outcome of his projects, and he was its chancellor from 1891 to his death.
He published A History of Ratlonalism (1866), Hagenbach's Church History of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (2 vols, 1869), won Oosterzee's John's Gospel Apologetzcal Lectures (1809), Lange's Commentary on the Epzstle to the Romans (1869), Martys to the Tract Cause A Contribution to the History of the Reformation (1872), a translation and revision of Thelemann's Martyrer der Traktatsache (1864); Outlines of Bible History (1873), Outlines of Church History (1874), Life and Literature in the Fatherland (1875), brilliant sketches of Germany, a brief pamphlet, Our Theological Century (1877), Bibliotheca Theologica (1883), a compilation by his students, revised by G. W. Gillmore in 1895 under the title Literature of Theology, Indika the Country and People of Indra and Ceylon (1891), the outgrowth of h1s travels in 1884-1885 when he held the conferences of India, and several church histories (Chautauqua text-books) published together as A Short History of the Christian Church (1895).
HURSTMONCEAUX (also HERSTMONCEUX), a village in the Eastbourne parliamentary division of Sussex, England, 9 m N E of Eastbourne. Pop (1901) 1429. The village takes its name from Waleran de Monceux, lord of the manor after the Conquest, but the castle, for the picturesque ruins of which the village IS famous, was built in the reign of Henry VI. by Sir Roger de Frennes. It is moated, and is a fine specimen of 15th-century brickwork, the buildings covering an almost square quadrangle measuring about 70 yds. in the side. Towers flank the corners, and there is a beautiful turreted entrance gate, but only the foundations of most of the buildings ranged round the inner courts are to be traced. The church of All Saints is in the main Early English, and contains interesting monuments to members of the Fiennes family and others In the churchyard is the tomb of Archdeacon Iuhus Charles Hare, the theologian (1855), Much material from the castle was used in the erection of Hurstmonceaux Place, a mansion of the 18th century.