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Habington, William

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

an English poet, was born Cat Hindlip, Worcestershire, November 5, 1605. He was educated at St. Omer's Jesuit College, and afterwards at Paris; spent his life in literary and rural leisure, and died on his native estate, November 13, 1645. Besides some historical works, he published occasional poems of a serious vein, which were collected in a volume entitled Castara (1635, 1640). See Chalmers, Biog. Dict. s.v.