Major General Heane (3rd S. iv. 48) Whilst a captain, he was taken prisoner by the king's forces and confined in Portland, whence he made his escape. On Dec 4, 1844 the Parliament voted eighty pounds to him, and twenty pounds to the man that procured his escape.- (Lords' Journals, vii, 81, 87, 88; Commons Journals, iii, 712.)

He was governor of Weymouth for the Parliament from about Dec. 1647, till Oct. 1651, when he set out from that port on the expedition against Jersey. - (Hutchins's Dorset, ii, 64; Commons' Journals, vi, 45, 327, 415.)

The Parliament, on May 22, 1650, ordered that Major Heane should have a commission as Colonel and should be authorised to complete the four companies then under his command into a regiment of ten companies, and 1200 men.- (Commons' Journals, vi., 415).

For particulars of his share in the capture of the island and forts of Jersey, and of his conduct whilst in command of Castle Elizabeth, see Whitelock's Memorials, 511, 513-515, 517, 518; Falle's Jersey, 2nd Edit., 110, seq.; Commons' Journals, vii, 31, 37, 62, 84,; Thurloe's State Papers, iv, 258.

The Parliament, on Oct. 30, 1651, voted a gratuity of one hundred pounds to his son William, who was, we presume the bearer of the joyful news of the capture of Jersey, and on Nov. 19, following, Colonel Heane had a vote of thanks for his services.

The following entry under date of Nov. 1, 1853, is curious:

"Mr. Moyer reports from the Council of State, that there is one Major Heane, by birth a Foreigner, who hath performed many eminent Services in the War of Scotland; hath very great skill in Fortifications, and also Matters relating to the Profession of an Engineer; and is of very great Use, at this Time, in Services of that Nature: That he is a person eminent for Godliness, and of undoubted affection to this Commonwealth: That the Parliament be humbly moved, from this Council, in Consideration of his many good Services, That Lands, to the Value of a Hundred Pounds per annum, in Scotland, may be settled upon him and his Heirs for ever, as a Mark of Favour, and Token of their good acceptance of the Services done by him for this Commonwealth; and for an Encouragement for him to settle himself and his family in this Nation,

"The question being put, That Major Heane shall have a Hundred Pounds per Annum settled upon him and his Heirs, he remaining here during his Life ;

"It passed in the negative." - Commons' Journals, viii, 843.)

It is difficult to determine whether the person named in the preceding entry is the subject of this notice. On the one hand we know no one else to whom it could apply. On the other it is singular that he should be called Major after the Parliament had raised him to the rank of Colonel, and that no allusion should be made to his eminent service in the capture of Jersey. Moreover, we do not find any notice of him in Scotland.

On Dec. 7, 1654, the Protector issued a privy seal, granting Col. Venables and Col. Heane one thousand pounds by way of imprest. - (Fourth Report Dep. Deeper of Records, Appendix, ii, 189.)

By another privy seal dated Feb 16 1654-5, Col Heane and his partners were to receive two hundred pounds, the fifth part due to them as discoverers of the delinquencies of Geo. Pitt, Esq. (Ibid. 191.)

About this time he was advanced to the rank of Major-General, and fell valiantly fighting and vainly endeavouring to rally the troops in the unsuccessful attack on Hispaniola, April 26, 1655. (Thurloe's State Papers, iii, 4, 506, 689; Granville Penn's Memorials of Sir Will. Penn, ii, 54, 71, 69-91, 99, 123.)

On Oct 3, 1655, the council of state issued an order to the commissioners of the admiralty, to settle one hundred and fifty pounds a year on Elizabeth his widow(Sainsbury's Cal. Colonial State Papers, 431), and on Dec. 29 following the Protector granted her a privy seal for four hundred punds. - (Fifth Rep. Dep. Keeper of Records, Append ii 249).

No little variety occurs in the orthography of his name. He is not infrequently called Haynes, a circumstance calculated to occasion perplexity, as there was a very noted major-general of that name at the same period, viz. Hezekiah Haynes, military governor of the eastern counties and the captor of John Cleveland, the loyal poet. We can trace Hezekiah Haynes, as living in May 1659. C.H. & Thompson Cooper, Cambridge.

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