Hot Gospellers.
The Puritans were so styled after the Restoration in 1660. The name was originally given to Edward Underhill, a Protestant who was imprisoned in 1553 for an attack made by him on the Roman Catholics on the accession of Mary.
Hotspur.
The sobriquet of Henry Percy (1364-1403).
Houghers.
An Irish agrarian society which appeared in Connemara in 1711. They took their name from their practice of houghing the cattle of obnoxious persons. The society was suppressed in 1713.
House-carls.
A body of standing troops raised by Knut, circ. 1030. The first standing army in England.
Hovering Act.
An Act passed in 1784, extending the authority of the revenue officers to a distance of four leagues from the coast.