Hexateuch

First six books of O. T.; term lately introduced by the higher biblical criticism to include the Pent a teuch and Joshua, now supposed to have been compiled by several persons from different sources. Hexham. Town of North umber land, on the Tyne; scene of the defeat, May 8, 1464, of the Lancastrians under Somerset IMG:content-0583.png:[merged small][ocr errors] by the Yorkists under Montague. Somerset was taken prisoner and beheaded. Pop., 1891, 5,945.