[The personal and literary history of John Owen (_Audoenus_) is given
in the _Biographia Britannica_, vol. v., and in Chalmers' and Rose's
Biographical Dictionaries.]
_Hampden's Death._--Was the great patriot Hampden actually slain by the
enemy on Chalgrove Field? or was his death, as some have asserted, {496}
caused by the bursting of his own pistol, owing to its having been
incautiously overcharged?