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JOHN HALES (1584-1656)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 834 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN See also:HALES (1584-1656)  , See also:English See also:scholar, frequently referred to as " the ever memorable," was See also:born at See also:Bath on the 19th of See also:April 1584, and was educated at Corpus Christi See also:College, See also:Oxford . He was elected a See also:fellow of Merton in 1605, and in 1612 he was appointed public lecturer on See also:Greek . In 1613 he was made a fellow of See also:Eton . Five years later he went to See also:Holland, as See also:chaplain to the English See also:ambassador, See also:Sir See also:Dudley See also:Carleton, who despatched him to See also:Dort to See also:report upon the proceedings of the See also:synod then sitting . In 1619 he returned to Eton and spent his See also:time among his books and in the See also:company of See also:literary men, among whom he was highly reputed for his See also:common sense, his erudition and his genial charity . See also:Andrew Marvell called him " one of the clearest heads and best-prepared breasts in Christen-dom." His eirenical See also:tract entitled See also:Schism and Schismatic/es (1636) See also:fell into the hands of See also:Archbishop See also:Laud, and See also:Hales, See also:hearing that he had disapproved of it, is said to have written to the See also:prelate a vindication of his position . This led to a See also:meeting, and in 1639 Hales was made one of Laud's chaplains and also a See also:canon of See also:Windsor . In 1642 he was deprived of his canonry by the See also:parliamentary See also:committee, and two years later was obliged to hide in Eton with the college documents and keys . In 1649 he refused to take the "Engagement" and was ejected from his fellowship . He then retired to See also:Buckinghamshire, where he found a See also:home with Mrs See also:Salter, the See also:sister of the See also:bishop of See also:Salisbury (See also:Brian Duppa), and acted as See also:tutor to her son . The issue of the See also:order against harbouring malignants led him to return to Eton . Here, having sold his valuable library at See also:great See also:sacrifice, he lived in poverty until his See also:death on the 19th of May 1656 .

His collected See also:

works (3 vols.) were edited by See also:Lord See also:Hailes, and published in 1765 .

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