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HALES, or HAYLES, JOHN (d. 1571)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 834 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HALES, or HAYLES, See also:JOHN (d. 1571)  , See also:English writer and politician, was a son of See also:Thomas See also:Hales of Hales See also:Place, Halden, See also:Kent . He wrote his See also:Highway to See also:Nobility about 1543, and was the founder of a See also:free school at See also:Coventry for which he wrote Introductiones ad grammaticam . In See also:political See also:life Hales, who was member of See also:parliament for See also:Preston, was specially concerned with opposing the enclosure of See also:land, being the most active of the commissioners appointed in 1548 to redress this evil; but he failed to carry several remedial See also:measures through parliament . IN See also:hen the See also:protector, the See also:duke of See also:Somerset, was deprived of his authority in 1550, Hales See also:left See also:England and lived for some See also:time at See also:Strassburg and See also:Frankfort, returning to his own See also:country on the See also:accession of See also:Elizabeth . However he soon lost the royal favour by See also:writing a pamphlet, A See also:Declaration of the See also:Succession of the See also:Crowne Imperiall of Inglande, which declared that the See also:recent See also:marriage between See also:Lady See also:Catherine See also:Grey and See also:Edward See also:Seymour, See also:earl of See also:Hertford, was legitimate, and asserted that, failing See also:direct heirs to Elizabeth, the English See also:crown should come to Lady Catherine as the descendant of See also:Mary, daughter of See also:Henry VII . The author was imprisoned, but was quickly released, and died on the 28th of See also:December 1571 . The Discourse of the See also:Common Weal, described as " one of the most informing documents of the See also:age," and written about 1549, has been attributedto Hales . This has been edited by E . Lan_ond (See also:Cambridge, 1893) . Hales is often confused with another See also:John Hales, who was clerk of the See also:hanaper under Henry VIII. and his three immediate successors .

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