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EDWARD HALL (c. 1498-1547)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 846 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EDWARD See also:HALL (c. 1498-1547)  , See also:English chronicler and lawyer, was See also:born about the end of the ,5th See also:century, being a son of See also:John See also:Hall of Northall, See also:Shropshire . Educated at See also:Eton and See also:King's See also:College, See also:Cambridge, he became a See also:barrister and after-wards filled the offices of See also:common sergeant of the See also:city of See also:London and See also:judge of the See also:sheriff's See also:court . He was also member of See also:parliament for See also:Bridgnorth . Hall's See also:great See also:work, The See also:Union of the See also:Noble and Illustre Famelies of Lancastre and See also:York, commonly called Hall's See also:Chronicle, was first published in 1542 . Another edition was issued by See also:Richard See also:Grafton in 1548, the See also:year after Hall's See also:death, and another in 1550; these include a continuation from 1532 compiled by Grafton from the author's notes . In 1809 an edition was published under the supervision of See also:Sir See also:Henry See also:Ellis, and in 1904 the See also:part dealing with the reign of Henry VIII. was edited by C . Whibley . The Chronicle begins with the See also:accession of Henry IV. to the English See also:throne in 1399; it follows the strife between the houses of See also:Lancaster and York, and with Grafton's continuation carries the See also:story down to the death of Henry VIII. in 1547 . Hall presents the policy of this king in a very favourable See also:light and shows his own sympathy with the Protestants . For all kinds of ceremonial he has all a lawyer's respect, and his pages are often adorned and encumbered with the pageantry and material garniture of the story . The value of the Chronicle in its See also:early stages is not great, but this increases when dealing with the reign of Henry VII. and is very consider-able for the reign of Henry VIII . Moreover, the work is not only valuable, it is attractive .

To the historian it furnishes what is evidently the' testimony of an See also:

eye-See also:witness on several matters of importance which are neglected by other narrators; and to the student of literature it has the exceptional See also:interest of being one of the See also:prime See also:sources of See also:Shakespeare's See also:historical plays . See J . See also:Gairdner, Early Chroniclers of See also:Europe; See also:England (1879) .

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