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HALES, JOHN (1584-1656)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 834 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HALES, See also:JOHN (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 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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