HALES, JOHN (1584-1656)

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HALES, JOHN (1584-1656) , English scholar, frequently referred to as " the ever memorable," was born at Bath on the 19th of April 1584, and was educated at Corpus Christi College,

Oxford

. He was elected a fellow of Merton in 1605, and in 1612 he was appointed public lecturer on Greek. In 1613 he was made a fellow of Eton. Five years later he went to Holland, as chaplain to the English

ambassador

AMBASSADOR (also EMBASSADOR, the form sometimes still used in America; from the Fr. ambassadeur, with which compare Ital. ambasciatore and Span. embajador, all variants of the Med. Lat. ambassiator, ambassiator, ambasator, &c., derived from Med. Lat. amba

, Sir Dudley Carleton, who despatched him to Dort to report upon the proceedings of the synod then sitting. In 1619 he returned to Eton and spent his time among his books and in the company of literary men, among whom he was highly reputed for his common sense, his erudition and his genial charity. Andrew Marvell called him " one of the clearest heads and best-prepared breasts in Christen-dom." His eirenical

tract

TRACT (from Lat. tractare, to treat of a matter, through Provencal tractat and Ital. trattato)

entitled Schism and Schismatic/es (1636) fell into the hands of Archbishop Laud, and Hales, hearing that he had disapproved of it, is said to have written to the prelate a vindication of his position. This led to a

meeting

MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)

, and in 1639 Hales was made one of Laud's chaplains and also a canon of Windsor. In 1642 he was deprived of his canonry by the parliamentary 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 Buckinghamshire, where he found a

home

with Mrs Salter, the

sister

SISTER

of the

bishop

Salisbury

(Brian Duppa), and acted as tutor to her son. The issue of the order against harbouring malignants led him to return to Eton. Here, having sold his valuable library at

great

GREAT

sacrifice, he lived in poverty until his death on the 19th of May 1656.
His collected works (3 vols.) were edited by Lord Hailes, and published in 1765.

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