HALES, John II (by 1516-72), of Coventry, Warws. and London.

Family and Education

b. by 1516, s. of John or Thomas Hales of Canterbury, Kent; bro. of Stephen. unm. Date of birth estimated from first office. DNB; Vis. Warws. (Harl. Soc. xii), 95, 210; Vis. Kent (Harl. Soc. xlii), 59.

Offices Held

Servant of Cromwell 1535; keeper of writs, KB 1537 – 40; ?principal auditor, office of gen. surveyors to Feb. 1537; clerk of first fruits and tenths 1537 – 40; jt. (with Sir Ralph Sadler) clerk of the hanaper 1545 – 57, 1559 – d.; j.p. Mdx., Warws. 1547; commr. to survey accounts of money distributed by collegiate churches 1547, enclosures, Beds., Berks., Bucks., Leics., Northants., Oxon., Warws. 1548, relief, Mdx. and Coventry 1550.LP Hen. VIII, ix, xi, xv, xix; M. L. Robertson, ‘Cromwell’s servants’ (Univ. California Los Angeles Ph.D. thesis, 1975), 497–8; M. Blatcher, Ct. KB 1450–1550, p. 107; W. C. Richardson, Tudor Chamber Admin. 341; Bull. IHR, xxxviii. 34, 39, 41; CPR, 1547–8, pp. 86, 90, 232, 419; 1553, pp. 356, 361.

Parlimentarian

HALES, John II (by 1516-72), of Coventry, Warws. and London.

Main residences: Coventry, Warws.; London.

Author

M.K.D.

Volume

Commons 1509-1558

Web Title

HALES, John II (by 1516-72)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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