Family and Education
b. 1496 /97, 1st s. of John Hall of London by Catherine, da. and coh. of Thomas Gedding of Norf. educ. Eton; King’s, Camb. adm. 31 July 1514, fellow 1517-18, BA 1518; G. Inn. unm. suc. fa. 22 Feb. 1528.Aged 17 on admission to King’s College, Cambridge, J. Saltmarsh’s letter to The Times, 8 Oct. 1932. Vis. Salop (Harl. Soc. xxviii), 207-8; DNB; PCC 3 Jankyn, 36 Alen; Emden, Biog. Reg. Univ. Oxf. 1501-40, p. 259; A. F. Pollard, ‘The 1st MP journalist’, The Times, 1 Oct. 1932; ‘Edward Hall’s will and chronicle’, Bull. IHR, ix. 171-7; G. Pollard, ‘The bibliog. hist. of Hall’s chronicle’, Bull. IHR, x. 12-17; ‘A lawsuit over Edward Hall’s will’, Bull. IHR, xi. 30.
Offices Held
Autumn reader, G. Inn 1533, Lent 1540.
Common serjeant, London 17 Mar. 1533 – 2 June 1535; under sheriff 2 June 1535 – d.; commr. to enforce the Six Articles 1541, 1547.
Parlimentarian
Main residence: Gray's Inn, London.
Volume
Commons 1509-1558
Web Title
HALL, Edward I (1496/97-1547)
Will
Estates
Oxford 1644
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