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Nam certe supra mortales emicuit 



Moribus Suavissimis 



Ingenio subtilissimo pectore pleno sapuit 



Mundo sublimior 



Adeoque aptior Angelorum choro 



^tatis suas 72- 



Impensis Pet. Curweni olim hujus Coll 



Alumni 72. 



Hales was bom, 1584. Bapt. in St James' Church, Bath, 5 May. 

 King's Professor of Greek, by grant dated 15 Sept. 1612, which took 

 effect shortly after Doctor Perin dying May 3, 1615. 



The followmg is an original Letter of Walton's, inserted in the Collections 

 about John Hales : — 



"I have told you that he satisfied many scruples, and in order to what 

 foUowes, I must tell you that a yeare or two after the beginning of the 

 long parliament, the citisens and many yong lecturers (scollers of their 

 zeale and pich for Learning, and precedence) had got Mr Brightman's 

 booke or Coment on the Revelations to be reprinted and greatly magnified : - 

 in which was so many gros Errors and absurd conclusions about govern- 

 ment by Bishops, and other explications to the humors and the present 

 ringleaders of the then Parliament (all whereof Brightman is now proved 

 false, and that party not yet ashamed) vrith which the lecturers and their 

 followers were so transported with Brightman's opinions, that they 

 swallowed them without chawing, and all thought simple that approved 

 him not. 



" About this time comes a friend to Mr Hales (being a neighbour 

 gentleman,) and requests that a kinsman of his that was trobled with some 

 sad thoughts and scruples might obtain a conference with him, in order 

 to the quieting of his minde : which was redyly granted by Mr Hales. 

 When the perplext partie came to him at the howre apoynted, Mr Ha. 

 having taken him into his study, and shut the dore in order to a private and 

 larg discourse with him, the perplext partie being set down takes out of his 

 pocket a bible, turnes to, the profit Daniell, reades a part of one of the 

 chapters, askes the meaning of that, and how it was to be recohciled with a 

 part of the revelation of St John. When Mr Ha. had heard him reade, 

 and heard him make his queries or scruples, he told him, he was mistaken 

 in taking him for a fit man to satisfie his conscience, and that if he wood 

 be satisfied he must goe to some of the young devines now about London, 

 and not come to so old a devine as he was, but they wood doe it 

 readily. 



"About the time he was forc't from the Lady Saltrs, that family or 

 collage broke up, or desolv'd, a little before which time, they were resolv'd 

 to have Mr Ha. picture taken, and to that end, a picture maker had 

 promis'd to atend at Ricking to take it, but fail'd of his time, and Mr Ha. 

 being gone thence, dyed not long after. The not having his picture was 

 lamented very much by the societie in w'"" number the Bish= sister (once 

 M"= Anne King, now the Lady How) undertooke boeth for theirs and her 

 owne satisfaction to draw it, and did so, in black and white, bpeth 

 excellently well as to the curiousness and as well as to the likenes. But 



