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thirty-four fputh-fouth-ead'of Brunfwick. Lat. 51.54* 
N. Ion. 28. 43. E. Ferro. 
HAL'BERTED, adj. Armed with a halberd : 
But if in this reign 
The halbertcd train 
Or conftable diould rebel. Loyal Songs. 
HAL'CYON, f [h'alcyo, Lat.'] The trivial name of 
the Kingfisher; of which it is faid, that the breeds 
in the fea, and that there is always a calm, during her 
inqubation. See Alcedo, vol. i. p- *47- 
Amidd our arms as quiet you diall be, 
As halcyons brooding on a winter fea. Dryden. 
HAL'CYON, adj. Placid ; quiet; Fill; peaceful.— 
No man can expect eternal ferenity and halcyon days from 
fo incompeterit and partial a caufe, as the condant cqurle 
of the fun in the equinoctial circle. Bentley. . 
When great Auguftus made war’s temped ceafe, 
His halcyon days brought forth the arts of peace. Denham. 
HALC'ZYN, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of 
Braclaw : twenty-miles ead-fouth-ead of Braclaw. 
HALDE (John-Baptid du) r born at Paris in 1674- 
Having entered into the fociety of Jefuits, he was en- 
truded with the care of collecting and arranging the let¬ 
ters Cent by the fociety’s miflionaries from different parts 
of the unconverted world. 1 He died in 1743, after 
eftablidiing a high character for mildnefs, piety, and in- 
duftry. He wrote fome Latin poems and harangues; 
but is chiefly known as the editor of the Lettres edifiantes 
& curieufes, from the ninth to the twenty-fixth collection 
inclufive, to which he added ufeful prefaces ; and as 
compiler of the Defcription hifiorique, geographique, & phy- 
fque, del’Empire de la Chine, & de la Tartaric Chinoife, 4 vols. 
folio, Paris, 1735; and 4 vols. 4to. Haye, 1736. This 
has been tranffated into Englilh with fome retrench¬ 
ments; and is a book in univerfal edeem. 
HAL'DENSTEIN, abarony of the Grifons.near Coire, 
abfolutely free and independent, under the protection 
of the three leagues. It belongs to the- family of De 
Salis. It takes its name from an ancient caflle, now in 
ruins : two miles north of Coire. 
HAL'DENSLEBEN, a town of Germany, in the cir¬ 
cle of Lower Saxony, and principality of Magdeburg: 
twelve miles north of Magdeburg. 
HALE, adj . [fhould rather be written hail, from keel, 
health.] Healthy; found; hearty ; well-complexioned : 
My feely flieep like well below, 
For they been hale enough I trow. Spenfer, 
His domach now'begins to fail; 
-Lad year we thought him drong and hale . Swift. 
HALE,/, [hasle. Sax. falus.~\ Welfare: 
Eftfoones all heedlefs of his deared halt 
Full greedily into the herd he thrud. Spenfer. 
To HALE, v.a. \bdlen, Dut. haler, Fr.] To drag by 
force ; to pull violently and rudely.—Give diligence 
that thou mayed be delivered from him, led he hale thee 
to the judge. Luke. 
Fie by the neck hath hal’d, in pieces cut, 
And fet me as a mark on every butt. Sandys. 
HALE, a river of England, in the county of Corn¬ 
wall, which runs into the fea near St. Ives. 
HALE, a town of Germany, in the duchy of Holdein: 
fix miles ead of Krempe. 
HALE (Sir Matthew), the jud and upright lord chief 
judice of England, born at Aiderly in Gloucederdiire, 
the fird of November, 1609. His grandfather, Robert 
Hale, was an eminent clothier at Wotton-under-Edge, 
in that county, wherp he and Iris ancedors had lived.for 
many defeents ; and they had given feveral parcels of 
•land for the ufe of the poor, which are enjoyed by them 
to this day. This Robert acquired an eftate of ten thou- 
(and pounds,.which he divided almod equally amongd 
his five fons; befides the portions he gave his daughters, 
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from whom a numerous poderity has fprung. IBs fe- 
cond foil was Robert Hale, a barrider of Lincoln’s Inn ; 
he married Joan the daughter of Matthew Poyntz, of 
Aiderly, efq. who was defeended from the noble fami¬ 
ly of the PoyntzTof Adton : of this marriage there 
was no other ilfue but this one fort. His grandfather by 
'his mother was his-godfather, and gave him his own 
name of Matthew, at his baptifm. His father was a 
man of that dridtnefs of confcience, that he gave over 
the practice of the law, becaufe he could not under- 
-ftand the reafon of giving colour in pleadings, which 
as he thought was to tell a lie, and that, with fome 
other . things commonly pradtifed, feemed to him con¬ 
trary, to that exaCtnefs of truth and judice which be¬ 
came a Chrillian ; fo that he withdrew himfelf from the 
iniis of court, to live'on his edate in the country. 
Flis fon Matthew Hale he intended for the church, and 
for that ptirpofe caufed him to be privately indruCted and 
prepared forthe univerfity by the Rev. Mr. Staunton, vi¬ 
car of Wotton-under-Edge. In 1626, he was admitted of 
Magdalen-hall in Oxford, where he laid the foundation 
of that learning and knowledge, on which he afterwards 
railed fo vad a fuperdruCture. Here, however, after his 
father’s deceafe, he fell into many levities and extrava¬ 
gancies, and was preparing to accompany his tutor, who 
went chaplain to lord Vere into the Low-countries, with 
a refolution of entering himfelf into the prince ot Orange’s 
army : from which 'fc he me he was diverted, by being- 
engaged in-a law-fuit with fir William Whitmore, who 
laid claim fo part of his patrimonial edate. Afterwards 
he refolved to dudy the law ; obferving, that every 
gentleman who poffeffed landed property, oughfto read 
enough of the jurifprudehce of his. country, to indrudt 
him how to take care of it, .and he was admitted-of Lin- 
coln’s-inn, November 1629. He now devoted lixteen 
hours a-day to dudy, and led the life of a perfeCt re- 
clufe. His capacious blind Teemed bent upon almqd 
every objedt of human learning—mathematics, phyfics, 
hi dory, philofophy, and, above all, divinity. For this 
comprehenfion he was much-indebted to his acquaint¬ 
ance with that profound fcholar the immortal Selden, 
who contracted fuch a regard for him as to make him 
his bofom-friend and executor. 
Some time before the civil war broke out, he was 
called to the bar, and Toon began to make a figure in 
the world; but, obferving how difficult it was to pre- 
Yerve his integrity, and yet live fecurely, he refolved to 
follow thofe two maxims of Atticus, whom he propofed 
to himfelf as a pattern, viz. “To engage in no politi¬ 
cal fadtion, and condantly to favour thofe that were op- 
preffed. ” He often relieved the royalids under perie- 
cution,“which fo affedted the royal party, that he was con¬ 
dantly retained by them in his profeflion. He was one 
of the counfel to the earl of Strafford, archbifliop Laud, 
and even it is faid to the unfortunate king Charles him-, 
felf; as alfo the duke of Hamilton, the earl of Holland, 
the lord Capel, and lord Craven: but being edeemed 
of great knowledge in the law, he was employed by 
both parties, the parlimentarians as well as the royalids. 
In 1643, to the utter adonifliment of all men, the plain 
honed unpolitical Mr. Hale, who would attach himfelf 
to no party, fubfenbed what was called the folemn league 
and covenant. See the article Co venant, vol. v. p. 78. 
But ftill his condudt feems to have been diredied by 
pure motives. ’ He was now deputed to an adtive Ration, 
particularly on the reduction of the garrifon at Oxford ; 
and, as a lawyer, was added to the commillioners named 
by the parliament, to treat with thofe appointed by the 
king. In that capacity he rendered eminent fervice to 
the caufe of literature, by advifing general Fairfax to 
preferve that noble feat of learning from ruin. After¬ 
wards, though he affedted to be deeply grieved'at, the 
unfortunate death of Charles I. yet he took the oath 
called The Engagement-, and, January 1651-2, was one of 
thofe appointed to conftder of the relormation of the 
law** Cromwell, who knew the advantage it would be 
to 
