178 HAL 
miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Haderfleben. Lat. 55. 12. N. 
Ion. 9.42. E. Greenwich. 
HALL, f. [hal, Sax. halle, Dut.J A court of juftice; 
as, Weftminfter-hall.—O loft too foon in yonder houfe 
or kail. Pope. —A manor-houfe, fo called, becaufe in it 
were held courts for the tenants.—Captain Sentry, my 
mafter’s nephew, has taken pofteflion of the hall- houfe, 
and the whole eftate. Addifon. —The public loom of a 
corporation: 
With expedition on the beadle call, 
To fummon all the company to the hall. Garth. 
The large room of a houfe; the faloon.—That light we 
fee is burning in my hall. Skakefpeare. 
Courtefy is fooner found in lowly flieds 
With fiiioky rafters, than in tap’ftry halls 
And courts of princes. Milton. 
The term hall or manfion-houfe is very ancient in Eng¬ 
land. It is ufed by Spen/er for chamber : 
She heard a wond’rous noife below the hall: 
All fodainly the bed where ftie fhould be, 
By a falfe trap was let adowne to fall 
Into a lower roome. Fairy Queen. 
A HALL, a HALL, interj. Room to dance.— A hall , 
a halll give room! and foot it, girls. Shakefpeare. 
Then cry, a kail , a hall! 
Come, father Rolin, with your fiddle now. B.Jonfon. 
HALL, a town of Germany, in the archduchy of 
Auftria : eight miles weft-fouth-weft of Steyer. 
HALL, or Halle, a town of Germany, in the county 
of Tyrol, fituated on the river Inn, with coofiderable 
falt-works. The fait is dug in large blocks out of a 
mountain ; afterwards cleanfed of its impurities in falt- 
pits,and conveyed, in a fluid ftate, by means of wooden 
canals, to Irinfpruck, where it is boiled to a due con¬ 
fidence in large iron pans. This falt-work is faid to 
produce a neat profit of 200,000 crowns yearly. It is fix 
miles north-eaft of Innfpruck, and twenty-four fouth- 
weft of Kuffftein. Lat. 47.19. N. Ion. 29. 22. E. Ferro. 
HALL, or Halle, an imperial town of Germany, in 
the circle of Swabia, fituated, with its territories, on the 
river Kocher. The town is furrounded with mountains, 
which abound in falt-fprings. It is forty-fix miles fouth- 
eaft of Heidelberg, and thirty north-eaft of Stuttgart. 
Lat.49. 1. N. Ion. 27. 23.E. Ferro. 
HALL, a town of Sweden, in the province of Up¬ 
land : twenty miles north 3 eaft of Stockholm. 
HALL, a town of Germany, in the duchy of Stiria : 
eight miles north of Rottenmann. 
HALL (Jofeph), a learned Englifh prelate, born in 
1574, at Afhby-de-la-Zouch, in Leicefterfhire. After 
a lchool educationjat Alhby, he was fent to Emanuel 
college, Cambridge, of which he was chofen a fcholar. 
He obtained a fellowfhip of the fame college, took the 
degree of M. A. and during two years read the rhetoric 
lecture in the fchools. After an abode of fix or feven 
years at Cambridge, he was prefented by lady Drury to 
the rebtory of Halfted, in Suffolk. He foon made him- 
felf known by various publications, of which one of the 
firft, in 1597, was a collection of fatires in verfe, enti¬ 
tled, Virgidemiarum. In 1605 he accompanied fir Ed¬ 
mund Bacon to the Spa ; in which journey he took a 
clofe view of the Romifh religion ; upon which fubjeft 
he held a conference with a Jefuit at Bruffels. Some 
time after his return, he was nominated by prince Henry 
one of his chaplains. In 1612, lord Denny, afterwards 
earl of Norwich, prefented him to the donative of Wal¬ 
tham-Holy-Crofs, in Effex, whither he removed ; and 
about the fame time he took the degree of D. D. In 
1610 he attended upon Hay vifcount Doncafter, in his 
embafly to France; and during his abfence was pro¬ 
moted by the king to the deanery of Worcefter. When 
the king, in the next year, vifited Scotland, he waited 
HAL 
upon him as his chaplain. His learning and theological 
knowledge caufed him to be appointed, in 1618, one of 
the Englifh divines who were fent to the fynod of Dort. 
After a fhort ftay there, bad health obliged him to re¬ 
turn, but not till he had preached a Latin fermon be¬ 
fore the fynod, which teftified its refpeCt for him by 
the prefent of a valuable gold medal. After refufing 
the bifhopric of Gloucefter, he accepted, in 1627, that 
of Exeter. 
When the civil diflenfions in the ftate brought epif- 
copacy into danger, he flood forth as its fpirited de¬ 
fender from the prefs. His Remonftrance to the Parlia¬ 
ment in Behalf of the Liturgy and Epifcopacy, was 
thought important enough to merit a reply from a junto 
of prefbyterian minifters, under the fictitious name of 
Smeftymnuus. In 1641, Dr. Hall was tranflated to the 
fee of Norwich. Joining with feveral of his brethren 
in the famous proteft of December 30, in that year, 
againft the validity of aCts palled • during their forced 
abfence, he was, with them, committed to the Tower. 
In June 1642, he was releafed upon bail, and withdrew 
to Norwich, where he remained till a fequeftration 
feized upon his effefts. He removed from the palace 
to Higham, near Norwich, where he rented a final! 
eftate ; and died in September 1656, in theeighty-fecond 
year of his age. Bifhop Hall may rankamong the Eng¬ 
lifh poets, as being the firft who gave a fpecimen of re¬ 
gular fatires in the language. His Virgidemiarum con- 
fifts of fix books, of which the firft three are called 
toothlefs fatires, their character being moral and fcho- 
laftic ; the laft three, biting fatires. It Is faid that 
Pope, in converfation, exprelfed a high opinion of their 
merit. A new edition of them was printed at Oxford 
in 1753. His other works confift of Meditations, Epif- 
tles, Sermons, Paraphrafes of the Scriptures, Contro- 
verfial Treatifes, &c. The collection of his works 
amounts to five volumes, folio and quarto ; of which, 
three were printed before his death. His moral pieces 
were reprinted in a feparate volume, folio, in 1738. A 
beautiful little traCt of his, entitled, Henochifmus, five 
Trattatas de Modo ambulandi cum Deo, was printed at Ox- • 
ford in 1762. 
HALL (John), a poet of diftinguifhed learning, born 
at Durham, and educated at Cambridge, where he was 
efteemed in his time the brighteft genius in that univer- 
fity. In 1646, when but nineteen years of age, he pub- 
lifhed his Hone Vacivee , or Eflfays ; and the fame year 
came out his Poems. He tranflated from the Greek, 
Hierocles upon the Golden Verfes of Pythagoras ; be¬ 
fore which is an account of the ingenious tranflator and 
his works, by John Davies of Kidwelly. He died in 
1656, aged twenty-nine. 
HAL'LA, or Hella, a town of Afia, in the Arabian 
Irak, fituated on both fides the Euphrates, with a bridge 
of communication, fuppofed to have been built-on the 
fite of the ancient Babylon. It was formerly furround¬ 
ed by a wall, which is now deftroyed ; the gardens are 
covered with fruit-trees, particularly-palms, fo that the 
town appears as if fituated in a wood. It is fifty-five 
miles fouth-fouth-weft of Bagdad, and two hundred and 
thirty-fix north-weft of Baflora. 
HAL'LAGE, f. Toll paid for goods or merchandize 
vended in a hall; and particularly applied to a fee or 
toll due for cloth brought for fale to Blackwell-hall 
in London. Lords of fairs or markets are entitled to 
this fee. 6 Rep. 62. 
HAL'LAM, a townfhip of the American States, in 
York county, Pennfylvania. 
HAL'LAMSHIRE, a certain part of the county of 
York, anciently fo called, in which the town of Shef¬ 
field ftands. See flat. 21 Jac. I. c. 23. 
HAL'LAND, a province of Sweden, bounded on the 
north by Weft Gothland, on the eaft by Smaland, on 
the fouth by Skone, and on the weft by the North Sea. 
The country is in general mountainous, with confide¬ 
rable 
