Father of John, Stephen, Christopher and Bartholomew Hales

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Father of John, Stephen, Christopher and Bartholomew Hales

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One branch of the Hales family of Kent acquired considerable property
in Warwickshire and became prominent in public life during the reigns
of Edward VI, Mary and Elizabeth; they received a baronetcy in the next
century, but became extinct in the male line in 1806.

The fortunes of this line were made by brothers John Hales (died 1572)
and Stephen Hales (died 1574). Suprisingly little is known of their
ancestors, and what little there is, is sometimes contradictory. The
brothers were:

John Hales, born according to ODNB and HOP before 1516; bred up in the
household of his cousin Sir Christopher Hales, attorney-general and
master of the rolls; after ten years, transferred in 1535 to the
service of Thomas Cromwell in 1535; clerk of the First Fruits and
keeper of the King's Bench writs, 1537-40; clerk of the haniper; JP,
Warwickshire, 1547; MP for Preston, 1547, and for Lancaster 1563; owned
Hales Place, Coventry; called 'Clubfoot'; died January 1572, without
issue; will proved PCC.

Stephen Hales, admitted a freeman of the Merchant Taylors' Company,
London, 30 May 1552; MP for Great Bedwyn, 1563, and Leicester, 1571;
named in John Hales's will; will proved PCC 1574; of Exhall and
Newland, Coventry; married Anna Morrison and had a son (Sir Charles
Hales of Newland, will proved PCC 1619).

Bartholomew Hales, of Snitterfield; named in John Hales's will; married
Mary Harper and had issue (including Sir Bartholomew Hales of
Snitterfield, died 1619); probably the one of this name whose will was
proved PCC 1599.

Christopher Hales, named in John Hales's will; married the sister of
Thomas Lucy of Charlecote

There was also a sister, Mildred, who married (licence dated 1547)
Thomas Docwra, MP, of Putteridge, Herts (1518-1602), named in John
Hales's will, and another son, also John - the eldest son, according to
the one source which names him - who died without issue, possibly in
infancy.

There are three sources of which I am aware which refer to the Hales
brothers' ancestry: the Visitations of Warwickshire (two pedigrees),
the Visitation of Kent, and a pedigree in Arch. Cantiana Vol 14 at p
62, which is apparently drawn from the Visitations. The Kentish source
(1619) only states that the Warwickshire Hales family descended from
Thomas Hales, younger brother of John Hales of Hales Place, Halden
[Tenterden], great-grandfather of Sir Christopher, the judge.

The Visitations of Warwickshire are also problematic, as they contain
internal inconsistencies. The version at page 95 of the Harl. Soc.
edition is demonstrably faulty and therefore particularly unreliable
(eg it refers to Christopher Hales as "Sir Charles", and has Mary
Morison married to Bartholomew as well as to Stephen). This version
states that their father was John Hales of Canterbury, son of Thomas,
son of John (an Alderman of Canterbury), son of James, son of Thomas.

The second version, on page 210, seems more accurate. This states that
their father was Thomas Hales "of Halden, died in the City of
Canterbury", married to the daughter of Trefroy of Cornwall, son of
Thomas Hales, son of John (Alderman of Canterbury in 1512), son of
James, son of Thomas.

We know from Stephen Hales's admission to the Merchant Taylors by
patrimony that their father must also have been a member of the
Merchant Taylors' Company, but to date I have not found anything to
assist in this regard. He may have been the Thomas Hales of Canterbury
administration of whose estate was granted at Canterbury in 1538 (A Act
7 100).

The Treffry family was seated at Fowey in Cornwall, and was active at
Henry VII's court. I have not traced the Hales's mother amongst the
Treffrys, but she may have been Elizabeth, probably the niece of Sir
John Treffry (died 1501).

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