HALL, or HALLE, EDWARD, an English lawyer and histories], was the son of John Halle of Northall in Shropshire, and was descended from Sir Francis Van Halle, K.G., in the time of Edward ILL, who was the son of Frederic do Halle of the Tyrol, natural son of Albert kiug of the Romans and archduke of Austria. He was born at the close of the 15th century, in the parish of St. Mildred, Loudon, and received the first part of his education at Eton SchooL In 1514 he became scholar of King'. College, Cambridge, and continued there till be became a junior fellow; afterwards, about 1518, when Cardinal Wolsey founded various lectures at Oxford, he removed to that uni versity. Having entered at Gray's Inn, he was called to the bar, and became Brat one of the common serjeauts, and subsequently under sheriff of the city of London. In 1533 be was appointed summer reader of Gray's Inn, and in 1510 double reader in Lent, and one of the jndges of the Sheriff's Court. He died in 1517, end was buried
in the church of St. Benet Sherehog. London.
llall a Chronicle, entitled 'The Union of the two noble and illustrate Families of Lancaster and Yorke,' was first printed by Berthelette, in small folio, in 1542. This edition is extremely rare. It was dedi cated to King Henry VIII., and ended with his twenty-fourth year, 1532. Grafton, who reprinted it in 1543, continued the work from Hall's papers to the end of Henry VIII'. reign. He again printed it in ' The boke commonly called Ilalle's Cronycles' is one of those which were forbidden by proclamation, 13th Jnne 1555, 1 & 2 Phil. and Mary. A fourth edition, but without any additions ur improvements, was printed in 4to, London, 1809, by the booksellers, among the ' English Chronicles.'