Henry Hall

son of Thom. Hall sometimes a member of Ch. Ch. in Oxon, (afterwards a Minister in the City of Wells, whence he was prefer’d by the Dean and Canons of Ch. Ch. to the Vicaridge of Marcham near to Abendon in Berks) was born in Somersetshire, particularly, as I conceive, in the said City of Wells, became a Batler of Linc. Coll, an. 1630, aged 16 years or thereabouts, and took the degrees in Arts. In the beginning of the rebellion he became Chaplain to James Marquess of Ormonde in Ireland, by whose favour he was made Prebendary of Ch. Ch. in Dublin, and Dean of a certain Church in the said Kingdom. After the ill success and declension of the Marquess there, he return’d into England, lived for a time at Badmington in Glocestershire with the Marquess of Worcester, and in 1654 had the Vicaridge of Harwell in Berks, confer’d on him by John Loder of Hinton in the said County Gentleman: Where continuing till his Majesties restauration, he returned to Ireland, was actually created Doctor of Div. at Dublin, and on the 27 of January 1660, he was ((i))((i)) Jac. War. ut supra in Com. de Praes. Heb. p. 273. consecrated Bishop of Killala and Achonry in the Church of S. Patrick near to the said City of Dublin. He gave way to fate on the 23 of July in sixteen hundred sixty and three,1663. in the Bishops house at Killala, which he in a manner had rebuilt from the ground, and was buried in the Cathedral Church there; whereupon Thomas Bayly D. D. succeeded him in his Sees. Besides the said Hen. Hall, I find another of both his names, Bach. of Div. sometimes Fellow of Trin. Coll. in Cambridge, author of Heaven ravished, or a glorious prize, Fast Sermon before the H. of Com. 29. May 1644 on Matth. 11.12. Lond. 1644. qu. and of other things, as I suppose.