Hall (1499‒1547)

Hall or Halle, Edward, English lawyer and historian, born in London; studied law at Gray's Inn; in 1540 he became one of the judges of the Sheriff's Court; his fame rests on his history “The Union of the Two Noble Families of Lancaster and Yorke,” a work which sheds a flood of light on contemporary events, and is, moreover, a noble specimen of English prose (1499‒1547).

Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)