Excerpt from The Lives of the Kings, Henry VIII, Vol. 1 Edward Hall, the eloquent panegyrist of Henry VIII., was born in London towards the end of the fifteenth century. His parents, of gentle birth and affluent circumstances, gave their son the best education that the time afforded, and from Eton he proceeded, in 1514, to King's College, Cambridge, where he took his degree in duecourse. In the spurious edition of Wood's Athenae it is claimed that he also studied at Oxford, but there is noevidence that he visited the other University, and the credit of his nurture is due to Cambridge alone. After leaving Cambridge, he entered Gray's Inn, where he speedily became eminent in the practice of the law. John Bale praises his eloquence and erudition, as well he might, since they were of the same side both in politics and theology. 'Edvuardus Hallus, ' says the historian of English writers, 'politioribus a tenera aetate literis adornatus, 'ex longo Brytannicarum legum studio, peritissimus evasit.

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