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John Hales and the Puritans During the Marian Exile

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2009

George T. Peck
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Chicago, Illinois

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John Hales's life during the Marian Exile throws much light on the development of that Puritan group which came back to England in 1558 and helped to found the Elizabethan church in the chaos left from the Roman Catholic reaction of Queen Mary. While Bishop Ponet and John Knox were formulating the political credo of the later Puritan party, Hales was working out his “congregational experiment” in the field of practical politics at Frankfort.

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38 Calendar of State Papers, Foreign Series, Edward VI, ed. by Turnbull, William B., (London: 1861), 6668Google Scholar. A dispatch immediately following this one describes what Morysine wanted Hales to do for him in London. He wanted to sell some of his western lands because he was lacking in funds and at the same time urged Cecil to get Hales to sell more of his own land and stop pestering him for an allowance. On the basis of this and a letter of Ascham, 's Works, I, lxivGoogle Scholar, where Hales is referred to as a “most convenient letter carrier,” MissGarrett, , The Marian, Exiles, 123Google Scholar, concludes that Hales made several trips to England and acted as a regular1 messenger. The available evidence seems to point to this trip and perhaps one more.

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59 Ascham to Sir Thomas Radcliffe (then in England, later Earl of Sussex and Protestant peer under Elizabeth; Pollard, , History of England, 207Google Scholar and n.2), Works, II, 409410Google Scholar. He asks to be remembered to “my dearest brother, John H., one of your group.” However, this evidence is weakened by the fact that although the letter is thought to be of March, 1554, it is undated.

60 Most English refugees are listed and his name does not appear. Lamond, , “The Date and Authorship,” xxviGoogle Scholar, tells of one Professor Saspworth's search for materials on Hales in the Zürich and Strassburg unpublished archives. It was fruitless.

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102 Hales was in contact, as usual, with Cecil, now Lord Treasurer; cf. his letter to Cecil of Mar. 20, 1559, Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, III, (London, 1861)Google Scholar, no. 27, 125. The Strassburg group of humanists were in a position of power because of Cecil and Ascham: Pollard, , History of England, 183187Google Scholar, and Hales's contacts with them remained very close; cf, Ascham, 's and Sturm, 's letters in The Zurich Letters (3 vols.; Cambridge, 1842), II. 6469, 9293Google Scholar and in Ascham, , Works, II, 9396, 116122, 162167, 173.Google Scholar

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104 The work was first published in 1563, but the only edition obtainable in America is that printed in the appendix of The Hereditary Right of the Crown of England (London, 1713), xxxliiiGoogle Scholar. Hales's discussion of hereditary right was legally so good that this author frequently quotes him in connection with his argument on the Hanoverian succession.

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