Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714/Hales, John (1)
Hales, John, s. Thomas, of Hales Place, Kent; clerk of the hanaper temp. Hen. 8, M.P. Preston 1547-52 and for Lancaster 1563-7, founded a free school at Coventry; died 28 Dec., 1571, or 15 Cals. Jan., 1572; buried in St. Peter-le-Poor, London. See Ath. i. 404; & D.N.B.