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catholic presbytery, Clapham (Gillow, Dict. of the English Catholics, iii. 94).
- ‘Opuscula quædam his temporibus pernecessaria de tribus primariis causis tumultuum Belgicorum, ad … Ludovicum à Berlaymont, Archiepiscopum et Ducem Cameracensem, libelli tres. Contra coalitionem multarum religionum, quam liberam religionem vocant, ad … Arnoldum de le Cambe, dict. Ganthois, Abbatem Marcianensem, tractatus unus. Libellus exhortatorius ad pacem quibusvis conditionibus cum rege catholico faciendam, ad … Jacobum Froye, Abbatem Hasnoniensem,’ Douay, 1581, 8vo.
- ‘Tractatus aliquot utilissimi pro defensione regiæ et episcopalis auctoritatis contra rebelles horum temporum,’ Douay, 1584, 12mo.
- ‘De Proprietate et Vestiario Monachorum aliisque ad hoc Vitium extirpandum necessariis liber unus,’ Douay, 1585, 8vo. This work gave offence in certain quarters.
- ‘De castitate Monachorum;’ a work suppressed, and never published.
- Latin hexameters and pentameters prefixed to the ‘Institutiones Dialecticæ’ of Dr. John Sanderson, canon of Cambray.
- ‘De Quinqvepartita Conscientia; i. Recta, ii. Erronea, iii. Dvbia, iv. Opinabili, seu opiniosa, et v. Scrvpvlosa, Libri III.,’ Douay, 1598, 4to.
- ‘Orationes variæ.’
- ‘Carmina diversa.’ He was also editor of Dr. John Young (Giovanus) ‘De Schismate, sive de Ecclesiasticæ Vnitatis Divisione Liber Vnus,’ Louvain, 1573, 8vo, Douay, 1603.
[Addit. MSS. 5851 f. 102, 5871 f. 3 b; Archæologia, xxv. 88; Ayscough's Cat. of MSS. p. 85; Davies's Athenæ Britannicæ, 1716, pref. p. 33; Douay Diaries, p. 425; Duthillœul's Bibl. Douaisienne, 1842, Nos. 65, 75, 76, 1552; Fuller's Church Hist. 1837, ii. 59, iii. 211; Hawes and Loder's Framlingham, p. 230; Peter Langtoft's Chronicle (Hearne), p. 550; Lewis's Life of Bishop Fisher, i. xxvii; Smith's Cat. of Caius College MSS. p. 99; Witte's Diarium Biographicum; Wood's Athenæ Oxon. (Bliss), ii. 528.]
HALL, ROBERT, M.D. (1763–1824), medical writer, born in Roxburghshire in 1763, was a great-grandson of Henry Hall of Haughhead (d. 1680) [q. v.], the covenanter. From school at Jedburgh he went to the medical classes at Edinburgh. After three years' practice in Newcastle he entered the navy as surgeon, and served several years on the Jamaica station. On his return he proceeded M.D. at Edinburgh, and took up practice at Jedburgh. Thence he went to London and occupied himself in translating, compiling, editing, &c. On the fitting out of an expedition to the Niger he was appointed medical officer. Invalided by a fall and the climate, he returned to Madeira. He died at Chelsea early in 1824, of a decline. Mrs. Agnes C. Hall [q. v.] was his wife. His writings are:
- Translation of Spallanzani on the ‘Circulation,’ with Tourdes' notes and life of the author, London, 1801.
- Translation of Guyton de Morveau's ‘Means of Purifying Infected Air,’ London, 1802 (with a vindication of Johnstone's priority as against Carmichael Smyth).
- ‘Elements of Botany,’ 1802.
- Revised edition of Clare's ‘Treatise on the Motion of Fluids,’ 1804.
He also contributed papers to the medical journals on cow-pox, hydrophobia, pemphigus, &c.
[Georgian Era, ii. 585; Watt's Bibl. Brit.; Gent. Mag. March 1824.]
HALL, ROBERT (1764–1831), baptist divine, youngest of fourteen children of Robert Hall (1728–1791), was born at Arnesby, Leicestershire, on 2 May 1764. The father was a baptist minister, who in 1753 left Northumberland for Arnesby, and is known as the author of ‘Helps to Zion's Travellers;’ his works, with memoir, were published in 1828, 12mo. His son Robert was a precocious boy; taught himself the alphabet by help of gravestones; wrote hymns before he was nine years old; and at the age of eleven is said to have been put up to preach at a religious meeting in the house of a baptist minister, Beeby Wallis of Kettering, Northamptonshire. On his mother's death (December 1776) he was sent to the boarding-school of John Ryland, baptist minister, at Northampton. On 6 Sept. 1778 he received adult baptism, having confessed his faith on 23 Aug. Intended for the ministry, he entered (October 1778) the baptist academy at Bristol, under Caleb Evans, D.D. (divinity), and James Newton, M.A. (classics). His first sermon was delivered at an ordination in July 1779; on 13 Aug. 1780 he was set apart for the ministry by his father's church at Arnesby. In November 1781 he went as an exhibitioner to King's College, Old Aberdeen, graduating M.A. in 1784. With James (afterwards Sir James) Mackintosh, his fellow-student, he formed a strong intimacy; they read Greek together, and were nicknamed by their comrades Plato and Herodotus. He heard the divinity lectures of Alexander Gerard, D.D. [q. v.], a leader of the ‘moderates.’
As early as November 1783 Hall had been invited to begin his ministry in Bristol; he went there in the spring of 1785, assisting Evans at Broadmead Chapel, and taking Newton's place as tutor in the academy. In preaching he formed his early style on that of Robert Robinson of Cambridge; but his own powers rapidly developed, and his elo-
