John Hall
Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Burial: 4 June 1546.
Place of Burial: Horsham, Sussex, England.
The burial is recorded in the parish register.
Relationships
Father: unknown.
Mother: unknown.
Spouse: Elizabeth Michell (died 1573/4).
Comber (1:152, 1:231) gives this relationship.
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
George Hall (born about 1528 - buried 4 May 1601 in Horsham) married Elizabeth Shipney, widow, 23 October 1582 in Horsham.
Elizabeth Hall (1538 - buried 9 February 1606/7 in Horsham) married (1) Roger Voyce 24 January 1555 in Horsham; married (2) Peter Ravenscroft 25 December 1569 in Horsham; married (3) unknown Keveridge.
Jane Hall married John Hall.
Richard Hall.
Margaret Hall (baptized 24 September 1543 in Horsham) married John Voyce.
Evidence
from CCR (p. 567):
Henry Hussee, esq., Albert Alvered Berewyk, esq., Henry Robertys, esq., Henry Michell, John West, and Henry Voyce demise and confirm to Thomas Shurley, esq., Thomas Saunders, gent., John Staple, gent., John Robertys, gent., and John Halle, jun., a messuage and lands in Slynfold to the use of the sd. Henry Hussee and his heirs; which they had by fine of Will. Tredecroft…
Dated 10 May, 22 Hen. VIII. Ch. 247. [1530]
Henry Husee, esq., Albertvered Berewyk, esq., Robert Richardson, and Richard Mourneshale confirm to Thomas Shurley, esq., Thomas Saunders, gent., John Staple, gent., John Robertys gent. Henry Michell, and John Hall, jun., one messuage and lands in Slyndefold, which they recovered from John Confer and Thomas Mylys.
Dated 10 May, 22 Hen. VIII. Ch. 249 [1530]
from the Rental Rolls of Rusper Priory (1532):
De Johanne Halle, de Bradbrigges, pro pencione de Sullyngtone...ix.x.
De Thoma Bradbridge, pro uno Crofto terre (in parte Newland, later hand) ...iiij.d.
In a coroner’s inquest at Horsham on 6 November 1534, there are two John Halls on the jury: “John Hall” and “John Hall of Horsham”.
from the West Sussex Record Office catalogue:
Lease of property in Shipley for 23 years
23 January 1537
(a) Thomas Marlet of Horsham gent. and John Marlet son and heir of John Marlet decd. of Hascombe, Surrey
(b) Hugh A Dene of Shipley, yeo.
Lands and tenements in Shipley called the Pende (20a.) lying on the west part of the King's highway from Shipley church to Blanchis Cross; and a field called Peryfield (5a.) lying on the south part of the Pende.
Rent: 13s.4d.
Witnesses: Thomas Marlet the younger, John Marlet, William Basse, William Standfeld, John Hall junr.
Seal: brown wax, signet T
Not listed in SAC
from the National Archives catalogue:
LR 14/864
1538: GRANTOR: Robert Sowthwell, Attorney of the Augmentation of the Revenues of the Crown. GRANTEE: Henry Voyse and John Halle. PLACE OR SUBJECT: Demise, indented, for 60 years, of his parsonage of Horsham and land, etc., there. COUNTY: Sussex
Star Chamber proceedings from 1543 (Mundy, p. 30) mention a John Hall, "bayly of Horsham".
from the Horsham parish register:
[1543 September]
54 C The xxiiij daye of the same monthe was christened Margarett the dowghter of Jhon Hall & Elsabeth hys wyfe
[1546 June]
28 b The iiijth daye was buryed Johan Hall a barbor
A transcription of John Hall’s will
In the nam of god amen primo die Junij año dni millm quingen'o xl vj I John Hall of of Horsham ordyn my Will after this manner I will to be buryed in the chantry[?] in the church of Horsham Item I bequeth towards the reparacon of the church of Horsham vjd Item I will to Henry Mychell all that my hawse that Richard Weller dwelleth in after the fyrst yere after my death from thens forth during the hole terme of his lyff naturall Item Item [sic] I will to Elyzabeth my wyff during the hole terme of her lyff naturall all my lands and tenements with all the [...] within the Countie of Sussex and she ther with to pay therof to George my son till he [come] to the full age of xxi yeres yerly xls to be payd to hym quarterly every quarter xs and after he ys com to his full age of xxj yeres [...] the hole terme of the lyke terme of the lyff naturall of the said Elyzabeth I will she shall yerly pay unto the sayd Georg iijli vj s viij d quarterly xvj s viij d Item I will to each of my daughters Elizabeth Jane and Margaret iiijli to be pay to every of them at the day of ther mariage yf hit be be for the full age of xviij yeres or ells at the full age of xviij yeres / and yf any of my sayd daughters dye befor she be of the full age of xviij yeres not maryed / then I will that the mony to her bequethed to remayn to the performance and payment of my detts / The Residew of all my goods and detts that be owing to me I will & bequeth to Elizabeth my wyf whome I ordain and mak myne executrix She ther with to pay all the detts that I do owe and the rest to use as she thynkyth best. / And yff hyt happyn that Jane the wyff of John Mychell dye during the lyff of the said John Michell and also the lyff of the sayd Elizabeth my wyff then I will the said Elizabeth my wyff to have the reversion of the house that the said John Michell doth now in habyt durying her lyff she paying to John Mychell xvli according to the covenants and payr of indentures therof mad be twyxt the said John and me Item I will to John Hall my nevew xx s Item I bequeth to Roberd Johans my syrvant x s to be payd to hym at his full age of xxi yeres These bering witnes Thomas Brod brige Henry Voyce Snr Henry Parrying preest John Jenning [?] Thomas Michell John Pylfold & Stevyn Hoskyn with other Also I ordeyn and mak Henry Voyce thelder and Thomas Bradbrydge to be my oversears & to see this my testament trewly to be executyd & performed according to the trew tenor of the same Item I Geve and bequeth to Richard Wyford & to hys heres for and after the decease of his mother all that my croft of land Called Eds[?] that I lat bought of John Ede deceased
[proved 24 September 1546]
[fo 139]
A transcription of the will of John's son George Hall is available here.
References
Calendar of Charters and Rolls Preserved in the Bodleian Library, edited by William H. Turner (Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1878).
John Hall in England. Sussex. Genealogies of Families Living in Sussex. A database extraction of John Comber’s Sussex Genealogies (Cambridge: W. Heffer and Sons, 1931 -).
John Hall will, Church of England. Bishop of Chichester. Consistory Court (Archdeaconry of Chichester). FHL 194561. Family History Library, Salt Lake City.
Mundy, Percy D. Abstracts of Star Chamber Proceedings - Henry VII to Philip and Mary (Sussex Record Society, 1913).
Parish registers of Horsham. Digital images on FamilySearch.org.
Rice, R. Garraway (transcriber and editor). The Parish Register of Horsham in the County of Sussex, 1541 - 1635. Sussex Record Society Volume XXI, (London: Mitchell Hughes and Clarke, 1915).
Sussex Coroners’ Inquests 1485-1558 (R.F. Hunnisett ed.) Sussex Record Society vol. 74 (1984-5).
Way, Albert. "Notices of the Benedictine Priory of St. Mary Magdalen, at Rusper" in Sussex Archaeological Collections (volume 5, 1852) pp. 244-261.