Nicholas s/o Nicholas de Hales inherited Hales Place in High Halden and, according to the 16th century historian Philpot, “from whence as from their fountain, the several streams of the Hales’s, that in divided rivulets have spread themselves over the whole country, did originally break forth.”
Sir Nicholas de Hales, Knt. brother and heir to . . . Sir Robert, left issue - Thomas de Hales of Hales Place - etham, William, "Hales of Woodchurch, Kent," in The Baronetage of England, Vol. I, London, England: W. S. Betham, 1801, p. 130: