I suspect that the Robert Hale whose 1614 marriage is recored in the Registers of St Botolph, Bishopsgate, London, was a close relative, possibily even a younger son, of Arnold Haile from Frinsted. My reasons are:
Robert appears to be a new arrival to London and I do not have a christening record for him.
London was growing by 7,000 people every year at this time, because wages were 50% higher than anywhere in Britain. (Francis Sheppard, LONDON: A HISTORY, Oxford University Press, 1998, p 128)
Robert christened his first son Arnold. I did not find a relevant "Arnold Hale(s)" entry in the HALES CHRONCILES, the most comprehensive catalog of Hales data available, but an Arnold Hale christened three girls in Frinsted. I suspect he was born in the Faversham area, but my cousin the late Kenneth Glyn Hales, who transcribed that register, that register "begins about 1564 and in some areas is completely faded out and in other areas has large dark splotches. In these areas it is not possible to read anything." I suspect that Robert Hale's christening record was in one of the lost sections.
This proposed connection could explain how John Hales (1694-1756) initially came to Frinsted, which is 16 miles from his home in Yalding. He may have been visiting Hales relatives in the area. John Hales and Mary Foster were married at the Church of St Dunstan, Frinsted, on April 7 1724.
FAMILY
I suspect that the Robert at Hale mentioned in his cousin William at Hale's will, from Ospringe in 1522, is the father of Arnold Haile. There are only three register entries at St Mary's, Lenham, testifying to the existence of Arnold Haile, "Gentleman." The fact he was a "Gentleman" suggests he descends from the counties premiere Hales family.
CHANGES DURING ARNOLD'S LIFETIME
Henry VIIIth initiated the beginnings of Kent's apple production. Impressed by the continental habit of eating fruit, the king instructed Richard Harrys of London to start an orchard. In 1533 Harrys purchased 104 acres in Teynham, a few miles West of Faversham. He imported continental fruit trees, such as the Reinette apples grown in Normandy. In her study of farms in North Kent during this era, Sharon Monk notes that “historians lament the lack of evidence about fruit growing from inventories. The reason for this is that Burn’s ecclesiastiastical law states that fruit, hops and hay grew with no help from the labour or cultivation of man.” Yet a generation after Harrys, eight farms are known to have hosted apple orchards and another three cherries. This fruit is probably listed “because the fruit was sold to local or London fruitiers” while still on the trees.
England went through a brief Catholic renaissance under Queen Mary (1553-58). Arnold Hale probably witnessed her persecution of Faversham Anabaptists. Henry Hart, who wrote the first Baptist tracts in England, was imprisoned. The flamboyant Joan Boucher, who challenged her persecutors to read the Bible even as they burned her at the stake, was one of Hart’s following. Her open defiance so embarrassed the authorities, that she may have single-handedly prompted the move towards excluding the public from heresy trials.
ARNOLD'S CHILDREN
The following christening records appear in Frinsted's register
16 MAR 1566 - Ann Susan, daughter of Arnold Haille, Gentleman
22 ...1572 - Mary, daughter of Arnold Haille, Gentleman
25 JUN 1574 - Elizabeth, daughter of Arnold Haille, Gentleman
If Arnold also had a son, there is a good chance he would have named him after him father. This led me to the Robert Hale who abruptly crops up in London's records with the record of his marriage in 1614.