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Matthew Hale was born on November1, 1609 in Alderley, Gloucestershire.
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Matthew Hale was born on November1, 1609 in Alderley, Gloucestershire.
In 1626 he entered Magdalen Hall, Oxford University, when he was sixteen years of age.
Hale spent several terms studying theology with the intention of entering the church, but suddenly left school and made up his mind that he would become a soldier. However, while settling matters relating to his paternity, he was persuaded by his counsel to enter Lincoln's Inn in 1628.
Hale was called to the bar in 1637 and was almost immediately successful. He was willing to undertake the defense of King Charles I in 1646, but the king refused to submit himself to the court.
In 1653 he was appointed a judge in the Court of Common Pleas, and two years later became one of the two members for Gloucestershire in Oliver Cromwell's Parliament. When Richard Cromwell became Lord Protector in succession to his father, in 1659, Hale refused to act as a judge, but sat in Parliament as member for Oxford.
He was active in bringing about the Restoration, and in 1660 King Charles II appointed him Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer and gave him a knighthood, which he accepted reluctantly.
One of the reproaches which has been cast upon Hale relates to his credulity, which allowed him to condemn to death as witches two unfortunate elderly women, after he had given his opinion that the existence of witches was proved from Scriptural and other sources.
In 1671 he was appointed Lord Chief Justice of King's Bench, an office which he retained until he retired in 1676
As a result of this he was successful both under the Stuarts and under the Protectorate. In 1671 he was appointed Lord Chief Justice of King's Bench, an office which he retained until he retired in 1676.
But Hale is principally remembered not as a judge but as a jurist. He was a prodigious searcher of legal records and formed an extensive collection of manuscripts and transcripts. The bulk of this collection is now deposited in the library of Lincoln’s Inn. On the basis of these manuscripts and transcripts he wrote numerous books and treatises, though he published little of his own legal work during his lifetime; some of his treatises were printed posthumously, others still remain unpublished.
The published work by which he is perhaps best known is his History of the Pleas of the Crown (the House of Commons directed in 1680 that it be printed, though it was not published until 1736). This work remains one of the principal authorities on the common law of criminal offenses. But he also wrote widely on topics of constitutional and civil law, as his editorial talent enabled him to analyze and rearrange the jumbled collection of 17th-century and earlier law materials.
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Quotes from others about the person
Roger North wrote that "Hale was unfortunate in his family; for he married his own servant made, and then, for an excuse, said there was no wisdom below the girdle".
In 1642 Hale married Anne Moore. They had 10 children.
In 1667 Hale remarried Anne Bishop, his housekeeper.
