[1031]William Habington, of Hindlip in Worcestershire, esq., maried Luce, daughter of William <Herbert>, lord Powes, 1634, as by the Worcestershire Visitation it appeares.
He was a very learned gentleman, author of a poem called Castara. He wrote a live of one of the kings of England.
Aubrey gives in trick the coat:--'argent, on a bend gules 3 eagles displayed, or; impaling, party per pale argent and gules 3 lions rampant counterchanged, within a bordure gobony, or and ..., a crescent for difference.'
1609, natus, November 1ˢᵗ, in the evening, his father then being at his prayers.
1625, went to Oxon to Magdalen Hall; vide A. Wood's _History of Oxon_ when matriculated.
1628, admitted of the society of Lincolne's Inne, November 8.
1636, this yeare called to the barre, quaere in what terme.
1640, maried the first time. He was a great cuckold.
1656, his second mariage to his servant mayd, Mary.
1671, Lord Chiefe Justice of England, 18 May.
[1033]Sir Matthew Hales, Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench, was borne at Alderley in com. Glouc., November 1ˢᵗ, 1609; christned the 5ᵗʰ. Quaere Mr. Edward Stephens horam, for he has it exactly. When his mother fell in labour, his father was offering up his evening sacrifice.
[1034]That incomparable man for goodnes and universality of learning, Sir Matthew Hales, Lord Chief Justice of England, hath writt the description of Gloucestershire, an elaborate piece, and ready for the presse. The transcripts of the Tower for it cost him 40 _li._
[1035]Mr. John Hales, ...[1036], was borne at Wells, I thinke I have heard Mr. John Sloper say (vicar of Chalke; his mother was Mr. Hales's sister, and he bred him at Eaton).
His father was a steward to the family of the Horners:--
Hopton, Horner, Smyth, and Thynne, When abbots went out, they came in[1037].
Went to school, at Bath (as I take it). Fellow of Merton Colledge. Assisted Sir Henry Savill in his edition of Chrysostome (_cum aliis_). Afterwards fellow of Eaton College.
Went chaplain to Sir Dudley Carlton (ambassador to ...). I thinke was at the Synod of Dort.
When the Court was at Windsor, the learned courtiers much delighted <in> his company, and were wont to grace him with their company.
I have heard his nephew, Mr. Sloper, say, that he much loved to read ... Stephanus, who was a _familist_, I thinke that first wrote of that sect of the Familie of Love: he was mightily taken with it, and was wont to say that sometime or other those fine notions would take in the world. He was one of the first Socinians in England, I thinke the first.