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 Robert who did not persevere, Jan. 3, 1667; alumnus Sept. 8, 1677; ord. priest Feb. 6, 1678; left for mission Apr. 30, 1680, and living in Oxfordshire in 1702.

HALL, Henry, born March 11, 1807, son of Richard Hall and his wife Elizabeth Swarbrick, of Liverpool; sent Sedgley Park School; admitted Jan. 13, 1819; confirmed by Bp. of Lamego, Feb. n, 1820; transferred to Oscott College, Aug. 1822-30; ord. priest June 5, 1830; stationed at Louth, Lincolnshire, 1832 till death, having retired from missionary duty two years previously, July 9, 1878, aged 71.

HALL, Thomas, son of Thomas Hall, confectioner, of Ivy Lane, near St. Paul s, London, admitted with his brother William, q.v.; alumnus Sept. 15, 1680; received diaconate Sept. 8, 1683; left for Paris to study divinity, Apr. 2, 1684; admitted B.D., at the Sorbonne, and sent to teach philosophy at Douay College, where arrived Oct. 22, 1688; ord. priest Sept. 24, 1689; left Aug. 21, 1690, to proceed in divinity at the Sorbonne and took degree of D.D.; went with his brother to Nieuport in 1692, took Carthusian habit, but finding the Order too severe for him left; returned to Lisbon, and assumed chair of divinity, Apr. 23, 1695; finally died at Paris in 1719. Left various works in MS., ''vide Bib. Dict. Engl. Caths.'', III. 95.

HALL, William, brother of Thomas, q.v.; alumnus Sept. 15, 1680; ord. priest considerably under canonical age, and sent to England April 2, 1684, where he became one of the preachers in ordinary to James II., who esteemed him as the best preacher among the Catholics. He was also chaplain to Dean Massey, at Magdalen College. In 1688 followed his Majesty to France, and in 1690 accompanied him to Ireland, where was taken prisoner by the Orange men, but soon released, then sailed for France, and during a storm made a vow to become a Carthusian. In April, 1692, received habit of St. Bruno from Prior Bilcliffe at Nieuport; in less than two years became novicemaster, and transferred with three novices to the charter house at Brussels; elected prior of Nieuport in 1696, resigned in 1699, re-elected 1715 till 1718, when became procurator, and died in 1719.

There was published &quot;A Sermon preached before Her Majesty, the Queen Dowager, in her Chapel at Somerset