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Edward Hall
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
or The English throne in 1399; it follows the strife between the houses of Lancaster and York, and with Grafton's continuation carries the story down to the death of Henry VIII. in 1547. Hall presents the policy of this king in a very favourable light and shows his own sympathy with the Protestants. For all kinds of ceremonial he has all a lawyer's respect, and his pages are often adorned and encumbered with the pageantry and material garniture of the story. The value of, the Chronicle in its early stages is not great, but this increases when dealing with the reign of Henry VII. and is very considerable for the reign of Henry VIII. Moreover, the work is not only valuable, it is attractive. To the historian it furnishes what is evidently the testimony of an eye-witness on several matters of importance which are neglected by other narrators; and to the student of literature it has the exceptional interest of being one of the prime sources of Shakespeare's historical plays.
See J. Gairdner, Early Chroniclers of Europe; England (1879).
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Edward Hall'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/e/edward-hall.html. 1910.
