Sir Edward Hales, 3rd Baronet

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Sir EDWARD HALES, third Baronet (1611) [E], of 1692 Hackington, otherwise St. Stephen's, co. Kent, eldest son and heir of Sir Edward Hales, second Baronet of Tunstall, Kent, by Anne, fourth daughter and co-heir of Thomas (Wotton), second Baron Wotton of Marley [E], by Mary, daughter and co-heir of Sir Arthur Throckmorton; educated at Oxford; succeeded his father about 1660 shortly after the Restoration, and was elected M.P. for Queenborough 1661, which he continued to represent through three Parliaments to 1681. In November 1673 he was appointed Colonel of a regiment of foot, and was one of the Lords of the Admiralty 1679-1685. On the accession of James n and vn, he declared himself a Catholic, and was formally received into that Church, nth November 1685, being one of the Roman Catholic officers who, by the King's dispensary power (confirmed, in this case, by the Court of King's Bench), were enabled to refuse taking the oath of supremacy. He was sworn to the Privy Council, and appointed Deputy Governor of the Cinque Ports and Lieutenant of Dover Castle, and in June 1687 Lieutenant of the Tower and Master of the Ordnance. He was dismissed from his post at the Tower November 1688, but continued devoted to King James and remained with him to the last, and was one of the three * who accompanied him, 1 1th December 1688, when the approach of the Dutch army compelled the King to leave London. The vessel in which they were, however, being discovered the next day at Faversham, Hales was recognised and confined in the courthouse there; and on the King's departure for London he was conveyed to Maidstone gaol and afterwards to the Tower, where he remained a prisoner for a year and a half. On 26th October 16S9 he was brought up to the Bar of the House of Commons and ordered to be charged with high treason in being reconciled to the Church of Rome. On 31st January 1689/90 he and Obadiah Walker, of University College, his former tutor, were brought by Habeas Corpus from the Tower to the Bar of the King's Bench and were bailed on good security; but both were exempted out of the Act of Pardon issued by William of Orange ax;rd May following. Eventually Hales obtained his discharge, 2nd June 1600. He proceeded to St . Germains the October following, and was by King James (when in exile), 3rd May 1602. created Baron Hales of Emley, co. Kent. Viscount [ocr errors]

Tunstall, and Earl Of Tenterden[k], with special remainder, failing heirs-male of his body, to his brothers John and Charles, (both of whom died unmarried) in like manner. In 1694 he applied to the Earl of Shrewsbury for permission to return to England, but he did not obtain it, and died in France 1695, being buried in the Church of St. Sulpice in Paris. He 'was scrupulously just in his dealings, regular in his habits, and remarkably charitable to those in distress.' By his will, dated July 1695, proved April 1708, he bequeathed ^5000 to be disposed of according to his instructions by Bishop Bonaventure Giffard and Dr. Thomas Witham. He had purchased the house and estate of St. Stephen near Canterbury in the reign of Charles n. Lord Tenterden married (Lie. Vic. Gen. 12th July 1669, he being about twenty-four and she about twenty-five) Frances, daughter of Sir Francis Windebank of Oxford, Secretary of State to Charles 1, by whom, who died 1693, he had issue :—

1. Edward Hales, killed 1st July 1690 at the battle of the , Boyne fighting for King James, unmarried v.p.

2. John, Viscount Tunstall, his heir.

3. Hon. Charles Hales, died unmarried.

4. Hon. Robert Hales, died unmarried.

5. Hon. James Hales, died unmarried.

6. Lady Anne Hales, died unmarried.

7. Lady Mary Hales, married [_____ ] Bauwens, Judge of the Admiralty at Ostend.

8. Lady Frances Hales, born about 1673; married first (settlement 7th September 1690), Peter (Plunkett), fourth Earl of Fingall [I], by whom, who died 24th January 1717/18, she had issue. She married secondly, July 1719, Stephen Taafe of Dowestown, co. Meath. who died soon afterwards ; and thirdly, Patrick Bellew (eldest son of Sir John Bellew, second Baronet I), who died s.p.v.p. 12th June 1720. She died 6th August 1749, in her seventy-sixth year at Inchicore and was buried at Killeen. [The Complete Peerage, iii. p. 354.]

9. Lady Jane Hales, died unmarried.

10. Lady Elizabeth Hales, died unmarried.

11. Lady Catherine Hales, died unmarried.

12. Lady Clare Hales, married [_____ ] Hussey of Ireland.

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