HALL, Edward, the author of the Chronicle known by his name, was born in London about the close of the fifteenth century. He was educated at Cambridge, and became a fellow of King's College there, but afterwards removed to Oxford. He then studied law at Gray's Inn, and became first a common serjeant, and finally under-sheriff of London. Before his death, which happened in 1547, he had been appointed one of the judges of the sheriff's court.
Hall's Chronicle, first printed by Berthelette in 1542, is now extremely rare. It is entitled, "The Union of the two
Noble and Illustrate Families of Lancaster and York," and was dedicated to Henry VIII. Grafton continued the work from the point at which Hall had broken it off, and brought it down to the end of the reign of Henry VIII., and published two editions of it during his life. Another appeared in London in 1809 among the English Chronicles. Though the work is mentioned approvingly by Peck, Hearne, and other antiquaries, its intrinsic value does not appear to be very great.