314:'MEMORIAE ET POSTERITATI SACRUM / JACOBO HALES MILITI VIRTUTIBUS ET MUNERIBUS CIVILIBUS INSIGNI ET PATRIAE CHARO IN / EXPEDITIONE PORTUGALIENSI THESAURARIO IN QUA PATRIAM REVISURUS ANNO D. 1589 OBIIT / D: ALICIA EIUSDEM JACOBI RELICTAE FAEMINAE SUMMIS NATURAE ET PIETATIS DOTIBUS / ORNATA QUA ANNO D.1592; MORTUA EST: / CHENEIO HALES UNICO EORUNDEM JACOBI ET ALICIAE FILIO QUI ANNO D.1596. / IMMATURO FATO PERIIT / RICARDUS LEE ARMIGER EIUSDEM ALICIAE / MARITUS SUPERSTES MARENS POSUIT'
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brother Sir James Hales, late a justice of the common pleas, having been dismissed from his office on queen Mary's accession, retired to his nephew's seat here, where, in a fit of despondency, he drowned himself in the river near it, in 1555. (Edward Hasted, 'Parishes: Thanington', in The
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William Atkins, about the 17th year of king Henry VIII alienated
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He made two wills, the first a precautionary one dated 25 March 1588 (1589 in new style), before his departure to Iberia on 18 April 1589, in which he describes himself as "whole both of body and mind, thanked be the Lord of all health", the second made 25 June 1589, in which he describes himself as
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The monument and its inscription provides the chief source for the life of Sir James Hales. It was erected by his widow's second husband
Richard Lee, after her death. At the top is shown James Hales (died 1589) as a fully armed figure being lowered feet-first into the water from the side of a ship.
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and ambassador to Russia, whom Hales described in his two wills as "my good friend" and to whom he made several bequests, including "the card and compass found at Lisbon" , "all that money whatsoever he oweth unto me, so that no part thereof shall ever be demanded", and all his books, pictures and
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should meet him in the river thereof with the fleet, that there should be one company of foot left in guard of the Castle, and six in the ships; also, that the sick and hurt should remain there with provisions for their cures. The
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Which may be translated as: "Sacred to the memory and posterity of James Hales, Knight, outstanding in virtues and in civic duties and dear to his country. Treasurer in a
Portuguese expedition in which about to return home he died in the year of our lord 1589. Dame Alice, widow of the same James,
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decorated with the gifts of the highest feminine nature and with piety, who died in the year 1592. Cheney Hales the only son of these James and Alice who in the year 1596 perished by untimely fate. Richard Lee, Esquire, surviving husband of the same Alice, placed (this monument), in mourning".
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English fleet the year before. He died as the expedition was about to return home to England and was buried at sea by his fully armed body being dropped feet first over the side of his ship. The scene is depicted in relief sculpture on his surviving mural monument in
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began to march in this sort: his own regiment, and the regiment of Sir Roger
Williams, Sir Henry Norris, Colonel Lane and Colonel Medkerk in the vanguard; General Drake, Colonel Devereux, Sir Edward Norris, and Colonel Sidney’s in the battle;
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Cheney Hales (d.1596), son and heir, who is shown as a kneeling effigy at the base of the monument, which records that his death was due to untimely fate. He married Mary
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Sir James Hales, Knight (d.1665), of The
Dungeon, the last male of his line, who left a daughter and sole heiress Elizabeth Hales who married firstly Sir Stephen Hales of Smitherfield and secondly George
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or elsewhere, saving one long
Spanish pike with the arming thereof which was taken from a Spaniard at Lisbon; a bannerol of silk taken from a Spanish lance before the gates of Lisbon"
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maps. Lee was later involved in a dispute with Hales's nephews concerning his claim to part of the Hales estate. By Alice he had children:
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488:"CHEYNE, Sir Thomas (1482/87-1558), of the Blackfriars, London and Shurland, Isle of Sheppey, Kent. | History of Parliament Online"
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in northern Spain, where they captured the castle, and where many got sick from drinking bad wine. Later they were further south at
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Will of Humphrey Hale or Hales of Dungeon besides the Walls of Canterbury, Kent, probate granted 13 May 1571, ref: PROB 11/53/261
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