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HALL  \nEDITED BY  \nA.K.CROSTON  \nFIVE SHILLINGS NET  \nLIVERPOOLat the University Press  \nI953  \n0ouGLASLibRARy  \nquEEN's UNiVeRsiTyAT kiNGSTON  \nkiNGSTON ONTARio CANAOA  \n# ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING\n\nQUEEN’S UNIVERSITY LIBRARY  \n# The\n\nAdvancement of Learning(1649)  \nJOHN HALL  \nEDITED BY  \nA.K.CROSTON  \nLIVERPOOLat the University Press  \nI953  \nA2417,H3953  \nGENERAL EDITOR  \nLIVERPOOL REPRINTSNUMBER 7  \nL.C.MARTIN  \n## INTRODUCTION\n\nJ  \nOHN HALL of Durham (I627-56)is still remem-bered as a minor poet of the seventeenth century:his Poems were reprinted by Brydges in I8I6 andagain in I9o6in Saintsbury's Minor Poets of the CarolinePeriod,ii.But Hall is of interest on other counts;he was indeed a most versatile writer,and manyseventeenth-century literary forms are represented inhis works.  \nHe was born in Durham in August I627 of'gentilitial’parents(Brydges).1 His going up toCambridge was delayed by the outbreak of the CivilWar.He seems to have studied assiduously at home—'improved himself to a miracle’(Wood);and when heeventually went up to St.John’s College in FebruaryI645/6 he soon made a name for himself.His essays,written in the Baconian manner,were published in I646under the title Horae Vacivae and prefaced by manycommendatory poems.These essays,according toDavies,‘amazed not onely the University,but the more  \n1 Hall appears in the D.N.B.His friend John Davies ofKidwelly gives a biography in his edition of Hall's translationof Hierocles upon the Golden Verses of Pythagoras(I657).Other details of his life will be found in Wood,AthenaeOxonienses,ii,460(ed.Bliss,I815)and in an article by P.S.Havens,'A tract long attributed to Milton’,The HuntingtonLibrary Bulletin,November I934,PP.I09-I4.Brydges'brief account in the introduction to his edition of the poemsis derived from Wood.The Humble Motion is discussed by  \nJ.B.Mullinger in The University of Cambridge(I9II),ii,PP.37I-5;the most detailed account is in R.F.Jones'sAncients and Moderns(I936),pp.IO0-3.  \nserious part of men in the three Nations'.1 Theyappear to have been well received also on the continentand were translated into French.The Poems appearedin the following January(I646/7).But in May,havingfailed to get a fellowship,Hall went down fromCambridge and entered Gray's Inn.2 Between Mayand August he married agentlewoman of Hertfordshire,carrying her off against many suitors.The marriagewas not successful:a feud between the two familiesand discontent between the couple themselves madethe lady‘in a manner a widdow soon after theNuptials'.George Wharton (see below)gives a morebiased account:Hall betrayed the‘comely Maid’,  \nAnd when had done with her(Poor soul)He sent herHome to her Father to supply her venter.  \nHis poverty forced him to undertake politicaljournalism;he alternated for the rest of his short lifebetween‘cultural’publications and pamphleteering.  \nIn I647 he edited Robert Hegge's In Aliquot SacraePaginae loca Lectiones and wrote A True Account andCharacter of the Times—signing the latter pamphlet‘N.LL.'He seems also to have tried his hand at aromance.This was unfortunately never returned by afriend to whom it was lent.It might,says Davies,'have raised envie in the famous Romancist MounsieurDe Scudary'.Also in I647 he seems to have publishedtranslations from Andreae,Model of Christian Societyand the Right hand of Christian love offered,these  \n1‘An account of the Author’,prefixed to Hierocles.Quotations given below without reference are from thisbiography.  \n2 Davies says that he entered his name at Gray's Inn a yearbefore going to London.  \nprobably being reprinted as additions to the posthum-ous work Of the advantageous veading of History(I657).1In I648 Hall was employed by Lilly,the astrologer,to run a government paper,Mercurius Britannicus,which was directed against the royalist paper,Mercurius Elenctitus,of Lilly's rival-astrologer,Captain George Wharton.During I648 Hall publisheda volume of Emblems weith 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