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href="/wiki/File:John_Hall_Marshall.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="John Hall, 1646 engraving by William Marshall from Horæ Vacivæ."><img alt="John Hall, 1646 engraving by William Marshall from Horæ Vacivæ." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/John_Hall_Marshall.jpg/220px-John_Hall_Marshall.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="308" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/John_Hall_Marshall.jpg/330px-John_Hall_Marshall.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1e/John_Hall_Marshall.jpg 2x" data-file-width="357" data-file-height="500" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption" style="line-height:1.4em;">John Hall, 1646 engraving by <a href="/wiki/William_Marshall_(illustrator)" title="William Marshall (illustrator)">William Marshall</a> from <i>Horæ Vacivæ</i>.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Born</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">1627<br />Durham</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Died</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">1 August 1656</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data role" style="line-height:1.4em;">Pamphleteer</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Nationality</th><td class="infobox-data category" style="line-height:1.4em;">English</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Education</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><a href="/wiki/St_John%27s_College,_Cambridge" title="St John's College, Cambridge">St John's College, Cambridge</a>;<br /><a href="/wiki/Gray%27s_Inn" title="Gray's Inn">Gray's Inn</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Genre</th><td class="infobox-data category" style="line-height:1.4em;">Poetry</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Literary movement</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Hartlib_Circle" title="Hartlib Circle">Hartlib Circle</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>John Hall</b> (1627–1656), also known as John Hall of Durham, was an English poet, essayist and pamphleteer of the Commonwealth period. After a short period of adulation at university, he became a writer in the Parliamentary cause and <a href="/wiki/Hartlib_Circle" title="Hartlib Circle">Hartlib Circle</a> member.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Life">Life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Hall_(poet)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The son of Michael Hall, he was born at <a href="/wiki/Durham,_England" title="Durham, England">Durham</a> in August 1627, was educated at <a href="/wiki/Durham_School" title="Durham School">Durham School</a>, and was admitted to <a href="/wiki/St_John%27s_College,_Cambridge" title="St John's College, Cambridge">St John's College, Cambridge</a>, on 26 February 1646.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Hall remained at Cambridge till May 1647, but considered his real merits unrecognised there. He later entered <a href="/wiki/Gray%27s_Inn" title="Gray's Inn">Gray's Inn</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBullen1890_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBullen1890-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Hall was not initially against the monarchy; but his early views were reforming and utopian. He was much influenced by <a href="/wiki/Baconian_method" title="Baconian method">Baconianism</a> and the chance of a renewal of learning.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Blair_Worden" title="Blair Worden">Blair Worden</a> describes Hall as "elusive" in the period from 1649, but points out parallels with the political development in the views of <a href="/wiki/John_Milton" title="John Milton">John Milton</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>By command of the <a href="/wiki/English_Council_of_State" title="English Council of State">Council of State</a> he accompanied <a href="/wiki/Oliver_Cromwell" title="Oliver Cromwell">Oliver Cromwell</a> in 1650 to Scotland. His friend <a href="/wiki/John_Davies_of_Kidwelly" class="mw-redirect" title="John Davies of Kidwelly">John Davies</a> states that Hall was awarded a pension of £100 per annum by Cromwell and the council for his pamphleteering services.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBullen1890_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBullen1890-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Hall died on 1 August 1656, leaving unpublished works. <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Hobbes" title="Thomas Hobbes">Thomas Hobbes</a> frequently visited him; another of his friends was <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Hartlib" title="Samuel Hartlib">Samuel Hartlib</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBullen1890_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBullen1890-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career_and_writing">Career and writing</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Hall_(poet)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career and writing"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dt>Early works</dt></dl> <p>At the age of nineteen Hall published <i>Horæ Vacivæ, or Essays. Some occasional Considerations</i>, 1646, which he dedicated to the master of his college, <a href="/wiki/John_Arrowsmith_(scholar)" title="John Arrowsmith (scholar)">John Arrowsmith</a>. <a href="/wiki/Commendatory_verse" class="mw-redirect" title="Commendatory verse">Commendatory verses</a> in English were prefixed;<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Henry_More" title="Henry More">Henry More</a> contributed Greek elegiacs; and Hall's tutor, John Pawson, wrote a preface. A biographical notice in Hall's posthumous <i>Hierocles</i>, 1657 by his friend John Davies of Kidwelly declares that these essays made Hall's reputation international. Hall sent a copy to <a href="/wiki/James_Howell" title="James Howell">James Howell</a>, whose letter of acknowledgment is printed in <i><a href="/wiki/Epistol%C3%A6_Ho-Elian%C3%A6" class="mw-redirect" title="Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ">Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ</a></i>. The essays were followed by a collection of poems published at Cambridge in January 1647; they were reprinted by <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Egerton_Brydges" class="mw-redirect" title="Samuel Egerton Brydges">Samuel Egerton Brydges</a> in 1816. Commendatory verses by Henry More and others were prefixed, and the volume was dedicated to Thomas Stanley. The general title-page is dated 1646, but ‘The Second Book of Divine Poems’ has a new title-page dated 1647. Some of the divine poems were afterwards included in <i>Emblems with Elegant Figures newly published. By J. H., esquire</i> [1648], 2 parts, which was dedicated by the publisher to Mrs. Stanley (wife of Thomas Stanley), and has a commendatory preface by <a href="/wiki/John_Quarles" title="John Quarles">John Quarles</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBullen1890_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBullen1890-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <dl><dt>Other literary work</dt></dl> <p>In 1647 Hall edited <a href="/wiki/Robert_Hegge" title="Robert Hegge">Robert Hegge</a>'s <i>In aliquot Sacræ Paginæ loca Lectiones</i>. He contributed to the <i>Lacrimae Musarum</i> (1649) of <a href="/wiki/Richard_Brome" title="Richard Brome">Richard Brome</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The prose works of <a href="/wiki/William_Drummond_of_Hawthornden" title="William Drummond of Hawthornden">William Drummond of Hawthornden</a> were published through the efforts of <a href="/wiki/Sir_John_Scott_of_Scotstarvet" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir John Scott of Scotstarvet">Sir John Scott of Scotstarvet</a>, his brother-in-law, and Hall edited the <i>History of Scotland</i> (1655), writing a preface.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERaymond2005274_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERaymond2005274-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other non-political writings were: </p> <ul><li>‘Paradoxes,’ 1650, second and enlarged edition in 1653; as "J. de La Salle".</li> <li>‘Hierocles upon the Golden Verses of Pythagoras; Teaching a Vertuous and Worthy Life,’ posthumously published in 1657, with commendatory verses by <a href="/wiki/Richard_Lovelace_(poet)" title="Richard Lovelace (poet)">Richard Lovelace</a> and others.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBullen1890_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBullen1890-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <dl><dt>Translations</dt></dl> <p>In 1647 Hall translated from Latin for Hartlib two works of <a href="/wiki/Johann_Valentin_Andrea" class="mw-redirect" title="Johann Valentin Andrea">Johann Valentin Andrea</a>, as <i>A Modell of a Christian Society</i> and <i>The Right Hand of Christian Love Offered</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>A translation of ‘Longinus of the Height of Eloquence,’ 1652.</li> <li>‘<a href="/wiki/Lusus_Serius" title="Lusus Serius">Lusus Serius</a>, or Serious Passe-Time. A Philosophicall Discourse concerning the Superiority of Creatures under Man,’ 1654, translated from the Latin of <a href="/wiki/Michael_Maier" title="Michael Maier">Michael Maier</a>, as "J. de La Salle".</li> <li>A translation of 'Sappho's On the Sublime' c.1652<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p>At the time of his death he was engaged on a translation of <a href="/wiki/Procopius" title="Procopius">Procopius</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBullen1890_3-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBullen1890-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <dl><dt>Educational reform</dt></dl> <p>An early work that remained in manuscript was <i>A Method in History</i>, discussing an education in history mainly in terms of classical authors, displaying traces of his future classical republicanism.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERaymond2005274_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERaymond2005274-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERaymond1998_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERaymond1998-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1649, Hall published the tract <i>An Humble Motion to the Parliament of England concerning the Advancement of Learning and Reformation of the Universities</i>. In it he complains that the revenues of the universities are misspent and the course of study is too restricted; he advocates that the number of fellowships should be reduced and more professorships endowed.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBullen1890_3-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBullen1890-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The line taken was parallel with the writings of Milton and Hartlib on education. With his other works of the period, it helped catch the eye of the political agent <a href="/w/index.php?title=Gualter_Frost&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gualter Frost (page does not exist)">Gualter Frost</a> and forward his career as a state-paid writer.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Parts of the <i>Method in History</i> were used in the <i>Advancement</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His views on the curriculum were practically-oriented and <a href="/wiki/Pansophist" class="mw-redirect" title="Pansophist">pansophist</a>, closer to those of <a href="/wiki/John_Dury" title="John Dury">John Dury</a>;<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the model of <a href="/wiki/Jesuit" class="mw-redirect" title="Jesuit">Jesuit</a> colleges was preferred to the existing colleges of Oxford and Cambridge, as far as rigour and discipline went.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <dl><dt>Journalism</dt></dl> <p>In 1648 Hall was writing the <i>Mercurius Britanicus</i> (<i>sic</i>) of the <a href="/wiki/Second_English_Civil_War" title="Second English Civil War">Second English Civil War</a>, not the only time this title was used since there was a <i>Mercurius Britanicus</i> of the <a href="/wiki/First_English_Civil_War" title="First English Civil War">First English Civil War</a> also, and the <i>Mercurius Censorius</i>, newsletters published in the Parliamentary interest. Journalism of this period was venal, and writers for hire, and he was paid by <a href="/wiki/William_Lilly" title="William Lilly">William Lilly</a> the astrologer to further his verbal feud with <a href="/wiki/Sir_George_Wharton,_1st_Baronet" title="Sir George Wharton, 1st Baronet">George Wharton</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Hall's <i>Mercurius Britanicus Alive Again</i> was a response to the revived royalist <i><a href="/wiki/Mercurius_Aulicus" title="Mercurius Aulicus">Mercurius Aulicus</a></i>, appeared from 16 May, and ran for 16 issues to August.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERaymond200562_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERaymond200562-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The rival to the <i>Mercurius Britanicus</i> was the <i>Mercurius Pragmaticus</i> of <a href="/wiki/Marchamont_Nedham" title="Marchamont Nedham">Marchamont Nedham</a> (who, confusingly enough, had edited the first <i>Mercurius Britanicus</i>, but at this time was writing for the royalists). Hall's writing style and Nedham's are judged very similar; and they are believed to have colluded covertly to take opposite points of view. By 1650 Hall and Nedham were both on the side of Parliament in their journalism, with Hall writing for Nedham's <i><a href="/wiki/Mercurius_Politicus_(1650)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mercurius Politicus (1650)">Mercurius Politicus</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <dl><dt>Political writings</dt></dl> <p>In 1648 he published <i>A Satire against Presbytery</i>. In Scotland he drew up <i>The Grounds and Reasons of Monarchy</i>, with an appendix of <i>An Epitome of Scottish Affairs</i>, printed at Edinburgh and reprinted at London.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBullen1890_3-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBullen1890-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His approach to political theory is close to Hobbes in <i><a href="/wiki/De_Cive" title="De Cive">De Cive</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Other political pamphlets were </p> <ul><li><i>A Gagg to Love's Advocate, or an Assertion of the Justice of the Parliament in the Execution of Mr. Love</i>, 1651, on <a href="/wiki/Christopher_Love" title="Christopher Love">Christopher Love</a>;</li> <li><i>Answer to the Grand Politick Informer</i>, 1653, against <a href="/wiki/John_Streater" title="John Streater">John Streater</a>; and</li> <li><i>A Letter from a Gentleman in the Country</i>, 1653;<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBullen1890_3-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBullen1890-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> this was a piece of apologetics on behalf of <a href="/wiki/Oliver_Cromwell" title="Oliver Cromwell">Oliver Cromwell</a> and his dissolution of the <a href="/wiki/Rump_Parliament" title="Rump Parliament">Rump Parliament</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p><i>The Discoverer</i> has been attributed to Hall or <a href="/wiki/John_Canne" title="John Canne">John Canne</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was a two-part attack in 1649 on the leadership of the <a href="/wiki/Levellers" title="Levellers">Levellers</a>, and is presumed to have been backed by the Council of State.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He also put forth a new edition, dedicated to Cromwell, of <i>A Treatise discovering the horrid Cruelties of the Dutch upon our People at Amboyna</i>, 1651, which had originally appeared in 1624; the Dutch ambassador complained about this rehash of the <a href="/wiki/Amboyna_massacre" title="Amboyna massacre">Amboyna massacre</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBullen1890_3-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBullen1890-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Works">Works</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Hall_(poet)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Works"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>A Method of History</i> (unpublished manuscript, 1645) <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/43447578">[1]</a></li> <li><i>Horæ Vacivæ, or Essays. Some occasional Considerations</i> (1646)</li> <li><i>Poems</i> (1646)</li> <li><i>A True Account and Character of the Times</i> (1647)</li> <li><i>An Humble Motion to the Parliament of England concerning the Advancement of Learning and Reformation of the Universities</i> (1649)</li> <li><i>Mercurius Britanicus Alive Again</i> (1648)</li> <li><i>A Satire against Presbytery</i> (1648)</li> <li><i>Emblems with Elegant Figures</i> [1648]</li> <li><i>Paradoxes</i> (1650, 1653) (under pseudonym "J. de La Salle")</li> <li><i>The Grounds and Reasons of Monarchy</i> (1650)</li> <li><i>An Epitome of Scottish Affairs</i> (1650)</li> <li><i>A Gagg to Love's Advocate, or an Assertion of the Justice of the Parliament in the Execution of Mr. Love</i> (1651)</li> <li><i>A Treatise discovering the horrid Cruelties of the Dutch upon our People at Amboyna</i> (1651)</li> <li><i>Answer to the Grand Politick Informer</i> (1653)</li> <li><i>A Letter from a Gentleman in the Country</i> (1653)</li></ul> <p><b>Translations</b> </p> <ul><li><i>A Modell of a Christian Society and the Right Hand of Christian Love Offered</i> by <a href="/wiki/Comenius" class="mw-redirect" title="Comenius">Comenius</a>, (translation 1647)</li> <li><i>Longinus of the Height of Eloquence</i> (translation 1652)</li> <li><i>Sappho's On the Sublime</i> (1652)</li> <li><i>Lusus Serius, or Serious Passe-Time. A Philosophicall Discourse concerning the Superiority of Creatures under Man</i> by <a href="/wiki/Michael_Maier" title="Michael Maier">Michael Maier</a>, (translation 1654) (under pseudonym "J. de La Salle")</li> <li><i>Hierocles upon the Golden Verses of Pythagoras; Teaching a Vertuous and Worthy Life</i> (posthumous) (1657)</li></ul> <p><b>Contributions</b> </p> <ul><li><i>Lacrimae Musarum</i> by <a href="/wiki/Richard_Brome" title="Richard Brome">Richard Brome</a> (1649)</li></ul> <p><b>Edited Works</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Hegge" title="Robert Hegge">Robert Hegge</a>'s <i>In aliquot Sacræ Paginæ loca Lectiones</i> (1647)</li> <li><i>The History of Scotland</i> (1655)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Hall_(poet)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Barbara_Lewalski" class="mw-redirect" title="Barbara Lewalski">Barbara Lewalski</a>, <i>The Life of John Milton</i> (2003), p. 210.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFACADHL645J2" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://venn.lib.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search-2018.pl?sur=&suro=w&fir=&firo=c&cit=&cito=c&c=all&z=all&tex=HL645J2&sye=&eye=&col=all&maxcount=50">"Hall, John (HL645J2)"</a>. <i>A Cambridge Alumni Database</i>. University of Cambridge.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Hall%2C+John+%28HL645J2%29&rft.btitle=A+Cambridge+Alumni+Database&rft.pub=University+of+Cambridge&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fvenn.lib.cam.ac.uk%2Fcgi-bin%2Fsearch-2018.pl%3Fsur%3D%26suro%3Dw%26fir%3D%26firo%3Dc%26cit%3D%26cito%3Dc%26c%3Dall%26z%3Dall%26tex%3DHL645J2%26sye%3D%26eye%3D%26col%3Dall%26maxcount%3D50&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJohn+Hall+%28poet%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEBullen1890-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBullen1890_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBullen1890_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBullen1890_3-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBullen1890_3-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBullen1890_3-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBullen1890_3-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBullen1890_3-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBullen1890_3-7"><sup><i><b>h</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBullen1890_3-8"><sup><i><b>i</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBullen1890_3-9"><sup><i><b>j</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFBullen1890">Bullen 1890</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">David Norbrook, <i>Writing the English Republic: poetry, rhetoric, and politics, 1627-1660</i> (2000), p. 169; <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=njn-dglZFHIC&pg=PA169">Google Books</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Worden, p. 285.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">By <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Stanley_(author)" title="Thomas Stanley (author)">Thomas Stanley</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Hammond_(poet)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="William Hammond (poet) (page does not exist)">William Hammond</a>, <a href="/wiki/James_Shirley" title="James Shirley">James Shirley</a>, and others.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Krzysztof Fordonski, <i>Casimir Britannicus. English Translations, Paraphrases, and Emulations of the Poetry of Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski</i>. Revised and Expanded Edition (2010), p. 104; <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=1GLZ_xc4ZfAC&pg=PA104">Google Books</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFStevenson" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1">Stevenson, David. "Scot, Sir John, of Scotstarvit". <i><a href="/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography#Oxford_Dictionary_of_National_Biography" title="Dictionary of National Biography">Oxford Dictionary of National Biography</a></i> (online ed.). 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"Hall, John". <i><a href="/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography#Oxford_Dictionary_of_National_Biography" title="Dictionary of National Biography">Oxford Dictionary of National Biography</a></i> (online ed.). 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