Inheritance
Hales had never married, and left most of his estate to his nephew, John Hales (d. 1 January 1607/8), son his brother, Christopher Hales, and Mary Lucy. John Hales (d. 1 January 1607/8) married firstly, by settlement dated 18 September 1586, Frideswide Faunt, the daughter of William Faunt, esquire, of Foston, Leicestershire, and his second wife, Jane Vincent (d.1585). She was the widow of Roger Cotton, esquire. He married secondly a wife named Avis, who survived him. In 1589 John Hales (d.1609), at the request of his great-uncle, Sir Richard Knightley of Fawsley, allowed the secret press on which the Marprelate tracts were being printed to be brought to his house at the Whitefriars in Coventry. In November 1589 he and Sir Richard Knightley, together with Sir Roger Wigston, were imprisoned in the Fleet. At his subsequent trial Hales protested that:
He had great reason, as he thought, to gratify Sir Richard Knightley in anything, to whom he owed much reverence, as he that had married his aunt'.
John Hales left a will dated 30 August 1607. He had a son, John, and three daughters, Mary, Jane and Bethany.
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