HALES, (Norfolk) on the N. E. side of London, to whose Ch. this is a chapel of ease, was the manor of Sir James Hobart
(Att.-Gen. to Hen. VII.); the eldest branch of whose family lived here, for divers successions, till it was sold to the
Humberstones; who soon after passed it to the relict of Sir Tho. Williamson, Bt. of East-Markham, who gave part of it to
John Hoskins, Esq; who resided on it, and part to Fr. Gardner, ald. of Norwich.