Hale (V)
SIR MATTHEW, Lord Chiefjustice of England; born in Alderly, Gloucestershire, England, Nov. 1, 1609. Intended for the Church, he was sent to Oxford University in his 16th year. But suddenly he he abandoned his studious habits, and joined a company of strolling players. He was on the point of becoming a soldier when induced to adopt the legal profession. Accordingly, in 1629, Hale entered the Society of Lincoln's Inn, and was called to the bar in 1637. In the quarrel between king and Parliament he refrained from identifying himself with either side. When, however, Parliament got the upper hand, he signed the Solemn League and Covenant, sat in the Assembly of Divines at Westminster, tried to bring about a settlement between the king and Parliament, and ultimately taking his engagement to the Commonwealth, was made judge under Cromwell in 1653. He acted as a puisne judge of the Common pleas till Cromwell's death, but refused to have his commission renewed by Richard Cromwell. After the Restoration he was made Chief-Baron of the Court of Exchequer, and 11 years later was transferred to the Chief-justiceship of the Court of King's Bench. He wrote: "History of the Pleas of the Crown" (1736); "History of the Common Law of England" (1713); ; "Moral and Religious Works," etc. He resigned his office in February, 1676, and died Dec. 25 of the same year.
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Hale, Nathan
Nathan (1755-1776), an American patriot. He was a native of Coventry, Connecticut. He was graduated at Yale, shortly before the outbreak of the Revolution. He was a captain in the patriot army. He was sent by General Washington to bring intelligence of the British in New York City. He was captured within the British lines, and, though Washington made every effort to save him, was executed as a spy by order of Sir William Howe. His last words were, "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." His sad fate was remembered later when Andre was in the hands of the Americans. In 1893 a statue was erected to Hale's memory in New York. See Andre
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Half Moon
the ship in which Henry Hudson sailed up the Hudson River in 1609. It was a small wooden ship with high poop and stern. It was a sailing ship, helpless in a calm. A reproduction of the Half Moon took part in the Hudson-Fulton pageant at New York in 1909. See Hudson
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Half Open Tailstock
The half open tailstock shown in Fig. 300, is cut away so that the spindles can be laid in, instead of being passed through the holes. This fixture will be found exceedingly convenient when several spindles are to be used for drilling, counterboring and chamfering.
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Half Plate
A half-plate watch, as its name implies, is one in which the top-plate covers half of the pillar or lower plate, and which supports the upper ends of the barrel arbor, center and third pinions.
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Haliartus
An ancient town in Boeotia , south of the lake Copais, destroyed by Xerxes in his invasion of Greece, B. c. 480, but afterwards rebuilt. Under its walls Lysander lost his life (395). 2026 Editor's Note: Lysander was a leading Spartan commander during the Peloponnesian Wars who destroyed the Athenian fleet at Aegospotami in 405 BC. He died at the Battle of Haliartus in 395 BCE when fighting the Thebans. Though destroyed by Persians in 480 BC, Haliartus was rebuilt. However, after Roman conquest in 171 BCE—when the praetor Lucretius enslaved its inhabitants and razed the city—it never recovered, and Strabo later noted it no longer existed. (Ed: BR 2026-06-11)
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Haliburton
THOMAS CHAND- LER, a Canadian-American jurist and author; born in Windsor, Nova Scotia, in December, 1796. He was called to the bar in 1820 and became a member of the House of Assembly . He was raised to the bench as chief-justice of the Common Pleas in 1829, and in 1842 became judge of the Supreme Court. In 1856 he retired from the bench, and took up his residence in England. In 1858 he received the degree of D. C. L. from the University of Oxford, and in 1859 entered Parliament as Conservative member for Launceston. He is best known as the author of "Sam Slick," the name of a Yankee clockmaker and peddler, whose quaint drollery has given him a fair chance of immortality . The series of newspaper sketches in which this character had first been introduced was published in 1837 as "The Clockmaker, or Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick of Slickville"; two later series followed in 1838 and 1840, and " The Attaché, or Sam Slick in England"; in 1843. Haliburton's other works include "A Historical and Statistical Account of Nova Scotia"; "The Old Judge, or Life in a Colony"; "Yankee Stories, and Traits of American Humor"; "Nature and Human Nature"; and "Wise Saws and Modern Instances." He died in Isleworth , near London, England, Aug. 27, 1865.
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Halicarnassus
A maritime city in Asia Minor, where a mausoleum, one of the seven wonders of the world , was erected. It is celebrated as being the birthplace of Herodotus , Dionysius, and Heraclitus . 2026 Editor's Note: The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus , built for the satrap Mausolus, was the origin of the word 'mausoleum'. It was destroyed by successive earthquakes between the 12th and 15th centuries and was the last of the six destroyed ancient wonders to survive. Herodotus , born in Halicarnassus, is known as 'The Father of History', a title given to him by Cicero. (Ed: BR 2026-06-12)
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Halicz
a town of Poland, in the province of Galicia; on the Dniester, 69 miles S. E. E. of Lemberg. On a hill in the vicinity are the ruins of the once strongly fortified castle of Halicz, built in the 12th century, and the residence of the rulers of what was formerly the grand principality and kingdom of Halicz. From this word the name GALICIA (q. v.) is derived. Be- 1 cause of its strategic position as the key to Lemberg the town was much fought over in the World War (1914-1918). The Russians captured it in August, 1914. The Austrians regained it June 28, 1915. The Russians made an effort that failed to take the town in 1916, but were successful July 1, 1917. These were the last important operations made by the Russians in the World War. On July 22 they abandoned Halicz and began a disorderly retreat.
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