Editing Joseph Hall (bishop) (section)

==Early life==

Joseph Hall was born at Bristow Park, [[Ashby-de-la-Zouch]], on 1 July 1574. His father John Hall was employed under [[Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon]], president of the north, and was his deputy at Ashby. His mother was Winifred Bambridge, a strict puritan {{harv|Perry|1890|p=75}},{{efn|Hall has left among his works two tracts ("Observations of some Specialties of Divine Providence in the Life of Joseph Hall, Bishop of Norwich", and "Hard Measure"), which together form a useful and interesting autobiography {{harv|Perry|1890|p=75}}.}} whom her son compared to St. Monica.{{snf|Chisholm|1911|p=847}}

Hall attended [[Ashby Grammar School]]. When he was 15, Mr. Pelset, lecturer at Leicester, a divine of puritan views, offered to take him "under indentures" and educate him for the ministry. Just before this arrangement was completed, it came to the knowledge of Nathaniel Gilby, son of [[Anthony Gilby]] and a fellow of [[Emmanuel College, Cambridge]], who was a friend of the family. Gilby induced Hall's father to send his son to Emmanuel College in 1589. The expense of his education at the university was partly borne by his uncle, Edmund Sleigh. He was elected scholar and afterwards fellow of Emmanuel College (1595), graduating B.A. in 1592 and M.A. in 1596 (B.D. 1603 and D.D. 1612).{{harv|Perry|1890|p=75}} Fuller, nearly a contemporary, says that Hall "passed all his degrees with great applause".{{harv|Perry|1890|p=75}} He obtained a high reputation in the university for scholarship, and read the public rhetoric lecture in the schools for two years with much credit.{{sfn|Perry|1890|p=75}}<ref>; {{harvnb|ACAD|HL588J}}; and {{harvnb|ACAD|GLBY582N}}.</ref>