Sir Matthew Hale SL (1 November 1609 — 25 December 1676) was an influential English barrister judge and lawyer most noted for his treatise Historia Placitorum Coronæ or The History of the Pleas of the Crown. Born to a barrister and his wife who had both died by the time he was 5 Hale was raised by his father’s relative a strict Puritan and inherited his faith.
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