, displaying the arms of Hales (of Hales Place, Canterbury; Woodchurch, Kent; later used by
Hales baronets):
Gules, three arrows or feathered and barbed argent He married twice, his first wife being Mary, daughter and coheiress of Thomas Hales (died 1520), a
merchant of the Staple from
Abingdon who in 1491 had acquired the manor of
Fillets Court in
Henley-on-Thames, and his wife Agnes. Their children included: • Humphrey (died 1571), who married Joyce (died 1594), daughter of Robert Atwater of Royton by
Lenham, and was the father of Sir
James Hales (d.1589). • Edward, who followed his father and elder brother in a legal career. • Mildred (died 1596), who married Thomas Docwra, nephew and heir of
Thomas Docwra, Grand Prior of the
Knights Hospitaller. • Mary, who in about 1534 married Wiliam Ryther (died 1563), of
Harewood Castle, an
esquire of the body to Queen Mary, and was mother of the MP James Ryther. • Jane, who in about 1547 married Walter Mantell, the son of her stepmother Margaret, who was executed at
Sevenoaks in 1554, and after his death Christopher Carlell, of
Monks Horton. • Elizabeth, who married John Gayson. • Frances (born about 1532), who in 1554 married
Walter Hendley, of
Coursehorn in Cranbrook. His second wife was Margaret, daughter and coheiress of Oliver Wood (died 1521), of
Collington, who had been widowed twice. Her first husband was Sir Walter Mantell (died 1529) of
Nether Heyford in Northamptonshire, and two of her sons had been executed: John Mantell for felony in 1541, and Walter Mantell in 1554 for his part in
Wyatt's rebellion, as was her grandson Walter Mantell, son of John. Her daughter Margaret Mantell (died 1540) was the mother of the poet and translator
Barnaby Googe. Her second husband (as his second wife) was Sir William Haute (died 1539) of
Bishopsbourne in Kent. Dying on 18 September 1567, Margaret was buried in St Mildred's Church, Canterbury, where there is a monument to her memory. ==Notes==