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"The English Seneca," Hall first made his mark as a virulent satirist in the late years of Elizabeth's reign: the Archbishop of Canterbury ordered them burnt by the public hangman in 1958. A few years later he took orders and became an influential Calvinist controversialist and theologian, defending the faith against Catholic opponents on the continent so well that the Prince of Wales, Henry, appointed him his chaplain in 1608. Hall grew more conservative as he aged and rose in the Church hierarchy, but he remained too Calvinist for King Charles's Catholic-leaning Archbishop Laud, who spied on him, and too orthodox for the Puritans. The House of Lords indicted him for treason in 1641, convicting him of a lesser offense, and when the Puritans came to power they removed him from the pulpit and desecrated his cathedral in Norwich. |