Hall (Arthur, Elizabethan translator and politician, 1539-1605) Indenture between Henrye Hall of Greatford and Octavian ffisher "Merchant of the Staple of Englande", and Arthur Hall of Grantham, gives a bond to the first two mentioned for the sum of six hundred Marks, D.s. "Arthur Hall", manuscript in English, on vellum, red wax seal with good impression, folds, small stain in lower left hand corner, folds, 225 x 295mm., 1st November 1574.

⁂ Documents signed by Hall are rare at auction. "Hall was not a man devoid of talent. He was, however, wayward and, sometimes, his own worst enemy. His defence of Mary Stuart in 1572 suggested sympathy for Roman Catholicism. There is, however, no proof that he was or became a Roman Catholic and such references in his text are probably no more than examples of his provocative and mischievous manner. He should not, however, be dismissed as an irresponsible troublemaker. Hall was, after all, the first to translate Homer's Iliad into English. His Letter and Admonition revealed both scholarship and a capacity for racy prose." - Oxford DNB.