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Family and Education
b. bef. 1611, 3rd s. of Francis Hacker of Colston Bassett, Notts., and 1st w. ?Anne.Lowdham, Notts. par reg.; PROB11/200, f. 180; J. P. Briscoe, Old Notts. ser. 1, pp. 130-1. m. 5 July 1632, Isabel, da. of Gabriel Brunts of East Bridgford, 1s. 6da. (5 d.v.p.).St Guthlake, Stathern par. reg.; H.L. Hubbard, ‘Col. Francis Hacker’, Trans. Thoroton Soc. xlv. 7, 17. suc. fa. Jan. 1646;Hubbard, ‘Col. Francis Hacker’, 6. ?; ?Kntd. 20 Apr. 1659;Clarke Pprs. iii. 191; D.P. Massarella, ‘The Politics of the Army 1647-60’ (York Univ. DPhil. thesis, 1977), 531. exec. 19 Oct. 1660.Oxford DNB, ‘Francis Hacker’.
Offices Held

Local: constable, Stathern 25 Apr. 1635–6.‘Accts. of the constables of the village of Stathern, Leics.’ ed. E.L. Guilford, Arch. Jnl. lxix. 135. Commr. additional ord. for levying of money, Leics. 1 June 1643; levying of money, 3 Aug. 1643; Leics. militia, 10 July 1644; assessment, Leics. 18 Oct. 1644, 21 Feb. 1645, 23 June 1647, 16 Feb. 1648, 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan., 1 June 1660;A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28); An Ordinance...for an Assessment (1660, E.1075.6). Co. Dur. 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652; Notts., Rutland 9 June 1657; New Model ordinance, Leics. 17 Feb. 1645.A. and O. J.p. Notts. 17 Mar. 1647-bef. Oct. 1660;C231/6, p. 81. Leics. by Feb. 1650 – Mar. 1660; Co. Dur. 23 July 1650-bef. c.Sept. 1656;C231/6, p. 193. Rutland 3 Mar. 1656-Mar. 1660.C231/6, p. 327. Commr. militia, Leics. 2 Dec. 1648, 14 Mar. 1655, 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660;A. and O.; SP25/76A, f. 16v; CSP Dom. 1655, p. 78. Notts. 12 Mar. 1660.A. and O. Commr. propagating gospel northern cos. 1 Mar. 1650;CJ vi. 374a; Severall Procs. in Parl. no. 23 (28 Feb.-7 Mar. 1650), 312 (E.534.15). ejecting scandalous ministers, Leics. and Rutland 28 Aug. 1654.A. and O. Custos rot. Leics. 15 Mar. 1655–7.C231/6, p. 306; C193/15/5, f. 57; C193/13/6, f. 47v. Commr. oyer and terminer, Northern circ. 4 Apr. 1655;C181/6, p. 102. Midland circ. 22 June 1659–10 July 1660.C181/6, p. 370. Trustee and gov. Wyggeston’s Hosp. Leicester 9 June 1657.Nichols, Leics. i. 488–9. Commr. for public faith, Leics. 24 Oct. 1657.Mercurius Politicus no. 387 (22–9 Oct. 1657), 62 (E.505.35).

Military: capt. of horse (parlian.) by Nov. 1643-aft. Sept. 1645;Mercurius Aulicus no. 48 (26 Nov.-2 Dec. 1643), 691 (E.78.16); An Examination Examined (1645), 15 (E.303.13). col. of horse by Feb. 1646 – Oct. 1659, 27 Jan.-25 June 1660.HMC Rutland, iv. 533; CSP Dom. 1648–9, p. 103; Firth and Davies, Regimental Hist. i. 231–8. Gov. Kirkby Bellars, Leics. by Feb. 1645–?An Examination of a Printed Pamphlet (1645), 3 (E.261.3). Col. militia, Leics. June 1648.HMC Portland, i. 468.

Central: commr. security of protector, England and Wales 27 Nov. 1656.A. and O.

Parlimentarian
HACKER, Francis (d. 1660), of Stathern, and Withcote Hall, Leics.
: of Stathern and Withcote Hall, Leics.
Likenesses

Likenesses: line engraving, unknown, 1660;The Devils Cabinet-Councell Discovered, or the Mistery and Iniquity of the Good Old Cause (1660). line engraving, unknown, 1661.A Compleat Colln. of the Lives...of Those Persons Lately Executed (1661).

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Commons 1640-1660
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HACKER, Francis (d. 1660), of Stathern, and Withcote Hall, Leics.

Will
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Estates
in 1642, donated 10s for relief of Irish Protestants (the most of anyone in Stathern).SP28/193, pt. 1, f. 11; SP29/41/32, f. 98. In 1646, inherited house, lands and tenements in Colston Bassett, Notts.PROB11/200, f. 180. In early 1650s, jt. lessee of colliery at Harraton, co. Dur. worth betw. £2,000 and £5,475 p.a.J. Hedworth, The Oppressed Man’s Out-Cry (1651), 3; Royalist Composition Pprs. in Dur. and Northumb. ed. R. Welford (Surt. Soc. cxi), 390, 395, 396; CCC 2128, 2130. By 1660, purchased forfeited royalist property at Car Colston, Notts.CTB i. 296-7. In 1660, estate in Notts. valued at £213 p.a; estate in Leics. valued at £41 p.a.LR2/266, f. 1.
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