HATTON, Sir Robert (1582-1653), of Oakington, Cambs. and Long Buckby and Benefield, Northants.

Family and Education

bap. 9 Apr. 1582, 2nd s. of John Hatton (d.1587) of Long Stanton, Cambs. and Jane, da of Robert Shute†;Soc. Gen. Oakington par. reg.; Vis. Essex 1552, 1558, 1570 , 1612 and 1634 ed. Metcalfe, i. 434; Vis. Cheshire 1580 (Harl. Soc. xviii.), 115. bro. of Sir Christopher† and Sir Thomas*. educ. Camb. to 1600;HMC Hatfield, x. 435. G. Inn 1602.G. Inn Admiss. m. by 1600, with £1,000, Mary (d. 5 June 1656), da. of Sir Robert Leigh of Chingford, Essex, 5s. (4 d.v.p.) 1da. d.v.p.Vis. Essex 1552, 1558, 1570, 1612 and 1634, i. 434; PROB11/120, f. 5; Mems. of St Margaret’s Church, Westminster, ed. A.M. Burke (1914), 65, 68, 85; Essex RO, D/P 81/1/1, f. 76; Al. Cant. Kntd. 1617.Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 161. d. 10 Jan. 1653.Wedgwood, Staffs. Parlty. Hist., ii. 45.

Offices Held

servant to Abp. Bancroft by 1610.S.B. Babbage, Puritanism and Richard Bancroft (1962), 397. Steward to Abp. Abbot by 1612-at least 1626.Letters of John Chamberlain, ed. N.E. McClure (1939), i. 356; LPL, TG1, pp. 1, 24.

freeman, Camb. 1613 (not sworn), 1640 (sworn); Sandwich 1620, 1624.Cambs. RO, Camb. corp. archives, common day bk. 1610–46, p. 310; Kent Hist. and Lib. Centre, Sa/AC7, ff. 85v, 115.

commr. sewers, Surr. 1613;C181/2, f. 191v. Essex 1620;C181/3, f. 19. Kent and Surr. 1624, 1625;C181/2, f. 191v; C181/3, ff. 115, 161v. subsidy, Kent 1624.C212/22/23. ?Kpr. Havering Park, Essex by 1625. 1629 – 42CSP Dom. 1625–6, p. 154. J.p. Cambs.; I. of Ely 1631 – 37; Northants. 1637–42.Coventry Docquets, 63, 65, 72. Commr. gaol delivery, I. of Ely 1631–8;Coventry Docquets, 4; C181/4, ff. 102v, 201v; C181/5, ff. 20, 98v. swans, Cambs. and Hunts. 1633.C181/4, f. 154. Dep. lt. Northants. by 1640–?CSP Dom. 1640, p. 242. Commr. oyer and terminer, 16 July 1640;C181/5, f. 182v. array (roy.), July 1642.Northants. RO, FH133, unfol.

chamberlain of exch. (roy.) 3 Apr. 1644.Docquets of Letters Patent ed Black, 384.

Parlimentarian

HATTON, Sir Robert (1582-1653), of Oakington, Cambs. and Long Buckby and Benefield, Northants.

of Oakington, Cambs. and Long Buckby and Northants., Benefield.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

HATTON, Sir Robert (1582-1653), of Oakington, Cambs. and Long Buckby and Benefield, Northants.

Will

not found.

Estates

he and his bro. Christopher, granted lands at Long Stanton, Cambs. by their stepfa. Henry Holford, 1616;VCH Cambs. ix. 226. inherited manor of Bruce, Oakington, Cambs. from his mo. 1626.VCH Cambs. ix. 197.

Oxford 1644

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