547Thomas Hache, of Sellinge, co. Kent, was probably born about the year 1465. He held the manor of Hodyford and was assessed as "Thomas Hatche the elder" in the Hundred of Street in the subsidy of 1524. The name of his wife is not found. (The English ancestry of the Hatch family was thoroughly worked out by Elizabeth French (Mrs. J. Gardner Bartlett) and was printed in an article in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 70:245,548 from which this account is abstracted.
Thomas Hache was very probably a grandson of John at Hecche of Sellinge next Monks Horton who made his will November 15, 1464. He gave the residue of his goods to his wife Agnes and his son Thomas and named them executors. The woods upon his lands at Westwell and Charing were to be sold to pay his debts. His Feoffees, William Knight, John Parys, William Smyth, John Webbe and William at Melle were to permit Agnes, his wife, to hold all his other lands and tenements until his son Thomas came of age of twenty-four years when he was to have one-third if the lands. His sons John and William were likewise each to have one-third when they reached that age, when the feoffees were to make over the land to the three sons equally, they paying to Agnes their mother 20 s. annually for life. If all the sons should die before reaching twenty-four, Agnes was to have the lands for life, and after her death they were to be sold and the money employed to provide a chantry priest to sing and pray in the church of Selling for two years, the residue to be expended in charity, for the souls of his father and mother and all the faithful departed. To each of the feoffes for their pains, 6s. 8d.549
John at Hecche was undoubtedly descended from a family of Atte Hacches of the Hundred of Calehill, which contains the parishes of Westwell and Charing in which lived others of the name contemporaneously with John at Hecche of Selling.
The will of Thomas Hache the elder of Sellinge beside Horton Monkyn was made December 12, 1530, and proved Dec. 31, 1534. He directs that he be buried in the churchyard of Sellynge. To every godchild 6 d. To Thomas Hache, son of John and Elioner Hache, 40 s., 20 d. at the age of twenty-four and 20 s. at the age of twenty-five to be paid by my son John. If the said Thomas die within age without heirs then it is to be paid to his sister Agnes, and if she die within age without heirs, reversion to my son John. To my son John, my best brass pot. To my daughters Agnes, Margarete, and Alice 6s.8d. apiece. To my son William all debts he owes me and two silver spoons and to his daughter Agnes Hache 6s. 8d. To Agnes, daughter of John Hache the elder my son, now dead, 6s. 8d. To Thomas Hache, John Hache the younger, Johanne Hache, Agnes Hache, and Alice Hache, sons and daughters of John Hache, 6s. 8d. apiece. Residuary legatee and executor: son John Hache. Witnesses: Sir Robert Yong, vicar of Sellyng, William Harte, John Knyght, William Hache, and John Smythe. My last Will regarding my lands. To William Hache my son my manor of Hodyford and all those parcels of land, viz., Hodyford Broke lying in three parcels, a parcel called Horselife, one called Hodyford grove, etc. To my son John Hache my new house with the lands thereto belonging and all my other lands and tenements in Sellyng, he paying therefor to Thomas Hache, son of John Hache late of Sellyng, deceased, 40 marks as before specified.550 |