William Hawte

Hawte the composer is identifiedS.R. Charles, 'Haute, Sir William (born 1430), composer', Grove Music Online (2001). (subscription needed). Preview at [http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.12581 Oxford Index]. as a son of William Haute of Bishopsbourne, Kent, M.P., by his second wife, Joan Wydeville, daughter of Richard Wydeville, M.P. (1385–1441), of Grafton, Northamptonshire and Maidstone, Kent, who married c. 1429.L.S. Woodger, 'Haute, William (d.1462), of Bishopsbourne, Kent', in J.S. Roskell, L. Clark and C. Rawcliffe (eds), The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386–1421 (Boydell & Brewer 1993), [http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/haute-william-1462 History of Parliament online]. William the father did have a child by his first wife, and there is mention of a young William Haute seeking a novitiate at Christ Church priory in Canterbury around 1430.'Letter of Dom. John Elham to the Prior of Christ Church', in J.B. Sheppard (ed.), Christ Church Letters. A Volume of Mediaeval Letters Camden Society, New Series XIX (London 1877), [https://archive.org/stream/christchurchlett00camduoft#page/6/mode/2up pp. 7-9]. However the weight of evidence is that Sir William was Joan Wydeville's son.W.G. Davis, The Ancestry of Mary Isaac, c. 1549–1613 (Author, Portland, Maine 1955), pp. 97-193 [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89062912860;view=1up;seq=218 at pp. 156-58]. He was therefore, by affinity and probably by blood, nephew of the 1st Earl Rivers and first cousin to Elizabeth Woodville, Queen Consort of King Edward IV.

William therefore grew up, probably at Bishopsbourne, with an elder half-sibling and with three younger brothers and various sisters, one of whom, Alice, was by 1462 married to Sir John Fogge (as his second wife). William also was married before that date, and had a son of his own called William by his wife, Joan Horne (daughter of Henry Horne, M.P.L.S. Woodger, 'Horne, Henry, of Horne's Place in Appledore, Kent', in J.S. Roskell, L. Clark and C. Rawcliffe (eds), The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386–1421, (Boydell & Brewer 1993) [http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/horne-henry History of Parliament Online].), both of whom are mentioned in his father's will. Made in May 1462 and proved in October, this document is concerned mainly with the furnishings and chattels, the estates themselves having been disposed of by a testament now lost. Old William asked to be buried between his two wives before the image of St Katherine in the church of the Fraternity of St Augustine's, Canterbury. Among other things William inherited from his father the residue of his interesting collection of religious relics, after some of the choicer items had been allocated to selected recipients.Will of William Haute of Bishopsbourne (9 May/October 4, 1462); Consistory Court of Canterbury, Vol. 2, fol. 79. Lengthy abstract in Davis, The Ancestry of Mary Isaac, [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89062912860;view=1up;seq=212 p. 150-52].

Both William and his father were included in commissions of array of December 1459 and 1460 to resist the rebellious adherents of Richard Earl of Warwick.Calendar of Patent Rolls Henry VI: 1452–1461 (HMSO 1910), [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015031079547;view=1up;seq=573 pp. 561, 563]. William junior had already entered the service of Edward IV in 1461 when he was granted for life the office of Keeper of the King's Warren, near Sandwich, and soon afterwards received instructions to cause beacons to be set up along the Kentish coast to give warning of the approach of the king's enemies.Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edward IV, 1461–1467 (HMSO 1897), pp. 125; 102. He was created a knight at the queen's coronation on 26 May 1465,N.H. Nicolas, 'Appendix: Chronological List of Knights', in History of the Orders of Knighthood of the British Empire, (John Hunter, London 1842), III, [https://books.google.com/books?id=mUO5D_A0REoC&pg=PA436 p. viii]. and rode before the queen's litter in the procession; in 1466–1467 he was for the first time High Sheriff of Kent (an office in which his father, his grandfather and his great-uncle had preceded him),Richard Kilburne, A Topographie, or Survey of the County of Kent (Thomas Mabb/Henry Atkinson, London (Old Holborn) 1659), [http://www.kentarchaeology.ac/TopographicalTradition/1659-kilburne.pdf pp. 393-95] (Kent Archaeology pdf, pp. 214-17). and received the freedom of Canterbury in 1467.

In 1470 Hawte's cousin Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers, appointed William his attorney for entry into his Kentish estates.'The will of Anthony, Earl Ryvers, 1483', in S. Bentley (ed.), Excerpta Historica, or, Illustrations of English History (Samuel Bentley, London 1831), pp. 240-48, [https://books.google.com/books?id=emgNAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA241 at pp. 241-42]. William's sister Anne was in the later 1460s and earlier 1470s engaged to marry Sir John Paston, but was released from the arrangement.J. Gairdner (ed.), The Paston Letters, AD 1422–1509, Library Edition (Chatto & Windus, London 1904) Vol 1, [https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.186746/2015.186746.The-Paston-Letters-Ad-1422-1509-vol-1#page/n271/mode/2up pp. 268-70]; Vol. 4, Letter 687 and note, [https://archive.org/stream/pastonletters04gairuoft#page/300/mode/2up pp. 300-01]. William's brother Richard inherited some estates jointly with his brother by grant from their father, and in 1463 and 1468 released tenements in Canterbury to William.Davis, The Ancestry of Mary Isaac, p. 163, citing British Library, Harleian Charters ref. 78 G 9 and 78 G 10. The full estates were finally granted among the brothers by their father's trustees in 1480, in tail, with mutual remainders. In the meantime Richard married Dame Elizabeth Darcy, widow of Sir Richard Darcy of Maldon and Danbury, and daughter of Sir Thomas Tyrrell of Heron, Essex, restoring the familial bond formed by his grandfather Nicholas Haute's second marriage. Like William Haute, Darcy was knighted at Elizabeth Woodville's coronation, but died in 1469 leaving a son Thomas aged 10.

Elizabeth remarried almost immediately to Richard Haute who held commissions for the peace for Worcestershire in 1472 and 1473 and for Shropshire, Gloucestershire and Herefordshire in May 1474.Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edward IV, Henry VI, 1467–1477 (HMSO 1906), pp. 615-16, 628, 636. Richard was, from 1472 to 1475, Member of Parliament for Essex and from 1472 to 1480 held commission for the peace in that county.Cal. Patent Rolls 1467–1477, p. 614. He was further Sheriff of Essex and Hertfordshire in 1474–1475. In the latter year Richard was granted the freedom of the city of Canterbury by birth, and represented it in parliament in 1478. He was appointed a justice in eyre of the queen's forests in 1477.Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edward IV, Edward V, Richard III, 1476–1485 (HMSO 1901), [https://archive.org/stream/calendarpatentr12offigoog#page/n62/mode/2up pp. 51-52]. By the partition indentures of 1480 Sir William received the old family manors of Bourne, Ford and Wadenhall, and the de Marinis lands of Otterpool, Blackmanstone and Elmsted, while Hastingleigh, Alderlose and Ightham Mote fell to Richard, their brother Edward taking the manor of Crofton, lands in Hougham near Dover and rents in Canterbury.Davis, The Ancestry of Mary Isaac, citing British Library, Harleian Charter 78 F 45.

Through this period Sir William, the eldest brother, held a prominent position among the gentry of Kent. Although only two of his sons, William and Thomas, and a daughter Alice, reached maturity, there were besides four other sons and two daughters born in this time who appear to have died in their youth.Davis, The Ancestry of Mary Isaac, p. 161, citing 'Copy of Monuments in Kent Churches', Parsons, in the Library of the Kent Archaeological Society, p. 178. He was a justice of the peace for Kent in 1461, 1462, 1464, 1465, 1467, 1469 and 1471–1475.Cal. Patent Rolls 1461–1467, p. 566. C.P.R. 1467–1477, p. 618. With a commission of oyer and terminer to judge certain alleged traitors in 1463, in 1465 he was appointed to a commission against smugglers,Cal. Patent Rolls, 1461–1467, pp. 301, 453. and was reappointed in 1474 and 1475.Cal. Patent Rolls, 1467–1477, pp. 489, 571. Often in association with Sir John Fogge, Sir John Scott, Sir John Colepeper and Ralph St Leger the younger (who married Richard Haute's daughter Isabel), he took musters of soldiers in 1468, held commissions of array in 1469–1472, and mustered at Sandwich in the latter year.Cal. Patent Rolls 1467–1477, pp. 127, 195, 199, 219, 283, 340, 352.

He was (with Lord Rivers) commissioned to arrest rebels in 1471, to investigate fees owing to the king's progenitors in 1473, and to survey walls and ditches in 1474 and 1479.Cal. Patent Rolls 1467–1477, pp. 285; 407; 428, 463. He made an important lease of his lands at Shelvingford in 1474, at much the same time that he received lands from his cousins, the daughters of his grandfather's nephew John Haute of Pluckley.The National Archives (UK) Discovery Catalogue, item [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4529076 E 326/3214]. His second term as Sheriff of Kent was in 1475–1476.Kilburne, A Topographie, p. 395. In 1478, when the king granted him an annuity of 20 marks, he was appointed to conduct an inquest into the castles and lands of the Duke of Clarence.Cal. Patent Rolls 1476–1485, pp. 100, 109, 111. And in that year, 1478–79, Richard Haute of Ightham served as Sheriff of Kent.Kilburne, A Topographie, p. 395.

Queen Elizabeth had appointed Richard Haute to be a tutor to her son Edward the Prince of Wales in 1472,Cal. Patent Rolls 1467–1477, p. 366. a duty which took him to Ludlow Castle, and he became comptroller of the prince's household: but it is questioned whether this Richard was Sir William's brother, or their cousin the younger (Sir) Richard Haute, of Swerdling in Petham, Kent, (a descendant in a junior line from Sir Nicholas, William's grandfather),Davis, The Ancestry of Mary Isaac, [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89062912860;view=1up;seq=227 p. 163].The two are mischievously entangled by Charles Ross, see C. Ross, Richard III reprint (Yale University Press 2011), [https://books.google.com/books?id=N27BDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA107 p. 107]. who was knighted in c. 1482. In 1478 one Richard Haute had distinguished himself in the tourneys at the marriage of Prince Richard, Duke of York to Anne Mowbray,C.L. Scofield, The Life and Reign of Edward the Fourth, King of England and France and Lord of Ireland, 2 vols (Longmans, Green & Co, London 1923), p. 205. and in 1481 Richard Haute the younger was made steward of the Gower lordship of that prince during his minority, and constable of Swansea Castle.Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edward IV, Edward V, Richard III, 1476–1485 (HMSO 1904), [https://archive.org/stream/calendarpatentr12offigoog#page/n300/mode/2up p. 288]. Close association with the Wydevilles brought the Hautes into the sphere of the Duke of Gloucester's enmity.

In 1480 Sir William granted family manors and possessions in Canterbury to trustees for the purposes of a will, though none survives.Davis, The Ancestry of Mary Isaac, pp. 160-61, citing British Library, Harleian Charter 78 F 45. Richard Haute of Ightham was again Sheriff of Kent in 1481–82, and from Michaelmas 1482 Sir William Haute was his immediate successor,E. Hasted, 'General history: Sheriffs of Kent', in The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent, Vol. 1 (Canterbury, 1797), [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-kent/vol1/pp177-213 pp. 177-213] (British History Online, accessed 14 November 2017). in that year making a lease of lands in Waltham near the old Haute seat of Wadenhall.Davis, The Ancestry of Mary Isaac, citing British Library, Harleian Charter 78 F 46. He was also holding a commission for walls and ditches.Cal. Patent Rolls 1476–1485, p. 466. The story is attributed to Sir Thomas More, that "Sir" Richard Haute was with Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers, Sir Richard Grey and Sir Thomas Vaughan bringing Prince Edward from Ludlow to London, when they were intercepted by the Duke of Gloucester and arrested at Stony Stratford; and that afterwards Haute was beheaded with the others, "and buryed naked in the monastery at Poumfret". (Woodville made Richard Haute Esq. an executor of his will.'The will of Anthony, Earl Ryvers, 1483', at pp. 246-48.) But while this all appears clearly in Edward Hall's Chronicle, and Hawte may have been arrested,Edward Hall, The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Families of Lancastre and Yorke, as Hall's Chronicle, Containing the History of England, collating 1548 and 1550 editions (J. Johnson (etc), London 1809), [https://archive.org/stream/hallschronicleco00halluoft#page/348/mode/2up pp. 349-50] and [https://archive.org/stream/hallschronicleco00halluoft#page/364/mode/2up p. 364] yet Richard Hawte is not named where the story appears in More's History of King Richard the Third, according to William Rastell's 1557 edition from More's manuscript.William Rastell (ed.), 'The History of king Richard the thirde (unfinished)', in The Workes of Sir Thomas More, Knight, sometyme Lord Chancellour of England (John Cawod, John Waley & Richarde Tottell, London 1557), The Richard III Society, American branch, [http://www.r3.org/on-line-library-text-essays/marius-richard-the-history-of-king-richard-iii/thomas-more-index/the-history-of-king-richard-the-third-sir-thomas-more/ Transcript by Richard Bear] (1997). (Search term: Stonye Stratforde). In fact both Richard Hautes, and also Sir William, survived the reign of Richard III.

When Richard III was proclaimed king on 22 June 1483, Sir William Haute was immediately removed from office as Sheriff of Kent and replaced with Sir Henry Ferrers.Hasted, 'Sheriffs of Kent'. In Buckingham's rebellion, in the insurrection which occurred in Kent in the middle weeks of October 1483, Sir William was held by the December 1483 proclamation to be a ringleader, and was outlawed among the principals, with Sir John Guildford and Sir Thomas Lewknor, as being "the king's rebels and traitors, which imagined and utterly conspired the destruction of the king",J. Gairdner, History of the Life and Reign of Richard III (Cambridge University Press, 1898), pp. 147, [https://archive.org/stream/historyofliferei00gairuoft#page/342/mode/2up 342-44], citing Harley MS 433, fol. 128b (Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, Vol. I (Commissioners, Westminster 1808), [https://archive.org/stream/CatalogueOfTheHarleianManuscripts1/Catalogue_of_the_Harleian_Manuscripts_1#page/n335/mode/2up p. 286, it. 1588]). yet is seemingly absent from the general act of attainder of January 1484, where instead the name of "Richard Haute, late of Ightham, squyer" appears prominently.J. Strachey (ed.), Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones et Placita in Parliamento (London 1767–77), VI, [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pst.000014729249&view=image&seq=252 pp. 244–49] (Hathi Trust). This is certainly Richard the brother of Sir William, and his lands were seized and granted instead to his brother James Haute, who had not rebelled.Cal. Patent Rolls 1476–1485, [https://archive.org/stream/calendarpatentr12offigoog#page/n470/mode/2up p. 458]. Sir William, however, was able to perform a second lease of his lands in Shelvingford in 1484.Davis, The Ancestry of Mary Isaac, citing British Library, Harleian Charter 78 F 47.

Following the Battle of Bosworth Field, Richard Haute of Ightham was then included in the general act of restitution which was issued in the first year of King Henry VII.Rotuli Parliamentorum, VI, pp. 273-75. Anthony Woodville, awaiting execution, had made him an executor of his will, and Richard is also mentioned in the will of young Thomas Darcy his stepson, made 5 March 1483/4 and proved 16 June 1486.Will of Thomas Darcy (P.C.C. 1486), Logge Quire. Richard of Ightham died in 1487, a writ for his inquisition being issued on 11 May and the inquest held on 14 November 1487: Edward Haute, aged 11 and more, was his son and heir, and Ightham Mote his inheritance. Richard left a will making Elizabeth Darcy (his widow) his executrix, but it is not recorded except from a pardon which she received in January 1488. It refers to Richard as "late Sheriff of Essex and Hertfordshire" and "late justice of sewers to Edward IV". Elizabeth's will was proved in January 1506/07.Will of Dame Elizabeth Darcy (P.C.C. 1506), Adean Quire.

Sir William's life of service was not yet concluded. He held commissions of the peace (Kent) and of gaol delivery (principally for Canterbury) from 1485 continuously through to 1493,Calendar of Patent Rolls, Henry VII, Vol. I, 1485–1494 (HMSO 1914), pp. 490-91; 213, 282, 319, 320, 395. and in that latter year granted a lease of a house in Canterbury. His cousin Sir Richard Haute died at the end of 1492, leaving his lands to his wife and little son Henry at Swerdling (in Petham), and providing that his mother Margaret should have convenient lodging there, with £5 rent to be paid at Warehorne: he left several riding horses to his servants, and "maister Thomas Haute" (perhaps Sir William's son) was among the witnesses.Will of Sir Richard Hawte (P.C.C. 1493), Dogett Quire. Sir Richard's widow was Katherine, daughter of Thomas Boston, whom he had married after the death in 1486 of her second husband John Green of Wicken Bonhunt, Essex. (Sir Richard's first wife Eleanor, daughter of Sir Robert Roos, had brought him Yorkshire manors forfeit by Thomas Roos.Cal. Patent Rolls 1467–1477, pp. 419, 460.) Katherine Hawte died in the following year,Will of Dame Katherine Hawte, widow (P.C.C. 1493), Vox Quire. and Sir William in 1495 made an agreement with Edward, his brother Richard's son, that Swerdling should be held to his use in tail.Davis, The Ancestry of Mary Isaac, p. 161, citing British Library, Harleian Charters ref. 78 F 51. In 1505 Edward, who married Elizabeth Frognall, was a gentleman of Petham.'Inquisition post mortem of Thomas Frogenall', in Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem and other analogous documents: Henry VII, Vol. II (HMSO London 1915), [https://archive.org/stream/calendarofinquis02grea#page/590/mode/2up pp. 590-91, No. 932].

In 1496 Sir William was commissioned to participate in taking a muster of Kentish soldiers for the defence of Berwick against attack by the Scots.Calendar of Patent Rolls, Henry VII, Vol. II: 1494–1509 (HMSO 1916), p. 67. Sir William Hawte of Bishopsbourne died on 2 July in the 12th year of Henry VII (1497). His inquest, for which the writ was issued on 7 September 1499, showed that he died seised of the manors of Wadenhall, Bishopsbourne, Elmsted, Blakmanston, Otterpool, Warehorne and Snave, in fee. His elder son William having died before him, the next son Thomas Haute, then aged 33 and more, was his heir.Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem and other analogous documents: Henry VII, Vol. II (HMSO, London 1915), [https://archive.org/stream/calendarofinquis02grea#page/98/mode/2up p. 99, no. 145] T.N.A. Discovery Catalogue ref: [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C10230690 C 142/13/36].

In 1512 Sir William's sister Dame Alice Fogg made a grant from lands at AshfordEdward Hasted identifies Alice's hereditary lands as Ashenfield, a manor within Waltham and near the Haute seat of Wadenhall, see E. Hasted, 'Parishes: Waltham', in The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent, Vol. 9 (Canterbury 1800), [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-kent/vol9/pp319-328 pp. 319-28] (British History Online, accessed 17 November 2017). to provide for an Obit of 10s. 6d., at the anniversary of her husband, to pray for the souls of her husband, her own soul, for William Haute and Joan his wife, their children and all their friends.A. Hussey, Kent Obit and Lamp Rents, Kent Records Kentish Archaeological Society (1936), p. 8.

The literary interests of this family in this or the next generation are suggested by early ownership of the Middle English prose Merlin, derived from an Old French prose cycle of Arthurian literature.C.M. Meale, 'The manuscripts and early audience of the Middle English "Prose Merlin",' in The Changing Face of Arthurian Romance: Essays on Arthurian Prose Romances in memory of Cedric E. Pickford, International Arthurian Society, British Branch, Arthurian Studies XVI (D.S. Brewer, Cambridge 1986), [https://books.google.com/books?id=LvhzTjt96I4C&pg=PA92 pp.92-111], at pp. 104-09. (Google, incomplete preview). It is also remarked that the only surviving manuscript copy of the English version (attributed to Anthony Wydeville) of Christine de Pizan's Livre du corps de policie has an opening embellishment of the Haute family arms;Cambridge University Library MS Kk.I.5. and that a volume of French vulgate romances in the British Library (from the English Royal Library), including Estoire del Saint Graal, La Queste del Saint Graal, and Morte Artu, belonged to Sir Richard Roos ("my grete book called Saint Grall bounde in boordes covers with rede leder and with plates of laton"), who in 1482 bequeathed it to his niece Eleanor Haute (née Roos),Will of Sir Richard Roos, knight (P.C.C. 1482), Logge Quire. the first wife of Sir Richard Haute. It was apparently afterwards given to Elizabeth Wydeville.See British Library MS Royal 14.E.III, [http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=7793 British Library detailed record].Meale, 'Manuscripts and early audience of the Middle English "Prose Merlin",' p. 104, note 25; and pp. 108-09, note 41. Meale, who does not refer to Davis's useful study of the Haute family, attempts to differentiate three different Richard Hautes, and executes one of them in 1483.

Related interest attaches to the books of John Goodere the elder (whose grandson Thomas married William Hawte's granddaughter Joan), who possessed print copies of Dives et PauperHenry Parker, Dives et Pauper and Here endith a compendiouse treetise dyalogue. of Diues Paup. that is to say. the riche the pore: fructuously tretyng upon the x. comandmentes, 2 vols (Richard Pynson, Temple Bar, London 1493). and Knight of the Tower (presumably William Caxton'sGeoffrey de la Tour Landry, translator William Caxton, Here begynneth the booke which the knyght of the toure made: and speketh of many fayre ensamples and thensygnementys and techyng of his doughters, the yere of oure lord M CCCC lxxxiij and enprynted at Westmynstre the last day of Ianyuer the fyrst yere of the regne of kynge Rychard the thyrd.), a parchment Canterbury Tales, '{{lang|enm|italic=no|an old boke of the cronycls of yngeland}}', 'an olde boke of Bonuauentur' (more likely pseudo-Bonaventure), and '{{lang|enm|a queyr of phisik of the secrets of women}}' (De Secretis Mulierum, of pseudo-Albertus Magnuscf. H.R. Lemay, Women's Secrets: A Translation of Pseudo-Albertus Magnus' "De Secretis Mulierum" with Commentaries (State University of New York Press, 1992), [https://books.google.com/books?id=ENgpF5G1QJUC here].).Indenture by John Goodyere (the elder) to the will of John Goodyere (the younger), Gentleman of Monken Hadley, Middlesex, 10 May 1494 (P.C.C. 1504 (Holgrave quire)).

Sir William and Dame Joan were the parents of:

• Alicia Hawte, who married Sir William Crowmer
• William Hawte, who died before his father.
• Thomas Hawte (c.1464-28 November 1502), who married Elizabeth (Isabella), sister of the distinguished judge Sir Thomas Frowyk.Daughter Isabella Haute named in Will of Joan Frowik or Frowyk, widow (P.C.C. 1500 (Moone quire)): widow of Sir Thomas Frowyk of Gunnersbury (died 1485). He was thus uncle to Frideswyde Frowyk, wife of Sir Thomas Cheyne. He was made Knight of the Bath in November 1501 at the marriage of Arthur, Prince of Wales to Catherine of Aragon. The inquisition post mortem of Sir Thomas Haute, which is lost, was held in the 18th year of King Henry VII (1502/03).Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Henry VII, Vol. III (HMSO, London 1955), [https://archive.org/stream/calendarofinquis03great#page/604/mode/2up p. 605]. A Chancery suit (brought by Isabella) of May 1517 to January 1517/18 shows that Thomas and Isabella had two sons (William and Herry) and five daughters (Jane, Margery, Agnes, Elizabeth and Alice), and supplies other useful information.Davis, The Ancestry of Mary Isaac, pp. 176-77, citing The National Archives, Early Chancery Proceedings C 1/420/24-33 (10 documents): View original bills at AALT, [http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT7/ChP/C1no420/IMG_0040.htm Image 40] through [http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT7/ChP/C1no420/IMG_0050.htm Image 50].
• Their son (Sir) William Hawte of Bishopsbourne (c. 1489–1539),Will of Sir William Hawte of Bishopsbourne, Kent (P.C.C. 1539 (Cromwell quire)). whose wardship was granted to Sir Henry Frowyk in 1503,Calendar of Patent Rolls, Henry VII, II: 1494–1509 (HMSO 1916), [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015066345367;view=1up;seq=320 p. 308] (Hathi Trust). married Mary Guildford (daughter of Sir Richard Guildford, and relict of Christopher Kempe), and was by her father of Jane Haute, the wife of Sir Thomas Wyatt the Younger. William remarried to Margaret, daughter of Oliver Wood.
• Their daughter Joan Hawte married (1) Thomas Goodere of Monken Hadley, Middlesex (died 1518): they have monumental brasses there.His memorial there, with heraldry of Frowyk and Hawte, was recorded by Nicholas Charles, see F.C. Cass, 'Notes on the Church and Parish of Monken Hadley', Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society (London 1861), pp. 253-286,

[https://archive.org/stream/transactionslon01coungoog#page/n302/mode/2up at p. 261]. See also Mill Stephenson, A List of Monumental Brasses in the British Isles (Headley Brothers, London 1926), p. 300 (Monken Hadley, No. V). Their children included Francis Goodere, M.P.,T.F.T. Baker,

'Goodere, Francis (by 1514–46), of Hadley, Herts. and Polesworth, Warws.', in S.T. Bindoff (ed.), The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509–1558 (Boydell and Brewer 1982), [http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/goodere-francis-1514-46 (History of Parliament Online)]. and Alice, wife of Sir George Penruddock of Ivychurch. Joan Hawte married (2) Robert Wroth of Enfield, by whom she was mother of Sir Thomas Wroth and mother-in-law of Edward Lewknor (died 1556).'De Haut', in R. Hovenden (ed.), The Visitation of Kent, taken in the years 1619–1621 by John Philipot, Rouge Dragon, Marshal and Deputy to William Camden, Clarenceux, Harleian Society XLII, (London 1898), [https://archive.org/stream/visitationofkent00camd#page/212/mode/2up pp. 212-14]. (British Library: Harleian MS 6138, fol. 128; Additional MS 5526, fol. 123.)

The following children probably died in youth:Davis, The Ancestry of Mary Isaac, p. 161, citing 'Copy of Monuments in Kent Churches', Parsons, in the Library of the Kent Archaeological Society, p. 178.

• John Haute
• Robert Haute
• James Haute
• Richard Haute
• Joan Haute
• Cecily Haute

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