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HATSELL, HENRY (1641–1714), judge, was son of Henry Hatsell of Saltram, in the parish of Plympton St. Mary, Devonshire, an active roundhead, who was M.P. for Devonshire in the parliaments of 1654 and 1656, and for Plympton in that of 1658. Henry Hatsell the younger was born in March 1641, and educated at Exeter College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. on 4 Feb. 1658–9. He entered the Middle Temple in the following year, was called to the bar in 1667, and to the degree of serjeant-at-law in May 1689, and in November 1697 was created a baron of the exchequer, and knighted. He tried Spencer Cowper [q. v.], afterwards justice of the common pleas, on the charge of murdering Sarah Stout in 1699. His patent was renewed on the accession of Anne, but shortly afterwards (9 June 1702) he was removed. He died in April 1714. Hatsell married Judith, daughter of Josiah Bateman, merchant, of London, and relict of Sir Richard Shirley, bart., of Preston, Sussex. His son, Henry (d. 1762), was a bencher of the Middle Temple. 

HATSELL, JOHN (1743–1820), clerk of the House of Commons, born in 1743, was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge, and afterwards studied law in the Middle Temple, of which society he became senior bencher. He was clerk assistant in the House of Commons at the close of the reign of George II, and became chief clerk in 1768. Lord Colchester knew him well, and acknowledged him to be the best authority on parliamentary procedure. Hatsell retired on 11 July 1797 with the thanks of the house. He died at Marden Park, near Godstone, Surrey, on 15 Oct. 1820, and was buried in the Temple Church.

He was the author of: 1. ‘A Collection of Cases of Privilege of Parliament, from the earliest records to 1628,’ London, 1776, 4to. In the British Museum there is a copy with copious manuscript notes by Francis Hargrave. 2. ‘Precedents of Proceedings in the House of Commons, under separate titles; with observations,’ 4 vols. London, 1781, 4to; second edit. 1785–96; third edit. 1796; fourth and best edit., with additions by Charles Abbot [q. v.], Lord Colchester, 1818.

[Gent. Mag. 1820, pt. ii. 372; Biog. Dict. of Living Authors, p. 149; Lowndes's Bibl. Man. (Bohn), p. 1011; Colchester's Diary.] 

HATTECLYFFE, WILLIAM (d. 1480), physician and secretary to Edward IV, was one of the original scholars of King's College, Cambridge, appointed by Henry VI on 12 Feb. 1440 (, Annals of Cambridge, i. 189; cf. Rot. Parl. v. 87). He graduated as a doctor of medicine, and was one of the physicians appointed on 6 April 1454 to attend the king professionally (, Fœdera, orig. ed. xi. 347), and on 12 Nov. was made keeper of the water of Fosse, with 6d. a day (ib. xi. 360). He was exempted from the act of resumption passed in the following year, when he is described as ‘Doctor in Medicyns and Phisicion sworn for the saufte of our person,’ and is stated to have 40l. yearly (Rot. Parl. v. 314). On the accession of Edward IV he transferred his services to that monarch, and in 1464 was exempted from an act of resumption, being then one of the royal physicians (ib. v. 529); he also became one of the royal secretaries—at least, there is little doubt that it was the same William Hatteclyffe—and on 1 Sept. 1464 was sent to treat with Francis, duke of Brittany, for a truce (Fœdera, xi. 531); on 5 Jan. 1468 he was engaged in the negotiations for the marriage of the king's sister, Margaret, to Charles the Bold (ib. xi. 599); and later in the year he is again mentioned as one of the royal physicians (ib. xi. 635). During the short restoration of Henry VI in October 1470 Hatteclyffe was taken prisoner by the Lancastrians, and was in some danger of being put to death (Paston Letters, ii. 412). On Edward's return he was restored to his former position, and was also made master of requests and a royal councillor; he was employed in the negotiations for an alliance with James III of Scotland in August 1471 (Fœdera, xi. 717), for commercial intercourse with Burgundy in March 1472 (ib. xi. 738), and with the German Hanse in December 1472 (ib. xi. 765). A paper of instructions, given to him when going to Utrecht as ambassador to the Hanse, is mentioned by Bernard in the ‘Catalogus MSS. Angliæ’ (MSS. Yelverton, p. 105, No. 5407). In 1473 he once more received exemption from an act of resumption (Rot. Parl. vi. 92), and in March was again negotiating with Burgundy at Brussels (Paston Letters, iii. 88). In December 1474 he went to treat with the Emperor Frederick for an alliance against Louis XI, and in July 1476 was ambassador to Christiern of Denmark 