360 Bradford-on- Avon. { Old Families & Worthies. 
Manor, are those which seem more especially to belong to us. 
Regarding the latter as the representative of the ‘Cam’ family, 
one of the co-heiresses of which married the late Sir Benjamin 
Hobhouse, Bart., we have, in the two noble lords who bear these 
titles, the memorial, to us at least, of that untiring energy and brave 
spirit of commercial enterprise which raised our town to such a 
height of prosperity during the eighteenth century. 
We proceed to give a few details of some of the principal fami- 
lies that from time to time have lived in Bradford-on-Avon. With 
reference to one of them, viz., the ‘Horton family,’ we have in 
previous pages already more than once given information, and this 
it is not worth while to repeat. They belonged to other parishes 
no less than to our own, and a full account of them is furnished in 
the paper on Broughton Gifford, in the present number of this 
Magazine (pp. 312-324). We propose to add to our sketch of 
Bradford families, an account of one or two ‘Worthies,’ whose 
names would not otherwise occur. 
Tue “ Hatt” Famiry. 
This is the oldest family connected with Bradford-on-Avon of 
which we have anything like a detailed account. Allusion has 
been already frequently made to various members of it, and, in an 
early number of this Magazine, in a paper by Canon Jackson, on 
‘Kingston House,’ a mansion built most probably by John Hall, 
the head of the family at the commencement of the eighteenth 
century, much information is supplied on this subject. All that 
we need attempt, therefore, is a brief summary of their history, 
adding what supplemental matter we have been able to glean 
from subsequent research. 
The earliest deed that has yet been met with, relating to the 
‘Hall’ family, is one which bears date in the reign of Henry III. 
(see p. 81). Its contents imply, that, for some time previously to 
that period, the family had belonged to the class of wealthy gentry. 
The Herald’s Visitations carry back the pedigree only to 
Thomas “Halle”or De la Sale” who lived at the close of the 
fourteenth century. More than a hundred years, however, before 
