364 Bradford-on-Avon. | Old Families & W orthies. 
Str Tuomas Hatt, Knt. son of the last-named John Hall, married 
Catharine daughter of Sir Edward Seymour, Bart., great-grandson 
of the Protector Somerset. Faithful to the cause of his King 
and master Charles I., Sir Thomas was, with many other 
Wiltshire gentlemen, compelled when the Parliament triumphed 
to compound for his estates, and was, in 1649, fined £660.! (See 
p- 47). He lived to see the ultimate success of the cause for which 
he suffered. The old Royalist died in 1663, at the advanced age 
of eighty-one years. 
His son,—Joun Hatt,—the last male representative of his family, 
was an active magistrate in this town and neighbourhood. His 
name, together with that of his brother-in-law Thomas Thynne,— 
called, from his presumed wealth, ‘‘ Tom of Ten Thousand,”—oc- 
curs very frequently in legal and other documents of his period. 
His wife was Elizabeth, second daughter of Sir Thomas Thynne, 
of Longleat, the ancestor of the noble family of ‘ Bath.’ He seems 
to have added largely to his patrimony by the purchase of other 
estates. From Sir Edward Hungerford, of Farleigh Castle, he 
bought, in 1665, the Storridge Pastures, part of the Brooke House 
estate, near Westbury; and from Sir John Hanham (who had 
become possessed of it in right of his wife, a daughter of Sir 
William Eyre) he purchased the Manor and Advowson of Great 
Chaldfield. He seems to have exercised the right of presentation 
to the last named living in 1678,—1689,—and 1707. 
Towards the close of his life, John Hall built the Alms-houses 
for four old men, of which we have spoken in an account of the 
‘ Charities of Bradford-on-Avon.’ ‘In front of them, cut in stone, 
are still to be seen the arms and crest of ‘ Hall.’ Underneath the 
shield is the date ‘a.p. 1700’ and the inscription ‘Deo et pauperibus.’ 
He was the last of his family, and died in 1711. According to 
some authorities, he left one daughter, Elizabeth, who became the 
wife of Thomas Baynton, Esq., of Chaldfield. The issue of that 
marriage, Rachel, was the inheritor of John Hall’s large estates. 
Walker, in his history of Great Chaldfield, gives, on the authority 
' Wilts Archeological Magazine, iv. 150. 
