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demefne for Theobalds, with fir Robert Cecil, after¬ 
wards e.arl of Sali(bury. Here are (wo charity-fchools, 
and tw.o Sunday fchools, one for boys, and the other for 
girls. The market day is on Thurfdays ; fairs April 23, 
and Oiffober 18. Near tiffs town are the elegant feats 
of the duke of Leeds, the earl of Salilbury, and lord 
yifeount Melbourne. 
HAT'FIELD BROADOAK, or King’s Hatfield, 
a town in the county of Effex, eight miles from Dunmow, 
and twenty-nine froth London. It is lb called,from its 
tenure under William the (Tonquerpr and his fucceffors, 
and frpm a broad oak growing in the town. The market 
is on Saturdays ; fair on Auguft 5. 
HAT'FIELD, a very pleafant town of the American 
States, in Hampfhire county, Mafiachufetts, fituated on 
the weft bank of a .bend of Connecticut river, where it 
is eighty rods wide, five miles north of Northampton, 
and one hundred weft*of Bofton. It lies chiefly in one 
lireet, and contains 703 inhabitants. Here are two fer¬ 
ries ; the one to Hadley, the pther to Ainherft, North 
of the ferry to Amherft, the river meets with a bed of 
rocks, which leffeiis its breadth twenty or thirty rods; 
no fall, but a large eddyat high water. 
HATH, third perf.fng. of have, v. a. Polfeffeth ; hold- 
eth ; regardeth. 
HATH, a fign of the pajl tenfe , thirdperf. frig, of have, 
v. n. Hath now ; hath indeed. 
HATH'ERLEIGH, or Haph'erley, a town of De- 
vonlhire, diftant 201 miffs from London, twenty-eight 
from Exeter, eighteen from Bideford, and twenty-two 
from Barnftaple. It is feated on a branch of'the river 
Towbridge, near iff cqnflux with the Ock. Its inhabi¬ 
tants are chiefly employed in the woollen manufactory, 
and in agriculture; It has a market every Tuefday and 
Friday; and four annual fairs, viz. May 21, June 22, 
September 4, and November 8. There is alfo a great 
market held on the Friday that happens neareft the 21ft 
of March in every year, at which there is as great a Ihow 
of cattle as at either of the fairs. 
HA'TING, f. The aCt of detefting. 
HA'TITA, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
HAT'LETS,/ In cookery, a dilh of, veal fweet- 
breads, and other ingredients. Phillips. 
H AT'M AKER, f. One whofe trade is to make hats. 
HA'TRED, f. Hate; ill-will; malignity; malevo¬ 
lence; diflike; abhorrence; deteftation; abomination ; 
the paffion contrary to love.— Hatred is the thought of 
the pain which any thing prefent or abfent is apt to pro¬ 
duce in us. Locke.—Hatred has in it the guilt of murder, 
and luft the guilt of adultery. Sherlock. 
HAT'TED, adj. Wearing a hat; formerly (among 
females) the mark of a low condition : - 
It is as eafy way unto a dutchefs, 
As to a hatted dame. Revenger's Tragedy, 
HAT'TEMISTS, in ecclefiaftical hiftory, the name 
of a modern Dutch fed, fo called from Pontian Van 
Hattem, a minifter of the province of Zealand, towards 
the clofe of the 17th century, who being addicted to the 
fentiments of Spinoza, was on that account degraded 
from his paftoral office. The Verfchorifts and Hattemifts 
refemble each other in their religipus fyftems, though 
they never fo entirely agreed as to form one communion. 
The founders of tjh^fe feCts deduced from the doCtrine 
of abfolute decrees a fyftem of fatal and uncontrollable 
neceffity; they denied the difference between moral good 
and evil, and the corruption of human nature: from . 
hence they farther concluded, that mankind were.under 
no fort of obligation to correct their manners, to im¬ 
prove their minds, or to obey the divine laws; that the 
whole of religion confided not in acting, but in fuffer- 
ing ; and that all the precepts of Jefus thrift are redu¬ 
cible to this one, that we bear with cheerfulnefs and 
patience the events that happen to us through the di¬ 
vine will, and make it our conftant and only ftudy to 
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maintain a permanent tranquillity of mind. Thus far 
they agreed ; but the Hattemifts farther affirmed, that 
(Thrift made no expiation for the fins of men by his 
death, but had only fuggefted to us, by his mediation, 
that there was nothing in us that could offend the Deity; 
this, they fay, was (Thrift's manner of juftifying his fer- 
vants, and prefenting them blamfelefs before the tribu'- 
nal of God. It was one of their diftinguiffiing tenets; 
tlvat God does not puniflt men for their fins, but l>y their 
fins.. Thefe two feCts, fays Moftieim, (till fublift, though 
they no longer bear the names of their founders. 
HAT'TEN, a town of the kingdom of Holland, in 
Guelderland, fituated on the Kiel, taken by the French 
in the year 1672, who deftroyed the fortifications: thir¬ 
teen miles north of Deventer, and nine fouth-eaft of 
Cam pen. 
HAT'TEN, a town of France, in the department of 
the Lower Rhine ; feven miles north-eaft of Haguenau. 
HAT'TENHEIM, a town of Germany, in'the circle 
of the Lower Rhine 1 , and electorate of Mentz, fituated 
on the Rhine : twelve miles Weft of Mentz. 
To HAT'TER, v. a. [corrupted from batter ..-] To 
harafs; to weary ; to wear out with fatigue.—He is bat¬ 
ter'd out with penance. Dryden. 
HAT'TER, f. A maker of hats ; a felter. 
HAT'TERAS, a moll remarkable .'and dangerous 
cape on the. coaft of North America. This point ex¬ 
tends far into the ocean, from the coaft of North Caro¬ 
lina, in lat, 35. 15. N. The water is very Ihoal at a 
great diftance from the cape, which'is remarkable for 
fudden fqualls of wind, and for the moft fevere ftorihs 
of thunder, lightning, and rain, which happen almoft 
continually during one half, of the year. At the time of 
fir Walter Raleigh’s approaching this coaft, the ffioals 
in the vicinity of Hatteras were found fo dangerous,' fo 
extenfive, and fo (hallow, many of them covered with 
not more than five or fix feet water, that no veffels, in 
that latitude, ventured within feven leagues of the land. 
At prefent the out-fhoals, which lie about fourteen mile's 
fouth-weft of the cape, are fo much dimiftifhed by the 
hand of time, that they are but of five or fix acres ex¬ 
tent ; and, where they are really dangerous to veffels of 
moderate draught, not above half that extent. Oil the 
ffioaleft part of thefe is about ten feet at low. water; and 
here, at times, the ocean breaks in a moft tremendous 
manner, fpouting, as it were, to the clouds, from the 
violent agitation of the Gulf Stream, which touches the 
eaftern edge of the banks, from which the declivity is 
immenfely deep, that is to fay, from ten fathoms to no 
.foundings. On the fpot above-mentioned, which is firm 
fand, it has been.the lot of many a good veffel to ftrike, 
in a gale of wind, and go to pieces; In moderate wea¬ 
ther, however, thefe flioals may be palfed over, if ne- 
.ceffary, at full tide, without much danger, by veffels 
not drawing more than nine or ten feet water. From this 
bank, formerly of vaft extent, and called the Full Moon 
Shoal, a ridge runs the whole diftance to the cape about 
-a north-weft courfe, is,about half a mile wide, and at 
low water has generally from ten to twelve feet water. 
There are gaps at equal intervals, affording channels of 
about fifteen or fixteen feet water. The moft rioted of 
thefe is about a mile and a half from the land, and is at 
leaftjtwo miles,and a half wide, and, might at full fea be 
fafely palled by the largeft ftiips ; but is rarely uftd'ex¬ 
cept by coafting-veffels. It may be eafily known by a 
range of breakers always feen on the weft fide," and a 
breaker head or two on the eaftern fide ; which, how¬ 
ever, are not fo cohftant, only appearing when the fea 
is confiderably agitated. A little north of the cape is 
good anchoring in five fathoms ; and with the wind to 
the weltward, a boat may land in fafety; and even bring 
oft'calks of freffi water, plenty of which is to be found 
every where 011 the beach, by digging a foot or two, and 
putting a barrel into the land. 
HAT'TERING, f. Wearying; fatiguing. 
FIAT'TERSTORF, 
