The Hakluyt pedigrees are confused and fragmentary and no definite identification of this Member has been made. The best known man of this name, seated at Eton Gamage, Herefordshire, who was aged about 26 in 1559, had property in Leominster, but it is more likely that the 1559 Member was a relative, the father or half-brother of the Eleanor Hakluyt who married Thomas Coningsby I, his colleague for Leominster in 1559.
The only reference to Hakluyt of Eyton in the Leominster records concerns a £4 fine which he was ordered to pay in 1563, and again the following year, for not throwing open a common in Lammas Fields. About 1570 he was involved in ‘divers riotous proceedings’ during which he forcibly expelled John Adams, who claimed to be deputy steward of Leominster, and held the manor court himself. Adams complained to the Privy Council: no result of his petition has been found.
The date of Hakluyt’s death is unknown. The nuncupative will proved in April 1596 is that of the other Thomas.