Family and Education
b. c. 1544 /5, 2nd s. of Henry Hadde (d.1581) of Frinsted, Kent and Catherine, da. of Thomas Wilsford of Lenham, Kent. educ. L. Inn 1568, called 1577. unm. d. 8 Aug. 1617.Vis. Kent (Harl. Soc. xlii), 97-8; Cent. Kent Stud. P151/1/1, f. 29v; LI Admiss.; LI Black Bks. i. 402; Topographer, i. 212. sig. Mathew Hadde.
Offices Held

Reader, Furnival’s Inn c.1583; Readings and Moots at Inns of Ct. II ed. S.E. Thorne and J.H. Baker (Selden Soc. cv), p. civ; J.H. Baker and J.S. Ringrose, Cat. of English Legal Mss in CUL, 124. bencher, L. Inn 1589 – d., reader 1589 – 90, 1597 – 98, marshal, 1589, kpr. of Black Bk. 1594 – 95, 1589 – 90, treas. 1597 – 98, master of the lib. 1609-at least 1614; LI Black Bks. ii. 11, 13, 15, 38, 52, 56, 117, 164, 167. fee’d counsel, Canterbury 1591–1612, Canterbury Cathedral Archives, CC/A3/3, f. 195; CC/FA/22(1), f. 35. Hythe, Kent 1598, E. Kent Archives Cent. H1031, f. 183v. Lydd, Kent, P. Clark, Eng. Prov. Soc. 276, dates of tenure not given. fee’d counsel and recorder (jt.), Sandwich, Kent 1607, W. Boys, Hist. Sandwich (1792), p. 423; Cent. Kent. Stud. Sa/AC/6, f. 355. recorder, Canterbury 1612–d.; Canterbury Cathedral Archives, CC/FA/22(1), ff. 74, 295. steward, Faversham, Kent by 1611, Cent. Kent. Stud. Fa/AC/3, f. 81v; Fa/FAc/197, f. 261r-v. Ct. of Dover by 1616. CSP Dom. 1611–18, pp. 376, 416.

Freeman, Canterbury 1591, Roll of Freemen of City of Canterbury comp. J.M. Cowper, 318. common councilman 1591, Canterbury Cathedral Archives, CC/A3/3, f. 194v. alderman by 1609; Canterbury Cathedral Archives, CC/AA/57. j.p. Kent 1592 – at least1614, Canterbury 1608; Cal. Assize Recs. Kent Indictments, Eliz. I ed. J.S. Cockburn, 338, 492; Cal. Assize Recs. Kent Indictments, Jas. I ed. J.S. Cockburn, 121–2; C181/2, f. 82. commr. sewers, Wittersham levels, Kent and Suss. 1604, C181/1, p. 180. E. Kent 1604–d., C181/1, p. 189; Cent. Kent. Stud. S/EK/SO2, pp. 93, 318. Teynham and Tonge, Kent 1607, Kent and Suss. 1609–d.; C181/2, ff. 45v, 88v, 248. asst. Dover harbour board 1606; J.B. Jones, Annals of Dover, 100. commr. subsidy, Kent and Canterbury 1608, SP14/31/1. aid 1609, SP14/43/107. oyer and terminer, Canterbury 1609, Canterbury Cathedral Archives, CC/AA/57. Sandwich, Kent 1613, C181/2, f. 198v. piracy, Cinque Ports 1612–d., Ibid. ff. 185, 247. charitable uses, Kent 1616. C93/7/7.

Main residences: St. Alphege, Canterbury, Kent; Lincoln's Inn, London.
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HADDE, Matthew (c.1544/5-1617)

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