Haute was already living in Canterbury when, in the spring of 1389, he acquired two messuages in the city. He is mentioned in 1396 as also having a tenement in Mead Lane, in St. Peter’s parish. A draper, he was assessed for alnage on cloth sold in Kent in 1394-5.
In his will, which was brought for enrolment to the city court in August 1410, Haute instructed his executors to make a settlement of his property in Canterbury on his widow for life, with reversion to her child should she prove to be pregnant and if the child lived to maturity; otherwise the property was to be sold to provide religious services for the souls of the testator, his first wife and his parents.