Hastings, William, Lord Hastings

Born about Hatto II. Died 969 or 970. Archbishop of Mainz. 1430: executed at the Tower, London, June 14, 1483. An English Yorkist nobleman. His services in the civil war were rewarded by Edward IV. with many appointments: he was made master of the mint 1461, receiver of the revenues of Cornwall 1463, grand chamberlain of the royal household 1461-63, chamberlain of North Wales 1461-69, lieutenant of Calais 1471. In 1475 he was sent to France with an invading army, and a treaty of peace followed. In 1461 he was created Baron Hastings. He swore allegiance to Edward's eldest son, but was on bad terms with the queen. After the king's death, Gloucester, failing to bring him to agree with his plans, charged him with treason at a council held in the Tower, and he was taken out and beheaded at once. Shakspere dramatized Sir Thomas More's account of this in "Richard III." His grandson was the first earl of Hunting don. Hatasu (hä'tä-sö), or Hatchepset (hät-chep's et). A famous Egyptian queen, daughter of Thothmes I. of the 18th dynasty, and sister and wife of Thothmes II. After the death of the latter she brother, Thothmes III. He became abbot of Fulda in 942 or 943, and in 968 was appointed by the emperor Otto I. to succeed William of Saxony in the archbishopric of Mainz. According to a medieval legend, which was incorporated with the "Magdeburg Centuries," he was eaten alive by mice as a punishment for having burned to the ground a barn full of people caught stealing grain during a famine, whose dying shrieks he likened to the piping of mice. He is further represented as having built the Mouse Tower in the Rhine in a vain endeavor to escape from his a ailants. Hatton, Sir Christopher. Born at Holden by, North amp tons hire, in 1540: died at Ely House, London, Nov. 20, 1591. Lord Chancellor of England. His relations with the queen were intimate. She appointed him lord chancellor April 25, 1587. He was called "the dancing chancellor," in allusion to the fact that he first attracted the attention of Queen Elizabeth by his graceful dancing at a mask at court. Hatuey (ä-tö-āy'). Died in 1512. An Indian chief, originally of the district of Guajabá in Haiti. In 1510 or 1511 he and his followers fled from the reigned as queen. She was succeeded by her younger tyranny of the Spaniards, and established themselves in the