a protector of the liberties and the possessions of the monastery (cf. Hist. Dunelm. Script. tres, App. cxv. p. cxxxv) as he was of the privileges of his see (Chambre, p. 137). The relations between the dioceses of Durham and York were frequently troubled in consequence of the assertion by the Archbishop of York of prerogatives which his suffragan was indisposed to allow in practice; and during Hatfield's pontificate the bishop himself was credited with active hostility against his superior. When on 13 Feb. 1348–9 two of his clerks committed a disgraceful outrage in York minster, Archbishop Zouch stated that it was believed (if the reading of the text is right) to be with the bishop's consent and connivance (Letters from Northern Registers, pp. 397–9); and in 1357–8 Hatfield had to obtain a formal acquittance (March 10) from the king of any complicity in an attack which it was asserted he had made in person with a body of armed men upon Thomas Salkeld, bishop of Chrysopolis, who was acting as suffragan to the archbishop (see Stubbs, Reg. Sacr. Anglic. 143 f.) at Kexby, in the immediate neighbourhood of York (Rymer, iii. pt. i. 389). In 1374 Alexander Nevill, archdeacon of Durham, was made archbishop, and it was Hatfield who delivered him the pall and consecrated him (Registr. Palat. Dunelm. iii. 524–7); but in spite of the local and personal connection Nevill affronted the Bishop of Durham by attempting to conduct visitations within his diocese. He was restrained by a royal order of 17 July 1376 (Hist. Dunelm. Script. tres, App. cxxvi. pp. cxliii f.), but the injunction had to be repeated on 27 Dec. 1377 (Wilkins, Concilia, iii. 124).
Hatfield's munificence has its record in his buildings at Durham, where he erected part of the south side of the choir of the cathedral, including the bishop's throne, and restored and added to the castle (Chambre, pp. 137 f.), the hall of which is mainly his work (Greenwell, pref. to Bishop Hatfield's Survey, p. vi). He also built a manorhouse and chapel in London (Chambre, p. 138), and founded a Carmelite house at Northallerton (Godwin, ii. 330). In Oxford he was a benefactor of the college which had existed for the use of monks from Durham since the last years of the thirteenth century, and whose buildings stood on the site of the present Trinity College. The scheme which Bishop Richard of Bury had drawn out for the foundation of a regularly established college was elaborated by his successor, who provided for the maintenance of eight monks and eight secular students. The foundation, however, was not completed until after Hatfield's death (see Chambre, pp. 138, 140, and H. C. Maxwell Lyte, Hist. of the Univ. of Oxford, 1886, pp. 105, 159). As other evidence of the bishop's wealth it may be noted that he lent King Edward two thousand marks in or before 1370 (Rymer, iii. pt. ii. 893, 901), and that according to his will he lent Alice Perrers one thousand marks (Testamenta Eboracensia, Surtees Society, 1836, p. 121). In this will he also made bequests, among others, to his godson, Thomas of Woodstock, and to his nephew, John Popham. But most of his gifts were made during his lifetime. There is an inventory of his goods in the first volume of ‘Wills and Inventories of the Northern Counties’ (Surtees Society, 1835), pp. 36–8; and other particulars of his bequests and endowments will be found in the Appendix cxxxii. to the ‘Hist. Dunelm. Script. tres,’ pp. cxlix ff. A survey of the possessions of the see of Durham, made by Hatfield's direction, and apparently completed about 1382, is also published. The bishop's register, which is preserved at Durham, is said by Mr. Raine to be of small general interest, consisting mainly of the ‘formal record of the working of the diocese’ (Letters from Northern Registers, Pref. p. x).
[Life by William de Chambre in Hist. Dunelm. Scriptores tres, ed. J. Raine (Surtees Soc., 1839), with appendix of documents; Historical Papers and Letters from the Northern Registers, ed. J. Raine (Rolls Ser.), 1873; Bishop Hatfield's Survey, ed. W. Greenwell (Surtees Soc., 1857); Adæ Murimuth Contin. Chronicarum et Rob. de Avesbury de Gestis Mirab. Edw. III, ed. E. Maunde Thompson (Rolls Ser.), 1889; Galfridi le Baker de Swynbroke Chron. ed. E. M. Thompson, Oxford, 1889; F. Godwin, De Præsulibus, ed. Richardson, 1743; other sources cited above.]
HATHAWAY, RICHARD (fl. 1702), impostor, was a blacksmith's apprentice of Southwark. In February 1700 he gave out that he was bewitched by an old woman named Sarah Morduck, the wife of a waterman, and that, as an effect of her sorcery, he vomited nails and pins, was unable to eat, speak, or open his eyes, and was otherwise strangely affected. His only remedy was to scratch Morduck until she bled, when he recovered for a time. He prepared a narrative of his case, but the printer to whom he took the copy refused to have anything to do with it. Morduck, the reputed witch, was brutally ill-used. She left Southwark, but Hathaway, accompanied by a mob, followed her to her new lodgings in the city of London in the spring of 1701, and created an uproar. He was carried before an alderman, who credited his story, committed Morduck to prison, and subjected her to gross
