Overview
Henry Hastings (c. 1561 – 15 October 1650), was an English landowner and country sportsman. He supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War.
Life
Hastings was second son of George Hastings, 4th Earl of Huntingdon. There seems to be some confusion as to his date of birth, which is said to have been 1551 by the Dictionary of National Biography, but is actually around a decade later. He acquired the estate of Puddletown from James I. Through his marriage, he acquired Woodlands Park, near Horton, Dorset, together with other parts of the old estate of the Filiols, where he lived.
Hastings supported the King in the Civil war and in 1645 his estate at Woodlands, valued in 1641 at £300, was sequestered. He later compounded for his property by the sum of £500.
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