=Hatto=, archbishop of Mentz, was devoured by mice in the Mouse-tower, situated in a little green island in the midst of the Rhine, near the town of Bingen. Some say he was eaten of rats, and Southey, in his ballad called _God’s Judgment on a_ _Wicked Bishop_, has adopted the latter tradition. This Hatto, in the time of the great famine of 914, when he saw the poor exceedingly oppressed by famine, assembled a great company of them together into a barne at Kaub, and burnt them ... because he thought the famine would sooner cease if those poor folks were despatched out of the world, for like mice they only devour food, and are of no good whatsoever.... But God ... sent against him a plague of mice, ... and the prelate retreated to a tower in the Rhine as a sanctuary; ... but the mice chased him continually, ... and at last he was most miserably devoured by those sillie creatures.—Coryat, _Crudities_, 571, 572. ⁂ Giraldus Cambrensis, in his _Itinerary_, xi. 2, says: “the larger sort of mice are called _rati_.” This may account for the substitution of rats for mice in the legend. The legend of Hatto is very common, as the following stories will prove:— _Widerolf_, bishop of Strasburg (997), was devoured by mice in the seventeenth year of his episcopate, because he suppressed the convent of Seltzen, on the Rhine. _Bishop Adolf_, of Cologne, was devoured by mice or rats in 112. _Freiherr von Güttingen_ collected the poor in a great barn, and burnt them to death, mocking their cries of agony. He, like Hatto, was invaded by mice, ran to his castle of Güttingen, in the lake of Constance, whither the vermin pursued him, and ate him alive. The Swiss legend says the castle sank in the lake, and may still be seen. Freiherr von Güttingen had three castles, one of which was Moosburg. _Count Graaf_, in order to enrich himself, bought up all the corn. One year a sad famine prevailed, and the count expected to reap a rich harvest by his speculation; but an army of rats, pressed by hunger, invaded his barns, and, swarming into his Rhine tower, fell on the old baron, worried him to death, and then devoured him.—_Legends of the Rhine_. A similar story is told by William of Malmesbury, _History_, ii. 313 (Bohn’s edit.). ⁂ Some of the legends state that the “mice” were in reality “the souls of the murdered people.” =Hatton= (_Sir Christopher_), “the dancing chancellor.” He first attracted the attention of Queen Elizabeth by his graceful dancing at a masque. He was made by her chancellor and knight of the Garter. ⁂ M. de Lauzun, the favorite of Louis XVI., owed his fortune also to the manner in which he danced in the king’s quadrille. You’ll know Sir Christopher by his turning out his toes,—famous, you know, for his dancing.—Sheridan, _The Critic_, ii. 1 (1779). =Hautlieu= (_Sir Artavan de_), in the introduction of Sir W. Scott’s _Count Robert of Paris_ (time, Rufus).