[Illustration] Hasted gives no detailed pedigree of this family
before the purchase of the manor and estate of Hatch, by Richard
Knatchbull, in the reign of Henry VII. It appears however that the
first recorded ancestor, John Knatchbull, held lands in the parish
of Limne, in this county, in the reign of Edward III., where some of
the name remained in that of Charles I. There are pedigrees in the
Visitations of Kent of 1574 and 1619.
See Philpot's Kent, p.199; Hasted's Kent, iii. 286; and Wotton's
Baronetage, ii. 228.
ARMS.--_Azure, three cross-crosslets fitchée in bend or, cotised of
the same_.
Present Representative, Sir Norton Joseph Knatchbull, 10th
Baronet.