Edward Hasted, the author of "The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent" was born in London on the 31st of December 1732, the son of Edward Hasted by his wife Ann of Sutton-at-Hone near Dartford.

His grandfather, Joseph Hasted (1662-1732), had been employed as chief painter in the Royal Navy at Chatham dockyard, but he was also a skilled financier and as such was able to establish an annual income of £1000/~. His son Edward was to become a wealthy barrister, and Edward, his son, was educated at the Kings School, Rochester between 1740-1744. From there he went to Eton College and Esher. After completing his education he begun life following in his father's legal profession, spending a short time as a member of Lincolns Inn.

Edward moved to his parent's home in Sutton-at-Hone and in July 1755 married the daughter of a neighbour, Anne Dorman. They acquired The Knights Hospitaller's manor house of St John's; and it was here that he wrote his magnum opus. He attended the local church regularly and also sat on the West Kent Quarter Sessions bench at Maidstone. The couple had five sons and two daughters. In 1770 they moved to Canterbury where they lived until 1789, by which time his finances were in total confusion, and although he sold of some of his estates, he sank deeper into debt. In 1790 he left his wife Anne and fled to France with another woman.

There he remained until the war with Napoleon drove him back home and into debtor's prison for almost seven years.

Released 1802, he lived in poverty for five years until he was given the Mastership of Lady Hungerford's Almshouse (see Note 1) in Corsham in Wiltshire, by his good friend William Bouverie, who was the Earl of Radnor, having become so in 1765.

Hasted lived in Wiltshire until his death aged 79 in 1812, leaving behind his son, the Reverend Edward Hasted.

The Fugger family or Fuggers was a historically prominent group of European bankers.

The first reference to the Fugger family in the Bavarian Free City of Augsburg is the arrival of Hans Fugger recorded in the tax register of 1357. He married Klara Widolf and became an Augsburg citizen. After Klara's death, he married Elizabeth Gfattermann. He joined the Weaver's Guild, and by 1396 he was ranked high in the list of taxpayers.

His eldest son, Andreas Fugger, was a merchant in the weaving trade, and was nicknamed 'the rich Fugger', buying land and other properties.

Andreas' son, Lucas Fugger, was granted arms by the Emperor Frederick III, a golden deer on a blue background, and he was soon nicknamed 'the Fugger of the Deer'. However, he was too ambitious, and went bankrupt.

Hans Fugger's younger son, Jakob the Elder, founded another branch of the family, This branch progressed more steadily and they became known as the 'Fuggers of the Lily' after their chosen arms of a flowering lily on a gold and blue background. Jakob was a master weaver, a merchant and an alderman, and married Barbara Basinger, the daughter of a goldsmith. His fortune progressed, and by 1461, he was the 12th richest man in Augsburg. He died in 1469.

Jakob's eldest son, Ulrich, took over the business on his father's death, and in 1473 he provided new suits of clothes to Frederick, his son Maximilian I of the Holy Roman Empire and his suite on their journey to Trier to meet Charles the Bold of Burgundy and the betrothal of the young prince to Charles's daughter Maria. This started the very profitable relationship between the Fugger family and the Habsburgs. Ulrich died in 1510.

 
Jakob Fugger, (1459 - 1525) by Albrecht Dürer,Ulrich's youngest brother Jakob Fugger (illustration, right) was born in 1459, and was to become the most famous member of the dynasty. He married Sibylla Artzt in 1498, but they had no children. He was elevated to the nobility of the Holy Roman Empire in May 1511, and in 1519, loaned Charles V 850,000 florins to procure his election as Holy Roman Emperor over Francis I of France. Jakob died in 1525. He is considered to be one of the richest persons of all time and today, he is well known as Jakob Fugger 'the rich'.

Jakob's successor was his nephew Anton Fugger, son of his elder brother Georg. Anton was born in 1493, married Anna Rehlinger, and died in 1560.