A Further Account of the Hacker Family: A Field Detectives' Investigation - Paperbackby Catherine Pincott Allen (Author) In sixteenth and seventeenth century England, the Hacker family were powerful and wealthy people owning substantial amounts of property and land and exerting significant influence throughout Nottinghamshire and the Midlands, in such places as East Bridgford, Colston Bassett, and Stathern, Leicestershire. That all changed in 1660 when Colonel Francis Hacker was executed for the part he played in the regicide of