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Then there's this from Weekley's Surnames: "Of the Hack- names the most interesting is Hakluyt. The DNB. [Dictionary of National Biography] describes the geographer [Richard Hakluyt] as of a family long established in Herefordshire, probably of Dutch origin. The "Dutch" appears to be suggested by the second syllable. The name means "hack little," ME. lilt, and the founder of the family was probably a woodcutter without enthusiasm [Peter Hakelut, IpM., Heref.]. Walter Hackelute or Hakelut or Hakelutel occurs repeatedly in thirteenth-century records of Hereford and Salop."

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Moreover, under Dolittle, a nickname for an idler, Reaney & Wilson compare an older form Dolute with Hakluyt. Perhaps the latter shouldn't be taken too literally as a 'lazy woodcutter' but simply as a 'do little' in general. In any case, the Welsh etymology seems less and less plausible to me now.

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