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where they remain standing as they must have done in the daj's 

 of Constantine) and thirty-eight feet high, enclosing an area half- 

 a-mile in circumfersnce, will psrceive that it had the air of having 

 been constracted at a time when the conquerors of the world 

 were extending and consolidating their dominion in Britain. 

 After the capture of Anlerida by the Saxons under EUa, in the 

 year 490, they occupied such buildings as they found suitable for 

 strongholds, but they built no castle, at least, none of sufficient 

 strength to have survived till our times. We look, therefore, in 

 vain amongst the walls of Pevensey for any trace of Saxon 

 building. Over five hundred years now pass away since Ella's 

 capture of the fortres.s, and then, on the 28tli September, 1066 

 (over seven hundred years ago) William the Conqueror selects 

 Pevensey as the place of his landing. The words of the Bayeux 

 tapestry are " Hero Duke WilHam in a gi-eat ship crossed the sea 

 and came to Pevensey." It is said that he had with him 

 six hundred vessels. " Things falling out according to his wishes, 

 the Duke did not tarry long at Pevensey, but proceeded with his 

 followers to a certain part not far off called Hastings," and on the 

 sixteenth day after his landing at Pevensi'y, namely, on October 

 14th, 1066, he gained his great victory at Battle. In the reign 

 of William Rufus, Odo, the half-brother of the Conqueroi-, and 

 Bishop of Bayeux tied from the vengeance of the King to 

 Pevensey. Ho was here besieged in 1088 for six week.'', and 

 then was only forced to malce terms for sheer want of food. In 

 the twelfth century it was besieged again by King Stephen, and 

 in r2G5 by Simon de Montfort and the barons. Passing by other 

 troubles, we come to tlie year 1399, at which time it was held for 

 Richard II. against a large forc^, assembled from the three 

 counties of Kent, Surrej', and Sussex, and the defence was 

 bravely conducted by Lady Pelham, in the absence of her Lord, 

 who was then away in the north with Henry IV. ^Vithin these 

 Avails Edmund Duke of York, Queen Joan of Xavorre, and 

 King James the First of Scotland, were at various times confined 

 as ]ivisoners. Again omitting much that I had prepared, I must 



