238 8LINGSBY. 



The monument of the cross-legged knight still 

 remains, near the altar rails, though in a very di- 

 lapidated state, both the legs being broken off, and 

 the talbot at his feet removed. On entering the 

 chancel, there is a large flag of stone, and on it a 

 brass plate, with an inscription in old characters, 

 but so much worn away as to have become illegible. 

 From its situation, and the number of lines, it ap- 



use the word maunche instead of it, to denote an old 

 fashioned sleeve of a coat, with long hangers to it. It is 

 thepaternal coat of arms for the name of Hastings. 



Vide Porny's Elements of Heraldry. 



Simple as these arms may appear, yet they were the 

 occasion of a long and memorable war between two 

 branches of the Hastings, Earl of Pembroke. " The 

 right of bearing arms" observes Sir William Dugdale, 

 was in those days of such esteem, that the contest for 

 those of Hastings (viz. or, a manche, g-ules,) betwixt 

 Reginald Lord Grey of Ruthyu, and Edward Hastings, 

 lasted little le^s than 20 years, in the court military, be- 

 fore the constable and marshal of England. Wherein 

 after much money spent, Edward Hastings, who so chal- 

 lenged them as heir male of the family, was not only 

 condemned in ^970 17s lOd. and costs, (Grey swearing 

 that he had spent a thousand marks more,) and the arms 

 adjudged to Grey, but imprisoned 16 years for disobey- 

 ing that sentence." 



Vide Dugdale's Baronetage. I p. 578. 



From the anecdote related by Comines, relative to 

 Lord Hastings' mode of receiving the French king IN im 

 SLEEVE, one might almost be tempted to suppose that the 

 family arms had originated from that transaction, had not 

 the same arms been borne also by the elder branch of the 

 Hastings. This noble Lord certainly displayed more 

 worldly wisdom than his noble relative, by making his 

 manche, or sleeve, the receptacle of 2,000 crowns per 

 annum ; rather than the cause of a contest of 20 years, 

 immense pecuniary losses, and 1G years' imprisonment. 

 Different men have different tastes, 



Vide account of the castle. 



