HISTORY OF HARTING. 21 



(Saxon for Hart) I have not actually met with as the 

 name of a person, but it seems a very probable one. 

 Ulf, Wulf (Wolf) and Wulfingas I have met with ; the 

 first two of which are of course the same as a man's 

 name ; the second occurs in. the sense of the ' de- 

 scendants or kindred of Wulf.' If Heort were the 

 name of some original Saxon invader, some comrade 

 of ALlle and Cissa, then the Heortingas would mean 

 the kindred of Heort (the Saxons fought in Maeg^e or 

 clans, like the Highlanders), and the lands assigned to 

 them after the conquest of Sussex, where Harting now 

 stands, would naturally come to bear their name. 

 Or, possibly, there may already have been a Maegfte or 

 clan of Heortingas in Germany before the invasion 

 took place, and the whole, or a portion of them, took 

 part in the conquest, and gave their name to the lands 

 assigned to them." 



In the time of Edward the Confessor Harting is said 

 to have been returned as 80 hides of land, each hide 

 being sufficient for the maintenance of a family. 

 (Gibbon, quoted by Horsfield, I., 64.) 



In A.D. 970, during the long and peaceful reign of 

 King Edgar, under Dunstan's primacy, Harting appears 

 to have been Church land. 



Both for security and order the old missionary 

 Bishops seem to have had a regular chain of posts 

 from their Sees, much after the plan of Roman 

 military stations, at certain intervals of their road. 

 These were used as inns and mansions for rest and 

 refreshment, as well as for the refuge of the distressed, 

 and security from the Danes, the still pagan Saxons, or 

 the lawless freebooters of the Weald. Thus there was 

 a regular chain from Canterbury to Mayfield in Sussex, 

 where St. Dunstan built a wooden church; and, indeed, 

 all the way to Land's End the peculiars of Canterbury, 

 about 20 miles apart, extended. By degrees at these 

 Church centres were built churches and palaces, and 

 the work of civilization and husbandry began. It is 



