26 HISTORY OF HARTING. 



In all, the total of male agricultural population is 216. 

 The mention of nine hagae or holdings in Chichester 

 is interesting as connecting our village with that city 

 from the earliest date. Dalloway (xxx. Preliminary) 

 quotes Sir Henry Spelman to the effect that hagae 

 were houses with shops in them, if they stood in a 

 city or borough. " The neighbouring manors held 

 tenements, houses and shops in Chichester and Lewes. 

 The successive state of warfare frequently made it 

 necessary to seek security in a fortified borough." 

 This would explain the statement of Dalton ("English 

 Travel") that " when William the Conqueror landed 

 in England there were only 100 houses in Chichester," 

 and, accordingly, " that Roger de Montgomery made 

 several additions." He would seem to have reserved 

 nine enclosures in Chichester for his vassals in Harting 

 in case of hard times. 



Such was the fair manor of Harting, held by the 

 Montgomeries, as part of the four knight's fees given^ 

 for suit and service of defending Arundel Castle in 

 time of war. It is remarkable that six hundred years 

 after, Sir Edward Ford, lord of Harting, did defend 

 Arundel Castle, but in vain, against Waller and the 

 Parliamentarians. In West Harting to the present 

 day some pasture land, now occupied by Mr. Stub- 

 ington, is called " The Knight's Ham." 



Harting was possessed by Earl Roger during the 

 reigns of William the Conqueror and William Rufus, 

 for a period of 35 years after Domesday. But when 

 Earl Roger's son, Robert Earl of Belesme, in the year 

 1115 (the 6th year of Henry I) headed the English 

 Barons in favour of Count Robert the king's elder 

 brother, who had just returned from the Holy Land 

 to claim the crown, the Montgomeries' lands, and 

 Harting amongst them, were confiscated by Henry. 

 The manor of Harting was thenceforth granted by 

 the crown to a more peaceful and popular family, the 

 Husseys, who held it for 434 years. A.D. 1 1 1 5 1 549. 

 (3rd Ed. vi.) 



