HISTORY OF HARTING. 3! 



involving extensive work, brought the lords of Harting 

 into the hands of the Jews, the usual bankers of those 

 days, by whose money Cathedral and Castle alike 

 throughout England were built or rebuilt. On the 

 other hand, Henry Hussey's claim on King John 

 would doubtless arise from services to be rendered to 

 the king in his unfortunate Norman war, the order 

 being dated from Normandy. King John assembled 

 his forces for Normandy in this immediate neighbour- 

 hood, and, in fact, they embarked from Portsmouth. 

 The king having stopped the mouths of the voracious 

 Jews, Henry Hussey set out on his foreign service, but 

 never returned alive. He would seem to have died in 

 the French war, probably after the disaster on the 

 heights of Les Andelys. 



Hayley (Collections of MSS., Sussex II., p. 601, 

 Add 1 - 6344, B. M.) has the following entry : " In the 

 I3th of John (1212, the fatal year of John's dethrone- 

 ment), Hugh Hose brought to Matthew, Abbott of 

 Durford, ye Testament or device of Henry Hose, his 

 brother, who, with tears and grief of heart at his death, 

 repented that he had disquieted the Monastery, and 

 with tears also begged their pardon, and earnestly 

 besought his heirs that they should permit the monks 

 to hold their lands in peace, whereof discord had been 

 beforetime with them ; of this device the said Hugh 

 was a most faithful witness, having the said device of 

 his brother sealed with the scale of Jocelin, the queen's 

 brother, who, by the king's command, brought the body 

 of the said Henry into this land, and ye said Jocelin had 

 the device sealed." This extract shows the special 

 regard for the lord of Harting shown by John and his 

 family, and taken in connexion with the Norman Roll 

 above cited, would tend to show that Henry Hussey 

 was in some office of constant attendance and close 

 personal relationship to the king, much as in after 

 years another lord of Harting, the Secretary, John 

 Caryll, enjoyed the friendship of the exiled James II. 



