32 HISTORY OF HARTING. 



at the Court of St. Germains. It is interesting, too, to 

 see that John's heart of millstone could sometimes do 

 acts of kindness for his followers. As to the dispute 

 between Henry Hussey and the monks of Durford 

 mentioned above, it would seem to have arisen from 

 the neediness of the Monastery, and, in fact, to have 

 been a contention as to the possession of lands. At an 

 early period the monks had much litigation, and 

 thirty-three years after (33rd Henry III.) were cast in 

 a suit at Lewes brought by one Walter, who claimed 

 to continue his tenancy of Upperton.* 



There is a third Henry Hussey at Harting in the 

 reign of Henry III. At this time the narrow old 

 Norman Church in our village seems to have been 

 enlarged into its present Cruciform shape, the round 

 pillars being cut into an octagonal form, and the lance- 

 shaped arches projected. The upper half of a Purbeck 

 marble coffin lid found by Mr. Frank Buckland near 

 the North Porch in 1874, would appear to be of this 

 period. From the fact that there is no ecclesiastical 

 habit about the figure, we may assume it to have 

 belonged to the shrine of the third Henry Hussey, 

 founder of the restored church, but there is no direct 

 evidence of a positive kind. There is a complaint in 



Carta de Dureford, Cotton, MSS., Vespasian E. xxiii., 

 p. 138 : " Abbas et conventus de Dureford capitales dni. de viM 

 de Uptone cum suis ptibuz in manio de Hertingges ex donacione 

 et concessione Prioris St. Lazari de Hertone, et praedictus Prior 

 feofatus fuit per quendam comitem Arundell, priusquam Henricus 

 Huss vel aliquis antecessorum suorum feofati essent de Manerio 

 de Hertinges. Contigit autem quendam de tenentibus mori, 

 nomine Robertum de Upton. Defuncto Domino Roberto prae- 

 dictus Abbas tanquam capitalis dominus intravit et dictam 

 terrain cum suis pertinentibus seysivit et in manu sua retinuit. 

 Deficiente hserede ad dictam terram non ven (ditam) postea 

 venit quidam Walteri nomine asserens se esse filium et haeredem 

 praedicti Robi. et tulit breve more antecessorum v. praedictum 

 Abbatem coram justiciariis factum apud Lewes in com. Sussex 

 Anno r. r. Henrici filii Johannis tricesimo tertio : et conquievit 

 praedictum placitum (anglice, ' gained ye said plea')," &c., &c. 



