34 HISTORY OF HARTING. 



It is pretty certain that Hen. III. passed through 

 Halting also once more, in his old age, 44 years after- 

 wards, in 1269 on the 7th and 8th of August, on his 

 way from Guildford to Chichester, probably on a beg- 

 ging expedition. At this time the king's lieges were 

 glad enough to hear of him being anywhere else in 

 his dominions than at their own doors, for he always 

 proclaimed himself the poorest man in the realm, and 

 levied black-mail. In 1269 the king would be enter- 

 tained by the monks of Durford. Henry Hussey had 

 been in disgrace. Four years before this (1264) he 

 had taken the popular side under Simon de Montfort 

 at the battle of Lewes,* and was " in arms against the 

 king." The treason, however, was soon forgiven, for 

 Henry Ill's disposition was facile ; and, according to 

 Professor Stubbs, " his heart was of wax." Probably 

 too, the loyal death of the former lord of Harting was 

 not forgotten. In the fiftieth year of Hen. III. (the 

 year following the battle of Lewes, 1265), the kmg 

 granted permission to Henry Huse and his heirs " to 

 build a house, enclose it with a ditch and stone wall, 

 fortify and crenelate or embattle it, wherever they 

 please in the manor of Harting." f Thus Harting 

 Place, or the Park of Tullecombe, as it was also 

 called,:}: was rebuilt, fortified with battlements, and 



de Bernevall and his brother Thorn. Templar, are to be restored 

 with their cargoes. 



II. Concerning the Forest of Axiholt. The king's lieges of 

 Aulton (Alton) to have their full pasture rights, secured from 

 trespassers in the forest. 



c Burrell MSS. Some land in Harting was called " Mount- 

 fort" (vide survey of Harting, 1349), probably in remembrance 

 of the Victory of Lewes. 



f Close Roll. 50 Hen. III. 



J Close 6 Ed. III. Hen. Husee and Isabella held a Park 

 in Harting called Tullecombe, belonging to the manor of Har- 

 ting 'with a water mill in the said park. (Probably at Dn. 

 Park.) 



