HISTORY OF HARTING. 35 



also made formidable with the terror of a prison or 

 dungeon forty-seven years even before Petworth itself, 

 for Henry de Percy was licensed to embattle Petworth 

 only in the second year of Edward II. (Pat. II. 

 Ed. II.) 



The first mention of Rogate is in the last year but 

 four of Hen. III., when Henry Huse and Robert de 

 Rogate have the grant of a fair at Rogate on the eve- 

 day and morrow of St. Bartholomew, patron saint of 

 the church. (Charter 52, Hen. III.) Mr. Lower thinks 

 that Rogate was anciently North Harting, the com- 

 pliment of the divisions of South, East and West 

 Harting. But I have never been able to meet with 

 any document containing the name of " North Har- 

 ting " ; and, at least as early as the reign of Henry 

 III, Rogate appears in its proper name, and gives the 

 usual local surname to one of its sons, Robert de 

 Rogate. We may therefore suppose that Rogate was 

 the usual and well ascertained name of our good neigh- 

 bour on the north long before the reign of Hen. III. 

 But though Rogate was never called "North Harting," 

 there is abundant evidence that it was included in 

 Harting Parish originally. Harting extended to Har- 

 ting Combe, and so late as Mary Stuart's reign, the 

 living of Rogate is called the living of Harting, and 

 said to be in the king's gift. Also there was a like 

 confusion with regard to the manors of Durford and 

 Rogate, which in King Henry the Eight's reign were 

 given to Lord Fitzwilliam, grantee of Durford Monas- 

 tery, at its dissolution, and are called the " Manor of 

 Hartinge and Rogate." 



Rogate was the rib taken out of the side of the 

 Adam of Harting, and subsequent history will show 

 that it was an iron rib, too. 



There had been a very ancient grant (temp. Hen. 

 II.) to the lords of Harting of two fairs and a market 

 at Harting. The Rev. D. Morgan writes (Burrell MSS.) 

 Ap. 28, 1 777, " The fairs are held the first Wednesday 



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