40 HISTORY OF HARTING. 



1345. The neighbourhood of Halting is unquiet at 

 this time. A Patent Roll shows that Edward Prest of 

 Durford has the king's pardon for the death of John 

 Carpenter of Rogate, whom he had killed, not in 

 malice, but in self-defence. The rising value of Sussex 

 iron, which dates from this period, no doubt brought 

 many to the neighbourhood of Durford, where, in con- 

 nection with West Harting Pond, 180 acres of which 

 are said to have been " flowed at pleasure," there were 

 some of the largest iron-works in the county, an un- 

 limited supply of forest wood being available. It is 

 very probable that the village of Rogate sprang up on 

 the banks of the Rother as a home for the workers in 

 the iron foundries. 



1349. Oct. 17. The Dowager Lady Katherine 

 Hussey has an apportionment of her widow's thirds 

 from the Harting estate. Henry Husee, fourth of the 

 dynasty of that name, has died in Harting, leaving his 

 son, another Henry, his heir. The assessors are Sic 

 John de Bohun (Midhurst), John Haket, Ed. Tren- 

 chaunt, Geoffrey de Sedes, John Emmori, John Tille, 

 Tho. Husee, Joseph Atte Burgge, and others. 



[Document No. I.] 

 Harting Place. 



The widow receives the third of a capital messuage 

 or mansion at Harting, viz. : All chambers at the west 

 gate and extending beyond it, except the prison or 

 dungeon (domus prisone), which is reserved to Hen. 

 Husee, the heir. The third of 2 dovecots with houses 

 annexed to one of them. A bakehouse and kitchen 

 for use of cooking, baking, and brewing, untill the said 

 Henry shall have built her at his own costs a suitable 

 house for the said offices at the west gate. A house 

 between the great and little barn (grange) called the 

 " Chaff-hous " (Chaff-house) ; a little house called the 

 " Carterestable " (Carter's stable) ; a little house near 



