RELIGIOUS HOUSES 



of the chapel had lately been rebuilt, but the 

 houses below the castle called ' Godelond,' used 

 by the dean and canons resident, were ruined, and 

 almost uninhabitable. Recent deans had mostly 

 been non-resident, and had allowed many rents 

 and annual payments to be withdrawn from the 

 college to its great loss. 132 At last, in 1447, its 

 privileged position as a royal free chapel was lost, 

 Henry VI in that year granting that the colle- 

 giate church of Hastings, with its deanery and 

 prebends, which he had given with the castle 

 to Sir Thomas Hoo, should be exempt from 

 visitation by the king or any other person except 

 the bishop of Chichesterand his official. 133 This 

 arrangement was confirmed, in 1460, by an 

 agreement between Sir William Hastings, then 

 lord of the honour of Hastings, and the bishop, 

 by which the college was declared to be entirely 

 subject to the jurisdiction of the bishop. 134 



It survived the dissolution of 1536-8, but fell 

 under the Act suppressing colleges, &c., in the 

 last year of Henry VIII, and was granted by the 

 king to Sir Anthony Browne, of Battle and 

 Cowdray, and Elizabeth his wife. 138 



DEANS OF THE COLLEGE OF HASTINGS 



Hugh, early twelfth century 136 

 Henry de Ow, occurs 1 195 lb7 

 Vincent, before ia8o 138 

 Giles de Audenard, appointed 1302 139 

 William de Lewes, intruded 1305 14 

 Edmund de London, occurs I3I9, 141 1322 142 

 Walter de Lyndrigge, appointed I337, 143 re- 

 signed 1339 144 



Geoffrey de Clare, appointed 1340 145 

 John Wade, appointed I342, 146 occurs 1347 l47 

 John de Codington, occurs I36i, 148 1366 149 

 Robert Leggatt, 1369 15 

 William de Grysell, exchanged I374 151 

 John de Hardlestone, appointed I374, 162 re- 

 signed I383 163 



John Eyr, appointed I383, 164 exchanged 



1389 16 ' 



131 Chanc. Misc. bdle. 20, file I, No. 1 1. 



133 Chart. R. 26 Hen. VI, No. 38. 



134 Chich. Epis. Reg. Story, fol. 51. 



135 Pat. 38 Hen. VIII, pt. 13, m. i r. 

 136 Anct. D., D 1073. 



137 Cal. Robertsbridge Chart. No. 24. 



138 Chart. R. 9 Edw. I, m. 7. 



139 Pat. 30 Edw. I, m. 15. 



140 Pat. 33 Edw. I, pt. ii, m. 2. 



141 Chanc. Misc. R. jg. 



141 Pat. I 5 Edw. Ill, pt. iii, m. 9 d. 



143 Pat. ii Edw. Ill, pt. iii, m. 22. 



144 Close 13 Edw. Ill, pt. iii, m. 22 d. 



145 Pat. 14 Edw. Ill, pt. i, m. 30. 

 116 Pat. 1 6 Edw. Ill, pt. i, m. 30. 



Hr Cal. Papal Pet. i, 1 27. I4S Ibid. 363. 



149 Cant. Archiepis. Reg. Langham, fol. 39. 



150 Suss. Arch. Coll. xiii, 1 54. UI Ibid. "' Ibid. 

 153 Pat. 7 Ric. II, pt. i, m. 45. M Ibid. 

 155 Pat. 1 3 Ric. II, pt. i, m. 9. 



John Notyngham, appointed 1389 166 



Richard Clyfford, resigned I398 157 



Gilbert de Stone, appointed I398, 168 exchanged 

 1 40 1 159 



John Gamull, appointed 1401 16 



Henry Rumworth, appointed I4o8, 161 ex- 

 changed 1411 162 



William Hawe, appointed 1411 163 



William Tanfield, 141 5 1M 



William Prestwick, appointed I423, 1S5 died 

 i 43 6" 6 



John Kingscote, 1458 187 



John Carpenter, I46o 168 



John Fowkes 169 



Benedict Burgh, resigned 1480 17 



John Pensell, appointed I48o 171 



Richard Brokysby, or Roksbye, occurs I535 172 



The seal used in 1195 was oval (3 in. long), 

 the Virgin seated holding a model of a church 

 in her right hand and a slip of lily in her left. 173 

 Legend : 



SIGILLUM ECCLIE SCE MARIE DE HASTINGES 



A deed of about 1230 has a seal; oval (i^in.) 

 Virgin and child under a canopy. 174 Legend : 



S DECANI 



MARIE DE HASTINGE 



There is also a fragment of a seal of 1334 

 showing a robed figure, seated, in profile. 175 



59. THE COLLEGE OF SOUTH 

 MALLING 176 



Aldulf, prince or duke of the South Saxons, 

 about the year 765, gave lands in Stanmer, 

 Lindfield, and Burleigh for the endowment of a 

 monastery in honour of God and St. Michael, 

 which he had apparently already established at 

 Mailing. 177 He was therefore commemorated in 

 the list of benefactors as the first founder of 

 the college. 178 The manor of Mailing was 



156 Ibid. 



157 Chich. Epis. Reg. Reade, fol. 69. 



158 Ibid. 



149 Pat. 2 Hen. IV~pt- " m - 9- ' 6 Ibid - 



161 Chich. Epis. Reg. Reade, fol. 125. 

 16J Ibid. fol. 147. * Ibid. 



161 Suss. Arch. Coll. xiii, 154. 



165 Acts ofP.C. iii, 20. 



166 Brass in Warbleton church. 



167 Suss. Arch. Coll. xiii, 154. M Ibid. 



169 Ibid.; presumably the same as 'Master Foxe, 

 dean of Hastings,' in 1461 ; Hist. MSS. Com. Rep. v, 

 542. 



170 Chich. Epis. Reg. Story, pt. ii, fol. 15. '" Ibid. 



171 Vakr Eccl. (Rec. Com.), ii, 344. 

 178 Cal. Robertsbridge Chart. No. 24. 



174 Ibid. No. 187. 1?s Ibid. No. 262. 



176 Suss. Arch. Coll. v, 127-42 ; xxi, 159-90. 



177 Cart. Sax. No. 197. 



178 Sw. Arch. Coll. v, 129. 



117 



