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entrufted with Feanchilcs, Soak who barter the inde 
of A fll ace ‘I 
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HAS. @#- 
. HASTATUM, Forrum, in Boteny, a halberd-fhaped: 
leaf, confilting of an oblong centr al lobe, with tranf- 
verfe, oa {maller, lobes at its bafe. See Lra 
HASTE, or Quicken your Hand,*in the Mawes called 
in Freach ie le main, or hatex, hatez, is an expretiion fre< 
iding-matters, when a fcholar 
his hand quicker to the fide on which the horfe works ; fo 
that if the horfe works to the right, he turns quicker wit 
his fhoulders to the right : and the coatrary is obferved, if 
the horfe a to the left. - 
HAS’ 
‘Warre ni fis sigs 
eae: abortive, 
being the broma ‘of Jacquin, 
BROMA; aid the fecond being publifhed by Retzius, 
under the uncouth name Holm/fkioldia, by which we all 
hereafter notice it. ‘Be ee Sm. Exot, Bot. te 80, and Introd. 
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ASTINGS, in Geography, a borough and market-town 
in the hundred of Balditow, ° and rape of. 
= 85 and gery inhabitants. e is 
ne he 
furro i: country. 
it is evident that a cattle was ftanding here, as it is, peticed 
me | illiam Rufus. This caftle, and the original 
fter = pchereone it 
” Differe nt charters have been granted to 
ee mE 
the tow ah a Edward the ss a2 wiies I. and II. ; 
Hen ‘Richard I. ; . Henry 
en: ares the ior fo of pala sontentinny; 3 
country for a difgraceful Sich bones: 
count of the political hiftory of is 
ory ak i pee 
nes. f Boroughs, it vol i iit Ps: 7 oe Co 
ca 
© Aieeke in the rear: and at thes wings. Ny - 
HAS 
ate he town was formerly fortified with a wall, fome fm 
remains of which are yet ftanding. 
the town, are the banks and foffes of an ~eneinipencet, which’ 
fome authors afcribe to t the Romans, a it w as moft pro-' 
build himfelf a wie a cae ei to it. 
was founded in the time of Ru 
chard IT. 
ce and: fecurity 
Elizabeth the pier was hey ed by a ftorm, ~ has never 
finge been reftoreds Sloops and cutters. 
tons sears are the only veflels that put in Bag At the 
weit end of t tade is a a fort, mounted wits onety tw tele 
trawl-fifh 1s annually or near 
the town. Some 
The town has wee 
days, and three annual fair 
kept. The Haitings Guide, 8vo. 
Hastings, 
Englith hiftory, was fought between Wilham, 
mandy, and Harold Il., king of England, om the 14th 
at Pevénféy, on the coaft of ex, on 
for the protection of -his fleet, marclied 
a ings, where the whole: continued to be 
ployed in fortifying an encampment, ¢ 
and m aking other Saar for felf- defence, and for m 
_tary operations. 
adverfary Harold was feated — his army at 
-marched from that city as 
event, and proceeeded, without halting , to the eX Od 
By rapid marches, defertion, &c. his force was confiderably 
diminifhed ; but in {pite of fuch pm wie he very im- 
prudently bod unwiiely refolved to rifk a battle the next 
after his arrival on the downe near i dltinge: Both: 
repared. 
The Engl ith were - 
all on foot, armed with fwords, {pears, and battle-axes ; and ' 
3 in ar : 
ines, and both 
armies were rawr up in r 
for a ftubborn conteft and pihoay iffue. 
formed. themfelves into one deep and compact 
centre. of. which the king, with his brothers Gurth a 
Leofwin, placed them 
Normans formed in. t+ 
p- 204,-and Matthew Paris 2.) a fignal given, the 
fd ade 
t Normans rufhed forward, and saris adhower of arrows - 
Englifh not only fuftained the: 
firtt affault, bat retaliated with equal vigour and. obilinacy, - 
on.their opponents ; .and t 
t ne party 
iibly impelled rae profpedt of gaining a coune- 
.was determined to rifk the 
try,.or life ..thé ot 
latter in. ‘sc of their homes their friends, and. families. - 
= —_ fuperior i . numbers with 
the advantages cavalry, fcite of ground, and vigour” of 
a whole day’s fight, comgletetionte the 
ac 3.C.2. Englih. . 
all’ 
a hill, eaftward ‘of 
o to 100- 
The coaft, being fandy and’ 
‘clean, is favourable for basing, ei feveral machines are 
1797+ 
Bath of, a mem morable event in the annals of ’ 
diike of Nor-- 
The Notman rect had landed his a sg 
horfes, ftores, &c. : 
. the 2oth of September, and eer conitruétin a fort there, . 
‘aGiively em-- 
olleGting meee 
e arrival of William in En ngand, “his : 
ork, but’ 
e was apprifed of the- 
elves with the royal flandard. "The 
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