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Thefe rites perform’d, the prince, without delay, 
Hajles to the nether world, his deftin’d way. Dryden. 
Soon as the fun awakes, the fp rightly court 
Leave their repofe, and hajlcn to the fport. Prior. 
To HASTE, or Hasten, v. a. To pufli forward; 
to urge on; to precipitate; to drive a fvvifter pace : 
All hopes of fuccour froni your arms, are part ; 
To fave us now you mud our ruin kafle. Dryden. 
Each fees his lamp with different luftre crown’d : 
Each knows his courfe with different periods bound; 
And in his paflage through the liquid fpace, 
Nor kajiens , nor retards, his neighbour’s race. Prior. 
HAS'TEEN’s GROUND, rocks in the Cattagat: 
about twelve miles north from the Idand of Zealand. 
Lat.56. n.N. Ion. 11.45. E. Greenwich. 
HASTENBECK', a town of Germany, in Lower Sax¬ 
ony, and principality of Calenberg, near which the 
French, under the command of the Marechal d’Eftrees, 
gained a victory over the duke of Cumberland, in 1757 : 
five miles fouth-eaft of Hameln. 
HA'STENER, f. One that haftens or hurries. 
HA'S'J'ENING, and HA'STING, /. The a ft of mak¬ 
ing hafte. 
HAS'TILUDE,/. \_hajia , a fpear, and ludo , to play.] 
Spear play ; a bout at tilt or tournament. 
HA'STILY, adv. In a hurry; fpeedily;. nimbly; 
quickly: 
A voice that called loud and clear, 
Cornel hither, hither, O come haJULyl Spenfer. 
Ruftily ; precipitately.—Without confidering confe¬ 
rences, we haflily engaged in a war which hath coft us 
fixty millions. Swift. —Paffionately ; with vehemence. 
HA'STINESS,/. Hade; fpeed. Hurry; precipita¬ 
tion.—A fellow being out of breath, or leeming to be 
for hade, with humble hajiinefs told Badlius. Sidney .— 
Radi eagernefs.—There is mod jud caufe to fear, led 
our hajiinefs to embrace a thing of fo perilous confe-. 
quence, Ihould caufe poderity to feel thofe evils. Hooker. 
■—Angry tedinefs ; paflionate vehemence. 
HASTIN'GIA,/. in botany. See Abroma. 
HA'STINGS, f. [from haJly.-\ A kind of apple; a 
kind of early peafe. 
HA'STINGS, a fea-port town in the county of Suflex, 
the chief of the cinque-ports; and fends two members 
to parliament. Its didance from London is fixty-four 
miles; from Rye, ten; Ead Bourne, eighteen; Win- 
chelfea, feven; and Brighthelmlfone, forty. It is go¬ 
verned by a mayor, twelve jurats, and an indefinite num¬ 
ber of freemen. William, the Conqueror marched to 
this place with his army, immediately after landing at 
Pevenfey, and by him it was made one of the five ports, 
as lord Coke, in the fourth part of his Inditutes, affirms. 
After the conqued, the port of Hadings feems to have 
been made the common paflage from England to Nor¬ 
mandy ; for Matthew de Hadings held tire manor of 
Grenocle, in this county, of the king, by the fervice of 
finding an oar whenever the king palled over the fea at 
the haven of Hadings. The editor of the Saxon Chro¬ 
nicle dates that a Danifh pirate, Hadingus, who ufed to 
land here on his plundering expeditions, gave name to the 
place; and being accudomed to build fmall cadles wher¬ 
ever he went for thefe purpofes, it is highly probable 
that the prefent cafile was built on the fite of one of his 
rude fortrefles. It dands on a deep cliff above the fea : 
no part is entire ; all that remains are disjoined walls, 
and vad fragments fcattered over various parts of the 
bafe : it is divided from the main land by a vad fofs a 
hundred feet broad, and there are two others on the 
eaftern fide.' Over the beach hangs a projection fepa- 
rated from the cafile by another fofs. This evidently 
l£ems to be the fite of one .of the Danilh forts of the 
pirate Hadingus. 
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Hadings was certainly a flourifhi'ng town long before 
the Norman invafion ; for it appears that king Athelftan, 
who reigned between the years 925 and 942, had here a 
royal mint. After the conqued, king William bedowed 
Haftings, and the whole rape or hundred which bears 
that name, on Robert earl of Eu, descended from a na¬ 
tural fon of Richard I. duke of Normandy. This town 
gave name to the great family of the Haftings, afterwards 
earls of Huntingdon. The firft was Robert, portgreve 
of the town, and fteward to the Conqueror. They fiou- 
rifhed- from that time till the death of the lad in 1789. 
The town and liberty confifts of three parifties, though 
there are but two churches, St. Clements and All Saints; 
the fird decorated with a tower of neat teffellated work. 
The priory of Auftin Canons (food behind the caftle; 
but not a vedige of the building is to be feen : it was 
founded, as is (aid, byTir Walter Bricet, in, or perhaps 
before, the time of Richard I. The original building 
was waflied away by the fea, and afterwards replaced on 
its late fite. In the tow'n is a fmall manufacture of thin 
fillcs'; but its chief fupport is its fifliery of herrings, mac- 
karel, and foies. The fird begins in November, and lafts 
till Chr-idmas: about forty veflels arq employed, and 
about two hundred jnen, who go out four or five leagues 
to fea during the feafon; and they afford a confiderable 
fupply to the London market. Near the cafile are fome 
lime-kilns of a moft magnificent fize and druCture., The 
lime is no fmall article of commerce, and made of the 
chalk brought from Beachy-head, in boats of from thirty 
to forty tons burden. 
The port of Haftings had charters from Edward the 
Confeflor, William I. Henry II. Richard I. Henry III. 
Edward I. and Charles II. but it was burnt by the 
French in the reign of Richard II. after having been 
plundered by them. It has fent members to parliament 
ever fince Edward III. The town is built in a pleafant 
vale between twoiiilis, with a rivulet called the Bourne 
running through it. The number of houfes is computed 
at fix hundred, and the inhabitants at three tlioufand. 
The town is endowed with two noble charities, under 
the wills of James Saunders and William Parker, by 
which are founded two free.fchools for the inftruCtion 
of 130 fcholars in the feveral branches of literature and 
religious education, placing poor boys apprentice, &c. 
It is very remarkable that there is not a (ingle diflenter 
from the church of England, nor is there a copyhold te¬ 
nure, in the town. The falubrity of the air, the retired 
fituatioh, and the good accommodations, render it equal, 
if^not preferable, to any place on the coaft for fea- 
bathing, and in confequence it is become a favourite 
watering-place. The market, which is cheap and plen¬ 
tiful, is held on Wednefdays and Saturdays : and there 
are three fairs annually, one called Rock-fair, held July 
26, the others called the Town-fairs, held on the 23d 
and 24th of October, and on the Tuefday and Wednef- 
day in Whitfun-week. 
The harbour of Haftings, though formerly fo famous, 
is now only a road for fmall veflels, it having been ruin¬ 
ed by the (forms which,' from time to time, have been 
fo fatal to the neighbouring ports of Rye and Winchel- 
fea; and it (till continues a very indifferent one, though 
great (urns have been laid out in order to recover it. 
On the rocks near Haftings grow numbers of thole cu¬ 
rious animals 6f the Adtinia genus, called animal flowers % 
for figures and a defeription of which, fee tte articles 
Actinia, and Animal Flower, with the correfpon- 
dent Engravings, in our Firft Volume.—The cliffs along 
the coaft, from the weft fide of Winchellea to Haftings, 
confift of (hingle, with a high beach at their bale; that 
on which the caftle Hands, of a land-done mixed with 
(hingle, fplit into fiffures and vaft gaps. The view to¬ 
wards Beachy-head is of a great curvature, with a high 
beach ; the land near the there flat, but riling, four or 
five miles inland, into lofty downs. Upon one of theie 
dawns the. memorable and decilive, battle was fought 
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