View source for Manuscript History of Hastings and St Leonards Vol 2

{{BrettIndex|state=collapsed}}
==Index to Contents of Volume Two 1835-40==
===Chapter Thirteen: St.Leonards 1835 Page 118===
<section begin=chap13 />
More difficulties with the sea-defences - No money to be had<br/>
Complaints of tradesmen – Arrangement for the new Poor-Law Act<br/>
Mr. Burton's new road and the Harrow Road<br/>
Rapid coach travelling to London<br/>
More about the royal visit<br/>
Anecdote of the gift shilling and the "Queen’s” shilling<br/>
Victoria prizes to the Archery Society<br/>
Death of Anna Maria Cooper<br/>
Reminiscences of the libraries, shops and a banking company, when, from [[Commercial Road]] to the Battery was more a place of business and fashionable resort than [[George Street]]<br/>
Celebration of the sixth decade of Queen Victoria's life, and a review of the period<br/>
Parliamentary election and its amenities in 1835<br/>
Open houses and lavish expenses<br/>
Amusing episodes<br/>
Tricking the tricksters<br/>
Results of the polling<br/>
Rejoicings and despondencies<br/>
Destructive gales and loss of property<br/>
St.Leonards Officials in 1835<br/>
Visits of the "Dover Boder"<br/>
Death of the Patriarchal Pauper, widow Palmer, Mr. John Harwood, and Mr. Henry Sinden<br/>
Reminiscences and death of 'Jerry' Lulham<br/>
More of the Poor Law Act of 1834<br/>
The Whyborn family. A family of paupers<br/>
Old-time system of relief<br/>
Enormous parochial burthens<br/>
Handbell ringing at weddings<br/>
A remarkably unpropitious year<br/>
The new Poor Law and establishing of Union-houses<br/>
Local arrangements and beneficial effects<br/>
The Government evictions<br/>
Mismanagement of Crown lands<br/>
The exodus to St.Leonards<br/>
Construction of new road<br/>
A race AIA GILPIN.
<section end=chap13 />

===Chapter Fourteen: Hastings 1835 Page 125===
<section begin=chap14 />
Parliamentary election and its amenities in 1835<br/>
Open houses and lavish expenses<br/>
Amusing episodes<br/>
Tricking the tricksters<br/>
Results of the polling<br/>
Rejoicings and despondencies<br/>
Enormous cost to the candidates<br/>
Bribery and corruption under the new regime<br/>
Electioneering frolics<br/>
Rival candidates for the mayoralty and strong party feeling<br/>
Passing of the Municipal Corporations set<br/>
The borough divided into two wards-Constitution of the first Town Council<br/>
Public dinners severally to [[Frederick North (1800-1869)|North]], [[Sir Howard Elphinstone (1773-1846)|Elphinstone]] and Brisco<br/>
Excitement on the resignation of Peel<br/>
North unpopular with the Radicals<br/>
Political trickery<br/>
Transactions of the new Corporation<br/>
Parbolinal meetings, etc.
<section end=chap14 />
===Chapter Fifteen: St.Leonards 1836 Page 131===
<section begin=chap15 />
Formation of new roads<br/>
Removal of [[Coastguard Station|Coastguard station]]<br/>
Erection of the [[Union Workhouse]]<br/>
Grand Jury's presentments<br/>
Imperial matters and local associations<br/>
[[Sir Howard Elphinstone (1773-1846)|Mr. Elphinstone]]'s successful efforts<br/>
Storms, floods, damaged walls and tenantless houses<br/>
Purchase of the [[Swan Hotel]] by Mr. Eldridge and his removal from the Saxon<br/>
Royal presentations to the Archery Society<br/>
The overseers summonsed<br/>
Houses already erected between the [[St Leonards Archway|Archway]] and the priory<br/>
St. Leonards Regatta<br/>
The November hurricane<br/>
The unparalleled snow storm.
<section end=chap15 />
===Chapter Sixteen: Hastings 1836 Page 137===
<section begin=chap16 />
Imperial matters<br/>
The Irish question<br/>
Duties on paper and newspaper stamps reduced<br/>
Harmonics at the [[Swan Hotel]]<br/>
[[St Clements Church]] and its associations<br/>
Asking for pleasure grounds at the Priory, and the reply: also criticism thereon<br/>
The Court of Record and Quarter Sessions<br/>
Report of Finance Committee<br/>
The Charities again examined<br/>
The Watch Committee's "report re the establishing a police force<br/>
Abandonment of 73 Corporation rents<br/>
Election of Aldermen and Councilmen. The [[stonebeach]] dispute<br/>
Proposal for a harbour<br/>
Political squibs<br/>
Capt. Daniel's death<br/>
Marvelous achievement of two sailor-boys during the great snowstorms.
<section end=chap16 />
===Chapter Seventeen: St.Leonards 1837 Page 143===
<section begin=chap17 />
The Subscription Garden (with view, 1830) The prolonged winter<br/>
Deaths of Mr. & Mrs. Burton and their last surviving daughter<br/>
500 years history of influenza<br/>
The [[Harbour Arm|harbour]] project<br/>
[[Frederick North (1800-1869)|Mr. North]] unpopular with the Radicals<br/>
Proposed Act for St. Mary Magdalen<br/>
List of inhabitants<br/>
The [[Tivoli Tavern]]<br/>
Amusing anecdotes<br/>
Memoirs of Mr.S.Putland<br/>
Houses brought from the Priory<br/>
Grand Archery meeting<br/>
Presentation at [[Coghurst Hall]]<br/>
A violent hurricane and its effects<br/>
An organ from the Church<br/>
The Infirmary scheme<br/>
The Poorhouses<br/>
A libel begotten of prejudice, proved by the marriages of nearly 200 couples of "Holy Trinitarians" at [[Category:Hollington|Hollington]] instead of at Hastings<br/>
Names of persons thus married between 1822 and 1834<br/>
An old view of [[Church in the Wood|Hollington Church]]<br/>
Memoir of Mr. Henry Chandler<br/>
Work at the “[[Amsterdam]]"<br/>
Celebrating the Queen's 18th birthday<br/>
From whom her Majesty is descended<br/>
Assistant-overship rivalry<br/>
Everest's defalcations<br/>
Arrival and sojourn of Queen Adelaide<br/>
St.Leonards and Sedlescombe new road<br/>
Cubitt's new harbour plan and estimate<br/>
Troup versus the [[Post Office]] and defeat of the former<br/>
<section end=chap17 />
===Chapter Eighteen: Hastings 1837 Page 161===
<section begin=chap18 />
The [[Priory Stream]] the Commissioners' western limit<br/>
The town's liabilities £1,650 and Income £1,000<br/>
Additional polling places<br/>
Warm debate on the Charities<br/>
Misapplied bequests at Guestling and Icklesham<br/>
Criticisms on Mr. North's political conduct<br/>
Mr. Holland's political address and general liberality. Banquet and oratory of the Loyal Constitution Association<br/>
An opposition Liberal Association<br/>
The West Hill path dispute (with view of the hill, castle and windmills)<br/>
Mr. Brisco turned back<br/>
Memoirs and eccentrics of the [[Rev. W. Whistler (1747-1832)|Rev. W. Whistler]]<br/>
Amusing anecdotes<br/>
Elphinstone's retirement & North's withdrawals<br/>
Election of Planta and Holland<br/>
Heavy election bills<br/>
The political position in 1837<br/>
Numerous commercial failures<br/>
Selling of Poorhouses<br/>
Mrs. Milward's character misunderstood<br/>
Church-rates contention<br/>
The Rev. Satterley's conduct<br/>
Municipal elections<br/>
Rivalry of the Commissioners and Town Council<br/>
The waste beach sales and contentions (from 1596 to recent times)<br/>
Election of W. Duke as Mayor<br/>
The gaol question.<br/>
Female smugglers<br/>
Death of William Woods (the emigrant son of the Postmaster)<br/>
Mr. Sutherland Graeme's political letter<br/>
Mr. Dowell and his library<br/>
Fatal accidents by fire<br/>
Sudden death of Mr. Arthur Deudney, and reference to his brothers and sisters, fourteen in number<br/>
Memoirs of Pearce Egan<br/>
Three artists at Hastings Prout, Hunt and Varley)<br/>
The effects of groynes complained of<br/>
The Town Crier's fees<br/>
A view of the West Hill before the excavation of the Castle ruins.<br/>
<section end=chap18 />

===Chapter Nineteen: St. Leonards 1838 Page 191===
<section begin=chap19 />
A trying winter<br/>
Great fires<br/>
Much distress Coronation festivities<br/>
Extension of the parade,<br/>
Serious breach by the sea and doleful report of the Commissioners' committee<br/>
Bondholders appealed to<br/>
Money not to be had<br/>
The Battle and Sedlescombe roads impeded<br/>
Abortive attempt to obtain a new lighting and paving Act<br/>
Burials and extraordinary longevity at Bexhill, and instances of equally long life at Hastings and St.Leonards<br/>
Musical dirge on a tombstone "Intercepted letters" from L.E.L.<br/>
Nuptial rejoicings<br/>
Grand Archery meeting<br/>
Racing matches – perilous position of Lady Hampden and party<br/>
Flimwell and [[Category:Hollington|Hollington]] Turnpike trusts £40,000 in dept<br/>
Delimitation of boundaries at the [[Priory Bridge]]<br/>
Proposition to reduce the policemen from 13 to 9.
<section end=chap19 />

===Chapter Twenty: Hastings 1838 Page 199===
<section begin=chap20 />
Seasonable festivities of balls, dinners etc.<br/>
Coronation celebrations<br/>
The harbour scheme<br/>
Poverty and crime<br/>
the bad fellow "Goodfellow"<br/>
Smuggling fatalities<br/>
Dr. Fearon’s sermon on law-breaking propensities<br/>
Ore church and Rectory (with view)<br/>
[[St Clements Halton|Halton Church]] and Rev. J. Parkin (with portrait)<br/>
The soldiers' burying-ground, and "meditation among the tombs"<br/>
[[St. Andrews Church]] and burials without Christian rites<br/>
Bereavements in the Daniel family<br/>
The new chapel in [[Wellington Square|Wellington square]]<br/>
Anecdotes of ministers<br/>
Death memorials (Mr. Bissenden, Mr. .Giles, Miss Mary Sayers)<br/>
The [[Fortune of War]] and the supposed tub-hole<br/>
The Literary Institution<br/>
Mr. Holland, M.P. (with portrait)<br/>
Mr. Sutherland Graeme's political-address<br/>
Morley versus Harman<br/>
Transactions of the Board of Guardians, the Hastings Commissioners and the Town Council<br/>
Sir Cloudesly Shovel (arguments for Hastings as his birthplace)<br/>
Photo/portrait of R. Hollond, M.P. A view of the old Ore church on the hill and the Rectory in the valley. Portrait of Rev. J. Parkin.
<section end=chap20 />
===Chapter Twenty-one: St.Leonards 1839  Page 210===
<section begin=chap21 />
The St.Leonards Commissioners<br/>
The projected railways<br/>
Purchase of a fire-engine<br/>
Charge of incumbents of the church<br/>
Nuisances forbidden<br/>
Rate-defaulters to be summoned<br/>
Storing meeting of turnpike trusts<br/>
Opening of St. Leonards and Sedlescombe road from [[Category:Silverhill|Silverhill]] to Cripp's Corner<br/>
[[Eversfield Estate]] to repair the damaged sea-walls<br/>
Five days destructive storms<br/>
Injury and loss to the present writer<br/>
There is an emigrant ship (with view of the departure)<br/>
The [[Union Workhouse]] and its advertisements<br/>
The irrepressible Mr. Troup<br/>
[[The Railway|the railway]] company and the overseers<br/>
An address to the Queen<br/>
Grand Archery meeting<br/>
Attempt to rob a toll-gate house<br/>
Accident to sawyer Brett<br/>
Pedestrianisms extraordinary<br/>
Interments during 1839
<section end=chap21 />
===Chapter Twenty two: Hastings 1839 Page 216===
<section begin=chap22 />
Preparations in Hastings for important postal charges and a general review of post-office conditions from 1815.<br/>
Other means of communication when the population was rising from less that 4,000 to 31,000<br/>
Commerce and fashion moving westward<br/>
Numbering of houses<br/>
Extraordinary meteorological conditions<br/>
Work in the Hastings post-office, 19 hours a day, Sundays not excepted<br/>
Marvelous details of the old system<br/>
Anomalies and incongruities<br/>
Upstart letter<br/>
Callers rebuked by "an infernal booby"<br/>
Amusing incidents<br/>
Frequent discoveries of money in the letter-box<br/>
Secret writing in newspapers<br/>
Postage of letters from 1d to 5/-<br/>
Clandestine correspondence<br/>
Tips to mailguards<br/>
"The Ghost of the Old Commission"<br/>
History of the General Post-office<br/>
The great storm of a stormy year<br/>
Maritime disasters<br/>
Shipbuilding industry<br/>
Fancy Fair and other movements for the Infirmary<br/>
Lardner's lecture on the locomotive engine<br/>
The Mechanic's Institution<br/>
The [[Union Workhouse]]<br/>
The East-hill amusements and murderous attempt by a coastguard<br/>
A marvellous [[category:Smuggling|smuggling]] feat<br/>
Removal of the [[Priory Bridge]]<br/>
Deaths of [[Thomas Breeds (1766-1839)|Thomas]] and [[Boykett Breeds]]<br/>
Poetic Adieus of Euthymus, and view of Hastings from Fairlight<br/>
Marriage of Mr. Milward<br/>
The blind letter-carrier<br/>
Cricket on Sundays, The Fire King, etc.
<section end=chap22 />
===Chapter Twenty three: St. Leonards 1840 Page 224===
<section begin=chap23 />
Coincident establishment of the Penny Post and a business in St.Leonards <br/>
Purchase of a fire-engine<br/>
Transactions of the Commissioners<br/>
Economic arrangements<br/>
Great influx of nobility<br/>
Further gambols of "Old Davy"<br/>
Wreck of the "Auguste"<br/>
Fire at the Allegria<br/>
Mr. Hollond's marriage<br/>
Celebration of the Queen's marriage<br/>
Archery meetings<br/>
Dr. Lardner at St.Leonards, and ordered to pay £8,000 for the seduction of Mrs. Heavisido<br/>
Major Jeffries and the Board of Guardians<br/>
Frustrated attempt of Government officials to divert the road between the two towns<br/>
Again the Priory squabbles<br/>
Col. Williams abused and challenged to a duel<br/>
The Ellsworth charity<br/>
Contentions over the Infirmary Site<br/>
Cooter's performances<br/>
Discovery of Roman coins<br/>
The first Cricket club<br/>
A story of [[Verulam Place]] ("truth stranger than fiction")<br/>
Condition of the via media and promise of improvements by the Eversfield Trustees<br/>
Parochial officers 1828 to 1840<br/>
Parsimony.<br/>
Deaths in 1840<br/>
Some marriages.
<section end=chap23 />

===Document Scan===
Please note the following file link is very large<br/>
[[File:Pdf.png|Volume 2 (474 MB)|80px|link=Media:Item 2 1835.pdf]][[Media:Item 2 1835.pdf]]
{{BrettIndex|state=collapsed}}
==References==


{{footer}}

[[Category:Manuscript Histories]]
[[Category:Research Sources]]