in 1750.) Mr. Bryant thinks "it might have been at the Pound, where the market carts put up. Here the Bourne Stream was nearly level with the road, and would make a good watering-place. The Bourne could not be approached in any other place by horses nearer than Courthouse Street, and here it was some feet below the level. Horses and carts went up its bed as far as the Creek."
THE TRADITIONAL RESIDENCE OF MRS. SHOVELL.
In the Suss. Arch. Coll., vol. 14, p. 107, in an article on the old houses of Hastings, by Thomas Ross, there appears a view of one, under which is a description, viz.: "Mrs. Shovell's House, All
From a Sketch by Thomas Ross in 1862, with the Passage at the end leading to Wood's Row.
Saints' Street." In this view the letters "H.C.I.S." appear, being the well-known mark of the Hastings Cottage Improvement Society. This house is described by Ross (p. 108-9), as being "of historical interest, since it was the residence of the mother of Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell. It has been assumed that this gallant man was a native of Hastings, and the name of Shovell fields points to the existence of a family so called. The Admiral, however, was born at Cockthorpe, in Norfolk. The mother's house was last occupied by Susan Hobden; it was partly pulled down in 1838 ; and No. 117, All Saints' Street occupies the site." Upon first noticing this view -
