and fatigue of many years active service.
CASTLE .
The first object which attracts the attention of a stranger, is the remains of a very large and ancient Castle, on the summit of the west hill.
The walls, which are now fast mouldering to decay, are composed chiefly of flint and stone, and in thickness near eight feet.
Hastings Castle is first mentioned in the Chancery roll 25th and 26 Hen. VI. restoring to the bishop of Chichester his right of jurisdiction over Hastings College; which document distinctly mentions a parish church of St. Mary within the Castle of Hastings in the Saxon times.
The additions made to this fortress by William the conqueror before the Battle of Hastings, consisted in cutting the great moat on the east side, which separated the Castle hill into two ; raising the Castle mount from the soil dug out of it, and forming the various earthworks still to be traced on the east and north . This is proved to be the fact from the Bayeux Tapestry, which represents person digging and another giving orders : the inscription underneath, literally translated is, " He -
