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Chap. 5.
The Castle. -- The Arms of the Cinque Ports.
ONE other passage in Domesday, relates to Hastings, " Land of the Count of Eu. In Bexelei[1] hundred, Osbern holds Bexelei of the Count. In the time of King Edward, Bishop Alric held it, for it is of the Bishopric, and he held it until King William gave to the Count the Governor ship of the Castle of Hastings." The interval thus alluded to, would be the time occupied in building the Castle. On its completion the Count became Governor, and this must have been prior to 1086, when the Domesday survey was finished.
- ↑ Bexel-ci or Bexle island, (Bexhill being an innovation of the last century .) The " ei" which distinguishes so many places in this neighbourhood , has in this instance been dropped.
