lector and comptroller, and Custom-house officers. In the Fish-street (commonly called the back-street) are two houses, famous for the residence of two distinguished, though very opposite characters, the gallant Admiral Sir Cloudsley Shovel, and the noted Titus Oates, though it must in justice be remembered that the latter was not a native of Hastings.
TOWN WALL.
This Town was formerly defended, next to the sea, by a strong wall which ran across the valley from hill to hill, and had two gates, one at the bottom of the Oak-hill, the other to the eastward, at the bottom of the Fish-street: there are some remains of it yet standing, at a place called the Bourne's Mouth, which runs from thence to the gate-steps, near Mr. Capell's house, and proves it to have been of considerable strength and thickness. To the eastward of the town, upon the hill, are the vestiges of a Roman encampment, plainly discernible. It is of considerable extent, and -
