THE
HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES
OF THE
RAPE OF HASTINGS,
SUSSEX.
COMPRISING THE HUNDREDS OF GOLDSPUR, STAPLE, SHORYSWELL, HENHURST, HAWKBOROUGH, NETHERFIELD, FOXEARLE, BATTEL, BALDSLOW, NECFIELD, GUESTLING , AND BEXHILL, WITH THEIR SUBDIVISIONS OR PARISHES
Illustrated with Engravings.
FROM ORIGINAL DRAWINGS, MADE EXPRESSLY FOR THE WORK.
BY W. G. MOSS, DRAUGHTSMAN
TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE.The acknowledged importance of Topographical Works, on which it is needless here to expatiate, and the pleasure as well as instruction they are capable of affording, when respectably edited and embellished, as procured for them , in the present age, a degree of patronage, equal, if not superior to almost any other line of literature. To endeavour to increase the public stock of information, on a subject so much in request, therefore, seems under these circumstances to be, at least, laudable.
Among the numerous places which continue to receive illustra-
