3 Sergeants, and 40 rank and file. Total, 129. There was also a Company of Sea-Fensibles enrolled under Captain Isaac Schomberg, R.N., numbering 255. The population was then between 3,000 and 4,000.
Robertson Street has been absolutely re-peopled during the 54 years the writer has known it, and the only familiar names of those then in business in the street are Langham and Son, Solicitors; Dobell, Jeweller; Lindridge, Music Seller; Amoore, Grocer; and Notcutt, Draper. All have passed away with the exception of Mr. James Notcutt, now living at St. Leonards. It must be remembered that Robertson Street was begun in 1850.
The Custumal of Hastings.
The Laws and Customs in force in all the Cinque Ports were kept by the respective Solicitors to the Ports for ages, and called " The Custumal." The copy of the Hastings Custumal was lost about 1736, being taken to London for use in a law suit and never afterwards found. But Durrant Cooper and Ross give a translation of a Norman-French copy found amongst the records of Rye (see Suss. Arch. Coll., v. 14, p. 72). The heading reads : " These are the usages of Hastings used time out of mind, compiled in the time of John Reade, at the time Bailiff, in the 30th year of Edward 3rd, A.D., 1356." They give the mode of electing the Bailiff, Jurats, and Commonalty, the Town Clerk, Coroner, and Officers ; the laws as to Murder, Felony, Executions, Election of Freemen, Assaults, Alien Suspects, Distress for Rent Proven against Debtors, Markets, Purse Stealing, etc. They are quaint and curious, sometimes harsh, or even barbarous, but many just ; some out-of-date, some applicable to the present day. The full text is also given in Cole's " Antiquities of Hastings," p. 161. They contain 48 clauses, but are too lengthy to be reproduced here.
ARTISTS WHO PAINTED AND ENGRAVED PICTURES OF HASTINGS APPEARING IN THIS WORK.
S. H. Grimm, who painted for "Burrel's Sussex," J. M. W.Turner, R.A., David Cox, Samuel Prout, Francis Nicholson, R.A., W. H. Brooke, F. W. L. Stockdale, J. Thorpe, W. Havell, H.H. (Henry Hunt) Marianne Johnson, H. Morton, James Rouse, G. Rowe, John Goldsworthy Shorter, Charles Turner, R.A., Annie R. Pattison, C. G. Scott, C. W. Wing, J. Nixon, Barnard, Thornton, R. Cocking, Charles Catton, R.A., W. G. Moss, Thomas Ross, John Thorpe, W. Daniell, D. Passmore, P. S. Munn, C. G. White, C. Burton, John Foalon, Arundale, G. Gendall, J. D. Harding, and others whose identity is not known.
