the castle during peace or until the appointment of a warden , which officer it appears the Castle was then without. 1340, the French landed at Hastings and plundered the castle , which occasioned the King to command an enquiry to be made as to the keeping of castle guard ; when the jury returned several curious particulars as to the castle, viz ., that Hen . 3rd ,did grant the same castle to John de Britannia , with the castle guard rents that he and his descendants had ever since received the same, without applying any part towards the guarding of -the castle ; and that in consequence no guard bad been kept there since his time that King Henry had committed the custody of the castle sometimes to one and sometimes to another, without any interference on the part of the Duke but whether he, the Duke, was bound to apply the rents to keep the castle guard, they the jurors, knew not.
19th Ed. 3rd on a visitation of the college it was returned that although 10s. a year had been received by the dean for the profits of the castle herbage, -nothing had been done towards the castle repairs, as required by the Kings grant several enormities were reported as to the college at the same time. These enormities and the increasing dilapidations -
