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Large pieces of timber, and enormous fragments of rocks, the remains of the pier, are to be seen at low water. The following is an extract from one of the Record Books of the Corporation of Hastings, relative to the destruction of the Pier, written in the subsequent year.
- " Memorand that about the 1st of March , 1595, The Peere of Hasting was begonne to be redefied by certein westerne Men ,sent for of purpose from the Cobb. of Lyme. And by them was built a huge woorke wth out th ' old Pere full south all of huge rock artificially pyled edglong one close by another of a great hight but wth out any Tymber yet to mans iudgment unremoveable, it grew to so huge a pile, but notwthstanding the first wynter flaw overthrew it in a moment and dispersed the huge rock lyke thin Plank and so that cost was lost."
- " But the next year after other Workmen of better knowledge (as was thought) were called thence and by genrall consent the lyke pere of woorke was begon to be againe built wth the lik huge rock . And for more suerty by advise of the Mr Workman it was thought best (because they iudged the decay of the former was for want of some -
