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Chap. 6 .
Gradual Abandonment of the Old Site.
WE hear more of the New Burg in 1286 . A new St. Clements was built on the site of the present church ; and we are informed that the Abbot had a house of detention for the safe custody of thieves.[1] This, no doubt, adjoined the Court House ; and if so , our gaol is on the same ground as the Abbot's prison 600 years ago.
The Hastings of that epoch , nevertheless, still centred in St. Michael's; for in the taxation of Pope Nicholas IV., in 1291, St. Michael and St. Peter (the latter a parish of which nothing whatever is known, excepting that it evidently must have lain to the east of St. Michael's,) are returned at £10, and St. Andrew sub Castro, at £4 13s. 4d., or £14 13s. 4d. for the Priory Valley ; while the returns of -
- ↑ Suss. Arch. iv , 112.
