HASTINGS. 185 HASTINGS [co. Sussex.] i.e., " Hoo, Co. Mudfurd, AxVD Hastings/*) co. Sussex," Barony (the.) See " Huo and Hastings," Barony, cr. (by patent) 1447 ; ex. 1454. HASTINGS DE HASTINGS. Barony by |. William Hastings, r. and h. of Sir Leonard ILis- Writ. t'»gs,( b ) of Kirby, co. Leicester, and of Burton-Hasting, co. War- wiek, by Alice, da. of Thomas (DE Camoys), Loud Camoys, was b. J . 1461. about 1430 ; sue. his father in 14.15 ; was Sheriff of Warwickshire and Leicestershire, 1456; was a zealous adherent to the house of York from whom, on their accession to the Crown, lie received large grants of forfeited lands ; knighted, 29 March 1401 ; B.C., 1461 ; Chamberlain of the Household, 1401-83; Master of the Mint, 1461 ; was present at the coronation, 28 June 1461, and having, in or shortly before 1401, acquired the Castle, Barony, and honour of Hastings^") co. Sussex, was sum. to Farl.^) as a Baron (LUBD HASTINGS DE HASTINGS) by writs directed " Wili'o Battings, MHiti, Jiomino Hastings de Huttings," from 26 July (1461), 1 Ed. IV., U> 15 Nov. (14S2), 22 Ed. IV., being there present 1 Aug. 1461. ( d ) Chamberlain of North Wales, 1401-69 ; installed K.G., 21 March 1162 j Lieut. Gen. of Calais, 1471 ; was employed in several important treaties with Scotland, Burgundy, France, &c. ; was of invaluable assistance to Edward IV. during the events of 1470 and was in command for him at the battle of Barnet, 14 April 1471. He m. before 17 Feb. 1462, (a) " The Barony of Hastings in Sussex, had not until now [i.e., until 1447] given a title of honour to any of its possessors, having been constantly merged in higher dignities from the time that William the Conqueror grauted it with the whole rape of Hastings to William, Count of Ewe. In this family it continued until the reign of Hen. 111., when William de Ysondou joined the French king and forfeited his lands. [See vol. iii, p. 290, sub " Eu," (Counts of), feudal Lords of Hastings, 1066 to 1247.] Peter de Savoy, the Queen's uncle, obtained it from the Crown in the reign of Henry III., from which .Monarch he also obtained the Earldom of Richmond in 1241, and for a very long period it was considered as part of that honour. By the adherence of John, Duke of Brittany, in 1333 to the Crown of France, it was again forfeited ; restored in 1391 but shortly after again forfeited and finally separated from the Dukedom of Brittany. Joan, wife "i Ralph Basset of Draytou in 1397, and Ralph Nevill, Karl of Westmoreland in 1399, had life grants of the Barony of Hastings, and in 1412 the reversion, after the Earl's death, was given to Sir- John Pelham, from whose sou the Baron; passed to the family of Hoo, and was confirmed to Sir Thomas Hoo by letters patent, 19 July 1445. by the name of the Castle, Barony, and honour oi Hastings. He died possessed of it 13 Feb. 1454/5, and by his will, dated the preceding day, directed it to be sold. In 1461 it was confirmed by Ed. IV. to his favourite, Sir William Hastings, created Lord Hastings, in whose family it remaiued until the Earl of Huntingdon, in 1591, sold it to Thomas Pelham, Esq." [Court/tope.] It is observed in the Colt. Top. et Got. (vol. viii, p. 173), that " the precise date of the conveyance from l J elham to Hoo or from Hoo to Hastings does not appear" but that "the pat. roll. 1 Ed. IV. (p. 5, No. 75), contains a confirmation thereof to Sir William Hastings, Chamberlain to the King, who was then [1461] seized of the same," also that " there is no Writ of summons [as a Baron] to be found for Pelham [whose reversionary grant of 1412 would apparently have come into possession in 1425 on the death of the 1st Earl of Westmorland] but Hoo was regularly sum. to Pari, from [1428 — 1452J, 27 to 31 Hen. VI." It appears, however, that as early as 1439 Sir Thomas Hoo had * grant thereof from the Crown, which owing to the claims thereon of the Pelham family (subsequently, apparently, settled) was confirmed in 1445. It was found at the inq. post mortem of Lord Hoo in 1455 that he held no lauds in Sussex as of the Crown, and Lord Hoo's feoffees in 1401 sold the rape of Hastings as "held of the gift of Sir John Pelham." See an able article by W. D. Cooper in the " Sussex Arch. Coll." vol. viii, pp, 91 — 131. ( b ) This branch of the Hastings family is a cadet of the Lords Hastings, diverging therefrom previous to their alliance with the house of Scotland (thro' the match of Sir Henry Hastings with Ada, da. of David, Earl of Huntingdon), tho' an Earldom of Huntingdon was conferred in 1529 to this family. See p. 178, note " c." (°) There is proof in the rolls of Pari, of his sitting. ( d ) So stated in the resolution of the House of Lords 1 Aug. 1871.
