Stella & Rose's Books

Contents

• Chapter 1 The Background of History
• Chapter 2 One of the Cinque Ports
• Chapter 3 The Ancient Custumal
• Chapter 4 Bailiffs and Mayors
• Chapter 5 The Freemen and Jurats
• Chapter 6 A Hastings Jurat makes his Will
• Chapter 7 Elections to Parliament
• Chapter 7 Elections to Parliament
• Chapter 8 Town Halls and Loyal Addresses
• Chapter 9 Town Clerks
• Chapter 10 The Chamberlains
• Chapter 11 The courts
• Chapter 12 Law and Order
• Chapter 13 Old Time Punishments
• Chapter 14 The Gaoler's Diary
• Chapter 15 The Ancient Hospital and Priory
• Chapter 16 The Ancient Churches
• Chapter 17 Taking Care of the Poor
• Chapter 18 Life in a Georgian Workhouse
• Chapter 19 Roads and Streets
• Chapter 20 Placenames
• Chapter 21 The Bourne Stream
• chapter 22 The Plague and Other Afflictions
• Chapter 23 The Town Crier
• Chapter 24 Fire-fighting
• Chapter 25 Defence of the Town
• Chapter 26 The Story of the Harbours
• Chapter 27 The Great Armada Adventure
• Chapter 28 Press-Gang and Privateers
• Chapter 29 In the Days of Napoleon
• Chapter 30 The Hastings Fishery
• Chapter 31 Ships and Shipbuilding
• Chapter 32 Trade
• Chapter 33 Smugglers and Smuggling
• Chapter 34 Inns and Alehouses
• Chapter 35 Windmills
• Chapter 36 The Grammar School
• Chapter 37 Other Forms of Schooling
• Chapter 38 Hastings and the Royal Mail
• Chapter 39 Hastings: A Fashionable Resort
• Chapter 40 From Coaches to Railways
• Chapter 41 Some Visitors of Note
• Chapter 42 Noted Hastings Men
• Chapter 43 Local Societies
• Chapter 44 Sprot - but Mainly Cricket
• Appendix I Hasting and the Romans
• Appendix II Hastings Fishermen in 1623
• Appendix III Fishermen's Nicknames
• Appendix IV Examinations for Settlement
• Appendix V Additional Public Houses, etc.
• Appendix VI The Wreck of the Amsterdam
• Notes
• Bailiffs and Mayors
• Index