his queen) on the same terms, and in 1246 granted him the inheritance thereof. The same year it again reverted to the crown, but by what means does not appear. The king gave the whole honour to Prince Edward and his heirs, intending that it should never again be severed from the crown . Notwithstanding the proviso made by Henry the Third that it should not be separated from the crown, yet when John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, married Constance, sole heir of the king of Castile, he, upon surrendering the earldom of Richmond, had a grant general entail of the castle and leucate of Pevensey, and also the free chapel within the castle, which upon his death again reverted to the crown by the ascension of his son, Henry the Fourth, 1399. James the First, of Scotland, when taken prisoner by Henry the Fourth, was placed by him under the care of Sir John de Pelham, constable of Pevensey castle, to which place the youthful and royal captive was conducted. The castle was afterwards given by the king to the Pelham family, with whom it remained till about the middle of last century, when the Duke of Newcastle resigned it to Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, on his being made Baron of Pevensey. It now belongs to the Cavendish family.
In 1159, the knights of Pevensey paid to Henry the Second five marks, for what was then styled a donum. It also, among other trading towns, paid a quinxeme, or tax for its merchandize ; and in the ninth year of that reign, the barons of Pevensey were fined forty marks, for license to build a town between Pevensey and Langley, the same to enjoy like privileges with the Cinque-ports, and to have one annual fair, to last seven days, commencing on the anniversary of St. John ; also a market every Sunday.
Doctor Andrew Borde (the original Merry Andrew) of facetious and eccentric memory, was born at -
