and Rape were bequeathed by the said Peter to Queen Eleanor, from whom the King subsequently obtained them for an annuity of 800 marks and they again returned to the crown.
John de Dreux grandson of Peter succeeding to the earldom of Richmond, and a compact having before existed between his fat and the King for an exchange, but which did not then take place, a new agreement was entered into. By this Henry consented to grant to the said John, the Rape but not the Castle, which latter was to be severed from it, together with the town of Hastings, the advowson of the castle church, and the advowsons of the prebends. 2d Ed. 1st, this arrangement again not having been completed , an inquisition in order thereto was taken, when it was returned, " that the castle of Hastings, with the herbage within and without the castle, namely, in the ward, was worth by the year half a mark ; and the church within the castle worth in tithes four marks, in rents 100s. and in offerings at the cross ten marks."
The following year we find the King altering the constitution of Hastings college, which from being known as the collegiate church of St. Mary, was -
