Chap. 3.
Saxon Hastings.
WE now enter upon a new era. The Saxons who had so long threatened the country at length made good their footing, and, while their kinsmen, the Jutes, under Hengist and Horsa, subdued Kent, a Saxon chieftain , Aella, reduced this district, which became known as the kingdom of South Saxony or Sussex. He met with a stubborn resistance, and one terrible incident in the war had no doubt a most important bearing on the fortunes of our own place. I mean the taking by storm of the flourishing city of Anderida, in 491, and the putting all the inhabitants to the sword. The ships which for purposes of war and peace had frequented that famous harbour would be obliged to have recourse to the nearest port, and our haven would at once rise into consequence on the downfall and utter destruction of its neighbour and rival: and it is a somewhat singular coincidence that the first mention of our town by name is in association with that of -
