7 acres of meadow , and forest for the feeding of two pigs. In the manor itself is a new " burg," and there are 43 burgesses, returning $8 less 2s. In Hastings, 4 burgesses and 14 bord . return 63s. Of that manor, Robert of Hastings holds 2 hides and a half of the Abbot, and Herolf half a hide. They themselves have 4 villeins and 4 cotters and 2 carucates. The whole manor in the time of K . Edward was worth $30. Now $50 is the value of the demesne of the Abbot, that of the men 44 shillings."
Moss , in speaking of this passage, observes that " Hastings seems to have been closely connected with a place, called Rameslie, but no place in the neighbourhood at least is now in existence." Rameslie, however, is clearly to be identified with the Manor of Brede. A rough estimate of its extent,as described in Domesday, would give about 5000 acres: it must, therefore, have occupied a considerable part of the hundred of Guestling; so does the present manor of Brede: it extended through that part of the hundred bordering on Hastings ; Brede manor extends throughout the valley of the Bourne. The Abbot of Fecamp held the manor of Rameslie, in Guestling, under the Confessor and the Conqueror for several centuries ; the succeeding Abbots have held the manor of Brede, in Guestling -- the change then must have been merely one of name. If we were inclined to be fanciful, wemight hazard the conjecture that the nameof Brede was derived from Brid , the master of the Hastings Mint, a man of consequence in his time, possibly holding a portion of the manor.
