This document antedates the earliest surviving archives of Hastings Corporation by almost a century. It details the sufficiency and number of the men of Hastings ready to repel an invasion from France or Flanders from whence Perkin Warbeck had tried to invade a year earlier
Item Provenance
Collection of Sir Edward Dering (d.1644); Sir Thomas Phillipps, sold Sotheby s 1981; acquired from the purchaser on that occassion