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Monastery?

"The mid 16th century saw the castle receive another blow as Henry VIII commissioned that all Catholic monasteries were to be destroyed..." - how is this relevant to the castle? There's no suggestion that it had become a monastery! --rossb (talk) 18:47, 11 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

No citations were used to back up the material presented. Tcflynn80 (talk) 21:37, 5 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Dawson as a source

The use of works by Charles Dawson (Piltdown Man scandal et al) is questionable. It is widely known among Hastings' historians that Dawson's work on Hastings Castle was essentially plagiarism of William Herbert's work 'Hastings Castle and Rape." split across multiple volumes in 1824. - see Hastings local history wiki for some explanation and further links. Roypenfold (talk) 10:31, 24 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Purchase

"The site was purchased by Thomas Pelham on 23 June 1591.^{[better source needed]} After the purchase, the site was purchased by the Pelham family and used for farming until the ruins had become so overgrown they were lost from memory."

This sentence sounds a bit strange. Purchased by Sir Thomas and then again by his familiy? 79.210.183.243 (talk) 01:52, 5 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]