HOOE, a parish in the hundred of NINFIELD, rape of HASTINGS, county of SUSSEX, Smiles (S.W.) from Battle, containing 600 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Lewes, and diocese of Chichester, rated in the king's books at £7. 2. 6. Sir G. Webster, Bart, was patron in 1797. The church, dedicated to St. James, is principally in the later style of English architecture. An Alien priory of Benedictine monks, belonging to the abbey of Bee, in Normandy, was erected here about the commencement of the twelfth century; it was given by Henry VI. to Eton College, and subsequently by Edward IV. to Ashford College, in Kent.