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Sussey Hrcbaeolooical Society.
i
SUSSEX
Hrcb^ological Collections,
HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE COimTT.
Ube Sussej Hrcbicological Society.
VOL. XLVII.
LEWES:
FAENCOMBE & CO, LTD, PEINTEEa.
691865
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CONTENTS.
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PAGE
List of Officebs ix.
BULES zi.
Eepobt of thb Committee fob the Yeab 1903 xiv.
Statement of Accounts fob the Yeab 1903 xvii.
Additions to Museum and Libbabt xix.
COBBESPONDING SoCIETHS AND LiST OF HoNOBABT MeMBEBS,
with Dates of Election xx.
List of Membebs, with Dates of Admission to the Society xxi.
The Pbioby of Shulbbed. By E. L. Calverley 1
Thbee East Sussex Chubches: Battle, Peasmabsh, Ickle-
SHAM. A Study of theib Abchitectubal Histoby.
Pabt n. Peasmabsh Ghubch. By Qrevile M, Livetty
Vicar of Wateringhury ^ Kent, {Illtistrated) 35
The Sussex. Colbpepebs.' ' By Colonel F. W. T, Attree, B.E,,
F.SA.y and the Bev^J, H. L. Booker, M.A 47
Catalooues of Pobtbaits at Compton Place, and at Buxted
Pabk, in Sussex. By the Bight Honble. Lord Hawkesbury,
F.S,A. 1903 82
Eabl Eogeb de Montoomeby and the Battle of Hastinos.
«
By Philip Mainwaring Johnston. {Illustrated) 109
The Chichesteb Inquest of 1212. By /. H. Bound, M.A.,
Hon. Mem 113
The Covbbts. Pabt IT. By the Bev. Canon J. H. Cooper,
Vicar of CuckfiM, {Illustrated) 116
VI. CONTENTS.
PAOB
A Pre-Conquest Coffin-Slab fboh Abundel Castle. By
Philip Maifiwaring Johnston, {Illtistrated) 148
Notes and Quebies:
Chichester Seventeenth Century Tokens 151
Boman Coins at BumboldswhyJce 151
Chichester Stocks and Whipping Post. {Illtistrated) . . 152
Thomas Johnson and the Charlton Hunt. (Illustrated). 153
Eastbourne and Westboume 156
The Name ''Burgess HilV 156
Sussex Churches in 1405 157
Earl Swegen and Hacon Dicx 157
Stigand Bishop of Chichester 158
The Derivation of Toddington 158
A Levy by the Parliament during the Commonwealth on
the Tythin^ of Angmering , 159
Drayton's *' The Battle of Agincourt " 160
Obituary. Eev. W. D. Parish, M.A 163
Index (General) 165
LIST OF ILLUSTKATIONS.
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Peasmabsh Ohubch, South Vibw. (PL 1) to face Page 35
„ ,, NoBTH Jamb of Chancel Abch .... Page 86
99
91
9)
y, Plan and Details. (PI. 2) . . to face Page 88
„ „ Intebiob Looking East. (PL 3) „ „ 40
,, jy Chancel Abch, and South Jamb
OF Same. (PL 4) „ „ 42
„ Intebiob LooKiNO "West. (PL 5) „ „ 44
„ Low-side Window Page 44
Painting (Pobtion of) on Nobth Wall of Nave, Clavebley
Chubch, Shbopshibe. (PL 6) to face Page 110
Slaugham Place, Nobth Fbont, 1904. (PL 7) . . . . „ „ 116
„ „ East Fbont, 1904. (PL 8) „ „ 120
„ „ Plan OF. (PL 9) „ „ 128
Sib Waltbb Covbbt, Pobtbait of. (PL 10) „ „ 136
Slaugham Place IN 1787. (PL 11) „ „ 138
Pbb-Conquest Coffin-Slab Pago 149
Chichesteb Stocks and Whipping Post „ 152
Leatheb Bottle, Chablton Hunt „ 154
OOTOBEK., 1904.
Su88ey Hrcba^oloatcal Soctet^^
LIST OF OFFICERS.
THE MARQUESS OF ABERGAVENNY, K.G., LORD LIEUTENANT
AND GUSTOS ROTULORUM.
THE DUKE OF NORFOLK, E.M., K.G.
THE DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE, K.G.
THE DUKE OF RICHMOND AND GORDON, K.G.
THE EARL OF ASHBURNHAM.
VISCOUNT GAGE.
VISCOUNT GOSCHEN.
THE LORD BISHOP OF CHICHESTER.
LORD COLCHESTER, F.S.A.
LORD HAWKESBURY.
LORD ZOUCHE.
THE RIGHT HON. SIR HENRY AUBREY- FLETCHER, BART., C.B., M.P.
THE HON. SIR WILLIAM GRANTHAM.
THE REV. SIR GEORGE CROXTON SHIFFNER, BART., M.A.
THE REV. CANON J. H. COOPER.
THE REV. E. B. ELLMAN, M.A.
THE REV. JOHN GORING, M.A.
GERALD W. E. LODER, ESQ., M.P.
HERBERT CURTEIS, ESQ.
C. DAVIES GILBERT, ESQ.
ROBERT HENRY HURST, ESQ.
FRANCIS BARCHARD, ESQ.
J^onorarg Secretarg:
H. MICHELL WHITLEY, The Castle, Lewes.
STreagurer :
Major H. P. Molinbux, F.G.S., Old Bank, Lewes,
(Sts\itM% of Collections:
Rev. W. Hudson, F.S.A. , i5, Hartfield Square, Eastbourne.
H. Michell Whitley, Trevella, Eastbourne.
3^on. Curator antr ^.ibrarian :
J. H. A. Jenner, F.E.S., School Hill, Lewes.
3^on. pfjotograpfjer :
J. C. Stbnning, Steel Cross House, Tunbridge Wells.
^on. Sutittors:
C. H. Morris, School Hill, Lewes. C. L. Whiteman, Dale View, Lewes.
X.
LIST OF OFFICERS.
(EUcttb ^tmhtT9 x»f (Eosncil :
Rev. Canon J. H. Cooper (Chairman).
Col. F. W. T. Attree, R.E., F.S.A.
W. Powell Bkeaoh, Esq.
Rev. T. S. Cooper, F.S.A.
E. H. W. DuNKiN, Esq. F.S.A.
Percy S. Godman, Esq.
Rev. Canon Goodwyn.
W. Hamilton Hall, Esq., F.S.A.
E. Henty, Esq., F.S.A.
Aubrey Hillman, Esq.
Rev. W. Hudson, F.S.A.
P. M. Johnston, Esq.
Rev. W. Marshall, M.A., F.S.A.
Major H. P. Molineux, F.G.S.
W. A. Raper, Esq.
W. C. Renshaw, Esq., K.C.
R. Garraway Rice, Esq., F.S.A.
L. F. Salzmann, Esq.
J. C. Stennino, Esq.
(Elerk «nb ^oiiuiox: C. G. Turner, The Library, Lewes Castle,
Who is authorised to receive Subscriptions ^ and to whom all communications
respecting Subscriptions and the delivery of Volume should be addressed. Attend'
ance will be given at the Library on Tuesdays from Four till Six.
LOCAL HON. SECRETARIES.
^xnnhtl.
E. C. Holmes, Esq Arundel.
$riglttx»n.
A. F. Griffith, Esq 59, Montpellier Boad, Brighton,
Chichester.
Rev. F. H. Arnold, LL.D., F.S.A Emsworth.
Cnektfelb.
Rev. Canon J. H. Cooper Cuckfield.
(Sa0tbx»nrne.
H. M. Emary, Esq Eastbourne.
(East drinsteab.
R. Payne Crawfurd, Esq East Grinstead.
^adtinge.
W. V. Crake, Esq St. Leonards-on-Sea.
3$eathtrelb.
W. C. Alexander, Esq The Park, Heathfield.
^orsham.
P. S. Godman, Esq Muntham, Horsham.
l^etoed.
R. Blaker, Esq Wallands, Lewes.
jSibhttrst.
Rev. H. L. Randall Cocking, Midhurst.
Sebenseg.
Ven. Archdeacon Sutton The Vicarage, Pevensey.
9tUbx»rott$h.
R. Garraway Rice, Esq., F.S.A Carpenter'' s Hill, Pulborough.
William Dawes, Esq Wannock, Rye.
Sttifoxh.
A. P. BoYsoN, Esq., F.R.G.S., F.Z.S. . . . Grove Lodge, Tring, Herts.
(Shoreham.
J. Ellman Brown, I^sq Shoreham.
"Ennhxib^t SEelle.
C. W. Powell, Esq Speldhurst, Tunbridge Wells,
SBorthing.
Herbert E. Snewin, Esq Park Road, Worthing.
EULES.
1. The Society shall be called the " Sussex Archaeological Society,"
and shall avoid all topics of religious or political controversy, and shall
remain independent of, though willing to co-operate with, similar
societies by friendly communication.
2. Every candidate for admission shall be proposed by one Member,
and seconded by another, and elected by the Council by ballot at
any of their meetings. One black ball in five to exclude.
3. The Council shall have power to elect as an Honorary Member
any person (including foreigners) likely to promote the interests of the
Society. Such Honorary Member shall not pay any entrance fee or
subscription, shall not exercise the privilege of an ordinary Member
as to voting at the meetings or the proposal of candidates, and shall
be subject to re-election annually.
4. The annual subscription shall be ten shillings payable on
admission, and afterwards on the 1st day of January in each year.
Eight pounds may be paid in lieu of the annual subscription, as a
composition for life.
5. All Members shall on their election pay an entrance fee of ten
shillings.
6. Every new Member shall have his election notified to him by the
Clerk, and shall be required to remit the amount due from him to the
Treasurer, Major H. P. Molineux, F.G.S., Old Bank, Lewes, within one
month of his election. A copy of the. Rules of the Society and a List
of Members shall be sent to each Member on announcing to him his
election.
7. No Member shall participate in any of the benefits of the Society
until he shall have paid his subscription, and, if a new Member, his
entrance fee also.
8. If the sum due from a new Annual Member under the preceding
Kules be not paid within one month from the date of his admission, if
he be in the United Eongdom — or if abroad, within two months — the
Council shall have power to erase his name from the list of Members ;
but they shall have power to reinstate him on his justifying the delay
to their satisfaction.
xii. RULES.
9. In the case of any Member failing to pay his annual subscription,
due on the 1st January, before the 25th March, the Treasurer shall
apply to him for the same, and if the subscription is not paid on or
before the 1st of August, if the Member shall be resident in Great
Britain or Ireland, or within one month of his return, if he shall have
been abroad, the Council shall have power at its discretion to erase
his name from the list of members. Any Member intending to with-
draw his name from the Society shall give notice, in writing, to the
Clerk on or before the 1st of January of his intention to do so, other-
wise he shall be liable for the current year's subscription.
10. As the payment of his subscription will entitle a Member to
enjoy every benefit of the Society, so it will distinctly imply his sub-
mission to the Eules for the time being in force for the government of
the Society.
11. Two General Meetings of the Society shall be held in each year.
The annual general meeting shall be held on the Wednesday precedinq
Ladt Day at Lewes, at 12.30, when the Council shall present their
Annual Beport and Accounts for the past year, and not less than 12
members shall be elected to act on the Council for the succeeding
year, any proposed alteration of the Eules shall be considered, and
other business shall be transacted. The Local Secretaries shall also
be elected annually at this Meeting; The second general meeting
shall be held in June, July or August, at some place rendered interest-
ing by its antiquities or historical associations.
12. A Special General Meeting may be summoned by the Honorary
Secretaries, at such place as the Council may determine, on the
requisition, in writing, of Five Members, or of the President, or Two
Vice-Presidents specifying the subject to be brought forward for
consideration at such meeting, and that subject only shall be then
considered and resolutions passed thereon.
13. At all Meetings of the Society or of the Council the resolutions
of the majority present and voting shall be binding.
14. No alteration shall be made in the Eules except at the General
Meeting in March. No proposed alteration shall be considered tmless
three months' previous notice thereof, in writing, shall have been given
to the Council. No subject shall be discussed more than once in each
year, except with consent of the Council.
15. Meetings for the purpose of reading papers and the exhibition
of antiquities may be held at such times and places as the Council
may determine.
RULES. xm.
16. All the affairs of the Society shall be managed by a Council.
a. The Council shall consist of the President, Vice-Presidents,
the Honorary Secretaries, the Treasurer, the Honorary Curator and
Librarian, the Local Honorary Secretaries and not less than 12 Members
(who shall be elected at the General Meeting in March). A month's
notice should be given of the intention of any Member to nominate a
gentleman as a Member of Council, and the names of those pro-
posed placed in the Library, together with that of the proposer and
seconder. Notice of such nominations to be sent to all Members of
the Council.
b. The Council shall meet at Lewes (or at any other place in the
County that a majority of the Council shall determine) on the
Wednesdays immediately preceding the first three usual Quarter Days
in every year, also on Wednesday in the week before Christmas week,
and at such other times as the Hon. Secretary or Hon. Secretaries may
determine. Three Members of the Council shall form a quorum.
0. The Council shall, at their first meeting after the Annual
Meeting in March, appoint a sub -committee to manage the financial
department of the Society's affairs. Such sub-committee shall, at each
quarterly meeting of the General Council, submit a report of the
liabiKties of the Society, when cheques signed by three of the Members
present shall be drawn on the Treasurer for the same. The accounts
of the Society shall be submitted annually to the examination of two
auditors, who shall be elected by the Council from the general body
of the Members of the Society.
d. The Council shall, at their first meeting after the Annual
Meeting in March, appoint an Editor of the Society's Volume, and
the Editor so appointed shall report the progress of the Volume at the
Quarterly Meetings of the Council.
e. The Council may appoint any Member Local Secretary for the
town or district where he may reside, in order to facilitate the collection
of accurate information as to objects of local interest ; such Local
Secretaries shall be ex-officio Members of the Council.
REPORT FOR 1903.
In presenting the Annual Report for 1903 the Council is happy to
be able to state that the Society continues in a prosperous condition,
and the increasing interest in its proceedings is shown by the steady
growth of the number of its Members.
At the Annual Meeting, held at Lewes on the 6th March, papers
were read on " A Southover Parish Book," by the Rev. W. Hudson,
F.S.A.; "The Barton or Manor Farm, Nyetimber," by Messrs. H. L. F.
Guermonprez and Philip M. Johnston. The drawings in water
colour of the mural paintings in West Ohiltington Church were
described by Mr. P. M. Johnston. Mr. E. F. Salmon exhibited a
charter for a market at Shoreham, and Mr. R. Garraway Rice, F.S.A.,
described the proposed Restoration of the Market Cross at Chichester.
A District Meeting was held at Ford and Arundel on the 23rd
June. Mr. P. M. Johnston took charge of the party and read papers
at the various points of interest in the Arun Valley. Ford and
Climping Churches were first inspected. Bailies Court, Atherington,
Tortington Church and Priory were next visited, after which the
Members inspected the FitzAlan Chapel (thrown open to the Members
by kind permission of our Vice-President, His Grace the Duke of
Norfolk, K.G.,), the Maison Dieu, Arundel, and the slight remains of
the Priory of De Calceto were also included in the programme,
Captain Kemp kindly describing their points of interest.
The Autumn Meeting was held at Cuckfield on the 8th September.
The Members drove to Cuckfield Church, which was described by the
Vicar, Canon Cooper, V.P. Cuckfield Place was the next object of
interest, where a paper was read by Canon Cooper, and after lunch at
the Talbot Hotel, the party drove to Slaugham Church, which was
described by Mr. P. M. Johnston, and the remains of Slaugham Place,
on which a paper was read by Canon Cooper. Bolney Church was
next visited and described by Mr. P. M. Johnston, after which the
Members returned to Cuckfield, where Ockenden House (kindly
thrown open to the Members by Mrs. Wrightson) was inspected, a
description of it being given by Canon Cooper.
Tea was provided by the kindness of friends at Cuckfield.
The thanks of the Society are due to those ladies and gentlemen
who, by their courteous hospitality, assisted so greatly in making the
Meeting a success.
The Council, in the Autumn, received an intimation that the Castle
Lodge, which had been occupied by the Society since the year 1885,
had been sold to Mr. Dawson, and a notice to quit at Midsummer, 1904,
was soon afterwards served by him on the Secretary. This purchase
by one of our own Members, and its consequences, took the Council
completely by surprise — as it understood that if the property
was to be sold the Society should have the option of acquiring
REPORT FOR 1903. XV.
it. The provision of suitable premises for the future is receiving
the careful consideration of the Council, and negotiations are
now in progress for obtaining a piece of land on which a new
Library, Museum, Caretaker's Booms, &c., can be erected. The
Society will, however, have to raise a sum considerably beyond its
invested fund (about £600) in order to provide adequate accommoda-
tion for its books, &c. The Council, however, hopes that, if a site
can be secured, the Members will do their best to make such new
buildings, not only more convenient than those they have been renting
for the past 19 years, but more worthy of the Society and the County.
A certain amount of trouble and inconvenience must be caused by
the removal of their property and housing it in temporary premises.
The Council deeply regret that their protest against the nature of
the ** restoration " of the nave and aisles of Walberton Church
has not met with success. Two Members of the Council, who were
deputed to examine the proposals, reported that they were of so
destructive a nature that they amounted to a virtual re-building. The
various archaeological points of interest in the Church have now almost
entirely disappeared. The Council, in view of these facts, feel it to
be due to the Sussex ArchsBological Society that this protest should
be placed on record.
The Council has much pleasure in stating that necessary repairs are
about to be undertaken at the Church of St. Thomas-^-Becket, at
Winchelsea, and no doubt, under the able supervision of Mr. Mickle-
thwaite, they will be carried out in a true conservative spirit, so as to
preserve the ancient work in this most interesting Church, and the
Council commends the same to the Members.
The Market Cross at Chichester being much decayed, the necessary
repairs were taken in hand by a local Committee and are being
executed in accordance with the advice g^ven by gentlemen nominated
by the Society of Antiquaries. The work has been done in a most
satisfactory way.
At Chichester Cathedral it is proposed, as a memorial to Arch-
deacon Mount, to repair and re-instate the Perpendicular Altar Screen
of oak, which was partially destroyed in 1 759 and wholly removed in
1866, when the existing Reredos, which is acknowledged to be out of
character with the building, was substituted. The work will be
carried out by Mr. Somers Clark, F.S.A., and is well worthy of
support by our Members.
The Council feels that some reference should be made to the
lamentable destruction of documents and pictures illustrating the
history of one of the oldest of our Sussex families in the disastrous
fire at Knepp Castle. The loss of Timothy BurrelPs Diary (of which
a large portion is printed in Vol. III. of the Collections) and of the
Burrell pictures (some of which were fortunately photographed for a
Paper in Vol. XLIII.) is especially to be regretted. The Council would
take this opportunity of urging on those who are in possession of such
priceless heirlooms to employ every means of preserving them from
fire and to also have the contents of such MSS. calendared or copied.
XVI. REPORT FOR 1903.
The Council has acquired nearly four hundred large size
negatives of Churches and objects of interest in Sussex. Many of
these are of great value, as showing Churches before restoration.
A Committee has been appointed to endeavour to arrange for, and
carry out a photographic survey of the County on similar lines to
those adopted by Warwickshire and Surrey. Mr. J. C. Stenning has
been appointed the Hon. iSecretary to the Committee, and invites the
active co-operation of our Members.
The Council has published Vol. XL VI. of the Society's Collections
for 1903, and VoL XL VII. will be published in the course of the
present year.
On working out the general plan of Lewes Priory Mr. St. John
Hope and the Hon. Secretary are not satisfied that the centre line of
the great Church has been yet accurately defined, and in order to
endeavour to settle this question some few trenches are required
through the site of the choir. It is hoped that arrangements will be
made to carry this out during the year.
His Grace the Duke of Norfolk has kindly given permission to the
Society to clear away the overlying ground from the ruins of Torting-
ton Priory, so as to obtain a perfect plan of the monastic buildings.
The Council expresses its thanks for the kind permission and proposes
to take this work in hand as soon as funds are available for the same.
The Council learns with much pleasure the purchase of Hollingbury
Camp by the Brighton Corporation, which will be preserved in its
original state.
The number of Visitors to the Castle during the year was 6,132.
The Eoll of Members at the beginning and end of the year stood as
follows: Ordinary. Life. Hon. Total.
On the Books Jan. 1st, 1903 ... . 567 . . 82 . . 6 . . 655
„ „ „ 1904 592 .. 84 .. 6 .. 682
Showing a clear gain in the year (after deducting aU losses by death,
withdrawals, &c.) of 27 Members. There were in all 55 new Members
elected during the year.
The Council has to express its sense of the loss the Society has
sustained by the death of one of its most useful Members — Mr. Latter
Parsons. He inherited from his father (who was one of the founders
of our Society) a keen interest in its welfare ; for many years he did
good service by his work on the Finance Committee, where his ability
m business matters was freely placed at our disposal, while his know-
ledge of Sussex and interest in its Archaeology made him a useful
Member of the Council.
In addition to Mr. Parsons, the Council much regrets the loss by
death amongst other Members of His Grace the Duke of Eichmond,
the Venerable Archdeacon Mount, Miss E. M. Eichards, Mr. A. E.
Buckell, Mr. T. F. Peacock, F.S.A., and Mr. W. Slade.
Balan
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\.ND LIABILITIES, DECEMBER 31st, 1903.
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f, Volumes of the Society's Collections in Stock 610 11
Life Compositions, Invested in £679. 15s. Id. at 87 Value,
31st December, 1903 591 7 8
Arrears of Subscription (£24. lOs.), estimated to realise . . 14 10
£1223 2 7
Valuable Collection of Tapestries, Antiquarian Objects and Books in their Museum and
constantly being made, which are insured for £2,600, including the Volumes
36 Society's Collections in Stock.
H. MICHELL WHITLEY,
Hon. Sec,
SUMMARY OF ADDITIONS TO MUSEUM AND LIBRAEY
DURING THE YEAR 1904.
Two Iron Hooks, presented by A. E. Griffiths, Esq.; Portion of
Iron Fire-back, presented by C. J. Attree, Esq.; Two Casts of
Sboreham Seals, presented by E. F. Salmon, Esq.; Sword found at
Southover Church, (purchased); Two Carved Stones, presented by
J. H. A. Jenner, Esq. ; Sussex Ware Butter Pat, presented by A. E.
Griffiths, Esq. ; Sussex Ware Ewer (purchased) ; Iron Candlestick
(purchased) ; some Ancient Maps, presented by Commander J. Brant ;
** Report of Brighton and Hove Natural History Society," presented
by the Society ; several Old MSS., presented by Mrs. Latter Parsons ;
Five Volumes of the "Ancestor" (purchased); "Principle of the
Somerset Domesday," presented by the Rev. T. Whale; "Illustrated
Annual Reports of the Hastings Museum," presented by W. V. Crake,
Esq.; ** Transcripts of and Records of the Past," presented by E.
Sayers, Esq.
J. H. A. JENNER,
Hon. Curator and Librarian.
CORRESPOXDDfG SOCIETIES, &c
Hie Society of Antiquaries of L on dD P .
The Royal Socktj of Antiquaries of Ireland.
The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
The Rojal Aichdogical Institute of Great Britain and Ireland.
The Royal Institation of Cornwall.
The Royal Yorkshire Archsological Society.
The British Archsological AsEociatiim.
The Bristol and Gloucestershire Archsological Society.
The Cambridge Antiquarian Society.
The Chester Archsological and Historic Society.
The Derbyshire Archsological Society.
The Essex Archsological Society.
The Kent Archsological Society.
The Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire.
The London and Middlesex Archsological Society.
The Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle-upon-T^e.
The Norfolk and Norwich Archsological Society.
The Powys-land Club.
The Somersetshire Archsological Society.
The Surrey Archsological Society.
The Shropshire Archsological and Natural History Society.
The Smithsonian Institute, U.S. America.
The Thoresby Society, Leeds.
The United Architectural Societies of Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Northampton,
Bedfordshire, Worcestershire and Leicestershire.
The Academy of History and Antiquities, Stockholm, Sweden.
The Woolwich District Antiquarian Society.
The Record Office.
The College of Arms.
The Lambeth Palace Library.
The Royal Institute of British Architects.
HONORAEY MEMBERS.
1872. Arnold, Rey. F. H., ll.d., f.s.a.. Hermitage, Emsworth, Hants.
1885. Hoffman, Dr. W. J., Smithsonian Institution, U.S. Consul, Waunheim,
Germany.
1883. Hope, William Henry St. John, m.a., Burlington House, Piccadilly, w.
189G. Read, Charles Hercules, f.s.a., Secretary s.a. Lond., 22, Carlyle Square,
Chelsea.
189G. Round, J. Horace, 15, Brunswick Terrace, Brighton.
1889. Tuppor, Richard^ Bignor Payements, near Pulborough, Sussex.
LIST OF MEMBEES.
(Bevised to October^ 1904.)
THB « DBN0TB8 LIFE COMPOUNDBB8 AND THE FIOU&BS THE DATE OF ENTRY.
NOTICES OF CHANGES OF RESIDENCE AND OF DECEASE OF MEMBERS SHOULD
BE SENT TO THE CLERK, C. O. TURNER, THE CASTLE, LEWES.
1883. *Abadie, Major-Gen. H. R., c.b.. United Service Club, Pall Mall, London,
s.w.
1902. Abbott, Lewis, f.o.s., 8, Grand Parade, St. Leonards-on-Sea.
1868. Abergavennj, The Most Hon. the Marquess of, x.o., Eridge Castle,
Tunbridge Wells.
1903. Adair, H. W. S., Cullenswood, Granville Road, Eastbourne.
1901. Adam, Rev. T. W., Rectory, Hollington, St. Leonards-on-Sea.
1896. Alderton, WiUiam Michell, Head Master, Municipal School of Science
and Art, Grand Parade, Brighton.
1869. *Alexander, W. C, Aubrey House, Camden Hill, Kensington.
1899. Allfrey, Miss K. E., Friston, Wray Common Road, Reigate.
1904. Amos, W. T., Alverston, Selhurst Road, Norwood.
1899. Andrews, J., 102, Marine Parade, Worthing.
1897. Apedaile, E. G. S., Horsham, Sussex.
1877. *Arbuthnot, W. R., Plaw Hatch, West Hoathly, Sussex.
1900. Arnold, H. H., Northlands, Hollington, Hastings.
1886. Ashbumham, Right Hon. Earl of, Ashbumham Place, Battle, Sussex.
1897. Ashdown, Charles H., f.c.s., f.r.o.s.. Monastery Close, St. Albans.
1864. AthensBum Club (Secretary), Pall Mall, London, s.w.
1901. Atkinson, Rev. G. W. Tindal, Inholmes, Burgess Hill, Sussex.
1903. Atkinson, Rev. W. R. Tindal, St. Andrew's Vicarage, Burgess Hill.
1900. *Attree, C. J., 11, East Street, Horsham, Sussex.
1876. *Attree, Col. F. W. T., r.e., f.s.a.. The Elms, Pembroke.
1898. Attree, G. P., 8, Hanover Crescent, Brighton.
1888. Aubrey-Fletcher, Rt. Hon. Sir Henry, Bart., c.b., m.p., Ham Manor,
Angmoring, Sussex.
1903. Aylmer, Captain A., St. Anne's Crescent, Lewes.
1901. Aylwood, Captain A., 56, Cambridge Road, Hove.
1904. Balfour, R., Ford Place, Arundel.
1904. Ballard, A., b.a., ll.b., Woodstock.
1899. *Baimerman, W. Bruce, f.s.a.. The Lindens, Sydenham Road, Croydon.
1857. Barchard, Francis, Horsted Place, Uckfield, Sussex, and 19, Denmark
Terrace, Brighton.
1900. Barham, Sir G., Danehurst, Hampstead, n.w.
1879. *Barron, E. J., f.s.a., 10, Endsleigh Street, Tavistock Square, London.
1857. ♦Barttelot, Brian B., Ditton, Torquay, Devon.
1900. Barttelot, Sir Walter B., Bart., Stopham House, Pulborough, Sussex.
1867. Barwell, Rev. Prebendaiy A. H. S. , f.s.a. , Blechingley House, Blechingley.
1904. Batterham, J. W., m.b., f.r.c.s., 3, Grand Parade, St. Leonards-on-Sea.
1891. Bax, Alfred Ridley, f.s.a.. Ivy Bank, Haverstock Hill, Hampstead.
1863. ♦Baxter, Wynne E., f.o.s., f.r.o.s., 9, Albion Street, Lewes.
1898. Beale, W. E., Folkington, Polegate, Sussex.
1871. Beard, Steyning, Rottingdean, Sussex.
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XXII. 8U88EX ARCHiEOLOOICAL SOCIETT.
1896. Beataon, Surffcon •General, Vicarsffrange, Eastbourne.
1899. Beckett, A. W., Anderida, Hartfleld Road, Eastbourne.
1899. Bedford, E., Newhaven, Sussex.
1890. Bedford, Edward J., Anderida, Qorrinffe Road, Eastbourne.
1902. Belcher, Rev. II., ll.d., 8t. Michaers Rectorj, Lewes.
1893. Bellmau, Rev. A. F., 8taplefleld Vicarage, near Crawley, Sussex.
1880. Bennett, Rev. lYcbcndary F. O., The Prebendal House, Chichester.
1900. Benson, Mrs. M., 5, Kt. Anne*8 Villas, Lewes.
1900. Berlin Royal Library, per Asher & Co., 13, Bedford Street, London, w.c.
1899. Bevan, Rev. R. A. C, Rectory, Hurstpierpoint, Sussex.
1893. Bevau, Richard Alexander, Horsgate, Cuckfleld, Sussex.
1895. BcTCH, Major Edward Ix^slie, Redcroft, Dyke Road, Brighton.
1901. Bicknell, A. K., Barcombc House, Barcombe, Sussex.
1877. Bigg, E. F., The Hyde, Slaugham, near Crawley, Sussex.
1897. Birmingham, City of, Free Library (per A. Capell Shaw).
1882. Bishop, M. H., St. Anue*8 Terrace, Lewes.
1894. Blaauw, Mfh., Hcathlands, Grove Road, Bournemouth, Hants.
1882. Blaker, Arthur Becket, 35, West Hill, St. Leonards-on-Sea.
1900. Blaker, R., 0, Wallauds Crescent, Lewes.
1887. Blaker, l^ederick, Warwick Street, Worthing, Sussex.
1871. BlakiMton, Very Rev. Ralph Milbum, f.s.a., The Deanery, Hadleigh,
Suffolk.
1901. Blencowe, Mrs., Bineham, Chailey, Sussex.
1873. Blunt, W. S., Crabbet Park, Worth, Three Bridges, Sussex.
1895. Boger, J. I. C., m.a., 77, Marine Parade, Brighton.
1902. Booker, Rev. J. H. L., M.A., Elmbridge Vicarage, Droitwich, Worcester-
shire.
1896. Borradaile, Charles, 3, Norfolk Terrace, Brighton.
1863. ♦Borrer, Lindfield, Henfleld, Sussex.
1894. Borrer, Major Cary, 57, Brunswick Place, Hove.
1899. Borrer, Miss, Brookliill, Cowfold, Horsham.
1882. Bourdillon, F. W., Buddington, Midhurst, Sussex.
1897. Bowden, Rev. James, Rector of Ardingly, Sussex.
1899. Bowyer, P. A., Maskeliya, Brigstock Road, Thornton Heath.
1892. Box, Stephen, Eldon House, Eldon Road, Eastbourne.
1899. Boxall, W. P. Gratwicke, k.c, m.a., Ivory's, Cowfold, Sussex.
1897. ♦Boyson, Ambrose P., f.r.o.s., f.z.s., Grove Lodge, TWng, Herts.
1889. Bray, John, Lanfranc House, St. John's Road, St. Leonuds^on-Sea.
1890. Breach, William Powell, Newham House, Steyning, Sussex.
1852. ♦Bridger, E. K., Berkeley House, Hampton, Middlesex.
1900. Briggs, H. Grisbrooke, 15, Bedford Grove, Eastbourne.
1892. Brighton Corporation (care of Hugo Talbot, Town Clerk, Town Hall,
Brighton).
1882. Brix, Mons. Camille de (Conseiller k la Cour d* Appel), 13, Rue des
Chanoiues, Caen, France.
1892. Broad, John, Ashford, Kent.
1888. Brooke, Edward, Ufford Place, Woodbridge, Suffolk.
1896. Brown, Edward Harley, 57, Carlisle Mansions, London, s.w.
1903. Brown, H. J., 4, Trafalgar Square, London, w.c.
1863. Brown, J. EUman, Buckingham Lodge, Shoreham, Sussex.
1902. Brown, Mrs. Mellor, Beckworth, Lindfield, Sussex.
1902. Brown, Miss Mellor, Beckworth, Lindfield, Sussex.
1873. Browne, H. Doughty, Tilgate Forest Lodge, Crawley, Sussex.
1894. Brydone, Reginald Marr, Petworth, Sussex.
1897. Buckwell, G. W., Board of Trade Offices, Barrow-in-Furness.
1892. Buckwell, John C, North Gate House, Pavilion, Brighton,
1897. Bull, WiUiam, 75, St. Aubyns, West Brighton.
1896. Burdon, Rev. R. J., The Vicarage, Arundel, Sussex.
1898. Bum, G. M., Cowes, Isle of Wight.
1900. Burrell, Sir M. Raymond, Bart., b.a., Knepp Castle, Horsham
1893. Burt, Henry, London Road, Burgess Hill, Sussex.
1894. Burt, Rev. Emile, S. Philips, Arundel, Sussex.
U8T OF MEMBEB6. XXIU.
1877. Burton, Alfred H., St. Lconards-on-Sea, Sussex.
1902. Butt, G. W., Wilburj, Beach Road, LitUehampton, Sussex.
1899. Butts, H. H., Easebourue, Midhurst, Sussex.
1897. Campbell, Mrs. Finlay, Biantridge, Cuckfield.
1870. Campion, W. H., Dannj Park, Hurstpierpoint, Sussex.
1863. Card, Henry, 10, North Street, Lewes.
1895. Cash, Joseph, Stanmer, Church Road, Hove, Brighton.
1897. Cato, T. Butler, m.a., f.l.s., 20, Stanley Crescent, Netting Hill, w.
1900. Catt, Newnham R., Uph&dhi, Beacon Road, Heme Bay.
1904. Catt, Miss J. Willett, Sunte House, Lindfield.
1891. *Caye, Charles, Ditcham Park, Petersfleld, Hants.
1897. Cawthom, F. T., 57, Freshfield Road, Brighton.
1860. Chambers, G, F., f.r.a.s., Lethen Grange, Sydenham, Kent, s.s.
1898. Champion, C. Goble, Deans Place, Alfriston, Sussex.
1897. Champion, F. C. Gumey, 3, Pavilion Buildings, Brighton.
1903. Champneys, F. H., m.d.. The Highlands, Nutley, and 42, Upper Brook
Street, London, w.
1902, Chapman, C. J., 34, Upper North Street, Brighton.
1901. Charrington, H. W., St. Helens, 23, Park Crescent, Brighton.
1900. Cheal, H., Jun., 37, Warleigh Road, Brighton. j
1852. *Chetwynd, Hon. Mrs. Charles, Cissbury, Ascot Heath, Berkshire.
1896. Chichester, the Right Rev. The Lord Bishop of. The Palace, Chichester. i
1852. Chichester Library Society (Secretary), Chichester. ']
1901. Chilyer, Miss A., Gate House, Midhurst, Sussex. \
1894. Chippindall-Healey, Captain John Henry, 25, Loma Road, Hove. . I
1897. Christie, A. L., Tapley Park, Instow, N. Devon. 1
1903. Christie, E. R., 2, Manor Road, Kemp Town, Brighton. , [
1881. Churton, Rev. Theodore T., The Rectory, Bexhill, Sussex. i
1878. Clark, J. C, 9, Marlborough Place, Brighton.
1890. Clarke, Charles, Boltro RcnmI, Hayward's Heath, Sussex.
1895. Clarke, Mrs. Stephenson, Brook House, Hayward's Heath, Sussex.
1895. *Clarke, R. Stephenson, Borde Hill, Hayward's Heath, Sussex.
1894. Clarke, Mrs. Cecil Somers, 5, Montpellier Terrace, Brighton.
1896. Clarke, Ronald Stanley, f.r.o.s., Rotherhill, Stedham, Midhurst.
1866. *Clarke, Somers, p.s.a., 15, Dean's Yard, Westminster, s.w.
1879. Clayton, Charles E., 10, Prince Albert Street, Brighton,
1898. Cockbum, W. H., 1-, Duke Street, Brighton.
1889. Codrington, Rev. Prebendary R. H., d.d., 54, South Street, Chichester.
1903. Cogan, W. P., North Pallant, Chichester.
1868. Colchester, Lord, f.s.a., 49, Eaton Place, London, s.w. ; and Carlton Club.
1898. Cole, C. W., r.n., Normaston, Cloudesley Road, St. Leonards.
1900. Coleridge, H. J., Abberton, Hurstpierpoint.
1856. *Coles, J. H. C, Claremont, Denton Road, Eastbourne.
1889. Collet, Golding B., Shelley House, Worthing, Sussex.
1904. CoUett, Miss F. M., 8, Marlborough Place, Brighton.
1901. Columbia University, U.S.A. (per G. E. Stechert, 2, Star Yard, Carey
Street, Loudon, w.c).
1898. Combe, Harvey T. B., Oaklands, Seddlescombe, Battle. *
1900. *Comber, J., High Steep, Jarvis Brook.
1901. Constable, A. J., The Lodge, Littlehampton, Sussex.
1898. Conway, E. F., The Knoll, HoUington, Hastings.
1899. Cook, Miss B., The Hall, Nutley, Sussex.
1899. Cook, Miss F., The Hall, Nutley, Sussex.
1904. Cooke, E. M., Tankerville, Kingston Hill, Surrey.
1890. Cooper, Rev. Canon James Hughes, Cuckfield, Sussex.
1890. Cooper, Rev. T. S., f.s.a., Cliiddingfold, Godalming.
1889. Corbett, J. R., More Place, Betchworth, Surrey. ^ i
1885. Cotching, Alexander, West Lodge, Horsham, Sussex.
1888. Cotesworth, W. G., Roeheath, Chailey, Sussex.
1889. Couchman, J. Edwin, Dovm House, Hurstpierpoint, Hassocks, Sussex.
1873, Couling, H., 1, Grand Avenue Mansions, West Brighton,
XXIV. SUSSEX AECttfiOLOGICAL SOCIETY.
1892. Courthope, P. G., Southover, Lewes.
1846. ♦Courthope, G. J., WhiUgh, Hawkhurst.
1899. Cow, J., Elfinsward, Hayward's Heath, Sussex.
1877. ♦Cowan, T. W., p.l.s., f.o.s., f.r.m.s., Pacific Grove, California, U.S.A.
1892. Crake, William Vandeleur, Highland Cottage, Essenden Road, St.
Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex.
1890. Crawfurd, Robert Payne, Baidland, Seaf oid ; and East Court, East
Grinstead.
1902. Crewdson, W., m.a., p.s.a.. South Side, St. Leonards-on-Sea.
1894. ♦Cripps, Edward, High Street, Steyning, Sussex.
1892. Cripps, F. S., 4, The Steyne, Worthing.
1896. Cripps, John Marten, 7, HiUtop Road, West Hampstead.
1889. Crosskey, Mrs. Robert, Sunnyside, Newport, Barnstaple, Devon.
1886. CunlifPe, Edward S., 66, The Drive, West Brighton.
1862. ♦Curling, George, Elgin House, Addiscombe Road, Croydon, Surrey.
1860. Currey, E. C, St. Anne's Crescent, Lewes.
1886. Currie, Very Rev. E. R., Dean of Battle, Deanery, Battle, Sussex.
1896. Curteis, Herbert, Windmill Hill Place, Hailsham, Sussex.
1890. Curwen, Eldred, Withdean Court, Brighton.
1899. Dalton, Rev. W. E., The Vicarage, Glynde, Sussex.
1894. Danby, Mrs. T. W., The Crouch, Seaford, Sussex.
1863. ♦Daniel-Tyssen, A., m.a., 59, Priory Road, West Hampstead.
1899. Darby, Miss C. C, Knowls Tooth, Hurstpierpoint.
1902. Darling, W. H., 21, New Dorset Street, Brighton.
1901. Davie, W. Galsworthy, 2, Royal Terrace, Warrior Square, Hastings.
1870. Davey, Rev. Chancellor H. M., m.a., f.o.s., f.s.a., Cawley Priory,
Chichester, Sussex.
1871. ♦Davies, Miss, 2, South Eaton Place, London, s.w.
1886. Dawes, William, Wannock, Rye, Sussex.
1892. Dawson, Charles, f.o.s., f.s.a., TJckfield, Sussex.
1891. Deane, Rev. Prebendary, m.a.. Vicar of Ferring, Worthing, Sussex.
1878. Dearsly, Rev. W. A. St. John, Swaffham Prior, Cambridge.
1890. Deedes, Rev. Canon Cecil, 32, Little London, Chichester.
1857. Delves, W. Henry, 23, Mount Sion, Tunbridge Wells.
1894. De Mey, Madame, Park House, Eastbourne.
1882. Denman, S., 27, Queen's Road, Brighton.
1897. Denne, Major A. B., Chief Inspector of Explosives, Johannesburg, Trans-
vaal, South Africa.
1898. Dennett, Mrs., Champion House, Southwick, Sussex.
1902. Deunison, T., West Vale, Arundel Road, Eastbourne.
1895. Devonshire, His Grace the Duke of, k.o., Compton Place, Eastbourne.
1903. Dibley, Colonel, Gaveston Place, Nuthurst, Horsham.
1862. Dixon, Miss M. M., North Highlands, Hayward's Heath, Sussex.
1902. Dolan, R. T., 31, Enys Road, Eastbourne.
1898. Downs, Mrs., Hamsey Cottage, Blatchington, Seaford, Sussex.
1900. Druce, G. C, Ravenscar, The Downs, Wimbledon.
1903. Duke, F., Charlton House, Steyning.
1873. Dunkin, E. H. W., f.s.a., 70, Heme Hill, London, s.b. ; and The Heath,
Fairlight, Hastings.
1901. Dumford, Miss, Midhurst, Sussex.
1903. Dyer, F. B., 2, St. Andrew's Place, Lewes.
1903. Dyer, Rev. H. J., M.A., The Rectory, Isfield.
1898. Eade, A. F. W., York Lodge, Shoreham, Sussex.
1904. Eadon, Rev. J. E., Westboume, Emsworth.
1897. Eastbourne Town Council (care of H. W. Fovargue, Town Clerk).
1874. ♦Easton, E., 7, Delahay Street, Westminster, s.w.
1851. ♦Eden, Rev. Arthur, m.a., Vicarage, Ticehurst, Hawkhurst.
1900. Edwards, H. Powell, Novington Manor, near Lewes.
1881. Eggar, T., Moungomeries, 30, Brunswick Road, Hove.
1903. EUiott, Rev. D. Lee, The Rectory, Southover, Lewes.
LldT Of* MEMBERS. XXV.
1857. ElUott, Robert, Little Hothfield, Ashfoid, Kent.
1896. Ellis, Geoftrejy High Mead, Brittanj Road, St. Leonards-on-Sea.
1893. Ellis, Mrs., Walstead, School Hill, Lewes.
1890. Ellis, William Jenner, Eing*s Cliffe, Beacon Oak Road, Tenterden, Kent.
1850. Ellman, Rey. E. B., m.a., "Die Rectory, Berwick, Sussex.
1861. Elphinstone, Sir Howard W., Struan, Augusta Road, Wimbledon Park,
Surrey.
1870. *Elwes, D. G. C, p.s.a., care of Rev. Dr. Robinson, 83, Linden Gardens,
London, w.
1871. Elwes, H. T., Fir Bank, West Hoathly, Sussex.
1904. Elwes, Ven. Archdeacon E. L., Woolbeding Rectory, Midhurst.
1850. Emary, H, M., Pevensey Road, Eastbourne.
1881. Esdaile, J. Kennedy, Hazelwood, Horsted Keynes, Sussex.
1899. Eustace, G. W., m.a., m.d., Carleton House, Arundel, Sussex.
1897. Evans, J. Meredyth, Hove Pork Villas, Hove.
1873. *Evan8, Sir J., k.c.b., ll.d., d.c.l., f.r.s., v.p.s.a., Nash Mills, Hemel
Hempstead, Herts.
1894. Every, John Henry, The Croft, Lewes.
1863. Famcombe, Joseph, Saltwood, Spencer Road, Eastbourne.
1881. Famcombe, Richard, 183, Belgrave Street, Balsall Heath, Birmingham.
1893. Famcombe, Miss, 183, Belgrave Street, Balsall Heath, Birmingham.
1894. Famcombe, Edgar Leonard, 183, Belgrave Street, Balsall Heath, Birming-
ham.
1900. Farrant, Sir R., Rockhurst, West Hoathly, Sussex.
1900. Felton, W. V., Sandgate, Pulborough.
1897. Fibbens, Charles, Thistle Down, Flndon, Worthing.
1901. Field, Rev. S. B,, Patcham Vicarage, Brighton.
1904. Finch, H., Bank House, Arundel.
1904. Firmin, Boys, Wynscote, Crowborough.
1892. Fisher, R. C, Hill Top, Midhurst, Sussex.
1895. Fisher, Rev. Robert, Groombridge Vicarage, Sussex.
1881. ♦Fisher, Samuel Timbrell, 16, Old Queen Street, Westminster, s.w.
1882. Fitz-Hugh, Major-General Henry Terrick, Streat Place, Hurstpieipoint.
1887. *Fletcher, Rev. F. C. B., Mundham Vicarage, Chichester.
1888. *Fletcher, W. H. B., Aldwick Manor, Bognor, Sussex.
1862. ♦Foyster, Rev. Prebendary H. B., m.a., St. Clement's Rectory, Hastings.
1864. ♦Foyster, Rev. G. A., m.a.. All Saints, Hastings.
1892. Frankland, Col. Colville, 67, Brunswick Place, Hove ; and Junior United
Service Club, London.
1903. Franks, T. W., Tyne House, Lewes.
1890. Eraser, Rev. Preb. James, m.a.. Rector, Eastergate, St. George, Chichester.
1864. ♦Freshfield, Edwin, v.p.s.a., 5, Bank Buildings, London.
1897. ♦Frost, E., Chesterfield, Meads, Eastbourne.
1902. Frewen, Moreton, Brede Place, Brede, Sussex.
1871. Fuller, Rev. A., m.a.. The Lodge, Sydenham Hill, s.e.
1901. Gadsdon, C. R., Ashbrook Park, Hollington, St. Leonards.
1904. Gadsdon, H. B., Whitelands, Easeboume, Midhurst.
1878. Gage, The Right Hon. Viscount, Firle Park, Lewes.
1895. GMdner, H. Dent, f.r. met. soc, f.r.g.s., Fairmead, The Goffs, Eastbourne.
1867. Gamham, Colonel, Densworth House, Chichester.
1898. Gates, WiUiam, School HiU, Lewes.
1904. German, H., Blenheim House, Church Street, Brighton.
1898. Gibson, Rev. R. D., Orchard Road, Eastbourne.
1895. Gilbert, C. Davies, Manor House, Eastbourne.
1899. Gillett, F., 3, Gildredge Road, Eastbourne.
1901. Glennie, Rev. A. H., Lavant Rectory, Chichester.
1899. Glover, J. Gower, 10, Rylstone Road, Eastbourne.
1895. Godfrey, Captain Goodhart, Ivy Hatch, Horsham, Sussex.
1902. Godlee, J. Lister, Wakes Colne Place, Essex.
1885. ♦Godman, Charles B., Woldringfold, Horsham, Sussex.
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XXVm. SUSSEX ARCR£OLOOICAL SOCIETY.
1903. King, J. F. C, The Lodge, Blindley Heath, South Godstone, Suirey.
1899. King, J. Gk)dwin, Stonelands, West Hoathly.
1887. Knipe, Henry R., 9, Linden Park, Tunbridge Wells.
1901. Lacaita, C. C, Selham House, Selham, near Petwoith.
1904. Lambe, Mrs M., Borden Wood, Liphook.
1886. Lambe, R., Blatchington, Seaford, Sussex.
1852. Lane, Henry C, Middleton, Hassocks, Sussex.
1901. Lane, Mrs., Dangstein, Fetersfield.
1902. Lascelles, Lieut. -Colonel H. A.,Woolbeding House, Woolbeding, Midhurst.
1861. ♦Leach, Ml5«, Apsley, Upper Bridge Road, Redhill, Surrey.
1893. Leadam, W. W., m.d., 167, Gloucester Terrace, Hyde Park, London, w.
1899. Leatham, C. A., Windmill Lodge, Mill Road, Eastbourne.
1888. Lee, Arthur, Westfield House, Lewes.
1879. Legge, C. E., Ashling House, Chichester.
1898. Legge, W. Heneage, Ringmer, Sussex.
1904. Lennard, Rev. H. L., The Rectory, Crawley.
1863. ♦Leslie, C. S., 11, Chanonry, Old Aberdeen.
1898. Levy, Lewis, 39, Jevington Gardens, Eastbourne.
1855. Lewes Fitzroy Memorial Free Library, Lewes.
1892. I^wis, John, c.e., f.s.a., Fairholme, Maresfield.
1870. Library Congress, Washington, U.S. (care of E. G. Allen, American
Agency, 28, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, London, w.c).
1900. Lincoln*s Inn Library, Lincoln*s Inn, London, W.C.
1876. ♦Linington, G. E., Stagsdene, Buckhurst Hill, Essex.
1899. Lintott, W., St. Anne's Crescent, Lewes.
1870. Lister, John J., Waminglid Grange, Hayward's Heath, Sussex.
1903. Livesay, G. H. P., Woodleigh, Worthing.
1889. Lloyd, Alfred, f.c.s., f.e.s.. The Dome, Bognor, Sussex.
1902. Lockhart, A. W., f.r. hist.s., Christ's Hospital, West Horsham.
1894. Loder, Gerald W. E., m.p., Wakehurst Place, Ardingly.
1863. London Corporation Library Committee (Librarian), Guild Hall, London.
1886. London Library (C. T. Hagberg Wright, Librarian), St. James* Square, w.
1899. Loveband, Rev. W., m.a.. Vicarage, Ifield, Crawley.
1888. ♦Lucas, C. J., Warnham Court, Horsham, Sussex.
1898. Lucas, J., Foxhunt Manor, W^dron, Sussex.
1893. Lucas, Mrs., Castle Precincts, Lewes.
1877. ♦Luttman -Johnson, J. A., 13, Delahay Street, Westminster, s.w.
1899. Luxford, J. S. O. Robertson, Higham House, Robertsbridge, Sussex.
1886. Maberly, Major Thomas Astley, Mytten, Cuckfield, Sussex.
1904. MacDermott, Rev. K. H., The Vicarage, Bosham.
1883. Macfarlane, J. B., 49, East Street, Brighton.
1904. Maitland, F. J., Friston Place, East Dean, Sussex.
1886. Maiden, Major Henry Charles, Copse Edge, Godalmiug.
1893. March, The Right Hon. the Earl of, Goodwood, Chichester.
1876. Margesson, Miss, The Hayes, Northiam, Sussex.
1876. Margesson, Miss H. A., Bolney Lodge, Hayward*s Heath, Sussex.
1901. Marshall, Miss D. E. G. Don, Chithurst, Sussex.
1901. Marshall, Rev. W., m.a.. The Rectory, Ewhurst, Hawkhurst.
1881. Martin, Charles, The Watch Oak, Battle, Sussex.
1903. Martin, W., m.a., ll.d., ll.b., 2, Garden Court, Temple, e.c.
1899. Mathews, H. J., 43, Bnmswick Road, Hove.
1890. ♦Matthews, Miss M. E., 4, Medina Terrace, West Brighton.
1890. May, F. J. C, c.b., 25, Compton Avenue, Brighton.
1899. McAndrew, J., Holly HiU, Coleman's Hatch, Tunbridge Wells.
1901. Measures, R. I., The Limes, Uckfield; and Cambridge Lodge, Flodden
Road, Camberwell, s.e.
1893. ♦Mee, Mrs., The Chantry, Westboume, Emsworth, Hants.
1904. Mee, Rev. J. H., m.a., Tlie Chantry, Westboume, Emsworth.
1879. ♦Melville, Robert, 8, Argyle Road, Kensington, w.
1864. Merrifield, F., 24, Vernon Terrace, Brighton.
LIST OF MEMBERS. XXIX.
1902. Messel, L., Balcombe House, Balcombe.
1899. Miles, J., High Street, Lewes.
1868. ♦Milner, Rev. J., 116, Elgin Road, Addiscombe, London, w.
1858. Mitchell, Rev. H., m.a., f.s.a., 37, St. David's Road, Southsea.
1873. ♦Mivart, St. Greorge, f.r.s., 77, Ivemess Terrace, London, w.
1886. Molineux, Major H. P., f.o.s., Old Bank, Lewes; and 44, Carlitde Road,
Eastbourne.
1900. Monk, Mrs., High Street, St. Anne*s, Lewes.
1904. Montgomerie, D. H., King's College, London.
1899. Montgomery, J.^ The Grammar School, Uckfield, Sussex.
1902. Moor, Rev. Gerald, Belvedere, Montpelier Road, Brighton.
1900. Moore, T. R., 49, Seaside Road, Eastbourne.
1893. Moro, His Grace the Duke de, Hill Hall, Theydon Mount, Essex.
1897. Morris, Cecil H., School Hill, Lewes.
1897. Morris, H. C. L., m.d., f.b.g.s., Gothic Cottage, Bognor.
1891. Mortlock, Rev. C. F., South Bersted Vicarage, Bognor, Sussex.
1899. Mullens, W. H., m.a., Westfield Place, Battle, Sussex.
1899. Murray, W. Hay, 24, Gildredge Road, Eastbourne.
1851. Napier, Rev. Prebendary C.W. A., m.a., Rectory, Wiston, Steyning, Sussex.
1904. Nash, Rev. E. H., The Vicarage, Firle.
1903. Newington, F., 208, School Hill, Lewes.
1895. ♦Newington, Mrs. C, Oakover, Ticehurst, Sussex.
1863. ♦NichoUs, H., m.a.. Mill Road, Deal, Kent, and Brownings, Billlngshurst,
Sussex.
1904. Nicholson, W. E., High Street, Lewes.
1896. Nightingale, Rev. W. R., The Vicarage, Selmeston, Sussex.
1881. ♦Noakes, Frederic, St. Mary's Villas, Battle, Sussex.
1870. Norfolk, His Grace the Duke of, e.m., k.o., Arundel Castle, Arundel.
1896. Norman, Rev. Samuel James, South Lawn, Chichester.
1892. Norman, Simeon, London Road, Burgess Hill, Sussex.
1903. Ockenden, M., a.m.i.m.e., 126, Southwark Street, London, s.e.
1899. Ogle, Rev. J. L., m.a., Aecen Gill, Forest Row, Sussex.
1903. ♦Oke, A. W., b.a., ll.m., f.o.s., f.l.s., 8, Cumberland Place, Southampton,
and 32, Denmark Villas, Hove.
1903. Oliver, E. Ward, New Place, Lingfield, Surrey.
1868. Orme, Rev. J. B., m.a., Rectory, Angmering, Sussex.
1892. Ormerod, Arthur L., 99, Holywell, Oxford.
1901. Osborne, Sir Francis, Bart., The Grange, Framfield.
1898. Owen, R. K. W., m.a., Highfleld, Upper Maze Hill, St. Leonards-on-Sea.
1896. Packham, Arthur B., 11, Caledonian Road, Brighton.
1897. Padwick, Henry, m.a.. Manor House, Horsham.
1899. Pagden, Miss F. A., Alfriston, Sussex.
1897. Pannett, A. R., Church Road, Hayward's Heath.
1858. Paris, G. de, 14, Norfolk Road, Brighton.
1881. ♦Parkin, Thomas, m.a., f.r.o.s., Fairseat, High Wickham, Hastings.
1885. Parrington, Rev. J. W., Chichester.
1881. Parsons, John, King Henry's Road, the Wallands, Lewes.
1903. Parsons, Mrs. Latter, 37, Putteney Street, Bath.
1881. Parsons, Thomas, Yokehurst, East Chiltington, Lewes.
1870. Patching, E. C, Belfort, Liverpool Gardens, Worthing, Sussex.
1897. Patching, F. W., West House, Shelley Road, Worthing.
1896. Patching, John, 139, Ditchling Rise, Brighton.
1897. Paxon, Arthur, 4p, Montague Mansions, Portman Square, London, w.
1901. Peacey, Rev. Prebendary, The Vicarage, Hove.
1901. Peachey, Miss B. M., Copthome, Crawley.
1879. ♦Peckham, Rev. Harry J., Nutley Vicarage, Uckfield, Sussex.
1898. Peel, E. L., 45, Cadogan Place, London, s.w.
1898. Pemberton, Mrs. Leigh, Abbots Leigh, Hayward's Heath.
1858, ♦Peufold, Hugh, m.a., Rustington, Worthing, Sussex,
XXX. SUSSEX ABCH^OLOOICAL SOdETT.
1898. Penney, S. Bickman, Larkbarrow, Dyke Road Drive, Biigliton.
1898. Phillips, Mrs. C. T., 40, Tissbury Road, Hove, Sussex.
1901. Phillips, Maberly, f.s.a., Pevensey, Enfield, Middlesex.
1904. Phillips, Rev. J. P. Bacon, The Rectory, Crowhurst.
1900. Pickard, T. W., Glynde, Lewes.
1904. PifEaid, E. J. G., Clarence Road, Horsham.
1897. Piper, Alderman, Oakwood, Chesswood Road, Worthing.
1900. Plummer, A., Pevenhill, Eastbourne.
1904. Plummer, H., Lyntonville, Hayward's Heath.
1899. Podmore, E. Boyce, Manor House, Kingston-by-Sea, Sussex.
1892. Poland, Rev. Eustace B., St. Philip's Vicarage, Burwash Weald.
1897. Popley, W. Hulbert, 13, Pavilion Buildings, Brighton.
1904. Porter, W. P., Steyne Mansion, Worthing.
1904. Postlethwaite, Mrs., 30, Knightsbridge, London, s.w.
1904. Postlethwaite, Miss, 30, Knightsbridge, London, s.w.
1903. Potter, H. R., 89, Lansdowne Place, Hove.
1885. Potter, Walter, Northcliffe, Stamford Road, Brighton.
1899. Powell, E. C, Red Lodge, 86, Drayton Gardens, London, s.w.
1887. Powell, Rev. Clement, Rectory, Newick, Sussex.
1886. ♦Powell, C. W., Speldhurst, Tunbridge Wells.
1864. Powell, J. C, SeMeld, East Grinstead, Sussex.
1890. Powell, Hubert John, Hill Lodge, St. Ann*s, Lewes.
1848. Powell, James D., High Hurst, Newick, Sussex.
1899. Powell, W. W. Richmond, Old Dover House, Canterbury
1902. Pownall, Rev. G. S., The Rectory, Buxted.
1902. Pownall, H. H., The Ades, Chailey.
1903. Pratt, C. de M. Caulfield, The Hermitage, Buxted.
1881. Pratt, J. C, Southlands, Warninglid, Haywfmi's Heath, Sussex.
1903, Pryce, H. Vaughan, M.A., 54, Sackville Gardens, Hove.
1903. Pryce, Rev. B. Vaughan, m.a., 20, York Crescent Road, Clifton, Bristol.
1898. Puttick, Rev. J., Rectory, Kingston-by-Sea, Sussex.
1903. Quinnell, R., Dewbrook, Blackboys.
1894. RafEety, J. H., The Acre, West Worthing, Sussex.
1888. Ramsbotham, Major John, Stony Royd, Ilkley, Yorkshire.
1882. Randall, Mrs. H. L., Cocking Rectory, Midhurst, Sussex.
1900. Randall, Rev. H. L., The Rectory, Cocking, Midhurst, Sussex.
1894. Randall, Very Rev. R. W., 19, Earl's Court Square, London, s.w.
1872. Raper, W. A., Battle, Sussex.
1902. Ray, J. E., Maplesdene, St. George's Road, Bexhill.
1882. Rendell, Rev. Arthur Medland, St. Margaret's Vicarage, Leicester.
1893. Renshaw, Walter C, ll.m., k.c, Sandrocks, near Hayward's Heath,
Sussex ; and 39, Queen's Gardens, Lancaster Gate, London, w.
1899. ♦Renton, J. Hall, Rowfield Grange, Billingshurst, Sussex.
1877. Rice, R. Gartaway, f.s.a., 23, Cyril Mansions, Prince of Wales' Road,
London, s.w. ; and Carpenter's Hill, Pulborough, Sussex.
1901. Richardson, F. R., 4, Adelaide Crescent, Hove.
1893. Richmond and Gordon, His Grace the Di^e of, k.o. , Goodwood, Chichester.
1899. Rickard, Rev. H., Westgate, Chichester.
1884. Rickman, John Thornton, Mailing Lane, Lewes.
1876. Ridge, L. W., 5, Verulam Buildings, Gray's Inn, London, w.c.
1889. Rigg, Herbert A., m.a., f.s.a., Wallhurst Manor, Cowfold, Horsham,
Sussex ; and 12, Stanhope Place, Hyde Park, London, w.
1902. Roberts, Rev. A. J., Hartmg Vicarage, Petersfield, Hants.
1892. Robertson, Percy Tindal, 84, Porchester Terrace, London, w.
1896. Robinson, J. J., Managing Editor, West Stissex Gazette, Arundel.
1901. Rodmell, G., 26, Arlington Street, Hull.
1893. Roemer, Baron C. H. von. Lime Park, Hailsham, Sussex.
1882. Ross, Mrs., Tudor Houpe, St. Helen's Road, Hastings.
1904. Rosser, Colonel H., 24, Sillwood Road, Brighton.
1897. Royal Institution of Great Britain, Albermarle Street, London, w.
LIST OF MEMBERS. XXXI.
1901. Koyal Library, Stockholm, Sweden (per Sampson Low, Marston & Co.,
St. Dunstan's House, London, e.g.).
1890. Royston, Rev. Peter, Rectory, Orton Longueville, Peterborough, Northants.
1901. Runtz, E., Manor House, Kingston, Lewes.
1858. Rush, Mrs., Leighton, Hatherley Crescent, Sidcup.
1898. Russell, W. C, Haremere, Etchingham, Sussex.
1866. Rutter, Joseph, m.d., Codrington House, Western Road, Brighton.
1901. Saints, the Misses, Groombridge Place, Kent.
1898. Salmon, E. F., 28, Victoria Road, Shoreham.
1896. Salzmann, L. F., Woodlands, Hope Park, Bromley, Surrey.
1883. Sanderson, Rev. Preb. Edward, Rectory, Uckfield, Sussex.
1900. Sands, H., Graythome, Tenterden, Kent.
1895. Sankey, Percy E., 44, Russell Square, London.
1903. Sargeant, A. R., 55, The Drive, Hove.
1882. ♦Sawyer, John, 12, Sudeley Street, Kemp Town, Brighton.
1894. Sayer-Milward, Rev. W. C, Fairlight Place, Ore.
1898. Sayers, E., Terringes, Worthing.
1896. Scarlett, Harry, ll.«., Preston House, Firle, Lewes.
1898. Scott, Rev. H. von Essen, South Lynn, Eastbourne.
1891. Scrase-Dickins, Charles Robert, d.l., Coolhurst, Horsham, Sussex.
1900. Seligman, Mrs., Shoyswell Manor, Etchingham, Sussex.
1869. Selmes, James, Lossenham, Newenden, Ashford, Kent.
1898. Sergison, C. Warden, Slaugham Place, Crawley.
1900. Shaw, Rev. W. F., West Stoke, Chichester.
1875. Shenstone, F. S., Sutton Hall, Barcombe, Sussex.
1846. Shiffner, Rev. Sir G. Croxton, Bart., m.a., Coombe Place, Lewes.
1903. Sim, F.W., Rock, Washington, Pulborough.
1902. Shoosmith, E. Claver, The Wallands, Lewes.
1898. Simmons, Miss, High Street, Lewes.
1904. Slade, E. F., Bracken Fell, Hassocks.
1902. Slaughter, F., Jarvis, Steyning.
1904. Smee, Miss Sylvia, 139, New Bond Street, London, w.
1904. Smee, A. R., 139, New Bond Street, London.
1901. Smith, Gregory D., Fair Haven, Burwash, Sussex.
1900. Smith, H. M., 13, South Street, Worthing.
1903. Smith, Miss J. Elliott, OfPerton, Forest Row.
1860. Smith, W. J., North Street, Brighton.
1893. Smith, Alderman William, Ivy Bank, St. John's, Chichester.
1902. Smitton, Mrs. E. K., Maplesden, Ticehurst, Sussex.
1879. Snewin, H. E., Park Road, Worthing, Sussex.
1895. ♦Somerset, A. F., Castle Goring, Worthing.
1900. South, F. W. B., Cressex Lodge, Silverhill, St. Leonards-on-Sea.
1897. South Kensington Museum, ** Board of Education '* (per Secretary).
1862. ♦Sperling, Rev. J. H., m.a.
1878. Springett, Edmund S.. Ashfield, Hawkhurst.
1898. Sprott, H., Maganelda, Crowborough.
1903. Standen, Gilbert, 34, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, London.
1904. ♦Stanford, C. Thomas, Preston Manor, Brighton.
1897. Stapley, F. H., Sultan House, Eastbourne.
1882. Steggall, Mrs., The Croft, Southover, Lewes.
1876. ♦Stenning, A. H., East Grinstead, Sussex ; and St. Stephen's Club,
Westminster, s.w.
1866. Stenning, J. C, Steel Cross House, Tunbridge Wells.
1893. Stephenson, Mill, f.s.a., 14, Ritherdon Road, Tooting, s.w.
1903. Stevens, F. Bentham, Gamolds, Cuckfield.
1892. Stillwell, Major E. W., Thome House, Handcomb, Hastings.
1903. Stockwell, Miss L., 97, Oakwood Court, Melbury Road, Kensington.
1858. Stone, F. W., Carlton Lodge, Tunbridge Wells.
1867. Streatfeild, R. J., The Rocks, Uckfield, Sussex.
1901. Streatfeild, Rev. W. C, m.a., St. Peter's Vicarage, St. Leonards-on-Sea.
1900. Street, E. E., f.s.a., St. Martin's House, Chichester.
XXXU. SUSSEX ARCRffiOLOGICAL SOCIETY.
1872. Strickland, W., Hailsham, Sussex.
1897. Strong, Dr. H. J., CJolonnade House, Worthing.
1890. ♦Sturdy, William, PaxMll Park, Lindfield, Sussex.
1894. Sullivan, Michael, School of Art, Brassey Institute, Hastings.
1854. Sutton, Ven. Archdeacon R., m.a., The Vicarage, Pevensey, Hastings.
1886. Sutton, Thomas, 55, South Street, Eastbourne.
1892. Taylor, Henry Herbert, 10, Brunswick Place, Hove, Brighton.
1848. Thomas, W. Brodrick, 52, Wimpole Street, London, w.
1888. Thompson, Rev. W. Oswell, 15, Eaton Gardens, Hove.
1904. Thorowgood, Miss H., Springfield, Bognor.
1903. Timms, W. J., Talybent, Shakespere Road, Worthing.
1898. Tipp, H. F., 6, Hindon Street, Belgravia, London, s.w.
1903. Tower, B. H., Lancing College, Lancing.
1896. Towner, John Chisholm, 3, Burlington Place, Eastbourne.
1894. Tree, Philip H., Leckhampton, Hollington Park, St. Leonards-on-Sea.
1899. Trist, G. A., Prestwood, Ifield, near Crawley.
1903. Trollope, W. T. , Tunbridge Wells Natural History Society, Hawthomdene^
Timbridge Wells.
1899. Tubbs, Mrs. L. C, Caple-ne-feme, St. Leonards-on-Sea.
1899. Tuppenney, F., La Haye, Laton Road, Hastings.
1903. Turner, Mrs. Hampden, Ley ton House, Cuckfield.
1903. Tyacke, G. A., West Gate, Chichester.
1894. Ullathome, William G., Colinton, Vineyard Hill Road, Wimbledon Park,
London, s.w.
1887. Urlin, R. Denny, f.s.s.. The Grange, Rustington, near Worthing ; and
22, Stafford Terrace, Phillimore Gardens, London, w.
1892. Veasey, Mrs., Over Hall, Colne, Engaine, Essex.
1897. Verrall, W., Famcombe Road, Worthing.
1902. Vine, H. T., 9, Terminus Road, Eastbourne.
1899. Vipan, Major C., d.s.o.. Ford Bank, St. Leonards-on-Sea.
1899. Waddington, J., Ely Grange, Frant.
1863. ♦Wagner, H., p.s.a., 13, Half-Moon Street, Piccadilly, London, w.
1896. *Walker, Charles W., Holmshurst, Burwash, Sussex.
1898. Wallis, W. L., The Wish, Eastbourne.
1871. Warren, John, ll.b., b.a., Handcross Park, Crawley, Sussex.
1858. Warren, Reginald A., Preston Place, Worthing, Sussex.
1896. Warren, Captain A. R., Warrenfield, Emsworth, Hants.
1879. Watson, ]Mrs., Minsted, Midhurst, Sussex.
1857. Waugh, Edward, Cuckfield, Sussex.
1899. Wedgwood, R. H., m.a., Slindon, Arundel.
1886. Weekes, Arthur, Mansion House, Hurstpierpoint, Sussex.
1899. Weston, R., Sunnycroft, Wallands, Lewes.
1903. Wheeler, C. W. F., a.r.i.b.a., Sussex Lodge, Horsham.
1897. Wheeler, F., Sussex Lodge, Horsham, Sussex.
1893. White, Edmund, Rectory House, Hamsey, Lewes.
1895. White, James, Capital and Counties Bank, Worthing.
1891. Whitfeld, F. B., Old Bank, Lewes.
1892. Whitfeld, Mrs. G., Hamsey, Lewes.
1888. Whitley, H. Michell, Trevella, Eastbourne.
1901. Whiteman, C. L., Dale View, Lewes.
1898. Whittome, J., Stanford House, Preston Park, Brighton.
1900. Whittome, T., Cromer Lodge, Preston, Brighton.
1903. Wickens, H. W., f.r.o.s., Brockfield, Wadhurst.
1896. Wightman, George John, The Wallands, Lewes.
1903. Wilkin, F., Warren Comer, Famham, Surrey.
1893. Wilkinson, Rev. Henry Noel, m.a.. Little Braxted, Witham, Essex.
1885. Wilkinson, Thomas, 30, Brunswick Place, Hove, Brighton.
1901. Willett, E. J., 27, Cromwell Road, Hove.
LIST OF MEMBERS. XXXIU.
1901. Willett, H., Barbican House, Lewes.
1846. Willett, Henry, f.o.s., Arnold House, Brighton.
1898. Willett, Mrs., Cudwells, Hayward's Heath.
1880. ♦Willett, Rev. F., Cudwells, Lindfield, Sussex.
1904. Williams, S. H., l.d., s.r.g.s., 8, Warrior Square, St. Leonards-on-Sea.
1896. Wink, F. Wallace, Pluscardine, Belsize Road, Worthing.
1890. Winton, E. W., Etherton Hill, Speldhurst, near Tunbridge Wells.
1872. ♦Wisden, Lieut. -Col. Thomas, The Warren, Broadwater, Worthing, Sussex.
1901. Wisden, Captain T. F. M., The Warren, Broadwater, Worthing, Sussex.
1872. Wood, H. T., Hollinghurst, Hollington, St. Leonards-on-Sea.
1886. Wood, John, 21, Old Steine, Brighton.
1901. Woodhouse, Mrs. Gordon, The Grange, Lewes.
1881. Woodman, Thomas C, m.a., ll.d., f.r.s.l., f.e.i.s., The Old House^
Pulborough.
1896. Woods, Sir Albert William, k.c.m.o., k.c.b., f.s.a., 69, St. George's Road»
London, s.w.
1859. Woods, J. W., Chilgrove, Chichester.
1902. Woollan, J. H., 19, Deerbrook Road, Tulse Hill, s.e.
1892. Woollett, Major W. C, 13, Lansdowne Road, Aldershot.
1892. Worms, Baron de, f.s.a., 27, Adelaide Crescent, Hove, Brighton.
1898. Worsley, R., Broxmead, Cuckfield, Sussex.
1897. Worthing Corporation Public Library (per R. W. Charles).
1898. Wright, J. C, Hohndene, Arundel Road, Eastbourne.
1868. Wright, Robert, a.l.s., Hurstmonceux, Sussex.
1903. Wrightson, Mrs., Ockenden, Cuckfield.
1897. ♦Wyatt, Hugh R. Penfold, Cissbury, Worthing.
1901. ♦Wyatt, J. I. Penfold, Horsfield Manor, Wisborough Green, Billingshurst^
Sussex.
1903. Wynne, Rev. A. E., The Vicarage, Rottingdean.
1901. Wynne, Rev. H., m.a., Yapton, near Arundel, Sussex.
1892. Young, Edwin, County Hall, Lewes.
1904. Young, E. F., 2, Gordon Terrace, Hamilton Road, Brighton.
1887. Young, Rev. W. E. A., Pyecombe Rectory, Hassocks, Sussex.
1873. ♦Zouche, Lord, Parham, Pulborough, Sussex.
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Sussey Hrcbjeoloaical Sodetig*
THE PBIOBY OF SHULBRED.
By E. L. CALVERLET.
In tracing the history of this small monastery there have
been difficulties to contend with, which are not encountered
when dealing with more extensive foundations. The
house was buried in a thickly-wooded tract of country,
and lying as it did at some distance from the main roads,
which in that part of Sussex were notorious for their bad
condition even in later days, it must have been almost
unapproachable during a large portion of the year;
indeed, the monks themselves at one period ascribed the
poverty of the house partly to the fact that it was away
from the routes frequented by travellers, and, therefore,
was not visited by great men, and consequently it must
have come but little under public notice. But the greatest
difficulty lies in the fact that either at the time of the
dissolution in 1536, or more probably when the house
was partially suppressed some years previously by Bishop
Sherburn on account of the irregularities of the monks,
on which occasion the Bishop appears to have stripped it
of everything valuable, all the records belonging to it
seem to have disappeared, and I have been unable to find
the slightest trace of them, though I have made a strict
search through the Bishop's registers at Chichester, the
Lambeth registers, and the charters and deeds in the
Record Office, British Museum and other places; this is an
irreparable loss, as the details concerning the house which
these records would have supplied cannot be gathered with
any real completeness from other sources. In the whole
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2 THE PRIORY OP SHULBRED.
of the Feet of Fines for Sussex previous to 1536 —
numbering considerably over 3,000 — through which I
have gone, there are only two entries relative to Shulbred,
whilst with regard to other documents in which notices
referring to grants of lands, &c., might be found, their
number, and the absence in so many cases of calendars to
them, render an exhaustive search impossible. In every
case where mention is made of Shulbred in the various
county histories and other printed books, as well as in the
collections of Sir William Burrell and others, I have
verified the statements by comparison with the original
documents, except in a few cases where they could not be
traced, and I regret to say have found in many cases
such inaccuracy that I have been obliged to trust solely
to the originals, Dalla way's History of Sussex parti-
cularly being quite untrustworthy. The Collections of
the Sussex Archaeological Society, however, are notable
exceptions, and I beg to gratefully acknowledge my
indebtedness to them for various references which have
materially assisted me. My best thanks are also due to
Mr. Salisbury, of the Record Office, for the interest he
has taken in the work and the help he has given, as well
as to the other gentlemen who have so kindly given me
every facility for inspecting the documents under their
charge.
The Priory was founded for Black Canons of the Order
of St. Augustine, and was under the protection of the
l^lessed Virgin Mary, to whom in later years were added
St. Eustacheand the Holy Cross. It was called indifferently
the Priory of Wlenchemere ( Woolynchmere) or Shulbred,
both of these names exhibiting considerable variety of
spelling. The actual date of foundation is uncertain ; it
is not included in the Great Roll of the Pipe of the first
year of Richard I.'s reign, by which time its neighbours,
Tortington, Boxgrove and Uureford, had already been
founded, and the first mention of its existence that I have
been able to find is in 1207-8, when the Close Rolls ^ state
that ^ ^ Ralph de Arden has the Priory of Wlenchemere
with all its belongings during the King's pleasure, and he
1 Claus 9 John, M. 2.
THE PRIORY OP SHULBRED. 3
shall answer for it henceforth." Ralph had previously
bought two hides of land in Wlenchemere, in the year
1200, for 75 marks of silver, from Brian, son of Ralph
and Grunora his wife, as we find recorded in the Feet of
Fines,^ and therefore it is very probable that he was the
actual founder.
This Ralph de Arden was a man of some importance,
and appears to have been the same man who was put in
such an awkward position by King John, who, after
divorcing his wife Hadwisa, we read in the history of
Ralph de Diceto^ in 1200, ^^ proposing to marry the
daughter of the King of Portugal, whose fame had allured
his mind, sent from Rouen to ask for her illustrious and
noble men, namely, the Bishop of Lisois, William de
Stagno, Ralph de Arderne, Hubert de Burch and others,
both English and Norman. But he himself, while they
were still on the way, without forewarning them, wedded
Ysabel, the only daughter and heiress of the Count of
Angouleme" (who was already betrothed — if not married,
as some authorities say — to the Count de la Marchej.
Ralph also possessed other lands in Sussex, as the result
of a law suit with Evinger, son of Francus de Bohun, in
1199,* including the manor of Fordres (Ford) and
Clyppinges (Climping), and a moiety of the town of
Yllesham, the service of Ralph Sansaver and Hbert de
Rakinton for his tenements in Rakinton (Racton), and £10
sterling of land in Lovinton (Lavant), as we find from a
suit between Thomas, his son, and Evinger in 1212 con-
cerning the former agreement, in the course of which the
Prior of Shulbred stated that Ralph gave him land in
Lavant. This statement by the Prior occurs with start-
ling abruptness in the middle of the terms of agreement
between the two principals, as if he had stood up and
interrupted the case only to be ruled out of order, and
no further reference is made to it.
2 Feet of Fines, Sussex, 1 John [18].
« Radulfi de Diceto, Opera Historica, edit. W. Stubbs, 1876, Vol. 11., p. 170.
* Franco de Bohiin was, in 1 Ric. I., Lord of Midhurst, Ford, Clympyng and
Rustington. Arms, or a cross azure. (Dallaway, Hist, of the W, Division of
StMsex, Vol. I., p. 282.)
B 2
4 THE PRIORY OF SHULBRED.
In the octave of Trinity, 14 John,*
Ivinger de Bourn gives the King 100 marks to have a writ of mort
d'ancester against Thomas de Arderne concerning a knight's fee in
Fordres, and against the Prior of Shelebrede concerning half a knight's
fee, with its appurtenances in Lovinton, except 7 virgates of land, and
the sheriff is commanded to take pledges therefor.
The case when it came on for hearing proved a long
one^ and was described as an assize to recognise whether
Francus de Bourn, father of Evinger, was seised in his
demesne as of fee of one knight's fee in Fordres which
Thomas de Arderne holds, and of half a knight's fee,
except 7 virgates in Lovinton, which the Prior of Selebrede
holds.
Thomas stated that Evinger, after his father's death,
held the said knight's fee, because he held two Honours,
one, namely, the Honour of Bohun, in Normandy, which
he held in Barony, and the other in England, which he
held in Vavassery, and Ralph de Arderne, the father of
Thomas, impleaaed him in the Court of King Richard in
Normandy concerning both the Honours, but Evinger
made the essoin of being taken ill on the way and after-
wards of being ill in bed ; an agreement, however, being
finally made in the valley of Rodoly before the Seneschal
of Normandy, by a deed dated Wednesday before Palm
Sunday, 1199, and bearing the seal of Evinger, which
Thomas produced, by which Evinger quit-claimed to
Ralph and his heirs the lands and services aforesaid,
while the residue of the lands in dispute should belong
to Evinger. In answer to this Evinger stated that he
was never seised of the land, nor did he make the agree-
ment.
The result of the suit was that Thomas remised to
Evinger all his right and claim to the Manor of Fordres,
while Evinger remised to Thomas all his right and claim
to Lovinton and gave him £12 of land in Prescinton
(Preston), to be held by the service of half a knight, as
well as other privileges. ^^But the Prior comes and
says that Ralph de Arderne gave him the land which he
» Curia Regis Roll, No. 66, Rot. 6d. Trin. Anno 14 John.
« ibid,, Rot. 23d.
THE PSIORT OF SHULBRED. 5
holds by his charter and the King confirmed it to him,
and he Touches Thomas to warrant thereof and Thomas
says he was not summoned [on that account]." It is
probable, however, that the Prior kept possession of his
property.
This agreement was also entered on the Feet of Fines
for Sussex,^ but the Prior's claim is not mentioned.
Some years later the Priory obtained the appropriation
of the " Church of Shelbrede," which introduces a curious
difficulty^ as I cannot find any trace of a sepai'ate Church
of Shulbred. Since, however, in much earlier times,
Lynchmere or Woolynchmere contained a church, and
the Priory here is called Wlynchmere, I can only suppose
that the writer made a mistake and transposed the names
of the Church and Priory. The date of this grant must
be between 1227 and 1243, as it was made in the time of
Ralph, Bishop of Chichester and Chancellor to the King,
which points clearly to Ralph de Neville, who held these
offices auring the period mentioned, and the confirmation
of it is in the Bishop of Chichester's Registers.®
Ck)nfinnatioii of the Charter of Ralph, Bishop of Chichester, concerning
the appropriation of the Church of Shelbrede to the Prior and
Convent of Wlynchmere, made by the Dean and Chapter of
Chichester.
The Dean and Chapter of Chichester to all, &c., greeting. We
have inspected the Charter of Ealph, Bishop of Chichester, Chancellor
to the King, namely, Ealph, &c., greeting, whereas the Abbot and
Convent of Sagio, by Divine intent of love, have granted to the Prior
and Convent of Wlenchmere their right of patronage in the Church
of Selebrede, we having seen the charter which the said Prior and
Convent of Wlenchmere have, therefore, in consideration of their
poverty, grant them a warrant for it with all its belongings, so that
they deal honestly by that church in providing a worthy secular
chaplain and sustaining all the usual burdens of the church, saving to
the Church of Corkyng its accustomed and ancient pension in it, and
saving to us and our successors the pontifical and parochial rights.
We therefore confirm this concession and place our seal on it.
About this time also, namely, in November, 1239,®
Ralph de Arderne — I suppose the son of Thomas — sold
the advowson of the Priory of Sylebrede to William de
7 Feet of Fines, Sussex, 14 John [115]. » Reg. Chic, C, f. 66d.
» Feet of Fines, Sussex, 24 Henry III. [69].
6 THE PRIORY OF SHULBRED.
Percy for 65 marks of silver, ^^with all the service and
homage of the Prior and his successors for the whole
tenement, which the Prior held on the day on which this
agreement was made in Wlenchemere, Wildebrug and
Midlovinton," for which William should do to him the
service of one-third of a knight's fee in Wlenchemere and
of half a knight's fee in Midlavent. The Percies, in
consequence, seem in later years to have been regarded
as the actual founders, and are referred to as such during
the period of trouble which befel the Priory shortly
before the dissolution.
In July of the next year William de Percy marked his
assumption of the patronage of the house, here called
Wlenchemere, by endowing it with a mill in Cutersho
(Coultershaw),^® '^ with all the suits of his men of Pette-
wurth and Tulinton (Tillington), saving to himself and
his heirs the free grinding of all kinds of corn which shall
be used in his house at Pettewurth, of whatever kind they
may be, for ever." He also granted them the right to
take earth on his land at Petworth, near the mill, for
repairing the millpool when necessary, ^^by view of his
bailiflPs," and granted that all his villeins at Petworth and
Tillington should give the Prior three days' aid each year
in repairing the millpool, if repair should be required so
often, ^^ without ^dctuals of the Prior," reckoned on the
scale that each villein holding one virgate of William in
those towns should do three days' aid for one man and
that those who held more or less land should give aid
according to their holding. And the Prior should pay
him two marks of silver yearly for the mill till such time
as William or his heirs should have given him ten librates
of land in a suitable place in Sussex or Yorkshire, and
then the mill should revert to William or his heirs and
the Prior should hold these ten librates free from all
secular service.
In return for this grant the Prior undertook to provide
and keep five Canons in the church ^^ to celebrate Divine
service for the souls of William and his ancestors and his
10
Feet of Fines, Sussex, 24 Henry III. [71].
THE PRIORY OF SHULBRED. 7
heirs for ever," and whenever one of these Canons should
die a worthy clerk should be provided in his place at the
presentation of William and his heirs, so that the
requisite number should be kept up for ever.
William does not seem, however, to have exercised his
right to resume possession of the mill, for in 1274-5 we
find it belonging to the Priory.
Rape of Arundel.
Hundred of Rutherbrugg."
William de Perci, in the time of King Henry, father of the present
King, gave the religious persons of Sulebred a certain mill called
Cutersho, belonging to the Manor of Pettewurth, which is held in
capite of the Castle of Arundel and is worth yearly £10.
And it was still among their possessions when the Valor
Ecclesiasticus was drawn up in 1534; whether it is the
same as the mill of Catesstowe or Codestowe, mentioned
as their property in 1291 and 1380, I cannot be certain,
but it seems most probable.
In 1242 John Prior, of Wlenchmere, and William de
Rakington, a Canon of the Priory,^^ are mentioned as
witnesses to a charter of William de Percy, giving lands
to the hospital of Sandown, in Surrey, for the main-
tenance of six chaplains in the hospital, quoted in
Dugdale's Monasticon Anglicanum, where the authority
given is a ^^ MS. lately in the possession of Henry, Earl
of Cumberland, fol. 152," but I have not been able to
trace the original document. It is, however, very possible
that he was the same John, Prior of Wlenchemere, who
in 1248-9, by a charter which is included in the Chartu-
lary of the Priory of Dureford,^^ granted to Valentine,
Abbot of Dureford, ^^ all the land with messuages,
meadows, buildings and other appurtenances which we
have of the gift of Lord Philip de Brembre, in the Manor
of Herting, of the tenement of the brethren of St. Lasar
of Jerusalem," in exchange for all the land which the
Priory of Dureford held at Stanligh, of the gift of Lord
Alan de St. George. There seems to be no record of
" Hundred Holla, Sussex, 3 Edward I.
1* Dugdale, MoncLsticon Anglicanum^ Ist Ed., Vol. II., p. 442.
^ Cott. MS., Vespasian E., zxiii., f. 107. Erit. Mus.
8 THE PRIORY OF SHULBRED.
the original grant in Harting by Philip de Brembre, nor
is the land which they obtained in exchange mentioned
as their property at any later period.
In 1255 Henry had succeeded John as Prior and the
property of the Priory was increased by one acre of land
in Falgham, the gift of Alicia le Kokes ; there is no
mention of this gift in the records belonging to the period
when it was made, but the date is fixed as the fortieth
year of King Henry III. in later documents of the reign
of Edward III., which will be referred to hereafter.
This land, however, was taken away from them in the
time of Edward II., under false pretences, as Sir John
Walewayn, the King's escheator, accusing them of
acquiring it after the passing of the Statute of Mortmain
and without the King s leave, sequestrated it, and it was
not restored to the rightful owners till the third year of
Edward III. The documents to which I have alluded
state for the first time who was the patron saint of the
church, which is expressly mentioned as tlie ^^ Church of
the Blessed Mary of Shilbred."
The tax on temporal property held by religious bodies
granted by Pope Nicholas to Edward I. in 129P* gives
us a view of the possessions belonging to the Priory at
this time, which were valued at £10. 15s., namely:
AtShilbred 2 8 4
At Middlewent 4 8 4
At Skepesele 118 4
Mill of Catesstowe 2
And this valuation seems to have formed the basis for the
amount to be contributed by them for future clerical
subsidies, without taking into account any further land
they acquired, which must have been considerable, as we
can see by reference to the roll of their property contained
in the Valor JEcclesiasticus. The next Prior we find
in authority is Thomas de Henton, who was unfortunate
enough in 1299 to get into serious trouble owing to his
excessive destruction of the surrounding woods. This
was probably done in order to obtain fuel for iron
1* Tax. Eccl., 1291 (Record Series, 1802).
THE PKIORY OF SHULBBED. 9
smelting, though there is no direct statement to that
efltect, but the neighbourhood abounds in traces of old
workings, one of which — situated near Lower Lodge
Farm and worked nearly up to the end of the last century
— is less than a mile from the Priory, and, moreover, in
1342, the Nonse Roles record that the Vicar of Fernhurst
received 10s. for the tithe of iron ore,^^ showing that
forges were established in this part of Sussex at a very
early date.
The Prior may have reckoned on the remote situation
of the house to shield his operations, but doubtless some
ill-wisher gave information of his depredations, for
Robert, Archbishop of Canterbury, in his visitation
(made by the Archbishop for some reason that I cannot
trace, as the See of Chichester was not vacant at the
time, Gilbert de St. Leofardo, or Leopaldo, filling it
from 1288 to 1304) issued a solemn inhibition to him.^^
Robert, &c., to our well beloved son Brother Thomas de Henton, Prior
of the Conventual Church of Schelbrede, of the Order of St. Augustine,
On our visitation to your Priory it was clearly found that the
said Priory, among other things, had been excessively wasteful in the
consumption of its woods at the time of your administration as Prior.
We strictly inhibit you from cutting trees, sticks or firewood of the
woods belonging to your Church without having asked the consent of
your Convent and having obtained it after due deliberation, and then
only for the clear need of your Church, and for granting, selling,
pledging or otherwise alienating your title to do so in any way, under
pain of greater excommunication.
In this connection it may be noted that in the time of
Queen Elizabeth the amount of timber used for iron
smelting in Sussex was so great that she was obliged to
restrain it by Act of Parliament.
The reign of Edward II. was not a happy one for
Shulbred ; the King was preparing for his Scotch expedi-
tion of 1311, which resulted in such failure, and had to
raise the necessary funds for it. Acordingly in June,
1310, the Prior received a letter from him,^'' requesting
the house to aid him ^^by way of loan" with victuals,
^ Sussex ArchcBological Collections ^ Vol. II., p. 178.
" Lambeth Reg., Winchelsey, f. 76b.
w Claus 3 Edw. H., M. 5d. (French).
10 THE PRIORY OF SHULBRED.
^Ho be paid for at Candlemas next out of moneys to be
levied of the tenth or other issues of the realm." The
amount requested from the Prior of ^ ^ Shelebrugg " was
twenty quarters of wheat and twenty quarters of oats,
and we may reasonably doubt whether it was ever repaid
by the King, since Candlemas next may have served only
as a synonym for the Greek Kalends. In addition to
this demand, in 1317^® one Reginald de St. Albans was
sent to them for his sustenance, '' according to the require-
ments of his position," an elastic term, as the require-
ments of a man under Royal patronage may have been
excessive when they had to be satisfied by a house whose
foundation was not on a large scale.
A list of the Lords of Manors in the ninth year of
Edward 11.,^^ compiled by Sir F. Palgrave, late Master
of the Rolls, which is now in the British Museum, gives
the Prior of Shulbred as Lord of the Manor of Midlavant
in that year.
It was in this reign also that they were so unjustly
deprived of their land in Falgham, as I have already
described. But not for long, since Edward III. — very
soon after the commencement of his reign — directed
Simon de Bereford, his escheator, to enquire into the
actual facts of the case, and ascertain whether Sir John
Walewayn was right in his action or not, and also to send
a detailed statement with regard to the tenure and value
of the land in question.
In accordance with these instructions an inquisition^
was taken at Yapton on April 27th, 1329, '' on oath of
William Sartyler, John Stigaunt, Roger atte Wyke,
James le Kyng, Richard le Burgeys, John de Boys,
Richard Torald, John Dale, Gilbert Freman, John atte
Donne, Ralph de Ybourghdene and Robert Covert," who
gave evidence to the effect that Henry, the late Prior,
had acquired the land by the King's writ long before
the Statute of Mortmain, and that it was taken by Sir
John Walewayn into the hand of the King for the reason
M Claus 10 Edw. II., M. 14d. ^ Addl. MS., 26,098, Brit. Mus.
^ luquis. post mort., 3 Edw. III. Second numbers, No. 86.
THE PRIORY OF SHULBRED. 11
contained in the King's writ, and no other. Also that
it is held of the Prior and Canons of Shelbred by the
service of three pence yearly at the hand of the Prior
of Wildebrugge, and is worth yearly, in all outgoings
beyond the said rent, twelve pence.
On receipt of this evidence,^^ on 28th March, 1330, the
King directed his escheator to hand over, without delay,
the outgoings of the land, if any, to the said Prior free.
They must, however, have parted with it shortly after, as
it is not mentioned later among their possessions.
In 1335 one of the Canons allowed his love of sport to
lead him into trouble on a charge of poaching, ^ for we
find a Commission of Oyer and Terminer, dated 30th
March, to certain justices on a complaint of Richard, Earl
of Arundel, '^that Thomas Child, Druet Fauferghe,
Thomas de Westdene, Thomas le Fynch of Bunderton,
Henry Waleys, Adam de Bradeham, John, his son, Walter
Shortfrend, Walter Crochon, Joseph atte Brugge, William
le Chanoyn of Shelebrede, Henry le Provost of Bybeton
and other evildoers broke his parks at Esedeii, Stanstead,
Arundel, Downlegh, Dunhurst and ]3runscombe by force
of arms, and without leave entered in, took and carried
oflF deer and inflicted other enormities on him, to his grave
hurt and against the King's peace." There seems to be
no record of any punishment having been inflicted on the
culprits.
In 1340 they obtained another addition to their
property,^ as John de Warren, Earl of Surrey, and
Henry de Percy obtained the King's license to allow the
Prior to receive the advowson of the Church of Upmarden
from the Prior and Convent of Lewes in perpetuity,
^^ without molestation or impediment of us or our heirs,
justiciars, escheators, sheriffs or other bailiffs or ministers
of ours whatsoever," notwithstanding the Statute of
Mortmain.
In the next year the King levied a subsidy of one-
ninth — recorded, in the Nonse Rolls ^ — for the purpose of
21 ClauB 4 Edw. in., M. 37. ^ Pat. 14 Edw. III., Part 2, M. 27.
*» Pat. 9 Edw. III., Part 1, M. 28d. ^ Nonarum Inquisitiones, 15 Edw. III.
12 THE PRIORY OF SHULBRED.
carrying on his wars, and from this we gather informa-
tion with regard to the property belonging to the house,
in Lynchmere, Easebourne, Yapton, Walberton and
Midlavant.
It is stated on the oath of ^^ Thomas Schotere, John atte
Hurlond, Richard Poppehale and William de Lenchemer,
all of the parish of Lenchemer," that in Lynchmere the
ninth of the sheaves is worth 22s. and of the fleeces 3s. 8d,
and of the lambs 12 pence, in all 26s. 8d., and the church
is taxed at six marks and a half. Also they say that the
said ninth does not appear and cannot be touched for
taxing the said church, because the Prior of Schulebrede
has in that parish arable lands which are of the foundation
of the said Priory, and the ninth of the sheaves is worth
4s. and of the neeces eighteenpence and of the lambs
twelvepence, and because the Prior held the King's writ
superseding the assessors and pays tenths therefor. Also
they say that the ninth of the pannage is worth 13s. and
of the honey 2s. 6d. and of the hay 5s. Also they say-
that the Prior has a watermill, of which the ninth is worth
3s. Also they say that the lesser tithes and oblations are
worth 4s. Also they say that the rector of the church has
a messuage with a curtilage worth 2s. and arable land
worth 5s. as glebe. In Easebourne the Prior of Shulbrede
held a certain portion of the tithes, which was worth 3s. a
year. In Yapton he had sown land, of which the ninth
was worth 18s., and fleeces and lambs, of which the ninth
was worth twentypence.
In Walberton he held twelve acres of land, for which
he did not pay the ninth to the King.
In Midlavent the church is taxed at seven marks and
a half, but the ninth does not appear and cannot be
touched on taxing the church, because the Prior of
Shulebred has arable land in the parish belonging to his
Priory, and the ninth of the sheaves, of whatever kind of
corn, is worth 30s., and of the lambs 4s. And since the
Prior held the King's writ superseding the taxing assessors,
since he pays therefor the tithe he does not pay the
ninth.
THE PEIORY OF SHULBRED. 13
In 1354 Edward St. John granted them the advowson
of the Church of Midlavent, taxed at one hundred shillings
a year,^ the grant being confirmed by the King's writ,
but this gift caused them a great deal of trouble before
they were able fully to enjoy the benefits of it. Four
years after the advowson had been given to them they
discovered that there was not any charter or evidence in
existence to prove that Edward St. John had purchased
it from the Convent of Lewes, who were the patrons, and
consequently they were obliged to re-acquire it direct from
Lewes. The charter for this second grant is contained
in the Register of the Charters of the Monastery of Lewes,
now in the British Museum,^^ whereby '' Hugh, Prior of
the Monastery of St. Pancras of Lewes, and his Convent
grant to John, Prior of the Priory of the Blessed Mary of
Shulbrede, and the Convent of that place the advowson
of the Church of Midlovente with eleven acres and a half
of land and one rood of meadow, the glebe of that church,
and all other its appurtenances in Sussex, to be held of
the chief lords of that* fee by the service which belongs to
it; saving to the said Prior and Convent of Lewes the
annual pension of twenty shillings sterling owed to the
same religious men of Lewes from that church from time
immemorial. And the said Prior and Convent of
Shulbrede grant the said annual pension of twenty
shillings to the Prior and Convent of Lewes as aforesaid,
when they shall desire to release the said church by
appropriation, resignation or concession, the feoffment of
the advowson of that church made above notwithstand-
ing." The witnesses to this deed included Richard Earl
of Arundel, John de Bohun, Andrew Peverell, Michael
de Ponynges and Henry Tregoz.
The document by which the Bishop of Chichester gave
his sanction to this appropriation is most interesting, from
the light which it throws on the condition of the Convent
at this time, which seems to have been in a state of
great distress, and it also illustrates the ravages made by
that fearful plague the Black Death of 1349 among the
25 Pat. 28 Edw. III., Part 2, M. 1.
« Cottonian MSS., Vespasian, F. xv., f. 138b.
14 THE PRIORY OP SHULBRED.
agricultural community in this part of the country. It
is dated January 5th, 1358, Robert de Stratford being
then Bishop.^^
Robert, Bishop of Chichester, greeting. At the petition of the
Prior and Canons of the Priory of the Church of the Blessed Mary of
Shulbrede, of the Order of St. Augustine, we allow that the foundation
of the house is not sufficient for the support of the Canons. The
buildings also, which by the industry and magnificence of its founder
were originally sumptuously arranged, for the greater part are ruinous
and placed in case of ruin, and for the repair of them the rent and
goods will not suffice on account of its poverty. The house is so far
distant from habitation that magnates or other men very seldom on
their travels come there for hospitality. Moreover, the serfs and
coloni of the Prior who were useful in carrying out their business
have been taken away in the last wonderful pestilence*® which fell on
the lands of the Prior, nor can more be got. So that the lands which
used to be tilled by them, and by the fruits of which the Prior and
Canons for the greater part ought to be sustained, are made waste
and lie useless. And the said Priory, by the loss of the advowson of
churches, by no fault of theirs, by the power of greater men whom no
faculty of the Priory is enough to contradict and resist, to the inestim-
able loss of rents, by these and other insupportable burdens exacted
and collected from day to day, is so depressed and weakened in its
faculties by promises and the burdens imposed on the said Prior. . . .
Wherefore they humbly beg us license on this account, so lately
sought and obtained from the King, to be delivered from poverty.
We, being willing to annex, acquire and incorporate the Parish
Church of Midlovent to them with the rents belonging to it for their
use, struck with compassion by their manifest necessity, give, &c., &c.
In their anxiety, however, to make sure of the advow-
son of this church they had omitted to obtain the King's
license to receive it from the Convent of Lewes, perhaps
thinking that the confirmation of the grant from Edward
St. John was sufficient, and they now found it liable to
forfeiture under the Statute of Mortmain, so that it was
not till 1385,^^ when Richard II. consented to overlook
their mistake and confirmed the grant to them, that they
were able to feel secure of its possession.
There is a roll of the taxable value of the possessions
of Shulbred between 1369-85 in the Chichester Registers,*^
and the roll of a subsidy collected in 1379-80,®^ both of
27 Reg. Chic, C, f. 67. » Pat. 8 Rio. n., Part 2, M. 3.
28 Black Death, 1349. so wm. Reade's Reg., f. 294d.
»i Cler. Subs. 3 Ric. II., Va<i-
THE PRIORY OF SHULBRED. 15
which, as regards temporal property, are based on the
taxation of Pope Nicholas, while the former gives in
addition, as a spiritual possession, the Church of Wlench-
mere, valued at £4. 6s. 8d. But the subsidy levied in
the year 1380-1 gives much more interesting information,
as a letter of William (Reade), Bishop of Chichester, to
the Prior and Convent of '' Cor . . . "^^ appointing them
collectors of the clerical subsidy granted 4 Richard II. in
the Archdeaconries of Chichester and Lewes, has attached
to it a schedule of the names of religious persons, in which
appears :
Names of religious persons in the Priory of Schulbrede taxed there
£13. 18s. 4d.
Sir Will. Harethorn, Prior of Schulbrede.
Sir John Lovente.
Sir John Bridham.
Sir Rodert Nyte.
James Clanefeld.
John Dene.
John Guldeforde.
This Prior, William Harethorn, is evidently the same
as William Harewell, quoted by Dallaway as Pnor, though
he is not mentioned anywhere under the latter name.
In 1402 Robert Reade, Bishop of Chichester,^ gave
directions for a visitation of the Priory on February 9th,
but the result does not appear to have been recorded. The
Bishop, however, did not confine his interest in them to
inquiring into the state of the house, but stretched it to
the length of obtaining a pension for them, on the strength
of his predecessor's confirmation of the grant of the Church
of Midlavent.^
William Harethorn, Prior of Schulbrede, of the Order of St.
Augustine, &e., greeting. Since the Parish Church of Midlavent has
been granted to us, with all its belongings, William Mayn, the late
rector, having resigned, the Prior and Convent, in consideration of loss
to the Bishop and Dean and Chapter of Chichester by that gift, agree
to pay to the Bishop a yearly pension of 6s. 8d., and to the Dean and
Chapter a pension of 2s., and to the Archdeacon of Chichester 2s.
10 April, 1402.
w Cler. Subs., 4 Rio. II., V- ^ Reg. Chic, R., f. 39.
w Reg. Chic, R., f. 176d.
■^i«»i^^^^WiiHH*^B^-«nw«>.^«^ni««MM
16 THE PRIORY OP SHULBRED.
In 1404 William Harethorn resigned,^ his resignation
being presented on November 5th by brother Henry
Hamond, Canon of Shulbred, under the seal of subscrip-
tion of Sir Adam Symond, notary public, and the Canons
elected John Coldell, the Sub-Prior, to the vacant post.
The confirmation of this election by the Bishop^ states
that a letter was sent to him by the brethren and Canons
of Schulbrede, declaring that " for the last three months
there has been danger of a ravenous wolf breaking in on
the flock by reason of the want of a shepherd," and stating
that since the last Prior, William Harethorn, has resigned,
they have asked and have leave from the most noble Lord
Henry Earl of Northumberland, their patron, to choose
another Prior. It goes on, ^ ' And afterwards, on November
18th, 1404, we, the brethren, John Coldell, sub-prior,
William Harethorn, James Clanefeld, Henry Hamond
and Richard Mydhurst, priests, and Thomas Morys, of
the Order of St. Benedict, sitting in that Priory and being
S resent, some however being absent, namely, Robert
Tewtymber and John Dene, who many years ago
apostatised from our Priory without license, proceeded to
elect a Prior." And on the 19th November, having shut
out all secular, lay and profane persons, except Sir Thomas
Southam, Rector of the Church of Dunsfold, Wynton
Diocese, and Adam Symound, notary public, and Thomas
March and William Hook, who were accustomed to assist
in all business of the election, they elected John Coldell
sub-prior, who took the oath. The brethren vouch that
he is free and lawfully born, of more than 30 years of
age. There are also letters from the Bishop appointing
Robert Neel and John Pedewell as commissioners to
examine the election, and finally confirming it.
This document specially mentions the Priory as being
dedicated to St. Mary, the Holy Cross and St. Eustache.
Various Canons of Shulbred occur in the record of
*^ Ordines Celebrati"^ at this period, namely, we find
on September 20th, 1404, James Paresfeld officiating as
86 Reg. Chic, R., f. 104. » Reg. Chic, R., f. 80.
w Reg. Chic, R., f. 103d, 123d, 139d, 141d.
THE PRIORT OF 8HULBRED. 17
acoIyi;e at the Parish Clmrch of Horsham, while Richard
Putteworthe and William Langston officiated as acolytes
in the Parish Church of Storghton (Storrington) on
March 2nd, 1408, as sub-deacons in the Parish Church of
Handefeld on September 20th, 1410, and as deacons on
December 20th of the same year.
For many years the Priory seems to have gone on
without any changes worth recording, as the only notices
of it occur in the clerical subsidies,* in the lay subsidy
levied in 1411-12,* which says, " The Prior of Sulbred
has the Manor of Rawmere, which is worth yearly beyond
reprisals £20. It is unknown whether it pays the tenth
or not," and in the lay subsidy of 1427-8,^ where we find
two entries of his possessions in the Rape of Arundel,
namely, '^ In the Hundred of Bourne of half a fee in
Midlayent, the subsidy thence nothing, since the Prior of
Shelbrede holds it, and it pays tenths," and '^ In the
Hundred of Demford and Estbourne [Easeboume] of the
fourth part of a fee in Wellenchemere, which the Prior
of Shelbrede holds, nothing, because it pays tenths."
In 1431 the Priors of Tortington and Shulbred
were collectors of the subsidy in the Archdeaconry of
Chichester,*^ and their accounts are mentioned in the
clerical subsidies of 23 Henry VI.^ as forming the basis
of the accounts of the Prior of Tortington in that year,
while the Prior of Shulbred also acted as sole collector in
1435-6.^
In 1441, by command of Bishop Praty,** the Convent
was visited by Richard Eston, his commissioner, whose
report was very brief :
Nothing there was found out worthy of correction, except that the
house is burdened with old debts. It is hoped that by the industry of
the Prior it will be free in a few years.
w aer. Subs. 3 Hen. V. J^> ; 5 Hen. V. JJ ; 12 Hen. VI. JJ ; 14 Hen. VI.
H, H ; IS Hen. VI. a ; 24 Hen. VI. J§ ; 27 Hen. VI. ^.
» Lay Subs. 13 Hen. IV. ^.
^ Lay Subs. 6 Hen. VI. W.
*i aer. Subs. 9 Hen. VI. JJ.
*a aer. Subs. 22 Hen. VI. JJ.
« aer. Subs. 14 Hen. VI. +}» H-
" Reg. Chic, E., f. 80.
XLVII.
18 THE PRIORY OF SHULBRED.
The accounts of the Prior of Sele, collector of the
subsidy in 1449-50,*^ furnish a more detailed statement
of their spiritual and temporal possessions, agreeing with
the earlier taxation, ^^ 8s. 8d. for this tenth of the spiritual
goods of the Prior and Convent of Shulbred, namely, the
Church of Welenchemere, in the Deanery of Midhurst,
which is taxed at £4. 6s. 8d. yearly, namely, 2s. of
each pound; and 21s. 6d. for this tenth of the temporal
goods of the said Prior and Convent, which are taxed at
£10. 15s., namely, 2s. of each pound."
The Chapel of Lynch — shown in the Valor Ecclesi-
asticus as their property*^ — cannot have been very profit-
able to them, as in 1463-4 and again in 1467-8 ana 1473-4
it had to be excused payment of the subsidy on account of
its poverty.
In 1478 Bishop Story visited the Priory on July 27th'^
and had to arbitrate between the Prior and brethren
regarding the custody of the common seal, which
unfortunately has disappeared, and I have not been able
to discover any impression of it. This dispute, however,
did not blind the Bishop's eyes as to matters requiring
correction.
Sir Thomas Clune, the Prior, made his obedience and says that
the common seal is in his keeping and has been since he was made
Prior. Item, he says the house can expend yeariy £46. Item, he is
making an inventory of all goods and the state of the house, and has
fixed the festival of the birth of the Blessed Mary as the time for it
to be given in. Item, they do not keep silence well. Item, John
Stanney has by fee as seneschal 26s. 8d. by common seal. Item,
Master Vyncent and his heirs by common seal 6s. 8d. Item, the
church belfry and chancel are very ruinous. Item, the books do not
agree in chant and are wanting in divers books. Item, the house is
not in debt more than £4 and there is owed to the Prior and Convent
by divers creditors 104s. Sir John Barowe says that the common seal
is in the Prior's keeping, and they have not a key, as they are bound
to have. Item, Sir John Stanney has 268. 8d. by office of seneschal.
Item, Master Vincent has 6s. 8d. Item, they do not eat together in
the refectory as they ought. Item, they do not rise in the night till
the fifth hour. Sir Henry OfEerton says they do not keep silence.
Item, the Prior has the common seal in his keeping.
Sir John Goddard makes his obedience.
« Cler. Subs. 28 Hen. VI. ^d.
*6 Cler. Subs. 3 Edw. IV.^; 7 Edw. IV. ^ ; 13 Edw. IV. ^.
*f Beg. Chic, D., f. 324.
THE PRIORY OP SHULBRED. 19
Injunctions — ^First to the Prior and Convent that they do not frequent
taverns. Item, that they keep silence. Item, that the common seal be
kept under two keys, of which the Prior shall have one and the senior
Canon the other.
The troublous times which England endured during
the reigns of Edward V. and Richard III. — though they
may not have affected the affairs of a house so far
removed from the world — must naturally, in consequence
of the general, social and legal dislocation involved, have
thrown it very much into the background, and it is not
till the next reign that we find mention again of it as
paying subsidies in 1489 and 1497.*® About this time
also, some of the Canons are mentioned as officiating,*'
namely, Richard Burgeys and Henry Chambyr, as sub-
deacons at Aldyngborne, on March 16th, 1493 ; Richard
Burgeys, as deacon at Aldyngborne, on May 24th and
December 20th, 1494; Richard Rooke, as acolyte at
Aldingborne, on March 31st, 1498 ; and Henry Chamber,
as priest in the Palace of Chichester, on tne vigil of
Easter in the same year.
In spite of the large amount of property belonging to
the house at the dissolution, as set forth in the Valor
Ecclesiasticus, the dawn of the sixteenth century seems
to have found Shulbred in pecuniary difficulties, for in
1513^ it is expressly included on no less than five
occasions among those poor Priories which ^'by inunda-
tion of water, fire, ruin or other cause of fortune are so
diminished that they are excused payment of tithes by
Robert, Bishop of Chichester." During the next three
years, however, matters must have improved, as the
accounts of the Abbot of Dureford, collector of the
subsidy in 1515-6,^^ show that the Priory paid 20s. Id.
for spiritual and temporal property, namely, 4s. 4d. for
the Church of Wlenchemere and 5s. for tne Church of
Midlovent, ^^ which churches belong to that Prior, as is
contained in the certificate of John Blounham, returned
*8 Reg. Chic, D., f. 119, 143d.
« Reg. Chic, D., f. 187d, 188, 188d, 192d, 193.
M Reg. Chic, C, f. 141, 142d, 143d, 144d, 145d.
" Qier. Subs. 7 Hen. Vin. ^.
C 2
^0 THE PRIORY OF SHULBRED.
to the Treasury in the fifth year and now in the King's
keeping," as well as 10s. 9(1. for temporalities.
In 1518 the Priory was visited by Bishop Praty,^^ who
issued a long list of injunctions to it, nearly the same as
those addressed to the Convent of Boxgrove, which are
printed at length in the Sussex ArchcBological Collec-
tions^^ the variation being due to the fact that one was
under the rule of St. Augustine and the other under that
of St. Benedict; that injunctions prohibiting, among
other things, dice and cards and drinking in the church
or cemetery should be necessary would seem to indicate
a very lax rule.
In 1519 Sir Nicholas Fensham resigned his post as
Prior^ and was succeeded by John Yonge, Bishop of
Callipoli, who was collated to the Priory on June 12th
by Bishop Sherburn, the Archdeacon of Chichester being
directed to instal him.
This new Prior was a man of very difi'erent position
to his predecessors^ and can only have exercised a nominal
rule over the house, as during his two years' headship he
was constantly engaged on the duties connected with his
other preferments in London. He was born at Newton
Longville, in Buckinghamshire, in 1463, and entered
Winchester as a scholar in 1474.^^ In 1480 he obtained
a scholarship at New College, Oxford, and became fellow
in 1482, which appointment he resigned in 1502, being
then Doctor of Divinity. Wood^'' says that he was then
Rector of St. Martin's, Oxford, but by the help of Bishop
Kennett's collections in the British Museum^ I have been
able to prove this erroneous, as Wood has confused him
with his more eminent namesake, John Yonge, LL.D.,
subsequently Master of the Rolls, who died in 1516.
He next became Rector of AUhallows Church, Honey
Lane, in London, the date of his induction being uncer-
tain, but he resigned the living on October 30th, 1510,^^
in consequence of his appointment on the previous 15 th
«2 Reg. Chic, C, f. 159. « Kerby, Winchester Scholars.
« Vol. IX., p. 61. « Wood, Athence Oxonienses, Vol. II., p. 727.
" Reg. Chic, C, f. 29d. « Lansdowne MSS., 979, f. 45.
^ Diet, of National Biography. ^ Reg. Lond., Fitzjames, f . 23.
THE PRIORY OF SHULBRED. 21
September as master or warden of the Hospital of St.
Thomas of Aeon, in the Cheap, London, on the nomina-
tion of the Bishop of London.®^ The hospital, when he
took charge of it, was in debt to the amount of nearly
£719, but so zealously did he set to work to improve its
condition that in eight years he not only cleared off the
debt, but raised over £1,431 to carry out the repairs
which he found necessary. On the 18th August, 1510,
we find him named in the will of Edmund Dudley®^ —
executed for treason — together with the Bishop of London,
Dr. Colet and Sir Andrew Wyndesore, as guardian of
Dudley's son Jerome, until he should be twenty-two, and
in furtherance of this charge the four guardians, in 1514,
obtained from the King the grant of Dudley's goods and
chattels.
The Bishop of London now proposed to make him his
Suffragan, and though at first he was doubtful whether
his acceptance of the post might not interfere with his
work on behalf of the Hospital, the promise that the
Mercers' Company should have the long-desired right of
appointing the Master of the Hospital in future turned
the scale, and accordingly he was consecrated on June
13th, 1513, in the Church of St. Thomas of Aeon, as
Suffragan Bishop of London,^^ under the title of Bishop
of Callipoli in Thrace, making his profession of obedience
to the Archbishop of Heraclius, his titular superior. (Le
Neve is in error here in giving the date of his consecra-
tion as 1517.) He appears to have regularly acted as
Suffragan, until he took up his permanent residence again
at Oxford in 1521. He had already, on January 26th,
1513, been given the living of St. Christopher le Stocks,®®
which lie resigned on April 28th in the following year,
having succeeded William Horsey, on March 28th, as
Archdeacon of London.®* In connection with his election
as Prior of Shulbred on June 12th, 1519, it is interesting
w ibid. J f. 18. Watney, History of the Hospital of St. Thomas of Aeon.
^1 Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of Hen. VIII., Vol. I., 1,212,
5,427.
^2 Keg. Lond., Fitzjames, f . 41.
^ Reg. Lond., Fitzjames, f. 49d, 51.
" ibid., f. 50d.
22 THE PRIORY OF SHULBRED.
to note that in the Bishop of London's register — among
the '^ Ordines Celebrati" at the end — it is stated that on
June 18th, in that year, ^^ offices were not celebrated,
either by Richard, Bishop of London, because he was
blind, or by John, Bishop of Callipoli, because he was
absent, as they say, in Sussex," and his absence must
have been for the purpose of being installed at Shulbred.
As I mentioned before, he cannot have devoted much of
his time to his duties as Prior, nor is it likely that a
man who had taken so active a part in church matters
would be content to bury himself in a small and secluded
convent. He continued during 1519, 1520 and 1521 to
act constantly as Suffragan, the last entry of his doing so
being on May 25th, 1521, when he was no longer Prior,
having resigned before March 21st previously. After
leaving Shulbred he became, on April 23rd, Warden of
New College, Oxford, where he died on March 28th, 1526.
He had been given the living of Coleme, in Wiltshire,
on November 14th, 1524,^^ and was also Dean of
Chichester, an appointment he may have owed to the
friendship of Bishop Sherburne, himself a former fellow
of New College, while Wood®^ says that he was a friend
of Cardinal Wolsey, to whose favour his appointment as
Bishop of Callipoli was due, and that he assisted the
Bishop of Lincoln, in 1520, to draw up the privileges
which the King granted to the University of Oxford two
years later. He was buried in New College Chapel, where
a brass representing him in the habit of a Bishop was
placed to his memory, the inscription on which has a blank
space left where the date of his decease should be. This,
according to Wood, is due to the fact that he put up the
tablet in his lifetime and his executors omitted to complete
it.
I have experienced much difficulty in tracing his career,
as all the authorities have confused him with others of the
same name, two of whom were also scholars of Winchester
and fellows of New College. One of these was the Master
of the Rolls and Ambassador for Henry VII. and VIII.,
who died 1516, and the other probably a relation, as he
« Reg. Cant., Warham, f. 809d. ^ Antiq, Oxon,
THE PRIORY OP SHULBRED. 23
was bom at Newton Longville, and became Rector of that
place in 1525.
During John Yonge's rule the convent acquired a
further grant of land in Midlavent by a patent of Henry
Vin.,*'' giving to '' John, Bishop of Callipoli, Prior of the
Priory of the Blessed Mary and St. Eustacho, of Shuld-
brede, the custody of two parts of a messuage and sixteen
acres in Midlovent, whicn Master Robert le Coke, the
bastard, who died without heirs, held on the day of his
death, and the custody of six acres of land in Midlovetta
(Midlovent in Pat. 13 Hen. VIII.), which are parcel of a
certain tenement called Iremonger tenement, to be held
by the Prior and his successors from Michaelmas last for
a term of forty years, paying therefor annually to the
King for the custody of the two parts of a messuage and
sixteen acres 5s. 4a., for which it is answerable to the
King, and fourpence besides of increase, and for the said
six acres 3s. 6d., for which it is answerable, and two
shillings besides of increase." That grant is also con-
firmed by a patent of the next year.®®
In 1521, as I mentioned before, John Yonge resigned,
and on March 21st William Burrey — a monk from the
neighbouring Priory of Tortington — was elected in his
place, the confirmation of the election being among the
Bishop of Chichester's registers. ®^
On the 2l8t March, 1521, the election by Shulbrede of William
Burrey, a regular Canon of the Order of St. Augustine, belonging to
the Priory of Tortyngton, as Prior, was laid before the Bishop by John
Stilman, notary public, sealed with the common seal — William Lawley
£ residing in his Chapter House of the Priory of the Blessed Virgin
[ary, Holy Cross, and St. Eustache of Shelbrede, to the Bishop — since
the Priorship is vacant by the free resignation of John Young, Bishop
of Gallipoli, late Prior ; we sought of our noble patron, Henry, Earl of
Northumberland, founder of the Priory, to choose us a Prior, we wrote
thus : ** We, William Lawley, president, Henry Selwode, John Stanney,
Nicholas Dunk, Laurence Gold and Laurence Boys, Canons and
Brothers of the said Priory, on March 4th, 1521," &c.
The document goes on to say that they elected William
Burrey, with his oath on election, and the confirmation
was signed by the Bishop on March 31st, 1522.
« Pat. 12 Hen. Vin., Part 2, M. 20. « Pat. 13 Hen. Vin., Part 1, M. 19.
fl® Keg. Chic, C, f. 40.
24 THE PRIORY OF SHULBRED.
On July 6th, 1524, John Northiall visited the Priory
by command of the Bishop. ''^
The Commissioner having read his commission, Sir William Biirrey,
Prior of the said house, stood up and certified that he had cited all
and singular his brethren to comply according to the tenor of the
mandate. Sir William Burrey, Prior of the said house, answered in
Serson, as did Sir Nicholas Dunke, Kegular Canon and Clerarius, and
ir John Henton and Laurence Boyes, Regular Canons. Sir William
Lawley, Canon regular, did not answer, Sir Henry Selwode was absent.
Sir John Stanney did not answer.
The Commissioner then proceeded to examine them to
find out matters requiring reform.
Sir William Burrey, Prior, Sir Nicholas Dunk, Sir John Henton
and Sir Laurence Boyes, being interrogated, said, "All well." The
Commissioner, when this examination had been finished, commanded
the Prior to show a faithful account of his administration there,
together with a statement of the goods and ornaments of the said
Priory, before him at the Feast of St. Andrew next.
Three years later, on May 12th, 1527, the Bishop gave
directions for a visitation of the Priory, ''^^ which was
carried out by John Northiall on the ensumg 3rd of July.
The members of the house then were William Burrey,
the Prior, William Lawley, Nicholas Dunk, John Stanney,
John Henton and Henry Selwood, and on being examined
as to the state of the Convent, Sir William Burrey and
Sir John Stanney said ^' All well." Sir Nicholas Dunke,
Sir John Henton and Sir William Lawley said '' All well,
except that the Prior is too remiss in paying the stipends
of the Canons and too sparing in giving them victuals."
The Chancellor commanded the Prior and brethren to
eat together in future at breakfast and dinner, unless they
be prevented by infirmity, and when they had consented
to this, he directed the Prior to '^ honestly provide the
Canons with good and healthy food for each of their
meals according to the exigency of the times and feasts."
Nothing in the report of this visitation would lead one
to suppose that there was anything radically wrong with
the house, but the Canons must have been masters of the
art of deception or have deteriorated in their moral
character very rapidly, as we can hardly reconcile the
70
Reg. Chic, A., f. 93. w Reg. Chic, A., f. 99d, 102.
THE PRIOEY OP SHULBRED. 25
report with the state of things apparently existing in the
house very soon afterwards, which led to its partial
suppression by the Bishop of Chichester.
A letter — ^which I give in full in its proper place —
written in 1535 by Richard Lay ton, one of the chief
Commissioners appointed by the King to inquire into
the state of the monasteries at the time of the dissolution,
states that the Bishop '^ deposed the Prior and purposed
to have suppressed the house some ten years since, but
this cannot have been earlier than 1527, and I am inclined
to put it about 1529-30, as in that year, in a list of persons
summoned to the Convocation of the Province of Canter-
bury,'^^ we find among those from the Diocese of Chichester
" Greorge, Prior of Shelbrede, personaliter, and by the
Prior of Holy Trinity, London;" and as we find William
Burrey again as Prior in 1532, it seems probable that on
account of the irregularities permitted by the latter, this
George was set over the few remains of the house as
Prior by the Bishop until William was able to bring
sufficient influence to bear for his reinstatement.
He may have been George Walden, who succeeded
William Surrey as the last Prior of the house, but there
is no direct evidence to show it. It is interesting also to
note that of the brethren mentioned at the visitation in
1527, the Prior and two Canons, at least, must have been
among those thus stigmatised by Layton, for Speed''®
states that at the final dissolution there were in the house
" George Walden, Prior of Shulbred, John Standney and
Nicholas Duke," the last two being evidently Sir John
Stanney and Sir Nicholas Duuke, who appear in the
visitation. It may have been through the influence of
the Earl of Northumberland, the patron of the Priory,
that William Burrey was restored to his position as Prior,
but certainly in 1531 we find the Prior of Shulbred, who
from later evidence in connection with the negotiations
would seem to have been William Burrey, endeavouring,
through the mediation of Richard Bedon, to obtain
w Letters and Papers, For. and Dom., of Henry VIII., Vol. IV., Part 3,
p. 2,701, Convocation 6,047.
w Speed, Hist, of Great Britain, p. 1,027.
26 THE PRIORY OF SHULBRED.
security and tranquility for himself and his house by
granting a pension to Thomas Cromwell, and so coming
under his protection.
An abstract of Bedon's letter and also of one from the
Prior is in the Foreign and Domestic Letters of Henry
VIII. ^^ but I insert tlie letters in full on account of their
interest.
Master Cromwell, yn my right hertely wise I comend me unto youe.
Sir Gylys Covertt and I dj'de move youe of a howse yn Sussex called
Shulbredde, wiche is of Chanonse. Sir, synse that I spake withe youe
I dyde send my servantt unto the pryor and enformed hym by my
letter what offree and promyse that I dyd make youe yn Westminster
Hall. Syr, the pryore is rerely well contentedd to performe my
promise so that youe wyll be so good master unto hym that they maye
be kept owte of the boke and dwell att rest with owte trowbill and
contynue styll yn ther howse and that you will make Master Hennege
w* youe yn this mater and this doune youe shall have every of youe
XX sh. by the yere by patent duryng your lyffe. Sir, make your
patentts and send theym to me by this berer and I will surely gett
theym sealed and send theym to youe agayne. Sir, I praye youe lett
Master Hennege knowe that this mocyon comythe of me, for I truste
that he wylbe the better master onto me. Sir, I do occupie a
stuardshype of the Bysshoppe of Sarum under him. Sir, if that youe
do opteyn thys purpose for this pore howse I dought natt, butt I shall
gett youe a patentt or ij more yn these parties and then I truste that
youe and I shalbe better acquayntted Sir, I praye youe
that I maye have some answere yn wrytyng from youe by this berer
that I maye she we ytt to the priore and coventt to comfortte theym
withall for do assure youe they are yn great feare and trowbill as
Jesu knoyth who ever preserve youe. Serybeled laysorles att
Godalmyng the thursdaye next after Seynt Valentyne by your assured
to his lytill poer. Rychard Bedon.
Sir, the howse is of my lorde of Northumberlonde fordacyon and if
he can do eny good theryn I thynke my lord Percy wyll helpe you the
best he can ytt is nott above gj li. lande and kepithe
vii. chanonse and kepithe the howse and Servythe god barely well.
I praye youe send me master hennage patentt and your.
Hoi. To his right well beloved M'. Cromwell.
Bedon' s kind offices, for which no doubt he received
some substantial reward, as well as that of ^^ better
acquaintance " with Cromwell, brought about the desired
result, as the Prior wrote a letter of thanks to Bedon
asking him to conclude the arrangement.''^
7* Letters and Paper Sy Vol. V., p. 106 (16).
75 Letters and Papers , Vol. V., p. 107 (abstract).
THE PRIORY OP SHULBRED. 27
Master Bedon, we grete you well and thankyng you off your grete
kyndnes sertyfyyng you we ar all contentt to the tenowre of your
letter yff so be y* we may have a trew certyffycate that we be yn no
more trobulle or dowthe off howse goods or lands. Thus donne lett
them make ther wretyng resenablye after dew consyons for hyt schall
be celyde. Syr, we desyer you as hartely as we cane all that ye wyll
do for us in thys trobylle as we schalle for yeu. In specyall unto all
myghty god for that we may be abyll to fulfylle our promes thys done
ye bynde us nomore to you at thys tyme, but Jesu preserve you
By our pour oratorys )Tl prior
for the brodene off Shullbrede.
Hoi. To Master Bedon at Schakyllforde.
The formal grant of this annuity to Cromwell — finally
settled at 26s. 8d. — has its date fixed as 1533 by the
Cromwell Papers,''® among which is the Patent stating
that ^^ we, William Burrey, Prior of the house or Priory
of Shulbredd and the Convent of that place, have given
and by this our deed confirmed to Thomas Crumwell,
gentleman, an annuity or annual payment of 26s. 8d. to
be had by him or his assigns to the end of his life out of
our manor of B. in Co. S." Where this ^^ manor of B."
was I cannot determine, as the only property belonging
to them beginning with the letter, according to the Valor
Ecclesiasticus, was Bramshott, the rent of which was only
12s. 9d. The annuity, however, must have commenced
earlier, for in a document of September 2nd, 1532,''''
entitled, '^ The true pie or catalogue of all my master's
obligations, bills obligatory and all other escripts,
remaining in the custody of John Williamson his servant,"
there is an entry of ^' a paten tt made to my master of
. . . another of 26s. 8d. bv Will. Burrey, Prior of
Shelbrede." This annuity is also mentioned in 1535''® in
the '^ view of the account of Henry Polstede, receiver of
the possessions of the right honourable Thomas Cromwell
from Michaelmas, 25 Henry VIII., to Michaelmas, 27
Henry VIII." A letter which is among the Lisle Papers
in the Record Office,''^ written by ^^your pour bedman
78 Letters and Papers, Vol. VI., p. 1,625-7.
" Letters and Papers, Vol. V., p. 1,285 ; Vol. VI.
78 Letters and Papers, Vol. IX., p. 478.
w Letters and Papers, Vol. VII., p. 283 (abstract).
28 THE PRIOEY OP SHULBRED.
William Waytte," to Lady Lisle on March 3rd, 1534,
does not throw any fresh light on the history of the
Priory, but dealing as it does with one of their minor
worries, so trivial that even their most faithful chronicler
would scarcely have recounted it, it forms an amusing
contrast with the heavier details of their troubles and the
sober record of history.
The writer, addressing Lady Lisle as ^' my singuler
gud Lady," recommends his '^ cosyn Leonar," himself
and his wife to her Ladyship and then proceeds :
Gud Madame, I was so bolde to wryte to the Prior of Schelbred for
a littell blacke brache*' in your ladescbype's name and my lorde's,
bothe the whyche wold not be delyveryd on my first bill. But that I
was so bolde over my lorde and your ladischyp to cause Rauff e Reggisby,
your servant, on my seyd gud lorde's name and yours to carry annother
letter to the seyd prior, and he had conveyd the said brache®^ to one
Master Dawtre, the wyche was verry lothe to deperte wythe here. I
schal desire your ladischyp to be so gud lady unto me as let my lord to
have some knowledge of thes my bolde lettere in hys name, lest my
lord schould take unny displeasure herin, the wyche y wold be verry
sory to here of.
The dog-fancying Prior may have been either William
Burrey or George Walden, who succeeded as the last
Prior of Shulbred. William Burrey resigned in 1533 or
1534 and retired to his own Priory of Tortington, which,
it will be remembered, he had left in 1521 to take up the
reins of government at Shulbred. The troubles which
had befallen him must have made him glad enough to
resign and take refuge in a less responsible position,
though perhaps under stricter rule than his own. A
letter, written by Sir William Goring to Cromwell on
June 26th, 1536,®^ contains a mention of him:
I received your letter by Ec. Foster 22 June, 28 Hen. VIII., that I
should resort to the Priory of Tortyngton. ... I have sent unto
you a bill off the Prior's hand, the which he sent to Sir Wyllyam Bery,
dwellyng at Tortyngton, and late Prior of Schelbred.
He retired, however, on a pension, as in the ^^List of
the yearly pensions of every religious man of the late
* Mastiff, greyhound, mongrel, grim,
Hound or spaniel, brach or lym.
— Shakespeare, King Lear, Act iii.. Scene 6, line 71.
81 Brach, a scenting dog, a lurcher or beagle (Nares Glossary).
83 Letters and PaperSf Vol. X., p. 1,207.
THE PBIOBT OF SHULBRED. 29
dissolved monasteries within the counties of Surrey and
Sussex, in the receipt of William Saunders, Esquire,""
we find, among others, '^ Shelbrede two, one at 121.
(Will. Burreys) and one at 40s. (George Dealden);" the
last-named seems to be meant for George Walden, but
there is a discrepancy in the amount of his pension to
which I will refer later. This list is included among the
papers of 1538 in the Foreign and Domestic Series of
LetterSj*^ but is stated in a foot-note to be of a later
date.
A Prior quondam with a pension of £12 is also found
in the survey of this house among the Suppression Papers
in the Record Office quoted hereafter.
George Walden, under whom the Priory, after a
chequered career of over 300 years, ceased to exist as a
house of religion, was Prior in 1534, for in the Valor
Ecclesiasticus, that great record of the possessions of the
Church in England, the compilation of which heralded
the destruction of the monastic system, he is shown as
Prior of Shulbred. In this survey we find a full list of
the possessions of the Priory, while a summary of it is
also in the Record Office, in the Rents and Surveys Roll,
659,®^ which is of great service, as it supplies an item
among the reprisals of 4s. Id., '' Alms to the poor for the
soul of Candeller," the omission of which in the Valor
Ecclesiasticus causes a discrepancy between the aggre-
gate of the items enumerated and the sum total as
recorded. From these two documents we learn that the
annual value of the property then belonging to Shulbred
consisted of :
£ 8. d.
Profits of lands in the hands of the Prior for the use
of his house , 106 8
Rents of lands and tenements at Wellyncherner .... 17 6 5
Rents in Yapton and Rustyngton 6 15 2
Rents in Chichester 30 4
Rents in Midhurst 3
Farm of a mill in Cowtershall 53 4
Rents in Lavant 23 10
^ Rot. Harl., I., 11, Brit. Mus.
8* Letters and Papers, Vol. XIII., Part 2, p. 1,196.
85 Misc. Aug. Office JJ.
30 THE PEIORY OF 8HULBRED.
£ 8. d.
Profits of the court there in fines and amercements in
ordinary years 12
Rents in Petworth 16
Eents in Perham 5
Bents in Bramshott 12 9
Bents in Glynde 6 8
Bents in Lewes 10
Bents in Haslemere 2 4
Bents in Lurgashall 10 6
Bent of a mill in Lowdell 2
Bents in TuUyngton 12
Bents in Almodyton in le Manwood 13 4
Bents in Fernest 6
Bent of a chapel in Lynches 3 4
Farm of the rectory of Lavant appropriated to the
Priory 14 17 6
Profits of a chapel in Lynchmer belonging to the Priory 66 10
Total of the temporalities and spiritualities, £79. 15s. 6d.
From which reprisals deducted in accordance with the form of
instructions.
To the Bishop of Chichester for sinod for the churches of
Lavaunt and Wellenchermer, 3s., and for procurations of the
same churches, 3s. 4 d.
To the Archdeacon of Chichester for procurations of the same
churches, 13s. 4d.
Payment of Bent.
To the Mayor of Chichester as rent paid for lands within that
city, 6id.
Pensions and Indemnities,
To the Prior of Lewes as annual pension, 20s.
To the Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral of Chichester for
the indemnity of the church of Lavaunt, 2s.
Alms to the poor for the soul of Candeller, 4s. Id.
Fees of the Seneschal, bailiff and receiver.
To the seneschal of the court of the said priory for his annual
fee, 26s. 8d.
To John Bell, bailiff of the priory, for annual fee, 26s. 8d.
To William Brym', receiver of the rents of this monastery, for
annual fee, 40s.
Total of the reprisals and deductions, £6. 19s. 7^.
And it is worth clear £72. 15s. lOjd.
The tithe therefrom £7. 5s. 7id.
The chapel of Lynch has also a separate entry to
itself, which mentions the pension of 3s. 4d. shown in
the valuation of Shulbred as rent of the chapel.
THE PRIORY OF SHULBRED. 31
Chapel of Lynches.
John Perkys, clerk, the chaplain there is worth clear 72s. 8d. a year,
besides 5s. paid to the Archdeacon of Chichester for procurations, 18d.
to the Bishop of Chichester for synod and lOd. for procurations, and
3s. 4d. to the prior of Shulbred for annual pension.
The tithe therefrom 7s. 3Jd.
The near approach of the dissolution caused those in
charge of the religious houses to put forth their utmost
endeavours to escape the common fate, and George
Walden seems to have endeavoured, like his predecessor,
to gain the assistance of Dr. Layton, and to have been
sent by him to see Cromwell at Winchester and there
plead his own cause, as the letter from Layton to Cromwell
in 1535, which I have already alluded to in connection
with the partial suppression of the house by the Bishop
of Chichester about 1529, mentions '^ the prior of Shel-
brede this bringer."
The letter of Dr. Layton is in a very mutilated condi-
tion, and an attempt at a complete reconstruction of
it is in the Sussex Archceological Collections ^^^ but I
insert it exactly as it is in the original, the jagged
line showing the torn edge of the sheet, as I do not
entirely agree with the reconstruction.
The letter has two endorsements, one of which states
that the letter was written by Dr. Layton, '' declaring
that the Bishopp of Chichester had suppressed the priory
of Shelbred for the wickedness of the monks," and gives
some extra details of the charges against them, which are
not adapted for reproduction, and the other runs, ^' To
the ryght honorable M' Thomas Crowell, Cheffe Secretarie
to the Kyng's hyghnes, at Winchestre, w* spede."
The state of morals, or rather the want of them, which
it reveals is extraordinary, and though some apologists
for the monasteries claim that the general dissolution by
Henry VIIL was only carried out to enrich his treasury
and was mere robbery without any justification, the fact
that this house was m so disreputable a condition as to
necessitate such strong measures being taken, not by the
w Vol. VII., p. 219.
32 THE PEIORY OF SHULBRED.
King, but by purely ecclesiastical authority, may show
that the existing state of things — in some cases at least
— necessitated reformation.®^
Hit may plase your mastersliipe to underst
the prior off Shelbrede this bringer to com unt
religiouse man. he hath for hymself but vij
two other v a peisse the fyfft and laste iiij
yet he is made over mydsummer mone
as many as his felowse if his right myn
hym. The bisshope of Chicestre put out all
about X yere sens and deposede the prior
purposed to have suppressedd the howse f
howse iiij hundredth shepe lx oxen v
swyne he hade the bames full of come
he made his suppression, he pulled down
made w' pilers of marbull. he pidly
fratre much of the churche he cow
upon the howses / the leyde under the
pypes. all the payment of the fratr
ther chalesses w' all ther howshold s
bare walls / and kepede the londe thus
and towke fro them a goodly In in the
them of XL shelyngs goode rent / wiche
Erie of Northumberlonde caused hy to put
he was fownder and now the Kyng ys for
and joineth to the ma8 of pet worth h
Lorde / the Kyng me thynketh were be
beyng almost downe and yo hit d
for they be all as ye se bawdy knav
the bisshope of Chichestre fere ye n
of hys whereunto he hade no suche
willyng be somewhat plaine w*
spoile and robry / if I may know your pi
the premisses this bringer the bawdy prior
from Shelebrode prior this Monday by your s
Whether the charges refer to the actual time at which
this letter was written, or to the period of its previous
reform, I am not sure, but incline to the latter supposition,
as the list of residents given in the survey next quoted
would seem to point to this conclusion.
The manner in which Dr. Layton spoke of the Prior
in this letter was not likely to have furthered his cause,
and the Commissioner seems to have counselled the entire
suppression of the house, but, except in its landed
property, it cannot have benefited the King's exchequer
87 Letters and Papers, Vol. IX., p. 533 (abstract).
THE PRIORY OF SHULBRED. 33
much after Bishop Sherburne's wholesale annexation of
everything valuable. Still it would seem from the Survey
in the Suppression Papers^ to have somewhat recovered
from its destitute condition. This survey, returned with
those of other monasteries, was based on a form of enquiry
into the actual condition of each house under nine chief
subject headings, and was made in the latter part of 1536.
It is entitled, " The brief certificat of the commyssioners
appoynted for the Survey of the Monasteryes and Priories
w^in the Countye of Sussex as herafter shall appere," and
is printed in full on p. 64, Vol. XLIV., of the Sitssex
ArchcBological Collections^ while another inventory^ of
the jewels, ornaments, goods, stock, bells and lead, &c., of
Shulbred Priory is printed in the same volume, p. 60.
The house was dissolved on or about the 25th March,
1537, and the King assumed possession of all the
property belonging to it, while the monks had to leave
their old home for whatever refuge they could find.
The Prior, however, was given a pension by Henry
VIII., the grant being contained in a Royal letter, dated
March 17th, 1537, which is in the Record Office,^® setting
forth that since by the authority of Parliament the late
Priory of Shulbrede was dissolved, where one George
Wallden was Prior at the time of the suppression and
long before, ^^We, wishing to grant the same George
a reasonable annual pension or fit promotion for his living,
and that he may sustain proper state," grant him an
annual pension of £10 for the rest of his life, or till he
shall have been promoted to one or more ecclesiastical
benefices, or other suitable promotion of the clear annual
value of £10.
The five Canons also receive pensions, and the servants
were given rewards.®^
The lands belonging to Shulbred, together with those
of many other houses, were granted in October, 1537,
to Sir William Fitzwilliam, K.G., Great Admiral of
^ Q.R. Suppression Papers, ^^.
» Ministers' Accounts, 27-28 Hen. VIII., No. 172.
» Augmentation Office Books, 232, f. 51.
w Sussex Arch, Coll., Vol. XLIV., p. 64.
34
THE PRIORY OP SHULBRED.
England, and afterwards created Earl of Southampton,^
and are specified as " The house and site of the late
Priory of Shelbrede, alias Shulbrede, Sussex, the church,
the belfry and churchyard of the said Priory, a field
called ' le Westfeld,^ a meadow called ^ Beriesmede,' a
small croft of land adjoining the said meadow, a piece
of land called ^ Newland,' a piece of pasture called
* William at Redes,' a piece of land and wood called
* Okeredes,' a piece of land and wood called ^ Crokener,'
and a moor, a piece of woodland and marsh called ^ Ly ver-
mershe,' a croft of land called ' le condyt Crofte,' a piece
of land called ^ Grenehills,' a piece of land called
^Welchys,' and the land called ^Rodelond/ ^ Bushopps
Hurste, ^Courtlond' and ^Condit Meadowe,' all of which
lie in Schuldbrede, alias Shelbrede, and Wellynchmere,
Sussex, and belong to the same Priory. Also the Rectory
of Lavant and advowson of the Vicarage thereof, and
the Chapel of Lynchmere, belonging to the same late
Priory, and all manors, messuages, c&c, in the vills,
fields, or of Shelbrede, alias Shuldbrede, Wellynchmere,
Yapton, Rustyngton, Chichester, Midhurst, Petworth,
Lavant, Parham, Bramshott, Glinde, Lewes, Hasilmere,
Lurgashall, Lowdell, Almodyngton in le Manwoode,
Fernehurst, TuUynton and Lyncher, Sussex, which
belonged to the said Priory, or which George Wallden,
the late Prior, held in right of the same on the 4th of
February, 27 Henry VIII."
List of Pkiors of Shulbbed.
1242
1248-9
1255-6
1299
1258
1380-1
to
1404 Nov.
1404 Nov.
1478
John
John
Henry
Thomas de Henton
John
! William Harethom
(resigned)
John Coldell (elected)
Thomas Clone
1519
( Nicholas Ff ensham
( (resigned)
1519 June 12 ( (elected)
to < John Yonge
1521 Mar. 21 ( (resigned)
1521 Mar. 21 William Burrey (elected)
1524 do.
1529-30 George
1532-3 William Burrey
1534 George Walden
92 Pat. 29 Hen. VIII., Part 1, M. 21. Letters and Papers, Vol. XII., Part
2, p. 1,008 [19].
Note. — The Editors hope to publish in a future Volume an Archi-
tectural History of the Buildings of the Priory, together with a Plan
of its original state as far as can now be ascertained.
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THREE EAST SUSSEX CHTJECHES:
BATTLE, PEASMARSH, ICKLESHAM.
A STUDY OF THEIR ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY.
By GREVILE M. LIYETT, F.S.A.,
Vicar of Wateringbury, Kent.
Part II.
PEASMARSH CHURCH.
The Church of St. Peter and St. Paul at Peasmarsh is
picturesquely situated among the trees on top of a hill
that rises abruptly to the south of the village to a height
of 200 feet above sea level. It is not mentioned in
Domesday^ but that it existed at the time of survey or
soon after seems proved by the very early character of
its chancel-arch. This is one of the few early-Norman
chancel-arches that have proved strong enough to carry
for 800 years and more the superincumbent weight of
gable-wall and roof, and have been suflfered to remain
in spite of the exigencies of mediaeval ritual and the
havoc of modern ignorance. It is mainly on account
of its chancel-arch that Peasmarsh Church has been
included in this study of the architectural history of
"Three East Sussex Churches."
The church is worth a visit, if only for the purpose
of gazing upon this old bit of masonry, with its rough
dark voussoirs, its wide joints, its square jambs and long
moulded imposts, and its irregularity of form. It is a
pity that the voussoirs at the crown oi the arch are partly
covered by panels of stucco on which the Creed, Lord s
Prayer and Ten Commandments are painted. Surely
all this might be removed. One of the larger quoin-
stones on either side, the second below the impost, has a
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rudely-shaped lion carved on it in bas-relief. (A similar
device is seen on a stone built into the outside w^all
over the priest's door on the south side of the chancel.)
The arch is perfectly plain, built of plastered rabble,
faced with ashlar voussoirs. It springs from deep
chamfer-moulded imposts, the section of which is shown
with the Plan. The square jambs are coursed in ashlar.
The material is a dark and coarse iron -sandstone,
doubtless a local material. The mortar-joints are wide.
The height of the springing-line (on the top of the
imposts) is 7-ft. 1-in. above the chancel-floor and the
crown of the aich is 4-ft. 2-in. higher. The span of
the opening at the floor-level is 7-ft. 7^-in.; but the
opening spreads near the imposts, so that at its widest
part (about I2-in. above them) it measures about 8-ft.,
and on the imposts about an inch less. Thus the arch
has a depressed horseshoe form. It is evident that the
crown of the arch has sunk under the weight of the wall
above it. This depression and the consequent spreading
of the jambs must have taken place immediately after
the arch was built ; the contributing causes were rapid
THREE EAST SUSSEX CHURCHES. 37
building, the use of a large proportion of mortar not
only in the arch itself, but also in the walling around it,
and the removal of the centering on which the arch was
constructed before the mortar was dry. The arch must
originally have been slightly stilted if not horseshoe in
form ; for the measurement irom springing-line to crown
is still an inch or two greater than half the span on the
imposts. The original springing-line therefore must have
been about 6-in. above the imposts.
There are not many early-Norman chancel arches in
existence. In Kent there is a good example at West
Farleigh and another (partly blocked and with a later
arch built under it) at Offham, and perhaps one or two
others.^ Examples of middle-Norman date, though not
quite so rare, are by no means common. A good one at
Mountfield was mentioned in the paper on Battle Church
in the previous volume of these Collections. There is
one at Dymchurch, in Romney Marsh, and one (dated
1124) at Frindsbury, near Rochester. As the style
advanced they were usually made much larger, like that
at Eastbourne Parish Church and that at St. Margaret-
at-Cliffe, near Dover ; but in some instances, as at Peper-
harow, in Surrey, the more ornate chancel-arches of late-
Norman date were made small. The majority of such
chancel-arches of small dimensions, whether early or late,
were removed in the fifteenth century, if they had not
already disappeared, doubtless to afford additional space
for the rood and rood-screen.^
^ Mr. H. Michell Whitley writes : ** There are early-Norman chancel arches of
the same tyx>e at (amongst others) Ford, Hardham and Combes. At £astdean
there was, until a few years ago, a similar arch, narrow and so low that a man
standing underneath could almost touch the sof&t of the arch. This interesting
bit of eleventh century work was replaced by a loftier pointed arch at the restora-
tion ! " A similar fate has overtaken a rude early arch that once existed in
Godalming Church, Surrey. [Combes chancel -arch is illustrated in Vol. XLII.
of these Collections, Ford in Vol. XLIII. and Hardham in Vol. XLIV. — Ed.]
* In most cases the small arch was simply replaced by a larger one. In some
cases, however, the arch and gable- wjiU above it were so completly removed as to
lend colour to the idea that there never was a chancel-arch. Ivychurch, in
Komney Marsh, is a case in point. There the church has continuous arcades
running right from west to east, and, if I remember right, the roof -ridge also is
continuous. It looks like a church biiilt anew in the foxirteenth century. But in
the south aisle wall, opposite the ritual division between nave and chancel, there
is a curious deviation in the line of the wall, just sufficient to imply some influence
of an older building. On chancel-arches and rood-screens see a paper on ** Great
Chart Church," in Arch, Cantiana, Vol. XXVI.
38 THREE EAST SUSSEX CHURCHES.
Norman churches seem to have been built, according
to prevailing fashion, on two or three well-defined types
of plan. First there was the aisleless nave and square-
ended chancel. A tower placed between the nave and
chancel produced the second type. The inclusion of
transepts in the original plan produced the third type,
the cruciform church. The last type did not come into
fashion in parish churches until towards the end of the
twelfth century. Before that time addition of aisles to
old churches of the simple type was causing variation in
the planning of new churches ; but that is a matter which
cannot be discussed here. There were not a few churches
built in stone in Saxon times, but I believe that by far
the greater number of our mediaeval Parish Churches
were first built in stone in the eleventh and twelfth
centuries, and of these again by far the greater number
seem to have been built in the simple type of aisleless
nave and square chancel.^ To this type, in the absence
of any sign of a central tower, we must conclude that
* In perpetuating the type of church with aisleless nave and square chancel
the Normans were carrying on the Celtic tradition of Saxon times in preference
to the Italian (see Mr. J. T. Micklethwaite's remarks, ** Something about
Saxon Church Building," in Arch. Journal, Vol. LIU. ; and The History of
English Church Arch., by G. G. Scott, ch. II.). The Italian type had aisles
and a railed-off chancel in the nave in front of an eastern apse. The Celtic
or Scottish type had a plain nave (without aisles) for the people, and for the clerks
a smaU chancel (or more properly a small presbytery) attached to the east end,
with only a small arch of communication between the two parts. ISIr. Mickle-
thwaite quotes, as Saxon examples of the Celtic type, Deerhurst (small church),
Eirkdale, Corhampton, St. Martin's at Wareham, and Wittering. He thinks that
Bosham, Sussex, may be traced back to a beginning of this form. Norman
churches of this type might be quoted by the score for every county in the kingdom.
Here and there a Parish Church of similar type, but with an apsidal instead of
a square east end, may be seen. Keymer, in Sussex, seems to be a case in point.
Essex has more than its fair share of churches with apsidal chancels (see Buckler's
Twenty 'two Churches of Essex, p. 82). With the exception of a small group of
eighth-century churches, comprising St. Martin's and St. Pancras at Canterbury,
the first church at Rochester (see Arch. Cant., Vol. XVIII.), Lyminge and Eeculver
(for this group see Archceologia, Vol. LVIII.), I know of only one Parish Church
in Kent that has an apse, viz., Eynsford ; and I suspect that Eynsford ought to
be added to the group of eighth -century foundations. The chapel attached to
Gundulf's Hospital at Rochester has an apse, as also had once the hospital -chapel
at Harbledown, near Canterbury, but both were non-parochial.
I am unable to compile a list for Sussex. There is the well-known Saxon
example of Worth. Newhaven, a church of the nave-tower-chancel type, is
another example of an apsidal east end. But I should be surprised to find the
complete list a long one. The vast majority of parish churches, whether of
Saxon or Norman foundation, were of the simple nave -chancel type with
square east end. This is italicised because the old theory that our mediaeval
parish churches usually had apsidal terminations, like our monastic and collegiate
churches of Norman date, seems to die hard.
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THEEE EAST SUSSEX CHURCHES.
Peasmarsh Church originally belonged. The nave-arcades
occupy the lines of the side-walls of the original nave,
and the tower-arch stands on the line of the west wall.
In the wall above the arch there is a tall Norman window
blocked externally by the later tower. The sill run»
sharply down to an off-set, by which the thickness of the
gable-wall is diminished. The off-set ranges with the
wall-plates of the roof The blocked opening splays out
to a width of 3-ft. 9-in. on the inner face. The sides of
this inner arch rise from the off-set 7-ft. to the springiug-
line. The quoins and voussoirs are of Caen-stone, and
the masonry is finely jointed. Both masonry and
material suggest a middle-Norman date for this wmdow.
It must have been inserted in the older, early-Norman
wall.
Apart from the chancel-arch there is abundant evidence
of an early-Norman church. The later walls contain
numerous bits of squared iron-sandstone, which show the
characteristic face-marks of the axe. Near the top of the
diagonal buttress which supports the north-east angle of
the chancel there is a fragment of shallow carving in the
same material. It shows a flying bird holding something
in its beak — query, the dove and the olive-leaf.
We may now turn our attention to the additions and
alterations which in course of time were made to the early-
Norman nave. The aisles and the tower seem to have been
built late in the twelfth or early in the thirteenth century.
The tower, which is lighted by lancet openings, is capped
by a low octagonal spire and strengthened at its two free
angles by clasping-buttresses. These buttresses are o-ft.
in width each way and have a projection of 2-ft. A west
door has been blocked and a modern window has been
inserted just above it. There is a lancet window low
down on the south side ; but the lower part of it is
certainly not original, and there is some doubt about the
upper part. The east wall of the tower, being in reality
the west wall of the original church, is thinner than the
other three walls. The tower-ai'ch in this wall is a plain
pointed arch, opening the whole width of the tower
internally and of rather low proportions. It springs from
40 THREE EAST SUSSEX CHURCHES.
plain imposts. The edge of the arch and of its jambs
IB slightly chamfered. Chamfer-stops of the common
thirteenth-century pattern are used in the jambs.
Similar in character and of the same date as the tower-
arch" are the nave-arcades of three tall pointed arches which
look into the aisles. They have plain soffits and slightly-
chamfered edges. The voussoirs are small and show the
face -marks of the chisel. They spring from hollow-
chamfered imposts, carried by square piera of the same
thickness as the walls above, standing on square, bevelled
plinths. In the two western pairs o£ arches the angles
of the piers are chamfered and the chamfers show the
same common form of stop. In the eastern pair the piers
have edge-rolls, with plain bell-caps and bases of two
rounds. These are absent in the east respond on the
south side.
The two free piers on the north side are less regular in
form than those on the south. They are thicker at the
bottom, and batter or taper upwards. This is especially
remarkable in theeastern one, whichis further strengthened
by a pilaster strip attached to its north face. The side-
wall in which the arcade was inserted apparently leant
outwards, and the thickening seems to be a device of the
builders of the arcade to strengthen it. The material of
nearly all the cut-stone of this work seems to be Caen-
stone. A few pieces of the older material, iron-stone,
appear in the arches on the south side.
In some respects the north aisle retains more of its
original form and features than the south aisle. Its width
is about 7T-ft. In the west wall there is an original
lancet window, which at present is, unfortunately, hidden
by boarding. Its stonework on the outside has all been
renewed, except the sill, and that has been cut down
nearly two inches to admit of the insertion of glazing.
It is a coarse oolite.
The remaining windows of this aisle are insertions of
later date. The east end has a two-light Decorated
window. The two lights are foliated and ogee-headed
under a plain segmental curtain-arch. The spandrel, or
space between and above the two ogee-heads, is not
THBEE EAST SUSSEX CHUBCHES. 41
pierced. Late in the fifteenth century the side-wall of
the aisle was raised about 2-ft. above its original height,
a new sloping roof was put on, and a two-light square
headed window was placed high up in the wall near
either end of it. The original roof was continuous in
slope with the nave-roof. The alteration gave it a slight
tilt or cant. The original line can be detected on the
exterior face of the wall above the vestry. At the same
time four external buttresses were erected and the wall
was refaced, with the addition of a base-course, which
encloses the buttresses. In the centre of the wall on the
outside may be seen the jambs and four-centred arch of
a late fifteenth-century north door ; the mouldings, con-
sisting of an ogee and hollow chamfer with large dagger-
stop, are very bold. The door-way has been blocked
and no sign of it remains inside the building.
The south aisle was widened in the fourteenth century.
The new wall, which is only 20-in. thick, was built up
just outside the old one and the aisle was covered with
a ridge-roof. A porch was erected at the same time.
The two-light Decorated windows in the aisle wall, one
on either side of the porch, are poor copies in Bath stone
of the original windows. An original window (in sand-
stone) in the west end of the aisle shows the correct
pattern. The main lights are unusually wide, and
consequently the form of the quatre-foil above them is
not very graceful. The single-light trefoiled window at
the east end of the aisle is awkwardly placed near to
the arcade. It is earlier in character than the side-
windows and was no doubt inserted previous to the
re-building of the aisle. This east wall is singularly
thick, and I have no doubt that it was purposely made
so, either when the aisle was first built or when tlie
Decorated window was inserted, in order to give support
to the gable-wall and chancel-arch. I am inclined to
favour the earlier date for this buttressing, more
especially as there is closely connected with it a portion
of a buttress of 8-in. projection in the external angle
formed by the aisle and chancel, so placed as to resist
the thrust of the Early English arcade. Similar
THREE EAST SUSSES CHURCHES.
buttresses have been noticed at Battle and Salehurst.
It is not improbable that the stones of which this buttress
is composed came from the quoin of the original nave :
they are iron - sandstone. The material which the
Decorated builders used may be seen in the south porch
and in the west window of the aisle: it is apparently a
Sussex sandstone.
The Decorated south porch has in each side-wall a
lancet of tall and narrow proportions within a widely-
splayed opening under a segmental, slightly-pointed
wall-arch. The lancets are rebated inside for shutters.
The Decorated porch at Eastbourne Parish Church has
similar lancets. The archway of the porch is very plain.
The angles have clasping buttresses ; they appear to be
modern, or to have been re-built.
The doorway inside the porch has a round-headed arch
which is evidently of earlier date than the Decorated wall
in which it stands. It must have come from a south
doorway in the wall of the Early English aisle, and
perhaps it originally came from the nave-wall when the
aisle was added. It has a round arch without imposts,
showing a continuous edge-roll. Only a few of its
stones are old. The material seems to be whitewashed
Caen-stone.
Wo now come to the chancel. Its remarkable irregu-
larity on plan is a sure sign of alteration and re-building.
In round numbers it is 31-ft. long and 15-ft. wide at
the west end and 20-in. wider at the east end. The
east wall contains a modern three-light Decorated window,
said to be a copy of the earlier wii idow. In each side- wall
there are three tall single lights. In the north wall there
is a modern opening into a modern vestry ; in the south
wall, near the west end, a small low-side window, blocked ;
between the first and second window, a priest's door;
under the third window, the sedilia and a piscina ; near
the east wall, an aumbry. I believe that all these
features, except the aumbry, are work of the early-
Decorated period. On my first visit to the church I took
t sa
it for granted that they were what they are commonly
said to be. Early English, though I confess I felt
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PEASMAliSH CHURCH.
THREE EAST SUSSEX CHURCHES. 43
uncomfortable about it. Closer examination has con-
vinced me they are later in date. The piscina and sedilia
have chamfered edges, showing a stop which might well
have been worked in the twelfth century ; but the slope
of the stop under the roll is not so sharp as it usually is
in Early English work. Moreover, the face-marking of
the stonework, both in the sedilia and in the window-
jambs, is very diflterent from the genuine Early English
chisel-marking of the nave-arcades : instead of the vertical
marks of the plain tool we have a distinct cross-hatching
of the kind commonly seen in the fourteenth - century
work, wrought with a toothed-chisel. Then again, the
tall lights show a decided hollow chamfer externally.
These features favour a Decorated date, which I think
must be conceded in view of the fact that no distinctly
Early English feature presents itself. Probably many
instances of the use of so-called ^^ lancet" lights in the
early - Decorated period could be cited (just as small,
round-headed openings were used in Early English times).
The only instance of which I have a note is one at St.
Martin's, Canterbury.
A small plan and elevation of the piscina and sedilia
are given with the Plan. The western sedile is 7^-in.
lower than the eastern. The level of the sills or seats
proves that the floor of the chancel, in this as in so many
of our churches, is now higher than it was originally.
The illustration shows the blocked low-side window
as seen externally. It is probably a fourteenth-century
opening. The direction of the splay of the jambs is
shown in the plan. A special interest attaches to this
low-side window in connection with the rude round-
headed opening on the south side of the chancel-arch now
filled with glass. These relative positions are seen in
the photograph of the interior looking west, in which
the inner opening of the low -side window with its
vertical sides and square lintel faintly appear to the
left of the round-headed opening. The common explana-
tion of the latter is naturally that which calls it a squint
or hagioscope. But the close proximity of these two
openings seems to support Mr. P. M. Johnston's theory
THREE EAST SUSSEX CHURCHES.
of the use of such openings for the purpose of hearing
confessions. A priest seated in the corner of the chancel
could easily turn to the one or the other opening, at
the approach of a penitent either from the nave or
from the churchyard. The height of the sill of the
low - side window above the present chancel - floor is
3-ft. 3-in,, the height of the other opening is two or
three inches lower. The round-headed opening is so
devoid of character that it is impossible to guess when
it was made : it would of course serve the purpose both
of a squint and of a confessional.
The roofs of both nave and chancel are of the ordinary
collar-beam type. That of the chancel has two tie-beams,
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both showing perpendicular mouldings: an ogee and
hollow chamfer. It is probable that nave, north aisle,
and chancel were all re-roofed at the same time.
Returning once more to the Norman church and its
plan: the builders were unusually happy in laying out
their nave (which measured 42j-ft. by 19^-ft.) in that
they managed to get its angles all right angles. The
lie and dimensions of their chancel cannot be recovered
with certainty. High up in the angle at the west end
of the chancel on the south side, exterior, a few stones
remain to indicate the return of the early -Norman
chancel-wall from the east wall of the nave. It appears
that the fourteenth -century architect demolished and
rebuilt the south wall of the chancel. I have carefully
examined the junction of the chancel with the nave in
the corresponding angle on the north side (above the
vestry) and am pretty well persuaded that the chancel-
wall on that side is in part the original Norman wall.
This gives the trend of the Norman chancel on plan as
leaning a little to the north as it went eastwards. The
length of the chancel cannot be determined exactly.
There is no old quoin, such as may be seen in many
churches, left in the face of the wall to indicate the
original east end.* But I fancy I see a slight change in
the masonry between the second and third windows on
the face of the wall below them. At any rate, to place a
cross-wall in this position is to give the Norman chancel
its natural proportions, so that the indication on the plan
is probably not far wrong.
To sum up the history of the church :
1. An early -Norman church, of which the chancel-
arch remains and parts of all four walls of the nave,
and the north wall of the chancel.
2. A west tower and nave-aisles added late in the
twelfth or early in the thirteenth century.
3. In the fourteenth century: (a) the chancel rebuilt,
possibly on account of the partial failure of the south
* East Peckham and West Mailing, both in Kent, show such a quoin, on the
north side in each case.
46 THREE EAST SUSSEX CHURCHES.
wall and for the sake of enlargement ; (6) windows
inserted in the east end of each aisle; (c) the north
aisle widened and a new porch built.
4. New roofs throughout in the fifteenth century and
new windows inserted in the north aisle.
5. A modern vestry.
I have to thank the rector, the Rev. F. B. Allison, for
sending me measurements to enable me to complete the
plan; and Mr. J. C. Stenning and Mr. A. fibulkes for
supplying photographs for some of the illustrations.
THE SUSSEX COLEPEPEES.
By Colonel F. W. T. ATTREE, R.E., F.S.A.,
AND THE
Eev. J. H. L. BOOKEE, M.A.
To write a history of the family of Colepeper in all its
different branches would take up a good many volumes
of the size of these Collections^ and we have, therefore,
confined ourselves to the main branch, and to off-shoots
of it which settled in Sussex.
With regard to the derivation of the name Colepeper
no satisfactory explanation has ever been given, but as
the first of the family of whom we have any mention, the
"Recognitor Magnse Assisae tempore Regis Johannis,"
is called Thomas de Colepeper, we may fairly conclude
that the name either bore a local signification, or it refers
to the occupation, or calling in life, of those who first
adopted it. If the name is a local one two places have
been suggested from which it may be derived, viz.,
GoUesberghe, in Sandwich, co. Kent, and Goldspur, or
Culspore, a hundred in the Rape of Hastings. If, on the
other hand, the name is connected in some way with the
occupation of those who first assumed it, then it is argued
that in the same manner as Coleprophet means a false
prophet, and Coletragitour a false traitor, so Colepeper
may mean a false pepperer, or sham grocer, i.e., one who
traded outside the Fraternity of Pepperers, the Guild
whence sprang the Grocers' Company, which was incor-
porated in 1345. Another suggestion points to the possi-
bility of Colepeper meaning Blackpepper, while another
hints at the likelihood of there having been formerl}'^ some
industry in which the culling or picking of pepper may
have formed one of the chief branches.
48 THE SUSSEX COLEPEPERS.
The armorial bearings of the family, Arg: a bend
engrailed, gu., may possibly furnish a clue to its»origin.
Papworth, in his Ordinary of British Armorials, mentions
some sixty families as bearing the bend engrailed, but
apparently only two of them, viz., Chitcroft and Walrand,
displayed identically the same coat as the Colepepers.
As Robert Walrand, in the Roll of Arms, temp. Henry
III., appears as the owner of this coat,^ the Colepepers
probably got it somehow through him, and they were
using it as early as 3 Edward III. (1.329), when John,
the son of Sir Thomas Colepeper, is recorded as bearing
it, and his brother Richard differenced it with a label of
three points.^ The Chitcrofts also were probably either
Colepepers or closely connected with them, as not only
are their arms identical, but we find the two families
associated together at a very early period. In 1299
Benedicta, daughter of Thomas de Chitcroft, granted
land in Beghal, with a mill in Pepinbury, to Thomas, son
of Thomas Colepeper, and Margery his wife,® while in
11 Henry IV. (1409) the names of John Chitcroft and
Thomas Colepeper, chivaler, appear coupled as defen-
dants in an action brought by John Mortymer, relating
to the manor of Asshen, co. Northants.* An investiga-
tion of the early Walrand and Chitcroft pedigrees would
doubtless reveal some connection with Colepeper, but
would probably give no clue to the origin of the name,
which may, therefore, be left to the choice of the reader
or to his further researches.
Thomas de Colepeper is stated to have been a Recognitor
of the Grand Assize, on the authority of Phillipott, in
his Villare Cantianum, where he quotes ' ' Bundels of
incertain years in the Pipe Office," but no direct reference
being given we have, unfortunately, been unable to trace
him. We would, however, point out that a Recognitor
was not a Judge, as is asserted in the article referred to.
The Grand Assize was not an assize in the sense which
we now use the word, but it was a proceeding or enquiry
1 S.A.G.y Vol. XXIV., 30. 8 Harl., Ch. 77, f. 20.
« CoU. Top. et Gen., VII., 337. < Genealogist, Vols. XIV., 252 ; XVI., 38.
THE SUSSEX COLEPEPERS. 49
like an assize of novel disseisin, or an assize of mort
d'ancestor, c&c, while the Recognitors, who were sum-
moned on such tribunal, were the jurors whose function it
was to investigate all cases involving questions of right,
and who, being probably neighbours of the disputing
parties, were bound to '' recognise " and speak the truth
concerning the matter at issue/
Most pedigi'ees agree in giving John as the Recognitor's
son, followed by Sir Thomas as his grandson. If the
pedigrees are correct then this Sir Thomas, of Bayhall,
must have been an old man in 4 Edward II. (1310).
Assuming that the grandfather was fifty years of age
when he served as Recognitor, then the two generations
succeeding him must have covered a period of some eighty
years. This would make Sir Thomas Colepeper, in
4 Edward II., when his son Thomas and Margery his
wife purchased of him 50 acres in Foulsden,® a fairly old
man, and although indicted in 1305, with his son Thomas,
for stealing the goods of the vicar of Ringmer, we can
hardly believe that he took any active part in the matter.
For this reason it was not probable that it was this
Thomas who was porter or janitor of Leeds Castle in
1292 ; it was more likely his son of the same Christian
name. In 1296 (25 Edward I.) there is an important
reference to Thomas Colepeper, sen.; the executors of
the will of Sir William de Montfort Ibrought an action
against Thomas Colepeper and John his son concerning
the manor of Newenton, in Kent.''
From this it is clear that there was, besides his sons
Thomas and Walter, who were executed, another son
John, and there was doubtless another son named
Nicholas. All four were implicated in the Earl of
Lancaster's rebellion, but John and Nicholas evidently
in a lesser degree than Thomas and Walter. There
was an order issued in 1322 to the Sheriff of York to
» See Pollock and Maitland's Hist, of Engl, Law, Vol. II., p. 627.
« Inq. de terris forisfactis, 17 Ed. II., No. 12.
7 De Banco, Mich., 25 Ed. I., m. 287*. In 35 Ed. I. Margaret, daughter of the
late William Pykot, granted to Matilda Colpeper and Joan her daughter 15
dayworks (daywercas) of land in Newinton, in a field called ** Brechfelde.**
(Ancimt Deeds, Vol. IV., A. 7030.)
XLVII. B
50 'THE S0SSEX OOLEPEPERS.
receive John Colepeper and others into custody in York
Castle.® This looks as if John Colepeper took part in
the Battle of Boroughbridge, and Weaver, in his Ancient
Funeral Monuments, p. 272, speaks of Sir Thomas
Colepeper siding with the Earl of Lancaster and being
hanged, drawn and quartered at Winchelsea. The place
fatal to the Earl was Pontefract, so it seems certain that
both Thomas and John were with Lancaster's forces at
Boroughbridge.
After remaining a close prisoner during the remainder
of the reign in the Castles of Berkhampstead and
Gloucester,® John Colepeper was released on the accession
of Edward III., and in the restoration of confiscated lands
which then took place those of John Colepeper, of Lynlegh,
were included.^® He was alive eleven years later, when
John Colepeper, of Lynlegh, with Johanna, his wife,
appear as deforciants in a fine relating to 20 acres of
land in Wythyhame."
With regard to the other two sons of Sir Thomas
Colepeper, sen., Walter and Nicholas, they both suffered
for their refusal to admit Queen Isabel to Leeds Castle.
Walter ' ' sticked not to tell him " (the Queen's marshal^
'^ that neither the Queen nor any other ^ould be lodged
there without the commandement of his Lorde the owner."
On the Queen coming to the gate in person "the Captaine
most malapertly repulsed her, insomuch that shoe com-
plained grievously to the King," who besieged the place
and eventually took it. " Then tooke he Captaine Cole-
peper and hoong him up." Captain Colepeper was
doubtless Walter, as the release of Nicholas, his only
brother yet unaccounted for, forms the subject of the
following order issued in 1323 to Henry de Cobeham,
Constable of Rochester Castle : " Whereas Nicholas
Colepeper and others are imprisoned in Rochester Castle
because they adhered to certain rebels who held the
King's Castle of Ledes against him. The King, com-
passionating their estate, and being unwilling to detain
8 aose RoU, 1322. " aose RoU, 1 Ed. HI., m. 21.
9 Close RoU, 19 Ed. H., m. 22. " Feet of Fines, Sussex, 12 Ed. IH., No. 28.
THE SUSSEX COLEPEPERS.
51
them longer in prison, orders the Constable to release
those of them whom he shall find by Inquisition to have
no lands, and to cause those of them who have lands to
come before the King within 15 days from Easter at
their own cost and to do and to receive what the King's
Court shall consider in the matter." ^^
Of the four sons of Thomas Colepeper, grandson of
the Recognitor, we can find no trace of John and Nicholas,
while from Captain Walter Colepeper sprang the Cole-
pepers of Oxenhoath and Aylesford, with whom, as being
more connected with Kent than Sussex, this paper has
no concern.
The eldest son. Sir Thomas Culpeper, who was executed
at Winchelsea in 1321, seems to have married Margery, a
daughter of the Bayhall family, and either by this match,
or by purchase, to have acquired their estates. This
Thomas is called in 1306 '' &V Thom' Colepeper de
Brenchesle." The following evidence is adduced to
show that Margery probably belonged to the Bayhall
family.
In 1299 there is the grant, mentioned before, by Benedicta daughter
of Thomas de Chitcroft, which family bore identically the same arms
as the Colepepers (and therefore Thomas de Chitcroft may have been
a Colepeper himself, or he and Thomas Colepeper may both by
marriage with the Bayhall heiresses have adopted their coat of arms)
to Thomas, son of Thomas Colepeper, and Margery his wife of lands
at Beghall with part of a mill in Pepinbury.^®
1308. Charter in which Cecilia, Margeria, Amicia, and Christina,
daughters of John atte Bayhalle grant to Thomas the son of Thomas
Colepeper, for 5 marcs, all their part of a mill and lands in Peapinbury
which they had after the death of their grandfather William atte
Bayhalle."
1309. Johanna quae fuit uxor Johannis atte Beyhalle petit versus
Thomam Colepeper juniorem.^*
1312. Grant from Ralph Newman and Agnes daughter and heir of
Q-eoffry atte Beyhalle to Thomas Colepeper and Margery his wife of
lands in Pepinbery.^*
1312. Q-rant of Walter son of Jeffrey atte Beyhalle and Agnes his
sister and Ralph Neweman to Thomas Colepeper and Margery his
wife for 26 shillings !*quandam granam terrse in Pepingebery.""
^ Close Roll, 17 Ed. II., m. 14.
" Harl., Oh. 77, f. 20.
" Harl., Ch. 76, b. 1.
« De Banco Mich., 2 Ed. II., m. 216*.
i« Harl., Ch. 79, d. 45.
17 Harl., Ch. 76, b. 2.
^ 2
52 THE SUSSEX COLEPEPERS.
1313. Gilbert ate Beyhalle grants to Thomas Colepeper and
Margery for 50 shillings a piece of land in Pepingbery to be held
by them and their heirs for ever.^®
1314. Charter by which Christina daughter of John atte Bayhalle
for 4 marcs grants to Thomas Colepeper lands in Pepingbery."
1315. Christina de Beyhalle grants to Thomas Colepeper and
Margery his wife for 3" 6** the pension which William Scrivor owes
yearly to her.*^
1316. Grant from Ralph Newheman to Thomas Colepeper and
Margery his wife of lands at BeahaUe in fields called "Redesf and
" Mesebort '* in Pepinbury.*^
1316. Charter by which Christina daughter of John atte Bayhalle
grants to Thomas Colepeper and Margery for two shillings all that
part of wood "inter Rodgate et stagna de Bayhalle cum placea super
quam boscus crescit."^
1317. Christina daughter of John atte Bayhalle grants to Thomas
Colepeper and Margery for 4 marcs a messuage and lands in Peaping-
bury which she had **post decessum Willelmi ate BayhaUe avi sui."^
1317. Quitclaim by Johanna widow of John atte Beyhalle to
Thomas Colepeper and Margery his wife of a house and lands at
Beyhalle for 3^ marcs .^
Sir Thomas Colepeper, who ^ ' pro bono servicio in
partibus Scotie " received a pardon in the 32nd year of
Edward I. for breaking the park of the Prior of Christ
Church, Canterbury, at Westwell, and the park of the
Prior of Michelham, in the 29th year of that King's
reign,^ took the side of the Earl of Lancaster against
Edward 11. , and being Governor of Winchelsea, was
there executed in 1321.
Previous to this, however, by a fine levied in 1320,
part of his estates, consisting of 2 messuages, 2 mills, 405
acres of land, 20 acres of meadow, 60 acres of pasture,
80 acres of wood and 20 shillings annual rental in
Pepyngbery, Thonebregg and Teudele, were settled on
himself ana Margery his wife for life, with remainder to
their sons Walter, John and Richard in succession.^®
By Inquisition taken at Tunbridge 25th February, 1
Edward III. (1327), it was found that Thomas Colepeper
18 Harl., Ch. 76, b. 4. 22 Harl., Ch. 76, a. 52.
19 Harl., Ch. 76, a. 50. 28 Harl., Ch. 76, a. 53.
20 Harl., Ch. 76, b. 3. ^ Harl., Ch. 77, e. 52.
21 Harl., Ch. 79, d. 46. 26 Assize Roll, Sussex, No. 934, m. 6*.
28 Feet of Fines, Kent, Case 101, No. 704.
TflE SUSSEX COLEPEPERS. 53
died seized of Bayhalle, with lands in Pepyngbery,
Thonebregg and Teudele, and that Walter was his son
and heir, aged 22 years on the feast of the Purification of
the Blessed Virgin Mary last past (2nd February, 1327).^
In the Inquisition de terris forisfactis, 17 Edward II.,
taken at Lamberhurst, mention is made of Thomas
Colepeper's estate in Pepynbery, included in the fine
levied in 1320, besides which it is stated that he had
acquired 50 acres in ffoghelesdenne from Thomas Cole-
peper, senr., in 1310, 1 messuage and 1 carucate of land
in Bernette and Ramherste from Richard Wych in 1320,
1 messuage and 60 acres of land in Bocstede from Ralph
Marscot, 10 acres in Bayrugge from Michael de Bettes-
field, and 40 acres in ffernth (i.e., Frant) from Roger de
fferrugge. All these lands had been seized by the King
on November the 6th, 1321, on account of the felony of
the said Thomas, and for no other reason.^
It was not long, however, before all these estates were
restored to the family. By deed bearing date 1st July,
17 Edward II., Margery, widow of Thomas Colepeper,
agreed to grant the Pepinbury estate to the King for the
term of her life on the payment of 12 marks per annum
from the Exchequer.^^ But apparently she soon repented
of this bargain, and addressed a petition to the King pray-
ing that ^' le manoir de la Bayehalle " might be restored to
her, the grounds for the request being that the King's
ministers had not only neglected to pay the rent, but had
let her houses go to ruin, '' a g'nt damage de I'avantdite
Marg'ie de xP."^ On this the King issued a commission
to Henry de Cobham and others to investigate the matters
set forth in the petition,^^ and the direct result of this
enquiry was an order for the immediate restoration of all
the property. The outlying estates were to be restored
unconditionally, and if lands had been ^^ demised at ferm"
the farmers were to be satisfied for their expenditure on
27 Inquis. P.M., 1 Ed. III., No. 68 (b).
* Inquis. de terris forisfactis, 17 Ed. II., No. 12.
^-» aose Roll, 17 Ed. II., m. 3. ^*
80 Ancient Petitions, No. 712.
" Harl., Ch. T., 5 (b).
54 THE SUSSEX COLEPEPERS.
the land,®^ while with regard to Bayhall and the land
included in the fine levied in 1320, there was this saving
clause, viz., that this portion of the property was to revert
to the King in case all the parties mentioned in the fine
died without issue.^
From this order it appears that Thomas Colepeper
acquired the Buxted property mentioned above in 7
Edward II., and in 13 Edward II. he purchased from
Reginald, son of Reginald Burgeys, of Boxstede, 1
messuage and 50 acres in Boxstede and Marsefeld. The
40 acres in Fernth (Frant), co. Sussex, is supplemented in
this order by 10 acres of wood bought in 10 Edward II.
from Roger, son of Richard de Ferrugge, while another
20 acres in the same town is stated to have been acquired
from William, son of John de Netteworth.
Walter, the eldest son of Thomas Colepeper, married,
first, Elizabeth, widow of Thomas de Cobham, and,
secondly, Alice . . . (who re-married Richard Charles,
and died about 1386), but died without issue, when his
brother. Sir John Colepeper, succeeded to Bayhall.
Sir John, who in 1348 had purchased the manor of
Wigsell, in Salehurst, co. Sussex, from Simon de Etching-
ham,^ by marriage with Elizabeth, daughterand co-heiress
of Sir John HardreshuU, of Hardreshull, co. Warwick,
considerably augmented his patrimonial estates, and left
at his death an only son and heir. Sir Thomas Colepeper,
of Bayhall, in Kent, and Hardreshull, in Warwickshire.
Sir Thomas Colepeper married, first, Alianora, daughter
and heiress of Nicholas Greene, of Exton, in Rutlandshire,
by whom he had issue : —
(i.) Alianora, who married Sir Reginald Cobham, of
Lingfield, in Surrey.
(ii.) Sir John Colepeper, of Bayhall, Hardreshull
and Exton, who by Juliana, his wife — who
remarried, first, John Braunspath, Esq.,^ and,
secondly, Robert Fenne, Esq.,^^ — had issue
82 Close Roll, 17 Ed. II., m. 1. »* peet of Fines, Sussex, 22 Ed. III.
8» Close Roll, 17 Ed. II., m. 5. 86 Harl., Ch. 80, g. 32.
86 Close Roll, 27 Hen. VI.
THE SUSSEX COLEPEPERS, 55
an only daughter Katherine, who by her
first marriage with John Harrington, Esq.,
carried the Exton estates to that family, and
married, secondly, Bryan Talbot, Esq.
Sir Thomas Colepeper married, secondly, Joyce, widow
of John Vyne, Esq.,^ by whom he had four
sons : —
(iii.) Walter,
(iv.) Nicholas.
V.) Thomas.
vi.) Richard.
Sir Thomas Colepeper died a very old man, about 142f ,
and the following is an abstract of his will, partly trans-
lated : —
Will of Sir Thomas Colepeper.^
Moy Thomas Colpeper CL' le dymenge procheyn deuant la feste de
lez apostelez Simon et Jude Fan nre sy' le Koy henry apres le conqueste
vj et de son regno vij ordeyne mon testament. . . . En primez mon
alme a dieu et mon corps desire sepelye en I'abbeye de Beggh*me p
cause que Tesgisle est de Pannunciation nfe dame en le lieu ou mon
sepulture d'Alebastre est fait. Et ieo lise a Nicholas mon fitz toutz
mes chiualx. Et a Elizabeth sa femme mez paternosterez de or. A
Jouce Topemoye si ele soit en vie v marc. A John Bayhalle bastard
X marcz. d Thomas Payne mon cue xl". a mon Butiller 1 3" 4*. mon
Bakere 13" 4^. Christiane Braylez 13" 4^. John Bosvyle 13» 4^ John
Coppyng 13" 4**. mon parker 13' 4*^. John Devale 13* 4**. a chescun
garson 3" 4*. a chescun page and hyne 20"*. a Malyme ma petite
chaumberer a son mariage 20". Feglise de Pepymbery 40". al haute
auter la 13" 4^ S' John Trot 20". al Abbot de Beggh»me 20». a
chescun Canon de mesme le lieu 3' 4**. To the Curates of the seven
nearest parishes 6* S"^ for masses and to publish my humble will. To
five of the poorest of the same parishes 5**. To the Abbot and Convent
of Begh*me 10* yearly to keep my anniversary and the anniversary of
Joyouse my wife. To Walter my son 200 marcs **condicionel sil face
lealement et naturelement son devoir en lez ventez pticions et libera-
tions de mon chatel p tesmoinage de les autres compaignons et assossez.
A Nicholas mon fitz 200 marcs pour son bon svices. A Thomas mon
fitz 200 marcs sur tiel condicion d*estre paie sil supporte bien et nature-
lement a mon volunte de mon testament et a mez executours et enfeffeez.
A John Colpeper mon fitz £40 (on same conditions as Thomas). To
the Abbot and Convent of Begh»nie £35. 6. 8. To the Church of
Nonaignez de Mailing 40". To the Church of the Priory of Tunbridge
20". The brothers of Aylesford 20". Al freres austynes de Rye pour tenir
mon obit et anniversarie 40". A lumer les Taperez de la Shryne de
37 Harl., Ch. 80, h. 27. ^ 403b Chichele at Lambeth.
"Tt"
56 THE SUSSEX COLEPEPERS.
Canterbury 20". Et ieo prie et charge John Colpeper et toutz mes
autres fitz quils ne disturbent mes executors ne mes enfeffez de fermez.
Q-oods in Manor of Bayhalle. If any person forfeit the condition
half his legacy shall go ** a mes fitz de moy et ioiouse ma femme " and
of the other half, parcel to the Abbot and Convent of Beghme to find
a chaplain to sing for the souls of me and Joyouse my wife at the altar
where the bodies lie, and remainder to works of charity. Executors,
Sire John Langdon leuesq de Roucester, John Chethm le Abbot de
Beghm, Walter et Nicholas mez ffitz, William Burgoyne, Roger
Honyton, William Bernes, et Thomas Festynden.
Ceste la condition et volunte de Monsr. Thoins Colpeper chiualer fait
en la feste de seint Margaret e Tan ni'e 8y' le Roy Henry vj puis le
conqueste tierce quil voile et charge q sez enfeffez William Bernes, Rics
Ruyton, Sire Robert Clerk, Robert Sprynget queux furont et sount
enfeffe auec autres q sount mortz come p chrt' de fee simple de toutz
sez terres et tenementz en les countez de iLent et Sussex portant la Chrt'
date done a la feste de la natiuite nre dame I'an nre Sy' le Roy henry
quarte apres le conqueste viij (8 Sept. 1407). Et apres est un chart"
a Thomas longle leuesq de Durhm, William Cheyne iustiee, Walter et
Nicholas Culpeper mes ffitz, W". Bernes, Ric. Ruyton, et Robert
Sprynget portant le dct chre date Done en la feste del annunciation nre
dame Tan nre Sy' le Roy henry quinte x"® (25 March 1422) De la sit
et mesons del manoir Bayhalle auec toutz les terres et tenementz que
furont Auncien temps done p fine a iohn Colpeper mon pere et a sez
heires maslez en Pepymbury, Tonbrigge et Tudele. The above feoffees
are to receive the rents for two years to pay debts.
Touching the manor of Badeselle it is to remain to Walter my son
and his heirs male, with remainder to the heirs male of myself and
Joyce my wife.
Touching the manor of Bemet in Leghe, Penserst, Bitteberg and
Tonbregge, with the mill of Greenerssh and lands called Scottegrove
in Asshe, Gatewicke mede in Otteford, and rents and farms in Sele and
Sevenoaks, to Thomas my son and his heirs, remainder to Nicholas his
brother, remainder to the heirs of me and Joyce lately my wife,
remainder to my right heirs.
Touching the lands and tenements of Coluerdon, two windmills,
Coluerdon mede, the lands and tenements of Bokstede and Marsfelde,
lands in Fernth and Wadehurst, the mill of Beckeleghe, and 3 marcs
of fee farm the Syr de Ponyngs pays for hasylholte, to Nicholas my
son and his heirs male, remainder to the heirs of me and Joyce lately
my wife, ** et voile q'le dit Nicholas en annu*tage toutez les terres et
tenementez rentes? et seruices appurtenant a manoir de Bayhalle qi
fueront purchase p Walter Colpeper mon oncle, John Colpeper mon
piere ou p moy q sount depuis purchase q' le fine de Bayhalle fuit fait.
Touching the manor of Wyggesell and lands in Hemden in Sandherst
and Newynden because Wyggesell was settled on me and my wife Joyce
and our heirs on our marriage **p chart' endente," notwithstanding I
have made another feoffment I wish the original gift to stand good.
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**Moy Thomas Colpeper le dymenge prochoin le Purification nre
dame Tan de nre syr. le Koy Henry vj-vij*." Nicholas my son to make
pilgrimages with various specified ofierings to Norwich and the shrine
of 8* Thomas of Canterbury. To the Church of Pountose in Normandy
where the body of Bichard my son lies a chalice etc. To Maryon
Chamberer mon hopland de scarlet and fur. To Alison another hopland.
To Nicholas my son a suitable bed and apparel such as my son W alter
had at his marriage. Other bequests — Thomas Festynden to have £10
to pay Christian Brayley 20* a year for life — Thomas Pech farmer of
Wyggsell to be pardoned a debt of 100' for last year.
Proved 8 March 1428 fviz 142f) at Slyndon, and administration
granted to Walter Colepeper Ro^er Honyton and Thomas Festynden
executors, and afterwards administration was granted at Lambeth to
William Burgoyne and Nicholas Colepeper.
Of the sons of Sir Thomas Colepeper Walter succeeded
to all the estates except Exton on the death of his half-
brother — Sir John — and was the only one to leave male
issue. Thomas is recorded in most pedigrees to have died
without issue, and Nicholas, althougli he does not name
her in his wilP at Lambeth, dated 16th August, 1434,
and proved 20th January, 143f , in which he mentions his
brother Walter, his wife Elizabeth and his daughter
Benedicta or Bennett, and desires '* sepeliend' in ecclia
annunciacois beate Marie de Begham ante altare sancti
laurencii iuxtrem (? iuxta matrem) meam," had another
daughter Joyce, who married Walter Lewknor, of
Walberton, co. Sussex, fifth son of Sir Thomas Lewknor,
M.P. for Lewes.
Walter Colepeper, who continued the line, married
Agnes, the daughter of Edmund Roper, of St. Dunstans,
Canterbury, and is so described on her tombstone at Goud-
hurst. She was also the widow of John, son of John de
Bedgebury, a fact not mentioned in the pedigrees recorded
in the Visitations, but which is amply evidenced by an
undated Chancery Proceeding, temp. Hen. VI., where
Walter Coulpepir and Agneis, his wife, late the wife of
John, son of John de Beggebury and Thomas Chaundeler,
chaplain, appear as plaintifis in a dispute relating to
property in Goudhurst, Cranbrook and Hawkhurst, which
John, son of Roger de Beggebury, left to pay for two
chaplains to sing masses for his soul and for that of
»» Chichele, I., 456b.
58 THE SUSSEX COLEPEPERS.
Johanna, his wife. By this marriage Walter Colepeper
had, with two daughters — Margaret, married to Alexander
Clifford, and Elizabeth, married to John Hardes, of
Hardes, co. Kent — three sons, Richard, John and Nicholas.
Agnes, his wife, predeceased him on the 2nd December,
1457, and was bm'ied at Goudhurst, and Walter himself
died on the 24th November, 1462, and was also buried
at Goudhurst.
Although the pedigree given above differs in many-
respects from those recorded in the Visitation, it is sub-
stantiated not only by many Inquisitions, Deeds and
Grants,**^ but also by a suit entered on membrane 484 of
the De Banco Roll, Hilary, 4 Edward IV., whence the
following pedigree is deduced :
John Colepeper.=f=
Thomas Colepeper.=p
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Thomas. Walter.=7= John. Nicholas.
John Colepeper. Richard. Nicholas.
This suit has reference to the fine levied in 1320, the
John at the head of the pedigree being the son of Sir
Thomas and Margery, and the plaintiffs, John, Richard
and Nicholas Colepeper, claiming one quarter of these
lands against Sir John Fogge, according to the customs
of gavelkind, in right of their father Walter.
Although Richard is entered in the Visitation in Kent,
in 1619, as Walter Colepeper's eldest son, this was not
the case, as Sir John, as the eldest son, inherited Hardre-
shuU, CO. Warwick, Bayhall, co. Kent, and Wigsell, co.
Sussex. It appears also from the same Visitation that
this Sir John married Agnes, daughter of John Bedgebury,
but no mention whatever is there made of the undoubted
fact that some time before 1460 he was the husband of
Agnes Gainsford, which is clearly proved by the Proceed-
ings in Chancery relating to the abduction of the two
Wakehurst heiresses by Sir John's brothers, Richard and
<o Inq. P.M., 9, H. 5, No. 55 ; Inq. P.M., 16, H. 8, on death of John Harrington.
THE SUSSEX COL£l>Ef£RS. 59
Nicholas,*^ where it is expressly stated that a sister of
John and William Gainsford was wedded to John
Culpepyr, and later on in the same suit mention is made
of John Culpeper and Agnes, his wife. The marriage is
also alluded to in De Banco Roll, Trin., 5 Edward IV.,
m. 118*, and it explains the mention of Ottewell
and George Gainsford (grandsons of the above John
Gainsford, who married Anne Wakehurst, aunt of the
co-heiresses, and sons of Sir John Gainsford, by Anne,
daughter of Ottewell Worsley), as cousins in the will
Walter Colepeper, of Calais, 1514 — 1516.
The question arises, therefore, as to whether the record
of Sir John's maniage with Agnes Bedgebury is not
due to a mistake on the part of the heralds. In their
pedigree they certainly omit these two important facts,
viz., that before 1460 Sir John was the husband of Agnes
Gainsford, and also that his father Walter's wife, of the
same Christian name, was the widow of John Bedgebury.
It seems therefore not improbable that these two marriages
have been confused; such, indeed, must have been the
case unless Sir John was twice married, and of this the
Visitation affords no evidence whatever. Sir John Cole-
peper died 22nd December, 1480, and was buried at
Goudherst.
His two brothers, Richard and Nicholas, under some-
what romantic circumstances, married Margaret and
Elizabeth Wakehurst, granddaughters and co-heiresses of
Richard Wakehurst, sen., of Wakehurst, in Ardingly.
These two girls were confided by Elizabeth, their grand-
mother, Thomas Echyngham, Thomas Hoo, John
Gaynesford and William Gaynesford, their guardians, to
the care of John Colepeper and Agnes, his wife, the former
of whom '^promysed on the faithe and trouthe of liis
bodye, and as he was a gentylman," that they should not
be wronged. In spite of this promise, however, he, with
Richard and Nicholas, his brethren, ^'with force and
armes riotously agense the Kynges peas arayed in the
man' of warre at Goutherst toke and caried " them away
" Earl J Chauc. Pro., Bundle 26, No. 304.
60 THE SUSSEX COLEPEPERS.
to Bobbing, Alexander Clifford's place in Kent, and after-
wards transported them to London to a place of John
Gibson, '' the seide Margarete and Elizabeth at the tyme
of their takyng away makyng grete and pittious lamenta-
cion and wepyng."^
This high-handed proceeding on the part of the two
fortune hunting brothers was productive of much litiga-
tion, as Elizabeth Wakehurst, grandmother of the two
heiresses, refused to resign the title deeds of their estates,*^
and it was some time before a peaceable settlement was
obtained. Richard died without issue, but Nicholas
became the ancestor of the Colepepers of Wakehurst,
and as the brass to him and his wife Elizabeth in
Ardingly Church shows ten sons and eight daughters, we
may conclude that they lived long and happily together.
Sir John Colepeper, of Bedgbury, by Agnes, his wife,
had two sons : —
(i.) Alexander, progenitor of the senior line of
Bedgbury, in Goudhurst, co. Kent, whose
descendants, as belonging more to Kent than
to Sussex, we shall here omit.
(ii.) Walter, ancestor of the Wigsell branch of the
family.
As the Wigsell and Wakehurst Colepepers soon became
very numerous, as well as the Bedgbury and Aylesford
branches also, it will be better perhaps here to treat of
them under their respective houses and, as the senior of
the two Sussex lines, we will commence with the
Colepepers of Wigsell, in Salehurst.
Walter, second son of Sir John Colepeper, married
Anne, daughter and heiress of Harry Aucher, of
Lossenham, co. Kent, and was Under Marshal of Calais
at the time of his death in 1514. The following is the
abstract of his will :
*2 Early Chanc. Pro., Bundle 26, No. 304.
« Early Chanc. Pro., Bdle. 27, No. 218; Bdle. 31, No. 281. De Banco Roll,
Trin., 5 Ed. IV., m. 118^^
THE SU88EX COLEPEPERS. 61
Will of Walter Colepepir 1516**
14 Sept 1514 I Walter Colepepir onder nishall of the town of Calays.
To be byried in the Resurreccon Chapell within Saint Nicholas Churche,
to the whiche chapell my newe poleax and ij of my spere staffs myn
Ermite and my swarde. To S' George Chapell within the same Churche
my cote of plate couered w' chamlet and myn old polleax. To Jhus
(Jesus) Chapell w'in the seyd Churche my best Javelyn and a copyll of
my spere stavys. Unto S' John in the wall 6' Vnto the reparacons
of the said Church of S' Nicholas 10". **I wyll that Anne my wyff
haue all my lands lying within the Shyre of Kent and Sussex, or in
any other place within the Kealme of England during hir lyff and
after hir decesse to remayne to the heires of my body lawfully begotten
after the course of the comen lawe of Ynglond and laudable customes
of the seyd Shyres of Kent and Sussex where the lond Ij^eth. To my
seruants that ar sworne in the Retynewe her onder me and in my petie
wags ther brigandynes folds standards saletts and musteryn cotes
stavys and saletts that they wer wont to were at the musterys." To
Kichard Payn myn old seruant my gowne of marble colour furred.
To Henry hacuplaynt my veluet doblet, my blak jacket and oon sheff
of arowes. To Richard Borne my blak cote of cloth bordered with
Sarsenet and oon sheff of arowes. To the Churche of Newenden for
the discharging of my conscious of such duties as I owe to the same 4
Sks sterling. Church of Gowtherst 40** sterling. Church of Sevenoke
3". If the next heires of Thomas Ratlyff of Newenden will pay to
my wyff £5 sterling then they shall have the croft and house place
that was Thomaseys ther fader to theym and their heirs. Margaret
Swayne my seruant my blak gowne lyned w' Sarcenet. To Nanne
the bedrede woman's daughter oon payr of myn old hoses and ij of
my shirts. To my cosyn Otewell Gaynesford my blak damask cote.
To my cosyn George Gaynesford my damask cote of white and grene.
To my cosyn Lewes Clyfford my crossebowe and wenlasse and my gune
w** her apparel. To Henry Tetle my bowe case of tymbre and one
sheff of arowes. My galberdyne of scarlet bordered w' veluet to my
soiie Thomas. To my daughter Elizabeth Welford my grete lewte and
oon dosyn of fyne dyaper napkins. To my brodyr Alexander Colepepyr
my white harnesse complete. Residue to Anne Colepepyr my wyff to
se me honestly byried, and to se Anthony and Wittm our sonnys founde
to schole. She is to be executrix. Wrytyn w' m^^n own hand.
Witnesses Henry hacupleynt, Richard Borne and Wilim Annyley.
In the presence of Robert Wyndebanke and of John Wyndebanke who
have subscribed ther names w'** ther own hands. Robert Wyndebank
pson of Colne. John Wyndbank solgyer of Calays. Proved at
Lambith 28 April 1516 by Anne the relict and executrix.
The will of his widow Anne is at Canterbury,*^ and is
dated 4th Sept., 24 Henry VIII. (1532).
EXTEACTS FROM THE WiLL OF AnNE CoLEPEPER.
If I happen to dye at Canterbury then I wyll my body to be bur^'^ed
at the frears there, and yf I happen to dye at Cranbroke then I wyll
** P.C.C, 16 Holder. *^ 0. Liber 15, No. Ud,
63 THE SUSSEX COLEPEPERS.
my body to be buryed at the frears of Lossenham besyde my ffather
there buryed. To WyH:m my sone my weddynge rynge and all my
platte except my lyttle lowe salt w' the coiier and vj my best sponys
which I wylle to my dauglit' Anne Tooke. To my sone Wj'ttm
Oolepeper all my stoke at Lossenham. To every of the children of
Elysabeth my daughter xl". She mentions Francis, Anne, Constance,
Katheryn and Mary the children of Thomas Wylford, my goddaughters.
To my doughter Culepeper ij of my best gownes. Executor and
residuary legatee my son Wyttiu. All my manors and lands in
Newenden Rowynden and Biddenden to certain trustees to hold them
to the use of my sone Wyttm andhis heirs — in default to the right
heirs of Harry Ager, Esq., my father.
It would therefore appear that their sons Thomas and
Anthony died without issue between 1514 and 1532.
Their eldest son, William Colepeper, about the 4th
January, 21 Hen. VIII. (1530), married Cicely, daughter
of John Barrett, of Belhowse, in Alvethley, co. Essex,
and sister of George Barrett, whose widow Elizabeth,
daughter of John Dyngley, by her second marriage with
Sir John Baker, of Sissinghurst, co. Kent, was mother of
John Tufton, of Hothfield, Esq. On his marriage the
Wigsell estates were settled*^ on Anne, widow of Walter
Colepeper, for the term of her life, with remainder to
William Colepepyr, son and heir of the said Walter, and
Cicele Barrett, nis intended wife. The following is an
abstract of
Thb Will of William Oolpeper, of Wigsell.*^
16 Nov., 1 Eliz. (1559). I Wittm Culpeper of Wigsell in the County
of Sussex, Esquire. To be buried in the parish church of Salehurste,
in the chapelt where my good dere wife Cicely Culpeper doth lye.
Poor householders of Bodyam 20". £10 for a tome to sett on my
grave. To reparation of Church of Newynden £3. 6. 8. To William
&ranth*m my seruant 20". a yere for life. To Gybson's widow 10". a
yere for life. To M'. Hyde scolemaster of Wynchester 30V To
Elizabeth WHgosse and Anne Edolf my daughters £5 each for a silver
cup with my arms to be graven on it. To Edward Donck of Hawk-
herst my newe cloth gowne furred and to John Twysden my ffryce coot.
Residuary legatee and Executor John Culpeper my eldest son and my.
nephew John Tufton of Hothfield Esq my overseer to whom my graye
curtail geldynge. Witnesses Willm Grantham, Willm Lopham, John
Webbe, George Pix, John Tufton, Marye Tufton, Symon EdoLfe, Anne
Edolf e. Rich. Lacheford.
As to my lands in Sussex and Kent to John my son, my manors of
Lossenham and Louedean in Kent, my flshe in Newynden called the
*« Harl., Ch. 76, h. 12. « p.c.C, 61 Chaynay.
THE SUSSEX COLEPflPERS. 63
f&jers fishe, mjr lands called Scotts in Sandherste and Nowjmden and
and a yerely rent of £3 out of Walland marsho, also two parts of my
manor of Wig^ll in the county of Sussex in three partes divided, if
the said John pay unto Fraunces Culpeper my second son, Marten
Culpeper my third son, Walter Culpeper my fourth son, Thomas
Culpeper my fifth son, Edmonde Culpeper my vij'** son £5 a year each
for life, and to Kichard Culpeper my vj'** sou an annuitj' of £6. 13. 4.
— all the above with the right of entry in default of payment on the
two parts of the manor of Wigsell. My manor of Heryngden in Kent
to John my son to pay my debts and legacies and if he will not to
Francis and Martin my sons. Proved 6 Dec. 1559 by John Colepeper
executor.
Of the daughters, Elizabeth married Joliii Wildgose, of
Salehurst, co. Sussex, and Anne married Simon Edolphe,
of St. Radigunds, co. Kent, while the descendants of
Martin, Walter and Richard removed to other counties
and died out as shown in the pedigree, and Edmund,
who held various livings in Kent, apparently died
unmarried. The fifth son Thomas was of Wilmington,
CO. Sussex, and, as he left no issue by his wife Elizabeth,
widow of John Gode, of London, the wills of himself
and his wife are here inserted. Their marriage licence
to marry at Harrietsham is dated 17th Dec, 1579, at
Canterbury, Thomas Colepeper being then described as
of Hawkhurst, gent. He died on the 7th and was buried
at Wilmington on the 10th October, 1603, aged 60. His
widow Elizabeth was also buried there 3 July, 1606.
Abstbact of the Will of Thomas Culpeper of Wilmington.*^
I Thomas Culpeper, of Wilmington in the County of Sussex Esq.
22 Oct. 1602. My brother John Culpeper of Wigsell c° Sussex Esq.
his wife Elizabeth and their son Thomas. My cousin Anthony
Culpeper of Bedgbury in Kent Esq. and his son Henry. My nephew
Culpeper of Fokington c° Sussex. My nephew W™ Steede of Steede
Hill Esq. To my wife Elizabeth the relict of John Gode of London
merchant taylor my lease of Courtlodge in Wilmington, and the lease
of the Rectory of Westham. To her son John Gode of London, gent.
To my good M' and landlord Lord Buckhurst £20. Servants W™
Jurden, Edmond Shibbard and Richard Colliar. Leaves his personal
property to be divided into 6 parts as follows : — 2 parts to John Godes
brother in law and my son in law John Leake marchant taylor and
Mary Leake his wife. To Anne late the wife of Cassian Cooper my
said wife's eldest daughter a third part. To Katheryn Hampson,
daughter of my said wife, and wife of Robert Hampson Esq. one of
the Aldeimen of Jjondon a fourth part. To Mary Leake third and
*9 Lewes, A. 11, 218, anl P.C.C., 102 Boleia.
64 THE SUSSEX COLEPEPERS.
now youngest daughter of my said wife, and now wife of John Leake
marchant taylor a fifth part, and the sixth of the said six parts to my
overseers. My son in law Francis Gode. Wife Elizabeth residuary
legatee and executrix, by whom the will was proved 22 Oct. 1603
Abstract of the Will of Elizabeth Cxjlpeper, of Wilmington.**
I Elizabeth Culpeper of Wilmington widowe. To be buryed near
or in the place where the body of my late husband Thomas Culpeper
was buried. To the poor parishioners of Willming^on 20'. To my
cousin Ilobert Brooke his children 20'. Unto Abraham Brooke his
brother £20. Unto Elizabeth God my goddaughter and the daughter
of my eldest son John God the furniture in the porch chamber. Unto
his daughter Dorothy God the furniture of chamber wherein I usually
lye. Unto my daughter Cowper the furniture of chamber over kitchen.
To my daughter Leake the furniture of chamber next old kitchen.
To William Jorden my servant a bed and bedstedle. My son John
shall have speciall regarde to legacy given to old Shubert and to Richard
Collyer by my husbands last will. The residue after payment of my
debts to be divided into 6 parts, of which 2 parts to my eldest son John
God, one part to my daughter Cowper, a fourth part to my daughter
Dame Katherine Hampson, the fifth part to my daughter Leake, and
the sixth part to my son Fraunces, the same to be ordered and guided
by a codical annexed to my late husband's will. Son John God sole
executor to perform the will of my late husband Thomas Culpeper.
Friends John Culpeper of Fockington Esq"^ and Herbert Springet,
gentleman overseers to whom £5 each. Dated 13 June 1604. Proved
by John God 28 July 1606.
We have, therefore, only to consider the descendants
of the two eldest sons of William Culpeper, of Wigsell,
viz.,. John and Francis.
John, the eldest son of William Culpeper, of Wigsell,
was born in 1530, admitted of the Inner Temple in 1553,
married about 1560 Elizabeth, daughter of William Sidley,
of Southfleet, co. Kent, Esq., and was buried at Salehurst
21st October, 1612, aged 82. From the Inq. Post Mortem,^
taken at East Grinstead 7th May, 12 James I. (1614),
after the death of their eldest son, Thomas Culpeper,
Esq., of Wigsell, we find that John Culpeper, his father,
died on the 20th October, 1612, that his mother Elizabeth
survived him, and was living in 1614 at Newenden, in
Kent, that he had two brothers, John and Alexander, and
that by his wife Anne, buried at Salehurst 26th February,
160^, he had a son and heir, Slaney Culpeper, aged 14
years, 10 months and 18 days on the 18th September,
*9 P.C.C., 54 Stafforde. «> Chancery Inq. P.M., 12 James I., No. 53.
THE SUSSEX COLEPEPERS. 65
1613, also that he (Thomas Culpeper) left a will. His
mother, Elizabeth Culpeper, was buried at Salehurst 17th
May, 1618. All these particulars are important, because
Sir John, the first Lord Colepeper, is made out in
Wykeham Martin's History of Leeds Castle^ and in
G". E. C.'s Complete Peerage^ to be the son of Sir John
Colepeper, of Wigsell, by Elizabeth Sedley, whereas he
was really his grandson, son of his son Thomas, by Anne,
daughter of Sir Stephen Slaney, Lord Mayor of London
and brother of Slaney Culpeper mentioned above, as is
shown not only by the foregoing, but by the Inq. P.M. on
16th May, 16 James I. (1618), of Slaney Culpeper, Esq.,
which states that he died 12th May, 1617, and that John
Colepeper is his brother and heir, and that he was aged
18 years, 9 months and 9 days.
John Culpeper, Esq., of Wigsell, who died in 1612,
left no will. He had four sons, Thomas, William, John
and Alexander. William matriculated at Hart Hall,
Oxford, in 1579, aged 17, and was entered of the Middle
Temple, in 1583, as second son of John Colepeper, of
Wigsell, Esq., but as John of Fakenham, co. Worcester,
is styled on his monument at HoUingbourne to be the
second son of John of Wigsell, and aged 70 at his death,
20th December, 1635, it would seem that William, the
second son, must have died early without issue. He is
the only one of the four sons who left no will.
EXTBACTS FROM THE WiLL OF ThOMAS CuLPEPER, OF WiGSELL, EsQ.'^
I Thomas Culpeper of Wigsell in the Countie of Sussex Esquire.
To be buried with fittell adoe. To my welbeloved wife the household
stuff plate and linnen which she brought. Whereas I have received
£500 for certain land which belonged to my wife in c° Salop, sometime
the Williames or one of them, although I have bin at the charges of
above £72 I will a certain farm at Padian to my wife for her life and
after her decease to the eldest son I shall beget of her body and for
default of such issue to such daughters as I shall beget, remainder to
the heirs male of my body, and if I have but one daughter by my now
wife then £700 to such daughter at 18, but if she die before 18 then
£500 to my wives son at 24, and if he die before then £100 to Elizabeth
Mumford and to such children as shall be living if Elizabeth Mumford
shall die. Wife shall have use of all Jewells she hath, that is to say
a border, a chayne of perle, a payer of bracelets, a cup of silver witn
" P.C.C, 79 CapeU.
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66 THE SUSSEX COLEPEPERS.
the lyde thereto belonginge wcfe I bought, and certain gold wroth
buttons which I bought w*^ she useth to were on her gowne some set
w'^ stones and perle and some w*^ perle only during her lyfe and after
her decease to such doughter or doughters as shall will them unto
begotten by me and for all other Jewells w** her mother Baistone hath
geaven I will absolutely to herselfe. All other goods and profits of
my lands till my eldest sonne come to the age of 24 yeares to my
executors to the good of all my children begotten by my now wife as
of my children begotten by my first wife. My daughters portions to
be paid at 18 and sons at 24. Executors my brother John Culpeper
and my brother Alexander Culpeper to whom all lands parsonages, or
leases which I have heretofore bought with authority to sell the same
for payment of debts, and the residue to be bestowed among my
children at their discretion. Dated 16 Sept. 1613, Witnesses Eichard
Relfe, John Sleep.
After this I added this much more 6 May 1612. To my dear wife
Mary Culpeper a tankard of silver and such goodes as I shall have of
her mother Bistone. 6 May 1612. Witness John Sleep. All lands I
have by graunt discent or will from my father unto the said John
Culpeper and Alexander Culpeper till my eonne Slaney Culpeper is 21
and my debts paid, after which they shall convey the same to him. 1 6
Sep. 1613. Witnesses Eichard Eelfe, John Sleep. All timber on my
mannor of Wigsell and on my mannor of Harrenden in Sandherst and
Newenden in Kent to my executors for pajrment of my debts. And I
intreate my executors to compound for the wardship of my eldest son
and heir if any lands are held of the King in capite. 16 Sept. 1613.
Witnesses Eichard Eelfe, John Sleep. Proved with codicils 25 Sept.
1613 by John Colepeper one of the executors, power being reserved for
Alexander Culpeper, the other executor.
The first wife of Thomas Culpeper, of Wigsell, was
Anne, daughter of Sir Stephen Slaney, Kt., Lord Mayor
1595, by whom he had two sons : —
(i.) Slaney, who died 12th December, 1618, when by
Inq. P.M. his brother John was found to be
his heir, and aged 18 years, 9 months and 9
days.
(ii.) John, afterwards Lord Colepeper, baptised at
Salehurst 17th August, 1600.
And a daughter : —
Elizabeth, baptised at Salehurst, 1601, who
married Sir Robert Brooke, of Cobham, and
died 22nd July, 1683. She was a woman
of some celebrity in her day; see her funeral
sermon, by N. Parkhurst, and Wilford's
Memorials of Eminent Persons.
THE SUSSEX COLEPEPERS. 67
Anne, first wife of Thomas Culpeper, was buried at
Salehurst 26th February, 160^, and he married, secondly,
Mary, daughter of Roger Beeston, citizen of London,
and widow of Francis Gibbon, of Benenden, in Kent,
Esq., by whom he had one son : —
Thomas, bapt. 13th December, 1607, at Hawk-
hurst, and buried at Salehurst 30th December,
1607.
And three daughters : —
Mary, bapt. at Salehurst 10th August, 1606.
Cicely, bapt. at Salehurst 8th July, 1610.
Ann, bapt. at Hawkhurst 10th November, 1611,
and mar. at Frittenden, Kent, 3rd November,
1636, to Thomas Scott, of Smeeth, Esq.
Thomas Culpeper, of Wigsell, was buried at Salehurst
19th September, 1613, but his widow Mary survived him
many years. Her will is at Canterbury, dated 15th
August, 1660, and proved 11th April 1661, by Edmund
Gibbon, Esq., her son. The following is an abstract of
her will : — ^^
To my Sonne Thomas Scott £3. To my daughter his wife xl". to buy
each of them a ringe. All my old gould to be equally divided between
my Sonne Edmund Gibbon and my grandchild Robert Scott. The
latter to have £20 per annum during his and his father's joynt lives
and I do tye my farme in the east end of Benenden for the payment
thereof. To my loving son Edmund G-ibbon of the Middle Temple,
Esq., all my lands and messuages, with remainder to my grandchild
Robert Scott. Residue to Edmund Gibbon, who is executor.
From this will it would appear that her daughters Mary
and Cicely died without issue.
John, the eldest son of Thomas Culpeper, of Wigsell,
was knighted 14th January, 1621, married at St. Botolph,
Bishopsgate, 29th October, 1628, Philippa, daughter of
George Snelling, of West Grinstead (she was buried at
HoUingbourne 16th September, 1630), by whom he had
issue a son : —
Alexander, who married Catherine, daughter of
Sir Edward Ford, of Harting, and died with-
out issue. Administration of his estate was
« A, 71, Avery, No. 70.
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68 THE SUSSEX COLEPEPERS.
granted in P.C.C. to his widow Katherine,
then 4th January, 166f, the wife of Ralph
Grey, Esq.
And a daughter : —
Philippa, who married Sir Thomas Harlacken-
den, of Woodchurch, co. Kent.
Sir John Colepeper, who sold Wigsell 30th Jan., 1623,
to Cheney Colepeper,^* married, secondly, by licence,
dated at Canterbury 12th Jan., 163^, Judith, daughter of
Sir Thomas Colepeper, of Hollingbournc. He served
some time in the army, was elected M.P. for co. Kent in
the Long Parliament, made a P.C. and Chancellor of the
Exchequer 2nd Jan., 1642.^* He obtained, 28th Jan.,
1643, the office of Master of the Rolls and was on 21st
Oct., 1644, created Baron Colepeper, of Thereaway, co.
Lincoln. In Wykeham Martin's History of Leeds Castle
it is stated that Sir John bought the Castle from his
cousins, Cheyney and Thomas, but this is a mistake, as
Sir John fled the country with Prince Charles on March
2nd, 1646, when his estates were confiscated, and he
remained in exile till the Restoration. On Oct. 21st, 1651,
the Council of State, which had been using the Castle as a
magazine, decided to restore it to Sir Cheney Culpeper,
the proprietor^ a gentleman described in the order as
^^ well affected to us."''
Sir John died Uth July, 1660, aged 60, and was buried
at HoUingbourne. His will, dated 3rd July, 1660, was
proved 3rd Aug. following by his wife Judith, who was
buried at HoUingbourne in 1691. He had the following
children, all baptised at HoUingbourne : —
(i.) Elizabeth, bapt. and bur. in 1632.
(ii.) Thomas, bapt. 1638, bur. 1634.
(iii.) Thomas, bap. 1634, who succeeded his father as
second Lord Culpeper, and by his marriage
" Close RoU, 21 Jas. I., pt. 26.
" Pat. RoU, No. 2,905, 20 Chas. I., No. 4.
«6 Cal. State Papers, Vol. 16, p. 589. See also Feet of Fines, Kent, Trin., 1650.
Inter Cheney Culpeper mil. et John Page et alios de manerio et castro de Leeds.
See also Feet of Fines, Hillary, 1650,
THE SUSSEX COLEPEPERS. 69
with Margaret, daughter and co-heiress of
Jean Van Hesse, Seigneur de Perschill and
Wena in Holland, had an only daughter and
heiress,
Catherine, who married Thomas, 5th Baron
Fairfax, of Cameron, in Scotland, and
had a daughter Frances, who married
Denny Martin, Esq., and conveyed the
estate of Leeds Castle, in Kent, to his
family, now represented by C. P.
Wykeham-Martin, of Leeds Castle.
The 2nd Lord Colepeper was not a very estimable
character. After his death, 27th Jan., 168|, his widow
stated^® that her late husband had two houses in London,
one in St. James' Street, the other in Hammersmith. He
died in St. James' Street and she was living at Leeds
Castle, not having had the least notice that he was sick
until some time after his decease. She immediately went
to London and buried him, and wants to administer his
estate in order to pay his debts, which she is informed
are very great and many. But Susanna Willis, alias
Weldon, alias Laycock, who had been living with him
at his house in St. James' Street, has the key of his
closets and has possessed herself of everything.
In her answer Susanna Willis mentions her two
daughters by Lord Thomas Colepeper, Susan, wife of
Sir Charles Englefield, Bart, (married at St. James',
Westminster, 22nd Feb., 168f) and Charlotte, aged 13.
By indenture in 1688 Lord Colepeper granted to her
daughters land at Solihull, co. Warwick, the tithes of
Mayfield, the Manor of Thoresway, 24 acres at Witter-
sham, land near Kent Bridge, in Wittersham, yielding
£7. 10s. Od. per annum, land in Erith, Lesnes and
Plumstead, valued at £72 per annum, land in Buriton, co.
Southants, 260 acres of marsh at Lydde and Bromehill,
worth £185 per annum, a farm in Loose, Eastfarlegh and
Maidstone, yielding £30 per annum. Then she mentions
*
* Bills and Answers before 1714, Hamilton, Vol. II., Bundle 85, No. 66. See
also Hamilton, Bundle 671.
70 THE SUSSEX COLEPEPERS.
a will of Thomas Lord Colepeper, in which he revoked
all his other wills, especially his last one, Aug. 23rd,
1681, and he settled on his natural daughter Susan, wife
of Sir Charles Englefield, an annuity of £100 for life
out of Thoresway Manor and £3,000 portion, £3,000 to
his natural daughter Charlotte, his house in Hammersmith
to Susanna Weldon, alias Willis. The Manor of Arreton,
Isle of Wight, to his natural daughter, Charlotte. The
residue of his property to Katherine, liis daughter, who
is executrix.
A Bill in Parliament to annul the above gifts, whether
by deed or will, to Susanna Willis, alias Weldon, alias
Lay cock, and her two illegitimate children, was rejected
in the House of Lords 15th January, 16f§.
(iv.) Elizabeth, bap. at Hollingbourne, 1637; mar.,
1661, James Hamilton, Esq., Groom of the
Bedchamber to Charles XL ; their son, James
Hamilton, became 6th Earl of Abercom.
(v.) Judith, bap. at Hollingbourne 1638, died 1691.
(vi.) John, bap. at Hollingbourne 16th March, 1640,
became 3rd Lord Colepeper on his brother's
deatli in 168§, married 30th June, 1707,
Frances, daughter of Sir Thomas Colepeper,
of Hollingbourne, by Alice, daughter of Sir
William Colepeper, of Aylesford, but died
s.p. 8th July, 1719, when he was succeeded
by his brother.
(vii.) Cheney, 4th Lord Colepeper, bap. at Holling-
bourne 6th Sept., 1642. On his death,
unmarried, 25th June, 1725, the peerage
became extinct.
(viii.) Francis, who died s.p.
(ix.) Philippa, bap. at Hollingbourne 1649, died 1719.
Will in P.C.C, 132 Shaller.
Thomas Colepeper, of Wigsell, father of John, 1st Lord
Colepeper, had, as will be seen from his will above, two
brothers, John and Alexander.
THE SUSSEX COLEPEPERS. 71
John died 20th December, 1635, in the 70th year of his
age, and on his monument at Hollingbourne is described
as ^'de Fakenham in Com: Wigorn ar. filius secundus
Johannis de Wigsell." In his will, dated 14th December,
1635, and proved in P. CO., 23rd January, 163f ,^'^ he styles
himself ' ' John Culpeper, of Greenway Court in the Countie
of Kent, Esquior," and mentions his wife Anne, sons
Thomas and John and daughters Cicely and Frances, the
wife of James Medlicote.
Sir Alexander Culpeper describes himself in his will,**
dated 30th January, 1644, with codicils 4th May, 1645, as
of '' Greenway Court in the county of Kent, Knight,
youngest son of John Culpeper, of Wigshell, co. Sussex,
Esquire, deceased." He married Mary, daughter of Sir
Thomas Scott, and widow of Anthony St. Leger, Esq.,
of lUcombe, but died without issue at Bridgwater ^^ in
August, 1645, while with the King's forces. His wife's
granddaughter Katherine, daughter of Sir Warrham St.
Leger, married his nephew Thomas (son of his brother
John) Colepeper, who, it is stated, lost his life and his
liberty in the Civil War.^® Their children were : —
Alexander Colepeper, Surveyor General of
Virginia in 1671, whose will was proved in
P.C.C, 5th January, 1694.^^
Frances, bap. at Hollingbourne 1634, married
Sir William Berkeley, Governor of Virginia.
John, bap. at Hollingbourne, 1633.
Anne, bap. at Hollingbourne, 1630.
Neither John Colepeper, who died in 1635, nor his
brother. Sir Alexander Colepeper, who died in 1645, had
any immediate connection with Sussex. Their uncle
Francis Colepeper, however, who died on the last day of
May, 1591, aged 53, and is described on his monument
at Hollingbourne as '^filius scdus Willelmi de Wigsell,"
57 P.C.C, 4 Pile.
w P.C.C, 157 Rivers.
^ Royalist Compos. Papers, 2nd Series, Vol. III., p. 734.
60 Cal. of State Papers, America and West Indies, 1669-74, f. 571.
" P.C.C, Slrbj.
72 THE SUSSEX COLEPEPERS.
besides issue by his second wife Joan, daughter of John
Pordage and widow of William Steede, who continued
to reside at Hollingbourne, had by his first wife Philippa,®*
buried at Harrietsham 7th July, 1574, two sons: —
Walter, bap. at Harrietsham 2 November, 1573,
slain in Holland, aijd
John, who settled at Folkington, in Sussex, and
of whom hereafter.
The following is an abstract of the will of Francis
Culpeper, Esq.: — ^^
20 May 1590. I ffrancs Culpeper of Greenewaye Court c°. Kent
Esq. My body to be buried at Hollingbourne if I die in Kent. Six
of my servants to cany me to my grave. To be buried at six o'clock in
the morning. My good wife Johane Culpeper to be executrix. My very
good friend John Tufton Esquire, my loving brothers John Culpepper
and Thomas Culpepper Esquires to be my overseers to call upon the
performance of my will. My three sons John, Walter and Thomas.
To the rest of my brothers 30". apiece. To my daughter in law Suzanne
Steed 100 marks over and above the 500 marks I stand bound for to
my son in law William Steede. My very good friend and cousin
Anthony Sallenger Esquire 5 angells for a ring.
Indenture 20 May 30 Eliz. Between John Tufton of Hothfield c".
Kent Esq. John Culpeper of Wigsell c°. Sussex and Thomas Culpeper
of Wilmington c°. Sussex Esquires and Johane Culpeper of Holling-
bourne c°. Kent, gentlewoman, of the 1'' part and Francis Culpepper
of Hollingbome aforesaid Esq. of the 2^^ part witnesseth that the said
Francis has sold to the first parties all his lands &c. to secure dower to
wife and for preferment of his children. Lands in Hollingbome
Harrison (Harrietsham) and Leedes (except the Abey of Leedes, and
land thereto appertaining) to Johane Culpeper for life paying for the
debts of the said Francis £120 a year for two years. She is also to
have the horses, jewels, plate, stock &c. for life, with remainder to
Thomas Culpepper and John Culpepper sons of said Francis — lands in
Hollingbome and Harrison to Thomas, remainder to John, remainder
to Walter, lands to be held till son John is 30, then to him with remainder
to Walter, remainder to Thomas. To son John the manor of Pennington
in Hampshire and the manor and parsonage of Enford in Wiltshire,
lands in Hawkhurst, leases in Lidd and Rumney Marsh, and the
** Stuardshipp ** of Rochester. Son Walter to have out of lands willed
to Thomas £15 by yeare.
Proved in P.C.C. 22 Nov. 1591 by Anthony Calton notary of Thomas
Culpepper Esq. one of the Executors. Power reserved to Joan, relict
of the said deceased and to John Tufton and John Culpepper Esquires
the otter executors.
82 Add. MSS., 5,520, fo. 176, gives no Christian name, but makes her dau. and
heir of of Hinckstead.
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John Culpeper, of Sevenoaks, died about 1663 and
administration of his effects was granted on 16 July in that
year to Frances, his relict.*" By her he had two children :
(i.) John, son and heir, the complainant in the
above-mentioned bill. He is therein stated
to be 12 years old in 1666. He matricu-
lated at Queen's College, Oxford, 4 July,
1673, aged 18, mariied a lady of the name of
Bridget and died about 1693. His wilP®, in
which he describes himself as of Riverhead,
in Sevenoaks, Esq., was dated 14th Jan., 1692,
and proved by his wife Bridgett 6tli July,
1693. He mentions his lands in Littlington,
county Sussex, in the occupation of himself
and William Blackman. ^* Unto my loving
friend Edmund Attree, Gent, who lives with
me £20 ; " mentions also his kinsman. Sir
Thomas Culpeper, Bart., of Aylesford, and
his sister.
(ii.) Frances, who appears on 31 May, 1693,'^® as
Frances Culpeper, spinster, in answer to the
bill of complaint of Bridgett Culpeper, widow,
in which she says that it may be true that her
brother John died seized of lands and manors
in Kent and Sussex of considerable value.
She does not know if he made a will as
alleged. She hopes to show that the said
John could not dispose of his estate by will.
She will receive the legacy of £400 without
prejudice to any claim she may have on the
estate. She has good reason to believe that
her father John, on his marriage with Frances,
her mother, did settle the estate on his wife
as jointure, remainder to his heirs male,
remainder to his heirs female. Her mother
Frances enjoyed the premises after her
husband's death.
" P.C.C, Admon, July, 1663. ^3 p.C.C, 106 Coker.
^ Bills and Answers before 1714,
THE SUSSEX COLEPEPERlS. Si
It is to be presumed that the suit terminated in favour
of Bridgett, the widow, as in 1695 she sold the manor
of Littlington to James Greene.
Francis Colepeper, the third son of Sir Thomas Cole-
peper, of Folkington, born 1635, was, from his will,
sometime of Battle, and afterwards of St. Sepulchre's,
county Middlesex, gentleman. He married Marv Wigge.
His will,^ dated 19th Feb., 1668, was proved 3rd Nov.,
1669, by Mary, his widow and executrix, to whom, after
various legacies, he left the residue of his property.
On the 20th June, 1670, his widow Mary made her wilP
as ^' widow and excutrix of Francis Culpeper gent." as
follows :
Executor to pay my husband's legacies which I have not paid, and
£5 more to my loving friend M' John Purfield of Battell. Executor
then to pay my deare and loving father Thomas Wigge the interest of
my estate (debts and legacies being paid) for life, and the principal
after his death to be equally divided between my four brothers George
Packe, William Packe, Thomas Wigge and John Wigge, and my two
sisters Anne the wife of George Godfrey and Joane Wigge, Executor
William Packe, my brother who proves 22 Nov. 1671.
Of William, the fourth son of Sir Thomas Colepeper,
of Folkington, born 1637, we have discovered at present
no further records, but he was probably the citizen and
leatherseller of London mentioned in the Close Roll of
1658, and was possibly the father of Anne, wife of James
Hougham, M.D., of Ditchling,^ and motlier of Culpeper
Hougham, as William Culpeper's sister Anne married
John Honey, of Ditchling, Esq., who in his will,®® dated
7th Nov., 1694, pr. at Lewes loth Jan., 169^, mentions his
kinsman Culpeper (blank in transcript but ? Hougham)
and one of the witnesses James Hougham.
» P.C.C, 136 Coke. 82 s.A.C, Vol. XXVIH., 133.
81 P.C.C, 130 Duke. 88 Lewes A. 42, 86.
(To be continued).
XLVII.
CATALOGUES OF PORTRAITS AT COMPTON PLACE
AND AT
BUXTED PAEK, IN SUSSEX.
By the Eight Honble. LOED HAWKESBUET, F.S.A.
1903.
The following Catalogues of Portraits, many of them of
historical interest, are here printed in order to secure a
record of them in the future ; for, as no regular catalogue
exists, their identity is liable to be forgotten. I have
been much indebted to Lady Louisa Egerton and to Mr.
J. Cockerell, of East Bourne, for the kind help they have
afforded me in connection with the portraits at Compton
Place, and I also desire to express my thanks to Dr.
George Williamson, of The Mount, Guildford, for his
kindness with regard to the Catalogue of Miniatures at
Devonshire House, and the great assistance he has given
me in sending full particulars of them.
POETEAITS AT COMPTON PLACE, SUSSEX,
In the Possession of BLrs Grace the Duke of Deyonshibe, K.G.,
1903.
Dining Boom.
North Side.
1. Lady Theophila Ltjoy, second daughter of George Berkeley, Ist
Earl of Berkeley, by Elizabeth, daughter and co-heir of John
Massingberd, and wife of Sir Kingsmill Lucy, 2nd Baronet, of
Broxbourne, co. Herts, and of Facombe and Netley, co. Hants,
to whom she was married at the age of 18 (he being 19), at
St. James's, Clerkenwell, 14th May, 1668. He died in Sept.,
1678, and Lady Theophila, his widow, who was born in 1650,
married, secondly, 23rd Nov., 1682, Robert Nelson (who was
born 22nd June, 1656), the well-known author of the Festivals
and Fasts of the Church, who died 16th January, 1714-15.
PORTRAITS AT COMMOISr PLACE, SUSSEX. 83
She died 26tli January, 1706-7, and was buried at Cranford, in
Middlesex.
2. Geokoe, 1st Earl of Berkeley and 14th Lord Berkeley, and
19tli Feudal Lord of Berkeley, second but only surviving son
and heir of George, 13th Lord Berkeley (i.e., 13th from the
original writ of summons in 1295, but 8th from the later writ of
summons to the heir male of the family of James Berkeley, of
Berkeley, 20th Oct., 1421), by Elizabeth, second daughter and
co-heir of Sir Michael Stanhope, of Sudbury, Suffolk, by Anne,
daughter of Sir William Keade, of Osterley, Middlesex. He
married, at Morden, Surrey, 11th August, 1646, Elizabeth,
daughter of John Massingberd, of London. He was created
Earl of Berkeley and Viscount Dursley, both co. Gloucester,
11th September, 1679. He died 14th October, 1698, in his 71st
year, and was buried at Cranford, in Middlesex.
3. Elizabeth, Countess of Berkeley, wife of George, 1st Earl of
Berkeley, and daughter and co-heiress of John Massingberd, of
London, merchant, and Treasurer of the East Indian Company,
by Cecilia, daughter of Thomas Pettit, of London, merchant.
She married, as already mentioned, George Berkeley, who was
created Earl of Berkeley, and she died in December, 1708, and
was buried at Cranford.
4. Sir Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington. He was the second
surviving son of James, 3rd Earl of Northampton, by his second
wife Mary, daughter of Baptist Noel, 3rd Viscount Campden,
and was bom 1674, was Speaker of the House of Commons
1715— -1727, was created Baron Wilmington 8th January, 1728,
and Earl of Wilmington and Viscount Pevensey on the
14th May, 1730. He was made K.B. 27th May, 1725, on the
revival of that Order 27th May, 1725, and K.G. 12th June, 1733.
On the accession of George II. he was named by the King as
Prime Minister, which post, however, was eventually retained
by Sir Robert Walpole, whom he succeeded later on, becoming
Prime Minister 11th February, 1742, which post, as First Lord
of the Treasury, he held till his death on 2nd July, 1743, at
the age of 70. He was buried at Compton Wynyates, co.
Warwick. He purchased East Bourne Place (since re-named
Compton Place), and other estates in Sussex, in 1723-4,
from Sir Thomas Wilson, 4th Baronet of that place, and
dying unmarried, he left his estates, at his death in 1743, to his
nephew, James Compton, 5th Earl of Northampton, who dying
without male issue 3rd October, 1 754, they passed to his brother
George, who succeeded him as 6th Earl, and he dying issueless
on the 6th December, 1758, aged 66, they passed to his nephew,
Charles Compton, who then became 7th Earl of Northampton,
and thence, on his death, 18th October, 1763, to his only child,
Lady Elizabeth Compton, who married Lord George Cavendish,
who was created, in 1831, Earl of Burlington, and dying in 1835,
was succeeded by her grandson, who became 7th Duke of
Devonshire.
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84 PORTRAITS AT COMPTON PLACE, SUSSEX.
East End.
5 . Prince Chables Edwabd as a boy, represented in armour, probably
painted at Rome by L, G, Blancket or J. jP. de Troy.
6. The Countess of Dorset, full length, in white satin, by Van Dyck.
It appears to be uncertain which Countess of Dorset this is.^
The same portrait in the Van Dyck Koom at Windsor Castle is
called Mary, wife of Edward, 4th Earl of Dorset, and daughter
and heir of Sir George Curzon, who was married before 1612,
and who died in August, 1645. At Khole it is, I believe,
called Frances, wife of Kichard, 5th Earl of Dorset, and daughter
of Lionel Cranfield, Earl of Middlesex. She was married before
1638, and died about 1687. Here it has been thought possibly to
represent the celebrated Anne Clifford, daughter of George, 3rd
Earl of Cumberland, and wife, firstly, of Richard, 3rd Earl of
Dorset, who died in 1624, aged 35, and, secondly, of Philip,
Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery. She was born 1589-90,
and died 22nd March, 1675-6, in her 87th year.
7. Prince Henry, afterwards Cardinal of York, a small portrait,
pendant to No. 5, and evidently by the same artist.
South Side.
8. Portrait of a Man, unknown, date 1630. This portrait of a
middle-aged man has always hung as a pendant (both in this
room and formerly in what was the billiard room opposite) to the
portrait of Margaret Mordaunt (No. 14), but I have not been
able to identify it.
9. Charles Noel Somerset, 4th Duke of Beaufort, brother and
heir of Henry, 3rd Duke, being the second son of Henry, the
2nd Duke, by his second wife Hachel, second and youngest
daughter and co-heir of Wriothesley Baptist Noel, 2nd Earl of
Gainsborough, by Catherine, eldest daughter of Fulke Qreville,
Lord Brooke. He was bom 12th September, 1709, married on
the Ist May, 1740, Elizabeth Berkeley, sister and co-heir to
Norborne, Lord Botetourt. (See No. 13 below.) He died 28th
October, 1 756, in his 48th year, and was buried at Badminton.
Three-quarter length, in Coronation Bobes, by Hudson.
10. Catherine, Lady Lucy, wife of Sir Berkeley Lucy, 3rd Baronet,
of Facombe and Netley, co. Hants, and second daughter of
Charles Cotton, of Beresford Hall, co. Stafford (the friend of
Isaac Walton, and called the father of fly fishing), by Isabella,
daughter of Sir Thomas Hutchinson, of Owthorpe, co. Notts.
She died in June, 1 740, and her husband, Sir Berkeley Lucy,
on 19th November, 1 759, both buried at Facombe. Their eldest
^ It seems most probable that this is the portrait of Frances Cranfield, sister
and heir of Lionel Cranfield, 3rd Earl of Middlesex, daughter of Lionel, 1st Earl,
by his second wife Anne, daughter of James Brett. She married, before 1638,
Richard SackviUe, who succeeded his father, in 1652, £is 5th Earl of Dorset, and
who died 27th August, 1677. She married, secondly, in June, 1679, as his second
wife, the Right Hon. Henry Powle, of Williamstrip, co. Gloucester, some time
Master of the Rolls, who died 2l8t Noyember, 1692. She died in 1687.
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daughter and co-heir, Mary, born 1709, was married 14th
August, 1 727, to the Honble. Charies Compton, younger son of
George, 4th Earl of Northampton, younger brother of the 5th
and 6th Earls and father of the 7th and 8th Earls. He was
grandfather of Lady Elizabeth Compton, who inherited Compton
Place as heir of her father, the 7th Earl. The Honble. Charles
Compton was Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Lisbon, and
three beautiful leather trunks which were his are now at
Hard wick.
11. View of Shanbally, co. Tipperary, with the Galtee Mountains
in the background."
12. Lady Theophila Lucy, wife of Sir Kingsmill Lucy, 2nd Baronet,
and second daughter of George, 1st Earl of Berkeley. {See
No. 1.)
13. Elizabeth, Duchess of Beaufort. She was the sister and sole
heir of Norborne, Lord Botetourt, and daughter of John Symes
Berkeley, of Stoke Gifford, co. Gloucester, by Elizabeth,
Dowager Viscountess Hereford, daughter and co-heir of Walter
Norborne, of Calne, co. Wilts. She married, 1st May, 1740,
Charles Noel, 4th Duke of Beaufort, as above-mentioned,
whom she survived. She died 8th April, 1799. After the
deaths of her husband and of Lord and Lady Northampton,
she and her daughter Mary Isabella, afterwards Duchess of
Eutland (M.I.R.), lived much at Compton Place, she being
guardian to her little granddaughter. Lady Elizabeth Compton,
the heiress of the place, and whose age did not differ much
from that of her aunt, the future Duchess of Eutland. Three-
quarter length, in Coronation Hobes, by Hudson,
14. Margaret Mordaunt, daughter of Henry Mordaunt, 4th Lord
Mordaunt, by Margaret, sister of William, 1st Earl of Northamp-
ton, and daughter of Henry Compton, 1st Lord Compton, by
his first wife Frances, daughter of Francis Hastings, 2nd Earl
of Huntingdon. On the back is written, " Margaret, daughter
of Henry, Lord Mordaunt, and his wife. Lady Margaret
Compton.
Tapestry Bedroom.
15. Portrait of a Lady, in a panel over the fireplace.^ Three-
quarter face. Dressed in red, with purple drapery over shoulder
and left arm.
7th Duke's Bedroom.
16. Lady Mary Isabella Somerset, afterwards Duchess of Eutland,
youngest daughter of Henry Noel, 4th Duke of Beaufort. Bom
2 This picture of her old home was brought here in 18il by Mrs. Cavendish,
daughter of the Ist Lord Lismore, and mother of the 7th Duke of Devonshire.
It was moved to Coopers, Chiselhurst, when she went to live there with her son,
Lord Kichard Cavendish, in 1862, and after his death, in 1873, it was brought
back and replaced where it had previously been, in the panel over the dining room
fireplace here. It was, I believe, painted by the son of Lord Lismore's coachman.
* This portrait has been thought to be that of 8arah, Duchess of Marlborough.
86 PORTRAITS AT COMPTON PLACE, SUSSEX.
let August, 1756. Married at St. George's, Hanover Square,
London, 26th December, 1776, Charles, 4th Duke of Eutland,
who died whilst Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, at the Vice-Regal
Lodge, Dublin, 24th October, 1787, aged 33. She survived lum
for many years, and died in Sackville Street, London, 2nd
September, 1831, and was buried in the mausoleum then recently
built at Belvoir. Oval portrait as a child of six, in low white
frock with blue ribbons and white cap, with blue ribbon tied
under her chin. Formerly a square picture, but added to, to
fit the frame.
17. Lady Henkietta Somerset, fourth daughter of Charles Noel,
4th Duke of Beaufort. Married 6th April, 1769, Sir Watkin
Williams Wynn, Bart., and died at Kensington 24th July
following.
1 8. Anne, Countess of Northampton, eldest daughter of Charles Noel,
4th Duke of Beaufort.. Bom 11th March, 1740-41. Married
at Audley Chapel, St. George's, Hanover Square, 13th September,
1759, Charles Compton, 7th Earl of Northampton, and she died
at Venice (where her husband was Ambassador Extraordinary)
on the 18th May, 1 763, leaving an only daughter. Lady Elizabeth
Compton, afterwards Lady George Cavendish and Countess of
Burlington, heiress of Compton Place. Lord Northampton died
at Lyons, on his journey home from Venice, 18th October, 1763.
Pastel portrait.
19. Mrs. Sheridan, as St. Cecilia. Painted from a picture by Sir
Joshua Eeynolds, for the Earl of Bessborough, by John Ta/ylor,
St. Marylebone, 1780.
Staircase.
20. Child watching pigs feeding.
Attic Room.
In the middle of the garden front,
21. Portrait of a Man. Long hair, white scarf and satin jacket.
In oval frame. Unknown.
Servants' Hall.
22. Portrait of a Man in long wig. Sir Kingsmill Lucy, 2nd
Baronet. In oval frame.
23. A Lady with pearl necklace and earrings, and pearls in her dress.
Three-quarter length.
24. Lady Theophila Lucy, wife of Sir Kingsmill Lucy, 2nd Baronet.
In oval frame. It is a pendant to No. 22.
25. Portrait of a Lady. Half length.
26. Portrait of a Man. Three-quarter face. Unknown.
27. Portrait of a Lady with black curling hair and wearing large
pearl pear-shaped earrings, pearl necklace.
28. Portrait of a Man in long wig.
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Steward's Eoom.
29. A Lady dressed in blue, with a spaniel. Panel portrait in black
and gold frame.
30. A Lady dressed in blue, with a spaniel. In a similar frame to
No. 29.
31. A Young Man of the Cavalier period. On panel.
32. A Young Man of the Cavalier period. On panel.
33. A Man in armour, with red cloak, trimmed with ermine and long
wig.
34. A Man in armour, white collar and long hair.
Housekeeper's Eoom.
35. A Lady in low dress, with black hair and long curl over left
shoulder. A small dog looking up into her face. Three-
quarter length.
THERE are also THE FOLLOWING
ENGEAVINGS AT COMPTON PLACE.
In the Vestibule and Inner Hall.
Beginning in the Vestibule, near the garden door, on the left of the
drawing room door.
1, 2, 3 and 4. Engravings by Volpato, from BaphaeVs frescoes in the
Stanze at the Vatican, representing in an allegorical form the
political aims and achievements of Pope Julius II.
5. Mary Isabella, Duchess of Eutland, who, in her youth, lived
much at Compton Place with her mother, the Duchess of
Beaufort, it being the home of her niece and contemporary,
Lady Betty Compton (See No. 8). The summer house on the
lawn, with her initials M.I.E., was named after her.
6. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, from the portrait at Althorp;
7. Louisa Cathcart, Lady Stormont, afterwards Countess of Mans-
field, from a portrait by Bomney, Engraved by T, B, Smith,
8. Lady Elizabeth Compton, afterwards Lady George Cavendish and
Countess of Burlington. Engraved from the portrait of her by
Sir Joshua Beynolds, at Latimer.
West Side, Inner Hall,
9. H.E.H. The Duke of Kent.
10. Sir Walter Farquhar.
1 1 . Prince Leopold of Saxe - Coburg, afterwards King of the
Belgians.
12. Unknown.
88 ENGRAVINGS AT COMPTON PLACE, SUSSEX.
East Side, Inner Hall,
13. The Earl of Obford.
14. William Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland.
15. The Eight Honble. Charles James Fox.
16. General the Honble. William Hervey.
17. Sir Walter Farquhar.
18. The Duke of Manchester.
Vestibule, East Side,
19. Charles, 4th Duke of Eutland, K.G., grandson and heir of
John, 3rd Duke, being son of John, Marquess of Granby. He
was born 21st Feb., 1754, married 26th Dec, 1776, Lady Mary
Isabella Somerset, youngest daughter of Charles Noel, 4th
Duke of Beaufort, and he died on the 24th Oct., 1787, at the
Vice-Eegal Lodge, Phoenix Park, Dublin, whilst Lord-Lieutenant
of Ireland.
20. H.E.H. George, Prince of Wales, afterwards King George IV.
21. Lord Eichard Cavendish, second son of William, 4th Duke of
Devonshire, bom 19th June, 1751, died unmarried at Naples,
7th Sept., 1781.
22. The Eight Honble. Charles James Fox.
23. 24, 25, 26. EngraviDgs by Volpato, from BaphaeVs frescoes in
the Stanze at the Vatican.
Duchess's Bedroom.
27. Charles, 4th Duke of Eutland. Crayon portrait in oval frame.
By Downman,
28. Mary Isabella, Duchess of Eutland, wife of Charles, 4th Duke
of Eutland. Crayon portrait in oval frame. By Downman,
29. Lord William Cavendish Bentinck, second son of William, 3rd
Duke of Portland, and Dorothy, his wife, daughter of William,
4th Duke of Devonshire. Bom 14th Sept., 1774. Governor-
General of India 1827 to 1835. Died 17th June, 1839. Small
engraving.
30. Lady William Cavendish Bentinck. She was Lady Mary
Acheson, second daughter of Arthur, 1st Earl of Gosford, and
she married 19th Feb., 1803, Lord William Cavendish Bentinck
mentioned above. She died Ist May, 1843. Small engraving.
Duke's Bedroom.
31. Eleanor Foreman, wife of Peter Paul Eubens. Engraving by
James Thompson^ after Leslie,
North Bedroom.
32. Lady Louisa Cavendish, afterwards Lady George Cavendish,
fourth daughter of Henry Lascelles, 2nd Earl of Harewood.
Married 4th July, 1835, George Henry Cavendish, afterwards
Lord George Cavendish, brother to the 7th Duke of Devonshire.
She died 10th March, 1886.
ENGRAVINGS AT COMPTON PLACE, SUSSEX. 89
33. Lady Louisa Eussell, second daughter of John, 6th Duke of
Bedford, K.G., by his second wife, Georgiana, fifth daughter
of Alexander, 4th Duke of Gordon. She married 25th Oct.,
1832, James, Viscount Hamilton, afterwards 2nd Marquess, and
in 1868 1st Duke of Abercom.
Yellow Bedroom.
34. Lady Elizabeth Isabella Manners, elder daughter of Charles,
4th Duke of Eutland, and Mary Isabella, his wife. She married
2 1st Aug., 1798, Eichard Norman, Esq., and she died 5th Oct.,
1853. Portrait in crayon. (Unsigpied.)
35. Lady Sabah Spencer, afterwards Lady Lyttelton, as a child
seated at a table, eating out of a bowl. From a drawing by
her mother, Lavinia, Countess Spencer.
36. Lady Sarah Spencer, afterwards Lady Lyttelton, as a child,
making a curtsey. From a drawing by her mother, Lavinia,
Countess Spencer,
37. Lady Mary Isabella Somerset, afterwards Duchess of Eutland,
and her niece. Lady Elizabeth Compton, afterwards Lady
George Cavendish and Countess of Burlington. Tinted
engraving, as children.
38. Lady Katherine Mary Manners, younger daughter of Charles,
4th Duke of Eutland, and Mary Isabella, his wife. She married
16th June, 1800, Cecil Weld Forester, 1st Lord Forester, and
she died 10th March, 1829. Print coloured by hand. In oval
frame.
The Late Duke's Dressing Eoom.
39. Lord Burghersh, son of John, 11th Earl of Westmorland, who
died in his father's lifetime. As a child of the age of 4.
Engraving by Bartolozzi, after Sir Joshua Beynolds.
Music Eoom.
40. Lord Duncannon, and his sister, afterwards Lady Caroline
Lamb, at the ages of 3 and 4. By Downman,
41. William, 6th Duke of Devonshire, K.G., only son of William,
5th Duke of Devonshire. Born 21st May, 1790. Died
unmarried at Hard wick Hall 17th Jan., 1858. Engraving.
In the Vestibule are Busts of
Lord George A. W. Cavendish and of William, 6th Duke of
Devonshire. The bust of Lord George Cavendish is by
Nollekens in 1812, and the one of the 6th Duke of Devonshire
is by Thomas Campbelly'Rome, 1823.
And in the Gallery a Bust of
Lieut.-General Sir Egbert William O'Callaghan, K.C.B., second
son of Cornelius, Ist Lord Lismore. He was bom October,
1777, was Colonel of the 39th Eegiment and died unmarried
90 MINIATURES AT DEVONSHIRE HOUSE.
9tli June, 1840. The bust of Sir Eobert O'CaHaghan is a
plaster cast by jP. H, Baily, B,A,, in 1840 and on the pedestal
is this inscription : —
Lieut. - General Sir Robert William O'Callaghan, G.C.B., Son of
the late Lord and brother to the present Viscount Lismore.
Bom October, 1777.
Died 9th June, 1840.
Of a gentle, aifectionate disposition, combined with good sense
and judgement, distinguished as an officer for having discretion
and humanity. He led a battalion at Malta. He commanded the 39th
Regiment at Vittoria. He fought at its head through the Pyrenees,
he filled the important office of Commander of the Forces at
Madras and his services were honoured by the
acknowledgment of his Sovereign, the approbation of the Duke of
Wellington, the esteem and affection of his associates and
friends. 1843.
Also Small Busts of
Lord George Augustus Henry Cavendish, third but BGcond surviving
son of William, 4tli Duke of Devonshire. Bom Slst March,
1754. Created 10th Sept., 1831, Earl of Burlington and Baron
Cavendish of Keighley. Died 4th May, 1834.
Lady George Cavendish. She was Lady Elizabeth Compton, only
child and heir of Charles, 7th Earl of Northampton. Bom
25th June, 1760. She married 27th Feb., 1782, Lord George
A. H. Cavendish mentioned above, and she died at Compton
Place 7th April, 1835.
Lady Annb Cavendish, elder surviving daughter of George, 1st Earl
of Burlington above-mentioned. Born 1 1th Nov., 1 787. Married
25th Oct., 1825, Lord Charles FitzRoy, second son of George,
4th Duke of Grafton. She died 27th May, 1871.
Lady Caroline Cavendish, younger surviving daughter of George,
1st Earl of Burlington above-mentioned. Born 5th April, 1797.
Died unmarried at Densworth Cottage, Sussex, 9th Jan., 1867.
Buried at West Stoke, Sussex.
MINIATUEES AT DEVONSHIRE HOUSE,
In the Possession of His Grace the Due:e of Devonshire, K.G.
Case I.
1. Ivory Medallion of Head of John Locke; profile to right.
Oval, li by 1|.
2. Young Man, nearly full face, slightly to left ; in a blue velvet coat
and wig ; enamel. Oval, 1^ by 1 J.
3. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire ; full face, carrying a cup, to
the right, on which are two doves. Oval, 2 J by 2 -in. wide.
By B. Cosway.
MINIATURES AT DEVONSHIRE HOUSE. 91
4. Lady Dorothy Boyle, afterwards Countess of Eiiston, younger
daughter and co-heir of Eichard, 3rd Earl of Burlington, and
Lady Dorothy Savile, daughter and co-heir of William, 2nd
Marquess of Halifax. She was sister to Lady Hartington, wife
of the 4th Duke of Devonshire. Dressed in low pink dress ;
three-quarter face to right. Oval, 1 A by l^^g..
5. Ivory Medallion of a Man's Head; profile to left. Oval,
6. Lady Caroline Ponsonby ; full face ; dressed in white ; light
hair; daughter of Frederick, 3rd Earl of Bessborough, and
Lady Henrietta, second daughter of John, Ist Earl Spencer.
Married 3rd June, 1 805, William Lamb, afterwards 2nd Viscount
Melbourne. She died 25th January, 1828. Oval, 2^ by 2-in.
7. George John, 2nd Earl Spencer ; three-quarter to the right ;
blue coat; brother to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, and
Henrietta, Countess of Bessborough. Bom 1st Sept., 1758;
died 10th Nov., 1834. Oval, 2^ by 1^-
8. Marie Antoinette ; bust, head draped, profile to left ; deep blue
back ground, bust in a bluish white. Circle, 2^.
9. Head of a Lady, three-quarter face to right ; unfinished.
Probably by Mrs, Bosse, Oval, 2 by 1^.
10. Man, nearly full face, slightly to left, powdered hair and blue
coat. By B. Cosway. Oval, 2 J by If.
1 1 . Princess Charlotte of Wales, wearing a hat, in a white dress
with a blue sash ; nearly full face. Square frame with comers
cut, 3^ by 2f . By Mrs. Mee.
12. ToTJNO Lady in a small hat with ostrich feather, and a pink dress
with fur ; nearly full face, sh'ghtly to left. Oval, 1^^ by IJ.
13. Young Lady holding a basket to left, on which is a dove ; dressed
in red skirt and blue bodice ; full face. Oval, 2f by 2^.
Case II.
1. Ivory Medallion of the Head of Dante. He is represented
with moustache and beard; face three-quarters to the right.
Oval, n by lt\.
2. Elizabeth [Cecil], Countess of Devonshire, wife of William,
3rd Earl of Devonshire, and second daughter of William Cecil,
2nd Earl of Salisbury. Born 1619; married March, 1638-9;
died 19th Nov., 1689. She was mother of the 1st Duke of
Devonshire. Dressed in white. A blue background; three-
quarter to right, nearly full face. Oval, lj|^ by If. By
S. Cooper,
3. A Man, three-quarter face to right, in wig and a black coat and
lace collar. Oval, 1 by f-in.
4. Louis XIV., in middle age ; standing three-quarter to left ; full
face. In a circle, 1^.
5. A Man, with moustache and pointed beard; dressed in black,
slashed with white, with large ruff ; three-quarter to left ;
nearly full face. Oval, IJ by 1^.
92 MINIATURES AT DEVONSHIRE HOUSE.
6. A Lady, with curls and low cut blue gown ; a yellow curtain at
the back ; three-quarter to left. Oval, 1^ by 1^. By
/. Hoskins, jun,, and signed.
7. Ivory Medallion of the Head of a Man, with moustache and
pointed beard ; three-quarter to the left. Circle, l^-in.
8. Lady, with dark hair and curls, in a yellow dress ; three-quarter
to left ; nearly full face ; enamel. Oval, f by f -in.
9. Ambrose Dudley, Earl of Warwick ; three-quarter to the
right ; in a black coat and wearing a black cap, moustache and
beard. Bom circa 1528 ; he died Feb., 1589-90, aged about 62.
Circle, IJ-in.
10. William, 1st Duke of Devonshire, with long wig; face slightly
turned to left ; in armour and with lace collar. By Lawrence
Crosse. Oval, 2^*^ by 1 J.
11. Mrs. Claypole; profile to the left, showing right hand pointing
to her left shoidder; blue background and brown dress. By
S. Cooper, 1653 (signed). Oval, If by 1^.
12. Oliver Cromwell, facing slightly to left, head turned to the
right; imfinished; all in white; superlatively fine. By S,
Cooper, Square, 2J by 2^.
13. Inigo Jones, wearing black skull cap, with long hair, moustache
and full beard ; large ruff ; black and violet robe, black cap ;
three-quarter face to right. Ascribed to S, Cooper, but by D,
Des Granges, Oval, 1^ by l^^,
14. Man, in red coat, with a cross-belt, large white collar, long hair ;
facing slightly to right, head turned to the left, but nearly full
face. Oval, 2iby lij.
15. Elizabeth [Cecil], Countess of Devonshire; three-quarter to
left ; in white dress, with curls and wearing a pearl necklace
and earrings ; enamel. Oval, ^ by J.
16. Louis XIY. ; as a young man, with curly hair ; large white
collar ; facing slightly to the left. Oval, 1 by f .
17. Ivory Medallion Head of the Archduke Leopold of Austria ;
profile to right. Circle, 1 ^. Inscribed round the circumference —
LEOPOLD GVL. D. G. ARCHID. AVSTR. DVX. BVRGZ.
18. Charles Cavendish, brother to the 1st Duke of Devonshire;
nearly full face, but turned slightly to right ; in a blue coat.
Oval, IH ^y ^ A' ^y Lawrence Crosse,
19. A Lady, with a large ruff; face three-quarter to left. Oval, 1^
20. A Stout Man, in leather jerkin, with cross-belt and broad collar,
long hair ; facing slightly to right. Oval, 2^^ by 2J.
21. A Man with moustache and pointed beard, large ruff and red and
gold embroidered jacket ; facing slightly to left. Oval, 1 by J^.
22. An Ivory Medallion of Mary Queen of Scots ; profile to left.
Circle, If. Inscribed round the head —
MARIA SCO. REGINA.
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23. An Ivory Medallion of Philip II. of Spain ; profile to the left.
Circle, 1^. Inscribed round the circumference —
philippvs hispanls: et novi orbis occident rex.
Case IH.
1. A Man, nearly full face ; in wig ; wearing a red robe, edged with
ermine. Oval, 2^^ by 2^. Probably by Lawrence Crosse,
2. Lady Elizabeth Foster, afterwards Duchess of Devonshire ; in
a white robe with pink drapery over her shoulder (as " Melpo-
mene ") ; profile to right. Oval, 2f by 23^.
3. A Lady, with curls, pearl necklace and earrings ; low grey gown,
blue scarf over right shoulder ; facing slightly to the left. Oval,
2]tf by 2^g^. By Lawrence Crosse,
4. A Man, in armour ; three-quarter face to the right ; a blue back-
ground. Oval in square frame, 1^ by ^ ; oval, ^ by f .
5. Princess Charlotte of Wales, as a young girl in a white dress ;
three-quarter face to left. Oval in square frame, 1^ hy ^ ;
oval, H l^y i-
6. A Lady with curly hair and low blue gown; nearly full face,
slightly turned to left ; the gown trimmed with lace. Oval,
2^ by 2. By /. Hoshins,
7. Lady Elizabeth Foster, wearing white turban, curls and a
necklace; three-quarter to left; enamel. Oval, 2J by 23^.
After A, Plimer, possibly by him.
8. Queen Caroline; profile to left; in a pink dress trimmed with
ermine, and ermine cape ; enamel. Square, with rounded
corners, 2^ by 1 \^, "By Horace Hone.
9. A Man ; three-quarter to the right ; long wig and dull green
coat. Oval, 2 by IJ.
10. A Lady ; three-quarter to right, head turned slightly to the left ;
in a red and gold dress. Oval, 1 A ^y H*
Case IV.
1. Charlotte [Boyle], Marchioness of Hartington and Baroness
Clifford ; as a girl dressed in white and pink and wearing a
cap ; turned slightly to right ; daughter and co-heir of Eichard,
3rd Earl of Burlington. Bom 27th October, 1731 ; married
28th March, 1748 ; died 8th December, 1754. Oval, IJ by If.
By Comerford,
2. Dorothy [Savile], Countess of Burlington ; three-quarter to
right ; dressed in pink. She was daughter and co-heir of
William Savile, 2nd Marquess of Halifax. Was born 13th
September, 1699; married 21st March, 1720-1, Eichard, 3rd
Earl of Burlington; died 21st September, 1758. She was
Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Caroline ; enameL Oval, 1 J
byli.
3. Lady Dorothy Boyle, afterwards Countess of Euston; as a
girl dressed in white ; dark hair and a long curl ; head turned
94 MINIATURES AT DEVONSHIRE HOUSE.
slightly to left. Eldest daughter and co-heir of Eichard,
3rd Earl of Burlington. Bom 14th May, 1724; married 23rd
September, 1741, George, Earl of Euston, second but eldest
surviving son and heir of Charles, 2nd Duke of Grafton. She
died 2nd May, 1742. Oval, li^ by If. By Nathaniel Hone.
4. Ladt Georqiana Spencer ; as a child ; standing, dressed in white
and salmon-coloured dress and wearing a cap, with hands
clasped in front ; slightly to right, nearly full face. Oval, 3^
5. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire ; standing, looking to right ;
right arm leaning on a table, a column in the background.
In a white dress, violet scarf and yeUow sash. Oval, 3} by 3^ ;
enamel. By Spicer.
6. Lord Eichard Cavendish ; three-quarter to left ; in a red coat.
Second son of the 4th Duke of Devonshire. Died unmarried
1781 ; enamel. Oval, 3^ by 2 J. By Horace Hone, after Sir J,
Beynolds.
7. "William, 5th Duke of Devonshire ; three-quarter to right ; in
a brown coat; enamel. Oval, If by 1^. After Sir J,
Reynolds,
8. George John, 2nd Earl Spencer; as a boy; with long hair,
dressed in a black coat and a lace collar ; nearly full face, but
slightly to left. Oval, 1^^ by 1^. After Sir J, Beynolds,
9. "William Spencer [Cavendish], 6th Duke of Devonshire; to
right, but nearly full face; in a black coat; enamel. Oval,
If by 1 A.
Case V.
1. A Man (unknown) ; three-quarter face to right ; fair hair,
moustache and pointed beard ; in a black coat and lace collar ;
a blue background. Oval, li^ by 1^.
2. Bobert Devereux, Earl of Essex ; slightly turned to left ; in a
black coat, blue riband. Oval, IJ by 1^. By Isaac Oliver
(signed I. 0.).
3. Thomas "Wentworth, Earl of Strafford ; three-quarter face to
right; in armour, with white collar and blue scarf. Oval,
U by 1 A-
4. Charles I.; an enamel from a portrait; long hair, moustache
and pointed beard ; in a red coat ; three-quarter to left ; wearing
a ru&; enamel; with corners cut ofP. 2 3^ by IJf.
5. KiCHARD Cromwell; in armour, white collar and long hair;
three-quarter to right. Oval, li^ by IJ.
6. Bobert, Earl of Essex ; longer beard than in No. 2, but same
position and same portrait ; violet background. By I, Oliver,
Oval, li by 1^.
7. A Man (unknown) ; wearing a black and gold coat and lace friU,
a taU hat, with moustache and pointed beard ; three-quarter to
left. Oval, U by 1^.
MINIATURES AT DEVONSHIRE HOUSE. 95
8. A Lady, with curls and a pearl necklace; three-quarter to right;
in a yellow dress. Oval, l^hy 1^.
9. "William Seymour, Eakl of Hertford; dark moustache and
beard and ruff; violet jacket; three-quarter to right. Born
1588; created Marquess of Hertford 1640; restored as Duke
of Somerset 1660; died 1660. Oval, 1^ by f .
10. A Man in armour and white collar, long hair; slightly to right.
By S, Cooper, 1652 (signed). Oval, 1^ by l^g^.
11. A Man, with powdered hair ; three-quarter to left, looking over
shoulder; in a blue coat. Oval, in square frame, A ^7 A J
oval, A by i.
12. A Man, with long dark hair, moustache and beard ; three-
quarter to left ; wearing embroidered coat with blue riband
of an order and a lace collar. Oval, l^y by J^.
13. A Man, with dark hair and moustache; slightly turned to the
left. Oval, A by i.
14. Queen Henrietta Maria ; slightly turned to the left ; in a black
and white costume. By /. Hoskins, Oval, 1 by f .
15. Richard Cromwell ; nearly the same as No. 5. Oval, l^ by 1^^.
16. Ivory Medallion Head of a Man with moustache and beard;
profile to left. Oval, If by 1^.
17. Louis XIII. (so named) ; long dark hair, moustache and pointed
beard; in a black and gold costume and lace collar; three-
quarter to right. Oval, in a square frame, J ; oval, f by 5^.
18. Oliver Cromwell ; a drawing unfinished ; profile to right. Oval,
19. Robert, Earl of Essex ; a contemporary copy of the miniatures
by Isaac Oliver (No. 2 and No. 6), possibly by Lady Lucas.
Oval, li by 1^.
20. Edward, Prince of "Wales, afterwards Edward VI.; full face,
wearing a red coat with gold sleeves, red hat with white feather.
Square^ 2 J by 1 A. By Peter Oliver, after the Holbein now in
Lady Yarborough's possession. Inscribed —
edwardus prinoeps filius henrioi octavi regis anglle.
21. Oliver Cromwell, in armour with white collar; slightly to left,
head turned to right over shoulder. Oval, 2^^ by 1 JJ. {Fine.)
By S. Cooper (signed).
22. The Archduke Albert ; dark hair, moustache and small pointed
beard ; high ruff and black coat and wearing a pendant jewel ;
three-quarter to right. Square, rounded comers, 1 Ji ^7 H*
23. Thomas Hobbes, of Malmesbury; aged 81, 1661; three-quarter
to right ; with moustache and pointed beard ; dressed in black,
with white collar, black skull cap. Oval, IfJ by 1^^. By /.
Hoskins,
24. George Yilliers, 1st Duke of Buckingham; in armour, white
collar ; three-quarter to right ; long wavy hair, moustache.
In tortoiseshell &ame. Oval, ^f by Jf .
96 MINIATURES AT DEVONSHIRE HOUSE.
25. A Lady, three-quarter face to left, with curls ; pearls in her hair
and wearing a pearl necklace and earrings; dressed in blue.
Enamel. Oval, ^ by ^f .
Case VI.
1. A Man ; three-quarter face to right ; wearing a queue and
dressed in blue and white. Oval, 1 A by l^g-
2. A Man ; three-quarter face to right ; dark hair and slight
whiskers ; in black uniform with epaulettes and blue riband of
an order. Oval, li^ by 1^.
3. Mabie Antoinette ; nearly full face ; curly hair ; in a blue and
white costume. Oval, 1^ by 1^.
4. Lord John Cavendish ; turning to left ; nearly full face ; in a
violet coat. Brother of the 4th Duke of Devonshire; died
unmarried 19th December, 1796. By Gervase Spencer, after
Sir J. Beynolds, Oval, 1 J by J^.
5. Kachel, Duchess of Devonshire; turned slightly to left, look-
ing to the right over her left shoulder. In white, with roses in
her hair. She was elder daughter of "William, Lord Eussell,
and sister to Wriothesley, 2nd Duke of Bedford. She was
bom January, 1 674 ; married 2 1 st June, 1 688, "William, 2nd Duke
of Devonshire, and she died 28th December, 1725. Oval, 2 by If.
6. A Man ; three-quarter to right ; in long wig, red coat and white
scarf. Oval, If by IJ.
7. A Man ; turned to the left, but looking nearly full face ; in wig ;
in a red gold-laced coat, white scarf. Oval, If by Jf .
8. Geoegiana, Duchess of Devonshire ; in white ; slightly to the
right ; nearly full face. Oval, 3^ by 2^. By B, Gosway {fine).
9. Blue Medallion Head of a Man; profile to left; a sort of
stone. Oval, 1^ by 1^.
10. The Hon"^"- Mrs. George Lamb; as a child; standing with
hands in attitude of prayer ; in a white dress, with blue sash ;
head turned slightly to right and upwards. .She was Caroline
Kosalie Adelaide de St. Jules (sister to Admiral Sir Augustus
Clifford) and she married 17th May, 1809, Hon^^«. George
Lamb. Oval, 2^ by 1^.
11. "William, 4th Duke of Devonshire ; in small wig ; violet coat ;
three-quarter to right. Born 1720 ; married 28th March,
1748; died 2nd October, 1764. By Gervase Spencer, Oval,
l*rby|.
12. Lady ; slightly to right ; wearing a pearl necklace ; in a pink
dress. By Gervase Spencer, Oval, IJ by 1^.
13. Lady, three-quarter to right ; in a pink and white costume^
flowers in her hair. Oval, 2f by 2.
14. A Man, looking slightly to left, nearly full face ; dressed in a
military red costume. Oval, If by l^^.
15. A IjAdy, nearly fuU face, face slightly turned to left; dark hair
and a long curl ; low cut blue gown. Oval, If by 1^.
PICTURES At BUXTED PARK, SUSSEX. 97
CATALOGUE OF PICTUEES AT BUXTED PAEK,
Formerly in the Possession of the Right Honble. the Earl of
Liverpool and now in that of the Honble. Henry
Berkeley Portman.
1903.
Dining Boom.
East Wall.
L Anne, Lady Shuckburqh, wife of Sir Charles Shuckburgh, 5th
Baronet. She was the daughter of Mr. Bobinson, of Covent
Garden, and widow of Campbell Price, of Westbury, co. Bucks,
Esq. She married Sir Charles Shuckburgh on 5th May, 1749,
and died s.p. 8th October, 1 776, aged 57 ; buried at Shuckburgh.
2. The three daughters of Charles Cecil Cope, third and last Earl of
Liverpool, as children, viz. :
1. Catherine Julia, bom 23rd July, 1811 ; afterwards
married, 20th November, 1837, to Colonel Francis
Yernon Harcourt, and who died s.p. 5th December,
1877. Colonel Harcourt died 23rd April, 1880.
2. Selina Charlotte, bom 3rd July, 1812 ; married, firstly,
15th August, 1833, William Charles, Viscount Milton,
who died 8th November, 1835, and by whom she had
an only daughter, afterwards Viscountess Portman.
She married, secondly, 28th August, 1845, George
Savile Foljambe, of Osberton, co. Notts, and Aldwark,
CO. York, Esq., and had, with other children, a son and
heir, now Lord Hawkesbury. Lady Milton died 24th
September, 1883.
3. Louisa Harriet, born 28th March, 1814; married, 5th
September, 1839, John Cotes, Esq., of Woodcote,
Salop. She died 5th February, 1887.
Full length. By Harlow ^ who died in 1819, before finishing it ;
the dog and foreground by Jackson,
South Wall
3. Anne Evelyn, younger daughter of James Evelyn, Esq., of
Felbridge, co. Surrey, and his only child by his second wife.
She was bom 18th December, 1767, and died unmarried April,
1790, being accidentally burnt to death, and was buried at
Godstone 21st April, 179C. By G. Bomney, B,A*
4. Jane, second wife of James Evelyn, Esq., of Felbridge, daughter
of Sir Bichard Cust, of Belton, in Lincolnshire ; and widow of
Francis Fane, of Fulbeck, in the same county. She married
James Evelyn, as his second wife, on 8th May, 1761, and died
without surviving issue 17th November, 1791. By Zoffany,
XLVII. H
08 PICTURES AT BUXTED PARK, SUSSEX.
5. Chables Cecil Cope, 3rd and last Earl of Liverpool,* G.C.B.,
bom 29th May, 1784. Page of Honour to George HI. Served
in the Royal Navy 1794-97, and fought in several naval actions,
including Lord Howe's victory of the Ist June, 1794. After-
wards attached to the Embassy at Vienna, of which he was
temporarily in charge in 1803-4, and later served as a
volunteer in the Austrian Army and fought at Austerlitz.
Held variousposts as Under Secretary of State in his brother's
Ministry. Was Lord Steward of the Household to Queen
Victoria, 1841-46, and died at Buxted 3rd October, 1851. A
small portrait.
Over the Fireplace.
6. EoBERT Baxkes, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, K.G., son and heir of
Charles, 1st Earl, by his first wife Amelia, daughter of Wm.
"Watts, Esq., Governor of Fort "William, in Bengal. He was
bom 7th June, 1770; married, firstly, 25th March, 1795, Lady
Louisa Theodosia Hervey, third daughter of Frederick Augustus,
4th Earl of Bristol and Bishop of Derry. She dying 12th June,
1821, he married, secondly, 24th September, 1822, Mary, sixth
daughter of Charles Chester, Esq., formerly Bagot, brother of
William, 1st Lord Bagot. He held many high offices of State,
being successively Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Home
Department, again Foreign Affairs and afterwards for the
Colonial and War Department, and was finallj- First Lord of the
Treasury and Prime Minister for fifteen years, continuously from
1812 to 1827, a tenure of office only exceeded in length, in
modem times, by the younger Pitt, and which was only brought
to a close by an attack of paralysis in February, 1827, which
obliged him to resign in April of that year, and from which he
never completely recovered, though he lingered nearly two years,
and sui*vived his successor, Mr. Canning, by sixteen months. He
died 4th December, 1828, and leaving no issue, was succeeded
by his half-brother. Three-quarter length. By Sir Thos.
Lawrence. There is a similar portrait in the Waterloo Gallery
at Windsor Castle, and another at Ickworth.
7. Sir George Augustus William Shuckburgh-Evelyn, 6th Baronet,
eldest son of Colonel Richard Shuckburgh, of the 1st (or
Grenadier) Guards, by Sarah, daughter and heiress of Captain
John Hayward, R.N. He was bom 23rd August, 1751, suc-
ceeded his uncle. Sir Charles, 10th August, 1773. Was M.P.
for Warwickshire in four successive Parliaments, from 1780 till
his death on 1 1th August, 1804. He was noted as a mathema-
tician and astronomer. Half length. By /. Hoppner, B.A,
* No. 5. This small portrait of Lord Liverpool, by WinterhalteTf was presented
by H.M. Queen Victoria to Lady Catherine Vernon Harcourt, and on the frame is
this inscription :
^'Charles Cecil Cope,
Eahl of Litbrpool, G.C.B.,
THE GIFT OF HeB MaJBSTY
Queen Victoria,
Aro»- 1852."
PICTURES AT BUXTED PARK, SUSSEX. 99
8. John Stuaut, 3rd Earl of Bute,' K.G., and the Eight Honble.
Chakles Jekkihson, afterwards 1st Loid Hawkeabury and lat
Earl of Liverpool. Small full length. By G. P. Harding,
in 1817, after the picture by Sir Joshua Beynolds, painted in
1763. Lord Bute, then Firat Lord of the Treasury and Prime
MiniBter, is represented standing, in a blue velvet coat, wearing
the riband and star of the Garter, and Gharies Jenkinson, then
Financial Secretary of the Treasury, in a red coat standing by
9. Jdlia Annabella, Lady Shuckbuhqii.Evelyn, elder daughter and
eventually sole heiress of James Evelyn, Esq., of Felbridge, co.
Surrey, and his only child by his flret wife, Annabella Medley,
sister to George Medley, of Buxted, Esq., whose heiress Lady
Shuckburgh became. She was born 7th January, 1 757, married
at St. Margaret's, Westminster, 6th October, 1785, aa his second
wife. Sir George Shuckburgh, 6th Baronet abovo-mentioHed,who,
on the death of her father, James Evelyn, took the additional name
of Evelyn in 1791. She died Hth September, 1797, leaving an
only daughter and heir, who married the Hon''''. C. C. C,
Jonkinson, afterwards 3rd Earl of Liverpool.
West Walt.
10. Qeokoe Medley, Esq,, of Busted Place, and also of Priston Place
and Coaeyburrows Park, all in co. Sussex, to which estates he
Bueeeeded on the deaths of his elder brothers; fourth and last
surviving son of Thomas Medley of those places, who died at
Friston 28th November, 1732, by Annabella, his wife, daughter
and co-heir of Sir Samuel Dashwood, Kn'., Lord Mayor of
London, by Anne, his wife, daughter and co-heir of John Smith,
of Tedworth, co. Hants, Speaker of the House of Commons,
He was bom 6th August, 1720, and was, when young, engaged
in the wine trade at Lisbon, suffering considerable losses in the
great earthquake of 1755. After succeeding to his brother's
estates in 1751, he was M.P. for Seaford 1768 to 1780, and for
East Grinstead from 1783 to 1790. He married, firstly, 2nd
June, 1757, Elizabeth Jemima, second daughter of Sir Thomas
Palmer, of Carleton, co. Northants, Baronet, who died the same
month, being buried at Buxted SOih June, and, secondly, 8th
November, 1762, Jane, sole daughter and heir of Sir Timothy
' No. 8. Jolm Stuart, 3rd Eotl of Bute, was born iu Parliament Sq^uftre, Editt-
biirgh, 25tli May, 1713. Was Prime Miniator 28th May, 1762, to 15th April, 1763,
and died in London lOth March, 1799, iDtiiH7!)th year. He married, 24tb Aasuat,
1736, Mary, only daughter ot Edwaid WorOey Montagu, of Wortley, co. York,
by Lady Mary, daughter of Evelyn Pierrepont, lat DiJte of Kingston, the well-
known Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Their son waa the lat Marquesa ot Bute.
Charlea Jenkinson naa the eldest son of Colonel Charles Jeukioeon, of the Itoyal
Horse Guards (Blues), who fought aa second in command at Dettiugen, and com-
manded them at Pontenoy, wliere he greatly distiuguished himself by his gallant
conduct. Colonel JeuMnsou waa third aon of Sir Robert Jenkinson, 2ud Baronet,
and his son Charles, after becoming a Peer, succeeded to tlie old baronetcy as 7th
Baronet. He was bom 2eth Arail, 1727, waa created 2lBt August, 1786, Lord
Hawkeabury, and lat June, 1796, Eailof LiTerpool. He died 17th December, 1808.
100 PICTURES AT BUXTED PARK, SUSSEX.
"Waldo, Kn*., of Clapham, Surrey, and Catherine, his wife. He
died without issue Ist June, 1796, his niece, Lady Shuckburgh-
Evelyn, being his sole heiress. Three-quarter length. By
G» Bomney, B,A,
11. James Evelyn, Esq., of Felbridge, co. Surrey, LL.D., only
surviving son of Edward Evelyn, of that place, and JuHa, his
wife. He was born 17th July, 1718 ; married, firstly, 1st May,
1755, Annabella, daughter of Thomas, and sister (and in her
issue sole heir) of George Medley, of Buxted, Friston and
Coneyburrows. She died 23rd December, 1758, leaving an only
daughter, afterwards Lady Shuckburgh. He married, secondly,
8th May, 1761, Jane, daughter of Sir Eichard Cust, and widow
of Francis Fane, of Fulbeck, and by her had a daughter, who
was accidentally burnt. He died 11th July, 1793; buried at
Godstone. Three-quarter length, in a red Doctor's gown, with
a stick in his hand. View of Felbridge Park in the back-
ground, showing the obelisk he erected to the memory of his
father and mother. Painted by G. Bomney^ B.A., in 1788.
North Wall {between the windows)*
12. Colonel Eichard Shuckburgh, of the 1st (or Grenadier) Guards,
father of Sir George Shuckburgh-Evelyn, 6th Baronet, and
brother of Sir Charles Shuckburgh, 5th Baronet, being
second son of Charles Shuckburgh, of Longborough, co.
Glouc, who was eldest son by his second wife of Sir Charles
Shuckburgh, 2nd Baronet. He was bom 6th March, 1728;
married 6th February, 1750, Sarah, daughter and heir of
Captain John Hay ward, E.N., of Plumstead, near Woolwich.
He died 3rd September, 1772.
13. The Eight Eev. John Jenkinson, Bishop of St. David's. He
was the second son of Colonel John Jenkinson, younger brother
of Charles, 1st Earl of Liverpool, and was bom 2nd September,
1781 ; married 8th April, 1813, Frances Augusta, third daughter
of Augustus Pechell, Esq., of Berkhampstead, Herts. He
entered the Church and in 1808 was appointed a Prebendary
of and, in 1817, Dean of Worcester. In 1825 he was appointed
Bishop of St. David's and in 1827 also Dean of Durham. He
died at Malvern 6th July, 1840, and was buried in Worcester
Cathedral. His son, George, succeeded as 11th Baronet on the
death of his uncle. Sir Charles, 10th Baronet, in 1855, whp had
succeeded the 3rd Earl of Liverpool, who was 9th Baronet.
Hall.
West Side,
14. Edward Medley, Esq., third son of Thomas Medley, Esq., of
Buxted and Friston, by Annabella, daughter and co-heir of
Sir Samuel Dashwood, Lord Mayor of London. He was bom
in 1719 and after the deaths of his elder brothers, Thomas and
Samuel, both unmarried, succeeded to Buxted and Friston in
HCTtJKES AT BUXTED- Pa*K^.8USS^; ; ; i"Ql*. .
• - • .• •. ••• •
1741. He died at Friston Place 16th August, 1751, unmarried,
and was buried at Buxted 24th August, 1751. Half length, in
brown coat. By A, Bamsay, 1742.
15. Sir Charles Shuckburgh, 5th Baronet, third but eldest surviving
son of Charles Shuckburgh, of Longborough, co. Gloucester,
by Sarah, daughter and eventually heir of Colonel Henry
Hunt, of Blockley, co. Worcester, which Charles, of Long-
borough, was eldest son, by his second wife, of Sir Charles
Shuckburgh, 2nd Baronet. He was bom 1722; married 5th
May, 1749, Anne, daughter of Mr. Eobinson and widow of
Campbell Price, Esq. He succeeded to the Baronetcy on the
death, unmarried, of his first cousin, Sir Stewkley, 4th Baronet,
6th March, 1759, and he died s.p. 10th August, 1773. Half
length, in blue.
East Side,
16. Catherine Medley, second and youngest daughter of Thomas
Medley, Esq., and Annabella, daughter and co-heir of Sir
Samuel Dashwood. She was bom 1723 and died unmarried
1787, being buried at Buxted, 9th October, 1787. Half length,
in pink, ^j Knapton, 1751,
17. Annabella Medley, elder daughter of Thomas Medley, Esq.,
and Annabella, daughter and co-heir of Sir Samuel Dashwood,
and in her issue sole heir of her brother, George Medley. She
was born 1718; married at St. George's, Hanover-square, Ist
May, 1755, as his first wife, James Evelyn, Esq., of Felbridge,
CO. Surrey, and died 23rd December, 1758 ; buried at Godstone.
Her only child was afterwards Lady Shuckburgh -Evelyn.
Half length, in white and blue. By Knapton, 1751.
In the Hall is a Bust of
Colonel Francis Yernon Harcourt, the husband of Lady Catherine
Julia Jenkinson, eldest daughter and co-heir of the 3rd Earl of
Liverpool, to whom he was married 20th November, 1837.
She died s.p. 5th December, 1877, leaving Buxted to her niece,
Mary Selina Charlotte, afterwards Viscountess Portman, with
remainder to her second surviving son, &c. Colonel Harcourt
died 23rd April, 1880.
Over the fireplace on the east side of the Hall are the
arms of Medley, arg, two bars gemmelles and in chief three
mullets sable, impaling Dashwood, arg, on a fesse double
cotized gules, three griffins' heads erased or ; with the Medley
crest above, viz., on a wreath arg. and sable, a tiger sejant
vert tufted and maned or. Over the fireplace on the west side
of the Hall are the arms of Medley, as above mentioned,
quarterly with those of Eeynes of Coneyburrows, Ohequy or and
gules a canton ermine, over all on a bend azure a g^riffin's head
erased or between two birds arg. Above the arms is the crest
of Medley, as before mentioned. On the chairs in the Hall are
the arms of Medley and Eeynes quarterly, with Medley crest
above.
,lQa : : Pi6rtri^?s; iL? dbuxTED park, Sussex.
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On the left of the Library Door,
18. Thomas Medley, Esq., of Buxted, Friston, and (jure uxoris) of
ConeybuiTOWs, all co. Sussex. He was born 1645 ; purchased
Friston in 1704 from the heirs of the Selwyn family, and
Buxted in 1722 from Humphrey Fowle. He married at
Barcombe 15th August, 1672, Susanna, daughter of Edward
Keynes, Esq., of Coney burrows, in that parish, and sister
and heiress of John Reynes, of that place. He was grand-
father of Edward Medley (No. 14), of George Medley (No.
10) and of Catherine and Annabella Medley (Nos. 16-17).
He died 23rd February, 1728. Three-quarter length, sitting
dressed in brown, with long wig, and holds in his hand a paper
on which is written, "Rental de Brede and Udemer," whilst at
the back is a bookcase, with books on two shelres, relating to
various Manors, the names of which are on their backs.
On the right of the Library Door,
19. Sir John Pbatt, Knt., of Wilderness, Lord Chief Justice of the
Court of Bang's Bench from the 15th May, 1718, till his death,
24th February, 172^. He was the son of Eichard Pratt, of
Standlake, co. Oxford, and grandson of Richard Pratt, of
Carswell Priory, near CoUumpton, co. Devon, and was bom in
1657. He bought in 1705 the Manor of Stidulfe's Place, which
he re-named Wilderness, in the parish of Seal, Kent, and he
further purchased in 1714 Bayham Priory, in the parish of
Frant, Sussex. He married, firstly, Elizabeth, daughter of Henry
Gregory, Rector of Middleton-Stoney, co. Oxford, and had by her
four daughters and five sons. He married, secondly, Elizabeth,
daughter of the Rev. Hugh Wilson, Canon of Bangor, and had by
her four sons and four daughters. Charles, his third son by his
second wife, was created in 1765 Baron Camden, and in 1786
Yiscount Bayham and Earl Camden. Sir John Pratt died at
his house in Great Ormonde Street, London, 24th February,
172 J. Three-quarter length, sitting in his robes.
In the Staircase Hall.
20. A Fallow Buck in Shuckburgh Park ; life-size. Below is this
inscription : ** Portrait of a buck six years old and of its full life
size in September, 1802, in the Park at Shuckburgh, Warwick-
shire. It weighed 24-lb. the haunch and was 6-ft. high from
the hoof to the top of the horn at the preceding Rutt."
21. Landscape, with buildings and figures. By Old Teniers. This
picture belonged to James Evelyn, of Felbridge, and came from
there.
22. Dead Game. By P. A, Bysbrack,
23. Landscape, with figures ; over the door to the offices.
24. Battle Piece. By Thos. Wyck,
PICTURES AT BUXTED PARK, SUSSEX. 103
On Staircase,
25. Landscape and Figures Eound a Draw "Well.
26. Mrs. Glover and Liston in ** The Spoilt Cliild."
27. Large Landscape, with figures and cattle.
Landing at Top of Staircase*
28. Portrait of a Man, said to be ** Marshal Saxe," but the dress is
of much earlier date.
29. King William III. and Queen Mary II., on one canvas, 60-in.
by 54-in. By Sir Q, Kneller,
30. Queen Anne; full length, 96-in. by 60-in. By Sir G, Kneller.
Upper Flight of Stairs.
31. Holy Family, &o. By Otto Van Ween.
Gallery Round Upper Part of Hall.
West Side.
32. Edward Evelyn, Esq., of Heath Hatch and Felbridge, co. Surrey,
third son of George Evelyn, of Nutfield, but eldest to leave male
issue, and became the representative of the Evelyns of Godstone.
He was born 1681 ; married 1713 Julia, daughter of James, 2nd
Duke of Ormonde; and died 20th November, 1751 ; buried at
Godstone. His son James erected an obelisk in Felbridge Park
to his memory. Three-quarter length; in red coat and long
wig ; cavalry engagement in the background ; 54-in. by 48-in.
33. Julia, Wife of Edward Evelyn, Esq., and daughter of James,
2nd Duke of Ormonde ; married the above Edward Evelyn 1713
and died 19th February, 1771; buried at Godstone. Three-
quarter length, sitting ; 54-in. by 48-in.
34. Mary, Duchess of Ormonde, second wife of James, 2nd Duke of
Ormonde, to whom she was married 3rd August, 1685. She was
the second, but eldest surviving daughter of Henry Somerset,
1st Duke of Beaufort, by Mary, daughter of Arthur, 1st Lord
Capel. She was born 1665 and died 19th November, 1733, and
was buried in Westminster Abbey 25th November. Three-
quarter length. By Van der Myn. 58-in. by 48-in.
35. James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde, K.G., grandson and heir
of James, 1st Duke, being son of the gallant Earl of Ossory;
was bom 29th April, 1665 ; succeeded his paternal grandmother
1684 as Lord Dingwall and his grandfather 1688 as Duke of
Ormonde. He was accused of Jacobite intrigues and was
impeached and attainted 1715, and he remained abroad in exile
for the remainder of his life. He married, firstly, 1 5th July, 1 682,
Anne, eldest daughter of Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Eochester,
who dying s.p. 25th January, 1684-5, he married, secondly, 3rd
August, 1685, Mary, second, but eldest surviving daughter of
Henry, 1st Duke of Beaufort. He died at Avignon ^^th
104 picrruRES at buxted park, sussex.
November, 1745, and was buried 22nd May, 1746, in "West-
minster Abbey. Three-quarter length, in armour. 58-in.
by 48-in.
Galleby on First Floor.
36. Medallion Portrait (in alto relievo) of Mrs. John Mordatjnt,
viz., Elizabeth Evelyn, third daughter of John Cotes, Esq., of
Woodcote, Salop, by Lady Louisa Harriet, his wife, third and
youngest daughter and co-heir of Charles Cecil Cope, 3rd Earl
of Liverpool. She married 15th May, 1866, John Murray
Mordaunt, second son of Sir John Mordaunt, 9th Baronet. By
TT. H. Thorneycroft
Billiard Eoom.
(Originally the Drawing Room.)
Sixteen Water-Colour Drawings, of which three are by Scott, viz. :
1. PiTCHFORD Hall.
2. Tintern Abbey. And
3. A Continental Market Place.
Four are by T. M, Bichardson, viz. :
4. A View in the Isle of "Wight.
5. ViCENZA.
6. A YiEW IN Italy. And
7. Loch Awe.
And the remaining nine are by Lady Catherine J, Vemon-Harcourt,
viz. :
8. An Aqueduct near Eome.
9. Pompeii and Mount Vesuvius.
10. The Parthenon at Athens.
11. Salzburg.
12. Athens with the Parthenon.
13. Corfu.
14. IsoLA Bella, Lake Como.
15. The Arch of Hadrian and Temple of Jupiter Ammon.
And
16. Beachy Head in a Storm, this last being a copy of one
by Copley Fielding, now at 2, Carlton House Terrace,
London
Also Four Engravings, viz. :
King George III.
3rd Duke of Dorset. By T. Hardy, after Sir J, Beynolds.
4th Duke of Dorset. By C Picart, Dublin, from a drawing
by Charles Bobertson.
Charles, 1st Lord Hawkesbury. Engraving after Bomney.
PICTURES AT BUXTED PARK, SUSSEX. 105
Saloon.
South Wall
37. Landscape with figures ; 52-in. by 39-iii.
38. Landscape with cavaliers, &c. ; 30-in. by 26-in.
West Wall,
39. Charles Mordaunt, 3rd Earl of Peterborough, K.Q-., nephew
and heir male of Henry, 2nd Earl, being son and heir of John
Mordaunt, 1st Yiscount Mordaunt of Avalon, by Elizabeth,
daughter and eventually sole heir of the Honourable Thomas
Carey, second son of Robert, 1st Earl of Monmouth. He was
born 1658 and was created 9th April, 1689, Earl of Monmouth,
succeeding as 3rd Earl of Peterborough 19th June, 1697. He
married, firstly {circa 1678), Carey, daughter of Sir Alexander
Eraser, Bart., and, secondly, Anastasia Robinson. He died in
his yacht off Lisbon 25th October, 1735, and was buried at
Turvey, 21st November, 1735, aged about 77. Three-quarter
length, in light blue coat, uniform of the Blues and ribbon of
the Garter. Colonel Charles Jenkinson entered the Blues under
his auspices. Painted by M, Dahl and signed M, Dahl, pinxitf
1 708, 64-in. by 48-in.
40. The Honble. Charles Cecil Cope Jenkinson, only son by his
second wife Catherine, fifth and youngest daughter of Sir Cecil
Bisshopp, Bart., of Parham, co. Sussex, of Charles, 1st Earl of
Liverpool ; born 29th May, 1 784 ; inherited Pitchford Hall and
other estates in Shropshire and Montgomeryshire under the
will of his cousin, the last Mr. Ottley of that place. Held
various posts as under-secretary in his half-brother's, the 2nd
Earl of Liverpool's, Ministry. Married 19th July, 1810, Julia
Evelyn Medley, only child and heir of Sir George A. W.
Shuckburgh-Evelyn, Bai-t., with whom he inherited the Sussex
and Surrey estates. Fourteen years after her death he
succeeded his half brother as 3rd Earl of Liverpool, and he
died 3rd October, 1851, at Buxted; buried there.
41. The Honble. Mrs. Cecil Jenkinson, viz., Julia Evelyn Medley
Shuckburgh-Evelyn, only daughter and heiress of Sir George
Augustus William Shuckburgh-Evelyn, Bart., by Julia Anna-
bella, his wife, only surviving daughter and heiress of James
Evelyn, Esq., of Felbridge, co. Surrey, by Annabella, his wife,
daughter of Thomas and sister and in her issue sole heir of
George Medley, Esq., of Buxted, Friston and Coneyburrows.
She was born 6th October, 1790; married 19th July, 1810, the
Honble. C. C. C. Jenkinson, and died 8th April, 1814, before he
succeeded to his brother's title, and she was buried at Pitchford
24th April, 1814.
42. Lady Borlase, viz., Alice, eldest daughter of Sir John Bankes,
of Corfe Castle and Kingston Lcwjy, co. Dorset, Lord Chief
Justice of Common Pleas, by Mary, his wife, daughter of Balph
Hawtrey, Esq., of Euislip, co. Middlesex. She married, 4th
106 PICTURES AT BUXTED PARK, SUSSEX.
December, 1637, Sir John Borlase, 1st Baronet, so created 4th
May, 1642. She died at Paris 16th November, 1683. Her
sister Mary was the wife of Sir Robert Jenkinson, 1st Baronet.
Three-quarter length, in white satin gown ; 65-in. by 52-in. A
replica of the full length, by Van Dyck, at Kingston Lacy, in
the possession of Ealph Bankes, Esqr.
43. A Fresh Breeze off Dover. By A, W, Callcott, B.A,f in 1821.
98-in. by 66-in. This picture has been engraved.
44. Landscape, with figures. 52-in. by 39-in.
Also a Miniature,
1. "William Charles "Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, Viscount Milton,
eldest son and heir of Charles William, 5th Earl Fitzwilliam,
K.G., by Mary, his wife, fourth daughter of Thomas, 1st Lord
Dundas, and Charlotte, his wife, eldest daughter of William, 3rd
Earl Fitzwilliam. He was born 18th January, 1812; married,
15th August, 1833, Selina Charlotte, second daughter and co-heir
of Charles Cecil Cope, 3rd Earl of Liverpool, and he died in his
father's lifetime, 8th November, 1835, at Wentworth Wood-
house. Three-quarter length. By Sir Wm. Boss,
Sitting Room.
Formerly Lady Catherine J. F. HarcourVs sitting room and now
Lady Portarlington^s.
The water-colours formerly in this room are now hung in the
billiard room, and in their place are now some water-colours brought
here by, and belonging to, Lady Portarlington, the wife of the Honble.
Henry Berkeley Portman, the present owner, and also some drawings by
Downman, &c. The water-colours now here are by Lady Hchester, E. A.
Howe, H. Lynch, K. Wyatt and G. Wynne. In the sitting room are the
following Miniatures belonging to Buxted :
2. Arabella Diana Cope, born 1769 (afterwards Duchess of Dorset),
and Catherine Anne Cope, bom 1771 (afterwards Countess of
Aboyne) as children. By B, Cosway, B,A,y 1 787. They were the
daughters of Sir Charles Cope, 2nd Baronet, of Brewerne, co.
Oxon., and Orton Longueville, co. Hunts., by Catherine, fifth
daughter of Sir Cecil Bisshopp, 6th Baronet, of Parham, Sussex,
whose second husband was Charles, 1st Earl of Liverpool.
3. Julia Evelyn Medley Shuckburgh - Evelyn, only child and
heiress of Sir George A. W. Shuckburgh-Evelyn, Bart.; bom 5th
October, 1790 ; died 8th April, 1814. In white, with pink sash
and ribbon and cap, and holding a brown dog. A view of
Shuckburgh in the background. By Edridge, in 1793, at the
age of three years.®
4. H.E.H. Augusta, Princess of Wales. Believed to have been
given by her to Charles, 1st Earl of Liverpool, who was
Treasurer of her Household.
^ I understand that this miniature is not now here.
PICTURES AT BUXTED PABK, SUSSEX. 107
5. Her Majesty Queen Victoria. By Sir William Boss. Given
by Her Majesty to Lady Catherine J. Yemon Harcourt.
6. Her Majesty Queen Victoria. Miniature in a brooch, by Sir
W. Boss, Also given by Her Majesty to Lady Catherine J.
Vernon Harcourt.
7. Charles Cecil Cope, 3rd Earl of Liverpool, G.C.B. Miniature
in a bracelet, by Sir William Boss,
8. Selina Charlotte, Viscountess Milton, in her first widowhood.
Three-quarter length, sitting. By Sir William Boss.
Also three in one frame.
9. Pope Leo X.
10. Erasmus, of Eotterdam.
11. Cardinal Richelieu.
There are also eight in another frame.
12. King Henry VIH.
13. Queen Elizabeth.
14. King James I.
15. King Charles I.
16. King Charles II.
17. King James II.
18. Queen Mary II.
19. Queen Anne.
In the Library are no pictures, and in the adjoining room, now the
Smoking Eoom, is a large oil paintiog of the 3rd Lord Liverpool's
favourite retriever, viz. :
45 Dart, a retriever belonging to the 3rd Earl of Liverpool, painted
by T. S. Cooper y 1840. Besides which there is a picture of two
black spaniels, one of a horse, and sixteen water-colour drawings
and coloured CDgraviags in this room.
In the room at the top of the Staircase, formerly Colonel Harcourt's
dressing room, are three pastel copies by Catherine, Countess of Ahoyne
(half-sister of the 3rd Lord Liverpool), viz. : A Madonna ; Emma, Lady
Hamilton, after Beynolds ; and Emma, Lady Hamilton, after Bomney ;
and two smaller pastels by her. Also engravings of H.E.H. Princess
Victoria, H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent and Princess Victoria, and of
H.M. Queen Victoria, and three other small pictures.
In the lobby outside are two water-colour drawings, viz. : Buxted
and Pitchford, by /. F. Dukes, in 1809.
In the room, formerly Lady Catherine Harcourt's bedroom, are
water-colour drawings, by Chassereau, of the Interior of Buxted Church
and of the Tower of Newick Church, Sussex, and twelve other small
pictures.
In the Dressing Eoom are twelve small pictures.
108 PICTURES AT BUXTED PARK, SUSSEX.
In the Adjoining Bedroom.
46. The Honble. Mary Selina Charlotte Wentworth-Fitz-
william; aged 7. Pastel by Moine, 1843.
And four pastel copies by Catherine^ Countess of Aboyne^ ** The
Fortune Teller, after Sir Joshua Reynolds; "The Elements" and
two others. Also an oil painting of a child with a bird's nest.
In the Dressing Eoom are seven engravings.
In the Duchess of Kent's room four engravings.
In the Queen's room eighteen drawings, engravings, &c., including
the present Viscount Portman, after Goj^e ; Viscountess Portman, after
Cojpe ; and the late Earl of Dalkeith.
In the North-east Bedroom are eight engravings, and in the
Dressing Eoom seven engravings, but no portraits.
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110 EABL EOGER DE MONTGOMERY
Roger de Montgomery at the Battle of Hastings/ where,
according to the Roman de Rou of Master Wace, he slew
a gigantic Englishman, who had caused something like a
panic among the Norman knights. The passage in Wace,
translated, reads as follows :
The Normans were playing their part well, when an English knight
came rushing up, having in his company a hundred men furnished with
various arms. He wielded a northern hatchet, with the blade a full
foot long, and was well armed after his manner, being tall, bold and
of noble carriage. In the front of the battle, where the Normans
thronged most, he came bounding on, swifter than the stag, many
Normans falling before him and his company. He rushed straight
upon a Norman who was armed and riding upon a war horse, and tried
with his hatchet of steel to cleave his helmet : but the blow miscarried,
and the sharp blade glanced down before the saddle-bow, driving
through the horse's neck down to the ground, so that both horse and
master fell together to the earth. I know not whether the Englishman
struck another blow. But the Normans who saw the stroke were
astonished and about to abandon the assault, when EogierdeMontgomeri
came galloping up with his lance set, and heeding not the long-handled
axe which the Englishman wielded aloft, struck him down and left him
stretched upon the ground. Then Rogier cried out, "Frenchmen,
strike ! The day is ours ! " And again a fierce mel6e was to be seen,
with many a blow of lance and sword : the English still defending
themselves, killing the horses and cleaving the shields.
Mr. Freeman, who accepts the view that Earl Roger
fought at Hastings, embodies this incident in his account
of the famous battle {Hist, of the Norman Conquest^ Vol.
III., p. 494). He says,— ^' This account (Wace, 13387—
13423) is worth notice.'' Our learned Hon. Member, Mr.
J. H. Round, is neutral upon the moot point whether or
no Roger was present at the battle, but Sir Henry Howorth
took the opposite view in a controversy with Mr. Freeman
in the Academy many years ago, and I have reason to
believe that he remains of the same opinion, taking his
stand upon certain statements in Ordericus Vitalis.
It is beside my purpose to rest anything upon the dis-
puted fact of Koger's presence at Hastings. Where
such learned doctors disagree it would indeed be
folly to be wise. Nevertheless, it is quite conceivable
1 William's host was in three divisions : the left, Bretons and Poitevins, under
Alan of Brittany ; the right, mercenary French, Boulogne and Pois, under Roger
de Montgomery ; and the centre, the flower of the Normans, under Duke William.
— Freeman's Gorman Conquest, Vol. III., p. 459.
AND TOE BATTLE OF HASTINGS. Ill
that, as in the case of a certain exalted personage, who,
from much talking, persuaded himself that he had taken
part in the Battle of Waterloo,- — so Earl Roger may have
come to believe that he fought at Hastiogs ; or others,
willing to do him honour, may have credited him with
deeds of valour performed at a fight tliat he actually was
never present at.
Whichever view we may elect to take, the circum-
stantial account in Wace would be accepted as true by
most people who lived when his Roman de Rou became
generally known, and would be quite good enough
" history" to warrant the depiction of such an incident as
Roger's deed of valour upon the wall of a church of which
he had been the founder.
Anyway, the painting at Claverley is of late twelfth
century date, and bears a striking resemblance to the
famous Bayeux Tapestry.^ It is about 50-ft. long by 5-ft.
broad, and contains within scroll borders fourteen figures
of knights, mostly wearing mascled or quilted armour
and carrying peunoned lances, swords and short kite-
shaped shields. The combatants, who are fighting in
groups of twos and threes, are divided by conventional
trees, and one of them is shewn in the act of bearing to
the ground with his lance a gigantic figure, legs in air
and head downwards, whose lance is broken with the
shock of his fall. No figure of saint or angel occurs to
give a religions significance to this strip of painting,
although, in marked contrast, the spandrils of the arcade
below are painted with nimbed saints and angels. A full
account of this remarkable painting, with coloured illus-
trations by myself, will be found in the Joui-nal of the
Royal Archmologicfil Institute, March, 1903.
Since the above was communicated to our Hon.
Editors, Mr. W. H. St. John Hope, Assistant Secretary
to the Society of Antiquaries, lias read a paper upon
these paintings before the Royal Archasological Institute,
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112 EAEL EOGEE DE MONTGOMERY.
which paper has been published in the latter part of the
same volume (LX.) of the Institute's Journal as my own
appeared in. In this paper Mr. Hope (who has not seen
the actual paintings) disputes the probability of an event
in secular history being represented upon the walls of a
church, and proposes, as an alternative explanation of the
subject, '' The Conversion of Saul." In so doing, Mr.
Hope ignores the fact that a succession of combats is
going on all along the strip of wall on which the
paintings appear, only a part of which is represented on
my drawings. And he does not touch the weighty fact
that the Bayeux Tapestry itself was wont to be hung
round the nave of the Cathedral on certain high days —
thus giving a very good precedent for a like painting of
secular character appearing on the wall of an P^nglish
church.« p. M. J.
* In the inventory of tl^e ornaments of the Cathedral of Bayeux, taken in the
year 147ft, the famous needlework is thus referred to: ^^ Item. — Une tente tres
longue et 6troite de telle k broderie de ymages et escripteaulx faisans representa-
tion du conquest d'Angleterre, laquelle est tendue environ la nef de I'^glise le
jour et par les octaves des Reliques.'* [At this date the feast of the ReHcs was
kept on the Ist July.] Mr. F. R. Fowke, in his work, The Bayeux Tapestry,
considers that Odo, Bishop of Bayeux and the Conqueror's half-brother, "who,
as bishop, alone had power to display a profane history in a S€icred edifice," was
the donor of the actual tapestry.
THE CHICHESTER INQUEST OF 1212.
Bt J. H. ROUND, M.A., Hon. Mem
In my paper on "The Great Inquest of Service" in
1212 I have shown that it included returns from the
towns, though of hardly any of these are the contents
known to us. From internal evidence I place among
them " The Verdict of the Citizens of Chichester on the
Inquest held by the King's Writ " {Testa de Nevill,
p. 227), which consists of eight paragraphs.
In one of them we find the curious allegation that
Hubert Walter, Archbishop of Canterbury, in the last
two years of his justiciarship (1196-1198), had deprived
the city of Chichester of the port of Wittering which
had always belonged to Chiehester since the Conquest
of England, and had accounted to the city for all dues.*
This would seem to imply that in the twelfth century
Chichester used Wittering, at the mouth of the harbour,
as a port.
Of more interest to me is the grievance of the citizens
in another direction, for it seems to illustrate one of the
most difficult of the great returns of knight's fees in 1166,
namely, that for the Honour of Arundel." This return
is made in a very unusual form. It begins with tlie
record of the knight service due from the Honour made,
as Mr. Ey ton held,' and as I also believe, under Henry I.,
and it then goes on to say that " King Henry gave out of
his demesne what the Earl subjected to knight service,
namely." Then follow eight entries of "land" given
' " H. Contuar', archiepiscopuB duobus poatremia anuia quibus fuit juaticiarios
Uomiiii Regis nbatulit a ciTitata Ciceatr' portum de Wemg'os qui a coaquestu
AagV semper fuit pertinons ad ciritatem Cicestr" et de omuibUB consaet' rospondebat
oivitati." I aasunie that "Werrig'es" was Wittering, the "Westringes" o£
Domesday.
' Red Book of tlie ExcJieqver, pp. 201-2.
' Hee, S.A.C., Vol. XXVU,, p. 28.
114 THE CHICHESTER INQUEST OF 1212.
by the King and of its knight-service under the Earl.
Finally come a few enfeoffments in other lands by the
Earl himself.
Now the interpretation I have always placed upon this
document is this : the Honour came, we know, into the
hands of Henry I. by the forfeiture of the house of
Belesme and so continued till his death in 1135; while
it was thus in his hands he made certain grants out of it,
but afterwards, on William de Albini, Earl of Arundel,
obtaining possession of it he converted the tenures of the
lands so granted into knight-service. This view is in strict
accordance with the actual succession to the Honour.*
The statements in the Chichester Inquisition confirm,
I think, my view, for they distinctly assert that it was
Henry I. who made grants of land. It begins by stating
that ^^ 'Martinesg[ra]ve' and ^Draieton' and 'Shape-
wike' and the King's barn (Orrea Regis) and Egelie, in
the time of Henry I.,^ belonged to the city of Chichester,
so that the reeves of Chichester received the gafol
and took it to the exchequer, and now they receive
nothing." Here we have Shopwick (or Shopwick EagleV®
Groves and Drayton in Oving; and we read that ^^tne
same King Henry gave ten librates of land to Reginald
Hareng, of which Shopwick counted as five, ten in
Drayton to William ' Conanus,' and ten in ' Martines-
g[ra] ve ' to William ' de Fraxino.' " '^ Now, the return of
kniglit service in 1166 confirms this statement by
including among the lands granted by King Henry : —
Terram Reginaldi Harengi ;
Terram Alani filii Conani ;
TeiTam de Fresne.
These holdings became each of them a knight's fee.
* Mr. Hubert Hall, however, the editor of the Red Book, when I used to discuss
the point with him, maintained that King Henry II., not King Henry I., was
referred to throughout in the return, though it is difficult to see how the King can
have dealt with the Honour while it was not in his, but in the Earl's hands.
Compare his remarks in the Preface, pp. ccvii-ccviii.
* " Henrici senioris," the regular phrase.
* We read in Horsfield's history of the county that it was so called as being
held **of the Honour of the Eagle," which is obviously absurd. The name
** Egelie '* supplies the clue.
7 ** De Fraxino ** was Latin for ** de Freene.'*
THE CHICHESTER INQUEST OF 1212. 115
Tlie Calendar of Charter Rolls (recently published)
enables uh to carry the story in the case of " Martines-
g[ra]ve" one step further. By a charter of 9th Nov.,
1234, the King grants to William de Picheford and hia
heirs land in " La Grave," late held by William de
Fraxino, a Norman, of the fee of Arundel, which the
said William previously held of the King's bail, to hold
by rendering the service due to the lords of the fee until
the King restore it to the right heirs of his free will or
by a peace. A few yeai-s later the land was so restored,
for a charter of 24th November, 1238, grants to John de
Gatesden (who was accumulating a great estate in Sussex)
of the gift which WilKam de Fraxino, a Norman, whom
the King has taken into his peace, made to the said John,
with the King's license, at Woodstock, of a carucate of
land in " La Grave," which land the King has restored
to the said William as his right and inheritance on the 21st
November, 23 Henry III., at Woodstock; the said John
is to hold the land of the said William, &c., &c.
We then turn to the Testa de Nevill (p. 229), where
we read accordingly : " Willelmus de Fraxino dimidium
feodum in Martinesg[ra3ve ; val' s lib.; modo Johannes
de Gatesden." Finally, a charter of 8th May, 1246,
grants to the prior and convent of Boxgrove a carucate
of land in the town of la Grave, which they have of the
gift of John de Gatesden, and whicli the said John had
of the gift of William do Fraxino, a Norman, &c., &c.*
As Groves in Oving is known to have been given to
Boxgrove Priory there can now be no question of
its identity with " La Grave," and therefore with
" Martinesgrave." The editor of the Calendar of
Charter Rolls has wrongly identified " La Grave "
with Boxgrove itself, of which the name, of course, is
at least as old as Domesday.
" CaUndar of Charier Rolh, Vol. I., p. 293.
THE COVEETS.
Paet II.
By the Eev. canon J. H. COOPEE, Vicar of Cuckfield.
John, 1472-1503. — John, the son of William and Anne
Covert, was born in 1472, married Isabel, only daughter
of Sir John Pelham, of Laughton, and Alice Lewknor/
and died in 1503. He left three daughters — Anne, born
in 1497, the wife of George Blennerhasset, of Barsham,
Suffolk;^ Elizabeth, born in 1500, married in 1520 to
William Goring,® of Burton, Gentleman of the Privy-
Chamber to Edward VI.; and Dorothea, born in 1501.
The inscription on his brass at Slaugham is: '^ Orate pro
anima Johis Covert armigeri filii Willm Covert, armigeri,
qui quidem Johannes obiit vi die Augusti a.d. 1503.
Cujus animae propicietur Deus. Amen." He is figured
in full armour under a canopy ; one shield (of the Covert
arms) alone remains out of four. His will (proved 20th
March, 1503)* desires that he should be buried in the
chauncell of the church of Slaugham, and leaves ''to
moder [cathedral]" church xx^, to the high altar of
Slaugham xv*, to the curat of the same church v*, to the
parson of Slaugham xviii^ iv* which I ought to the old
parson, to the churchwardens 10^ which I owe to them
for the use of the church . . . Every one of the
1 Collins* Peerage, Vol. V., p. 3. S,A.C., Vol. III., p. 215.
2 Son and heir of Sir Thomas Blennerhasset, of Barsham. Their only child,
Mary, married Thomas, son of Richard Cnlpeper, of Wakehurst (Suffolk Visit,
of 1561), and, secondly, Francis Bacon. She died 1587 and has a monument in
Frense Church. (Blomfield's Norfolk.)
8 She was the mother of Sir Henry Goring, and of George Goring of Danny.
For her remarkable brass at Burton see Mr. Andre's paper, Archceological Journal,
Vol. LVII., p. 309, and S.A.C., Vol. XXXVI., p. 178. It is inscribed, " Elizabeth
Goringe wife of y® same Sir William, and doughter of John Covert of Slaugham,
dyed 1558 and lyethe here entombed.**
* P.C.C, Holgrave, f. 3, 18 HenrylVII.
THE COVERTS.
servants in my house to have v" above their wages to
pray for my father's sowle and mine . . . My executors
to procure 2 honest preatys to sing for my father's sowle
and mine for the space of 3 years . . . To Anne my
mother all movabill goods within my house, except I
will to Isabel my wife my second best bedd and all that
belongeth to the same, the apparell of the second best
chamber, a salt of silver-gilt with the cover . . . To
tlie daughters of Berkeley " xvii' vi* which I owe them,
to a woman in Horsham which kept Berkeley when he
lay sick xi" vi^ — the residue to Anne my mother, and
Richard my cosin, whom I make my executors. As
Anne my mother is seised of lands and tenements in
Surrey, Sussex and Essex® for her jointure and dower by
the will of William my fader decessed they are to be
secured to her. 400 marcs to go to my daughters —
Anne, Elizabeth, Dorothy — if they are ruled in marriage
by their mother and cousin, if not then 200 marcs,
provided they be married to men of 100 marcs in land,
or have vertue and cunning worth 100 mares. Witnesses:
William Hynchynson pson of the church of Slaugham,
John Foley, ana others."
John seems to have had an elder brother, whose
monument (according to Chauncy and Salmon, 1728),
formerly existed in the church of North Mymms. The
inscription, as given by these Hertfordshire historians,
was, "Hie jacet Henricus Covert, priraogenitus Wilhelmi
Covert senior de . . . arm. qui obiit in festo Sti Edwdi
Regis A.D. 1488. Cujus animte," &c. An important word
is unfortunately omitted. It would appear from the use
of the title "senior" that William Covert had a son
William, who may have been the William Covert of
Hasconibe, from whom descended the Sui-rey branch of
" Perhapa Home conuBotioa of tiis aon'e second wife.
» William Covert aad his boh John held hulf of the manor of Button, in Essex.
(Inii. 10 Henry Vil., Nov. 12th.) It came to Richard's son George. [Record
Memoranda. 2a Heniy VIU.) In 3 Henry VIl., Ii8S, William Kyuwolnierahe
died ' ' Beised of 10 acres of land in Dumnow held of William Covert an of the
manor of Watkyns," and in the same year Thomas Kogera died " seisBCl of the
maaor of Rumtaldswyte worth 20 marcs, and the manor of Holjngiirdyn worth
ids. hold of John Covert and Isahel hix wife in Iiis right as of the manor of
Kyvor." (Inij, P.M., Nob. 276, 'Ma.)
118 THE COVERTS.
the family. William Covert, senior, is mentioned in an
Inq. P.M., October, 8 Henry VII. (1497), where Joan,
widow of John Gaynesford and daughter of Reginald
Moresby, grants the manors of Alyngton, Est Preston,
&c., to Nicholas Gaynesford and William Covert the
elder.
The Inq. P.M. of John Covert was taken at Lewes, 22
Henry VII. (1506), before William Tyndale, escheator,
by the oath of William and John Gardener, William and
John Gatford, Walter Blake, Thomas Standen, Robert
Hunte, John Baxter, Peter Snell, Robert Denton, &c.,
who say that John Covert was seised of the manors of
Slaugham, Twyneham, Sokenersh, Hangleton, Bevyn-
dene and Polynge, and of 300 acres of pasture, 40 of
wood and 20 of meadow in Edberton, Hurstperpounde,
Cokefelde, Bolney, Twyneham, Shermanbury, Rowesper,
Assyngton, Wassington, Thakeham and Crawley in his
demesne as of fee. So seised by his charter, dated
September, 13 Henry VII. (1497), he granted the said
manors and lands to Edmund Dudeley, Richard Broke,
William Covert, Richard Covert and others to the use of
the said John Covert and his heirs. They say that John
Wodie was seised of 100 acres of land, 40 of pasture,
20 of wood, 30 of meadow, in Ifield. So seised, he
granted the same to Edmund Dudeley, Richard Covert,
Robert Covert (Richard's younger brother), Thomas
Grene and Thomas Gaynesborowe, to the use of the said
John Covert, for 200 marks paid him by the said John
Covert. That John Wodye was seised of 50 acres of
pasture, 10 of wood and 15 of meadow, in Ifield, so seised
for 100 marks paid by the said John Covert, he granted
the same to the said John Covert, Richard Covert and
Thomas Grene to the use of the said John Covert, &c.
That John Wody and Anne, his wife, for 1 00 marks paid
by John Covert, by fine levied, conveyed the moiety of
the manor of Farryng, or Chillington Farryng, to Richard
Covert and Robert Covert, and the heirs of the said
Richard, to the use of John Covert. That John Brad-
brigge was seised of 20 acres of land, 30 of pasture, 20
of heath in Southwyke, and for £30 paid by John Covert
granted the same to Edmund Dudely, Richard Covert
and Robert Covert for tlie use of John Covert. John
Covert by his will, 6th August, 17 Henry VII. (1502),
ordained that whereas Anne Covert, his mother, and others
were seised of manors, &c., in Sussex, Surrey and Essex
for her jointure, or by tlie will of his father, William
Covert, with reversion to the said John Covert, yeai-ly
value about £50, his feoifees put in trust with aU his lands
should stand thereof seised to the use of his mother to the
value of £-50, she to find Sir John Pulley, " niy chapleyn,
to synge for my Fader soul and mine in the church of
Slaugham for v years, paying him 10 marks a year.
Isabel my wife to give the chauntre of the Rever to the
parson of Slaugham, and to make such estate of her part
of the manor of Rever to such persons as shall be named
by my cousin Richard Covert," that it pass immediately
after her deatli to testator's daughters Anne, Elizabeth
and Dorothy and their heirs. That all persons seised of
lands under the will o£ WilUam Covert (his father), to the
use of Gyles .... stand seised thereof for the said
Gyles and his heirs, with remainder to Richard Covei-t.
If he die without male issue he bequeaths all his lands
to the said Richard, he to pay to each of his daughters
400 marks when they come to 16 years and be married,
" if they be ruled in marriage by Ann my mother, and
Richard my cousin." If one be disobedient then only 200
marks, if all be unruly 200 marks apiece, and the residue
to meritorious works for tlte souls of his father, himself
and friends. The manor of Slaugham is worth 20 marks;
Twyneham 10, held of Lord Ormonde ; Sokenersh £3,
held of Richard Carew, as of his manor of Wartelyng ;
Hangleton £5, of George, Lord Burgayne ; Polyng £4,
of Thomas, Earl of Arundel, as of his honour of Arundel.
Messuages in Edberton, £10 held of Edward Ponyngges,
as of his manor of Craley, and in Itield of the same, as
of his manor of Ifield. A moiety of the manor of Farryng,
£3 held of Thomas West, Lord De la Warre, as of his
manor of Porteslade. The said John Covert died 12th
August, 18 Henry VII. (1503). Anne aged 6, Elizabeth
3, and Dorothy 2, his daughters and heirs.
120 THE COVERTS.
Thomas, 1495. — '' Cosin Richard," who now succeeded
to the Covert estates in Ashington, Slaugham, Sullington,
Hascombe and elsewhere, was the son of Thomas, the
second son of the John Covert who mamed Ann Vaver,
daughter of the ''ostiarius" of Henrjr VI. Thomas
married Elizabeth, daughter of William Sidney, of
Cranleigh, ancestor of the Sidneys of Penshurst, who
were connected by marriage with several Sussex families.
Thomas presented to Washington in 1479 and 1485.
The only other record of him is in a note in the copy of
the Visitation of Sussex,*^ 1634, made ''by Wither the
painter — stayner who went with Philpot and Owen the
heralds." ''In the S.E. window of Horsham Church is
written, ' Orate pro animabus l^homae Covert et Eliza-
beth uxoris ejus qui quidem Thomas obiit 1495.'" Miss
Hurst, in her History of Horsham, says that this
inscription was "on a stone in the middle aisle*." Stone
and window have, alas, disappeared.
Richard, 1547. — Richard had four wives, as is set
forth on his brass at Slaugham.
1. Elizabeth first wyfe one of the daughters and heires of John
Faggar \_sic] Esquire and Elizabeth his wife.**
2. Elizabeth, seconde wyfe daughter of George Nevyle,® Knight
[3rd] Lord Burgenenne [and widow of Thomas Berkeley of
Beverstone, Gloucestershire].
3. Jane Aschebumhame^° daughter of William Aschebumham of
Aschebumham Esquier" [and widow of William Apsley. She
died 1527].
7 Harl. MS., 1,076, f. 224. In 1466 a Fine was made between John Goryiig,
Thomas Covert, John Sturmyn, plffs., and John Tumour and Margery his wife,
defts., as to lands in various places in Surrey. (Feet of Fines, Divers Counties,
6Edw. IV.,No. 42.)
^ Arms — chevron between 3 garbs.
^ A distinguished soldier and favourite of Henry VIII., whom he attended at
" the Field of the Qoth of Gold.'' {S.A,C., Vol. XLI., p. 90.)
10 There is another inscription under Jane Ashbumham's figure, ** Jana filia
Willi Aschebumeham, armygery, tertia uxor Richardi Covert armygery-cuius
animae propicietur Deus." These inscriptions are not given with perfect accuracy
in S.A.C, Vol. XXIII., p. 179.
11 And of Ann, daughter of Henry Hawley, of Ore. Jane's first husband was ^
the second son of Richard Apsley, of Thakeham, ** Esquire to the body of K. :
Edw. IV.," and of ** Beatrice Knotsford one of the Queen's Maydens ; " their son »
John married Jane, daughter of John Michell, of Tyes, Cuckfield (Hayley's MS.),
Michael, the eldest son of William and Jane Apsley, married Katherine Hussey,
of Paynes, Cuckfield, whose daughter Mary married Ninian Ward, of Cuckfield.
THE COVERTS.
4. Blanclie, daughter of Johu Vaiighan »f Burgenne Eaquier last
wyfe of the said Rithard ; which sayd Richard deceased the
VII"' day of June a.d. 1547 oe whos soul Jhu have mercy.
Ho presented Thomas Shaa to the rectory of Hascombe
iu 1509. He was High Sheriff of Surrey and Sussex in
1522-3, and a " Commissioner of Sewers " (for the repairs
of sea walls and clearing; the rivers) in 1534." For the
subsidy of 1523 he was rated at the Inner Temple on
clxxx" and had to pay ix''. By his fourth wife he had
two sons, John and George, and a daughter, Elizabeth,
who married Thomas, son of Edward Threele, of Lox-
wood, in Wisborough Green.^^ His will," dated 1546,
directs his "body to bo buried in the chauncel of the
parish church of Slaugham as soon as it is dead, and
may conveniently be conveyed to the place where it
shall be buried without great cei-emonies and solemnities
other than belongeth to a good and true Christian man.
To the mother church iii' iv*, to the parson of Slaugham
xs". My wife Blanch and my children that be in my
house, and all my family shall be apparalled in blake,
and my servants shall tate blake for their livery, or else
tany in my house till Christmas when I usually give my
liveries; to Jane, daughter of John Covert son and heir
apparent of Richard Covert, 300 marcs upon this con-
dition that the said Jatie be ruled in marriage by the
admonition, assent, and consent of Sir William Shelley
Knt,'^ Richard Bellyngham Esquier,^" Walter Hendley
Esquier," Blanche my wife, or tliree of them of which
my wife shall be one : " if Jane died the money was to
" S.^.C, Vol. X.,p. 96. Put. RoU. 26 Heniy VIII., pt. 1. A Fine occura
In 1533 betweeu W. Goryug, Ent., John Palmer Esqra., Thomaa Threele, John
Apecley, John Fennour and John Covert, eon and hoir apparent of Kchard
CoTert,EBqre.,plBa., and Robert Darkeuoll. detts., as to tbe 3rd part of the manor
of Dacheworth. (Feet of Fines, Herts, Mith., 25 Henry VUI.)
" Elwes' Castlci, i£c., p. 262.
" P.C.C, Alen, f. 48.
" Of MichelgroTe, Clflpham, Judge [V]. {S.A.C., Vol. XXllI,, p. IIB.)
'« Of Newtimber. (S.A.C, Vol. I., p. 37.) High Slierifl in IM.5. Be and Sir
Willinni Shelley were ConuuiEsiouers ot Sewers in 1531. (Put. Roll, 2S Henry VIll.,
122 THE COVERTS.
go to the daughters of his four daughters, Ann Finch/®
Katharine Burr/^ and Elizabeth Tyrell. ^^ My well
beloved wife to be my sole executor."
The result of her grandfather's legacy and his anxiety
that she would allow herself to be ''ruled" by the four
persons mentioned in his will was that, according to her
monument at Slaugham, Jane Covert was ''first wife to
Sir Francis Fleming^ and after to Sir John Fettiplace,^
Knighte, she died the 25"" of January 1586, and was
here buried by William Covert her nephew and executor
who made this tomb." Above her are two shields, on
which some colour remains, Fleming and Fettiplace,
impaling Covert.
Blanche Covert's will, dated 1 8th January, 6 Edward
VI., 1553,^ and proved 12th May the same year, requests
that she may be " buried in the chauncell of the psh of
Twyneham, if my son John, and the parson of Twyneham
so grant it." She leaves "to the said chauncell x% to
the mother church ij^, to the parson of Twyneham
xiii* iv*, to my son John Covert of Slaugham 2 gilted salts
without cover, pair of silver spones with lyons on the
end, and one spone without a lyon . . . the brewing
furnace of copper with all the vessels thereto belonging
. . . to my [grand daughter Jane] lady Fleming a
spone of gold, to my sister Mary Herbert a bed with
curtains &c. My two sons to be executors. Witnesses :
Richard Butt, Edward Alston, Robert Hayes."
John, 1558. — John Covert, the elder son of Richard
and Blanche, was M.P. for Shoreham 1529 and for the
county in 1553, fined for Knighthood in 1533 and
Sheriff in 1555. He is said in the Visitation to have
18 Ann married John Finch, of Sandwich, and had Antony, of Petworth.
(Berry's Kent QenealogieSy p. 1(55.)
19 "John Sure of Barking married Katerine daughter of Rychard Coveri; of
Slougtham and had John Bure." (Vis. of Essex, 1552, Hari. Soc.)
20 Knighted at the Coronation of Queen Mary, 1553.
^ Of Bessets Leigh, Abingdon, originally belonging to the Leighs and
passing by heiress to the Bessets, an heiress of whom married Edmund Fettiplace.
Sir John was ** dubbed at Woodstock in the progresse 1575." (Metcalfe's Book
of Knights.)
22 P.C.C, Taske, f. 10.
THE COVERTS.
" commanded at the siege of BuIIen."^ The sotia of Sir
Edward Poynings were in high command in the army,
and probably their friendship, as Sussex neighbours, may
account for John's presence at Boulogne. He mari-ied
Elizabeth, daughter of John Cooke, of Rustingfon,^* who
bouglit a share of the manor as her dowry,"* and had by
her Richard and William. He had also eight children
by Ann Beard, of Cowfold, whom he subsequently
married at Twineham. He presented to Washington in
1550. He "made liis testament** muncupative of the
manner and form following on August 24 1.558" — to be
buried in the church of Slaugham, of which he was patron ;
he leaves to Richard, his son and heir, "a gold chain, and
ring of his arms, and all his goods and chattels ; " to
Mary Beard als Covert, his basso eldest daughter, £50; to
Edwai*d Beard als Covert, hia eldest basse son, a great
flat ring of gold, a hlacke ambling gelding and the lease
of the parsonage of Maudlyn which he held of the Warden
and fellowes of Maudlyn College in Oxford ; to Ann
Beard als Covci-t [his 'ind wife] a white geldiug and
mare, a bedstede with all things belonging thereto; to
John and WUKam, his young basse sons £10 at their
coming of age ; and the same to Blanche, Ann, Katherine
and Henry, Ids basse younger children, but if any of
these [sinned after the manner of their father]'" before
marriage they are to have no part in their legacies; to
the Lady Fleming [his niece] a ring of gold with three
hoops; to John Venne, gent,, a clarke's gown; his son
Richard to be sole executor. Witnesses: George Covert,
Esq. [his brother], Henry Bvyghte, Thomas Vincent, &c.
" S.A.C, Vol. X., p. 159, flaj-B that he died at the siege, but it waa in 1544
that "Bullen wiw wonand giTeaup" {L/mdon CkronicU in Camden MUc., IV.).
The younger " Mr. Edward Pojujnges Citpitaiin; ol your Majesty's guards was
alaiu in a battle, January, 1545." The elder TbomaB Lord Ponynyngea writes to
the King on August l.ith, 1545, "I am somewhat diseaBed with tbe bluddye
fluse," aud on August IBtb the Council write that " Lord Ponyiiges the Kmg's
MajeBtj's Lientenaut bus departed this world," [State PoperB, Henry VIll
Vol. III.)
" Cooke Amw — gu. 3 crescents gold and a quarter ermine. (Harl. MS., 2, leg
(flfteeath century) ; Ancexlor, Vol. V., p. 175.)
» Elwes' CastleB, itc, p. 185.
« P.C.C.MeUersb, f.20.
*' I ha^e vnitiired to change the expressions in the btII,
124 THE^CO VERTS.
Proved 9th March, 1559, at London by Richard Covert,
of Slaugham, heir, Esq., in the presence of Geo. Harrison,
proctor of Ann Berde als Covert.
George. — His brother George, who was admitted to
Gray's Inn in 1531,*^ married Elizabeth, daughter of
Sir Humphrey Forster, of Aldermaston, Berks, and
Elizabeth, daughter of Lord Sandys; her brother,
William Forster, married Jane, daughter of Sir Antony
Hungerford, and was the great grandfather of Sir
Humphrey, who rebuilt Aldermaston Court in 1636,^
and of Mary, wife of Elias Ashmole, Windsor Herald.
George Covert held some property at Slaugham for the
returns of the Subsidy 1559, for the hundred of Butting-
hill include '' Richard Covert Esq'^ in lands Ix^', George
Covert gent xx^'." He had the Essex property of
Sutton.^ He had a son Humphrey (described in the
Visitations as ^' of Godstone,'' and as being the heir in
1623), who married his cousin Joanna, daughter of John
and Elizabeth Covert, of Slaugham. Their daughter
Agnes became the wife of Francis Poole,^^ son of Henry
Poole (whose monument remains in the N. transept of
Ditchling Church) and of his wife Margaret, daughter of
George, 3rd Lord Abergavenny.
George, 1611. — Their son George, who took to wife
Audrey Mackaret, daughter of a London merchant, lived
at Slowe in Cuckfield, and the Registry contains the
entries of the baptism and the burial a week afterwards
of '' Timmothie, the daughter infant of Mr. George and
Mrs. Audrie Covert Dec. 7, 1606," of the baptism of their
28 Foster's Admissions to Gray^s Inn. Machyu records the funeral of Sir
Humphrey at S. Martin's **be8yd Charyng-crosse " in September, 1556. The
MS. of the College of Arms (I. 3, f. 101) states that William Forster was sole
executor, and mentions ** Mr. CJovertes " among the mourners. (Machyn's Diary ,
Camd. Soc, pp. 114, 404.)
29 The fine staircase and heraldic glass of this date are retained in the present
mansion erected by Mr. Higford Burr, the founder of the Arundel Society, and
greatly beautified by its present owner, our member, C. E. Keyser, Esq.
80 Henry VIII., Pascha Ro. 28, ** George Covert to show by what title he holds
J of the manor of Sutton Magna." George presented to the living ; but alienated
his share in 1562 to Lord Chancellor Rich.
81 "Sept. 1589, Francis Poole of Dichling, and Agnes Covert de Slaugham,
virgin." {Lewes Marriage Licences,)
THE COVERTS.
son Thomas, November, 1610, and of the burial of
"George Covert of Slowe gen. given to the poore 30"
June 17, 1611." He died intestate, and letters of
administration were granted to his widow and Thomas
Field, yeoman, and the estate sworn at £^00.^ His
signature as overseer in May, 1609, appears in some of
the pai-ish papers. His sou Walter, of Woodmancote, is
mentioned in the succession in Sir Walter Covert's will.
Ann (Beard) Covert, 1583. — The will of Ann, second
wife of John Covert, was dated 24 Elizabeth (1582), and
proved April, 1583."^ She is described as of Hendfield,
widow. It directs that she should be " buried at Slaugham
by my husband," and that £4 should be distributed among
the poor at her funeral. She leaves " 6s. 8d. to the parson
for lying in the church," 10s. to the church, and desires
that " no blackes " should be given. " To my son Henry
Covert, £100 and the liouse and lands I bought of William
Woods; to my daughter Catharine," £30 and five silver
spoons ; to my daugliter Mary Woolfe, a ring, whereon
the arms of Covert; to my daughter [Blanche]^' Dowse,
my wedding ring; to my daughter Ann, my ring with
the turquis stone in him ; to Ann, my son Edward's
eldest daughter, £40 ; to every one of Edward's
daughters, £50 a year; to William, my son William
Covert's son, £10; to John, my son Edward Covert's
son, a goblett, on condition that he dwell at Oreliam ; to
my son Humphrey, my bed, &c,, and tlie money he owes
me to be jjaid to his son George at 16 vears of ago; to
»' Lewei Regislry Act Book, B. 13, p. 216.
»» P.C.C, Rowe, f. 21.
" Who married WiUiam Bell, of Shoreham, yeomaa, June, 1589. Nicholaa
Wolfe, of ABhington, was a anspected recusimt. S.A.C., Vol. XXXIX., p. 114.
In 1.583 one of Walsingliaui's spies reports a conversatiou witb Peter SftoU,
eertant to Sir Walter Covert, toticMiig the participation of Nicholas Wolfe, of
Ashington, iu the late pretended mieohief agaiust Her Majeaty. [State Papers,
Dom., EliE., IBS.)
" Blanohe married Thomas Dowse, Broughton, Hants. Thefollowing inscrip-
tion is on the N. wall of the chancel at Broughton Church : " Here Ijeth interred
the Body of Thomas Dowae Esq. and Blanch Covert of .Slaugham the onely
wife of Thomas Dowse : hee dyed in i.n. 1602 and Blanch in 1808. ITiis monu-
ment in memory of them both was made at the proper cost of S' Edmond Dowse
their 4th aone performed in 1G25. ' Qui nescit cetera quterit.' " Sir Edmund
was knighted February. 1609. Thomas and his wife left lands, 4c., in Broughton
to proFide a school for boys. (EeT. A. WoodJn.)
126 THE COVERTS.
Thomas Beard, my younger mare ; to my sister Davye,
my russet gown pley ted in the back ; to my daughter-in-
law, Edward Covert's wife, my silk grograine gown ; to
my daughter Woolfe, my best damask gown; to Ann
[wife of Humphrey] Covert, the rest of my apparel, &c.,
in my cupboard in the parlour where she dwelleth at her
house in Godstone ; to my son William, a silver salt ; to
Mary Beard, my housewoman, £10; Edward Covert my
executor. Witnesses, Nicholas Wolf, gent, [son-in-lawj,
Humphrey Covert, gent, [son], William Covert, gent.
[step-son].
Edward, 1604. — To follow the fortunes of this Ann
Covert's illegitimate children, Edward, her eldest son,
married Mary, daughter of Walter More, of Wivelsfield,
and again "Joan Chatfeld, of Hurste, widow," June,
1589."' He contributed £30 for the defence of the
country on the approach of the Armada, and died at
Edburton in 1604, leaving a son John, bora in 1575,*^
who married Ann Chatfield, of Twineham, in 1594, and
died in 1635; and also a daughter Mary, born in 1573.
Edward Covert's will,®® dated April and proved January
1st, 1605, at Lewes, leaves '' to Henry Covert my [grand]
son, £3 yearly out of my manor of Oreham;^ to Agnes
Morley, £1 yearly out of the same; to Elizabeth and
Susan Covert, my two [grand] daughters, £150 each,
besides the £5 given by their grandmother; to Joane,
my [second] wife, £20, a new feather bed filled with
feathers taken out of her bed, all her household stuff and
apparell, and £20 a year in recompense for her dower, to
be demanded at the mansion house of Oreham manor —
83 Lewes Mar, Licences.
87 ** Marye Covert, daughter of Edward Covert, baptised the 6th day of April,
1573 ; John Covert, son of Edward Covert, baptised the 30th day of December,
1575." (Wivelsfield Reg.; S.^.C.,Vol.XXXV.,p. 56; Vol.XXXVI.,p.26.) 1594.
December 21st. "John Coverte, son of Edward Covertt, of Twyneham, gent.,
and Anne Chatfeilde of the same." (Lewes Mar, Lie.)
88 Lewes Registry WillSy Book A, 12.
89 In the parish of Henfield. In Feet of Fines, 2 John [1200], Isabel de Orram
is tenant of a third of a mill in Oram, which Emma de Peckham claims as part of
her dower. A 17th century house called Little Oreham, spelt Whoreham in the
Ordnance Map, still remains, and also Wood's Mill, on the Steyning road ; both
are now in the possession of Col. Wisden. (Rev. 0. S. Dunlop.)
THE COVERTS. 127
in default of payment Joane, my wife, to enter upon my
mill, called Woodmill, and the Breach, which mill and
lands Sewell, my miller, occupieth ; the residue to John
Covert my only son, sole executoi'. Inventory £6o3. 10'."
Edward's widow, Joane Covert, of Woodniancote, by
her will," dated April and proved October 5tli, 1607,
desires to be buried in the chancel of Twineham Church,
and gives to the parson, in consideration of her being
buried there, 6s. 8d.; to Walter, son of John Covert, gent.,
my son-in-law [stepson], 40s.; to Anno, daughter of the
same Jolni, £40 ; to Anne Pellett, of Steyning, my god-
daughter, 208. and a redd petticoate ; to Elizabeth,
daughter of Isaac Chatfield, to be paide at 21 years, if
she order herself in an honest kind of life that my executor
shall well like thereof, and her government, education and
marriage, the sum of £6. LSs. 4d.; to Elizabeth, wife of
Thomas Harris, of Ditchling, 20s.;" to the poor of Wood-
niancote, 20s. John Covert [stepson] sole executor and
residuary legatee. Witnesses : Henry Covert [her hus-
band's brother], John Backshell.
From the wills of John Covert and Ann Beard, it
appears that, besides Edward, they had four sons and
four daughters. I can trace the marriages of Mary, who
was the wife of Nicholas Woolfe, Blanche, of 1 homas
Dowse, before their mother's death: Catherine married
William Bell, of Shoreham,*^ in June, 1589. Of the sons,
Humphrey married, in 1583, Grace, daughter of Thomas
Knapp, of Perran," William married and had a son
William. Of Edward's children, Mary married John
Muncke, of Hunston, and had Susan, wife of William
Dumbrell, of Cuckfield ; Jane married, in 1603, Edward
*> Leuies Registry Wills, Book A, 12. In the Transcript of the Twiueham
BegiBtera ia the entrj, " 1607, April 17. Jaiia Covert, wjdowe, late wife of
KdwBtd Court, gentleman, bur."
" Thomas Harris, Vicar of Ditcbling, 15B6.
u " Willifttn BeU, of Shotcham. yeoman, and Cntharine Covert, of Twyneham,
virgin." June, 1589. {Ltwes Marr. Licrmces.) The AnnCoverte, of Slaugham,
who RiBiTied. Richard Hjdlej, of Heufeilde, gent., in May, 1597, may have been
the remaimng sifter.
" 158.^. Nnvemijer 2Ist. "' Humphrey Coverte, gent., and Grace Knapp,
spinster, of the city of London, d. of Thomaa Knapp, of rairnn, Cornwall, atSt.
Clement Danes." {Bp, of London's Marrituje Licences.)
128 THE COVERTS.
Bray/* of Shere, Surrey ; Charity maried Thomas Wood,
of Leedes;*^ and Susan, Thomas Beard, of Woodman-
cote/® John, of Edburton, Edward's heir, married Ann
Chatfield and resided at Peathorne. In his will, dated
April 1st, 1635, and proved October 1st, 1636, he leaves
^' to the poor of Edburton and Henfield 20s.; to Walter,
my godson, son of Walter Covert, of Blindley Court
[d-odstone"], £10, to be put in silver plate ; to Auarey and
Elizabeth,**^ two of the daughters of the aforesaid Walter
[his granddaughters], £15 at 18; to Humphrey, second
son of Walter Covert, £15 at 18; the residue of plate,
goods, &c., to Walter my son and sole executor. Item,
I give unto Anne, Susan, John and Cecilie, my daughter
Weekes' children, £5 apiece."
Walter, Edward's son, married Ann, daughter of Walter
Dobell,*® of Falmer, and had by her five sons and four
daughters. Edward, the eldest, had two wives, Julia
. . . , who died in 1 657,*^ and Joanna . . . , who died
in 1676. By his first wife he had Mary, born 1657 and
died 1729 unmarried, and by his second four daughters,
the youngest of whom, Margaret, married, in 1691, John
Coulstock, of Edburton.^ In Edward's time Sir John
Covert parted with the Edburton property ; Sir Walter
^ Son of Reginald Bray, b. 1555, and Elizabeth, d. of Richard Covert, of
Hascombe. Edward Bray had for his second wife a d. of Comber, of Sher-
manbury. (Burke's Commoners ; Manning's Surrey y Vol. I., pp. 523, &c.)
^ ** July, 1598. Thomas Wood, of Leedes, co. Kent, and Charity Covertte, pf
Twynham, virgin." " December, 1594. John, son of Edward Covert, of Twine-
ham, gent., and Anna Chatfield de eSdem, virgin.'' {Lewes Marriage Licences.)
*^ Woodmancote transcript : ** 1609. June Ist. Thomas beard, lord of wicke
[Wyke] and Sondes (Cartwright's Bramher, p. 285) married Susanna Covert,
daughter of Edward Covert, of Twynam, Esquier." (/S.-4.C., Vol. XXV.,
p. 149.)
*7 Woodmancote Registei* (transcripts) : ** 1624. March 6th. Elizabeth, d. of
Mr. Walter Covert, jun., bap." ** 1625. Apiil 5th. Awdrie, d. of Mr. Walter
Covert, bap." Their mother's burial is registered thus: "1625. August 3rd.
Anne, wife of Mr. John Covert, bur."
^ Walter Dobell acquired Streat Place and Manor in 1607, and built the house ;
he died in 1625 and the property passed by marriage to the Lanes. (Ellis's Parks
and Forests, p. 199. S.A.G., Vol. XV., p. 93 ; Vol.. XXXV., p. 34.)
*^ Edburton Registers.
«> " 1691. John Coulstock, jun., of Abberton, Bachelor, and Margaret Covert,
Spinster, about 22, niece of Walter Covert, of Allhallows the Great, London,
gent. , who alleges her parents dead. At Abberton. ' ' ( Vicar -OeneraVs Allegations
of Marriage) " July 9th, 1691. Mr. John Coulstock and Mrs. Margaret Covert
married." (Ifield Register.)
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had settled Peathorne to go with Slaugham.^^ Sliiprods,
in Ewhurst, was sold in 1657 to Philip Cheale. This
branch of the family disappeared from this neighbourhood.
Richard, 1579. — ^To go back to the elder branch, John
Covert (who died in 1558) and Elizabeth (Cooke) had
two eons, Richard and William. The former married,
first, Ann, the youngest daughter of Sir Walter Hendley,
of Corshome, Kent,^ and Helen Ashbumham, of Brom-
ham ; as one of the three co-heiresses of her father she
brought the manor of Eberny, in Newchurch, near
Romney, to her husband, for the Patent RoUs, 1541,
contain a "Licence to Walter Hendle to alienate the
manor of Eberny to Richard Covert, of Slaugham, and
John Covert, of Cowfold, son and heir of the said
Richard,"^ and the State Papers of 1542 have the
" Remainder of Maythorne manor, Kent {now leased to Sir
Walter Hendle) to Ann, now wife of Richard Covert, his
third daughter.^ They had seven sons andseven daughters,
as appears by their monument in Slaugham Church, on
" W'^ter Covert held a fifth of a knight's fee "on certain laiida called
Pawthome, by grant of Ist October, 29 Henry VIII." (Rowe'a Portalade Manor.)
" Attorney for Ihe Ctourt of Augmentatioua : " Autumn Reader " at Gray's
lun in 1530 and "Lent Readar" in 1534. His twin dauehtera, Elizabeth and
Elena, mftrried William. Waller, of Grombridgp, and Thomas Colepepper respec-
tively. (Exch. Inq., 5 Ed. VI.; S..1.C,, Vol. xm., p. 36, Pedigree.) Elizabeth
married, secondly, in 1548, George Fane, of Badrel! ; "She dyed most religionsly"
in 1596 according to her monnmeut in Brencliley Church, la 1550 a Fine between
Margery Hendle, widow, plaintiff, and Thomas Colepepper, Esq., and EUen, his
wife, George Fane, Esq., and Elisabeth, his wife, and lUchaid Covert, Esq., and
Ann. his wife, defendants, as to the manor of Cleikenwell. (Feet of Fines,
Middleses, Mich., 4 Edw. VI. ; see also Easter, 2 and 3 Ph. and M., l.Wg.) The
widow's will {P.C.C., Spencer, 81) describes her as " Lady Margery Henley widow,
of Boresell [Doaraell] Ticehnrst, late wife of Thomas Roberts Eaq"," Dec, 1587.
She was the daughter of Thonms Figotte, of Shaddon, Bucfes, and had four
huabunds, of which Sir Walter was the second [Berry's Kent amtealogies). In
Sept., 1570, Lord Lawarre, Richard Covert and Walter Waller [her two sous-in-
low] write to Secretary Cecil that "Dame Margery Healy is quite unable to
contribute the loan of £50 required by the Privy Seal" (State Papers, Dom.,
Eliz., 73.) The Pedigree in S. .i.e.. Vol. XLII., p. 36, requires correction, thus :
1 Helen Ashbumham ,=i= Walter Hendly.=* Margery, d. of
of Broomham. d. 1550. Tboa, I'igott.
d. 1587.
Elena. =ThoB. Colepeper.
Ann.^Eicb. Covert.
" Patent EoU, 33 Henry VIII., No. 1,05G.
" State Papers, Dom,, 34 Henry Vni.
XLVU.
130 THE COVERTS.
which are to be seen the kneeling figures of himself and
his sons behind him, and of his first wife and their
daughters behind her ; at the end is his second wife on
her knees at a desk by herself. The eldest boy died in his
childhood, and is represented as smaller than the others.
The figures are beautifully carved, and were carefully
restored by the late Rector, Preb. Haweis. Over each
figure is the initial letter of the Christian name thus :
R. W. W. J. T. M. A. F. A. M. E. A. J. E. D. M. C.
These letters, with the date, 1579, form the only inscrip-
tion. The arms of Covert are over the father's head, of
Hendley over the mother's, and of Bowes over the second
wife.^ The monument, which is 11-ft. high by 11-ft.
broad and is surmounted by a Covert helmet and crests,
is a splendid specimen of fine Renaissance work, and was
carved by one Flynton, mentioned in Richard's will, at
the cost of £30. The sons were : Walter, born 1543, the
builder of Slaugham Place ; John, of Ewhurst (Sherman-
bury), who married Charity, daughter of Sir Martin
Bowes, junr., and whose muncupative will was proved
1589; Thomas J of Slowe, Cuckfield, whose will was
proved 1604; Alexander, born 1562, who matriculated^
at S. Mary's Hall, Oxford, in 1580, was admitted to
Gray's Inn 1585, and died in January, 1614 ; and
Francis, of whom, as also of the son having M for his
initial,^'' no history can be found.
Of the daughters, Mary married, 1584, Richard
Barttelot, of Stopham; Ellen was the wife of Besil
Fettiplace, of Bessil's Leigh, Berks; Ann, o.s.p.; Joan,
born 1553, was wife of Henry Smith, of Peperharrow ;
Elizabeth, married Richard Sheppard ; Dulcihella, married
William Vyne ; and Margery was one of the wives of
" Covert : gu, a fesse between 3 martlets ar. ; crest a lion's face or, Hendly :
on a chief az. a hind couchant or. ; orle of martlets. Bowes : erm. 3 bows, on a
chief a swan (?) with ring in beak between 2 leopards* heads. In Harl. MS.,
2,169, is "JErm. 3 bent bows of gules , Sir William Bowys of the byschepryke of
Durham."
** Foster's Alumni Oxonienses. The Inns of Court were looked upon as
** finishing schools in which the sons of the nobility and gentry might learn
good manners and accomplishments."
*7 Elwes takes the M to stand for Mynors. {Mansions , &c., p. 226.)
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Ninian Chalinor,^* of Holmsted, partner with Richard
Covert in the Slaugham ironworks.
Richard's second wife was Cecily, daughter of Sir
Martin Bowes and widow of Heniy Harte. He was the
son of Thomas Bowes, of York, goldsmith, Mayor of
London in 1546, and was buried at S. Mary Woolnoth."^
By his will, dated August, 1565, he leaves to Martin his
son "the mansion house wherein he dwells," and to Sir
Percyvall Harte, Knt., and to his daughter, Cisceley,
wife of Henry Harte, a ring of gold with two bowes
bent and a death's head graven between them with this
Scripture about it, " Remember thine end."
Richard's third wife was Mary, daughter of Sir
Nicholas Heron,"" who survived him and is therefore not
mentioned on his monument, which was designed and
partly worked before his death.
Richard was admitted to Gray's Inn in 1536 and
served as SheiiS of Surrey and Sussex in 1564-5, He
seems to have resided sometimes at Hascombe, for in
the list of presents received at the wedding of Richard
Polstead, of Albury, and Elizabeth More, of Loseley, in
November, 1567, occur "Fat Turkics, Piggs, 2 Partridges
and Woodcocks from Ric. Covert Esq."" A mysterious
entry among the Acts of the Privy Council, 1577, states
"that Henry Carpenter of Cuckfield complains against
William Boughton for stealing his daughter - in - law
Elizabeth Boughton, heire to a copyhold, and conveying
her to the house of Richard Covert J.P."
It is not surprising that there were family differences
with reference to Ann Beard's jointure, and the case often
appears in the Chancery Proceedings of Elizabeth. In
" S.A.C, Vol. IL, p. 242 ; Vol, XLIV,, p. 130.
'^ Stowea' London, Langboorne Ward ; Wills iu tlie London Court of Huetinga,
Cal.pP. 694; Machya'a Diarg, Camd. Soc.,p. 335. His portrait may still be nBen
at Goldemitlta' HaU.
" Knighted at the Coronation of Queen Mary, 1553 ; died ftt Edgecomb 1563,
buried at Croydon. Arms, gu. a chevron between 3 herons arg. (S.A.C.,
Vol. X.).
^' Archreologia, Vol. XXXVI., p. 38. The bride waa but 15 years old, and
afterwards mactied Sir John Wolley, who bought Wiflley from Richard Covert.
K 2
132 THE COVERTS.
1553 came*" "The Petition of Edward son of John
Covert dec. The petitioner's [half] brother Richard
Covert was seized of a third part of the manor of
Rustyngton, and by a certain deed granted to the said
John and Ann his wife, and to Edward the petitioner,
the said third part for their three lives,^ by force of which
they were seized of the same ; after John's death Anne
by a deed released her right to the petitioner ; these two
deeds, and others have casually come into the hands of
the said Richard, whereby he has entered into seizin
of the said third part, and declines to surrender the
deeds. As the petitioner knows not the dates or exact
contents of these deeds he can get no remedy of the
common law, so he begs a writ of subpena may be issued
to Richard Covert to appear before the High Cornet of
Chancery:" that of "Ann widow of John Covert and
Edward Covert their son v. John Baker to establish the
title to lease one third of the manor of Rustington
granted by Richard Covert in the time of Edward VI."
Also: "Richard Covert v. Edward Covert, to perform
the agreement about the manors of Twynam, Oram and
Rustington."^® Again: "The manor of Oram to be
conveyed from Richard to Edward." ^* Lastly : ^ ' Richard
Covert V. Anne Covert, widow [of his father John] to
settle the claim of her dower on the manors of Oram
and Rustington."
An entry in the Chancery Proceedings of 1567 reveals
a curious custom of the manor of Twineham.®^ " Maryan
Costedall, widow of John Costedell, of Chayleye, com-
plains that whereas her husband held a house and 20
acres of land in Twineham and Bolney of Richard
Covert, Esq", as of the manor of Twineham Benyefelde
or Slaugham, on his death thought to have had the same,
but one William Costedell claiming to be the heir,
obtained seizin by payment of a large sum to Richard
Covert. He answers that by the custom of the manor,
if a customary tenant marry a maid she shall hold his
82 Chanc. Proc., Series II., Bundle 34-38. " Co. 8.
68 Co. 4, No. 41. 66 Series n., Bundle fj.
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133
lands for her natural life as widow's bench,"^ but if he
marry a widow she shall not have the said lands, and
Maryan Costedell was widow of one Barnarde, of
Newyck."
Richard Covert's will" (proved 36th April, 1580) directs
that ' ' five quarters of wheat shall be baked, half a bullock,
and a hoggeshead of beere shall be distributed at my
buiial — my landes, &c., bought of Underbill, to be given
to such old servants as were my grandfather's my father's
and inyne, according to the direction of Walter my son,
£10 to Flynton for making my tomb, for which I have
already paid him £20, my son Walter to pay to his
brothers Thomas, Alexander and Francis their several
annuities of £20, which I gave them before the marriage
of Walter my son, i.e., £20 out of Abberton, £10 out of
Rewke, £6. 1-1. out of Dencombe, 13s. 6d. out of Sundley,
and the rest out of tiie manor of Slaugham, 600 marcs
each, to Dowsabell and Mary my daughters, to Walter
my great seal ring, £10 to my son John, £10 to my third
son Thomas and the gelding called ' Baye Bolney,' the
debts I owe to Ninian Chaloner to be paid. I entreat
my son for my sake, having been to him a kind and liberal
father, and for my wife's own sake, who hath been to him
no hard stepmother, that he love, comfort and be aydinge
to her, and let her enj oy the lauds in Kent as are appointed
to her jointure in the indentures, and all such moyeties
of the lands in Goldingham, near London, purchased of
Imden, the surve3'or to Her Majesty's Ordinance, to my
wife Mary all such jewels, borders, cheynes of gold, lynen,
apparell, &c., as belongeth to her person, also such napeiy,
household stufi", &c., as she brought with her when she
was married to me, and the gelding called ' Gray Baker,'
and another called the Dunne colte and £400; to Walter
ail my armour and furniture for the warres, except one
coreelett, &c., which I give to my son John ; the residue
to Walter, who is my executor ; my good cosin Francis
Challouer, and my brothers-in-law, Poynings Heron and
™ 111 copjholds the wife being eBpoused a virgiu has, after the death of her
huHband. free beneh, H.11 estate for her dower. (Blount's Lata IHct., 1670.)
" P.C.C, Arundel, 1. 14.
134 THE CX)VERTS.
Thomas Bonham, to be overseers. Witnesses, Francis
Chaloner,®** Walter Covert, Owen Fletcher, Poynings
Heron [brother-in-law], Thomas Covert."
Richard's Inq. P.M. was taken at Cuckfield, April, 22
Elizabeth (1580), before Arthur Kelton, gent., deputy of
Edmund Hill, esq., escheator, by the oath of Walter a
More, gent., Thomas Lucas, Peter Crane, John a Tree
of Barkham, Robert Chatfeilde of Homewood, William
Aforde, Robert Chatfield of Chaley, John A very e, Thomas
Jenner, Richard Virrall, John Scrase and Thomas
Whitinge. They say that Richard died seised of the
manor of Slaugham, worth £20, held of Philip, Earl
of Arundel, Henry Nevill, Lord Abergavenny, and
Thomas Sackville, Lord Buckhurse, and other lords of
the castle and barony of Lewes ; the manor of Twyne-
ham, worth £4, held of Thomas Gage, Esqr., as of his
manor of Courtegarden ; the manor of Bradbridge, worth
£5, of the Earl of Arundel, as of his manor of Bramber ;
the manor of Ashington, worth £4, of the same; the
manor of Rustington, worth £6, of the Earl of Arundel,
as of his honour of Arundel; the manor of Hangleton,
worth £6, of Henry, Lord Abergavenny, as of his manor
of Ditchling; the manor of Pawethorne (Pcathorne),
worth £6, of the same; also tenement in Slaugham,
called Dencombe, worth 40s., held of Thomas Gage, Esq.,
as of his manor of Courtegarden, in Washington, worth
20s., held of Thomas Browne, Knt., as of his manor of
Chainkton, in Ifield, Kingeslande, and The George, worth
40s., held of John Shirley, of his manor of Ifield ; and
also Hyde, worth 30s., of the Earl of Arundel, as of his
manor of Brambre ; a parcel of meadow called Grantham's
meade, worth 20s., held of Thomas Gage, as of his manor
of Bonecke, in Burpham, worth 40s., held of the Earl of
Arundel ; also Sheprodes and Blacklandes, worth £4, of
William, Lord le Warr. Richard Coverte died 10th
September last past ( 1 579). Walter Coverte son and heir,
aged 30.
John, 1588. — Richard's second son John married
Charity, daughter of Sir Martin Bowes (the second), and
68 Of Lindfield. (fif.ii.C., Vol. XLIV., p. 126.)
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niece of his father's second wife. Sii' Martin left lier his
meadow ground in Long Lane, Berraondsey."^ She was
buried at Ifield.'"' John was Member for East Grinstead
in the Parliament of 1 586. His will says" — ' ' Mem. That
Mr. Edw. Apsley and Thomas Wyat, being with Mr. John
Covert at Ewhurst, and advised by them that he should
have care over his daughter [Ann, heiress of Slaugham],
and 60 to dispose of his goods that she might not have the
inconvenience of wardshipp, and he have all things ordered
as with a quietter mynde he might depart, answered :
That for his bodye, his disease excepted, he was as sounde
as any man in Englande, and concerning his landes and
goodes, if ho had ten 1000 pounds I would put my brother
Walter in trust withall, unto whom all things shall goe
if my daughter fail, and when it was further told him
that it was not sufficient to say so, he answered that it was
suiHcient to acknowledge this before us two ; he added
that his brother should be his executor, and being willed
in his testament to make some declaration concerning
Ewbui'Bt, whereof a fyne was sued out, he answered, that
the fyne was of no value and naught woi'the ; but after
hia death it was to return to his brother Walter, in whose
custodie all the writings were." Proved 1589.
The will of Thomas Covert, of Slowe, proved 19th
October, 160-i, is as follows:— "I commend my soul to
Christ . . . and I doe firmly believe that after I have
laid down this sinful carcasse of mine being dissolved into
earth and dust, at the second coming of my Saviour I
shall, by the power of the Holy Spirit, rise again, with
this body changed into a spiritual body . . . My body
to be Ijuried in the chancell of the parish church of
Slaugham. To the poor of that parish £5, to the poor of
Cuckfield 40s., to my sister lady Covert [wife of Sir
Walter] my diamond ring in my desk, to the wife of Sir
Henry Bokenham''^ 40s. to make her a ring, my niece
" Wills in Loudim Court of Ilufltiags, Cal., p. 728.
" " 1583. Chorytj- Corert, wife ot John Covert, gent., was bnryed the 2nd uE
AugUBt." (Ifield Kcgietere.)
" P.C.C., Leiceater, f. 98.
M Ot Great Thomham, Suffolk. Knighted at Whitehall 2,Srd July, lli03,
" before the Coronation of tlie King."
136 THE COVERTS.
Ann [daughter of his brother John] Covert £10, my
brother Alexander £5, my niece Burrell'^ 20s., my sister
Jane [Smith] 40s., to Charles Culpeper*^* 40s., to my
brother Sir Walter all the lands I have purcha^sed in
Slaugham and the rest of my goods. My cosin Thomas
Challinor''^ and my nephew [Ninian] Burrell to be over-
seers. Administration granted 21st October, 1608, to
Francis Covert, LL.D., the brother. Sir Walter Covert,
Knt., renouncing executorship."
Francis Covert, LL.D., of Leyden, was incorporated
at Oxford April, 1596, and died at Chaldon 1609.'*
Walter, 1543 — 1631. — The greatest of the Coverts,
son of Richard Covert and Ann Hendley, was bom in
1543. Soon after his father's death, in 1579, he added
to his large estates a share in the manor of Cuckfield by
purchase''^ from the unfortunate Philip, Earl of Arundel,
whose mother, the heiress of the Fitzalans, had brought
Arundel to the Howards. He was named after King
Philip, his godfather. Queen Elizabeth paid him marked
attention in his youth, but when he left her court to live
with his wife, Ann, daughter of Thomas, Lord Dacre of
the north, whom he had married in his fourteenth year,
and they both proved to be devout Roman Catholics, she
persecuted him with unrelenting cruelty. He was heavily
fined, treacherously arrested in 1585 as he was sailing
from Littlehampton, and imprisoned in the Tower until
his death. All their belongings (even her bed) were
seized by the Queen,''® and to pay part of the enormous
7» Jane, daughter of his sister Jane Smith, and wife of Ninian Burrell. (S.A,C, ,
Vol. XLIII., p. 10.)
'* Of Slaugham, son of William Culpeper, of Woore, Worth. He died iu 1614,
when letters of administration to administer his goods were granted to his elder
brother George, of Ardingly.
7« Thomas Challinor, of Ken wards, Lindfield, adm. 1625 to Inner Temple.
'6 Wood's Fasti Oxoniensis. Among ** the students of the University of
Leyden" is "Covert, Franciscus Anglus, Aug., 1576." Can he be the Francis
of the Slaugham monument, or the ** Mr. Dockter Covert," buried there in June,
1603 ? (Transcripts of Slaugham Register.)
77 ''25 Elizabeth. May. Sale between Philip, Earl of Arundel, and Will. Dyne,
Esq., of the first part, and Walter Covert, Esq., of the second part, in consideration
of £500, sell all their fourth part in the manor of Cuckfield, and also all and
every the fourth part in all lands in Cuckfield." (BurreU MS., 5,683, f. 192.)
78 TJie Lives of Philip Howard, Earl of Anindel, and of Anne Dacres his Wife,
from a JUS. at Arundel^ edited by the late Duke of Norfolk, 1857.
SIR WALTER COVERT.
Fi-'W thr mallmj til Lfimilnl, Willi.
A
THE COVERTS.
fine levied upon him he sold his share of the manor and
lauds of Cuckfield to Walter Covert for £500. A further
portion was acquired in 1615 from Lord Bergavenny, and
also Tilgate and Higlea, in Balcombe.'^ Among the
documents of Cuckfield manor is a "new draft from an
ancient survey of the lordship of the manor, one moiety
thereof belonging to the R'. Hon. George [lOth] Lord
Abergany, transcribed in 1679 by Robert Whitpaine,"
and the fii-st on the list of copyholders is Sir Walter Covert,
123 acres.
He represented the county in the Parliament of 1586
and Petersfield in tliat of 1593, and Sussex again in 1614
(the two months' Parliament) and 162|, and was for forty
years " the father of the House." He was High Sheriff
in 1583 and 1592, kniglited in 1591, made a D.L. in 1604
and 1624, one of the band of Gentlemen Pensioners 1608,™
and during the reigns of Elizabeth, James and Charles
was the active and trusted representative of the Govern-
ment in Sussex.
He manied, first, Tiraothie, daughter of John Lennard,
of Chevening and Knowle, Kent, and, secondly, Jane,
daughter of Sir John Shurley, of Isfield ; he had no
children. Lennard bad a lease of Knowle from the Duke
of Northumberland for the fifty years, 1553^ — 1603. His
monument is at Chevening.®^ The following pedigree
(for which I am indebted to the Rev. H. L. Barrett-
Lennard) shows Lady Covert's relations: —
Sampson, M.F.^Margartt Piennes, Sir Samuel, Tiinothie.=SirW, Covert,
b. i544. BaroneHB Dacre. ot West
d. 1615. WiekliBm.
I* " 14 Jac. Edward, Lord BergaTenny, by indenture dated NoTemlier, 1C15,
demised to Sir Walter Covert, Henry .Smitb [his brother-iu-law] and JameH
Franuklyu, gent., all hiu moyetie of y" Parke or enclosed ground, call^ Guokefelde
Park, during the lives of Walter and Ninian, sons of NinianBurrell, dec, render-
ing yearly £10," (BurreU MS., 5,702 ; Ellis' Parka and ForesU, pp. 74, 207.)
» Coll. Top. et Otn., Vol. VI., p. 193.
"' Arch. Cant., Vol. XVI., 118.
138 THE COVERTS.
There is a fine portrait of Sir Walter in the lower
corridor at Longleat.®* How it came there and who was
the painter is not known. The Marquis of Bath has
kindly allowed a photograph of it to be taken in order
to illustrate this paper. It gives one the idea of a
thoughtful and refined man on whom the cares and
anxieties of his life pressed heavily.®*
Sir Walter pulled down the old house at Slaugham,
and built that of which only a few ruins remain to
testify to its magnificence. His architect was John
Thorpe, who built and enlarged several houses (c.gr.,
Buckhurst) in the southern counties between 1570 and
1610. A volume of his plans is preserved in Sir John
Soane's museum, tracings of which by C. J. Richardson
are in the National Art Library, S. Kensington.®* There
are three ground plans of Slaugham simply endorsed
^' Sir Walter Covert," but no elevations. They show a
house, 175-ft. long hy 133-ft. round a central court.
The rooms named are the hall and the parlour adjoining
it on the S.; on the garden or W. side is first the staircase,
the ^'wine seller," then ^^the chapell, the chaplain, his
study;" next come ^^bed chambers" along the N. side;
on the E. '^ the steward's lodgings, his clerk, pastry,
bolting room, dry larder and kitchen, the winter parlour,
the buttry and pantry " bring us to the hall again. The
plan of the upper storey shows a gallery running the
whole length of the house. Of all this but three noble
arches remain, the kitchen, fireplaces and ovens and a
few walls ; the arches are decorated with the Covert
leopard's face and the arms impaling those of families
which inter-married with them, e.^., the three crescents of
Cooke, the pelicans of Pelham, the mullets of Ashburnhatn,
the chevrons of Fettiplace and the five annulets on a bend
of Poynings. Among Gough's Topographical Drawings
in the Bodleian is one taken in 1787 of the then existing
^ See the Catalogue of the Portraits at Longlcaty by Mary Louisa, daughter
of Sir Courtenay Boyle.
88 One can understand the meaning of Bishop Westcott's comment on the
Vandyck portraits of that day, ** Those men could never have been the fathers
of the England that was to be.**
8* There is a reduced copy of one of the plans in Gotch's Renaissance Architecture,
THE COVEHTS. 139
Jive arches on the N. front with the coats of arms carefully-
drawn ; a copy has been made at the Clarendon Press to
illustrate this paper.
Sir Walter having no children, his next brother John's
only child Anne was his heir; she married a cousin,
another Sir Walter, described as ^^of Maidstone," the
grandson of William Covert, of Leeds and Vinters in
Boxley, Kent;®^ he was knighted at Whitehall in 1623.
This William was the second son of John Covert and
Elizabeth Cooke and brother of Richard; he married
Benedicta (or Benet) Harrenden, and lived first at Leeds
Priory,®® which he converted into a dwelling house, as is
testified by a tablet over the door containing his initials
and date, \^ . This he sold to Sir William Tufton, and
went to live at Vinters,®^ which he bought from Sir
Cavaliero Mackworth.
His son William married, first, Elizabeth, daughter of
Sir William Steed, of Harietsham, and Joan, daughter
of John Pordaye, who re-married Francis, younger son
of William Colepeper, of Green way Court, and had by him
Sir Thomas Colepeper, of HoUingbourne. Ann Covert
calls him her uncle. In Joan's will®* she leaves ^^ £10 to
my well beloved son William Covert to bestowe the amount
unto so many poore pepell of the pshes of Leedes and
Broomefield," and also two rings '' to my sonne William
Covert and his wife." William married, secondly, Barbara,
daughter of Matthew Brabury, of Littlebury, Wickham
Bonnett, Essex, and widow of Sir Henry Cutts, of Sir
85 1 Henry VII. (1485). Grant by Joane, late wife of John Gainsford and
daughter and heir of Reginald Moresby, to Nicholas Gaynesford and William
Covert, the elder, of the manors of East Preston and Alyngton and all lands in
the parishes of Maidstone, Boxley, &c. (Ancient Deeds, B. 33.) In 1554 Sir
Robert Southwell writes to Petre that Mr. Covert should join him in Kent to
oppose Wiat. (State Papers, Mary II.)
* Now a farmhouse, called Battle HaU, in the possession of C. Wykeham
Martin, Esq., of Leeds Castle ; there are some fourteenth century remains of the
Priory which was founded in 1119 by Robert Crevecour for Augustinian Canons.
^ Vinters retains the name of its original owners (Vineters) in the fourteenth
century. It passed to the Isleys, the last of whom forfeited it to the Crown for
his share in his neighbour Wyatt's rebellion. Mary then gave it to John Cutts,
who sold it in 1558 to Sir C. Mackworth. It has been in the possession of the
Whatman family 200 years. (Cave Brown's Boxley Parish^ pp. 5, 112 ; Hasted's
Kent, Vol. II., p. 128.)
88 At Canterbury, 1598, Lib. 38, No. 168.
140 THE COVERTS.
Thomas Fludd and of Edward Gille, of Ansty, Herts.®®
His name appears among those of the owners of Vinters
on a slate tablet affixed to the south wall of Boxley Church,
thus ^^ William Covert Esq'® 1610 who married Lady
Barbara Cutts, and rebuilt a part of Vinters in 1582.
William died in 1614. His son Walter was admitted to
Gray's Inn, 1608, ^' son and heir apparent of William Covert
of Leedes," his next brother Thomas in 1611 as '' son of
William Covert of Boxley." There were two elder
sisters, Alice, married to Edward Bradly in 1609, and
Mary to Edward Bust in 1615. Walter seems to have
inherited his father's lack of business qualities, and
caused his uncle. Sir Walter, of Slaugham, a great deal
of anxiety through his indebtedness. He found a friend
in James I., who, after his wont, showed his goodwill at
another's expense, for he wrote to the uncle on Nov. 4th,
1628:^
^^ Trustie. We have of late observed that our servant
Walter Covert hath not soe diligently attended our person
as formerly, and this we understand proceeded partly by
reason of some debts by him owing amounting to £1000
and upwards, but principally by want of competent and
sufficient meanes to maintain himself in such manner as
becometh a servant of ours near about our person: he
acknowledges that beside the interest he hath in you by
nearness of blood and marriage, your love and affection
to have sufficiently appeared by real and effectual benefits.
This thankful acknowledgement we conceive proceedeth
from much dutiful love and respect in our servant towards
you which well deserves to be cherished in him, and we
are confident that as we ourselfs are not wilHng that a
person whom we have taken into affection should wither
in our service, you will find in considering in your own
discretion and judgement both for the interest of our
service, your own honour, and the advancement of one
so neare unto you not to suffer the said servant to absent
himself from our person and service for want of sufficient
^ Visitation of Essex, 1552, Harl. Soc, p. 28 ; Berry's Herts Genealogies.
w State Papers, Dom., James I., 154, p. 106.
THE COVERTS. 141
maiotenance, and therefore for the affection we have unto
his good wo pray you to supply unto him in such
convenient manner as may sutfice both to afford him
freedom, and meanes of livelihood. This we conceive
to be just and reasonable and withal comparable to many
presidents in like cases. As we nothing doubt of
your readiness to give us satisfaction herein specially
considering that merely out of our own princely goodness
without any importunity of our servant we have
vouchsafed to make this request unto you ; wherin the
respect you shall show unto these letters shall assuredly
find our gi'acious acceptance and royal favour. Given
&c Hinchinbrooke 4"" Nov 1623." "
To this Sir Walter replied : — " To his much honoured
friend Sir Francis Stuart Knight.^ I received yesterday
a most gracious letter from his majesty directed unto me
— a poore and meane gentleman — in the behalf of my
kinsman his majesty's servant, who hath cast himself
behinde hand and is fallen into debt so far that he
cannot follow the court to continue in his majesty's
service as his duty requireth ; and it being his majesty's
good pleasure that I should supply his wants, I am ever
ready even to lay downe my life and all the poore estate
I have at his majesty's feet to be disposed at his royal
command. The truth is that I already doe allow my
kinsman yearly in lands to the value of six score pounds
towards his maintenance, and the bringing up his eldest
son ^ who stands me in more than forty pounds yearly
and being young is likely hereafter to charge me higher,
yet I am most willing, only moved thereunto by his
majesty's most gracious favour and inclination towards
him, to add unto that former allowance of six score
pounds to make the same yearly eight score pounds, and
" Sir Edw. Conway (Secretary of State 1023-1630, created Viaoouat Conway
1627) writes thU same day to the Eatl of Carlisle that " the King ia wearie and
Buffering from pains in hia feet," aud on Nov. Sth the gossip, John Chamberlain,
writes that " the King oould not move from Hinchinbrooke as he was overtaken
by gonte." (State Papers, Dom., James I., 154.)
" State Pftpers, Dom., 154, No. 817. Fruncifi waa the geeoad son of Sir Jamea
Stuart, who married in 1580 EU^betb, widow of the Earl of Moray, and took the
title of Earl of Uoiay.
" Walter, bom 1615 ; died aged eight.
142 THE COVEBTS.
besides I will take present order to pay and satisfy the
thousand pounds his majesty doth mention my kinsman
oweth, and whatsover his majesty think it ntt for me
to enlarge myself towards him being informed of my
engagement I will be most humbly obedient to perform
the same, and because I find myself both unfitt and
unworthy to write to the king herein therefore I beseech
you to signify how my desire is to satisfy his majesty.
Lastly being right heartily sorry for your misfortune,
and that I was soe unhappy thereby not to see you at
my poore house as I hear you intended I would have bin
most glad to have waited on you at Rygate to deliver
these particulars, but I am at this time ill and keep my
chamber. Slaugham, Nov. 24 1623."
The letter is written by a secretary and signed " Wa :
Covert." On Dec. 5th Secretary Conway writes,^ ^^ His
majesty's good acceptance of his favour to his kinsman
upon his majesty's mediacion."
Sir Walter in January, 1615, presented Robert Spalding
and in 1626 Simon Aldwick or Aldrich to '^ the Rectory
of Slaugham with the chapel of Crawley."^
The ^^ Funeral Certificate " in the record of the College
of Arms is : ^ ^ The R* worshipful Sir Walter Covert
Knight departed this transitorie life at his house at
Slaugham the xxvii'*" day of January 1631 whose funeral
was worshipfuUy solemnised accoraing to his degree in
the parish church of Slaugham the xxiii"^ day of
February following. He married to his first wife
Timothy daughter of John Lennard of Knole in y*
county of Kent, Esquier, by whom he had no issue.^
Afterwards he married to his 2''* wife Jane daughter of
Sir John Shurley of Isfield in y^ county of Sussex, by
whom he had no issue. The said Sir Walter died at the
age of 88 years and was knighted by the late Queen
Elizabeth 1591. He made executors of his last will and
w state Papers, Dom., Vol. 214 (Conway's Letters).
^ Institution Books, A. 5.
w " 1610. June 10. The Ryght vertious Ladey Timothey Covert was buried."
(Slaugham Register transcript.) "Timothey'* is inserted in a different ink,
probably when there was a second Lady Covert.
THE COVEETS. 143
testament Mr. William Fettiplace his nephew, Mr. Peter
Courthop, and Mr. Walter Burrell his sister's daughter's
Sonne. This certificate was taken by Mr. Samson
Lennard, Bleumantle," nephew of the first Lady Covert.
The following pedigree will show the relationship of the
executors :
John Covert.=r=Ann Cooke.
Eichard.=pAim Henley. * Jane.=Sir John Fettiplace.=p^ Eliz. Hungerford.
d. 1586. d. 1580. \
::t
I ■ 1 1 I
Sir Walter, Jane.=f=Henry Smith. Ellen.=f=Be88il Fettiplace.
b. 1543. b. 1553
d. 1631. d. 1635
Jane.=f:^ Ninian Burrell.
b. 1578. 2 Peter Courthope,
d. 1655. I
Walter, b. 1600.
r 1 1
William, Richard. = Jane, da. of Cicely.=i Rich. Covert.
John Covert. ^ Edw. Bray.
Jane Covert seems to have lived at her husband's house
at Peperharrow during the brief interval of her unmarried
life, for Thomas Fuller dedicated his ^^ Joseph's coat, or
Commentary on 1 Cor." (1640) " To the Right Worship-
ful Lady Jane Covert of Peper Harrow. Desiring to
shroud my weak labours under your patronage. ... I
will not flatter because of you it is needless ; let deformed
faces be beholden to the painter ; art hath nothing to do
when nature hath prevented it."
Sir Walter's widow re-married the year after his death
John Freake, of Cerne Abbas, Dorset,^'' and had two sons
by him. She found a third husband (March, 1641) in
Denzil Holies, second son of the 1st Earl of Clare,
created Baron Holies of Ifield in 1660, having bought
the manor of Ifield from the Covert owner soon after the
marriage. Denzil, after a youth spent at the Court of
James and in the companionship of Charles, then Duke
of York, became leader of the extreme revolutionists in
the House of Commons. He married, in 1625, Dorothy,
^ " 1632. John Freake aged 42 and Dame Jane Covert of Greeneland [near
Henley, the residence of the Hon. W. F. Smith] widow of Sir Walter Covert late
of Slaugham; at Hambleton, a chapel of Fawley Court'* (Marriage Licenses,
Archbishop's Faculty Office).
144 THE (X)VEETS.
daughter and heiress of Sir Thomas Ashley, and owing
to her influence became M.P. for Dorchester. He ofPered
life and freedom to his brother-in-law, Lord Strafford, on
the condition that he would aid him in his efforts to
destroy the Church. He quarrelled with Cromwell, and
spent some years in France, where he took a leading
5 art in bringing back the king. Evelyn mentions in his
iary, May 22nd, 1660, that he saw him created Lord
Holies on the Eve of the Coronation. His first wife died
in 1640 and the next year he married Jane, Sir Walter
Covert's widow. She was buried in the family vault of
the Frekes at Shroton or Iwerne Courtney, Dorset, in
April, 1666.^® Lord Holies had a French lady for his
third wife. He died in 1679, aged eighty-one, and was
buried at S. Peter's, Dorchester, where his great nephew
John, Duke of Newcastle, set up a fine monument to his
memory. By his first wife he left an only son, Francis,
bom in 1627, who seems to have resided at Ifield,
but the only relic of the family there is a coffin plate, set
in a marble tablet, on the south wall of Ifield Church,
and inscribed: — ^^ The Right Honble. Ann Baroness
Holies of Ifield eldest daughter and co-heyre of Sir
Thomas Pile of Compton Beauchamp, Berks, and wife
of Francis Baron Holies."
Their only son Denzel, 3rd Lord Holies, died in
childhood (born in 1690 and died 1694), so this Sussex
peerage died out after an existence of only 33 years.
Sir Walter's wilP^ was made six months before his
death and proved eleven days after it, and before his
funeral. He directs that his body should be buried in
^^ the new erected chapell adjoining the parish church of
* Col. Chester's Westminster Abbey Registers y p. 4. Hutchins' Dorset, ** The
Lady Janes Holies wife to the right Honourable Denzel, Lord Holies Bar. of
HoUes." (Shroton Reg.) The fine monument to her second husband's parents
says that their eldest son John married — (1) Arundell Trenchard and (2) Jane
Shirley, La. Covert. The following inscription is to be seen on "The Royal
Yacht" at the comer of Denzell Street, Clare Market: — "So called by Gilbert
Earl of Clare in memory of his uncle Denzell Lord Holies ... a great honour
to his name, and a pattern of his Father's great meritt." Chauncy {Herts) says
that " in France he kept a noble table fumist with dishes of meat after the English
fashion for the honour of his country and in contempt of the French mode."
» P.C.C., Audley, f. 12.
J
THE COVEKTS.
1," and proceeds " by indenture of 23rd July I
have demised all my manners, lands and tenements
within the realm of England, except the rectory of
Ebornc, to Sir Thos. Pelham Bart, Peter Courthoppe
Esq, Walter Burrell Esq, and Will. Fettiplace gent for
21 years after my decease upon trust to dispose of the
rents and profitts as expressed. To Dame Jane my wife,
all my household stuflf which were lately brought from
my house at Pepperharrow, and are now remaining in
my house at Hangleton which I liold by lease of John
Puckle gent, and all the jewels which she weareth with
all the silver plate which usually standeth upon the
cupboard in my bedchamber at Slaugham, and shall be
marked for her in my life time that she be not defrauded.
To every one of my godchildren that are gentleman's
children 20/ to buie a ring, and to every other of my
godchildren a piece of gold o£ 10/. To the poor of
blaugham, Cuckfield, Bolneie, Twyneham, Horsham,
Crawlie, Ifield, Balcombe and Worth, to be paid to the
several ministers, churchwardens and overseers of the
poor £5. To Sir Thomas Pelham of Hallonde £40 to
buie him a piece of plate. To Peter Courthopp of
Cranbrook, Walter Burrell of Cuckfield and William
Fettiplace of Slaugham my kinsman £20 a piece to buie
plate. To M' Simon Aldwicke minister of Slaugham £5.
All my books in my studie at Slaugham shall remain as
standards in my house for the sole use of my next heir.
My deare wife Jeane, Sir Thos. Pelham, Peter Courthoppe,
Walter Burrell, and Will. Fettiplace, to be my executors,
if site marrie, then the others. All the residue of my
jewels, monies, plate, debts, goods and chattels (when
my debts, legacies, and funeral charges are paid) to my
kinsman Thomas Covert, 2"'' son of Sir Walter Covert,
late of Maidstone dec. when he is 21. If Thomas dye
before he is 21, my goods &c be to go to John 3'^ son of
Walter Covert, then to Walter son and heir of George
Covert Esq late of Cuckfield dec. which was son of
Humphrey Covert of Godstone. Signed in the presence
of Thomas Woodcock, James Plummer, Thomas Harris,"
and proved February 7th, 163 1.
146 THE (X)VEETS.
The terms of the indenture mentioned in this will are
found in the Chancery Proceedings of 1645 and give an
idea of the extent of the Covert estates; ^^ John Covert
V. William Colepeper ; " it is made between Sir Walter
Covert of the first part, Sir Thos. Pelham, of Halland,
Bart./^ and Peter Courthope, of Cranbrook/"^ of the
second part, and John Covert, of Eberton, and William
Fettiplace, of Slaugham,^^ of the third part; the said
Sir Walter granted to the said Pelham, Courthope, Covert
and Fettiplace that he would be seized of the manor of
Peppharrow, of the manor of Twyneham and other
lands in Sussex with the advowson of Twyneham, and
land in Bolney called Brookland, Bayfield and Squires,
the manor of Broadbridge in SuUington, Horsham and
Hitchynfield, the manor of Ashington in Ashington with
the advowson, land in Washington, Worminghurst and
Thakeham, a house in Ifield called Uherst, and other
lands in Ifield, Slaugham and Rusper, land in Henfield
and Shermanbury, the manor of Hangleton and a farm
in Bevynden in Falmer, the manor of Slaugham with
the advowson, the manor of Slow in Ifield and Crawley
with the advowson of Crawley, two parts of the manor
of Rushy ngton and one quarter of the manor of Cook-
field, the farm of Tilgate in Worth, Slaugham, Balcomb
and Cookfield, which he purchased of Lord Bergavenny
100 2nd Baronet, M.P. for Sussex ; died in 1654.
101 Peter Courthope married Jane Smith, niece of Sir Walter and widow of
Ninian BurreU, who died in 1614. (S.A.C, Vol. XLIII.)
102 William Fettiplace, the son of Besill Fettiplace, and Ellen, daughter of
Richard and Ann Covert, and therefore Sir Walter's sister's son. The monument
of Sir John Fettiplace, at Appleton, Oxford, says that his eldest son, Besil,
married Helinora, daughter of Richard Covert, and had six sons, of whom William
was the youngest. The old Berkshire saying runs :
** The Laceys, the Traceys, the Fettiplaces
Own all the mansions, the woods and the places."
William Fettiplace was buried at Cuckfield. His monument in the south aisle
has this inscription, beneath the arms gu,, two chevrons or : — ** Near this is buried
the body of William Fettiplace gent, the youngest son of Bessell Fettiplace of
Bessells Lea in Barkshire esquier who departed this life in Coockfield May 1656
aged 71 years. To whose memorie Walter Burrell of Holmested his neare
^sman erected this monument." In his will (P.C.C., Berkeley, f. 249), proved
June, 1656, he leaves to the poorest people of Slaugham and Cuckfield £5 and £10
to buy come in time of famine, i.e., when the price of wheat exceeds 5s. 6d. a
bushell ; " to the minister appointed to preach the word of God at my burial 408.
beseeching him to take for his text Psa. xvi. 12 ; " the rest " to my dearly beloved
kinsman Walter Burrell."
THE COVERTS. 147
and Sir Edward Culpeper, Kt., land in Hurst, Capell,
Nydygate, Beeding, Warnham, Aldrington, Portslade,
Hove, Rusper, Wienefeild and Chayly, the manors of
Evening and Evening Priory, Gravehill, Courtbrook,
Courtlease and Brickendens in Kent [amounting to nine
manors, four advowsons and property in thirty parishes
in Sussex] to the use of himself for life, and in default
of any direct heir, then to Thomas Covert and his heirs
and then to his brother John, as expressed in the will.
The chapel, which Sir Walter speaks of as ^^ new
erected " in 1631, was built on the south side of Slaugham
Church and was of the same length as the chancel ; it
was separated from the church by a stone wall and
entered by a door on the south side. For a long period
it was used as a vestry, an altar tomb in the middle
forming the table on which the registers, &c., were laid.
In 1864, when the church was repaired, the partition
wall was removed, its place taken by two arches and the
chapel thrown into the church. Just outside the chapel
is a venerable yew tree, which must have shadowed
many generations of Coverts as they passed from their
mansion to their parish church; its circumference at a
foot from the ground is 24-ft. 7-in/^ The Poinings
chapel was on the north side of the chancel. In 1368
Adam de Ponynges left £40 to make a new aisle and an
altar dedicated to St. James.^°*
I feel myself bound to express my thanks to the kind
friends who have supplied me with the information of
which I have made liberal use in this paper, especially
to Walter C. Renshaw, Esq., K.C., without whose
researches it would have lost much of its interest.
108 From information kindly given by E. Bigg, Esq., of The Hyde. The
Ecclesiologist for December, 1857, has the following description of this church
and its restoration : " This church comprises a chancel, nave, western tower, a
lately added excrescence of a S. aisle out of all proportion to the church, and a
chantry south of the chancel. Mr. Clarke, in restoring it, throws the chantry
and excrescence into an uniform aisle to nave and chancel, carefully adopting the
very excellent middle-pointed tracery of the chantry. The whole restoration is
properly conservative in its feelii^.'*
w* Harl. MS., 6,148, f. 18 ; S.A.C, Vol. XV., p. 22.
L 2
A PRE-CONQUEST COFFIN -SLAB FROM
ARUNDEL CASTLE.
By PHILIP MAINWAEING JOHNSTON.
A COUNTRY builder's yard often proves a happy hunting
ground for the antiquary. I was one day exploring the
back premises of Messrs. A. & E. Booker, in the village
of Walberton, near Arundel, when I observed a quantity
of ancient stones built into one of the modem walls.
They were of all dates : pieces of dog's-tooth moulding
and fragments of seventeenth century work were mixed
up in a quaint mosaic, with more modern odds and ends.
But among them, my eye was at once arrested by the
remarkable slab shown in the accompanying drawing.
It is a rude grave-stone or coffin-slab, worked in the
peculiar fresh-water limestone (similar to the beds found
off St. Helen's, Isle of Wight), which was extensively
used in the pre-Conquest buildings of the sea-coast region
in Western Sussex. Attention has been called by Mr.
Guermonprez and myself to the use of this stone m the
early work of Barton Farm, Nyetimber (S.A.C.j Vol.
XL VI., p. 150, et seq.)\ and I have noted its occurrence
in the well-known pre-Conquest churches of Bosham,
Singleton, Sompting, &c.
The slab, which now measures 2-ft. 5j-ins. by (originally)
l-ft. 8-ins. in width, has a flat roll and shallow sunk
border along its sides, and bears in very low relief on its
face a cross of a curious and unusualjpattern. The design
of this cross suggests Byzantine or Eastern influence. It
is evidently intended to represent a pendant or pectoral
cross, such as might have been worn upon the person of
an ecclesiastic, for attached to its top member is a sort of
triangular loop or link, such as would be used in hanging
a metal cross upon the breast. Such crosses have, of
I Jv Tpre-Cofjii^ucsi' Coffirj-slcij fror>i
i50 A PRE-CONQUEST COFFIN -SLAB.
course, been in common use, especially among the clergy,
in all countries from early Christian times, and I think
there can be little doubt that the workman who carved
or scratched out this rude design upon the slab intended
to represent just such a simple little bronze or gold cross
as may have rested upon the person of the priest or other
cleric over whom the slab was laid. The slab itself was
probably longer, but it is doubtful whether it was designed
as the covering of a stone coffin. Probably it was laid
over the body when it had been interred, to mark the
position of the grave. The thickness of the slab, which
is now embedded in a wall, can only be guessed at from
4-ins. to 6-ins.
The place from which this curious relic was brought
gives it a special interest. It seems that it came into the
possession of the late Mr. Booker as ^^old material,"
when called in many years ago to effect some repairs to
a wall in Arundel Castle, and it is stated to have been
taken out of the base of this wall, — unfortunately, which
particular wall of the Castle does not appear to be
recorded.
We know that there was an oratory, or chapel, dedicated
to St. Martin, in the Keep of the Castle, on the level of
the first floor, which chapel is mentioned in Domesday.
But it is quite likely that this Norman chapel was only
the successor of an earlier oratory attached to the primitive
fortification that from Alfred's days, at least, must have
occupied the site; and it may well be that this slab
originally covered the remains of a Saxon priest who
acted as chaplain. At any rate the slab may date as far
back as to the tenth century.
The pre-Conquest sepulchral memorials of Sussex are
few and far between. The most noteworthy is a child's
coffin lid, found some years ago in the restoration of
Bexhill Church, and now fixed in an upright position
against the S. wall of the tower. It is well worth a
special account and a careful drawing to itself in one of
our future Volumes.
NOTES AND QUERIES.
The Editors will be glad to receive short Notes on Discoveries and Matters of
Interest relating to the Antiquities and History of the County y for insertion
in the ** Collections,** such communications to be addressed to them at The
Castle, Lewes,
No. 1.
CHICHESTER SEVENTEENTH CENTURY TOKENS.
In October, 1903, two of these tokens, both farthings, occurred in
Chichester and were brought to me. One, which is not uncommon,
having on the Obverse : John Smith, the Grocer's Arms, and on the
Reverse : Of Chichester. J. S. The Grocer's Arms in this instance
being a chevron between nine cloves, three, three and three. The
other, which is scarcer, is that of a dyer. It has on the Obverse : John
Gittings, the Dyer's Arms. Reverse : J. G. in Chichester. The Dyer's
Arms being a chevron between three madder bags, corded. This
example was in a good state of preservation.
F. H. Aknold, F.S.A.
No. 2.
ROMAN COINS AT RUMBOLDSWHYKE.
In making excavations at Rumboldswhyke on October 6th, 1903, two
Eoman coins were found which came into my possession. On of these
is of much interest. It is of ** second brass," in excellent preservation,
with the "image and superscription" in high relief. It was issued
by Tiberius Csesar, mentioned by St. Luke, who records that it was in
the fifteenth year of the reign of this Emperor that John the Baptist
began his mission. Tiberius reigned a.d. 14-37. On this coin is
represented, not the head of Tiberius himself, but that of Augustus,
radiated, since he was supposed to be deified. This is evident from
the inscription on the Obverse, which reads thus: "Divus Augustus
Pater." On the Reverse are the letters S. C, of large size, on either
side of the temple of Janus, open, as was usual in time of war. In
the Exergue Providen. In his Numismata, Yaillant describes this
piece of money as rare and remarkable. The other coin is of "third
brass " of a common type. Obverse : A helmeted head, with the
inscription "Urbs Roma," and on the Reverse the she wolf suckling
Bomidus and Eemus, with two stars above.
F. H. Arnold, F.S.A.
1-52
NOTES AND QUERIES.
CHICHESTER STOCKS AND WHIPPING POST.
An interesting addition to the antiquities In the Chichester Muaoum
was made on October 24th, 1903, by the presentation to it of the Stocks
and Whipping Post of the ancient city, through the generosity of Mr,
W. James, of Westdean House, who purchased it from Mr. J. Newman,
of North-street, Chichester, who bad rescued it from an obscure lumber
room, This elaborate engine, which differs from other examples which
I have seen in Susses, and in one of which, at Petworth, I remember
once seeing a delinquent sitting, was doubtless one of terror at Chichester
to certain citizens in the olden time. It may be thus described : It is a
■wooden platform, which I found to measure about five feet by three
feet, raised twenty inches from the ground, having four iron wheels.
Upon it are two movable boards, perforated with four holes for the
reception of the legs, two of these being smaller than the others, pre-
sumably being intended for females. This was fastened by a padlock.
Behind is a four-legged stool. In the centre is the Whipping Post,
three and a half feet high, with three iron manacles on either side,
both secured with strong padlocks. This instrument of punishment
has an iron handle, by which it could be drawn about todiSerent parts
of the city, after having been placed near the Ci'oas. In old times its
use w&s not unfrequent. From an old Court Book I find that on the
18th March, 1765, "One Harris and Ann Tilley were ordered to
receive twenty lashes upon their bare backs, having raisbohaved."
The crier of Chichester was to notify that this would be done at nine
o'clock the next morning, and for this he was to receive 2s. 6d. On April
15th, 1761, it was ordered that Mary Page, for her iU-behaviour and
cutting a hole in the window of the room in which she had been con-
fined, be whipped, aad that she have sis lashea ; while on November
NOTES AND QUERIES. 153
5tli, 1769, it was ordered that James McQueen be publicly whipped
with twelve lashes of the cat o' nine tails. It also appears that the Stocks
and the Pillory were both often used in Chichester in the eighteenth
century, since, in 1756, it was ordered that for misdemeanours, which
are specified, offenders were to be put into the stocks or wear the
pillory for two hours. Mr. J. Newman informs me that when a boy he
saw, in 1845, a person rejoicing in the nickname of ** Shadow" fixed
up in the stocks at Chichester, who was being pelted with oranges and
eggs. This is the last exhibition of the kind there known.
F. H. Arnold, F.S.A.
Note. — I distinctly remember the last man placed in the town stocks
at Truro, Cornwall. This was in 1854. The stocks were placed in the
main street of the town, and the offender lay on his back or sat upon
some straw placed under him, ^^ Michell Whitley.
No. 4.
THOMAS JOHNSON AND THE CHARLTON HUNT.
In June, 1903, I came upon a curious relic of a famous Sussex
huntsman of the olden time, which had been recently discovered at
Singleton, and secured it as an interesting connexion with the days of
yore and the memorials of the renowned Charlton Hunt. It is what
was anciently called a ** leather hotel, "^ small and holding about a
quart, with a cork as a stopper and a white leathern attachment for
the horseman. On one side it has upon it, painted in white letters, the
names of the recipient and the donor, as follows :
THOMAS lOHNSON
Huntsman to y« DVKE
of EICHMOND 1734
A present from
C CHALLEN
T T
On both ends are the letters 6.* and doubtless accompanied by this
useful gift Johnson often rode over our Sussex Downs and through its
forests, hangers and woods with hounds and horn.
^ Leather bottles were of ancient use and high in price as appears from an entry
in the expenses of John, King of France, when prisoner in England after the
battle of Poictiers, 1359-60 : Pour deux bouteilles de cuir achet^es a Londres pour
Monseigneur Phillipe ... 9s. 8d. In the Roxburghe ballads there is much
commendation of the man *' who first devized the leather hotel.'* On signboards
they used often to be represented. The leather bottle near Angmering gave name
to ** Leatherbottle Lane " {S.A,C., Vol. X., p. 190). An informant at Chichester
tells me that he has seen a bottle similar to the above, which was carried by a
British officer at the battle of Waterloo.
NOTES AND QUERIES.
Of the Charlton Hunt and of the remarkable chase at Charlton o_
Friday, 26th January, 1 738, which lasted teu hours,' there is a full and
interestiDg account in these Collections by the late Mr. T. J. Bennett, of
Chichester, whom I well knew. It waa copied from an old MS. framed
and hung up in an ancient farmhouse at Fuatington. The history of
the Charlton Hunt from the beginning iiaa been well traced by Mr.
Bennett, and I shall only refer to it as relating to the times of Thomas
Johnson, when we are told of Mr. Edward lioper, who long had the
management of the Charlton Pack, and was a most daring rider," that
on February, 1723, after having ridden with the hounds to Findon,
just at the find, he dropped down lifeless on the field at the advanced
age of 84. Their nest owner was the Duke of Bolton, and by him
" they were given to the second Duke of Richmond, who assumed the
entire management, assisted by Lord Delawair, having for huntsman
the redoubted Tom Johnson, so well known with the pack." The hunt,
we are told, assumed an importance and regularity scarcely before
known. "Every morning a hundred horses were led out, each with
his attendant groom in the Charlton livery of blue with gold cord and
tassels to their caps. Lords and ladies continued to flock to Charlton
in the hunting season, and in 1732 the Uuko of Richmond' built the
hotise where he and the Duchess used to sleep, so as to be ready for
^ Begianing at a quarter to eiglit in the moraing iind ending at fen minutas
' On Duncton Hill tliere used to be a very Btepp pntliway leading to the top.
This was called Roper'e llace, which I have ofteu rlinibed whea a boy. According "*
to local tradition Boper performed the almost impossiblii teat of ridiug down it.
* In Goodwood House there are several portraite of Charles Iy;miox, aecond i
Duke of Richmond, and hia Duchesfl. He married at the Hague " Deo. 4, 1719, 1
Saruh, eldest daughter of William, Earl ol Cadogan, and one of the ladies of the
bedchamber to Queen Cnjoline." Of this marriage we have a romantic acconnt '
In the " Life of Weneral Sir Charles Jamea Napier," who was related to the family.
He tells U8 that os a buy of fourteen or thereabouta the secoud Duie waa carried
NOTES AND QUERIES. 155
the early meet at eight o'clock in the morning. The walls of the
principal room were ornamented with paintings relative to the chase.
In 1853 this house was still standing and, says the writer, was ** almost
the sole relic of the Charlton Hunt." One other, however, remains
in leather as described above, and there is also a very remarkable
history in marble, on a tablet, which is to be seen in Singleton Church,
to which I paid a visit, and although part of it is nearly undecipherable,
it admitted of being copied and gives us this quaint and curious eulogy
of Thomas Johnson in the peculiar style of the eighteenth century :
"Near this place lies interred
Thomas Johnson
Who departed this life at Charlton
December 20'*» 1 744
From his early inclination to Fox Hounds
He soon became an experienced huntsman
His knowledge in his profession wherein
He had no superior and hardly an equal
Joined to his honesty in every other particular
Recommended him to the service, and gained
Him the approbation of several of the nobility
And gentry, among these were the Lord Conway,
Earl of Cardigan, the Lord Gower, the Duke of
Marlborough, the Honourable Mr. Spencer.
The last master whom he served, and in whose service
He died was Charles Duke of Richmond
Lenox and Aubigny, who erected this monument*
off to clmrcli by his parents and married, much against his will, to Lady Sarah
Cadogan, the eldest daughter of Earl Cadogan. Lady Sarah was taken out of the
nursery to be married to a boy whom she hardly knew by sight, and when the
ceremony was over they parted with mutual satit^faction at the church door,
the bridegroom bursting into tears at *' being tied up for life to such a horrible
fright." Years flew by, most of which were spent upon the Continent in com-
pleting his education and making what was then called ** the grand tour.'* After
an absence of seven or eight years the husband came back to England without
his wife knowing anything about it. A night or two after his return he found his
way to the opera to while away a dull evening, and on entering the house he found
every eye fixed upon a singularly beautiful and elegant woman who was seated in
a box immediately opposite him. Upon inquiring her name he received the answer,
*' That is the lovely Countess of March, the greatest beauty in London." The result
will be easily foreseen. The fortunate owner of such a prize was not slow in making
himself known to his wife, and they fell in love with each other at first sight.
* As an instance of the munificence of this Duke of Richmond may be
mentioned that he interested himself much about Chichester Cross, as is testified
by the time-worn tablet remaining on its west side, which bears the followino-
inscription : ** This beautiful Cross erected by Edward Story Bishop of Chichester^
who was advanced to that dignity by Edward IV. , was first repaired in the reign
of Charles II. and now again in the twentieth year of our present sovereign
George II. 1746. Thomas Wall Mayor at the sole expense of Charles Duke of
Richmond and Aubigny." The ravages of wind and weather were thus stayed
for a time, but they continued until this unique and beautiful structure became
in great jeopardy. In 1903, however, under the auspices of the present Mayor of
Chichester, J. P. Mackeson, Esq., strenuous efforts were made for its reparation.
About £600 was liberally subscribed from various sources for this purpose. The
work has been satisfactorily accomplished, and it is to be hoped that it may be of
a long-enduring nature.
156 NOTES AND QUEBIES.
As a reward to the deceased
And an incitement to the living
Go and do thou likewise" S' Luke Chap. x. ver. xxxvii.
Beneath this are the following lines, of which, as there is much
poetry in them, one would like to know their author :
** Here Johnson lies, what Hunter can deny
Old honest Tom, the tribute of a sigh.
Deaf is that ear that caught the opening sound
Dumb is that tongue that cheered the hills around
Unpleasing truth ! Death hunts us from our birth
In view, and men, like foxes, take to earth."
Rev. F. H. Arnold, M.A., LLD., F.8.A.
No. 5.
EASTBOURNE AND WESTBOURNE.
Yet another case of confusion between these two places has to be
recorded. In the Calendar of Close KoUs, 1337-1339, recently issued
by the Eecord Office, an order to deliver to Elizabeth, late the wife of
Giles de Badelesmere . . . the manor of Bourn, co. Sussex, extended
at £77. 14s. 2d. yearly, which relates to Eastbourne, is in the index
referred to Westbourne. j^^^ H. Mee.
No. 6.
THE NAME ''BURGESS HILL.''
Professor Maitland, in his edition of Bracton's Note Booh, Vol. III.,
p.- 51, identifies the locus in quo of the following action as to Burgess
Hill. Under the " Placita apud Westm"^ in Octabis S. Trin. anno octavo
Eegis Henrici filii regis Johannis" Ca.d. 1223) occurs case No. 1010.
" Sussex ; Sybilla filia Willelmi per attornatum suum petit versus
Willelmum de Hordena et Johannam uxorem ejus medietatem unius
caruc : terre cum pert : in Burgesse et racionabilem porcionem suam
que eam contingit hereditate predicti Willelmi patris ipsarum Sibille
et Johanne cujus heredes ipse sunt." To this William de Horden and
Joan plead that Sibilla had and yet has two other surviving sisters.
Sibilla replies that she has two other sisters, but says that they are
married to two villeins of the Countess de Augo, for which reason they
in the lifetime of their husbands can claim nothing. To this William
de Horden and Joan rejoin that they know not whether their husbands
are villeins or free. The Court held that because Sibilla seeks one half
of the whole inheritance of William and the villeins might die, after
which the aforesaid sisters could claim their right, William de Horden
and Joan need not answer the writ because Sibilla claimed too much.
This is a very interesting record, but plainly relates to Burwash and
not to Burgess Hill. Horden is a farm in Goudhurst (S.-4.C7., Vol. IX.,
NOTES AND QUERIES. 157
p. 155). The territory of the Countess of Eu, who at this date was
Alicia or Alix, widow of Kaoul de Exondon (who had died before
Ist May, 1219), and who was Countess of Eu from 1186 to 1245,
included the Castle and Honour of Hastings, in which Burwash is
situate {Testa de Nevill, p. 223), whereas she had no concern with the
Kape of Lewes, in which Burgess Hill in Keymer is situate. Burwash
in old records is written Burghese, Burghessche {S,A,C.y Vol. XXI.,
p. 10), Burghess, Burghis {Charter BollSj pp. 332 and 467). The
earliest instance of the name **Burges Hill" which the writer has
found is in Howe's MS., fol. 19, when, under the head of the Manor of
Keymer, one of the tenants in 1597 is described as Roger Aderton
gent : who held Burgess Hill alias Hachers. Roger Aderton was of
Barcombe, gent., and by his will, dated 12th Sept., 1601, and proved at
Lewes 3rd April, 1602 (Book A. 28, fol. 1), disposed specifically of
freehold lands in Hamsey, Slaugham, Barcombe and All Saints, Lewes,
and gave legacies to poor of various places, including Keymer, but he
made no mention of Burges Hill alias Hachers. A John Burgeys
appears on the Lay Subsidy Roll, 1296, in the wills of Keymer and
Clayton. Walter C. Renshaw.
No. 7.
SUSSEX CHURCHES IN U05.
The following, which has not yet appeared in our Collections^ throws
some light on the state of Sussex churches in 1405. William Noion,
rector of Haddenham, near Ely, and canon of York, Lincoln and
Chichester, died 18th Sept., 1405. In his will, dated 15th July, 1405,
occurs this : " Volo ut ordinentur per executores meos xl vestimenta
Dominicalia, competentia pro uno capellano, cum corporalibus et cassis
ad eadem, pro xl ecclesiis parochialibus magis indigentibus de pretio
vestimenti circa xx* ; de quibus volo quod xiij ecclesise parochiales in
insulam Elise sint de eisdem, et sunt plures ecclesiae parochiales in
partibus Sussex pessime ornatae in vestimentis, ad liberandum eisdem
per discretionem executorum meorum pro anima mea." This will was
proved 6 Oct., 1405, and will be found printed in full in Test, Ebor,,
Vol. III., pp. 28 et seq. Walter C. Renshaw.
No. 8.
EARL SWEGEN AND HACON DUX.
At the time of writing the remarks under the above heading in Vol.
XL VI. of the Society's Collections 1 had not had the advantage of
reading Mr. P. M. Johnston's instructive paper on Lyminster and
Wamingcamp in the same volume. Though I think I might have
known better, it is very easy to perceive that which has been amply
demonstrated, and I am sorry to have accepted the popular opinion,
also entertained by Dallaway, that Swegen's abbess Edgiva was in
158 NOTES AND QUERIES.
anyway associated with Lyminster in Sussex. I think my feebly
expressed doubt **it is asserted that this Leominster was the royal
manor in Sussex " to be totally inadequate, and I am quite convinced
by Mr. Johnston's arguments that before Domesday Leominster was
in the County of Hereford, where it ought to have remained.
Hamilton Hall.
No. 9.
STIGAND BISHOP OF CHICHESTER
•
There is perhaps no subject connected with the Norman period upon
which Mr. Horace Round's opinion is not only entitled to the fullest
respect, but also to a presumption of being preferable to any opinion
divergent. It is therefore with regret that I am unable to agree with
his observations under this heading in Vol. XL VI. (p. 234) of the
Society's Collections.
My remarks upon the Sele Charters were not made in ignorance of
Mr. Round's Calendar of Documents Preserved in France; but it
appeared to me very unnecessary to quote this most valuable calendar
for the mere purpose of disagreeing mainly with a passage in the
introduction thereof. I stated my way of counting three ; Mr. Round
had already, as he here intimates, computed that number in a difPerent
manner. But how to count three is not quite the whole of the matter.
There is a charter, and there is a set of dates, and there is a definite
statement concerning the Purification : — and superficially these three
things are inconsistent. The Charter being genuine, and the dates
being accurate, the three days are a difficulty ; they must be twisted
up in some way. Mr. Round's way is extremely ingenious, very
possibly justifiable, quite likely correct ; but it would not occur to me
80 to read the passage, and I did not like the process; and it will
stand a deal of defending. I did believe the Charter, and incidentally
its three days, though the copies of the Charter, called originals, are
unquestionably muddled in some respect. Mr. Round accepted the
essential words, putting his own interpretation upon them ; I accepted
the same words, as they stand. Therefore the correlative dates might
conceivably be open to some criticism. In examining them I arrived at
an opinion on these dates— concerning William Boname, Archbishop of
Rouen, and John, his predecessor — although Mr. Round had accepted
them at their face value without comment. That, however, is another
question. I have no desire to avoid that question. But it is not a
Sussex question. Hamilton Hall.
No. 10.
THE DERIVATION OF TODDINGTON.
In my paper on Lyminster and its dependent manors in S,A.C.j VoL
XLVL, p. 197, foot note, I advanced a suggestion, based upon the
commonly received derivation of Teddington, Middlesex, as to the
ancient meaning of the name Toddington, a hamlet of Lyminster.
NOTES AND QUERIES. 159
Prof. Skeat, whose authority I had quoted for the derivation of the
name Lyminster, has been kind enough to set me right as to that of
Toddington. He writes : —
** I think you will like to know that the explanation of Toddington
as Tiding-town is quite impossible. There never was, or could be, such
a form. It would have to be Tide-town, (A. S. tid-tun) : You can't
get in the — ing. And the vowel I is as distinct from 6 as well can be.
You cannot equate dike with dock, nor hide with hod,
" Of Toddington, only two solutions are possible. It is either * the
home of the Todings,' or *8ons of Toda ' (a name which occurs
twice) ; or else — * the home of the Tottings or the sons of Totta ' —
Totta being fairly common. Surely the Domesday spelling decides for
the latter and the more probable. There are two other Toddingtons,
one in Dorset and one in Bedfordshire ; possibly allied to the Toda
which appears in Todenham (A.S. Todanham), Gloucester. But there
are two Tottingtons in Lancashire, Upper Tottington and Lower
Tottington ; and Tottan, gen. of Totta, occurs in Tottenham, Middle-
sex; Tottenhilly Norfolk; Totteridge, Hertfordshire.
" There were four Tottas who were bishops ; one of Selsey, also called
Tdta (same sound) ; and there was a Sussex Tota in 772. (See Searle,
Onomasticon Anglo-Saxonicum,) "
If we take it that Tottington (Toddington) was named after an
early bishop of Selsey, we have an interesting local parallel in the case
of Yapton=Eappa-tun — " the town of Eappa," a Saxon priest,
mentioned by the Venerable Bede in his Ecclesiastical History as a
contemporary of Wilfrid.
Prof. Skeat does not question the suggested derivation of Warning-
camp, but I feel myself very doubtful as to its correctness. It appears
in Domesday as Warnecham : and while we may perhaps see in the
last syllable the Norman-French Champ, field, the first is probably
only Warren (as in Warnham)— the Warren field.
Let me take this opportunity of correcting a printer's error on p. 215
— Kestral for Kestrel,
P. M. Johnston.
No. 11.
A LEVY BY THE PARLIAMENT DURING THE
COMMONWEALTH ON THE TYTHING OF
ANGMERING.
To William Howling of the Tything of Angmering.
Whereas the summe of two hundred thousand pounds is to bee paid
to our Brethren of Scotland for their assistance in this Warre, for the
speedy raising whereof, some course by Ordinance of both Houses is
alredy taken, for the forcing of those to lend thereunto, who shall not
doe it willingly, and further course will bee taken therein. And
160 NOTES AND QUERIES.
whereas we are informed that you are able to lend towards this service
the summe of seaven pounds and whereas those who shall willingly
lend are first to be paid. These are to desire you to manifest your
good affection to the business, as that which will bee most for your
advantage, being loath to execute the said Ordinance upon any,
without an absolute necessity. We desire your answer by this bearer.
And that the said summe of seaven pounds may be paid within eight
dayes after your receipt of this present unto Thomas Barnard gent at
his house in Petworth whose acceptance (being subsigned and entered
as is directed) shall bee sufficient for you to receive the said sum with
the use for the forbearance thereof, at the rate of eight pounds per
centum per annum according to the true intent of an Ordnance of
both Houses of the 1 6th of October 1643 purposely made for the security
of such who should lend any monies for this service.
Jo : Downes George Churcher
Balfe Cowper
Received of the aforesaid William Howling the 26'^ of) ..y
September 1644 the aforesaid some of seaven pounds. ) ^^^
J Sayres
Per me Tho : Barnard
Copied by E. Oarleton Holmes.
No. 12.
DRAYTON'S ''THE BATTLE OF AGINCOURT''
Looking into Drayton the other day I found in his The Battle of
Agincourt the stanzas of which the following is a copy. It is the
first intimation I have encountered that Kent or Sussex had ever
respectively borne such arms. Neither the Field nor other colour or
metal is given, in either case, save the lion (sa.) "sore that bled"
= vulned gu. ^^^^ Dawes.
Stanza 63.
To be embarked when every band comes down.
Each in their order as they mustered were.
Or by the difference of their armings known,
Or by their colours ; for in ensigns there.
Some wore the arms of their most antient town.
Others again their own devices bear :
There was not any but that more or less.
Something had got, that something should express.
64.
First in the Kentish streamer was a wood.
Out of whose top an arm that holds a sword.
As their right emblem ; and to make it good,
They, above other, only had a word,
NOTES AND QUERIES. 161
Which was unconquer'd, as that freest had stood.
Sussex the next that was to come aboard,
Bore a *black lion rampant, sore that bled,
With a field-arroio darted through the head.
65.
The men of Surrey, cheeky blue and gold,
&c., &c., &c.
* An expression of King Harold's death, slain with an arrow in the head at the
battle of Hastings, fighting against the Conqueror.
XIiVII. M
OBITUAKY.
EEV. W. D. PAEISH, M.A.
Our Society, and indeed our County, have sustained an irreparable
loss by the death of our Chairman of Council, Chancellor Parish —
irreparable, for there is no one living who possesses his extensive
acquaintance with Sussex and Sussex people of the past and present,
no one who had such a fund of stories illustrating the character and
humour of the old Sussex peasantry.
William Douglas Parish was born in December, 1833, the son of
Sir Woodbine Parish, a distinguished diplomatist. He received his
education at Charterhouse and Trinity College, Oxford, and was
ordained to the Curacy of Firle in 1859. Four years afterwards he
became Vicar of Selmeston with Alciston — then pronounced Simpson
and Ahston — and resided there for 41 years, a model parish priest, as
one of our Council rightly said. In 1866 Selmeston Church was
rebuilt, the old stones being used again under his careful superinten-
dence, from the plans of Mr. Christian. He was remarkably successful
in the management of his school, and made it famous by his plan of
securing "attendance without compulsion" by means of reward
tickets.
His first important publication was a Dictionary of the Sussex
Dialect and Collection of Provincialisms in Use in the County, copies
of which were distributed by the English Dialect Society to its members
in 1874. Its Preface is an invaluable history of Sussex words and
pronunciation. His fears that the march of education would " trample
down provincial dialect" are sadly realised, save that we still inter-
change our e's and i's, but surely and mercifully are now spoken as
in ** the sheeres." This Dictionary is ** a humorous record of the way
a Sussex man put his thoughts into words 40 years ago." A second
edition was published in 1875.
He followed this up by a Dictionary of the Kentish Dialect and
Provincialisms, &c., in conjunction with the Vicar of Eastry, in
1887.
H 2
164 OBITUARY.
He never contributed to our Collections, but in 1885 be edited for
the Society so much of Domesday Book as relates to Sussex. The
edition contains a facsimile and translation, with lists of tenants and
place-names mentioned in the record, and an " Explanation of Words
and Phrases." He prepared an Introduction on the history and
purpose of Domesday Book. To this volume he devoted an immense
amount of time and trouble, and produced a work which only a
scholar having his large acquaintance with Sussex and a knowledge of
the methods of the eleventh century could have produced. It will
always be one of its productions of which our Society will be most
proud.
Chancellor Parish (as he became in 1877) joined the committee in
1886, and for many years acted as its chairman. His unfailing good
humour, his capacity for business and his common sense enabled him
to guide our Society through all difficulties, and to contribute largely
to its usefulness and prosperity. After long illness he was taken from
us on September the 23rd, and was laid to rest under the shadow of
his beloved church, in the midst of the Sussex folk he understood so
well and whose warm affection he had gained.
INDEX TO VOL. XLVII.
INDEX TO VOL. XLVII.
A.
Abduction, a curious, 59.
Abergany, George, Right Hon. Lord,
137.
Abergavenny, Lord, 134.
Abergavenny, George, 3rd Lord, 124.
Aboyne, Catherine, Countess of, 107,
108.
Acheson, Lady Mary, 88.
Aeon, Hospital of St. Thomas of, 21.
Adeliza, Countess, 109.
Aderton, Roger, 157.
Aforde, William, 134.
Ager, Harry, 62.
" Agincourt, the Battle of," Drayton's,
160.
Albans, Reginald de St. , 10.
Albert, the Archduke, description of a
miniature of, 95.
Albini, William de, 114.
Aldingboume, 19.
Aldwick, Simon, 142.
Aldwicke, Mr. Simon, 145.
Alston, Edward, 122.
Angoul6me, Count of, 3.
Anne (Queen), 107.
Annyley, William, 61.
Antoinette, Maria, description of a
miniature of, 96.
Antoinette, Mary, description of a
miniature of, 91.
Apsley, Edw., 135.
Apsley, Jane, 120, note.
Apsley, John, 121, note.
Apsley, Richard, 120, note.
Apsley, William, 120.
Arden, Ralph de, 2, 3, 4, 5.
Ardeue, Thomas de, 4.
Ardingly, 59.
Ardingly Church, 60.
Arundel, 11, 115, 119.
Arundel, Castle of, 7.
Arundel Castle, 150.
Arundel, Philip, Earl of, 134, 136.
Arundel, Richard, Earl of, 11, 13.
Arundel, Thomas, Earl of, 119.
Ashbumham, Helen, 121, note^ 129.
Ashbumham, Jane, 120 and note.
Ashbumham, William, 120.
Ashley, Dorothy, 144.
Ashley, Sir Thomas, 144.
Ashmole, Elias, 124.
Asshen, co. Northants, 48.
Asshington, 118, 120, 125, note.
Assize, proceedings at a grand, 48, 49.
Athurst Clemens, 75.
atte Bayhalle, see Bayhalle.
atte Brugge, see Brugge.
atte Donne, see Donne.
atte Hurlond, see Hurlond.
atte Wyke, see Wyke.
Attree, Colonel F. W. T., R.E., F.S.A.,
and the Rev. J. H. L. Booker, M.A.,
on The Sussex Colepepers, 47-81.
Attree, Edmund, 80.
Aucher, Anne, 60.
Aucher, Harry, 60.
Augo, Countess de, 156.
Augustine St. Black, Canons of the
Order of, 2.
Austin, Edward, 78.
Austin, Henry, 77, 78.
Austria (Archduke), Leopold of, des-
cription of a medallion of, 92.
Averye, John, 134.
B.
Backshell, John, 127.
Bacon, Francis, 116, note.
Baker, John, 132.
Baker, Sir John, 62.
Balcombe, 145, 146.
Bankes, Sir John, 105, 106.
Barcombe, 102, 157.
Barnard, Thomas, 160.
Barrett, George, 62.
Barrett, John, 62.
Barrett-Lennard, Rev. H. L., 137.
Barsham, Suffolk, 116.
Barttelot, Richard, 130.
Bath, Marquis of, 138.
Battle, 75, 81.
Baxter, John, 118.
Bayeux Tapestry, 111, 112.
Bayhalle, John, 55.
Bayhall, Kent, 53, 54.
Bayham Priory, 102.
Beard, Ann, 123, 127, 131.
Beard, Ann, als Covert, 123.
Beard, Mary, 126.
Beard, Mary, als Covert, 123.
BEARD.
[ 168 ] BURUNGTON.
Beard, Thomas, 126, 128 and note,
Beaufort, Elizabeth, Duchess of, des-
cription of portrait of, 85.
Beaufort, Henry Somerset, Ist Duke of,
103.
Bedgeburj, Agnes, 59.
Bedgebury, John de, 57, 58.
Bedgbury, Kent, 63.
Bedon, Richard, 25, 26, 27.
Beeston, Roger, 67.
Beggebury, Roger de, 57.
Begham Abbey, a bequest to the Abbot
and convent of, 55.
Bell, John, 30.
BeU, William, 125, note, 127 and
note,
Bellyngham, Richard, 121.
Benenden, Kent, 67.
Bentinck, Lady William Cavendish, des-
cription of portrait of, 88.
Bentinck, Lord William Cavendish, des-
cription of engraving of, 88.
Bentinck, William, 88.
Berde, Ann, als Covert, 124.
Bereford, Simon de, 10.
Bergavenny, Lord, 137.
Berkeley, Elizabeth, 84.
Berkeley, Elizabeth, Countess of-^ des-
cription of the portrait of, 83.
Berkeley, George, Ist Earl of, descrip-
tion of the portrait of, 83.
Berkeley, George, 1st Earl of, 82.
Berkeley, James, 83.
Berkeley, John Symes, 85.
Berkeley, Sir William, 71.
Berkeley, Thomas, 120.
Berkhampstead, Castle of, 50.
Berkhampstead, Herts, 100.
Bemes, William, 56.
Bery, Sir WiUiam, 28.
Bettesfield, Michael de, 53.
Bexhill Church, an ancient cofiin lid at,
150.
Beyhalle, Christina atte, 51, 52.
Beyhalle, Geoffrey atte, 51.
Beyhalle, Gilbert atte, 52.
Beyhalle, Johanna atte, 52.
Beyhalle, John atte, 51, 52.
Beyhalle, Walter atte, 51.
Beyhalle, William atte, 51.
Bisshopp, Sir Cecil, 105,. 106.
Blackman, William, 80.
Blake, Walter, 118.
Blennerhasset, Anne, 110.
Blennerhasset, Sir Thomas, 116, note,
Bleumantle, Samson Lennard, 143.
Blounham, John, 19.
Bohun, Francus de 3, 4.
Bohun, John de, 13.
Bokenham, Sir Henry, 135.
Bolney, 118, 145.
Bonham, Thomas, 134.
I Booker, Rev. J. H. L., M.A., and
I Colonel F. W. T. Attreb, R.E.,
F.S.A., on The Sussex Colepepers,
47-81.
Borlase (Lady), description of a portrait
of, 105.
Borne, Richard, 61.
Bosvyle, John, 55.
Botetourt (Lord), 85.
Bottle, a curious old leather, 153.
Boughton, William, 131.
Boum, Ivinger de, 4.
Bourchier, Thomas, 74, note.
Bowes, Charity, 130, 134.
Bowes, Sir Martin, jun., 130, 131, 134,
135.
Bowes, Thomas, 131.
Boxgrove, 2.
Boxgrove, Convent of, 20.
Boxgrove Priory, 115.
Boyes, Sir Laurence, 24.
Boyle, Lady Dorothy, a miniature of, 93.
Boyle, Lady Dorothy, description of a
miniature of, 91.
Boys, John de, 10.
Boys, Laurence, 23.
Brabury, Matthew, 139.
Bradbrigge, John, 118.
Bradeham, Adam de, 11.
Bradeham, John de, 11.
Bradley, Edward, 140.
Braunspath, John, 54.
Bray, Edward, 128, note.
Bray, Reginald, 128, note,
Brayley, Christian, 57.
Braylez, Christiane, 55.
Brembre, Lord Philip de, 7, 8.
Bridham, Sir John, 15.
Brittany, Alan of, 110.
Brooke, Abraham, 64.
Brooke, Richard, 118.
Brooke, Robert, 64.
Brooke, Sir Robert, 66.
Browne, Thomas, knight, 134.
Brugge, Joseph Atte, 11.
Brunscombe, 11.
Bryghte, 123.
Brym, William, 30.
Buckhurse, Lord, 134.
Bure, John, 122, note,
Burch, Hubert de, 3.
Burgayne, George, Lord, 119.
" Burgess Hill," the name of, 156.
Burgeys, John, 157.
Burgeys, Reginald, 54.
Burgeys, Richard, 19.
Burgeys, Richard le, 10.
Burghersh, John (Lord), description of
engraving of, 89.
Burgoyne, William, 56, 57.
Burlington, Dorothy, Countess of,
description of a miniature of, 93.
BURR.
[ 169]
COBHAM.
Burr, Katharine, 122.
Burrell, Ninian, 136, 146, note.
BurreU, Walter, 143, 145.
Burrey, William, 23, 24, 25, 28, 29.
Burton, 116.
Bust, Edward, 140.
Bute, John Stuart, third Earl of, a
painting of, 99.
Butt, Richard, 122.
Buxted, 54, 99, 100.
Buxted Church, 107.
c.
Calton, Anthony, 72.
Calveblby, E. L., on The Pkiory of
Shulbred, 1-34.
Canterbury, Hubert Walter, Arch-
bishop of, 113.
Canterbury, Robert, Archbishop of, 9.
Capel, Arthur, 1st Lord of, 103.
Carey, Hon. Thomas, 105.
Caroline (Queen), a miniature of, 93.
Carpenter, Henry, 131.
Carswell Priory, Devon, 102.
Cathcart, Loui^ (Lady Stormont), 87.
Caven, Richard, 119.
Cavendish, Charles, description of a
miniature of« 92.
Cavendish, George Henry, 88.
Cavendish, Lady Anne, a bust of, 90.
Cavendish, Lady Caroline, a bust of, 90.
Cavendish, Lady George, a bust of, 90.
Cavendish, Lady Louisa, a description
of engraving of, 88.
Cavendish, Lord George, 83.
Cavendish, Lord George Augustus
Henr^, a bust of, 90.
Cavendish, Lord George A. W., a bust
of, 89.
Cavendish, Lord John, description of a
miniature of, 96.
Cavendish, Lord Richard, 88.
Cavendish, Lord Richard, description
of a miniature of, 94.
Cavendish, Lord Richard, 85, note.
Chalinor, Nkdan, 131, 133.
Challen, C, 153.
Challinor, Thomas, 136 and note.
Challoner, Francis, 133, 134.
Chamberer, Maryon, 57.
Chamberlain, John, 141, note.
Chambyr, Henry, 19.
Chanoyn, William le, 11.
Charles I. (King), 107.
Charles I. (Kmg), description of a
miniature of, 94.
Charles II. (King), 107.
Charlton Hunt, Thomas Johnson and
the, 153.
Chatfeilde, Robert, 134.
Chatfield, Ann, 126, 128.
Chatfield, Anna, 128, note.
Chatfield, Elizabeth, 127.
Chatfield, Isaac, 127.
Chatfield, Joan, 126.
Chatfield, Robert, 134.
Chaundeler, Thomas, 57.
Cheale, PhiHp, 129.
Cheney, John, 74.
Chester, Charles, 98.
Chester, Lady, 78.
Chester, Sir Anthony, 78.
Chethm, John, 56.
Cheyne, William, 56.
Chichester, 113, 114.
Chichesteb Inquest of 1212, The.
By J. H. Round, M.A., Hon. Memb.,
113-115. The city of CTiichester
deprived of the port of Wittering
in 1196 ; the grievance of the citizens
in respect to this, 113. The return
of knights' fees in 1166 for the
Honour of Arundel. The grants of
land made by Henry I. , 114. Further
charters in respect to grants of land,
115.
Chichester Cross, some interesting
records respecting, 155.
Chichester, Ralph, Bishop of, 5.
Chichester, Robert, Bishop of, 19.
Chichester, seventeenth century tokens,
151.
Chichester Stocks and Whipping Post,
152
Childi Thomas, 11.
Chitcroft, Benedicta, 48, 51, note.
Chitcroft, John, 48.
Chitcroft, Thomas de, 51.
Church, some interesting bequests to a,
61.
Churcher, George, 160.
Clanefeld, James, 15, 16.
Clapham, Surrey, 100.
Clare, 1st Earl of, 143.
Claverley Church, Bridgnorth, 109.
Claverley Church, description of a
painting discovered at. 111.
Claypole, Mrs., description of a minia-
ture of, 92.
Clayton, 157.
Clerk, Sir Robert, 56.
Clifford, Alexander, 58, 60.
Clifford, Anne, 84.
Climping, 3.
Clune, Sir Thomas, 18.
Clyfford, Lewes, 61.
Cobeham, Henry de, 50, 53.
Cobham, Sir Reginald, 54.
Cobham, Thomas de, 54.
COFFIN SLAB. [ 170 ]
COLEPEPER.
Coffin Slab from Arundel Castle, A
Pee - Conquest. By Philip Main-
WAKiNG Johnston, 148-150. The
discovery of the stone ; description
and dimensions of the same, 148.
The place from where the same
came ; the stone a rare one, 150.
Coffin slab, interesting discovery of a
pre-Conquest, 148.
Coldell, John, 16.
CoLEPEPEKS, The Sussex. By Colonel
F. W. T. Attbee, R.E., F.S.A., and
the Rev. J. H. L. Booker, M.A.,
47-81. The probable derivation of
the name of Colepeper, 47. The
armorial bearings of the family ;
Thomas de Colepeper stated to have
been a Recognitor of the Grand
Assize ; the meaning of same, 48.
The supposed family of Sir Thomas ;
two of his sons executed for the
Lancaster rebellion, 49. Walter
Colepeper executed for refusing to
admit Queen Isabel to Leeds Castle,
5Q. Margery, the wife of Sir Thomas
Colepeper, a member of the Bayhall
family ; evidence in support of this,
51. A pardon to Sir Thomas Cole-
peper for breaking into a park, 52.
An inquisition of his property on his
death and which had been seized by
the King ; the estate restored to the
family, 53. Particulars of land
restored, 54. The will of Sir Thomas
Colepeper, 55, 56. The succession of
Walter Colepeper to the estate ; his
marriage to Agnes Roper, 57. Pedi-
gree of the Colepepers ; the marriage
of Sir John Colepeper to Agnes
Bedgebury, 58. The romantic mar-
riages of his two brothers, 59. This
proceeding the cause of litigation ;
the family of Sir John Colepeper ;
the Colepepers of Wigsell, 60. The
will of Walter Colepeper; extracts
from the will of Anne ('olepeper, 61.
The will of William Colepeper, 62.
Abstract of the will of Thomas
Colepeper, 63. Abstract of the will
of Elizabeth Colepeper, 64. Extracts
from the will of Thomas Colepeper, of
Wigsell, Esq., 65. Particulars of his
wife and family, 66 . Extracts from the
will of Thomas Culpeper , 67 . Sir John
Colepeper, an eminent man ; names
of his children, 68. The second Lord
Colepeper, not of very estimable
character ; a complaint of his wife ;
a grant of lands by him to Susanna
Willis, 69. A Bill of Parliament to
annul the grant ; particulars relating
to his family, 70. The family of Sir
Alexander Culpeper, 71 . Abstract of
the will of Francis Cfulpeper, 72. An
Inq. P.M. of his estate; names of
the children of his wife by a former
husband ; abstract of the will of Joan
Colepeper, 73. The Colepepers of
FolMngton, 74. Abstract of the will
of Jolm Colepeper, 75. An inquisi-
tion taken; also the names of his
family; an inquisition taken of the
property of Sir Thomas Culpeper,
76, 77. The will of Mary Culpeper,
78 . An exchange of property between
the family; a sale of some London
property, 79. The family of John
Culpeper, of Sevenoaks ; complaints
as to disposition of portions of the
estate, 80. Extracts from the will of
Mary Culpeper, 81.
Colepeper, Agnes, 59.
Colepeper, Alexander, 60, 61, 64, 65,
66, 67, 70, 71.
Colepeper, Anne, 61, 62, 63, 64, 67, 71,
75, 76, 77, 81.
Colepeper, Anthony, 62, 68.
Colepeper, Benedicta, 57.
Colepeper, Bridgett, 81.
Colepeper, Bistone, 66.
Colepeper, Cheney, 68, 69.
Colepeper, Cicely, 62, 67, 71.
Colepeper, Constance, 62.
Colepeper, Cowper, 64.
Colepeper, Edmonde, 63.
Colepeper, Elizabeth, 57, 58, 62, 63, 64,
65, 66, 68, 69, 76.
Colepeper, Extracts from the Will of
Anne, 61.
Colepeper Family, description of the
armorial bearings of, 48.
Colepeper, Frances, 69, 70, 74, 75, 80.
Colepeper, Francis, 62, 63, 64, 69, 71,
72, 73, 74, 76, 79, 81, 139.
Colepeper, Francis, abstract from the
will of, 72.
Colepeper, Fridiswide, 77, 78.
Colepeper, Henry, 77.
Colepeper, Joan, 49, notey 72, 73.
Colepeper, Joan, abstract of the will
of, 73.
Colepeper, Joanna, 50.
Colepeper, John, 48, 49, 50, 51, 55, 56,
59, 63, 64, 65, 66, 69, 71, 72, 73, 74,
75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80.
Colepeper, John, abstract from the will
of, 75.
Colepeper, Joyce, 56, 57.
Colepeper, Judith, 68, 69.
Colepeper, Juliana, 54.
Colepeper, Katherine, 54, 62, 68.
Colepeper, Margaret, 58, 69.
Colepeper, Margery, 48, 49, 51, 52, 53.
Colepeper, Martin, 63.
COLEPEPER.
[171]
COVERTS.
Colejwper, Matilda, 49, note,
Colepeper, Mary, 62, 66, 78, 79.
Colepeper, Mary, abstract from the
will of, 67.
Colepeper, Mary, the will of, 78, 81.
Colepeper, Nicholas, 49, 50, 51, 55, 56,
57, 58, 59, 60.
Colejwper, pedigree of John, 58.
Colepeper, Philippa, 68, 69.
Colepeper, Richard, 48, 55, 57, 58, 59,
60, 63, 73.
Colepeper, Richard, 116, note.
Colepeper, Staney, 64, 65, 66.
Colepeper, Sir John, 54, 59, 60, 65, 68.
Colepeper, Sir Thomas, 48, 49, 50, 51,
52, 54, 55, 57, 58, 68, 69, 76, 77, 78,
80, 81, 139.
Colepeper, Sir Thomas, a fine levied on
the estate of, 52.
Colepeper, Sir Thomas, the will of, 55.
Colepeper, Sir William, 70.
Colepeper, Thomas, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55,
56, 57, 62, 63, 64, 65, 67, 68, 69, 70,
72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 78. .
Colepeper, Thomas, abstract from the
will of, 63.
Colepeper, Walter, 49, 51, 54, 55, 56,
57, 58, 59, 60, 63, 72, 73.
Colepeper, Walter, the will of, 61.
Colepeper, WiUiam, 62, 65, 73, 76, 77,
78, 81, 136, note, 139, 146.
Colepeper, William, the will of, 62, 63.
Colet, Dr., 21.
CoUiar, Richard, 63.
Collyer, Richard, 64.
Compton, Charles, 83, 86.
Compton, Henry, 85.
Compton, Hon. Charles, 85.
Compton, James, 83.
Compton, Lady Betty, 87.
Compton, Lady Eliiibeth, 83, 85, 86,
87.
Compton, Lady Margaret, 85.
Compton, Sir Spencer, description of
portrait of, 83.
*' Conanus,*' WQliam, 114.
Conneyburrows Park, Sussex, 99.
Cod way, Sir Edward, 141, note,
Cooke, Elizabeth, 123, 129, 139.
Cooke, Richard, 123.
Cooke, John, 123.
Cooke, William, 123.
Cooper, Cassian, 63.
Cooper, Rev. Canon J. H., on The
Coverts. Part II., 116-147.
Cope, Arabella Diana, a portrait of, 106.
Cope, Catherine Anne, 106.
Cope, Charles Cecil, 97, 98, 104, 106.
Cope, Charles Cecil, a miniature of, 107.
Cope, Charles Cecil, description of a
painting of, 98.
Cope, Sir Charles, 106.
Coppyng, John, 55.
Courthoppe, Peter, 145, 146.
Costedall, Maryan, 132, 133.
Costedell, John, 132.
Costedell, WQliam, 132.
Cotes, John, 97, 104.
Cotton, Charles, 84.
Coulstock, John, 128 and note.
Courthope, Peter, 143.
Coverts, The (Part II.). By the Rev.
Canon J. H. Cooper, Vicar of Cuck-
field, 116-147. The family of John,
son of William and Ann Covert ;
inscription on his brass and extracts
from his will, 116. Traces of an elder
brother, 117. The Inq. P.M. of John
taken at Lewes, 118, 119. The suc-
cession of Richard Covert ; records
in respect to him, with names of his
wives, 120. Extracts from his will,
121. The marriages of Jane Covert ;
a gift to Slaugham Church by
Blanche Covert, 122. The will of
John Covert, eldest son of Richard
Covert, 123. The family of George
Covert, 124. Will of Ann Covert,
125. The will of Edward Covert,
126. The will of Joane Covert, 127.
The family of John Covert, 127 ; and
bequests in his will, 128. The family
of the elder branch of John Covert,
129. Their monument in Slaugham
Church and crest on the same, 130.
Bequests in Richard Covert's will ; a
curious entry in the Acts of the Privy
Council respecting Richard Covert,
131. Family differences of the family ;
a curious custom of the Manor of
Twineham, 132. The will of Richard
Covert, 133. An Inquisition of his
estate, 134. Extracts from the will
of John Covert and the will of Thomas
Covert, of Stowe, 135. Walter Covert,
the greatest of the Covert family ;
his persecution, 136. His representa-
tion in Parliament, and marriage, 137.
His building of Slaugham Place, with
particulars of same, 138. The devise
of his property ; extract from Joan
Covert*8 will, 139. A letter from
King James I. to Sir Walter Covert,
140; and his reply, 141. The funeral
certificate of Sir Walter Covert, 142.
The pedigree of some of the Coverts ;
the re-marriage of Sir Walter's
widow, 143. Her husband an extreme
leader of the Revolutionists, 144.
The wiU of Sir Walter Covert, 145.
Terms of an indenture in the will,
146. Description of a chapel at
Slaugham Church, mentioned in the
will, 147.
COVEKT.
[ 172 ] DE BURGEYS.
Covert, Alexander, 130, 133, 136.
Covert, Alice, 140.
Covert, Ann (Beard), 125, 126.
Covert, Ann, the will of, 125.
Covert, Anne, 116, 117, 119, 127, 128,
129, 130, 132, 136, 139.
Covert, Audrey, 124, 128.
Covert, Blanche, 121, 122, 125, 127.
Covert, Catherine, 127.
Covert, Cecile, 128.
Covert, Cecily, 131.
Covert, Charity, 128.
Covert, Davye, 126.
Covert, Dorothea, 116, 117, 119.
Covert, Dowsabelle, 133.
Covert, DulcibeUa, 130.
Covert, Edward, 125, 126, 127, 128, 132.
Covert, Edward, the will of, 126.
Covert, Elizabeth, 116, 117, 119, 124,
126, 128, 130, 131, 134.
Covert, Ellen, 130.
Covert family, a beautiful monument to
the, 130.
Covert family, a pedigree of the, 143.
Covert, Francis, 130, 133, 136, 144.
Covert, George, 123, 124, 125, 145.
Covert, Henry, 125, 126, 127.
Covert, Humphrey, 124, 125, 126, 127,
128.
Covert, Isabel, 116, 117, 119.
Covert, Jane, 121, 122, 127, 143, 144,
145.
Covert, Joane, 126, 127, 130, 139.
Covert, Joane, the will of, 127.
Covert, Joanna, 124, 128.
Covert, John, 116, 118, 119, 120, 121,
122, 123, 124, 125, 127, 128, 129, 130,
132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 139, 145, 146,
147.
Covert, John, inscription on the brass
of, 116.
Covert, John, the will of, 123, 128, 135.
Covert, Julia, 128.
Covert, Lady Jane, Rt. WorshipfiQ,
143.
Covert, Lady, the pedigree of, 137.
Covert, Margaret, 128.
Covert, Margery, 130.
Covert, Martin, 131.
Covert, Mary, 126, 127, 128, 130, 131,
133, 140.
Covert, Richard, 10, 118, 119, 120, 121,
122, 123, 124, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133,
134. 136, 139.
Covert, Richard, the will of, 133.
Covert, Robert, 118, 119.
Covert, Sir Humphrey, 145.
Covert, Sir John, 128.
Covert, Sir Walter, 125, 128, 135, 136,
137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144,
146, 147.
Covert, Sir Walter, the funeral certifi-
cate of, 142.
Covert, Sir Walter, the will of, 144, 146.
Covert, Susan, 126, 128.
Covert, Thomas, 120, 125, 130, 133, 134,
135, 140, 145, 147.
Covert, Thomas, the will of, 135.
Covert, the will of Richard, 121.
Covert, Walter, 127, 128, 130, 133, 134,
135, 136, 137, 140, 145.
Covert, Walter, a letter from King
James I. to, 140.
Covert, WiUiam, 73, 116, 117, 118, 119,
122, 123, 125, 126, 127, 129, 139, 140.
Covert, Woolfe, 126.
Cowfold, 123.
Cowper, Ralfe, 160.
Crane, Peter, 134.
Cranfield, Frances, 84, note,
Cranfield, Lionel, 84.
Crawley, 118, 119, 145, 146.
Crochon, Walter, 11.
Cromwell, Oliver, a drawing of, 95.
Cromwell, Oliver, description of a
miniature of, 92.
Cromwell, Richard, a miniature of, 94,
95.
Cromwell, Thomas, 26, 27, 28, 31.
C*romwell, Thomas, grant of a pension
to, 26.
Cuckfleld, 118, 145, 146.
Culpeper, Elizabeth, abstract from the
will of, 64.
Culpeper, extract from the will of
Thomas, 65.
Culpeper, see Colepeper.
Cumberland, Henry, Earl of, 7.
Curzon, Sir George, 84.
Cust, Sir Richard, 97, 100.
Cutts, John, 139, fwte.
Cutts, Sir Henry, 139.
D.
Dale, John, 10.
Darkenoll, Robert, 121, note.
Dashwood, Annabella, 101.
Dashwood, Sir Samuel, 99, 100, 101.
de Albini, see Albini.
de Arden, see Arden.
de Badelesmere, see Badelesmere.
do Bedgebury, see Bedgebury.
de Bereford, see Bereford.
de Bettesfield, see Bettesfield.
de Bohun, see Bohun or Bourn,
de Boys, see Boys,
de Bradeham, see Bradeham.
de Brembre, see Brembre.
de Burch, see Burch.
de Burgeys, see Burgeys.
DE CHITCROIT. [ 173 ]
EXONDON.
de Chitcroft, see Chitcroft.
de Cobeham, see Cobcham.
de Colpeper, see Colepeper.
de Diceto, see Diceto.
de Etchingham, see Etchingham.
de Exondon, see Exondon.
de Fferengge, see Ffemigge.
de Fraxino, see Fraxino.
de Henton, see Henton.
de Horden, see Horden.
De la Warre, ThomaB West, Lord, 119.
de Lenchemer, see Lenchemer.
de Montfort, see Montfort.
de Montgomery, see Montgomery.
de Netteworth, see Netteworth.
de Neville, see Neville.
de Peckham, see Peckham.
de Percy, see Percy.
de Picheford, see Picheford.
de Ponynges, see Ponynges.
de Rakington, see Rakiugton.
de Stagno, see Stagno.
de St. Albans, see Albans.
de St. Leofardo, see Leofardo.
de Stratford, see Stratford.
de Warren, see Warren.
de Westdene, see Westdene.
de Ybourghdene, see Ybourghdene.
Dene, John, 15, 16.
Denton, Robert, 118.
Devale, John, 55.
Devereux, Robert, a miniature of, 94.
Devonshire, Elizabeth Countess of,
description of a miniature of, 91, 92.
Devonslure, Georgiana, Duchess of,
miniature of, 94.
Devonshire, Georgina, Duchess of, 87.
Devonshire, Georgina, Duchess of,
description of a miniature of, 90.
Devonshire, Georgina, Duchess of, a
description of a miniature of, 96.
Devonshire, Rachel, Duchess of, des-
cription of a miniature of, 96.
Devonshire, William, Ist Duke of,
description of a miniature of, 92.
Devonshire, William, 4th Duke of,
description of a miniature of, 96.
Devonshire, William, 5th Duke of,
description of a miniature of, 94.
Diceto, Ralph de, 3.
Ditchling, 76, 81.
Dobell, Walter, 128 and note.
Donck, Anne, 62.
Donne, John atte, 10.
Dorset, Countess of, description of
portrait of, 84, 86.
Downes, Jo., 160.
Dowse, Sir Edmund, 125, note.
Dowse, Thomas, 125, note^ 127.
Dudley, Ambrose (Earl of Warwick),
description of a miniature of, 92.
Dudley, Edmund, 21, 118, 119.
Duke, Nicholas, 25.
Dumbrell, WQHam, 127.
Duncannon (Lord), an engraving of, 89.
Dundas, 1st Lord, 106.
Diuik, Nicholas, 23, 24.
Dureford, 2.
Dureford, Chartulary of the Priory
of, 7.
Dureford, Valentine, Abbot of, 7.
Dyne, William, 136, note,
Dyngley, John, 62.
E.
Easeboume, 12, 17.
Eastbourne, 156.
Eastbourne Parish Church, 37, 42.
Echyngham, Thomas, 59.
Edbui-ton, 118, 119.
Edolf, Anne, 62.
Edolfe, Symon, 62, 63.
Edward I. (King), 8, 52.
Edward II. (King), 9, 10, 52.
Edward III. (King), 8, 10, 50, 52.
Edward IV. (King), description of a
miniature of, 95.
Edward (Prince) Charles, description of
a portrait of, 84.
Elizabeth (Queen), 9, 107.
Ellis, WiUiam, 77, 78.
Englefield, Sir Charles, 69, 70.
Essex, Robert, Earl of, description of a
miniature of, 94.
Eston, Richard, 17,
Etchingham, Simon de, 54.
Eu, Countess of, 157.
tiuston, George, Earl of, 94,
Evelyn, Anne, description of a painting
of, 97.
Evelyn, Edward, 100.
Evelyn, Edward, a portrait of, 103.
Evelyn, Edward, an obelisk erected to
the memory of, 103.
Evelyn, Elizabeth, 104.
Evelyn, George, 103.
Evelyn, James, 97, 99, 105.
Evelyn, James, a portrait of, 100.
Evelyn, Jane, a painting of, 97.
Evelyn, Julia Annabella, Lady Shuck-
burgh, a painting of, 99, 100.
Evelyn, Julia, a portrait of, 103.
Evelyn, Julia Evelyn Medley Shuck-
burgh, description of a portrait of,
106.
Evelyn, Lady Shuckburgh, 101.
Evelyn-Shuckburgh, Sir George
Augustus William, 105, 106.
Evelyn, Sir George Augustus William
Shuckburgh, a painting of, 98.
Exondon, Raoul de, 157.
FAIRFAX.
[ 174 ] GULDEFORDE.
F.
Fairfax, Thomas, 5th Baron, 69.
Faggar, John, 120.
FaUow Buck, description of a large, 102.
Fane, Francis, 97, 100.
Fane, George, 129, note.
Farquhar, Sir Walter, 87, 88.
Fauferghe, Druet, 11.
Fenne, Robert, 54.
Fennour, John, 121, note.
Fensham, Sir Nicholas, 20.
Femhurst, Vicar of, 9.
Ferring, 119.
Ferrugge, Richard de, 54.
Festynden, Thomas, 56, 57.
Fettiplace, Besil, 130.
Fettiplace, Edmund, 122, note.
Fettiplace, WiUiam, 143, 145, 146.
Fettiplace, William, inscription on the
monument of, 146, note.
Fferrugge, Roger de, 53.
Field, Thomas, 125.
Finch, Ann, 122.
t^ch, Elizabeth, 78.
Finch, John, 122, note.
FitzRoy, Lord Charles, 90.
Fitz William, Hon. Mary Selina Char-
lotte Wentworth, a pastel of, 108.
FitzWilliam, Sir WiUiam, grant of the
lands of Shulbred Priory to, 33.
FitzWilliam, WiUiam Charles Went-
worth (Viscount Milton), description
of a portrait of, 106.
Fleming, Lady, 123.
Fleming, Sir Francis, 122.
Fletcher, Owen, 134.
Fludd, Sir Thomas, 140.
Foljambe, George SavUe, 97.
FolMngton, Sussex, 63, 64, 74, 76,
81.
Ford, 3, 4.
Ford, Manor of, 4.
Ford, Sir Edward, 67.
Foreman, Eleanor, 88.
Forester, CecU Weld, 89.
Forster, Sir Humphrey, 124.
Forster, William, 124.
Foster, Lady Elizabeth, description of
a miniature of, 93.
Foster, Richard, 28.
Fowle, Humphrey, 102.
Fox, Hon. Charles James, 88.
Fox hunting, aristocratic, 154.
Fox hunter, some interesting verses to
a, 155, 156.
Frant, 53, 54.
Eraser, Sir Alexander, 105.
Fraxino, WiUiam de, 114, 115.
Freake, John, 143.
Freman, Gilbert, 10.
Frindsbury, near Rochester, 37.
Friston Place, Sussex, 99, 100, 101.
FuUer, Thomas, 143.
Fynch, Thomas le, 11.
G.
Gage, Thomas, 134.
Gainsford, Agnes, 58, 59.
Gainsford, John, 59, 139, note.
Gainsford, WiUiam, 59.
Gardener, John, 118.
Gardener, WiUiam, 118.
Gaseley, WUHam, 78.
Gatford, John, 118.
Gatford, WQUam, 118.
Gaynesborowe, Thomas, 118.
Gaynesford, George, 61.
Gaynesford, John, 118.
Gaynesford, Nicholas, 118, 139, note.
Gaynesford, OteweU, 61.
George IV. (King), 88.
George, Lord Alan de St., 7.
Gibbon, Francis, 67.
Gibbon, Edmund, 67.
Gibson, John, 60.
GUle, Edward, 140.
Gittings, John, 151.
Gloucester, Castle of, 50.
Glyndeboume, Lewes, 74.
God, Dorothy, 64.
God, Elizabeth, 64.
Gk)d, John, 64.
Godalming Church, Surrey, 37, note.
Goddard, Sir John, 18.
Gode, Francis, 64.
Gode, John, 63.
Godfrey, George, 81.
Gold, Laurence, 23.
Goldspur or Culsporej Hastings, 47.
GoUesberghe, Sandwich, 47.
(Joodridge, Henry, 76.
Groring, George, 116, note.
Goring, Elizabeth, 116, note.
Goring, John, 120, note.
Goring, Sir Henry, 116, note.
Goring, Sir WiUiam, 28.
Goring William, 116.
Goring, W., 121, noU.
Goudhurst, Kent, 60.
Granby, John, Marquess of, 88.
Grantham, William, 62.
Greene, Nicholas, 54.
Gregory, Henry, 102.
Grene, Thomas, 118.
GrenvUle, Fulke, 84.
Grey, Ralph, 68.
Guestling, 74.
Guldeforde, John, 15.
HACUPLAYNT. [ 175 ]
H.
HacuplaTut, Hemr, 61.
Hamiltoii, James, 70.
Hamilton, Jamea, Viscount, 89.
Hamilton, Tvuiy Emma, 107.
Hamond, Hetuy, 16.
Eampson, Dame, EatheriiM*, 64.
Hampflon, Katlierj-ii, tl3.
Hampson, Itobert, 63.
Haiconrt, Colonel FranciB Vernon, 07.
Harcourt, Colonel Francis Vernon,
description of a portrait of, 101.
Harcourt, Ladj Catherine J. Vernon,
107.
Hardes, John, -^3.
Hardreehull, Sir John, 54.
Hareug, RegiJiald, 114.
Harethom, Sic William, lij, 16.
Marlackenden, Sir ThomftH. 68.
Harrington, Jolm, 5.5.
Harris, Elizabeth, 127.
Harris, Thomas, 127 and note, 145.
ilarriBon, George, 124.
Hart, Ciaceley, 131.
Harte, Henry, 131.
Earte, gir Percjrall, Knight, 131.
Harting, Manor of, 7, 8.
Hartington, Charlotte, Marchioness of,
descriptiiin of a miniature of, 93.
Hartington (Lady). 91.
HasGombe, 117.
Hastings. 110.
Hastings, a graphic description of the
battle of, 110.
Hastings Castle and Honour of, 157.
HastingB, Fronds. S5.
HaweiB, Preb. Kector, 180.
Hawkebhvbt, Tub Right Hokhlb.
Iionn, F,8.A., ou Citalocues of
rOUTHAITS AT CUHITIIN PlACE AND AT
BcxTED Paek, :s Si-KSBi, 82.108.
Hawieabury, Charles, Ist Lord, 104.
Hawley, Henry, 120, note.
Hnwtrey, Haiph, 105.
Haj, Herbert, 74.
Ha;e8, Edmund, 15.
Hayes, Kobert, 122.
Hayward, Captain John, 98, 100.
Hendle, Sir Walter, 129.
Hendle, Walter, 129.
Hendler, Ann, 136.
Hendley, Sir Walter, 129.
Hendley, Walter, 121 and note.
Henfleld, 125, 126, note.
Henlej, Margery, 129, note.
Henry III. (King). 8.
Henry VIll. (King), 31, 33, 107.
Henry (Prince), desCTipdon of a portrait
of, 84.
Henshawe, John, 78.
Henton, Sir Johu, 24.
Henton, Thomas de, 8, 9.
Heraflius, Archbishiip of, 21.
Herald. Wiudsor. 124.
Herbert, Mary, 122.
Hereford. Elizabeth, 8S.
Hfron. Sir Nicholas. 131-
Heron, Poyninga, 134.
Hervc-j (GenerS), William, 88.
Hervey, Lady Louisa Theodosia, 98.
Hesse, Jean Van, G9.
HiU, Edmund, 134.
Hobbea, Thomas, description of a
miniature of. 95.
Holies, Ann, Baroness Et. Hon., 144.
Holies, Baron, 143, 144.
Holies, DeflKd, 143.
Holies, Ladv Jane, 144, noU.
Holies, Lord, 1«.
Honey, John, 76, 81.
llouny, Agnes, 75.
Honyton, Roger, 56, 57.
Hoc), Thoiniis, 39.
Hook, William, 16.
Jlorden. Joan, ISIi.
Horden, William de, 156.
Horsey, William, 21.
Horsh^, 145.
Horsham Church, 17.
Ilnugbam, Culpeper, 81.
lioucham, James, 81,
Ilowliiig, William, 1p9, 160.
Humphrey, Sir, 124.
Huugerford, Jane, 124.
Hungertord, Sir Antony, 124.
Hunt, Colonel Heury, 101.
Huute, Robert, 118.
Hurlond, John atte, 12.
Hurst, Miss, 120.
HutohinBon, Sir Thomas, 84.
Hrde, Laurence, 103.
Hyde, Mr., 62.
Hydley, Blchard, 127, note.
Hynchyneon William, 117.
I Isabel (Queen), !
JAMES I.
C 176]
LYNCHMERE.
J.
James I. (King), 107.
James II. (King), 107.
Jenkinson, Colonel John, 100.
Jenkinson, Lady Catherine Julia, 101.
Jenkinson, Right Hon. Charles, 99.
Jenkinson, Right Rev. John, a portrait
of, 100.
Jenkinson, Sir Robert, 106.
Jenkinson, the Hon. Charles Cecil Cope,
description of a portrait of, 105.
Jenner, Thomas, 134.
Jerusalem, St. Lasar of, 7.
Jewels, a bequest of, 65.
John (King), 3.
Kelton, Arthur, 134.
Kent, Duchess of, 107, 108.
Kent, H.R.H. Duke of, 87.
Keymer, 157.
Knapp, Grace, 127.
John, Edward St., 13.
Johnson, Thomas, 153, 154, 155.
Johnston, Philip Mainwaring, on Earl
RooBR De Montoomert and the
Battle op Hastings, 109-112. On A
Pre - Conquest Coffin - Slab from
Arundel Castle, 148-150.
Jones, Inigo, description of a miniature
of, 92.
Jorden, William, 64.
Jules, Caroline Rosalie de St., 96.
Julius II. (Pojpe), 87.
Jurden, William, 63, 75.
K.
Knapp, Thomas, 127 and note.
Knight, Sir Walter Covert, 142.
Knotsford, Beatrice, 120, note,
Kokes, Alicia le, 8.
Kyng, James le, 10.
L.
Lacheford, Richard, 62.
Lamb, Hon. Mrs. George, description
of a miniature of, 96.
Lamb, William, 91.
Lamberhurst, inquisition held at, 53.
Langdon, Sir John, 56.
Langston, William, 17.
Lascelles, Henry, 88.
Laughton, 116.
Lavant, 3.
Lavington, 4.
Lawarre, Lord, 129, note,
Lawley, William, 23, 24.
Layton, Dr., 31.
Layton, Richard, 25.
le Chanoyn, see Chanoyn.
le Fynch, see Fynch.
le Kokes, see Kokes.
le Kyng, see Kyng.
Leake, John, 63.
Leake, Mary, 63, 64.
Leger, Sir Warrham St., 71.
Lennard, John, 137, 142.
Lennard, Timothie, 137, 142.
Leo X. (Pope), 107.
Leofardo, Gilbert de St., 9.
Leuchemer, William de, 12.
Levy, A , by the Parliament during the
Commonwealth.
Lewes, 118.
Lewes, Prior and Convent of, 13.
Lewknor, Alice, 116.
Lewknor, Walter, 57.
Linchmere, 5.
Lingfield, Surrey, 54.
Lisle, Lady, 28.
Lisoid, Bishop of, 3.
Litlington, 80, 81.
Liverpool, Charles, Ist Earl of, 106.
Liverpool, Robert Bankes, 2nd Earl of,
description of a painting of, 98.
LiVETT, Grbvilb M., F.S.A., Yicar of
Wateringbury, Kent, on Thrbb East
Sussex Churches — Battle, P&as-
MARSH, ICKLBSHAM. A StUDT OF
their Architectural History. Pa&t
II. Pbasmarsh Church, 35-46.
Locke, John, description of a medallion
of, 90.
Longborough, Gloucester, 101.
Lopham, William, 62.
Lord Dacre, Ann, 136.
Lord Dacre, Thomas, 136.
Lord le Warr, WiUiam, 134.
Lossenham, Kent, 60.
Louis XIII. (King), description of a
miniature of, 95.
Louis XIV. (King), description of a
miniature of, 92.
Lovente, Sir John, 15.
Lucas, Thomas, 134.
Lucy, Lady Catherine, description of
portrait of, 84.
Lucy, Lady Theophila, description of
the portrait of, 82, 85, 86.
Lucy, Sir Berkeley, 84.
Lucy, Sir Kingsmill, 82, 85.
Lucy, Sir Kingsmill, description of
portrait of, 86.
Lyminster, 157, 158.
Lynchmere, 12.
MACKARET.
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NOTES.
M.
Mackaret, Audrey, 124.
Mackworth, Sir Cavaliero, 139 and note,
Marscot, Ralph, 53.
Manners, Lady Elizabeth Isabella,
description of crayon portrait of, 89.
Manners, Lady Katherine Mary,
description of print of, 89.
March, Thomas, 16.
Marche, Count de la, 3.
Maresfield, 54.
Maria Henrietta (Queen), description
of a miniature of, 95.
Martin, Denny, 69.
Mary II. (Queen), 107.
Massingberd, John, 82, 83.
Mayer, William, 15.
McQueen, James, 153.
Medley, Annabella, 99, 100.
Medley, Annabella, a portrait of, 101 .
Medley, Catherine, a portrait of, 101.
Medley, Edward, a portrait of, 100.
Medley Family, the arms of the, 101.
Medley, George, 100, 101, 105.
Medley, George, a painting of, 99.
Medley, JiQia Evelyn, 105.
Medley, Thomas, 99, 100, 101.
Medley, Thomas, a portrait of, 102.
Medlicote, James, 71.
Michelham, Prior of, 52.
Michell, John, 120, note.
Midlavant, 12, 17, 23.
Midlavant Church, 13, 14, 15, 19.
Milton, Selina Charlotte (Viscountess),
a portrait of, 107.
Milton, William Charles (Viscount),
97.
Montfort, Sir William de, an action
brought by, 49.
Montgomery, Earl Boger de, and the
Battle of Hastings. By Philip
Mainwaring Johnston, 109-112. The
Church of Claverley , one of those built
by the Earl ; a discovery of an inter-
esting strip of painting at the church,
109. The strip showing an interesting
deed of valour ; the controversy
respecting the presence of the Earl
at the Battle of Hastings, 110. The
painting a striking resemblance to the
Bayeux Tapestry, 111. Is the paint-
ing one commemorating this event,
112.
Montgomery, Roger de, 109, 110, 111.
Moray, Earl of, 141, note,
MordJaunt, Henry, 85.
Mordaunt, Henry (Lord), 85.
Mordaunt, John, 105.
Mordaunt, John Murray, 104.
Mordaunt, Margaret, description of
portrait of, 85.
Mordaunt, Margaret, 84.
Mordaunt, Mrs. John, 104.
Mordaunt, Sir John, 104.
More, Elizabeth, 131.
More, Mary, 126.
More, Nicholas, 78.
More, Walter, 126, 134.
Moresby, Reginald, 118, 139, note.
Morley, Agnes, 126.
Mortimain, statute of, 8, 10.
Mortymer, John, 48.
Morys, Thomas, 16.
Mumford, Elizabeth, 65.
Muncke, John, 127.
Mimcke, Susan, 127.
Mydhurst, Richard, 16.
N.
Nelson, Robert, 82.
Netteworth, John de, 54.
Nevill, Henry, 134.
Neville, Ralph de, 5.
Nevyle, George, 120.
Newcastle, John, Duke of, 144.
Newenden Church, a bequest to, 62.
Newhaven Church, 38, note.
Newick Church, 107.
Newman, Ralph, 51, 52.
Newton Longville, Bucks, 20, 23.
Newtymber, Robert, 16.
Nicholas (Pope), 8, 15.
Niel, Robert, 16.
Noel, Baptist, 83.
Noel, Charles, 85, 86, 88.
Noel, Wriothesley Baptist, 84.
Noion, William, extract from the will
of, 157.
Norman, Richard, 89.
Normandy, Richard, King of, 4.
Northampton, Anne, Countess of, des-
cription of portrait of, 86.
Northiall, John, 24.
Northumberland, Duke of, 137.
Northumberland, Henry, Earl of, 16,
23, 26, 32.
Notes and Queries, 151 - 161. — 1,
Chichester Seventeenth Century
Tokens, 151. 2, Roman Coins at
Rumboldswhyke, 151. 3, Chichester
Stocks and Whipping Post, 152. 4,
Thomas Johnson and the Charlton
Hunt, 153. 5, Eastbourne and
NOTES.
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POLSTEAD.
Westboume, 156. 6, The name
"Burgess HiU," 156. 7, Sussex
Churches in 1405, 157. 8, Earl
Swegen and Hacon Dux, 157. 9,
Stigand, Bishop of Chichester, 158.
10, The Derivation of Toddington,
158. 11, A Levy by the Parliament
during the Commonwealth on the
Tything of Angmering, 159. 12,
Drayton's "The Battle of Agin-
court," 160.
Noyes, Edward, 77.
Nyte, Sir Robert, 15.
0.
O'Callaghan, Lieut.-Genl, Sir Robert
William, 89, 90.
Offerton, Sir Henry, 18.
On the Tything of Angmering, 159.
Ordmonde, Lord, 119.
Ore, a tithe on iron, 9.
Orford, Earl of, 88.
Ormonde, James Butler, Duke of, a
portrait of, 103.
Ormonde, James, 2nd Duke of, 103.
Ormonde, Mary, Duchess of, a portrait
of, 103.
Ossory, Earl of, 103.
Ottley, Mr., 105.
P.
Packe, George, 81.
Page, Mary, 152.
Painting, a, presented by Queen
Victoria, 98.
Painting, an interesting discovery of a,
109.
Palmer, Elizabeth Jemima, 99.
Palmer, John, 121, note.
Palmer, Sir Thomas, 99.
Paresfeld, James, 16.
Parker, Henry, 75, 78.
Parker, Nathaniel, 78.
Parker, Sir Nicholas, 75.
Parker, Sir Philip, 78.
Patriche, Edward, 73.
Payn, Richard, 61.
Payne, Thomas, 55.
Peasmabsh Church. By Grevile M.
LrvETT, F.S.A., Vicar of Watering-
bury, Kent, 35-46. The situation of
the church, 35. Description of the
arch and dimensions of the same, 36.
Some examples of Early -Norman
chancel arches, 37 . Norman churches
built on two or three well-defined
types of plan; the church probably
bmlt between the eleventh and
twelfth centuries, 38. Description and
dimensions of a Norman window ; an
interesting fragment of carving ; the
alteration and additions to the nave,
39, 40. Traces of the original roof
and description of the south aisle, 41.
The decorated south porch ; descrip-
tion of the chancel, 42. An interest-
ing low-side window, 43. Purposes
of the window, 44. The probable
history of the date of buildmg of
various portions of the church, 45, 46.
Peasmarsh Church, description of the
chancel at, 42.
Peasmarsh Church, description of the
early-Norman chancel arches at, 36.
Peasmarsh Church, description of the
tower at, 39.
Peasmarsh Church, description of the
windows at, 40, 41.
Peasmarsh Church, nave at, 45.
Pech, Thomas, 57.
Pechell, Augustus, 100.
Peckham, Emma de, 126.
Pedswell, John, 16.
Pelham, Sir John, 116.
Pelham, Sir Thos., Bart., 145.
Pellett, Anne, 127.
Peperharow, Surrey, 37.
Pepperers, Fraternity of, 47.
Percy, Henry de, 11.
Percy, WilHam de, 5, 6, 7.
Per^s, John, 31.
Peterborough, Charles Mordaunt, 3rd
Earl of, description of a portrait of,
105.
Pettitt, Thomas, 83.
Petworth, 6.
Petworth, a grant as to the right of
taking earth at, 6.
Petworth, Manor of, 7.
Peverell, Andrew, 13.
Peverill, WiUiam, 77.
Picheford, William de, 115.
Pigotte, Thomas, 129, note.
Pile, Sir Thomas, 144.
Pix, George, 62.
Plummer, James, 145.
Plumstead, Woolwich, 100.
Poley, John, 117.
Polstead, Richard, 131.
POLSTEDE.
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BEGOISBT.
Polstede, Henry, 27.
Ponsoby (Lady), Caroline, description
of a miniature of, 91.
Ponynges, Adam de, 147.
Ponynges, Michael de, 13.
Ponyngges, Edward, 119.
Poole, Agnes, 124.
Poole, Francis, 124 and note.
Poole, Henry, 124.
Poppehale, Richard, 12.
Pordage, Joane, 74.
Pordage, John, 73.
Pordaye, Joan, 139.
Pordaye, John, 139.
Portman, Mary Selina Charlotte, Vis-
countess, 101.
Portraits at Compton Place and at
BuxTED Park, Sussex. By the
Right Honble. Lord Hawkesbury,
F.S.A., 82-108. Portraits at Compton
Place, 82-87. Engravings at Compton
Place, 87-90. Busts at Compton
Place, 90. Miniatures at Devonshire
House, 90-96. Pictures at Buxted
Park, 97-108.
Pountose, Normandy, a bequest to the
Church of, 57.
Powle, Right Hon. Henry, 84, note,
Poynings, Sir Edward, 123.
Poynynges, Mr. Edward, 123, note,
Pratt, Richard, 102.
Pratt, Sir John, description of a portrait
of, 102.
Praty (Bishop), 17, 20.
Preston, 4.
Price, Campbell, 97, 101.
Prior, John, 7.
Priory of Shulbred, The. By E. L.
Calverley, 1 -34. The earlier records
of this small monastery all dis-
appeared, 1 . The Priory founded for
the Black Canons of the Order of St.
Augustine; the actual date of the
founding uncertain, 2. Ralph de
Arden, the probable founder, a man
of some importance, 3. A statement
as to the lands held by him, 4. A
grant to the Priory ; the sale of the
advowson of the Priory of Shulbred to
William de Percy, 5 ; the Percys in
later years regarded as the actual
founders ; a curious grant in respect
to a mill, 6. Some further charters
in respect to the Priory, 7. The
possession of the Priory in 1291-8.
A Prior in disgrace for ezcessiTe
destruction of the surrounding
woods ; probably used for smelting ;
an inhibition against him, 9. A
request from Edward II. to the
Priory to aid him with a loan, 10.
One of the Canons in 1335 charged
with poaching; another addition to
the Priory property, 11. A levy on
the Priory for the purpose of war,
12. A grant o^ an advowson to the
Priory, 13. The condition of the
Priory in 1358 ; an omission in
respect to the advowson, 14. The
names of religious persons in the
Priory of Shulbred taxed, 15. The
resi^iation of the Prior and the
election of his successor ; the dedi-
cation of the Priory, 16. A visit to
the same by command of the Bishop
and the result, 17-18. The Priory in
pecuniary difficulties in 1513, but
later showing an improvement, 19.
The resignation of Sir Nicholas
Fensham as Prior and the appoint-
ment of John Yonge, 20. The
various appointments of the new
Prior, 21-22. A further grant of
land to the Priory ; the appointment
of William Burrey as Prior, 23. A
visitation of the Priory ; report
satisfactory, but the Prior too remiss
in paying stipends of the Canons,
24. The suppression of the Priory,
25. An interesting letter to Thomas
Cromwell respecting the Priory, 26.
A grant from the same of an annuity
to Cromwell, 27 . Another interesting
letter respecting a dog, 28. The
annual value of the I^ory at the
suppression, 29-30. The dissolution
in this case one of justification, 31.
A letter from Dr. Layton to Cromwell
respecting the Priory, 32. The date
of the dissolution and a grant of an
annuity to the late Prior ; the lands
granted to Sir William Fitzwllliam,
33. Particulars of land, &c., granted
and list of the Priors, 34.
Puckering, Edward, 74.
Pulley, Sir John, 119.
Purfield, John, 81.
Putteworthe, Richard, 17.
Pykot, William, 49, note.
R.
Racton, 3.
Rakington, Ilbert de, 3.
Rakington, William de, 7.
Ranger, John, 75.
Ratlyff, Thomas, 61.
Reade, Robert, 15.
Reade, Sir William, 83.
Reggisby, Ralph, 28.
R£LF£.
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SMITH.
Relfe, Richard, 66.
Beynes, Edward, 102.
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 86, 87.
Richard I. (King), 2.
Richardson, C. J., 138.
RicheUeu (Cardinal), 107.
Richmond, Charles, Duke of, 155.
Ringmer, 49.
Rivers, John, 75.
Robert, Thomas, 129, note,
Robinson, Anne, 101.
Rochester Castle, 50.
Rogers, Thomas, 117, note,
Roman coins at Rumboldswhjke, 151.
Rooke, Richard, 19.
Roper, Edmund, 57.
Roper, Edward, 154.
Rotterdam, Erasmus of, 107.
Round, J. H., M.A., Hon. Memb., on
The Chichester Inquest of 1212,
113-115.
Russell, Lady Louisa, description of
portrait of, 89.
Rutland, Charles, 4th Duke of, 88.
Rutland, Charles, 4th Duke of, descrip-
tion of engraving of, 88.
Rutland, Mary Isabella, Duchess of,
description of portrait of, 87, 88.
Ruyton, Richard, 56.
s.
Sackville, Richard, 84, n4)te,
Sackville, Thomas, 134.
Sagio, Convent of, 5.
Salehurst, 64, 65, 67.
Sallenger, Anthony, 72.
Sandown, Surrey, 7.
Sandys, Lord, 124.
Sansaver, Ralph, 3.
Sartyler, William, 10.
Savile, Lady Dorothy, 91.
Saxe-Coburg, Prince Leopold of, 87.
Sayres, J., 160.
Schotere, Thomas, 12.
Scots, Mary (Queen of), description of
a miniature of, 92.
Scott, Edmund, 77.
Scott, George, 75, 77.
Scott, Mrs. Margerie, 75.
Scott, Richard, 75.
Scott, Robert, 67.
Scott, Sir Thomas, 71.
Scott, Thomas, 67.
Scott, Thomas and Margery, 74.
Scrase, John, 134.
Sedley, Elizabeth, 65.
Sele, Prior of, 18.
Selwode, Henry, 23, 24.
Sevenoaks, 80.
Seymour, Thomas, 75, 77.
Seymour, William, Earl of Hertford,
description of a miniature of, 95.
Shaa, Elizabeth, 121.
Shaa, George, 121.
Shaa, John, 121.
Shaa, Thomas, 121.
Shelley, Sir William, 121 and note,
Sheppard, Richard, 130.
Sherbum, Bishop, 1, 20, 22.
Sherburne, Bishop, 33.
Sheridan, Mrs., description of the
portrait of, 86.
Shermanbury, 118.
Shibbard, Edmund, 63.
Shirley, John, 134.
Shoreham, 125, note.
Shortfrend, Walter, 11.
Shuckburgh, Charles, 100.
Shuckburgh, Colonel Rich«u:d, 98.
Shuckburgh, Colonel Richard, a portrait
of, 100.
Shuckburgh, Lady Anne, a painting of,
97.
Shuckburgh, Sir Charles, 100.
Shuckburgh, Sir Charles, a portrait of,
101.
Shuckburgh, Sir George, 99.
Shulbred, an inhibition respecting the
Priory of, 9.
Shulbred, Church of, 5.
Shulbred, Charter concerning the
Church of, 5.
Shulbred, list of the Priors of, 34.
Shulbred, names of religious persons
taxed at the Priory of, 15.
Shulbred, pension granted to a Prior
of, 33.
Shulbred, Prior of, 3, 4, 5, 10, 11.
Shulbred Priory, annual value of land
belonging to, 29, 30.
Shulbred Priory, some interesting
entries respecting, 18.
Shurley, Jane, 137, 142.
Shurley, Sir John, 137, 142.
Sidley, William, 64.
Sidney, Elizabeth, 120.
Sidney, WiUiam, 120.
Singleton Church, a quaint eulogy to a
huntsman at, 155.
Sissinghurst, Kent, 62.
Slaney, Sir Stephen, 65, 66.
Slaugham, 118, 119.
Slaugham Church, a bequest to, 116.
Slaugham Church, an interesting side
Chapel at, 147.
Slaugham Place, description of, 138.
Sleep, John, 66.
Slindon, 57.
Smith, Henry, 130.
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Smith, Jane, 136, 146, note.
Smith, John, 99, 151.
Snell, Peter, 118.
Snelling, George, 67.
Soane, Sir John, 138.
Somerset, Charles Noel, description of
portrait of, 84.
Somerset, Lady Henrietta, description
of portrait of, 86.
Somerset, Lady Mary Isabella, 85, 88, 89.
Southam, Sir Thomas, 16.
Southfieet, Kent, 64.
Southwell, Sir Robert, 139, note.
Spain, Philip II. of, an ivory medallion
of, 93.
Spalding, Robert, 142.
Spencer, George John (Earl), a minia-
ture of, 94.
Spencer, John, 2nd Earl, description of
a miniature of, 91.
Spencer, Lady (ieorgina, description of
a miniature of, 94.
Spencer, Lady Sarah, description of
painting of, 89.
Spencer, William (Duke of Devonshire),
an interesting miniature of, 94.
Springett, Herbert, 75.
Sprynget, Robert, 56.
Stagno, William de, 3.
Standen, Thomas, 118.
Standney, John, 25.
Stanhope, Sir Michael, 83.
Stanney, John, 18, 23, 24.
Steed, Elizabeth, 139.
Steed, Sir William, 139.
Steed, Suzanne, 72, 73.
Steede, Elizabeth, 73.
Steede, Jane, 73.
Steede, William, 63, 72, 73.
Stewkley, Sir, 101.
Stigand Bishop of Chichester, 158.
Stigaunt, John, 10.
Stilman, John, 23.
Stocks and Whipping Post, description
of an interesting, 152.
Storrington Church, 17.
Story, Bishop, 18.
Strafford, Lord, 144.
Stratford, Robert de, 14.
Stuart, Knight, Sir Francis, 141.
Stuart, Sir James, 141, note.
Sturmyn, John, 120, note.
Sussex Churches in 1405, 157.
Swayne, Margaret, 61.
Swegen, Ef^rl, and Hacon Dux, 157.
Symond, Adam, 16.
Symond, Sir Adam, 16.
T.
Tedworth, Hants, 99.
Tetle, Henry, 61.
Thorpe, John, 138.
Threele, Edward, 121.
Threele, Thomas, 121 and note.
Tiberius CsBsar, 151.
TiUey, Ann, 152.
Tillington, 6.
Toddmgton, definition of the name of,
159.
Toddington, the derivation of, 158.
Tooke, Anne, 62.
Torald, Richard, 10.
Tortington, 2.
Tortington, Priory of, 23.
Tortyngton, Priory of, 28.
Tree, John, 134.
Tregoz, Henry, 13.
Trot, Sir John, 55.
Truro, Cornwall, 153.
Tufton, John, 62, 72.
Tufton, Mary, 62.
Tufton, Sir William, 139.
Tunbridge, a bequest to the Church of
the Priory of, 55.
Tumour, John, 120, note.
Twineham Manor, a curious custom of,
132.
Twyneham, 118.
Twyneham Church, a bequest to, 122.
Twysden, John, 62.
Tyndale, WiUiam, 118.
Tyrrell, Elizabeth, 122.
Vaughan, Blanche, 121.
Vaver, Ann, 120.
Venne, John, 123.
Victoria ^Queen), 107.
Victoria (Queen), a portrait of, 107.
Victoria, H.li.H. Princess, 107.
V.
Villiers, George, Ist Duke of Bucking-
ham, description of a miniature of,
95.
Vincent, Thomas, 123.
Virrall, Richard, 134.
Vyne, William, 130.
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W.
Wakehurst, Anne, 59.
Wakehurst, Elizabeth, 59, 60.
Wakehurst, Margaret, 59, 60.
Wakehurst, Kichard, 59.
Walberton, 12.
Walberton, Arundel, 148.
Walberton, Walter, 57.
Walden, George, 25, 28, 29, 31.
Waldo, Jane, 99.
Waldo, Sir Thomas, 100.
Wales, H.R.H. Augusta, Princess of,
a portrait of, 106.
Wales, Princess Charlotte of, descrip-
tion of a miniature of, 91.
Wales, Princess Charlotte of, a minia-
ture of, 93.
Walewayn, Sir John, 8, 10.
Waleys, Henry, 11.
Wallden, George, 33, 34.
Waller, Walter, 129, note.
Waller, William, 129, note.
Walpole, Sir Robert, 83.
Walrand, Robert, 48.
Walton, Isaac, 84.
Ward, Ninian, 120, note.
Warren, John de, 11.
Wartling, 119.
Watts (Master), 78.
Watts, WiUiam, 98.
Waytte, WiUiam, 28.
Webbe, John, 62.
Weldon, Susemna, 70.
Welford, Elizabeth, 61.
Wentworth, Thomas (Earl of Strafford),
descriptive of a miniature of, 94.
Westboume, 156.
Westdene, Thomas de, 11.
West Farleigh Church, 37.
West Grinstead, 67.
Whitinge, Thomas, 134.
Whitpaine, Robert, 137.
Wigge, Joane, 81.
Wigge, John, 81.
Wigge, Mary, 79, 81.
Wigge, Thomas, 79, 81.
Wigsell, Sussex, 62.
Wildgose, John, 63.
Wilgosse, Elizabeth, 62.
William III. (King) and Mary II.
(Queen), a portrait of, 103.
Williamson, John, 27.
Willis, Charlotte, 69, 79.
Willis, Susanna, 69, 70.
Wilmington, 63, 64, 74, 76.
Wilmington, a bequest to the poor of,
64.
Wilson, Rev. Hugh, 102.
Wilson, Sir Thomas, 83.
Winchelsea, execution of Sir Thomas
Colepeper at, 50.
Withyham, 50.
Wlenchemere, Priory of, 2, 5, 7.
Wlenchmere, John, Prior of, 7.
Wodie, John, 118.
Wody, Anne, 118.
Wolfe, Nicholas, 125, note.
Wolsey, Cardinal, 22.
Wood, Thomas, 128 and 7iote.
Woodcock, Thomas, 145.
Woods, WiUiam, 125.
Woolfe, Mary, 125.
Woolfe, Nicholas, 126, 127.
WooUey, Sir John, 131, note.
Worsley, OtteweU, 59.
Worth, 145.
Wyat, Thomas, 135.
Wych, Richard, 53.
Wyke, Roger atte, 10.
Wylford, Thomas, 62.
Wyndebanke, John, 61.
Wyndebanke, Robert, 61.
Wyndesore, Sir Andrew, 21.
Wynn, Sir Watkins WUliam, 86.
Y.
Yapton, 12.
Yapton, an inquisition at, 10.
Ybourghdene, Ralph de, 10.
Yew tree, description of a fine, 147.
Yonge, John, 20, 23.
York, Duke of, 143.
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