A Compendious History of Sussex: Topographical, Archæological & Anecdotical. Containing an Index to the First Twenty Volumes of the "Sussex Archæological Collections".G.P. Bacon, 1870 - Sussex (England) |
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Abbey Acreage acres afterwards ancient Apsley Bart bells belonged Benefice Bishop of Chichester Bramber Braose Brighton building Cade's called Castle century chancel chapel Chief Landowners church St College Conquest Date of earliest descended distant Domesday Earl of Arundel earliest Parish Register Early English East East Grinstead East Sussex Eastbourne Edward Edward III Elizabeth formerly George Hastings held Henry VIII Horsham Hundred Incumbent inscriptions John King lands Lord manor mansion Midhurst miles north-west nave Norman Oxford Park Patron Pelham Petworth Pevensey picturesque Population in 1811 possessed Poynings Priory Pulborough Railway station Rape of Chichester Rectory residence Richard river River Arun River Rother Roger de Montgomeri Roman Rother Saxon Seaford seat Shelley south aisle Steyning temp Thomas Tortington tower town Uckfield Union valued Vicarage village villeins vulgo Warbleton Warenne watermills West William Winchelsea xvii xviii
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Page 121 - UNDERNEATH this sable hearse Lies the subject of all verse, SIDNEY'S sister, PEMBROKE'S mother ; Death ! ere thou hast slain another, Learn'd and fair, and good as she, Time shall throw a dart at thee.
Page 109 - Weald, with verdant beauty graced, o'erwhelmed, a sad and watery waste ! But so it chanced, a good old dame, whose deed has long outlived her name, Waked by the cramp at midnight hour, or just escaped the nightmare's power, Rose from her humble bed, when lo ! she heard Nick's terrible ado ! And by the starlight faintly spied this wicked wight, and dyke so wide! She knew him by his mighty size, his tail, his horns, his saucer eyes ; And while with wonderment amazed, at workman and at work she gazed,...
Page 108 - THE DEVIL'S DIKE. A Sussex Legend. Five hundred years ago, or more, Or, if you please, in days of yore ; That wicked wight yclept Old Nick, Renown'd for many a wanton trick, With envy, from the Downs, beheld The studded Churches of the Weald...
Page 24 - Here lies the coal-heaver, who departed this life July I, 1813, in the 69th year of his age, beloved of his God, but abhorred of men. The omniscient Judge, at the grand assize, shall ratify and confirm this, to the confusion of many thousands ; for England and its metropolis shall know that there hath been a prophet among them. — WH, SS...
Page 108 - ... throne ; The lightsome Moon she was not there, But deck't the other hemisphere. Now with a fit capacious spade, So large, it was on purpose made, Old Nick began, with much ado, To out the lofty Downs in two...
Page 109 - At workman and at work she gaz'd, Swift 'cross her mind a thought there flew, That she by stratagem might do A deed which luckily should save Her country from a watery grave, By his own weapons fairly beating The father of all lies and cheating ! Forth from her casement, in a minute, A sieve with flaming candle in it, She held to view : — and simple Nick, Who ne'er suspected such a trick, (All rogues are fools,) when first his sight A...
Page 121 - THIS book belongs to St Mary of Robertsbridge; whosoever shall steal it, or sell it, or in any way alienate it from this House, or mutilate it, let him be anathema-maranatha. Amen.
Page 92 - ... all black, and naked, and wounded through the midst of his breast ; and adjuring the goat by the Holy Trinity to tell what that was he so carried, he answered, " I am carrying your King to judgment, yea that tyrant William Rufus, for I am an evil spirit, and the revenger of his malice which he bore to the church of God, and it was I that did cause this his slaughter; the protomartyr of England, St.
Page 146 - Leonard's, which perhaps affords one of the most beautiful and wonderful proofs of individual taste, judgment, and perseverance, that our nation exhibits. Under the superintendence of Mr. Burton, a desert has become a thickly-peopled town: buildings of an extensive nature and most elegant character rear their heads where, but a few years since, the barren cliffs presented their chalky fronts to the storm and wave; and rippling streams and hanging groves adorn the valley which, twenty years since,...
Page 214 - Now I am dead and layd in grave, And that my bones are rotten, By this shall I remember'd be, Or else I am forgotten.