A Compendious History of Sussex Volume 2; Topographical, Arch Ological & Anecdotical. Containing an Index to the First Twenty Volumes of the "Sussex

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 Excerpt: ...and other families. There is a peal of eight bells, all of modern date. Altogether this is one of the most interesting churches in the district. See also the articles Robertsbeidge and Hurst-green. Ironworks, ii, 216. iii, 241. xviii, 15. Church of, xiii, 136. Culpeper family, xiii, 254. Boxhulle (Bugsell), xv, 152 xviii, 15. xx, 65. Newingtons of, xvi, 46. Bells, xvii, 223. Cade's insurrection, xviii, 25. Strodes of, xix, 110. Hays of, xx, 65. SEAFORD. Vulgo, Saifoord; a parish, extinct Parliamentary Borough, and Corporation, a Member of the Cinque port of Hastings, in the Rape of Pevensey; distant 9 miles from Lewes, its Post-town. It has a Railway station on the South Coastline. Union, Eastbourne. Population in 1811, 1,001; in 1861,1,084, though in the season the population is much increased; Benefice, a Vicarage, valued at 240; Incumbent, Rev. W. H. Meade Buck. Date of earliest Parish Register, 1558. Acreage, 2,235. Chief Landowners, The Earl of Chichester, Mrs Harison, and Dr. Tyler Smith. Seats, Sutton Place, Mrs. Harison; Milburgh, J. Purcell Fitz-Gerald, Esq. This small town is rich in historical interest. In Vol. vii. of Sussex Archaeological Collections I gave the fullest account of it then practicable, but additions have been made in several subsequent volumes, particularly in Vol. xvii. The locality was early possessed by civilized man. Many traces of Roman occupation occur in the parish. On the cliff, less than a mile eastward of the town, is an earthwork locally called the Roman camp, and a Roman cemetery existed at Green Street, where, about the year 1825, a large number of sepulchral urns were exhumed. Coins of Hadrian and Pius, and of Antonia, daughter of Mark Antony, have been found here. Seaford was one of t...