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Robert Slowman, George Puttock, &c. ; " and one 

 Robert Chase of Rogate, husbandman of the age of 

 30 yeares or thereabouts, sworn and examined, saith : 

 ' that he hath felled and cutt in peeces, within the 

 compas of these two yeres now last paste, in Harting 

 Come, and New Wood aforesaide, a greate deale of 

 wood for the use of the iron-woorkes aforesaide ; but 

 (he adds with characteristic Sussex caution) what oken 

 tymbe r (the main point) he doth not now remember.' " 

 These extensive iron-works doubtless furnished a 

 large source of revenue to the lord of the manor,* 



ing Manor, is a relic of the fourteenth century practice of insuring 

 certain payments in coin, such as " malt silver," " wood silver," 

 " larder silver" ; such payments, the earliest form of the modern 

 rent, taking the place of the older personal service on the Court 

 Rolls. 



Many of the Sussex manors were held by curious service. 

 Thus Rogate manor (as was Sompting or " Sontingge," in the 

 time of Queen Elizabeth) is to this day held by a red rose 

 presented annually at Midsummer; Hemston, a sub-manor of 

 Half-naked or Halnaker, was held by a pair of gold spurs on 

 the death of the tenant ; Fittleworth by two pounds of cummin ; 

 Stopham by half a pound of pepper. The manor of Wool- 

 beding was held in Edward the Second's reign by John Peynel, 

 by the service of carrying the king's gonfanon, or banner, on 

 foot when he came into that country in time of war, from the 

 bridge called Schytesbregge (Sheet) to the bridge called Wul- 

 vardsbregge (Woolmer's bridge), or the contrary (Inq. a. q. d, 

 10 Ed. II., No. 12). But in Inquisition Roll of 25 Eliz. No. 170 

 (1585), one William Ayling dies possessed of the same manor, 

 his service (perhaps grotesquely altered by Queen Elizabeth as 

 part of her Cowdray feats) being to carry before the sovereign "a 

 cross-bow without a string and an arrow-bolt (tirbolum) without 

 feathers, when the king comes to these parts ; for instance, if he 

 shall pass towards the county of Southampton by the bridge 

 near Midhurst, Sussex, called Wolversbridge, to the bridge of 

 Sheete, in the county of Southampton." The bridge is now 

 called Woolmersbridge, but its ancient form Wulvardesbregge, 

 shows that it had to do with the wolfward and the tax on wolves 

 (compare Woolmer's forest, Woolbeding, Wool Lavington), not 

 with any compound of Wool (Verified for me by H. J. Sharpe, 

 Esq., Record office ; to whom I sent the foregoing extract from 

 Rawlinson, MSS. B. 458. Bodleian). 



In a document contained in our first register, there is evidence 



