PREFACE 



ONE of the first to make collections for the history of Sussex 

 was Sir William Burrell, LL.D., F.R.S., F.S.A., an eminent 

 lawyer who visited many of the parishes, collected drawings of 

 the objects of interest, and spent a considerable amount of time 

 on the genealogy of the county families. He however never printed 

 the result of his labours, and at his death in 1796 he bequeathed the 

 whole of his valuable collections to the British Museum, where they 

 now lie among the Additional MSS. These collections have been very 

 considerably used by subsequent historians of the county, and particu- 

 larly, perhaps, by Rev. James Dallaway, M.A., who compiled from this 

 source, at the expense of the Duke of Norfolk, T'he History of the T'hree 

 Western Rapes of Sussex. The first volume of this history, comprising 

 the account of the rape and city of Chichester, was published in 18 15, 

 and the first part of the second volume, containing the rape of Arundel, 

 in 1 8 19. The rape of Bramber, forming the second part of the second 

 volume, was undertaken at Dallaway's request by Rev. Edmund Cart- 

 wright, but was not published till 1830. Dallaway's history is a useful 

 book, but it cannot be considered reliable according to the modern 

 standard of historical research. 



The next historian of the county was Rev. Thomas Walker 

 Horsfield, F.S.A., a Presbyterian minister who, In 1835, published in 

 two volumes 'The History and Antiquities and Topography of the County of 

 Sussex. The first volume, dealing with East Sussex, in which he was 

 assisted by William Durrant Cooper, is of greater value than the 

 second, which relies almost entirely upon Dallaway. 



Mark Anthony Lower, a schoolmaster at Lewes, issued in 1 870 

 A Compendious History of Sussex : Topographical, Archcsological and Anecdotal, 

 which contains an index to the first twenty volumes of the Sussex 

 Archaological Collections, and is a valuable book of reference to all those 

 concerned with the history of this county. 



The Editor wishes to express his indebtedness to Dr. J. Horace 

 Round for much help and many kind suggestions while passing this 

 volume through the press. He also has to thank the Society of 

 Antiquaries, the Geological Society, the Archsological Institute and the 

 Sussex Arch^ological Society for the use of blocks for illustrations, and 

 the authorities of the Brighton Museum for their courtesy in permitting 

 various objects in their custody to be photographed. 



