A HISTORY OF SUSSEX 



carriage. 8 In 1648 there were bought for the 

 same forge of William Roberts 11,000 tiles at 

 ijs. \d. the i,OOO, 100 gutter and 100 corner 

 tiles at 12s. 6d. the 100, and sixty 'redging* or 

 ridge tiles at 2d. the tile ; but these prices 

 included carriage to the forge. 9 



The clay at Littlehampton 10 and Worthing 11 

 yields a good quality of white brick, but it is 

 especially for a warm red colour that Sussex bricks 

 have obtained a good name, the best examples 

 coming from the Ditchling, Keymer, and Burgess 

 Hill district, where there are several large works 

 turning out bricks, tiles, and pots, and a certain 

 amount of more ornamental ware. The Hove 

 Town Hall is a good example of brickwork from 

 these yards, and Ditchling terra-cotta has been 

 used not only at the Children's Hospital in 



Brighton, but in the Central Station at Man- 

 chester, for the Martyrs' Memorial at Stratford, 

 and the City Market at Dublin. 12 A good 

 quality of brick much used for paving is turned 

 out by the Dicker potteries and brickyards, and 

 the industry flourishes over a wide area of tne 

 county, more especially in the east, 156 firms of 

 brick and tile makers being recorded in the 

 Directory for 1905, of whom most were in the 

 neighbourhood of Hastings, Polegate, Worthing, 

 Horsham, Ditchling, and Uckfield. The number 

 of persons employed in brickmaking in the county 

 rose from 633 in 1851 to 1,486 in 1901, but is 

 possibly slightly lower at present, as the great 

 demand for bricks which was so noticeable 

 about 1900 has very much slackened since 

 that time. 



GLASS 



One of the chief centres of the manufacture 

 of glass during the mediaeval period J was at 

 Chiddingfold in Surrey, from which place the 

 industry spread over the border into Sussex, glass- 

 houses existing during the fourteenth century at 

 Kirdford, 2 Wisborough Green, and Loxwood. 

 None of these, probably, were of as great im- 

 portance as the Chiddingfold works, and it was 

 not until the reign of Elizabeth that Sussex 

 became prominently associated with the industry. 

 In 1567 Jean Carre, a glass merchant, settled in 

 England with the encouragement of the queen. 

 The place selected by Carr for his works was 

 Farnfold Wood in Wisborough, where he erected 

 ' two houses to make glass and one fair dwelling- 

 house covered with shingles, and the windows 

 thereof well glazed.' 3 For fuel he hired ' the 

 spoil of the wood growing there ' at a rent of 

 35.* In August, 1567, Carr appears to have 

 taken into partnership Anthony Becku alias 

 Dolyn, but the partnership does not seem to 

 have been a success, possibly owing to jealousy 

 between the workers. Carr6 himself came from 

 Antwerp, but his associates were from Lorraine, 

 while Becku appears to have introduced workers 

 from Normandy. 5 At a later date the two 



8 Add. MS. 33156, fol. 16. 



9 Add. MS. 33155, fol. 43. 



10 Young, op. cit. 436. 



11 Suss. Arch. Coll. xxxv, 97. " Suss. Indus. 82. 



1 The discovery in 1848 of certain lumps of 

 coloured glass has suggested the possibility of a 

 Romano-British glass manufactory having existed be- 

 tween Brighton and Rottingdean, but the evidence 

 is incomplete. Hartshorne, Old English Glasses, 108-9. 



' On 3 April, 1380, John Glasewryth, of Stafford- 

 shire, had a grant of house and land in Shuerwode, 

 Kirdford, and there made ' brodeglas ' and 'vessel' 

 (i.e. window glass and drinking vessels) ; ibid. 132. 



3 Add. MS. 5701, fol. 150. 



4 Ibid. * Antiquary, xxx, 21 1. 



classes appear to have worked together, as the 

 parish registers of Wisborough between 1581 

 and 1600 contain the names (in corrupted 

 shapes) of Hennezel, Thi6try, Thisac, Bongar, 

 and Cacqueray, all members of the 'gentils- 

 hommes verriers,' the first three being from 

 Lorraine and the last two from Normandy. 5 

 At first, however, there was considerable fric- 

 tion, Becku complaining that although Carr6 

 had entered into partnership with him he had 

 subsequently made agreements with John Cheva- 

 lier and Thomas and Belthazar de Hennezel of 

 Lorraine to his exclusion. By this last agree- 

 ment, made in April, 1568, Chevalier and 

 the Hennezels were to erect two ovens in 

 England, to bring over four ' gentlemen glasiers,' 

 and to make every day ' in eche of the said 

 oovens the quantitie of thirtie bundells of glas 

 whyte or coullers good lawfull and merchaunt- 

 able of good height and largnes well propor- 

 cioned.' The costs were to be shared, and the 

 Hennezels, who were to be in control of the 

 ovens, were to receive annually 2OO crowns as 

 their third of the glass produced, the further profits 

 being divided, half to the Hennezels and half to 

 the other partners. 7 It is difficult to make out 

 exactly what happened, but apparently Jean 

 Carr had only entered into partnership with 

 Becku in order to prevent his starting for him- 

 self, and then managed, through Becku's fore- 

 man, Pierre Briet, to prevent his workmen from 

 carrying out their engagements, so that none of 

 the 200 cases of Normandy glass which should 

 have been made between 23 October and the 

 following Easter had then been turned out. As 

 a result Becku lost about 280, the wages paid 

 being very high, ' for the principall workeman 

 hathe daylie xviiij., and for that he is bounde to- 



' Scottish Antiquary, vii, I 50. 

 1 Antiquary, xxx, 213. 



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