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Collections for a History of West Dean. 



lied man Gore Coppice 

 Rail Common. 

 Rowley Marsh 



Redman's angular wood? 



Rough Leigh. 



Talk Woods. 



Three Sisters Coppice. 



Tine Pit. 

 Wire Close 



Weir? 



Zellwoods. 



There were ancient May-poles in West Dean and East Grimstead : 

 that at the former place is still standing (I find it marked in a 

 map made in 1791), that at East Grimstead fell a year or two ago, 

 and no one has thought it worth while to re-erect it, which is a 

 pity, as the May-Day festivities were maintained as long as it 

 lasted. 



An eight-pound cannon-ball, found buried in a farmyard in the 

 centre of the village, and now in my parochial museum, may not 

 improbably be a relic of the Civil War of 1642-5. That there is 

 reason for this conjecture, I adduce the following from " Civil War 

 in Hants, 1642-5, by the Rev. G. N. Godwin "~~ to whose courtesy 

 I am indebted for calling my attention to the matter. At p. 198, 

 after recording a defeat of the Cavaliers at Salisbury, December 5th, 

 1644, by a troop of Colonel Ludlow's horse, under Major Duet 

 (Dewett), and a troop of Colonel Morton's \horse, under Major 

 Wansey (Weinsford), he proceeds : — " Elated with success the 

 victors retired with eighty prisoners to Southampton by way of 

 Dean House, which was the home of Sir John Evelyn. Major 

 Wansey had here found such good quarters that he neither cared to 

 give up possession to the lawful owner, nor to take the field at the 

 bidding of Colonel Ludlow. Ludlow, therefore, marched to aid in 

 the relief of Taunton at the head of two hundred horse, leaving the 

 gallant major to take his ease at Dean House." 



The country between Salisbury and Romsey was the scene of 

 frequent skirmishes. In November, 1644, General Lord Goring 

 was sent by the King with three thousand horse, one thousand five 

 hundred foot, and a train of artillery through Hants to Salis- 

 bury, and on January 3 7th, 1645, was "at Whiteparish and the 



