ENCROACHMENTS OF THE SEA. 
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Lancing^ land, the tithes of which were 44.s*. ^d. 
per annum. 
Siddleskam and PT^efdwythering^ much land. 
Houve^ 150 acres. 
Terringe, land, the tithe valued at (i.v. 8r/. per 
annum. 
Bernham^ 40 acres. 
HeaHy 400 acres. 
Brede, great part of the marsh called Gahherglie.s. 
Saleliurst and Udimer, land, the tithes of which 
were valued at 10.s\ per annum. 
At Brighton, tlie inroads of the sea have been 
very extensive. The whole of the ancient town 
was situated on the spot which is now covered by 
the sands, and the present cliffs were then behind 
the town, like those of Dover. The sea, as Mr. 
Lyell remarks, has therefore merely resumed its 
position at the base of the cliffs, the site of the old 
town having been a beach which had for ages 
been abandoned by the ocean.* In the year 1665, 
twenty-two tenements under the cliff had been de- 
stroyed, among which were twelve shops, and 
tliree cottages, with land adjoining them. At that 
])eriod, there still remained, under the cliffy 113 
tenements ; and the whole of these were over- 
whelmed in 1703 and 1705. Since that time, an 
ancient fort called the Block-home, with the Gun 
garden, wall, and gates, have been completely 
swept away, not the slightest trace of their ruins 
liaving been perceptible for the last fifty years, t 
♦ LycH’s Principles of Geology, vol. i. p. 279. 
t Lee’s Hist, of Lewes and Brighton, 
