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in the Converfion of the neighbouring Parts ; but of 
what elfe relates to the County, fave the miferable Ig» 
norance of the Inhabitants, and the Number of Fami- 
lies, he has left no Account. Bede (pent mofl of his 
Time in the Monaderies of Wiremcuth and Jarrow, 
and travel’d little ; fo, that confidering the Didance 
from thence to this County, and the different Govern- 
ments and Intereffs that lay between, he may well be. 
excus’d for the few Particulars he has left us of it. 
The next Records we have to view are thofe of £- 
theherdt the Chronicon Saxonicum, and Henrj Arch- 
deacon of Huntingdon, But that you may the more 
clearly apprehend the antient State of this County ; 
look int(T the beft Map of it you can get. At the 
Weft End, you will find iVefi-Harting and Stanfted, di- 
ftant from each other Six or Seven Miles; imagin ai 
ftreight Line to be drawn from Harting to Bourne near 
Fevenfef, and another to be drawn from a Point which ' 
muft he little South of Stanfiead to Brighthetmfiom \ . 
What lies North of thefe Lines is the Weald or Low- 
lands, formerly the S^jlva Andcrida'^ that which is com-- 
prehended between thefe Lines, and bounded by the' 
Sea, from Brighthelmflone to Bourne, is the Downs, fo* 
famous for their pleafant Situation and Fruitfulnefs. 
The Part South of thefe Lines, is a flat champaifii 
Ground, ending like a Wedge at Brighthelmftom. Thefe 
two laft Parts were thofe only that were inhabited 
Bede's Time; they contain not more than Two Fifths- 
of the whole County ; which muft be the reafon why-- 
Bede (aid,: Su[fex. ‘ confifted not of more than 7000 ;■ 
Families or Farms ; whereas in another place he com- 
putes to have 1 5000, Families. 
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I Be^dx Hift. Ecclsf, Lib. IV. cap, xiU, 
