A.

Adams, Theophilus and Robert, grant of
Bayham Abbey to, 181.

Abbey of Baylam, particulars of, 145;
Cumbwell in Goudhurst, 148; of Bat-
tle, grants to, 276-7; of Robertsbridge,
grants to, 279, 368.
Abbots of Bayham, list of, 179.
Ade, Charles, Roman urn found at Sea-
ford, 367.

Alchorne family, rebus of, 212; notices
of, and possessions, 220.
Aldham, Francis de, of Brambletye, taken

in arms at Boroughbridge in 1322, and
executed, 371.

Allin, John, vicar of Rye, uthor of letters
on Plague, 57.

Altar stone found at Rottingdean, 67.
Amber cup found in tumulus at Hove,
119, 121.

Angelic figure on chalice, 307.
Apostate, or offending Brethren, removed
from Bayham, 165.

Apse in Newhaven church, 95.

Aquilla, Richer de, founds free chapel in
Maresfield, 41.

Archbishops of Canterbury, Edmund,
1234, 152; Peckham, 1292, 217; Shel-
don, 1673, 219.
Ardingley subsidy, 1621, 87.
Arms of Tawke, 14, n.; Miller, 33; Vinall,

75, n.; Engfield or Infield, 88, n.;
Kidder of Maresfield, 135; on tomb of
Bishop Kidder at Wells, 136; Warnett
of Hempstead, 216; Egles of Copwood,
216; Saunders, 216; Beverley, 216;
Alchorne, 220; Bodiham, 277; War-
deux, 282; Dalyngrugge, 286; Lewknor,
292; Newton, 339, and quarterings,
342; Noyes, 340; Echingham on vane
of church, 349, on brass in church, with
quarterings, 353-4, in windows, 356; in
Robertsbridge Abbey, 368.
Arundel Castle, account of the taking of,

Barcombe hundred and parish subsidy,
1621, 74.

Barhud, meaning of, a trunk, 255.
Bartholomew, St., Hospital at Rye, 9.
Bartley in Bayham manor, 177.

Basset, Lucy, daughter of Sir William, 3.
Battle Abbey, grants of Bodiham family
to, 276, 277.

Bayham Abbey, 145-181; Premonstra-

tensian, 145; situation of, 145; Mar-
quis of Camden's mansion, 145; abbey
mill, 145; remains of refectory and dor-
mitories, 145; of abbey church, 146;
erected by Sir Robert de Turneham,
temp. Rich. I., 146; lines on founder,
147; died 14th John, 147; remarkable
passage in his military career, 147; also
founds Cumbwell Abbey in Goudhurst,
148; joins with Ela Sackville, formerly
Ela de Dene, in uniting at Bayham the
small houses of Brockley and Otteham,
148; particulars of those two houses
149; her descendants patrons of new
house, 149; about 1200, manor of Beg.

ham assigned to new abbey, 150; first
called Beaulieu Abbey, dedicated to the
Virgin Mary, 150; grants of lands to,
151; building commenced, 152; still
in progress in 1234, 152; indulgence
from Edmund Archbishop of Canter-
bury, 152; autograph charters existing,
153; and chartulary, 153; market con-
firmed, 1326, 154; grants of lands to,
154, 155; valuation in 1527, 156; ex-
changes, 157; benefactions conferred,
157; the abbot and convent make con.
cessions to Simon Payn and Emma his
wife,158; privileges resembling corrodies,
160; agreement between Cistercian and
Premonstratensian orders, 160; desira-
ble in consequence of vicinity of Ro-
bertsbridge, 161; manumission of vil-
leins, 161; income in 1291, 162; a grant
in 1526 to Wolsey, 162; lease in 1522,
163; visitations, 163; in 1478, by Prior
of Hales Owen, 164, Richard Redman,
Bishop of St. Asaph, 1482-1488, 165;
injunctions issued, 166; visitations and
injunctions in 1491, 167; visitations,
1494, 167; in 1497, and punishment
of apostatæ, 168; in 1500 and 1503,
169; abbots' names at visitations, 170;
they took little part in public transac
tions, 170; Bull exempting abbot from
taking part in Papal commissions, 1227,
171; but in 1454, Abbot Thomas holds
an assembly of English abbots of the
order, 171; they had five churches-
West Greenwich, 172, Helburgh, 172,
Hailsham, which gives rise to great dis-
putes, 173, settled, and provision made
for strewing the church, 175, Pembury
church, 176, Newington and Marden
churches, 177; suits of law with the
abbots, 177; Mathew Scot ejected by
his houses being pulled down, 177; but
renouncing his right, receives 50s. as a
favour, 178; visits of Edw. I., Edw. II.,
and Saint Richard of Chichester, 178;
list of abbots, 179; Sackville family
buried at, 178; house suppressed in
1526, 179; no seal existing, 179; site
granted to Wolsey for his colleges at
Oxford and Ipswich, 179; distress
caused by suppression, 180; the canons
replaced by a riotous assemblage, 180;
in 1530, property reverted to crown,
180; till granted 25th of Elizabeth to
the Adams or to Anthony Brown, Vis-
count Montague, 181; sold by Ambrose
Brown, under act of 1714, to Chief Jus
tice Camden, and now vested in his
descendants, 181.

Bayeux, Philip de Harcourt, Bishop of,
1142, 247.

Beag or beg, meaning of, 145.
Beaulieu, first name of Bayham abbey, 149.
Bellfry at Newhaven church, 94.
Bell remaining at Easebourne, 31; silver
to be fought for by schoolboys at Wreay,
184; passing-bell rung, 196; in Buxted
church, with inscription, 213.
Benedictine Nunnery at Easebourne, 1.
Bernelius, family, grants to Templars,
258, 259.

Berwick, rent of land in, belonging to the
Templars, 243.

Biden days, or bederepe, work done for
lord at harvest-time, 252.
Bigod, Juliana, relict of Hugh, 149.
Billinghurst, celts found at, 116.
Bishops: of Bath and Wells, Richard Kid-
der, 125; Bayeux, Philip de Harcourt,
247; Chichester, St. Richard, 178, Sef-
frid II., 257, Reade, 7, Praty, 7, visi
tations by, 9, Reginald Peacock, 10,
Story, 14, Arundel, 17, Robert Sher-
burn, 21, 61, Bowyer, 91, Langton,
266; Hereford, Richard de Swinfield,
10; St. Asaph, Richard Redman, 163.
Blaauw, W. H., F.S.A., Notice of Bene-

dictine Nunnery of Easebourne, 1;
Translation of Injunctions to Prior and
Convent of Boxgrove, 1518, 61; the
Preceptories of the Knights Templars in
Sussex, 227; communications by,278,n,
360 n.

Blaise, St., Boxgrove church dedicated to,
and fair on his day, 225.
Blencowe, R. W., communication from,

101n.; extracts from Journal of Walter
Gale, schoolmaster at Mayfield, 1750,
182.

Bliss, Rev. Philip, D.D., on matriculations
of Sussex men at Oxford, 363.
Blockendon, Master, disputes church of
Hailsham with Bayham, 173.
Bodiam and its Lords, 275-302; at time
of Norman survey, 275; tenants as
sumed name of de Bodenham, 275;
grants of family to Battle Abbey, 276,
277; pedigree of, 277; notices of family,
277, 279; William de Bodiam, inscrip-
tion for, 280; his heiress Margaret car-
ried the estate to the Wardeux family,
281; brass of a knight of Bodiam fa-
mily, 281; arms and pedigree of War-
deux, 282; heiress marries Sir Edward
Dalyngruge, builder of the castle, 283;
notices of Wardeux, 283–285; church
of Bodiam, 285; inscriptions, 286;
origin of the Dalyngrugge family, 286;
arms and crest, 286; pedigree, 287;
castle of Bodianı, 287, 297-302; Sir
Edward Dalyngrugge, exploits of, 288;
license to build castle in 1392-3, 290;

his son, Sir John, 291; whose niece and
heiress, Philippa, carried the estate to
the Lewknors, 292; they take opposite
sides in Wars of Roses, 293; Sir Chris-
topher adheres to Charles I., and castle
dismantled by Waller, 294; after Re-
storation, Bodiam vested in Tuftons,
and passes from them to the Websters,
and then to the Fullers, 295; the Rother
formerly navigable to Bodiham, 296;
description of castle, 297; view of bar-
bican, 297; shields over principal gate-
way, 298; groined ceiling, 298; inte-
rior apartments, 299; octagonal chim-
neys, 300; towers, 300; windows in,
301; ground plan, 301; earthworks in
castle field, 302.

Bohun, John de, founds Easebourne Nun-
nery, 2; endowment by, 4; Francis held
land in Midhurst temp. Richard I., 2;
tolls of Midhurst market commuted by
John, 1439, 3; Inquest on death of
John, 1481, 3; his widow Cecilia and
heir John, 3.

Sussex men

Bolney subsidy, 1621, 84.
Bolting wyches, 11.
Boroughbridge, battle of,
taken at, 370.
Boxgrove, visitation at, 9; priory visita-
tion of, 1518, 61, 66; church identical
with priory church, 226; notes respect-
ing, from a survey, 1570, 223-226; free-
holders, copyholders, and leaseholders,
225; Stempe family, 225; fair on St.
Blaise's day, 225; instructions touch-
ing manor, 225; manor-house, 226;
vicarage, 226.

Brambletye, chantry of, 139-144; manor

in Aldhams till 1322, 371; forfeited for
treason of Francis Aldham, taken pri-
soner at Boroughbridge, 372; granted
to Pancius, the king's physician, for life,
371; part of possessions of St. Cleres,
1435, 139; holden of Duchy of Lan-
caster, 139; passed to eldest daughter,
Elizabeth, married William Lovell, and
then Richard Lewknor, 140; buried at
East Grinstead, 140; probable founders
of this chantry, 140; stated to have
been dissolved by Lord Windsor, 140;
became property of John Farnham, 141;
sold to Lord Buckhurst, 141; Katherine
Pycas disputes title, and attempts to
prevent livery and seizin by force, 141;
and then complains of seditious words
spoken, 141.

Braose family at Buxted, 218; William de
confirms gift by Philip Harcourt to Tem.
plars, 246; and arranges terms between
Templars and Monks of Sele, 248; con-
firms grant of his mother of land at

Bramber, 249; and grant of church of
Sumpting, 256; Sir Giles, effigy of, 369.
Brasses, monumental, in Buxted church,
214; Bodiam church, 281; Echingham
church, 352, 353; John Wybarne, 368;
Nuthurst church, 370.
Brenchley, Blechenden, & Matfield, farms
in, 151 n.; Matfield Green, 155.
Brighthelmstone subsidy, 1621, 78.
British settlement at Nutbourne Common,
notice of, 109; remains found in Sussex,
116; at Hove, 119.
Brockley, in Deptford, house of Premon-
stratensians founded, 149; particulars
of, 149; joined with small house of Otte-
ham at Bayham, 149.

Broomfield family, notice of, 85.
Browne, Katherine, daughter of Sir Thos.,
178; Anthony Visct. Montagu, grant of
Bayham to, 181; Ambrose Browne, sale
by, 181.

Browne, John, gent., 1780, who? 368.
Buckhurst, Thomas, Lord, 141.
Bull of capacity to Easebourne, 19; of
exemption of Abbot of Bayham from
taking part in Papal commissions, 1227,
171; of Clement VII., for drafting ca.
nons from Bayham, 179; Pope Alexan-
der to Templars, 1256, 227; Clement V.,
in 1312, dissolving that order, 274.
Burwash church, disputation between a
Quaker and the Vicar at, 34.

Bury Hill, parliamentary army encamped
on, 51.
Buttinghill hundred, north part, subsidy,
1621, 80; south part, 82.

Buxted church, notes on, 208-222;
mainly Early English, 208; ground-plan
dimensions, 208; nave, 209; north and
south aisles, 209; font, 208; north
transept, 209; chancel, 210; east win-
dow early decorated period, 210; pis-
cina, 210; depressed arch as canopy of
sedilia, 210; chancel built 1292, 211;
decorated with leaves, &c. of hops, 211;
south chantry, 212; memorial window
for C. C. C., Earl of Liverpool, 212;
north porch, 212; rebus of Alchorne
family, 212; tower Early English, 213;
bells with inscription, 213; church chest
of oak, 213; yew-tree, large, 214; mo-
numental remains in brass, Sir Johan
de Lewes, rector, 214; Britellus Avenel,
rector, 215; Christopher Savage and
his son Robert, rector, 215; Edward
Lindsay, 215; Deonicius Slon, 216;
Thomas Smith, 216; JohnWarnett, with
arms, 216; figures probably of John
Attewell and Isabella, 216; tablets and
hatchments for Waldo, Medley, and
Jenkinson families, 216; arms of Egles

of Copwood, Saunders, Warnett, and
Beverley, 216; ecclesiastical notices,
216; taxation of Pope Nicholas, 217;
rector to find subdeacon for church of
Malling, 217; grant for founding chapel
at Geldridge, 217; registers begin, 1567,
217; parish feast, or yon faull, 217;
hospital of Lord de Say founded, 217;
charities of Anne Smith, 218, Thomas
Pownde, 218, John Langworth, 219;
list of rectors, 219; dispute as to pa-
tronage between Langworth and Swale,
1620, 219; Dr. Saunders founds school
at Uckfield, 219; notices of Alchorne
and Weston families, 220; Pelhams of
Kendall, 221; their mansion-house,221;
Nonæ returns, 221; proposed restora-
tion of church, 222.

Chap, free, of Mares field, 41; Dudeney,
43; Brambletye, 141, 371; Uckfield,
208; Gildridge, near Crowborough, 217;
Saint Rooks, or Roches, 224; Sadeles-
combe and Shoreham, 233,236; Cnapp,
249; Cocham, 259.

Charters and chartulary of Bayham pre-

served, 154; and of Templars, 234.
Chest, oak, in Buxted church, 213.
Chichester (see Bishops), commissioners

for subsidy, 1514-15, 104-1640, 105;
fees of officers of port, temp. Elizabeth,
107; value of bishoprick and deaneries,
108; assizes at, 1279, 231; mintage at,
369.

Chiddingly, Burghill in, 33, 36.
Churches: descriptions of Easebourne, 27;
Denton, 96; Newhaven, 89; Yainville,
Normandy, 92; abbey of Bayham, 146;

Buxted, 208; Bodiham, 285; Eching-
ham, 343; Rye, pillory and cucking-stool
in, 361; Nuthurst, brass at, 370.
Cistercian order and Premonstratensians,
agreement between, 160; Robertsbridge
abbey, 161.

Civil war, proceedings in Sussex, 49; dis-
pute with Lewes committee, 50; cap-
ture of Arundel castle, 1643-44, 51;
one portion of the county addresses
Lord General Fairfax in 1647, the other
the Parliament, 54; Vincent Kidder
joins army, 135; Waller dismantles Bo-
diham and other castles, 294.

Clarke, Dr. Edward Nathaniel, the travel-
ler, of Buxted, 220.

Clayton subsidy, 1621, 83.

Cnapp, in Shipley, tithes, 248; chapel,
249.

Coberts, or iron cleavers, 11.

Cocham, chapel of St. Peter at, given to
Templars, and disputes as to, 259;
agreement as to services there, 260.
Cockram, Captain, notice of, 51.
Cocks shied at, 184; fighting, notices of,
184 n.

Coins, Roman, found at Hangleton, 124;
British, at Hastings, 367; Saxon, 369.
Commissioners for subsidy, 1621, 51–
1512, 1514-15, 103-1496-97, 1503-4,
1640, 104-1660, 106.

Counte, Simon le, grants to Templars, 235.
Compton, advowson of, 6, 12; in Firle,

land is given to Templars, 241; manor
of, in Tottenore, also given, and dis-
puted, 241; valuation of, in 1308, 242.
Conand, Lady Fredeswyda, a nun, exa-
mination of, 19.

Conjugatus, bond servant, or married man?

17.

Conjuror attends master of Mayfield

school, 188, 191; profession of, 188.
Cooper, Rev. George Miles, History of
Abbey of Bayham, 145.

Cooper, William Durrant, F.S.A., extracts

from MSS. of Samuel Jeake, by, 45;
the chantry of Brambletye, and sedition
in Sussex, temp. Eliz., 1579, 139, 370;
communications from, 180 n, 278 n.;
Kent and Sussex posts, 1666, 370;
scarcity of husbands in Sussex, 1700,371.
Corrigenda to Vol. VIII., 373.
Cotton, W., F.S.A., description of Bodi-
ham Castle, 302.

Coulton, John, chaplain in Parliamentary

army, under Captain Cockram, letters
from, relating to fight at Bury Down,
the capture of Arundel Castle, 1643-44,
and other contests in Sussex, 49.
Crackelynge, Lady Johanna, a nun, exa-
mination of, 18.