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 208 ON THE CITY OF ANDERIDA, OR ANDREDESCEASTER. country, which must, in very early times, have been ahnost one impervious forest''. 2. With regard to Arundel being the site of Andredecester, I am not aware that any claim has been advanced beyond that in a small pamphlet, published in 1843, without any name, but written by Mr. James Puttock^ Argument this tract cannot boast, unless we admit as such a far-fetched attempt at deriving the names Anderida and Arundel from the same roots in the British language. The author's ex- pressions are — " the name of this river," the Arun, " I derive, &c. — I conclude," p. 17; "I confidently beheve," p. 18; "my impression is," p. 19; "I should think," p. 20; not- withstanding he " flatters himself he has solved the mystery" relating to " the site of Anderida," pref. ; and concludes thus, " in short, whoever seeks for Anderida at any other place than Arundel will lose his labourV In spite of this assertion, however, the generality perhaps of enquirers will venture to differ from the writer. That a castle existed at Arundel, as Mr. Puttock states, during the Saxon period, is freely acknowledged ; for the Domesday description of the place alludes to payments from the " castrum Harundel" in the time of King Edward the Confessor ; and that a Roman station of some kind might have stood there is probable, Arundel lying very nearly in a direct line from the Bignor villa to the sea. But actual proof of the existence of any such station depends upon the fact of Roman walls, or re- mains of them, being traceable in or around the present castle of Arundel ; in the absence of which marks, and with- out positive historical evidence, no claim to have been a Roman ^ Since these observations were com- church toward Sandhurst, lying south of menced I have seen an article in the the turnpike road; but which, in rriy time, Gentleman's Magazine for December, was always called Heronden or Harnden. 1844, p. 577, by my friend the Rev. Beale This farm however is in the parish of Post, who takes the same view of tlie ques- Sandhurst, (my native place); and al- tion as relating to Newenden, and finally though great part of the farm on the oppo- draws the same conclusion with myself. site side of the road is in Newenden, for Nevertheless I iiave persevered in my this I never recollect hearing any other undertaking, because Mr. Post has noticed name than Lamberden. only two places, Newenden and Pevensey, ^^ Anderida identified with Arundel, pp. and because he has adopted a somewhat 20. London, H. Hughes, 15, St. Martin's- different line of argument from mine. le-Grand, 1843. Upon one particular Mr. Post has, I con- f As a friend justly observed after read- ceive, fallen into a mistake. He alludes ing the pamphlet, the identification rests to a farm in the parish of Newenden, upon similar grounds with Fluellin's re- bearing a name with, in his opinion, a semblance between Macedon and Mon- resemblance to that of Anderida, namely, mouth — as there given, Arndred. Hereby he must, " There is salmons in both." I imagine, mean a farm a mile from the Shakspeare's Henry V.