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the Domesday Survey of this county more places perhaps, now known as parishes, are omitted, than in that of Kent; which may be accounted for from the circumstance, that the great forest of Anderida, commencing in Kent, stretched completely through Sussex into Hampshire. (See the Note on Limpne in Kent.) In some localities however the churches, mentioned in Domesday Book, are more numerous than might have been expected; but in very many instances, more frequently than in either Kent or Surrey, it is expressly stated of those churches, that they are small; "æcclesiola" being the term used. Of many places also the description concludes by saying, that they have been laid waste, occasionally specifying that this has occurred since the time of King Edward, the Confessor; which devastations have been traced (by Mr. Hayley, in his MSS. quoted in Sir H. Ellis's Introduction to Domesday Book) in the probable routes of the two armies of Harold and William, previous to their conflict at Battle. A few parks are incidentally alluded to in Sussex: for example, one at Rotherfield; the Earl of Eu had a park, in Baldeslei hundred, and apparently in the neighbourhood of Crowhurst (where is now a park), but the precise spot I cannot identify. No park is positively spoken of or alluded to at Arundel; but the holdings of different tenants of Earl Roger, the owner of Arundel, were frequently reduced, because portions of their land were "in the earl's park;" and from these notices we may infer that he possessed two parks. Parts of Walberton and Tortington manors being so reduced would imply, that one park was at or near Arundel. Similar statements occur with regard to Waltham in Boxgrove hundred, probably Up Waltham, which must, necessarily, from the distance between the places, relate to another park; possibly the same as, or in the vicinity of, Selhurst park, now existing, though the latter is at