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208 guide, whereby to ascertain the situation or the number of those chapels. There is also separate mention in the same record of "Ecclia de Effyngtone;" in the deanery of Storrington, wherein Broadwater is included; and signifying clearly Offington or Uffington, an ancient estate of much consideration in the parish of Broadwater, of which the mansion is old, and where, according to Cartwright, some vestiges of the chapel existed in his time, on the northern side of the house. The name of "Ofintune" occurs in (D.B.)

46. .—This very probably was the second Domesday church, stated to be in the manor of Bexhill. It is called "a small parish, or reputed parish, containing only about one hundred acres. . . In a field close by this place, behind the cliffs, are the ruins of the ancient church or chapel." (Horsfield's Suss. I, 431.)

47. .—This chapel stands in the parish of Ashington, though in a detached part, and the building contains some Norm. features. (Cartwright.) The walls are stated to exhibit Roman tiles. (Suss. Arch. Coll. II, 315.) It is styled a curacy annexed to Ashington. (Clergy List.)

48. . The Domesday description of this place is as follows. "Goze tenet de Willielmo" i.e. De Warene. "Villani tenuerunt, qui jacuerunt in Falemere T.R.E. . . Tune et modo se defendebat pro iv hidis. Terra est ii carucarum. In dominio est una cum uno villano et ii bordariis et ii servis. Ibi æcclesiola et silva de iv porcis. T. R. E. valebat xx solidos, et post et modo valet xxx solidos.—Goze holds it of William (De Warene). The villans, who resided at Falmer, held it in the time of K. Edward. . . Then and now it claimed to contain four hides. It is an estate of two ploughs. In the domain is one with one villan, and two borderers and two serfs. There is a small church, and a wood of four hogs. In the time of K. Edward it was worth twenty shillings, and afterwards and now it is worth thirty shillings." (D.B.) The property therefore is expressly stated to have been occupied by persons residing at Ealmer; the church was small; and there was a little wood, feeding only four hogs. In (A.D. 1291) we find it joined with Falmer; "Ecclia de Faleme' cum Burg'—note, Bercheme';" and the same in the (Nonæ Roll), "Falemere cum capella de Burgheme;" but the name does not occur in (Val. Eccl.) In (A.D. 1291) "Faleme' cum Burg'" are declared to belong to the prior of Lewes. At the time of the Domesday Survey the