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Rh respectively placed, I should rather imagine Westham to be meant by Hamelesham, and that Hailsham is intended by the Haslesse of (D.B.) See the Note below on Haslesse.

111. .—The Domesday names Hentone and Antone are supposed to signify this place, as they bear some similarity to another ancient appellation, Hamptonette, which it bore (as in A.D. 1291). In (N. R.) it is called West Hampnet. East Hampnett is in Boxgrove parish.

112. .—The present church was built in 1826. (Horsfield's Suss. II, 133.) The east window is Dec., and the font is old. (Parry's Coast of Suss. 371.)

113. .—The church is small, and in melancholy condition. From portions of two very small round-headed window-frames, still remaining in the walls, the latter may originally have been Norm., but they have been much disguised by the patching they have undergone. Some herring-bone work is very conspicuous on the south side; where is the only door now used, which has a semicircular head, and another of the same shape in the north wall is now closed. There are traces of Norm. windows, but the others may be E.E., except that at the east end, which is much later. The tower seems to have been entirely or partially rebuilt, perhaps during the E.E. period.—The manor-house, an extensive Elizabethan edifice, contains a large room, which is said to have been a chapel, but the stable has a lancet window. On a chimney-piece are the letters R B. Richard Bellingham was the owner A.D. 1594. (Horsfield's Suss. I, 162.) There is a ceiling, much ornamented in the Elizabethan style, which is perfect, though now intersected by the partition between two rooms; but I could hear of no "R B on a chimney-piece," nor did I discover any lancet window in the stable. Very near to the manor-house is another, called Benfold, of about the same date apparently, now occupied by cottagers. On a cornice over the entrance-porch are carved several shields of arms, which are still in remarkably good preservation; and among them are mutilated parts of some letters, either B, P, or R, and C, and perhaps there may have been another.

114. .—This name clearly means Annington, a principal estate in Botolph's parish, which indeed is even now sometimes recognised, me teste, not by the latter, but by the former, title.—"In 1075 Will, de Braiose" (to whom Haningedune, Bramber, and many adjoining manors belonged, according to D.B.) "granted the church of St. Peter's Vipont, or de