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Rh in the southern a trefoiled ogée-headed one. A tiebeam supplies the place of a chancel arch, as in the neighbouring church of Ashurst, Kent. The tiebeams &c. of both nave and aisle have ornamental mouldings, but are loaded with whitewash. Near the south door is a mutilated stoup, headed like the piscina. The font is Dec., octagon with carved sides, of sandstone. The entrance to the churchyard is by a lychgate, under an old cottage, but the corresponding house, forming half the gate, has been pulled down. The original arrangement must have resembled that at Penshurst, Kent.—Bolebroke, a brick mansion in this parish, erected about the middle of the fifteenth century, was a residence belonging to the Sackville family. Sufficient remains to trace the place of the house. A park was attached to it. (Horsfield's Suss. I, 392.) In (N. R.) under the parishes of Hartfield, Maresfield, and Withyham, Ashdown Forest is spoken of as "chacea de Ashesdoune."

117. .—A small hospital for lepers was founded here by Henry de Husee, temp. K. Henry II, which was afterwards made subject to Dureford Abbey. (Dug. Mon. III, Part I, p. 79, from West. Suss, in Horsfield's Suss. II, 87.) Note, The name of the abbey is spelled Durfold in the account of its origin under Rogate; to which refer.

118. .—This place is named among the possessions of the Earl of Eu, in the hundred of Essewelle, or Essewelde; but neither the manor nor the hundred can be identified under any modern appellation. The description mentions, among other particulars, that it comprised a wood of ten hogs, had been held of King Edward by Bp. Alric, and was then devastated. "Ibi aecclesia est, et silva x porcorum—Alricus episcopus tenuit de rege Edwardo—vastatum fuit." (D.B.) After Haslesse, which. place is first described in the paragraph, occur Calvintone (Chalvington) Esserintone (probably Jevington) Alsitone (Alciston) Radetone (Ratton in Willingdon) Wigentone (Wilmington?) Willedone and Wilendone (Willingdon) Ripe, Farle (Eirle) Lovingetone (Lullington?) Eschintone (Eckington, ch=k, a name in Ripe, which see) Lestone (Laughton) Dene (West Dean) and two others, which I cannot recognise. These parishes are now distributed among several hundreds, of which not a single name resembles that of Essewelle; but the above places being, for the most part certainly, clearly to be ascertained, there can be no doubt as to, at least, the district, wherein Haslesse was situated; and we might conjecture Hailsham to