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374 I Ealdwlf, the giver, have marked the sign of the holy cross  I, Ealdwlf, consent and subscribe  ."

This charter, of which the greater portion has been presented above, is stated by Mr. Kemble to be in the possession of the Dean and Chapter of Chichester, the reference to his authority being "Reg. B, xviii, f 5, pen. Dec. et Cap. Cicest."

In the whole of the document there is, contrary to the supposition intimated in p. 228, nothing to indicate the situation of the wood, bestowed by Duke Ealdwlf, farther than that it was "in the place called Cealtborgsteal;" which last name may possibly hereafter be recognised in some modern form, although even in that case we shall not be necessarily enabled to decide, whether the monastery of St. Andrew was erected at Ferring or at Frant, as they are now distinguished. May the original of the term "Borstall" or "Bostall," still known, be discovered in the last two syllables of the Saxon appellation Cealtborgsteal?

A more deliberate consideration of the question, and of the authorities cited relative thereto, instead of shaking, has rather confirmed the opinion, expressed pp. 227, 228, that the name Ferring in the documents quoted really intends Frant.

98. .—A small flint church of chancel and nave, with a modern north porch, and a shingled bell-cot over the west end. Externally it appears E. E., with later repairs and alterations. Not entered. At Wotton in this parish no vestige of antiquity is visible or to be heard of.

100. .—This church has been rebuilt with yellow brick, but not recently. The interior forms one wide space, covered by a double roof, which latter is supported by a row of oak posts, entire trees, down the centre of the edifice, of which the exterior has a most barn-like appearance. A square slab of stone, with a large crest (quite free) and a (smaller) coat of arms carved thereupon, together with several large stone corbels, or brackets, angels holding plain shields, or similar devices, are preserved within the building, probably relics of a former church.

110. .—Among the farm buildings at Otham, near the Polegate railroad station, stands the ancient chapel almost entire, and still, in 1851, used as a stable. It is small, measuring only about thirty-five feet in external length, Dec., and rather early, the hood mouldings terminating in the E.E. mask-like ornament. It had north and south doors, east, north, and south windows. There are considerable remains of a piscina and a sedile, the former apparently having been crocketed, but, compared with the present floor of the stable, having been placed unusually low. The east window retains no vestige of an exterior hood. The north and south windows had each seven cusps, the upper three pointed, the others round.

112*. .—Chancel, nave, south porch, and west tower. The chancel, from the evidence of a small Norm, window, seems to be of that date; chancel arch the same ; and so may be wall of nave, but that has been repaired, and is now coated with plaster. Chancel contains a high, trefoil-headed piscina, and an ornamented Perp. altar tomb. An E.E. arch in north wall of nave, near chancel, indicates a small chapel to have existed on that side. Tower late Perp., low, but very massive. Projection for stairs quadrangular, and unusually large. The diagonal buttresses at the east end, being evident additions, do not militate against the Norm, date assigned to that portion.

114. .—The northern wall of a very small building, "near the ponds," upon the farm premises of Annington, standing about east and west, contains some old stones, which may have belonged to the chapel here, and this may have been the site of that chapel.