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 and Supplies from Sussex; and is associated with Mr. Lower in a third paper, entitled Further Memorials of Seaford. In Vol. xviii. he has three papers, the first, one of considerable historical value, on the Participation of Sussex in Cade's Rising. The other two are respectively Notes on Sussex Castles, and Extracts from the Passage-book of the Port of Rye. This latter paper is followed up in Vol. xix, by one on Aliens in Rye, temp. Hen. VIII., and the same nineteenth volume also contains a paper on Royalist Compositions in Sussex during the Commonwealth. Vol. xx. is led off by a paper on Midhurst, its Lords and its Inhabitants. Vol. xxi. contains three papers, viz., Notes on Mayfield; Crown Presentations to Sussex Livings; and Additional Contributions towards the Parochial History of Hollington. Vol. xxii. has a paper on the Guilds and Chantries of Horsham; and Vol. xxiii. Further Notices of Winchelsea, Former Inhabitants of Chichester are chronicled in Vol. xxiv. Parham and its Collections forms the commencing article in Vol. xxv; and this (save two inconsiderable notes in Vol. xxvi.) is the final contribution from the indefatigable pen which death alone could stay.

But the foregoing catalogue, full as it is, does not embrace all the printed communications of to the volumes of, nor does it even refer to other valuable services rendered by him to, the. Nearly a column, on pages 96 and 97, of the General Index to our volumes, is devoted to his Minor Communications; Information to other Contributors, &c., while during the years that he officiated gratuitously as Editor of the Society's volumes, his multifarious footnotes, as valuable as they are unobtrusive, attest at once to his industry, his critical acumen, and the large extent of his historical acquirements. On his retirement from the Editorship of our Society's volumes some of the members (by a separate subscription), in order to mark their sense of Mr. Cooper's services, resolved on asking his acceptance of some tangible memorial of their gratitude and esteem. The result was a handsome silver salver, engraved with a wreath of Sussex oak leaves and acorns,