scription, and has been represented in Parliament by two Members ever since the thirteenth century; the right of voting for these is confined to the burgageholders, who are about twenty-five in number. A Steward, two Bailiffs, and two Constables (all of whom are annually chosen at the court leet of the Duke of Norfolk, lord of the manor), exercise the civil government of the town.

a handsome and venerable structure, stands at the south side of the town, and has a well-built tower, with eight bells, a lofty spire, and a large window of pointed architecture at the east end. The interior has been completely repaired within a few years, is handsomely fitted up, and contains several monuments; the most remarkable of these is an ancient altar tomb, standing in the chancel, and having a fine recumbent figure of a knight in armour, supposed to represent William, Lord Braose, from whom the Howard family claim descent by the female line; another large altar tomb stands near, with a canopy, richly ornamented, but without effigy or inscription; and a third, of white marble, with a female figure, elegantly carved, commemorates Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Delves, Esq. who died in 1654. The Roman

Catholics, Methodists, Quakers, and other Dissenters, have places of worship in this town.

The Summer Assizes for the county are held at Horsham alternately with Lewes; and here is a handsome Town Hall and Sessions House, much improved by the Duke of Norfolk within the last few years. The County Gaol is a modern building, principally of stone, standing in a well-chosen situation, near the southern entrance of the town. It has a neat small garden in front, two spacious court-yards, and a grass plat, surrounded by gravel-walks, which impart a pleasing and healthful appearance to the structure. A wall encircles the whole; and the prison, which is for debtors as well as felons, consists of two floors, beneath which is an arcade; each prisoner has a separate sleeping apartment, and on each floor is a day-room of large dimensions. The Keeper's house contains the Chapel, in which prayers are read daily, and a sermon delivered weekly, by a Chaplain, appointed by the magistrates.

Horsham has a Free Grammar School; a National School for boys, and another for girls; several charitable institutions; and a Savings' Bank. Its Market, which is principally for corn and poultry, and is well supplied, is held weekly on Saturday; it has also a cattle-market on the last Thursday in every month; and five annual Fairs.

HORSTED KEYNES is a village, on the Ouse, three miles from Lindfield, with about 700 inhabitants, and has a small but neat Church, with an elegant spire. It is pleasing to observe that in this little village a National School has been established for the instruction of poor children.

HURSTMONCEUX, a village with about 1300 inhabitants, and an ancient Church, containing some fine monuments of the Fieunes family, is principally remarkable for the ruins of a venerable Castle, formerly the seat of that family, and considered to be one of the oldest brick buildings in the kingdom. We have a description of it, while entire, by Grose, which gives a high idea of its magnificence; and among the views collected by Sir W. Burrell, are drawings of various parts of this edifice, so exquisitely beautiful

as, according to Pennant," to draw tears from every person of taste who considers the sad change in this noble pile." Until 1777 it was one of the most perfect and regular castellated mansions in England; but being unfortunately at that period the property of the Rev. Mr. Hare, he, to avoid the expense of repairs, had the roof taken off, and the whole of the interior completely dismantled, and employed the materials in the erection of some additional apartments to the Mansion House, a "neat" residence in the same park. Very little more than the bare walls of the Castle now remain, which form nearly a square, each side being more than 200 feet in length, surrounded by a deep moat, now dry. The park is well wooded, and agreeably diversified; it contains some of the largest beech trees in the country, and is intersected by several streams of clear water; from many parts extensive and charming views are obtained.

LANCING is a small place, between Worthing and Shoreham, at which a few bathing-machines are kept, and some neat houses have been erected for the accommodation of those persons who dislike the bustle of more fashionable and crowded watering-places.

LEWES.

This town is situated on the border of the South Downs, 50 miles from London, and eight from Brighton. It stands on an eminence rising from the Ouse, over which there is a neat Bridge, and surrounded at a short distance by an amphitheatre of loftier hills, some of which command extensive and beautiful prospects, and one, about a mile from the town, on which is now the Race-course, is remarkable as having been the scene of a battle fought on May 14th, 1264, between the army of Henry III, commanded by himself, his son Prince Edward, and his brother Richard, King of the Romans; and that of the confederate Barons, headed by Simon Montfort, Earl of Leicester. One wing of the rebel army being routed by the impetuous charge of the Prince, he pursued the fugitives with great slaughter; while Montfort immediately attacked the royal forces, thus weakened, and in his turn defeated them, and made prisoners of

the two Kings, whom he confined in the Priory until they were released by the surrender of the Prince and his cousin Henry, as hostages to remain in the hands of the Barons, until all differences between them and the King should be adjusted in a Parliament to be immediately assembled. In memory of this event, the spot on which it occurred is still called Mount Harry; and in the neighbourhood are many vestiges of the barrows in which the slain were interred.

Lewes is a place of great antiquity, and is conjectured to occupy the site of the Roman station called Mutuantonis, or Mantantonis; the earliest mention of it in history, however, is in the tenth century, when King Athelstan directed two mints to be established here. In the time of Edward the Confessor it appears to have belonged to the King; and after the Conquest it was given by William to his son-in-law William de Warrenne, Earl of Surrey, who built, or repaired, the Castle, and made it his principal seat. In his family it continued until the reign of Henry III, when the estate passed, by his marriage with the heiress, to the Earl of Arundel; it afterwards experienced the usual changes, and has long been divided among various proprietors. Lewes is a borough by prescription, and has returned two Members to Parliament ever since the year 1295; the right of election is vested in all the inhabitants paying scot and lot. The town is not incorporated, but is governed by two Constables, annually appointed at the court leet, although it appears that, in addition to these, it had formerly a kind of corporation, consisting of 36 persons. It is still considered the county town, and the Summer Assizes and Quarter Sessions for the eastern division of Sussex are held here: the population, in 1821, was 7083 persons.

This town had formerly twelve Churches, which are now reduced to six. St. Anne's, for the united parishes of St. Peter and St. Mary Westout, is an ancient building, which underwent considerable alterations in 1775. St. Michael in Foro, standing in the High Street, was of considerable antiquity, and becoming very ruinous, was rebuilt with great neatness in 1755. All Saints, also in the High Street, is a brick building, erected in 1806 on the site of the old church, pulled down in the preceding year. St.

John sub Castro, situated in the centre of an ancient encampment amidst the ruins of the Castle, consists at present of no more than the nave of the original church, with a tower, and a steeple of more modern erection. The architecture of this building indicates a very remote origin; and the southern entrance is by a Saxon arch. It is supposed to have been originally built in the form of a cross, having the tower in the centre; and having fallen into decay, was repaired and reduced to its present dimensions, about 1635. In the south wall is a monumental inscription in Latin, cut on fifteen different stones, placed in a semicircular form, and engraven in Saxon characters, in memory of a Danish prince, named Mangnus, or Magnus, who after distinguishing himself in warfare, became an anchorite*. St. John's, in the suburb of Southover, near the Priory, is still a large church, although a part of the east end has been demolished. It has a tower of modern construction; and in the south aisle is a marble tablet, erected in 1775 by Sir W. Burrell, to direct attention to the tombstone of Gundreda, daughter of William the Conqueror, and wife of Earl Warrenne, which being discovered in Isfield Church, to which it had been removed from the Chapter-house of Lewes Priory, was again removed, and placed in its present situation by Sir William; it exhibits part of an inscription in monkish Latin rhymes. St. Thomas in the Cliff, situated in a suburb which receives its name from its situation under a chalky hill, rising abruptly from the Ouse, is a neat and venerable structure, with an elegant altar piece. Beside the Churches, here are places of worship for Presbyterians, Quakers, Arminians, Methodists, General and Particular Baptists, Calvinists,

* Considerable discussion has been occasioned among antiquaries as to the person for whom this monument (which was removed from the chancel when that part of the building was demolished) was raised; but he is supposed to have been Magnus, youngest son of Harold, the last Saxon monarch of this country, by Githa, a Danish princess. After the fatal battle of Hastings, Magnus, with his brothers, Edmund and Godwin, fled to Ireland, whence about 1069 they made an unsuccessful descent on the English coast. The two latter princes retired to Denmark, where they passed the remainder of their days; but as Magnus is not mentioned, the supposition that, wounded and a prisoner, finding his rank unknown, and his hopes of success at an end, he might, as the inscription informs us, "assume a lamblike deportment, and change a busy life for that of an anchorite," is not very improbable.