tion from a charter of K. Edward, A.D. 1044, (Cod. Dipl. IV, 80,) whence it appears probable, that a church existed in this place at the above date.

357. WORTH, or WORD.-A chapelry to Eastry, to which it is annexed together with Skrinkling chapel. (Hasted.) See Eastry.

358. WROTHAM.-In the reign of K. Edward III a vicarage was constituted here, and confirmed by Archb. Tho. Arundel, A.D. 1402, from which period the rectory became a sinecure impropriate under lease from the archbishop till 1715, when, the lease expiring, Archb. Tenison refused to renew, and conferred both preferments together, in which manner they have been held ever since. (Hasted.) The church comprises chancel, nave, north and south aisles, south porch, late Perp. vestry on the northern side of the chancel, and square west tower. This church is spacious, but very plain. The piers and arches between the nave and aisles are E.E.; the tower arch lofty Perp., the windows are, some Dec., some Perp., some bad modern work. The building has been much patched with brick. The tower may have been partially rebuilt; originally it had a stair turret, but the upper part has been repaired with brick. Harris mentions sixteen stalls in Wrotham church.

Brasses Tho. Nysell, wife and ten children, 1498; Tho. Peckham, wife and five children, 1512 (noticed in Monum. Brasses, 89); Reynold Peckham, and wife, 1533; another, the inscription concealed by a pew; a woman; John Burgoyn; (loose) John Sundressh, rector, 1426. (Reg. Roff.)-South of the church stands an old mansion, constructed of brick with stone dressings.-The archbishops formerly had a palace here, east of the churchyard; most of it was pulled down after 1348, and the materials used in Maidstone palace by Archb. Islip; the site &c. were conveyed by exchange to K. Henry VIII. A park at Wrotham, about half a mile south-east from the church, was disparked when Lambarde wrote, A.D. 1570. Wrotham Place was called Nyssels from the name of the owners. (Hasted, II, 236, fol. 1790.) The park at Wrotham is mentioned in (Val. Eccl.)

359. WYE.-Lambarde asserts, that in British this name signifies "an egg."-" The abbot of St. Martin's of the place of the battle holds the manor, which is called Wi-there is a church. Abbas Sancti Martini de Loco belli tenet manerium quod vocatur Wi, quod T. R. E. et modo se defendit pro vii

solinas. Terra est lii carucarum. In dominio ix carucæ sunt et cxiiii villani cum xxii bordariis habent xvii carucas. Ibi æcclesia, et vii servi, et iiii molini de xxiii solidis et viii denariis, et cxxxiii acræ prati, et silva ccc porcorum de pasnagio." (D. B. II, p. 2, c. 4.) We may presume, that the above-named church was the original of the present parish church; because, till the dissolution of monastic establishments, Wye belonged to Battle Abbey. -A tradition however is stated to have existed, that the parish church formerly stood on a different spot, the removal being the act of Cardinal Kemp, who built the present church with three aisles and as many chancels, the tower being in the centre. A.D. 1685 the tower fell (Lambarde and Kilburne say it had been struck by lightning,) and nearly destroyed the chancels, beside damaging part of the church. The ruins, being boarded off, were suffered to remain in that state till 1706, when the remainder of the chancels was pulled down, and replaced by a small one. (Harris.) A college of secular priests was founded here, 14th January, 1447, 26th of Henry VI (A.D. 1450. Lambarde), by John Kemp, a native of (son of a poor woman at. Lambarde) Wye, Archbishop of Canterbury and Cardinal. (Kilburne, and Monast. VI, 1430). Cardinal Kemp also erected a chapel or oratory at his seat of Ollantigh in this parish. (Harris.)

360. YALDING. The authority of Hasted confirmed what had previously been my impression, that this place is the "Hallinges" in the hundred of Twyford of (D. B.), but Hasted quotes incorrectly in spelling the word "Eallinges." In (A. D. 1291) the name is written Alding-Galdying" and, in a note, "Ealding." Beside the two churches Hallinges is stated to possess "two mills of twenty-five shillings, four fisheries of 1700 eels less by twenty, five acres of meadow land, and a wood of one hundred and fifty hogs. In the time of King Edward, and after, it was worth thirty pounds; now twenty pounds; because the estate has been despoiled of money. Ibi ii æcclæ et ii molini de xxv solidis et iiii piscaria de mille et septingentis anguillis xxti minus. Ibi v acræ prati et silua cl porcorum. T. R. E. et post valuit xxx libras. Modo xx libras, eo quod terra vastata est a pecunia." (D. B.) Clearly therefore the district must have contained considerable proportions of both water and upland; which will precisely suit the places it is supposed to represent. Hasted considers, I think truly, that the second Domesday church was at Brenchley. A connection between

Yalding and Brenchley, together with the inferior rank of the latter, are clearly established from ancient records. Thus Rich. de Clare, Earl of Hertford, gives the church of Aldinges and chapel of Brenchesleya to the canons of Tonbridge; but the date is not preserved. (Reg. Roff.) Again there is mention of Yalding church, with the chapel of Brenchley, and the churches of Strateshelle and Mereworth, A.D. 1191. (Reg. Roff. 666.) Having met with the name of Strateshell nowhere else, I am unable even to conjecture the locality of the place.

ADDENDA TO KENT.

A charter of 12 of K. Richard II names the churches of Leuche, Gore, and Parroke in Kent. (Monast. V, 717, 719.) What places may be signified I cannot imagine, except that I should conjecture Leuche to mean Lee; and that Parroke possibly refers to some spot in or adjoining the small portion of Kent lying on the Essex side of the Thames.

The rectory of Salmyston in the Isle of Thanet is mentioned as belonging to St. Augustin's, Canterbury, temp. K. Henry VIII. (Monast. I, 149.) This name I am unable to identify.

SUSSEX.

INTRODUCTION.

In the Domesday Survey of this county more places perhaps, now known as parishes, are omitted, than in that of Kent; which may be accounted for from the circumstance, that the great forest of Anderida, commencing in Kent, stretched completely through Sussex into Hampshire. (See the Note on Limpne in Kent.) In some localities however the churches, mentioned in Domesday Book, are more numerous than might have been expected; but in very many instances, more frequently than in either Kent or Surrey, it is expressly stated of those churches, that they are small; "æcclesiola" being the term used. Of many places also the description concludes by saying, that they have been laid waste, occasionally specifying that this has occurred since the time of King Edward, the Confessor; which devastations have been traced (by Mr. Hayley, in his MSS. quoted in Sir H. Ellis's Introduction to Domesday Book) in the probable routes of the two armies of Harold and William, previous to their conflict at Battle. A few parks are incidentally alluded to in Sussex: for example, one at Rotherfield; the Earl of Eu had a park, in Baldeslei hundred, and apparently in the neighbourhood of Crowhurst (where is now a park), but the precise spot I cannot identify. No park is positively spoken of or alluded to at Arundel; but the holdings of different tenants of Earl Roger, the owner of Arundel, were frequently reduced, because portions of their land were "in the earl's park ;" and from these notices we may infer that he possessed two parks. Parts of Walberton and Tortington manors being so reduced would imply, that one park was at or near Arundel. Similar statements occur with regard to Waltham in Boxgrove hundred, probably Up Waltham, which must, necessarily, from the distance between the places, relate to another park; possibly the same as, or in the vicinity of, Selhurst park, now existing, though the latter is at

present in the parish of East Dean. It could not be Halnaker, because "Helnache" is separately named more than once.

I have failed in verifying, comparatively, more single Domesday churches in Sussex, than in either of the other counties included in this undertaking; because the assistance to be derived from topographical historians is far less with regard to Sussex, than to either Kent or Surrey. In this county moreover there has been a considerable alteration with regard to the hundreds; and it appears to me, that those divisions have been less closely attended to in the Domesday Survey of Sussex, than in that of the other two counties.

Some interesting information relating to the early condition of this part of our island may be collected from Bede's Ecclesiastical History. The Saxon inhabitants of the district were the last throughout England to receive the light of the Gospel. Ædilvalch, king of the South Saxons, had indeed been baptised in Mercia about A.D. 661, but his people remained pagans till converted by the ministrations of Bishop Wilfrid; who, being expelled from his See of York on account of having excited the displeasure of his Sovereign, rather than continue inactive, undertook the evangelisation of this province, from A.D. 681 to 686, when the population is stated to have comprised 7000 families. For three years before Wilfrid's arrival a grievous famine had prevailed in Sussex in consequence of the want of rain, which, it is stated, fell copiously on the very day when the people were baptised. The Bishop however provided, to the best of his ability, against the recurrence of a similar calamity, by teaching the method of sea fishing, of which previously the natives were ignorant, though both sea and fresh water abounded in fish, of which the people had been accustomed to catch only eels. Eelnets therefore were the only kind, which Bishop Wilfrid was able to collect for his benevolent operations. (Bedæ Hist. Eccl. 1. 4, c. 13.)

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In general estimation the existing ancient Churches of Sussex, it is well known, rank very low; but perhaps the notices, hereto appended, may serve somewhat to qualify this opinion and happy will the writer feel, should he contribute to the removal of a stigma, only partially merited. It is freely admitted, that many of the buildings are very unpretending structures, while