a poor fishing village it rose into sudden importance when George IV.'s patronage of Brighton attracted the attention of the fashionable world to the pleasures of sea-bathing and the beauties of the south coast. For their convenience an agree able sea-walk or esplanade has been constructed, three-quarters of a mile in length. The sands extend their firm and pleasant surface for quite ten miles. The temperature is well adapted to invalids, the sea-scapes are beautiful, and the town is, in all respects, identical with other popular sea-side resorts. There are-a theatre, first opened in 1807; a town hall, a literary institution, a concert hall and lawn tennis courts, two public parks and a pier. The Downs raise their green crests in the rear of the town, at a distance from the sea of upwards of a mile. Worthing was resorted to by Queen Adelaide in 1850.

EXCURSIONS FROM WORTHING.

[DISTANCES OF PLACES.-Bramber, 7 m.; Broadwater, m.; Cissbury Hill, 24 m.; Clapham, 6 m.; Findon, 4 m.; Highdown Hill, 4 m.; Michelgrove, 3 m.; Muntham, 7 m.; Offington, 2 m.; Salvington, 14 m.; Sompting, 24 m. ; Steyning, 6 m.; Warminghurst, 5 m.; West Tarring, 1 m.]

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DESCRIPTIVE NOTES.-BROADWATER (population, 851, excluding Worthing) is situated in a country of "thick hedgerows and hedgerow elms.' The parish, formerly included in the possessions of the knightly family of Camoys, could number but 300 inhabitants in 1724. In 1801 it boasted of 1018, in 1831 of 4576. The CHURCH, Transitional Norman, should certainly be visited. It is cruciform in plan, with a low square central tower. Remark the groined roof of the chancel, and the rich four-lighted east window. The cross (in flutes), on the north wall. The palm leaves on the capitals of the columns indicate that the founder was a crusader. Early English arches separate the nave from the aisles. The tower arch is enriched with a zig-zag moulding. Observe the canopied monument, in Caen stone, to Thomas Lord Delawarr, d. 1526; a rich memorial, in the same style, for Thomas, 3d Lord Delawarr, d. 1554; and a brass to John Mapleton, rector, chancellor to Catharine, wife of Henry V., died 1432. The Rev. E. K. Elliot is patron of the rectory, which is valued at £600 per annum.

CISSBURY HILL (i. e., Cissa's byrig-from Cissa, one of the sons of Ella, king of the South Saxons) rears its stately head above the plains at about 2 miles north of Worthing, from which point it is easily reached. A single Fosse, from 8 to 12 feet in depth, and a broad and lofty VALLUM, enclose an oval camp, about 60 acres in extent. Roman coins and pottery have been discovered here, and traces of the foundation of a prætorium; so that it is probable the Roman legionaries kept "watch and ward" upon this solitary height long before Ella and his sea rovers hunted the Britons out of their woodland villages. Some circular pits on the west side appear to be of British origin, and resemble those at Rowborough in the Isle of Wight. Celt, Roman, and Saxon, may therefore in turn have had their stronghold here. Southey, in February 1837, ascended this noble hill, and was delighted with

the landscape which it commands-a landscape embracing the whole coast from Beachy Head to the Selsea Bill. "Worthing," he says, appeared like a ruined city, such as Baalbec or Palmyra, in the distance, on the edge of what we knew to be sea, but what as well might have been a desert, for it was so variegated with streaks of sunshine and of shade, that no one ignorant of the place could have determined whether it was sea or sky that lay before us."

CLAPHAM (population, 230), is very picturesquely situated in the heart of green sloping downs and richly wooded dells. The village, one long irregular street, winds up a gentle ascent, at about 6 miles from Worthing. The CHURCH consists of a chancel, nave, north and south aisles, and low tower surmounted by a shingled spire. It is principally Transition Norman. Among the memorials observe-a monument of Caen stone, with effigies, for Sir William Shelley, Justice of the Common Pleas, and his wife Alice; a brass for John Shelley, temp. fifteenth century; and figures of an armed knight and his wife, Sir John Shelley, d. 1550, and his wife Alice.

FINDON (population, 708), as its name indicates, is situated on the chalk-hills, on the road from Worthing to Horsham. The beautiful seat of MUNTHAM (Marchioness of Bath), with its wooded slopes, is but a short distance north of the church; and FINDON PLACE (Colonel Margesson) is close at hand. The Early English CHURCH is dedicated to St. John the Baptist, and consists of a chancel, nave, north aisle, and manorial chapel. A shingled spire surmounts its low, square, western tower. The patronage of the vicarage is vested in Magdalene College, Oxon. Its yearly value is computed at £500.

HIGHDOWN HILL rises like a tower out of the green Clapham woods, ánd looks out upon pleasant Clapham Common. "On crossing the hill," says Pennant, "we saw a curious monument, protected by rails, with a funereal yew at each corner, and a shrubbery adjacent, built by a miller still living, for his place of interment; the monument is strewed with many a pious text out of the burial-service, and some poetical inscriptions-the effusions of his own muse. He is said to have his coffin ready; it runs on castors, and is wheeled every night under his bed. I was told that he is a stout, active, cheerful man; and, besides his proper trade, carries on a very considerable one in smuggled goods." This eccentric miller was named John Olliver, and died in 1793. His coffin, at his funeral, was borne round the meadow by persons dressed in white, and was preceded and followed by some young women attired in white muslin. A funeral sermon was read over his grave by one of these white-stoled virgins. The tomb, a flat stone slab supported by some brick work, stands almost in the centre of an irregular earthwork, which encloses an area of 300 feet by 180. The view from this point is good, but not extensive.

The hill is situated in the maritime parish of FERRING (population, 232),—i. e., the horse-pastures. The manor-house contains some remains of an ancient building where St. Richard of Chichester fed 3000 persons with bread only sufficient for 90not so difficult a miracle as his monkish biographers would have us believe!

MICHELGROVE (Duke of Norfolk) was the seat of an ancient family of the same name, and afterwards of the Shelleys. The house was pulled down by the Duke of Norfolk about thirty years ago, but this spot is still to be visited for the sake of its exquisite bits of paint-like scenery. Hill and vale here succeed each other in agreeable alternation.

OFFINGTON-i. e., a settlement of the Offingas-is a manor included in the parish of Broadwater. The ancient seat of the Delawarrs is now the residence of T.

Gaisford, Esq. It lies about half a mile west of Broadwater, in a small park which has long been colonised by "a family" of rooks.

SOMPTING (population, 682)—¿.e., a settlement of the Somptingas-has an interesting church, picturesquely situated on the slope of a hill, embosomed amid venerable elms. A portion of the manor formerly belonged to the Norman Peverels, and another to the Abbey of Fécamp; hence the names, retained to the present day, of Sompting Peverel and Sompting Abbots. The church is cruciform in plan, with a nave, chancel, and transept, and a western tower terminating in a pointed gable, out of which rises a shingled spire. The tower and east end of the chancel are said to be Saxon; the remainder of the edifice seems Transition Norman, unless we ascribe a pure Norman origin to the chancel. Perpendicular windows have replaced the original circular-headed lights. Early English arches, springing from circular pillars, divide the north transept into two aisles. Both north and south transepts open into the nave with lofty circular arches. Remark the triangular piscina on the south side of the chancel,-a Perpendicular altar-tomb without name or date,— and the double aumbry over the altar. A rude sculpture (Early English) of a bishop in the act of benediction is placed in the south transept, and in the north, a similar figure of the Saviour with an open book, surrounded by the Evangelist symbols.

The lower outer wall of the tower is evidently Saxon. Remark its courses and bands of stone. The upper portion has Norman enrichments. The church may therefore be regarded as a Norman enlargement of a small building erected towards the close of Edward the Confessor's reign.

H. P. Crofts, Esq. is the patron of the vicarage, which is valued at £200 per

annum.

CHICHESTER.

[Population, 8114. Hotels: Dolphin, Anchor, Globe. 28 miles from Brighton, by rail; 10 m. from Arundel; 16 m. from Portsmouth; 34 m. from Boxgrove; 6 m. from Bognor; and 10 m. from Midhurst.

Omnibuses run between the city and the station. A railway has lately been opened to Midhurst.]

The modern town of Chichester derives its name from Cissa, third son of Ella, first Saxon king of Sussex, who also made it the capital of his kingdom, together with Arundel. It was conferred by William the Conqueror on Roger de Montgomery, and he built a castle in the north-east part of the town, now destroyed. The bishopric was removed hither from Selsey, and a cathedral built at this same period.

As the ancient REGNUM, Chichester presents, in its main streets, running in straight lines east and west, and north and south, and its lesser streets diverging at right angles from them— an exact reproduction of the old Roman plan. Its walls, 1 mile in circuit, stand on the foundations of the ancient walls, and are fashioned out of their materials. A portion of the old wall, on the west side of the city, now forms a pleasant public walk. Coins, urns, kits of tesselated pavement, and other relics, remind us, at almost every step, of its Roman masters-of the city where Cogidubnus, King of the Regni, and the viceroy of the Emperor Claudius, held his royal state. It stood at the point where the Stane Street, which connected Regnum with Londinium, crossed the great via to Portus Magnus (Porchester); at the head of the east branch of the creek now known as Chichester Harbour, and in the shelter and shadow of the lofty Southern Downs. When Ella landed on the Sussex coast, his forces pushed forward from their point of disembarkation (at CYMEN'S ORA, now Keynor, 7 miles south, so named from one of Ella's sons) across the level marshes into Regnum, which they devastated with fire and sword, and out of its ruins built up a Saxon settlement, called, in honour of their chief leader, CISSA'S CEASTER. We hear but little of it during the Anglo-Saxon supremacy. After the Conquest it was absorbed among the possessions of Robert de Montgomery, who built a small castle in its north-east quarter, destroyed in the first year of Henry the First. Three mints were established here, temp. King John. Its walls, strengthened by 16 semicircular towers, were frequently repaired, but could not resist the assault of Sir William Waller's troops, who surprised here Lord Hopton and the royalists in 1642. The siege was of the briefest. "They within the town were easily reduced to straights they could not contend with; for besides the enemy without, against which the walls and the weather seemed of equal power, and the small stock of provisions, which in so short a time they were able to draw hither, they had cause to apprehend their friends would be weary before their enemies, and that the citizens would not prove a trusty part of the garrison; and their number of common men was so small that the constant duty was performed by the officers and gentlemen of quality, who were absolutely tired out ; so that, after a week or ten days' siege, they were compelled, upon no better articles than quarter, to deliver the city"—(Clarendon).

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