THE

BEAUTIES AND ANTIQUITIES

OF THE

COUNTY OF SUSSEX:

FORMING

A General Illustration

ON

ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-NINE SPIRITED LITHOGRAPHIC VIEWS

FROM ORIGINAL DRAWINGS TAKEN ON THE SPOT

OF ITS

ECCLESIASTICAL AND CASTELLATED

REMAINS;

ACCOMPANIED BY HISTORICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTICES.

BY JAMES ROUSE.

VOL. I.

London:

PUBLISHED BY J. F. SETCHEL,

BOOKSELLER,

23, KING STREET, COVENT GARDEN.

ΤΟ

HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS

PRINCE AUGUSTUS FREDERICK,

DUKE OF SUSSEX,

EARL OF INVERNESS, BARON OF ARKLOW, K.G.

&c. &c. &c. &c.

SIR,

your

In respectfully availing myself of gracious permission to Dedicate to your ROYAL HIGHNESS the result of my efforts to illustrate the numerous beauties of that interesting County from which your ROYAL HIGHNESS derives your Ducal Title, I should in vain seek for language adequate to the expression of my gratitude for your ROYAL HIGHNESS's kindness, in condescending to bestow upon my Work the honour of your sanction and patronage.