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appears appointed Beachy Head became bedrooms birds Board borough Bourne Brighton building built called Cavendish Chapel Charles Churchwardens Clerk cliffs coast Compton Place Cornfield Cottage Devonshire Duke of Devonshire Earl early East Eastbourne's Edward erected Filder garden George Gilbert Gorringe Grove Road Henry Hotel hundred Hurst inhabitants interesting J. B. Morris James John Gosden John Noakes John Rason known Lamb land Langney last century late later Lewes lodging Lord manor marshes Martello tower Meads Messrs Miss modern Eastbourne Motcombe occupied Old Town Overseers paid Parade Parish Church Parish of Eastbourne Pevensey Polegate pound present R. J. Graham Rason residence Sea Houses Seaside sitting-rooms South st South Street Southbourne Sussex Arch taken Terminus Road Terrace Thomas Thos tower Vestry Vestry holden Vicar village visitors W. H. Hudson wheatears Willard William Wilson Worge workhouse
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Page 115 - HB esquires, and others their associates, justices of our said Lord the King, assigned to keep the peace in the said county, and also to hear and determine divers felonies, trespasses, and other misdemeanors in the said county committed, by the oath of...
Page 280 - Go call a coach, and let a coach be called, And let the man who calleth be the caller; And in his calling let him nothing call, But Coach! Coach! Coach! O for a coach, ye gods!
Page 65 - An early worshipper at Nature's shrine, I loved her rudest scenes — warrens, and heaths, And yellow commons, and birch-shaded hollows, And hedge rows, bordering unfrequented lanes Bowered with wild roses, and the clasping woodbine, Where purple tassels of the tangling vetch With bittersweet, and bryony inweave, And the dew fills the silver bindweed's cups...
Page 114 - Parishioners harmless and indemnified during the said term. And at the end of the said term shall and will...
Page 190 - IN every Parish Church and Chapel within this realm, shall be provided one parchment book at the charge of the parish, wherein shall be written the day and year of every Christening, Wedding, and Burial, which have been in that parish since the time that the law was first made in that behalf, so far as the ancient books thereof can be procured, but especially since the beginning of the reign of the late Queen.
Page 113 - Statute in that case made and provided, During all which term the said Apprentice his said Master faithfully shall serve in all lawful...
Page 202 - This Book of Articles before rehearsed is again approved, and allowed to be holden and executed within the realm, by the assent and consent of our Sovereign Lady Elizabeth, by the Grace of God, of England, France, and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, &c.
Page 121 - Aristotle's fashion :—Why is it that the oxen, the swine, the women, and all other animals, are so long-legged in Sussex ? May it be from the difficulty of pulling the feet out of so much mud by the strength of the ankle, that the muscles get stretched, as it were, and the bones lengthened...
Page 115 - To wit AT the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace of our Lord the King, held at Lewes in and for the said County...
Page 115 - Third, by the grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, and in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four.