OF

Our Ancestors in Sussex;

WITH

SKETCHES

OF

SUSSEX CHARACTERS, REMARKABLE

INCIDENTS, &c.

BY

CHARLES FLEET,

Author of "Tales and Sketches," "The City Merchant, &c.

"I have some rights of memory in this 'County,'

Which now to claim my vantage doth invite me."-Shakspeare.

BRIGHTON:

W. J. SMITH, 41, 42, AND 43, NORTH STREET.

1878.

TO THE READER.

The contents of this Volume appeared in the columns of the BRIGHTON HERALD in the years 1875-6-7, under the title of "GLIMPSES OF OUR ANCESTORS," and the Author of them is induced to re-publish them in their present form by the frequent applications which have been made for the numbers of the Journal containing them. With the hope that they may help to fill up a gap or two in the history of Men and Manners in his native County, and with full acknowledgment of the large debt he owes, in respect to the matter of several Papers, tc the contributors to the Collections of the Sussex Archæological Society-especially to his old and esteemed friends, the late Mark Antony Lower and William Durrant Cooper-he commits his work to the indulgent consideration of the Public.