HISTORY OF HURSTPERPOINT. TURPE EST IN PATRIA VIVERE, ET PATRIAM IGNORARE." TURPI BY A NATIVE, A MINOR. DETUR ALIQUID ÆTATI.-Cic. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY J. PHILLIPS, 13, POPLAR PLACE, BRIGHTON ; AND TO BE HAD OF MR. T. WELLS, Printer, MR. POWELL, Bookseller, 11, St.James's St., BRIGHTON. 1837. 1 THE NEW 94044 ASTOR, NOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS. ADDENDA & CORRIGENDA. Page 5 line 2 from bottom, for "on," read of. 24 Dele the last paragraph-repeated. 28 line 2 from bottom, for "in," read on. 36**line 8 after" Hanover Square," read " He was Sheriff of Sussex in 1820, and is one of the Deputy Lieutenants of the County, and in the Commission of the Peace. All the articles from that headed" Monumental Inscriptions," and the paragraph that precedes it, to the brief one entitled Inscriptions on the Communion Plate," should have preceded "Charitable Donations," at page 43. (Omitted in their respective places.) STEWARDS OF HURST MANOR. Temp. Charles II. Mr. Thurland, living at Reigate, afterwards a Baron of the Court of Exchequer. 1797. George Gourthope, Sen. and Jun. 1837. George and John Hoper, Lewes. The Arms of the Gorings and of the Earl of Norwich, are engraved in Horsfield's Sussex, and are a chevron between three annulets gules. CREST, A lion rampant guardant sable. PREFACE. THE idea of writing the History of my native place, suddenly suggested itself in last May: I had never, even remotely, entertained the intention or desire to do it before. In the middle of July I began, not then very earnestly, to lay a sort of foundation, by extracting the brief, but the fullest printed account extant, of Hurstperpoint, from Horsfield's History of Sussex. At intervals, I leisurely added to my first stores of information, and after the lapse of about two months from the commencement of the formation of my Collections, I applied with greater diligence to add as much as possible to my materials, and arrange them in available order. Antecedent to the period mentioned, I had never taken any interest in topographical or antiquarian inquiries, and perhaps knew as little of the history and antiquities of my native place and county, as the most uninformed out of both. I had therefore to make myself acquainted with the scope and objects of county histories in general, and those of individual places in particular. I had to inform myself of matters which I had before viewed, with many others, as repulsive and repugnant-antiquarian mouldiness and lore. Ignorance, and prejudice its offspring, were cleared away as I advanced; every step increasing my respect, and enhancing the interest of the paths, that because they are not much frequented, and I wilfully knew them not, I thought, were dreary, dark, and unprofitable. But experience, and increasing satisfaction have taught me to say with Warton, Nor rude, nor barren, are the winding ways Of hoar Antiquity, but strewn with flowers. The attempt to write a History of Hurstperpoint needs no apology or excuse. If every village of Italy has its historian, and no clergyman follows the example of Gilbert White, in a far greater place than Selborne, who should forbid the assumption of the historic pen for Hurstperpoint, by even an inexperienced and lay debtor to it for his nativity? Accordingly, I have presumed to offer to my fellow-villagers, a printed arrangement of what materials I possessed, or could collect; and to the imperfect history of my native county, a more copious contribution, than I believe has yet been afforded concerning a place of equal dimensions and population with Hurstperpoint. That the following pages will be found to contain more |