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Dunckerley FitzeGorge-Corbobyll-King REPLIES:-The Bird "Liver"-Hymns in Church Worship, NOTES ON BOOKS:-Macray's "Catalogi Codicum Manu Notes. SUSSEX PLACE-RHYMES AND LOCAL Many curious proverbs (some in rhyme) are connected with our towns and villages, and efforts ton giant," a figure cut in the turf of the Downs Amberley.-2. Izaak Walton says, The people of Amberley were formerly said to be web-footed" (Lower, History of Sussex, i. 8).-A correspondent states that they were said to be "web-footed and yellow-bellied." The situation of the place is very marshy, and the Arun even now overflows occasionally. 4. The difference between Amberley in its winter and summer dress is expressed in the local sayings in answer to the question, "Where do you belong?" To which in winter the reply is "Amberley; God help us!" whilst in summer, Amberley; where else would you live?" (Lower, Hist. of Suss., i. 8; Sussex Industries, 1883, P. 114). Another informant says it is called. Amberley-God knows," and people often say they are going to "God knows." A further correspondent states that the proverb runs :— "Amberley-God knows. All among the rooks and crows, Arundel. 5. "Since William rose and Harold fell There have been Earls of Arundel, And Earls old Arundel shall have While rivers flow and forests wave." Illustrated Times, Feb. 23, 1856, p. 131. have lately been made to prevent them from pass-This is an allusion to the tenure of the castle, the ing into oblivion. I have therefore endeavoured puted. 6. "Arun, which doth name the beauteous Arundel." Drayton, Polyolbion. 7. “Arundel mullet.”—The grey mullet, caught in the river Arun, is a fish for which Sussex is specially famous. to collect all the proverbs I can find relating to possession of which is said to carry the title of the county of Sussex, and have appended, so far Earl of Arundel, a point, however, somewhat disas possible, explanatory notes to each. Where no other authority is cited the proverbs are given from information furnished to me by various friends. I have included in the list one epitaph and some quotations from poets and authors which have become proverbial, and have also mentioned nicknames applied to the inhabitants. A more extended collection under the latter head, and embracing other counties, would probably prove instructive and amusing. It is interesting to find that Fuller, in his Worthies of England, appears to have been one of the earliest to collect local proverbs. Alciston. Balcombe.-8. "The people of Balcombe put dung round their church spire to make it grow as high as Cuckfield spire" (Old proverb, ex rel Mr. H. Davey, jun.).—Cuckfield is the next parish to the south of Balcombe. Barcombe.-9. "When the people of Barcombe want to make a cart, they make a waggon, and saw it in two!" (Old proverb, ex rel Mr. H. Davey, jun.). Battle.-10. "Ware the Abbot of Battel when the Prior of Lewes is taken prisoner" (Fuller, Worthies of England, p. 106). Battle and Lewes are only about twenty miles apart, and it is possible this proverb dates from 1377, when the Beddingham. 12. "When Beddingham hills wear a cap These places are situated to the north-east of country people are confident in this tradition, but Seffrid (bishop, and builder of Chichester) flourished under King John, and Bishop Poore (founder of Salisbury) under Henry III. 22. Gueseylur de Cicestre" ("Curious List of English Localities, Fourteenth Century," "N. & Q." 6th S. viii. 224). A writer in the Gent. Mag. (1862, p. 63) asks, "Can this be wassailer ?" 23. A Chichester lobster."-See notes on Amberley. Chiddingfold. Brighton.-13. "It always rains at Brighton This rhyme refers to the eastern Cinque Ports. Frig-mare-ventus is barbarous Latin for Winchelsea (Wind chills sea, or Friget mare ventus). 26. "When Foxes brewings go to Cocking Cocking.Ex rel late Mr. T. W. Wonfor. The Island is the Isle of Wight (about forty-five miles distant). Unusual visibility of distant objects is a well-known sign of rain. 15. "The Brighton fishermen have corns on their chests, from leaning on the railings of the cliff!" 16. "Merry Doctor Brighton" (Thackeray, Newcomes). 17. "Shut up-no, not the king, but the Pavilion, Or else 'twill cost us all another million." Byron, Don Juan, canto xiv. This is an allusion to the cost of the Royal Pavilion at Brighton. 18. "The Dome of St. Paul's came down to Brighton and pupped."-This was Sydney Smith's description of the Pavilion minarets. 19. The fishermen are called "Jaspers," and were formerly known as "Juggs."-Cooper, in his Glossary, gives, "Jug, a nickname given to che men of Brighton." In the parish of Kingston there is "Juggs Road" on Kingston Hill (see Ordnance Map), so named because the Brighton fish-dealers, when approaching Lewes, were first caught sight of on that spot. Chalvington.-See Beddingham. Lower, History of Sussex, i. 119. Lower says, "C "From the leafy recesses of the hangers of beech on the escarpment of the downs there rises in unsettled weather a mist, which rolls among the trees like the smoke out of a chimney. This exhalation is called 'Foxes brewings,' whatever that may mean; and if it turns westward towards Cocking rain follows speedily." Crawley.-27. "It always rains on Crawley is a similiar proverb in reference to Brighton Fair day."-The fair is held on May 8. There "The people of Fletching Live by snapping and ketching." Gotham.-31. "As wise as the men of Gotham." "Three wise men of Gotham 32. Went to sea in a boat," &c.-Old rhyme. Gotham is a manor situated partly in the parish of Hailsham and partly in Pevensey. Andrew Borde, who wrote the Merrie Tales of the Wise Men of Gotham, resided for some years in the parish of Pevensey, and is considered to burlesque the proceedings of "the Laste Court," which regulated Pevensey marshes. Harting. 34. "Who knows what Tarberry would bear Would plough it with a golden share." Rev. H. D. Gordon, History of Harting, p. 18. Tarberry is a conical hill in the parish of Harting, and derives its name from the Celtic tor. Mr. Gordon quotes a local legend, that "The Devil, rejecting the scalding spoon from his 'Punch-bowl' at Hinde Head, in Surrey, threw it over to Sussex, when it alighted here bowl upwards." Hastings.-35. "He is none of the Hastings" (Fuller, Worthies of England). This proverb is applied to a slow or tardy person. Fuller says (1811 edit., ii. 285) it is "properly reducible to this county, for there is a Haven Town there named Hastings, which some erroneously conceive so called from hast or speed." 36. "And Asten once distain'd with native English blood, (Whose soil, when yet but wet with any little rain, Doth blush; as put in mind of those there lately slain, When Hastings harbour gave unto the Norman powers, Whose name and honours now are denizen'd for ours)."-Drayton, Polyolbion, Song xvii. This story of the ground weeping blood in memory of the fearful carnage at Senlac in 1066 originated with William of Newbury. Fuller (Worthies, ii. 385) says it is "to be recounted rather amongst the Untruths than Wonders." There is, however, a substratum of truth, for, owing to the quantity of iron in the soil in East Sussex, salts of iron are formed and streams reddened with rain. 37. The fishermen are called "Chop-backs," one informant says the name is "Hatchet-backs." The origin of this nickname is obscure; but one informant states that the fishermen, many years ago, chopped off the hands of some Dutch sailors clinging to a wreck, so as to cause them to fall into the Lavant. -42. "According to a current local tradition Aaron's golden calf is buried in Rook's Hill, Lavant, near Chichester" (Brewer, Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, sub "Golden Calf"). St. Roche's Hill is an eminence of the South Downs. Lavant (River). 43. "Clear Lavant, that doth keep the Southamptonian side (Dividing it well near from the Sussexian lands That Selsey doth survey, and Solent's troubled sands)."-Drayton, Polyolbion, Song xvii. Lewes.-44. "Lewes is famous for clean windows and pretty girls.' " 45. "Oh, happy Lewes, waking or asleep With faithful Hands your time archangels keep' Lower, Handbook for Lewes (1855), p. 72. This clever epigram on the Lewes clocks was probably written by the late Mr. M. A. Lower. St. Michael's Church is in the upper town, "Old Gabriel" is the town bell, and placed in the market tower, whilst the parish church of the Cliffe (the lower town) is dedicated to St. Thomas à Becket. grew, The lately-passed times denominate the New." Drayton, Polyolbion, Song xvii. Newhaven was formerly called Meeching, and the Sussex Ouse enters the sea here. 48. "Newhaven tipper."- A kind of beer brewed with brackish water, and so named from Thomas Tipper, a local brewer, who died May 14, 1785 (for his epitaph see "Ń. & Q.," 6th S. viii. 186). The name Tipper occurs in this locality so far back as the reign of Elizabeth. Northiam. 49. "O rare Norgem! thou dost far exceed Beckley, Peasmarsh, Udimore, and Brede." |