interrupted by the lamented decease of the Author—Mr. J. A. Erredge. Death came upon him, not stealthily, but in its most awful form. It surprised him literally at the desk. Whilst talking cheerfully to the publisher, the hand of Death was laid upon him, and he fell dead to the ground;—the ink of these pages was still wet whilst the Author was extended on the floor a corpse. So terrible an occurrence for a brief space delayed the publication of the work, but fortunately for the family of the author, the MS. was nearly completed, and his sons were enabled, from the materials left by their lamented father, to compile the few last pages and send the two concluding numbers through the press. The History of Brighton is now completed, and whatever shortcomings may be detected in the two concluding numbers, which had not the advantage of being corrected by the Author, will no doubt be pardoned by a generous public. CONTENTS. CHAPTER _Page_. I. THE ROMANS AT BRIGHTON 1 II. SITUATION, SOIL, GEOLOGY, AND CLIMATE OF 5 BRIGHTON III. THE ETYMOLOGY, AND EARLY HISTORY OF BRIGHTON 11 IV. AFTER THE CONQUEST, TO 1513 15 V. ANCIENT AND MODERN GOVERNMENT OF THE TOWN 21 VI. THE BOOK OF ALL THE “AUNCIENT CUSTOMS.” 26 VII. THE TENANTRY LANDS 45 VIII. THE BARTHOLOMEWS 50 IX. THE WORKHOUSE 62 X. THE ATTACK ON BRIGHTHELMSTON BY THE FRENCH, 61 IN 1545 XI. FORTIFICATIONS OF THE TOWN 63 XII. THE INCURSIONS OF THE SEA ON THE TOWN 73 XIII. THE DOWER OF ANN CLEVES 80 XIV. THE PARISH CHURCH, ST. NICHOLAS 82 XV. DR. VICESIMUS KNOX AND THE SURREY MILITIA 92 XVI. THE OLD CHURCHYARD 102 XVII. MARTYRDOM OF DERYK CARVER 118 XVIII. THE ESCAPE OF CHARLES II. 124 XIX. PERSECUTIONS FOR CONSCIENCE’ SAKE 134 XX. THE BIRDS AND THEIR HAUNTS IN THE 139 NEIGHBOURHOOD OF BRIGHTON XXI. THE WILD FLOWERS AND MOSSES ABOUT BRIGHTON 158 XXII. BRIGHTON CAMP AND THE TRAGEDIES OF GOLDSTONE 168 BOTTOM XXIII. THE STEINE AND ITS TRIBUTARIES 182 XXIV. THE THEATRES 206 XXV. BRIGHTON FROM ITS SIMPLICITY TO ITS PRESENT 217 RENOWN XXVI. THE MARINE PAVILION AND ITS OCCUPANTS 251 XXVII. ON AND ABOUT THE RACE-COURSE 280 XXVIII. PAST AND PRESENT PASTIMES 295 ,, THE HISTORICAL STREET OF THE TOWN 329 XXIX. THE PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS, CHARITIES, AND 336 ENDOWMENTS XXX. CHURCHES AND CHAPELS 359 XXXI. HOVE AND CLIFTONVILLE 371 CHAPTER I. THE ROMANS AT BRIGHTON. Although there is no doubt that the vicinity of Brighton at a very remote period was occupied as a Roman military station, it is not the intention of the compiler of this work to date, merely on supposition, the origin of the town, coeval as it might have been with the landing of Julius Cæsar in Britain. The “Magna Britannia,” published in 1737, mentions:—“As to the antiquity of this town, there is reason to believe it to have stood a vast tract of time. From the accounts our historians give of it, for some of them speak of it ever since Julius Cæsar’s arrival in Britain, and affirm, that this was the place where he landed his legions; (August 26th, 55 B.C., {1}) but since others assert his landing to have been at Hastings, we shall not be very positive, yet may justly insist upon it as most probable, because there is good anchorage in the bay here; and besides, there appears on the west side of this town to this day, for near a mile together, vast numbers of men’s bones, and some of them of prodigious size, which plainly proves that there has...