Florizel's Folly. Ashton John

      3

      A hide is an indeterminate quantity of land, varying from 20 to 4,000 acres. Eyton says it was a fiscal value, and not a superficial quantity.

      4

      As much land as eight oxen could plough in a season – 80 to 144 acres.

1

Census, 1891.

2

Earl of Surrey, son-in-law of William the Conqueror.

3

A hide is an indeterminate quantity of land, varying from 20 to 4,000 acres. Eyton says it was a fiscal value, and not a superficial quantity.

4

As much land as eight oxen could plough in a season – 80 to 144 acres.

5

Peasants, not serfs.

6

Lord Coke says they were 'Boors holding a little house, with some land of husbandry, bigger than a cottage.'

7

Manor.

8

A perch of 16½ feet, or 5½ square yards.

9

Haga was a house in a city or borough – some think a shop.

10

Eight oxen.

11

'Ancient and Modern History of Lewes and Brighthelmstone,' etc., printed for W. Lee, the editor and proprietor, Lewes, 1795, p. 458.

12

A foist was a light galley, a vessel propelled both by oars and sails.

13

Heavy ordnance, which, in the fifteenth century, could carry stone balls of 200 lb. weight.

14

Or caliver, a kind of harquebuse or musket – the lightest firearm, except the pistol, and it was used without a rest.

15

This hardly agrees with Lee's account (p. 475), who says he 'was conducted at last to the house of a Mrs. Maunsell of Ovingdean, by Lord Wilmot and Colonel Gunter… At Ovingdean the King lay concealed for a few days, as local tradition still relates, within a false wall or partition, while his friends were contriving the best means for his escape to France.'

16

Tattersal.

17

Fécamp.

18

The spelling of the MS. has been modernized.

19

'The Brighton Ambulator,' by C. Wright, London, 1818, p. 25.

20

'Journal of the Reign of King George the Third, from the Year 1771 to 1783,' by Horace Walpole, London, 1859, vol. ii., p. 416.

21

Ibid., p. 449.

22

Walpole, vol. ii., p. 457.

23

Walpole, vol. ii., p. 480.

24

Walpole, vol. ii., p. 502.

25

Vol. ii., p. 446.

26

'Memoirs of George IV.,' by Robert Huish, 8vo., vol. i., p. 80; London, 1831.

27

Vol. i., p. 97, etc.

28

Huish, vol. i., 164.

29

Gentleman's Magazine, 1824, part i., 457, 458.

30

Morning Herald, July 27.

31

Parker's General Advertiser, July 28.

32

Morning Herald, August 9.

33

Morning Herald, August 10.

34

Ibid., August 21.

35

Morning Herald, September 9.

36

Ibid., August 27.

37

Sir Cecil Wray, one of the candidates.

38

Morning Post, July 8, 1785.

39

The lessee and manager.