'I find daily more and more reason without me, and within me yet inuch more, to pant and long to be gone. I am grown exceeding uneasy in writing and speaking, yea, almost in thinking, when I reflect how cloudy our clearest thoughts are; but, I think again what other can we do till the day break and the shadows flee away, as one that lieth awake in the night must be thinking; and one thought that will likely oftenest return, when by all other thoughts he finds little relief, is, when will it be day?'

Archbishop Leighton died (1684) at the Bell Inn in Warwick Lane in the City of London-peacefully in his sleep thereby fulfilling his often-expressed desire that he might not trouble his friends in his death.

'He used often to say that, if he were to choose a place to die in, it should be an inn; it looking like a pilgrim's going home, to whom this world was all as an inn, and who was weary of the noise and confusion in it. He added that the officious tenderness and care of friends was an entanglement to a dying man; and that the unconcerned attendance of those that could be procured in such a place would give less disturbance; and he obtained what he desired, for he died at the Bell Inn, in Warwick Lane.'-Burnet's Own Times.'

After describing what had been the main subject of the Archbishop's thoughts for thirty years, Bishop Burnet says-

'I was formed to them by a bishop, that had the greatest elevation of soul, the largest compass of knowledge, the most mortified and most heavenly disposition, that I ever yet saw in mortal; that had the greatest parts, as well as virtues, with the perfectest humility, that I ever saw in man; and had a sublime strain in preaching, with so grave a gesture, and such a majesty, both of thought, of language, and of pronunciation, that I never once saw a wandering eye when he preached; and I have seen whole assemblies often melt in tears before him; and of whom I can say with great truth, that in a free and frequent conversation with him for above two-and-twenty years, I never knew him say an idle word that had not a direct tendency to edification; and I never once saw him in any other temper but that which I wished to be in, in the last moments of my life.'

The name of the hamlet Danehill is a memorial of the Danish occupation.

16 m. West Hoathly Stat. The village, some distance to the west, has a good church, partly early English, with

At

some iron slabs to members of the Infield family. Rockhurst, 1 m. west, is a large mass of sandstone rock, poised upon a smaller one, known as 'Great upon Little.' The wood in which it is situated is called Andreds Wood, which has made some antiquaries regard it as an altar to a British deity-Andrast; though the name of Anderida (from the negative prefix an, and tred a dwelling) may have simply meant an uninhabited district.

Gravetye, in this parish, is a remarkable though small XVI. c. house, with mullioned windows and a terraced garden. Its hall has a richly ornamented stucco ceiling. The house was built by Richard Infield, who died in 1624, having married Catherine Culpeper of Wakehurst. Their daughter, Agnes, took the property to Richard Falconer, their initials F. C. are over the porch. The Infields carried on great iron-works here. Gravetye has recently belonged to Mr. W. Robinson, author of the well-known work on 'The English Flower Garden.'

V.

BRIGHTON.

RIGHTON is only 50

BRIC

of that of the county.

population (185,402 in 1891) is more than a fourth But the place was unknown till the middle of the XVIII. c. Then the village of Brighthelmstone said to be so called as the 'tun' or residence of Brighthelm, a bishop of Selsey-became frequented for bathing. Though described in 1515 by Hall, as 'a poore village in Sussex called Bright Helmston,' it is now distinguished as the 'Queen of Watering Places;' for at the end of the XVIII. c. the place was brought into fashion by the Prince of Wales, afterwards George IV., who began his fantastic palace of the Pavilion in 1784.

'It is the fashion to run down George IV.; but what myriads of Londoners ought to thank him for inventing Brighton! One of the best physicians our city has ever known is kind, cheerful, merry Doctor Brighton. Hail, thou purveyor of shrimps, and honest prescriber of South Down mutton: no fly so pleasant as Brighton flies: nor any cliffs so pleasant to ride on: no shops so beautiful to look at as the Brighton gimcrack shops, and the fruit shops, and the markets.'Thackeray, The Newcomes.

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'Brighton does not offer any especial advantages to bathers, either by the attractions of its shore, or by the mildness of its climate, or the beauty of the surrounding country: its fortune lies in its being situated in the meridian of London, at the point of the south coast nearest to the capital and the most accessible by railway. In reality, one must regard Brighton as a suburb of London, whence the name of London-onSea, as applied to it. The favour of Londoners has, since the beginning of the nineteenth century, made it a populous town; and now, without any other means of subsistence than its fishery and its visitors, it has more than a hundred thousand inhabitants, a hundred and fifty thousand

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at the height of its season, and it has become the equal of a number of industrial and commercial towns of the first class. Thousands of merchants, whose counting-houses are in the city of London, have fixed their residence at Brighton, and almost daily perform two journeys between the Thames and the sea.'-Elisée Reclus.

It is its bracing air, dryness,1 and sunshine which attract visitors to Brighton, and which cause many London tradesmen to make their residence there, and to traverse the space between London and Brighton twice daily. 'London-onSea,' three miles in length, is absolutely devoid of beauty. Next to its healthy climate, its chief boast is of the finest Aquarium in the world. The Museum contains a quantity of valuable ancient pottery, and a perfect collection of the fossils found in the chalk. S. Nicholas, dating from the time of Henry VII., was the old church of Brighthelmstone village, but was almost rebuilt in 1853; it still contains a font from a much more ancient church. In the churchyard are monuments to Captain Tattersell-through whose prudence, valour, and loyalty Charles II. was faithfully preserved and conveyed to France, 1651'3-and to Phoebe Hessell, who fought as a private in the 5th Infantry, was wounded at Fontenoy, and died at the age of 108.

The sign of the King's Head still exists in West Street, where Charles II. spent the night before embarking at Shoreham. His black-wigged majesty,' says Mrs. Thrale, 'has from the time of the Restoration been its sign.'

The Pavilion is a foolish Chinese palace, nominally due to designs of Nash. Its conglomeration of minarets made Sydney Smith say, 'The dome of St. Paul's has come down to Brighton and pupped.'4 It was originally built by Louis Weltje, cook to the Prince of Wales, but was

1 A proverb (referring to the Isle of Wight, 45 miles distant) says-
'When the Island's seen above the line,
Brighthelmstone loses weather fine.'

2 'Saint Nicholas keepes the mariners from daunger and diseas,
That beaten are with boystrous waves and tost in dreadfull seas.'

3 See Shoreham.

-The Popish Kingdom.

4 William Wilberforce also said, 'It looks very much as if St. Paul's had come down to the sea and left a litter of cupolas.'-Life, iv. 277.

purchased by the Prince, who had been attracted by the pure air of Brighton, and determined to make it his summer residence, when visiting his uncle the Duke of Cumberland, who was the first of the Royal Family to frequent the place. The Prince Regent spent nearly a million on his ridiculous plaything-palace, which was finished in 1787.

'Shut up-no, not the King, but the Pavilion,

Or else 'twill cost us all another million.'

-Byron, Don Juan,' xiv.

The Royal Stables have been converted into the fine concert-room called The Dome; the Riding-School is a Corn-Exchange.

The house where Mrs. Fitzherbert lived still overlooks the Steyne, which takes its name from the rock—stanewhere Brighthelmstone fishermen used to dry their nets.

The eastern part of Brighton is known as Kemp Town, from Thomas Reed Kemp, who built it 1821-35. Here the esplanade may be amusing for a time: there is nothing but the sea and the people to look at, but the elastic air is enjoyable. The Chain Pier, 1134 ft. long, was built in

1822.

Brighton fishermen are called 'Jaspers.' They were formerly called 'Juggs.' Cooper, in his 'Glossary,' gives: 'Jug, a nickname given to the men of Brighton. In the parish of Kingston there is "Jugg's Road," on Kingston Hill, so named because the Brighton fish-dealers, on approaching Lewes, were first caught sight of on that spot.'1

The Downs at the back of Brighton are excessively dreary. Mrs. Piozzi reports that Dr. Johnson declared that a man would soon be so overcome by their dismalness that he would hang himself, if he could find a tree strong enough to bear the rope, but that he would not be able to find it.

A railway line of 5 m. has been constructed to the Devil's Dyke. This is a natural fosse, 300 ft. deep, by which tradition says that the devil intended to let the sea in by night upon the churches of the Weald, but was prevented

1 See Notes and Queries, Ser. vi, vol. ix. p. 342,