ROADS.
Horsham, though at present remarkable for the excellent state of its turnpike roads, was, before the year 1750, one of most extraordinary instances of non communication in the kingdom: previously to the abovementioned period, the London road was so execrably bad, that whoever went there on wheels, was compelled to go round by Canterbury!
It is intended to make the great London and Brighton rail road pass through the town, which cannot fail to encreas the business and traffic of the place.
FAIRS.
The fairs of Horsham are on April 5th: Monday before Whitsunday, sheep and lambs: July 18th cattle and pedalary; the Cherry fair; Sep. 5th. cattle: Nov. 27th. cattle and toys. Last Tuesday in every month, for cattle.
“Nicholas Hostresham, whose name is contracted to Horsham, may justly be placed in this town, as descended from it; families of note often taking their names from their places of residence; and if that be admitted, he will give some lustre to it, for he was a very learned man, and so famous a physician, that the nobility coveted his company on any conditions, so high an esteem had they for him. It seems it was something of a peculiar art in him, to cure and yet to please his patient, which he would not do nevertheless it was consistent with the disease; for his aim was, to cure and please if possible, but displease if unavoidable. He was of a middle temper, neither so rough as to affright,
nor so gentle, as to humour his patient into his own destruction; so that he was almost two physicians in one man. He died in the year 1448.”
(From a survey of the county of Sussex, printed in the year 1730; at present in the possession of Miss Cove, Albion Terrace.)
APPENDIX
Having principally confined the limits of the foregoing account, to a circle of about 4 or 5 miles around the town of Horsham, we have omitted previously to notice the priory of Rusper, a building of great antiquity, and closely connected with that borough, by the endowment of the church to its nuns. Very little of the ancient edifice remains at present, I shall therefore insert a very brief account of the nunnery, as given by Sir William Burrell, in his interesting MSS. preserved in the British Museum.
“On the north wing of the east front of the nunnery, towards the orchard, the foundations of additional building, and the arch of a cellar are visible, 58 feet in extent, and east of the present house. It is probable a similar wing was on the south aspect and thereby formed a Greek II. The ancient apple trees which cover the flank, render such an idea very problematical.” Near the building is a very deep well, said to have been used as a place of destruction for those members of the convent, who had dared to break their vows of chastity.
Near Mrs Delves tomb at Horsham, is the headless brass figure of an ecclesiastic, supposed from the letters T C in the cope, to cover the remains of Thomas clerk, a former rector.
INDEX.
Assizes [3]
Braose monument [10]
Brotherhood at Horsham [24]
Bells Horsham [26]
Blount monuments [64]
Church of Horsham [6]
Covert monument [16]
Chantries at Horsham [24]
Chapels Dissenting [29]
Collier Richard [31]
Chesworth [33]
Caryll monument [41]
Castle at Nuthurst [55]
Coaches [68]
Dimensions of the church [8]
Delves monument [13]
Denne house and park
Dubbins Green [52]
Eversfield donations [22]
Endowment of the church [26]
Foys brass of [17]
Font at Horsham [21]
Free School the
Field place [44]
Forest St Leonard’s [45]
Do legends of [45]
Do serpent of [46]
Fairs [72]
Gaol Horsham [27]
Gas [68]
Horsham derivation of the name [1]
Hoo monument [14]
Hoo Wm. brass of [16]
Hurst Robert tomb of [18]
Hills Place [35]
Horsham Nicholas [72]
Inscriptions in the church [18]
Itchingfield village of [57]
Inns at Horsham [68]
Jamieson monument [23]
Marroitt Capt. tomb of [19]
Matthews donations [22]
Members for Horsham [2]
Moated House [33]
North Chapel [34]
Nuthurst village of [53]
Do lodge [53]
Nun’s well [56]
Pike T. tomb of [17]
Plague attack of [22]
Plants [69]
Population of Horsham [71]
Roman road [67]
Roads [71]
Railroad Brighton, intended direction of [71]
Shelley donations [22]
Schools at Horsham [33]
Stroud park [61]
Slinfold village of [61]
Saurian remains [70]
Town Hall the [4]
Tower the Lollard’s [23]
Tregoz monument in Slinfold Church [63]
Warnham village of [39]
Do. Court [43]
Water [70]
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