Sussex archaeological collections relating to the history and antiquities of the county . eriff be a Va-delect of the Crotvne, or other . . servantof the King, there the challenge is good. 3 Probably at Hangleton Place. 4 This plate, which measures 13f inchesby 6f, is now in the possession of thedaughter of the late representative of the male line of Scrase. The inscriptionswere all evidently cut at the same timeand by the same hand—probably towardsthe end of the sixteenth century. Singu-larly enough, the date assigned for thedeath of Edward Scrase is 1579, whereashe is known to have died in 1
Sussex archaeological collections relating to the history and antiquities of the county . eriff be a Va-delect of the Crotvne, or other . . servantof the King, there the challenge is good. 3 Probably at Hangleton Place. 4 This plate, which measures 13f inchesby 6f, is now in the possession of thedaughter of the late representative of the male line of Scrase. The inscriptionswere all evidently cut at the same timeand by the same hand—probably towardsthe end of the sixteenth century. Singu-larly enough, the date assigned for thedeath of Edward Scrase is 1579, whereashe is known to have died in 1576; hiswill having been both dated and provedin that year. 4 GENEALOGICAL MEMOIR OF with a steeple containing five bells. He adds that onlythe outside walls are now in existence; but the slightestexamination of these walls shows clearly enough that thechurch consisted of a nave, with a chancel of equal width, andno tower. The western end has two Norman windows, and:there are two windows and a doorway of later date in the|south In the Visitation of Bishop Bower, made in the. very year mentioned by Horsfield, there is no entry whatever!relating to the church, which proves that it was not thenjmade use of for sacred purposes. Mr. Rowland, in hisjprivately-printed History of the Family of Nevitt (1830), says,! No duty has been done for nearly two centuries. Accord-jing to the tradition of their descendants, the Scrases adhered*to the ancient faith some time after the Reformation, and as jthe tenants of the mansion, and those of some half-dozendependent cottages, constituted the entire population of thejparish, it is not likely that any pains would be taken to jmaintain the fabric, especially when so many churches existed twithin the compass of two or three miles. The parish hasplong been ecclesiastically united with Brighton. 5 The walls measure externally about of this paper is a south-west view of the I57 feet by 21. The engraving at the end church. THE FAMILY OF SCRASE
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