Chapter I: Preface

The publication of the History of Brighton had proceeded, with the most gratifying success, through ten monthly numbers, when it was suddenly 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