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About Google Book Search Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and to make it universally accessible and useful. Google Book Search helps readers discover the world’s books while helping authors and publishers reach new audiences. You can search through the full text of this book on the web at http://books.google.com/ 1 Tht limiutrsity of Chicago fibraru ##| $#}\ The limiutrsity of Chicago £ibrary County Genealogies, S U S S E X. Ilić li: UI thi:0 Liary w OF THE § 5 & 5 § FAMILIES & S S 6 & 8 & - &#3% IN THE : C O U NTY OF SUSS EX; COLLECTED FROM THE HERALDIC VISITATIONS AND OTHER AUTHENTIC MANUSCRIPTS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM, AND IN THE POSSESSION OF PRIVATE INDIVIDUALS, AND FROM THE INFORMATION OF THE PRESENT RESIDENT FAMILIES. B Y WILLIAM B E R R Y, FIFTEEN YEA R S R. E. GISTER IN G C L E R K IN THE COLLEGE OF ARMS, LONDON, AUTHOR OF THE ENCYCLOPEDIA HERALDICA, GENEALOGIA ANTIQUA, AND OTHER WORKS UPON HERALDRY AND GENEALOGY, HISTORY OF GUERNSEY, ETC. ETC. L O N D O N : PRINTED BY W. MARCHANT, INGRAM-couRT; PUBLISHED BY S HERWOOD, GILBERT, AND P I PER, P A T E R N O S T E R - R O W. 1830. | T# lité * - * | | UNIVERSITY of CHICAGO / \* u', .2. P R. E. F. A C E. A PART of the County Genealogies having been published, (the Pedigrees of the Kentish Families,) it would have been superfluous to have introduced any prefatory remarks to the other Counties, had the whole series been generally taken by Subscribers; but as some of them feel interested only in their own immediate County, or in that and the Counties adjacent, it is necessary to repeat, with each Part, the remarks that are applicable to the whole. With respect to the County of Sussex, the following series of Genealogies contain the whole of the Pedigrees entered at the Visitation made, in 1633, by Sir Richard St. George, Clarenceux, and Sir John Burrough, Norroy, by their Deputies, John Philipot, Somerset Herald, and George Owen, York Herald, which, like most of the Heraldic Collections of that early period, is very deficient in point of dates, and other particulars; nor were the Heralds of those times, by any means, infallible, as repeated inaccuracies occur in them: indeed, in so very slovenly a manner were these duties performed, that many of the Pedigrees are wholly without date; and where they so occur, in the following Collection, it must be inferred that the persons mentioned at the latter part of the entry were living at the time of such Visitation. Where additions could be made to the Pedigrees in the Visitation, from the Manuscripts in the British Museum, or other Collections of equally good authority, these Pedigrees have been considerably augmented; and most of the principal Gentry of the County have not only furnished Genealogies of their own Families to the present time, but many of them have kindly and readily contributed others from their private collections, in order to render the Work as complete as possible, and of the greatest general utility; for, although it may be argued that these Pedigrees are not of themselves sufficient legal proof to establish the claims of kindred set forth in them, yet their importance must be admitted, as affording a ready clue to such necessary proof, whenever the same should be required, as they generally point out the places of nativity, baptisms, marriages, and burials, and such other legal documents as localities will otherwise afford: and it may be asked, are the modern Entries in the Heralds' College more accurate, or of any better authority? or would the one require any less proof than the other?-And it is self b vi PRE FA C E. evident, that the printing of two hundred and fifty copies is a much safer record than one manuscript entry. This Work, which was intended to have been confined solely to the Pedigrees of the Gentry of the County, (an account of the Peers and Baronets being already recorded in printed Peerages and Baronetages, and various other ways,) contains, nevertheless, the Genealogies of many of the Peers and Baronets, originally Sussex Families, prior to their creations; and where they are not brought down to the present period, it was thought better to refer generally to the Peerage and Baronetage, than to swell out the Work unnecessarily with what might be deemed superfluous. Such have been the sources from which this series of Sussex Pedigrees has been collected, which being taken from compilations as accurately got together, no doubt, as circumstances at the time would admit; and the more recent Genealogies, traced down to the present time, having been furnished by the existing branches of the families themselves, from records in their own possession; the whole may fairly claim the credit of as much general accuracy as can be found in such collections: nor can it be reasonably expected that the Editor should take upon himself to vouch further for their correctness, as he does not pretend to have drawn them out himself, nor is it possible that he could have done so, as the longest life would scarcely be sufficient to accomplish the compilation of such a series of Pedigrees: even the errata (not strictly typographical) ought not to be laid to his charge, the sole responsibility which attaches to him being the collection of them from the best authority—the arrangement—and the printing—a task of no ordinary magnitude, filling up, in a great measure, the chasm of time since the period of the Visitations to the present day. A List of the Sheriffs of the County, from the time of Henry II. to the present year, 1830, will be found prefixed to the Work, which may be useful to refer to: and complete Indexes are added, not only of the Pedigrees, but also of the several Matches in them, for more ready reference. In closing these prefatory remarks, the Editor begs most gratefully to acknowledge the politeness with which he was every where received by the resident Nobility and Gentry, in his personal visits throughout the County, who not only patronized the Work as Subscribers, but very kindly contributed from their own Manuscripts, to render it what it professes to be—a Collection of valuable Family Documents. SHERIFFS OF SUSSEX. filius HENRY II. 1154. * MATTHEw filius HERBERTI and HERBERT1 WALTER1, 10th, 11th, 12th, and 13th. HUGo WARLEvILA, 1st. 14th. DE WIN MAGERUs MALEUVENANT, 2d. RoBERTUs DE LAUDELAw E and HENRICUs PAGANUs, 3d. TERSHUL, 15th and 16th. RADULPH.Us P1coT, 4th and 5th. PETRUs DE RIvAL, 17th. RALPH PIGoT, 6th. The same and HENRICUs DE CHANCELLIs, 18th. SANCTo EPIsc. CHICHESTER HILARIUs, 7th and 8th. SIMON DE ECHINGHAM and JoELUs DE HEN. ARCHDIAcon Us, 9th. GERMANo, (for Surrey and Sussex,) 19th. Rog ERIUs HA1, 10th and 11th.

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