Easebourne, who is the rector there." (N. R.) The cure is now only a perpetual curacy, which we may conclude to have arisen from its appropriation to the priory. Cowdray—House contained a chapel. (Horsfield's Suss. II, 99.)
83. Edburton.—The font is circular, and of lead. (Cartwright, who gives a plate.) "Capella de Percinges" is named in a roll of the Curia Regis, 8 July, 1199 (1 of K. John). Percinges (now Perching, an estate in this parish) was the mansion of Peter, son of Henry Fitz Aylwin, the first Lord Mayor of London, which dignity he held, from A.D. 1187, for nearly twenty-five years, namely, till his death in 1212. Peter Eitz Aylwin had married the daughter and heiress of Bartholemew de Cheney, who held the manor under de Warren, Earl of Surrey. (Stapleton's Liber de Antiquis Legibus, iv, 1.) Percinges is described in (D. B.) as held of de Warren by Will, de Watevile.—Roman urns have been found in the southern part of this parish. (Horsfield's Suss. II, 224.)
84. Egdean.—" In the bishop's registers this place is called Bleatham." (Horsfield's Suss. II, 174.) Egdean therefore is intended by the "Ecclia de Bletteham—note, Bletlesham" of (A.D. 1291).
85. Elsted.—I am satisfied, that this place must be the "Halestede" of (D.B), not simply from the similarity of the names, but because Halestede is described as in the same hundred, "Hamford," wherein Harting, Treyford, Trotton, and other neighbouring places are mentioned; though they are portions of a different property. In (A.D. 1291) the name is spelled Ellestede. It is a rectory, with Treyford and Didling annexed to it.
86. Etchingham.—This is an interesting church, in consequence of its unaltered condition, far more so than any others in the neighbourhood, though not of very early character, having been erected by William de Etchyngham, who died A.D. 1488, and of whom a brass memorial still remains within the church. All the windows retain their tracery. The nave, over the east end of which stands the tower, is lofty, with good clerestory windows; the chancel also is lofty, with good windows, and, with the exception of the western face of the roodscreen, and the top of the doorway, possesses all its old fittings in a perfect state, though the paving tiles have been sadly disarranged. The brass of William de Etchyngham and another are in the middle of the
