present century.

1801 3204
1811 3839
1821 4575
1831 5105

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.)

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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