ney for the trimming of mee by the year, and deducting 1_s._ 6_d._ for
his tythes."

23rd April, 1660.--"This being King Charles II. coronation I gave my
namesake Moore's daughter then marryed 10_s._ and the fiddlers 6_d._

"I payed the Widow Potter of Hoadleigh for knitting mee one payr of
worsted stockings 2_s._ 6_d._; for spinning 2 lb of wool 14_d._, and for
carding it 2_d._

"To the collections made at 3 several sacraments I gave 3 several
sixpences."

12th May, 1673.--"I went to London, spending there, going and coming, as
_alibi apparet in particularibus_, 13_s._ 8_d._; I bought for Ann Brett
a gold ring, this being the posy, 'When this you see, remember mee,' and
at the same time I bought Patrick's _Pilgrim_, 5_s._; _The
Reasonableness of Scripture_, by Sir Chas. Wolseley, 2_s._ 6_d._; and a
Comedy called _Epsom Wells_."

Mr. Moore, having suffered in his tithes, left the following "necessary
caution" for his successor:--"Never compound with any parishioner till
you have first viewed theire lande and seen what corne they have upon it
that yeare, and may have the next."

[Sidenote: SHEFFIELD PARK]

The next station on this quiet little cross-country line to Lewes, is
Sheffield Park, the seat of Lord Sheffield. The present peer, one of the
patrons of modern Sussex cricket, took a famous team to Australia in
1891-2, and it was on his yacht that in 1894 cricket was played in the
Ice Fiord at Spitzbergen under the midnight sun, when Alfred Shaw
captured forty wickets in less than three-quarters of an hour.
Australian teams visiting England used to open their season with a match
at Sheffield Park, which contains one of the best private grounds in the
country; but the old custom has, I fancy, lapsed. In the long winter of
1890-1 several cricket matches on the ice were played on one of the
lakes in the park, with well-known Sussex players on both sides.

Sheffield Park is associated in literature with the name of Edward
Gibbon, the historian, who spent much time there in the company of his
friend, John Baker Holroyd, the first earl. Gibbon's remains lie in
Fletching church, close by. There also lies Peter Dynot, a glover of
Fletching, who assisted Jack Cade, the Sussex rebel, whom we meet later,
in 1450; while (more history) it was in the woods around Fletching
church that Simon de Montfort encamped before he climbed the hills, as
we are about to see, and fought and won the Battle of Lewes, in 1264.

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