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Dictionary of the Sussex Dialect and Collection of Provincialisms in Use in the County, by Rev. William D. Parish, published 1875 (iv + 148 pp., Lewes: Farncombe & Co.) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2345][Lib 14042] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries View Online
Domesday book in relation to the county of Sussex, edited by W. D. Parish, published 1886 (xxviii + 138 pp., Lewes: H. Wolff) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 11187][Lib 2390] & R.I.B.A. Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries
Dictionary of the Kentish Dialect and Provincialisms in Use in the County of Kent, by Rev. William D. Parish and W. F. Shaw, published 1887 (London: Tribner & Co.)
A Dictionary of The Sussex Dialect and Collection of Provincialisms in use in the County of Sussex - together with some Sussex sayings and crafts, by Rev. W. D. Parish and expanded, augmented and illustrated by Helena Hall, published 1957 (xxii + 185 pp., Bexhill: Gardeners Books) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2344] & The Keep [LIB/500165] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries
Review by G. D. J. [G. D. Johnston] in Sussex Notes and Queries, November 1958:It is very welcome to have Parish's work - long out of print - not only re-issued, but augmented with care and attention with material collected throughout the life of the present Editor - now over eighty - and her late brother, John Henry Sussex Hall (who died in 1949), in whose memory this edition is published. It is a book which every Sussex lover should have. It is possible to suggest additions in a future issue: "Mounter" (S.N.Q. xiii, 271 and 322) appears confined to Sussex; "Tarr" (S.N.Q. xii, 161, and xiii, 228) is a common Sussex word; "Bad Books" was a list of irrecoverable rates frequently used by overseers. "Waywarden" (pp. 80 and 149) far from being confined to private roads, was another name for the surveyors of highways and is so used in the Wisborough Green Parish Records in 1675-6 and 1833 and was officially substituted for surveyors in the Highway Act, 1862. "Toat" (pp. 142-3) can mean a look-out or observation post, and "Pad" (p. 173) a small horse, such as smugglers used.
It is a pity that more attention was not given to the legal side - the list of authorities (p. xv) contains no reference to any law dictionary, such as Jacob's as reference to one would have obviated several inaccuracies. "Borough English" (p. 163) is a species of socage tenure, is freehold without either military or servile services and never applied to copyholds, though the same type of descent obtained as the custom of some Manors for the descent of copyholds. "Bench" (p. 8) was the copyhold counterpart of Dower (which only applied to freeholds) and was a right given by law to a widow, but a "jointure" was a provision made for a wife by contract or marriage settlement. A Court of Pie Powder existed at most fairs (a notable one was at Bristol) and that at Chichester (p. 94) is merely an instance. "Geldable" (pp. 171) is applicable to any system of taxation and is not confined to Pevensey; coroners (p. 27) though officers of the Crown were not Crown appointments, but were elected by county freeholders - in towns the mayor was frequently the coroner ex-officio.
It is a pity that more attention was not given to the legal side - the list of authorities (p. xv) contains no reference to any law dictionary, such as Jacob's as reference to one would have obviated several inaccuracies. "Borough English" (p. 163) is a species of socage tenure, is freehold without either military or servile services and never applied to copyholds, though the same type of descent obtained as the custom of some Manors for the descent of copyholds. "Bench" (p. 8) was the copyhold counterpart of Dower (which only applied to freeholds) and was a right given by law to a widow, but a "jointure" was a provision made for a wife by contract or marriage settlement. A Court of Pie Powder existed at most fairs (a notable one was at Bristol) and that at Chichester (p. 94) is merely an instance. "Geldable" (pp. 171) is applicable to any system of taxation and is not confined to Pevensey; coroners (p. 27) though officers of the Crown were not Crown appointments, but were elected by county freeholders - in towns the mayor was frequently the coroner ex-officio.
A Dictionary of the Sussex Dialect and Collection of Provincialisms, by W. D. Parish, edited by Dick Richardson and illustrated by Frederick Landseer Maur Griggs, published 2001 (192 pp., Derbyshire: Country Books, ISBN-10: 1898941688 & ISBN-13: 9781898941682) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries
A Dictionary of the Sussex Dialect, by Rev W. D. Parish and Lynne Truss, published 1 April 2008 (96 pp., Snake River Press, ISBN-10: 1906022151 & ISBN-13: 9781906022150) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16000] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries