Bibliography - Leopold Amon Vidler (1870 - 1954)
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Rameslie , by L. A. Vidler, published November 1926 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. I no. 4, reply, p.129) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8950] & The Keep [LIB/500203] & S.A.S. library

Rameslie , by L. A. Vidler, published May 1927 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. I no. 6, note, pp.181-182) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8950] & The Keep [LIB/500203] & S.A.S. library

Sussex house of the "Friars of the Sack" , by Leopold A. Vidler, published November 1927 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. I no. 8, article, pp.242-243) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8950] & The Keep [LIB/500203] & S.A.S. library

Report of Local Secretary. Rye, by L. A. Vidler, published 1931 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 72, notes & queries, pp.279-280) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2157] & The Keep [LIB/500357] & S.A.S. library

The Homeland Guide to Rye & Winchelsea, by Arthur Henry Anderson and L. A. Vidler, published 1932 (London: Homeland Association)

The Story of Rye Parish Church, by Leopold A. Vidler, published 1932

Floor Tiles and Kilns near the Site of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, Rye, by Leopold A. Vidler, published 1932 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 73, article, pp.83-101) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2158] & The Keep [LIB/500356] & S.A.S. library

Report of Local Secretary. Rye, by L. A. Vidler, published 1932 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 73, notes & queries, p.208) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2158] & The Keep [LIB/500356] & S.A.S. library

William Holloway, Historian of Rye, by Leopold A. Vidler, published 1932 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. VI no. 12, article, pp.779-781) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9325] & The Keep [LIB/500175]

Medieval Pottery and Kilns found at Rye, by Leopold A. Vidler, published 1933 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 74, article, pp.45-64) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2159] & The Keep [LIB/500355] & S.A.S. library

Report of Local Secretary. Rye, by Leopold A. Vidler, published 1933 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 74, notes & queries, p.251) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2159] & The Keep [LIB/500355] & S.A.S. library

A New History of Rye. I - The Manor of Rameslie, by Leopold A. Vidler, published 1933 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. VII no. 1, article, pp.55-60) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2312] & The Keep [LIB/500176]

A New History of Rye. II - The Resumption of Rye by the King, by Leopold A. Vidler, published 1933 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. VII no. 2, article, pp.101-105) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2312] & The Keep [LIB/500176]

A New History of Rye. III - The Incorporation of the Town, by Leopold A. Vidler, published 1933 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. VII no. 3, article, pp.181-185) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2312] & The Keep [LIB/500176]

A New History of Rye. IV - Rye becomes a full member of the Cinque Ports, by Leopold A. Vidler, published 1933 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. VII no. 4, article, pp.236-241) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2312] & The Keep [LIB/500176]

A New History of Rye. V - 1351-1400 Destruction of the Town by the French, by Leopold A. Vidler, published 1933 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. VII no. 5, article, pp.319-325) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2312] & The Keep [LIB/500176]

A New History of Rye. VI - Tenterden becomes a Member of Rye, by Leopold A. Vidler, published 1933 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. VII no. 6, article, pp.378-384) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2312] & The Keep [LIB/500176]

A New History of Rye. VII - 1451 to 1500 Peace and Prosperity, by Leopold A. Vidler, published 1933 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. VII no. 7, article, pp.460-468) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2312] & The Keep [LIB/500176]

A New History of Rye. VIII - 1500 to 1550 Progress and Reform, by Leopold A. Vidler, published 1933 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. VII no. 8, article, pp.536-545) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2312] & The Keep [LIB/500176]

A New History of Rye. IX - The Coming of the Huguenots, by Leopold A. Vidler, published 1933 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. VII no. 9, article, pp.604-610) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2312] & The Keep [LIB/500176]

A New History of Rye. X - The Visit of Queen Elizabeth, by Leopold A. Vidler, published 1933 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. VII no. 10, article, pp.674-678) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2312] & The Keep [LIB/500176]

A New History of Rye. XI - Change and Decay, by Leopold A. Vidler, published 1933 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. VII no. 11, article, pp.746-750) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2312] & The Keep [LIB/500176]

A New History of Rye. XII - Change and Decay, continued, by Leopold A. Vidler, published 1933 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. VII no. 12, article, pp.797-801) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2312] & The Keep [LIB/500176]

A New History of Rye, by Leopold Amon Vidler, published 1934 (xii + 182 pp., Hove & Rye: Combridges) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/503486] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

A New History of Rye. XIII - 1651-1675 Rye under the Commonwealth and Restoration, by Leopold A. Vidler, published 1934 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. VIII no. 1, article, pp.60-65) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9329] & The Keep [LIB/500177]

A New History of Rye. XIII - 1676-1700 Persecution and Toleration, by Leopold A. Vidler, published 1934 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. VIII no. 2, article, pp.113-118) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9329] & The Keep [LIB/500177]

A New History of Rye. XIV - 1701-1730 Another Royal Visit, by Leopold A. Vidler, published 1934 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. VIII no. 3, article, pp.200-205) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9329] & The Keep [LIB/500177]

A New History of Rye. XIV - The Murder of Allen Grebell, by Leopold A. Vidler, published 1934 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. VIII no. 4, article, pp.250-256) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9329] & The Keep [LIB/500177]

A New History of Rye. XV - A New Harbour, by Leopold A. Vidler, published 1934 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. VIII no. 5, article, pp.310-315) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9329] & The Keep [LIB/500177]

A New History of Rye. XV - 1776-1800, Alarums and Excursions, by Leopold A. Vidler, published 1934 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. VIII no. 6, article, pp.388-394) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9329] & The Keep [LIB/500177]

A New History of Rye. XVI, by Leopold A. Vidler, published 1934 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. VIII no. 7, article, pp.454-458) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9329] & The Keep [LIB/500178]

A New History of Rye. XVII - The End of an Era, by Leopold A. Vidler, published 1934 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. VIII no. 8, article, pp.517-522) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9329] & The Keep [LIB/500178]

A New History of Rye. XVIII - Bribery and Corruption, by Leopold A. Vidler, published 1934 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. VIII no. 9, article, pp.568-573) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9329] & The Keep [LIB/500178]

A New History of Rye. XIX - Peace and Prosperity, by Leopold A. Vidler, published 1934 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. VIII no. 10, article, pp.642-648) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9329] & The Keep [LIB/500178]

A New History of Rye. XX - 1901-1918, The Great War, by Leopold A. Vidler, published 1934 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. VIII no. 11, article, pp.687-693) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9329] & The Keep [LIB/500178]

A New History of Rye. XXI - The Post-War Period, by Leopold A. Vidler, published 1934 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. VIII no. 12, article, pp.756-762) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9329] & The Keep [LIB/500178]

The Rye River Barges, by Leopold A. Vidler, published 1935 in Mariners' Mirror (vol. 21, 40. 4, article, pp.378-394)

The Rye River barge was a simple design used in three nearby rivers: the Rother, the Brede, and the Tillingham

The Fifteenth Century House in Rye now known as the Flushing Inn, by L. A. Vidler, published February 1935 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. V no. 5, article, pp.147-151) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2204][Lib 8223][Lib 8862] & The Keep [LIB/500207] & S.A.S. library

New-Found Maps of the Sixteenth Century covering the Eastern End of Sussex, by Leopold A. Vidler, published May 1935 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. V no. 6, article, pp.161-163) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2204][Lib 8223][Lib 8862] & The Keep [LIB/500207] & S.A.S. library

A numismatic history of Rye, by Leopold Amon Vidler, published 1936 in British Numismatic Journal (vol. 22, article)

Medieval Pottery, Tiles, and Kilns found at Rye, by L. A. Vidler, published 1936 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 77, article, pp.107-118) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2162] & The Keep [LIB/500352] & S.A.S. library

The Cinque Ports and the Coronation, by L. A. Vidler, published 1936 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. X no. 12, article, pp.816-821) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2315][Lib 9331] & The Keep [LIB/500181]

Some Leaves of an early Service Brook once in use in Rye Church, by Leopold A. Vidler, published May 1938 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. VII no. 2, article, pp.33-35) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 12536][Lib 8864][Lib 2206] & The Keep [LIB/500209] & S.A.S. library

An Inquest at Rye in 1581, by Leopold A. Vidler, published February 1939 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. VII no. 5, article, pp.139-145) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 12536][Lib 8864][Lib 2206] & The Keep [LIB/500209] & S.A.S. library

An Inquest at Rye in 1581, by Leopold A. Vidler, published May 1939 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. VII no. 6, article, pp.177-181) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 12536][Lib 8864][Lib 2206] & The Keep [LIB/500209] & S.A.S. library

History of Rye Grammar School, 1639-1939, by Leopold A. Vidler, published 1940 (40 pp., Rye: Adams) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries

The deeds and papers relating to the foundation of Rye's first Grammar School and its early history, long missing from an oak chest inscribed "Free Schoole Writings 1661," were fortunately discovered in the possession of the Corporation of Rye in time for the preparation of this excellent short sketch of the history of the two foundations, Peacocke's (1638) and Sanders's (1720), amalgamated in 1858 as Rye Grammar School. In few pages Mr. Vidler gives a clear and well documented account of the Trusts and their troubles, and the successive Headmasters, who were also not without troubles of their own, though the number of pupils apparently never dwindled away in the eighteenth century as they did in so many Grammar Schools of small towns throughout England, and we hear little of such scandals as that of Mr. Lewis Jones, the Master, who in 1746 was found to have allowed the school buildings to fall into disrepair and to have let them to an innkeeper for storing lumber and corn and the garden for keeping hogs, fowls and a skittle-alley.
The second foundation was subordinate to its founder's school at Hastings, and was only brought into effective existence by a shrewd speculation in a lottery on the part of the estate's receiver. It was clearly intended to extend to Nonconformists the advantages which at Peacocke's were confined to Churchpeople, and probably also to give a more "practical" education to the sons of Rye's nautical inhabitants; navigation was to be, and occasionally was, taught there. But there was not endowment enough to support two schools, and they were amalgamated in 1791, then divided in 1828, and finally amalgamated in 1856 under George Easton, who is still remembered by his surviving pupils.
The School has had three hundred years of life and fairly unbroken credit, the latter the rarer distinction of the two; and though it no longer occupies Peacocke's beautiful building of 1636 (shown in a plate), which still stands in High Street and is put fortunately to no degrading use, that is the price of healthy growth.

Assessment at Rye, 1660, by L. A. Vidler, published November 1940 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. VIII no. 4, article, pp.116-118) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8865][Lib 2207] & The Keep [LIB/500210] & S.A.S. library

St. Bartholomew's Hospital at Rye, by Leopold A. Vidler, published 1943 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 83, article, pp.73-100) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2168] & The Keep [LIB/500346] & S.A.S. library

The Murder of Allen Grebell, by L. A. Vidler, published August 1946 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XI no. 3, article, pp.49-51) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8229][Lib 2210] & The Keep [LIB/500213] & S.A.S. library

Rye, Winchelsea & Northiam : handbook and guide : the official handbook of the borough of Rye, by Leopold Amon Vidler and W. MacLean Homan, published 1951 (8th edition, Rye: Adams & Son) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries

Rye, Winchelsea & Northiam : handbook and guide : the official handbook of the borough of Rye, by Leopold Amon Vidler and W. MacLean Homan, published 1954 (9th edition, Rye: Adams & Son) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries

The Story of the Rye Volunteers, by Leopold A. Vidler, published 1954 (85 pp., Rye: Stone House) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/501721] & East Sussex Libraries

The author needs no introduction to our Society. He corrected the proofs of this work the day before he was taken to hospital and his son (Canon Vidler) has given the whole edition to the Rye Museum Committee (4, Church Square, Rye), from whom copies can be obtained. The first Volunteer movement was in 1794, which lapsed after Waterloo, but was revived in 1859. It took various forms and names, such as Cinque Ports Fencible Cavalry; Cinque Ports Volunteers; Cinque Ports Rifles ; Rye Marine Cinque Ports Volunteer Artillery; Sussex Imperial Yeomanry, down to the Home Guard of 1940. The author and his family took full part in these and the history is a well-written and interesting study and record of Local Patriotism.

Rye Foreign, by Leopold A. Vidler, published 1954 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 92, article, pp.125-156) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2177] & The Keep [LIB/500337] & S.A.S. library

Hastings and the Cinque Ports Coat of Arms, by Leopold A. Vdler, published May 1954 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XIV nos. 1 & 2, note, pp.27-28) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8232][Lib 2213] & The Keep [LIB/500216] & S.A.S. library

Rye, Winchelsea & Northiam : handbook and guide : the official handbook of the borough of Rye, by Leopold Amon Vidler and W. MacLean Homan, published 1955 (10th edition, 88 pp., Rye: Adams & Son) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries