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A Concise Historical & Topographical Sketch Of Hastings, Winchelsea, & Rye, Including Several Other Places In The Vicinity Of Those Ancient Towns, by Frederick W. L. Stockdale, published 1817 (48 pp. + 29 plates, Hastings: M. P. Powell) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/503835] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Parliamentary History - Winchelsea, by William Durrant Cooper, published 1835 in The History, Antiquities and Topography of the County of Sussex (appendix III, article, pp.72-75) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2397][Lib 3212] & The Keep [LIB/507380][Lib/500088] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

The Town and Port of Winchelsea, by Thomas Walker Horsfield, published 1835 in The History, Antiquities and Topography of the County of Sussex (vol. I, rape of Hastings, pp.477-487) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2396][Lib 3211] & The Keep [LIB/507380][Lib/500087] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

The History of Winchelsea, one of the Ancient Towns added to The Cinque Ports, by William Durrant Cooper, F.S.A., published 1850 (261 pp., London: John Russel Smith & Hastings: Henry Osborne) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/503090] & East Sussex Libraries

Notices of Winchelsea in and after the Fifteenth Century, by William Durrant Cooper, F.S.A., published 1856 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 8, article, pp.201-234) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2093] & The Keep [LIB/500227] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Robert Winchelsea, Archbishop of Canterbury, by Mark Antony Lower, published 1865 in The Worthies of Sussex (pp.93-96) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 3208][Lib 3233][Lib 3304] & The Keep [LIB/503515][LIB/504913]

Winchelsea, by Mark Antony Lower, M.A., published 1870 in A Compendious History of Sussex, Topographical, Archaeological & Anecdotal (vol. II, pp.251-258, Lewes: George P. Bacon) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8946][Lib 3315] & The Keep [LIB/500158]   View Online

Further Notices of Winchelsea, by William Durrant Cooper, F.S.A., published 1871 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 23, article, pp.20-35) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2108] & The Keep [LIB/500241] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Ordnance Survey Book of Reference to the plan of the Parish of Broomhill, published 1874 (article, London: H.M.S.O. & printed at George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode)   View Online

A Quiet Corner of England. Studies of Landscape and Architecture in Winchelsea, Rye and Romney Marsh, with numerous illustrations by Alfred Dawson, by Basil Champneys, published 1875 (64 pp., London: Seeley, Jackson and Halliday) accessible at: & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Pleasant Days in Pleasant Places, by Edward Walford, M.A., published 1878 (London: Hardwicke & Bogue)   View Online

The Story of King Edward and New Winchelsea; The Edification of a Mediaeval Town, by Frederick A. Inderwick, published 1892 (xiii + 219 pp., London: Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington Ltd.) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/503089] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Sea Fight Off Winchelsea in 1350, by The Editor, published 1902 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 45, notes & queries, pp.217-218) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2130] & The Keep [LIB/500263] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Winchelsea and Rye, by E. V. Lucas with illustrations by Frederick L. Griggs, published 1904 in Highways and Byways in Sussex (Chapter XXXVIII, London: Macmillan & Co.) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 41][Lib 12792][Lib 15825] & The Keep [LIB/500142]   View Online

English Hours, by Henry James, published 18 October 1905 (xii + 315 pp., London: William Heinemann) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries

Adams' Illustrated Guide to Rye, with map, Winchelsea, Northiam, Camber-on-Sea, and all places of interest in the neighbourhood, by Joseph Adams, published 1907 (published by the author)   View Online

Houses of Dominican Friars: Winchelsea, by William Page, F.S.A., published 1907 in The Victoria History of the County of Sussex (vol. 2: Ecclesiastical, Maritime, Social and Economic History, Population 1801-1901, Industries, Agriculture, Forestry, Architecture, Schools and Sport, pp.94-95, London: Victoria County History, ISBN-10: 0712905863 & ISBN-13: 9780712905862) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2399][Lib 9097] & The Keep [LIB/500090][LIB/504899] & R.I.B.A. Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries   View Online

Houses of Franciscan Friars: Winchelsea, by William Page, F.S.A., published 1907 in The Victoria History of the County of Sussex (vol. 2: Ecclesiastical, Maritime, Social and Economic History, Population 1801-1901, Industries, Agriculture, Forestry, Architecture, Schools and Sport, p.96, London: Victoria County History, ISBN-10: 0712905863 & ISBN-13: 9780712905862) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2399][Lib 9097] & The Keep [LIB/500090][LIB/504899] & R.I.B.A. Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries   View Online

Hospitals: St Bartholomew, Winchelsea, by William Page, F.S.A., published 1907 in The Victoria History of the County of Sussex (vol. 2: Ecclesiastical, Maritime, Social and Economic History, Population 1801-1901, Industries, Agriculture, Forestry, Architecture, Schools and Sport, p.107, London: Victoria County History, ISBN-10: 0712905863 & ISBN-13: 9780712905862) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2399][Lib 9097] & The Keep [LIB/500090][LIB/504899] & R.I.B.A. Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries   View Online

Hospitals: Holy Cross, Winchelsea, by William Page, F.S.A., published 1907 in The Victoria History of the County of Sussex (vol. 2: Ecclesiastical, Maritime, Social and Economic History, Population 1801-1901, Industries, Agriculture, Forestry, Architecture, Schools and Sport, p.107, London: Victoria County History, ISBN-10: 0712905863 & ISBN-13: 9780712905862) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2399][Lib 9097] & The Keep [LIB/500090][LIB/504899] & R.I.B.A. Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries   View Online

Hospitals: St John, Winchelsea, by William Page, F.S.A., published 1907 in The Victoria History of the County of Sussex (vol. 2: Ecclesiastical, Maritime, Social and Economic History, Population 1801-1901, Industries, Agriculture, Forestry, Architecture, Schools and Sport, p.107, London: Victoria County History, ISBN-10: 0712905863 & ISBN-13: 9780712905862) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2399][Lib 9097] & The Keep [LIB/500090][LIB/504899] & R.I.B.A. Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries   View Online

Guide to the Parish Church of St Thomas the Apostle, Winchelsea, by J. D. H. Patch, published 1909 (pamphlet, 16 pp., Adams & Son) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 5010][Lib 12822]

Extracts from the Churchwardens' and Overseers' Accounts of St Thomas, Winchelsea, by J. D. H. Patch, published c.1910 (pamphlet) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 5009]

Winchelsea Tombs Reconsidered, by R. Thurston Hopkins, published 1921 in Kipling's Sussex (Chapter III, pp.61-66, London: Simkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co.) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 16008][Lib 17091] & The Keep [LIB/504753] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries   View Online

The Walls of Rye and Winchelsea, by Rev. P. H. Ditchfield, M.A., F.S.A., published March 1924 in Journal of the British Archaeological Association (second series, vol. 30, issue 1, article, pp.120-131)   View Online

A Day at Rye and Winchelsea, by W. A. Elvidge, published 1927 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. I no. 9, article, pp.395-397) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2303][Lib 8326] & The Keep [LIB/500137]

The Winchelsea Award, by H. J. Matthews, published 1927 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. I no. 10, article, pp.451-452) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2303][Lib 8326] & The Keep [LIB/500137]

Winchelsea, by R. Thurston Hopkins, published 1929 in Kipling's Sussex Revisited (pp.161-166, London: H. Jenkins Ltd) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15871][Lib 17092] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

John Wesley and his Sussex Friends. I - Rye and Winchelsea, by Edmund Austen, published 1930 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. IV no. 7, article, pp.586-594) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2308][Lib 2309] & The Keep [LIB/500173]

English Trade in the Middle Ages, by L. F. Salzman, M.A., F.S.A., published 1931 (Oxford: The Clarendon Press) accessible at: & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

This cannot be regarded as in any special sense a Sussex book, but its author, Mr. Salzman, has been so long and so prominently connected with the Sussex Archaeological Society and has rendered such conspicuous service as Honorary Editor of its Collections for more than twenty years, that a short notice will no doubt be welcome to many readers of S.N.Q.
Like Mr Salzman's previous works on English Life in the Middle Ages and English Industries of the Middle Ages, the book is full of interest both for the student and the general reader. It is packed from cover to cover with facts and apt examples, and is scholarly and learned without being in the least dull. No theories are propounded and no arguments are put forward, and it is clear that Mr. Salzman does not write to bolster up any preconceived ideas. But every now and then he permits himself a shrewd dig at some ancient or modern foible or some pretentious dogma.
Sussex sources are naturally quoted here and there. Thus we learn from a footnote on p.193 that in 1343 the rector of St. John-sub-Castro, Lewes, belonged to a gang of robbers. The references to the wool trade and the comparative figures given on p.224 and also on p.307 show that relatively speaking the wool trade of Sussex was not of great importance.
Perhaps most interesting of all to Sussex readers are the details as to the extent of maritime trade in the Middle Ages. Mr. Salzman has unearthed some returns relating to Winchelsea which set out the port dues collected from 1267 to 1272 (see pp.215-6 and 355). During the period ships came to Winchelsea from English ports such as Chichester, Shoreham, Dartmouth, Teignmouth, Yarmouth, and Dunwich; from French ports like Rouen, Harfleur, Dieppe, Treport, Eu, Abbeville, Boulogne and Calais; from Damme, Gravelines the Swyne and Middelburgh in the Low Countries; and even from Ardales, Fuenterrabia and San Sebastian in Spain. It is perhaps not too much to hope that Mr. Salzman will give Sussex readers further extracts from these Winchelsea records.

St Bartholomew's, Winchelsea , by L. F. S. [L. F. Salzman], published May 1931 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. III no. 6, article, p.189) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8952][Lib 8221] & The Keep [LIB/500205] & S.A.S. library

The Homeland Guide to Rye & Winchelsea, by Arthur Henry Anderson and L. A. Vidler, published 1932 (36 pp., illus. & 1 map, London: Homeland Association) accessible at: British Library & R.I.B.A. Library

The story of the nine windows: Winchelsea church, Sussex, with organ & altar , by L. G. A., published 1933 (ii + 10 pp. & 2 plates) accessible at: R.I.B.A. Library

A Tour into Sussex, 1788, continued, by Hon. John Byng, published 1933 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. VII no. 3, article, pp.193-197) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2312] & The Keep [LIB/500176]

The Little Brooks of Old Winchelsea, by Gordon Ward, M.D., F.S.A., published 1934 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 75, article, pp.191-188) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2160] & The Keep [LIB/500354] & S.A.S. library

Reflections on Winchelsea Windows, by Esther Meynell, published 1934 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. VIII no. 2, article, pp.130-132) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9329] & The Keep [LIB/500177]

The Battle of Winchelsea. I - England Prepares, by John Cammidge, published 1935 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. IX no. 8, article, pp.476-479) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9330] & The Keep [LIB/500180]

The Battle of Winchelsea. II - England Strikes, by John Cammidge, published 1935 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. IX no. 9, article, pp.551-555) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9330] & The Keep [LIB/500180]

The Exportation of Wool from Winchelsea and Pevensey in 1288-9, by R. A. Pelham, M.A., Ph.D., published August 1935 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. V no. 7, article, pp.205-206) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2204][Lib 8223][Lib 8862] & The Keep [LIB/500207] & S.A.S. library

Seal of Winchelsea, by F. D. S. Darwin, published August 1935 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. V no. 7, note, p.220) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2204][Lib 8223][Lib 8862] & The Keep [LIB/500207] & S.A.S. library

The Black Friars of Winchelsea, by W. Maclean Homan, published November 1935 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. V no. 8, article, pp.225-229) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2204][Lib 8223][Lib 8862] & The Keep [LIB/500207] & S.A.S. library

A Short Account of the History and Antiquities of Winchelsea, by W. MacLean Homan, published 1936 (24 pp., Rye: Deacon's Printing Works) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/503088] & East Sussex Libraries

The Custumal of Winchelsea , by W. Maclean Homan, published August 1936 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. VI no. 3, article, pp.65-70) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 12537][Lib 8863][Lib 8224] & The Keep [LIB/500208] & S.A.S. library

The Custumal of Winchelsea , by W. Maclean Homan, published November 1936 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. VI no. 4, article, pp.97-100) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 12537][Lib 8863][Lib 8224] & The Keep [LIB/500208] & S.A.S. library

The Victoria History of the County of Sussex, edited by L. F. Salzman, M.A., F.S.A., published 1937 (vol. 9: The Rape of Hastings, xv + 279 pp. (facsimile edition published 1973), London: Victoria County History, ISBN-10: 0712905901 & ISBN-13: 9780712905909) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2402] & The Keep [LIB/500080][Lib/504285] & R.I.B.A. Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Borough of Hastings, Cinque Ports, Borough of Rye, Winchelsea.
Baldslow Hundred: Crowhurst, Hollington, Ore, Westfield
Battle Hundred: Battle, Whatlington

The issue of a volume of this County History is looked forward to with keen interest, and the new volume fully maintains the high standard expected. It will, no doubt, make a wide appeal from the fact that the area covered contains such well-known places as Battle Abbey, Bodiam Castle and Herstmonceux Castle, as well as the ancient Towns of Rye and Winchelsea.
An editorial note explains that Dr. William Page at the time of his death was preparing the material for the volume, which is geographically the ninth volume of the History, though fourth in order of issue. Then, following a general account of the Rape and Honour of Hastings, the Borough of Hastings is dealt with from every conceivable aspect, descriptive, architectural, historical, economic, manorial and ecclesiastical; the castle and churches receive particular attention, and the article concludes with the unusual but useful feature - adopted also throughout the volume - of a detailed statement of the various Charities, in this case extending to no less than five and a half pages. Truly Hastings has been favoured with a host of benefactors, not the least being the compilers of this history, the study of which greatly enhances one's respect for this ancient port.
The story of the Cinque Ports is probably the most complete that has ever been written; and under this head the Boroughs of Rye and Winchelsea receive similar treatment to that accorded to Hastings. In the remaining 200 pages of the volume each of the thirteen Hundreds in the Rape, with the parishes and manors they contain, comes under review, and when we add that 40 ancient parishes and over 140 manors are included, some idea will be gathered of the enormous amount of research involved. The architectural descriptions of the churches are in nearly every case accompanied by dated ground plans, and we note that the responsibility for these plans is shared by Mr. W. H. Godfrey and Mr. John E. Ray, while the actual draughtmanship is by Mr. E. F. Harvey whose excellent work is familiar to the readers of these pages.
A statement concerning the officers of the Hundred of Foxearle (p.125), which is apparently a quotation from the Burrell MSS. calls for some comment, as the position suggested seems to depart from the normal. We read :- "The officers of the hundred, who were always chosen at the Easter court, were two headboroughs, only one of whom was sworn, two constables and two alderman". This is not altogether borne out by the Court Rolls which show that in the time of Henry VIII the officers were chosen at an Easter court, as stated, but in the reign of Elizabeth and also in the late 17th century, for which periods alone rolls are available, the elections were at the Michaelmas court. In regard to headboroughs, we find as might be expected, that each of the six tithings had one headborough ; two names in each case were put before the court, but the second was an alternative choice, failing the first, who was usually appointed and sworn. Two constables and one alderman were appointed for the hundred, but another may have been appointed at the Lawday which is mentioned as being held for Boreham and Wareing.
The detailed descriptions of the devolution of the various manors furnish a mass of useful genealogical material, and perhaps one of the most noticeable cases is that of the manor of Pett (p.191) which on the death of the last male member of the Thatcher family in or about 1650 became divisible, with the other family estates, between his seven sisters or their descendants, involving some 10 marriages and much sub-division of the shares. It is said with truth that after 1650 the division is confused, but what happened later is clear. In 1698 a partition of the estates was made and the manors of Pett and Mersham fell to the share of Andrew Wharton, and it was he who sold to Joseph Gage in 1699.
In conclusion, we must mention the illustrations which add greatly to the interest and beauty of the volume; there are 30 full-page plates of photographic reproductions of very high merit, besides many line drawings in the text, and other plans besides those of the churches already mentioned. Altogether it is a sumptious book and the Editor and his staff and all connected with its publication are to be warmly congratulated upon their work.

The French Bastides and the Town Plan of Winchelsea, by G. E. Chambers, published 1937 in The Archaeological Journal (vol. 94, article, pp.177-206)   View Online

The Custumal of Winchelsea , by W. Maclean Homan, published February 1937 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. VI no. 5, article, pp.129-132) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 12537][Lib 8863][Lib 8224] & The Keep [LIB/500208] & S.A.S. library

The Custumal of Winchelsea , by W. Maclean Homan, published May 1937 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. VI no. 6, article, pp.161-163) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 12537][Lib 8863][Lib 8224] & The Keep [LIB/500208] & S.A.S. library

Antagonism to Religious Houses at Winchelsea, by W. Maclean Homan, published May 1938 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. VII no. 2, note, pp.56-57) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 12536][Lib 8864][Lib 2206] & The Keep [LIB/500209] & S.A.S. library

Sculptured Pigs Heads [at Winchelsea], by W. Maclean Homan, published November 1938 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. VII no. 4, query, pp.124-125) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 12536][Lib 8864][Lib 2206] & The Keep [LIB/500209] & S.A.S. library

Millais and Winchelsea, by A. A. Evans, published November 1938 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. VII no. 4, query, p.125) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 12536][Lib 8864][Lib 2206] & The Keep [LIB/500209] & S.A.S. library

Millais and Winchelsea, by W. Maclean Homan, published November 1938 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. VII no. 4, reply, p.126) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 12536][Lib 8864][Lib 2206] & The Keep [LIB/500209] & S.A.S. library

The Churches of Winchelsea, by W. MacLean Homan, published 1939 (91 leaves) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/503108] & East Sussex Libraries

Chantries in Winchelsea Churches. The Alard Chantries, by W. Maclean Homan, published August 1939 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. VII no. 7, article, pp.193-197) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 12536][Lib 8864][Lib 2206] & The Keep [LIB/500209] & S.A.S. library

Chantries in Winchelsea Churches. The Godfrey Chantry, by W. Maclean Homan, published November 1939 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. VII no. 8, article, pp.225-227) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 12536][Lib 8864][Lib 2206] & The Keep [LIB/500209] & S.A.S. library

Winchelsea: the founding of a 13th century town, by W. MacLean Homan, published 1940 accessible at: The Keep [LIB/503109]

Chantries in Winchelsea Churches: The Farncombe Chantry, by W. Maclean Homan, published February 1940 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. VIII no. 1, article, pp.1-5) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8865][Lib 2207] & The Keep [LIB/500210] & S.A.S. library

Winchelsea, by W. H. G. [W. H. Godfrey], published May 1940 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. VIII no. 2, note, p.60) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8865][Lib 2207] & The Keep [LIB/500210] & S.A.S. library

History of Winchelsea 1292-1800, by W. MacLean Homan, published 1942 accessible at: The Keep [LIB/503110]

The Founding of New Winchelsea, by W. MacLean Homan, published 1949 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 88, article, pp.22-41) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2173] & The Keep [LIB/500341] & S.A.S. library

The Story of Winchelsea Church, by Gertrude Leigh, published c.1950 (pamphlet) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9100][Lib 7241] & 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 1951 (8th edition, Rye: Adams & Son) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries

The Ships of the Cinque Ports in 1586/7, by J. Manwaring Baines, curator of the Hastings Museum, published November 1952 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XIII nos. 11 & 12, article, pp.241-244) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8231] & The Keep [LIB/500215] & S.A.S. library

The Parliamentary Representation of the Sussex Boroughs: Bramber, Midhurst, Lewes, Rye and Winchelsea, 175401768, by Margaret M. Cramp, 1953 at Manchester University (M.A. thesis)

Winchelsea Beach, by G. D. J. [G. D. Johnston], published November 1953 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XIII nos. 15 & 16, note, p.324) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8231] & The Keep [LIB/500215] & 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 1954 (9th edition, Rye: Adams & Son) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries

The Official Guide to the Ancient Town of Winchelsea, by Captain H. Lovegrove, published 1955 (Rye: Adams Ltd.)

This is a well-written little guide with an excellent plan, the proceeds of sale to go to the Corporation for the maintenance of its old buildings. It has a great atmosphere and the account of the mediaeval appearance of the Town is colourful and interesting.

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

Three Old Roads to Winchelsea Peninsula, by H. Lovegrove, published May 1956 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XIV nos. 9 & 10, article, pp.162-165) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8232][Lib 2213] & The Keep [LIB/500216] & S.A.S. library

Illustrated Guide to the Memorial Windows and Memorial Organ, S. Thomas, Winchelsea, by Rev. R. A. Cochrane, published c.1960 (pamphlet) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 10435]

Winchelsea Corporation Records: A catalogue, edited by Richard F. Dell, published 1963 (Lewes: East Sussex County Council) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2538] & The Keep [LIB/504699]

Glynne on Sussex Churches, by V. J. Torr, published November 1963 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XVI no. 2, article, pp.53-62) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8234] & The Keep [LIB/500218] & S.A.S. library

The Local Government Status of Winchelsea in the Nineteenth Century, by H. Lovegrove, published May 1964 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XVI no. 3, note, pp.102-104) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8234] & The Keep [LIB/500218] & S.A.S. library

Excavations at Winchelsea, by A. J. F. Dulley, published November 1965 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XVI no. 6, note, pp.205-206) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8234] & The Keep [LIB/500218] & S.A.S. library

Medieval undercrofts and town houses, by P.A. Faulkner, published 1966 in Archaeological Journal (123(1), article, pp.120-135)

Sir Stephen Glynne's Notes on Churches: Udimore, Westfield, Whatlington, Winchelsea, by the late V. J. Torr, published November 1968 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XVII no. 2, article, pp.41-45) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8235] & The Keep [LIB/500219] & S.A.S. library

A Medieval Town House in German Street, Winchelsea, by Anthony C. King, published 1975 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 113, article, pp.124-145) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 6177] & The Keep [LIB/500316] & S.A.S. library

Excavations 1974: Winchelsea, by A. King, published March 1975 in Sussex Archæological Society Newsletter (no. 15, article, pp.65-66) accessible at: S.A.S. library   Download PDF

Five Town Walks in East Sussex: Lewes, Rye, Winchelsea, Battle, St Leonards, by Michael Barnard, published 1977 (Lewes: East Sussex County Council) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/503466] & East Sussex Libraries

Excavations 1976: Winchelsea, by D. J. Freke, published April 1977 in Sussex Archæological Society Newsletter (no. 21, article, p.113, ISSN: 0307-2568) accessible at: S.A.S. library   Download PDF

The Castles of Rye and Winchelsea, by Derek Renn, published 1979 in The Archaeological Journal (vol. 136, article, pp.193-202)   View Online

Although the town defences (particularly the gates) of Rye and Winchelsea (East Sussex) are well known, the evidence for other fortifications there has been neglected. In the thirteenth century, it appears that the Crown planned to build castles at both places; the resulting towers are analysed in detail.

German Street, Winchelsea, by Anthony C. King, published 1980 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 118, archaeological note, p.369) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 7805] & The Keep [LIB/500305] & S.A.S. library

Excavation Report 1980: North Street, Winchelsea, by David R. Rudling, published August 1981 in Sussex Archæological Society Newsletter (no. 34, article, p.242, ISSN: 0307-2568) accessible at: S.A.S. library   Download PDF

Bygone Rye and Winchelsea, by Aylwin Guilmant, published 1984 (150 illus., text & tables, Chichester: Phillimore & Co. Ltd., ISBN-10: 0850335345 & ISBN-13: 9780850335347) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries

Examination of Winchelsea Paupers 1734-1847, by Michael J. Burchall, published March 1985 in Sussex Genealogist and Family Historian (vol. 6 no. 4, article, pp.135-140) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [MP 6277] & The Keep [LIB/501192] & CD SXGS from S.F.H.G.

Examination of Winchelsea Paupers 1734-1847 - Part 2, by Michael Burchall, published June 1985 in Sussex Genealogist and Family Historian (vol. 7 no. 1, article, pp.31-34) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [MP 6277] & The Keep [LIB/501193] & CD SXGS from S.F.H.G.

Examination of Winchelsea Paupers 1734-1847 - Part 3, by Michael Burchall, published September 1985 in Sussex Genealogist and Family Historian (vol. 7 no. 2, article, pp.71-74) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [MP 6277] & The Keep [LIB/501193] & CD SXGS from S.F.H.G.

East Sussex Census 1851 Index: Peasmarsh, Beckley, Northiam, Brede, Udimore, Icklesham, Winchelsea., by June C Barnes, published March 1987 (vol. 2, booklet, 96 pp., C. J. Barnes & printed at Battle Instant Print Ltd., ISBN-10: 1870264010 & ISBN-13: 9781870264013) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 11231] & The Keep [LIB/503431] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

One Law for the Rich?, by Rodney Elliott Marten, published March 1987 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 7 no. 4, article, pp.152-153) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 10461] & The Keep [LIB/501259] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Thomas Marten never married but acknowledged two illegitimate children, Thomas and Mary. Illustrated with a family tree. Article covers the years 1726 - 1841 in the parish of Winchelsea

Winchelsea: The Story of an Historic Town, by Kenneth M. Clark, published 1988 (28 pp., Anthony Neville, ISBN-10: 0951364707 & ISBN-13: 9780951364703) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Eighteenth-century Electioneering. Winchelsea in 1747, by Jeremy Black, published 1989 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 127, historical note, pp.259-260) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 10604] & The Keep [LIB/500302] & S.A.S. library

Arnold Nesbitt and the Origin of the Stevenson Family of Winchelsea, by Janet H. Stevenson, published September 1989 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 8 no. 7, article, pp.297-303) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 10736] & The Keep [LIB/501260] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

The story of the two families - Nesbitt and Stevenson. Arnold Nesbitt fathered at least three illegitimate children, of whom John is one born 1761 in Tonbridge. His mother Ann Dryland married in 1763 a John Stevenson. The Stevensons moved to Winchelsea where John Stevenson married Elizabeth Blackman in 1788 at Winchelsea. Article covers the years 1735 - 1895.

Six James Crowhursts - Five too many!, by Pat Button, published September 1989 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 8 no. 7, article, pp.328-329) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 10736] & The Keep [LIB/501260] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

The Crowhursts of Winchelsea, Rye and East Guldeford commencing with James Crowhurst who marred Judith Guy in 1786.

Religious Survey 1851 - Rye district, edited by John A. Vickers, published August 1990 in The Religious Census of Sussex 1851 (Sussex Record Society, vol. 75, pp.4-6, ISBN-10: 085445036X & ISBN-13: 9780854450367) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 10578][Lib 13824] & The Keep [LIB/500452][LIB/507827] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Rye district incl. Playden, Iden, Peasmarsh, Beckley, Northiam, Brede, Udimore, Winchelsea & Icklesham

Winchelsea, Rye & 'Denis Duval'; with Drawings from Abbeys & Castles both chapters in 'English Hours', by Henry James, published 1991 (82 pp., Previous Parrot Press) accessible at: British Library

The Cinque Ports Liberty of Winchelsea - Land Tax 1785, edited by Roger Davey, published 1991 in East Sussex Land Tax, 1785 (Sussex Record Society, vol. 77, pp.257-259, ISBN-10: 0854450386 & ISBN-13: 9780854450381) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 11681][Lib 13075] & The Keep [LIB/500454][Lib/507860] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Arnold Nesbitt and the Borough of Winchelsea, by Janet H. Stevenson, published 1991 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 129, article, pp.183-194) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 11694] & The Keep [LIB/500295] & S.A.S. library

Hastings and the 1066 Country: Featuring Battle, Bexhill, Pevensey, Rye, St Leonards and Winchelsea, by David Arscott, published 31 August 1993 (96 pp., Seaford: S. B. Publications, ISBN-10: 185770049X & ISBN-13: 9781857700497) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries

The Ancient Town of Winchelsea, by H. Lovegrove, published 1994 (pamphlet) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 13170]

Winchelsea: An 18th Century View of the Town and its Life as a 'Rotten Borough', by Rodney Elliott Marten, published June 1995 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 11 no. 6, article, pp.203-208) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14878] & The Keep [LIB/501263] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Entry for Winchelsea in the Universal British Directory, Sussex published in 1792

Memories of Rye, Winchelsea and District Memorial Hospital, edited by Jo Kirkham, published 1 August 1995 (Rye Memories, 132 pp., Thomas Peacocke Community College, Local History Group, ISBN-10: 187060024X & ISBN-13: 9781870600248) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries

Winchelsea - 18c. Schools, edited by John Caffyn, published 1998 in Sussex Schools in the 18th Century (Sussex Record Society, vol. 81, p.268, ISBN-10: 0854450424 & ISBN-13: 9780854450428) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 13825][Lib 13828] & The Keep [LIB/500458][Lib/507864] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Winchelsea: a Port of Stranded Pride, by Malcolm Pratt, published 3 October 1998 (282 pp., published by the author, ISBN-10: 0953241106 & ISBN-13: 9780953241101) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 13872] & The Keep [LIB/503101] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Winchelsea - A Medieval New Town, by David Martin, published 1 January 1999 in An Historical Atlas of Sussex (pp.44-45, Chichester: Phillimore & Co. Ltd, ISBN-10: 1860771122 & ISBN-13: 9781860771125) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14026][Lib 18777] & The Keep [LIB/501686][LIB/508903] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

AA Street by Street: Hastings, Battle, Bexhill, Rye, Catsfield, Crowhurst, Fairlight, Guestling Green, Icklesham, Ninfield, Sedlescombe, Westfield, Winchelsea, published 2002 (59 pp., AA Publishing, ISBN-10: 0749531770 & ISBN-13: 9780749531775) accessible at: British Library & East Sussex Libraries

Winchelsea Tombs Reconsidered, by Claude Blair, John Goodall and Philip Lankester, published 2002 in Jounal of the Church Monuments Society (vol. XV, article) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/503075]

Rye and Winchelsea in old photographs, by Alan Dickinson, published 9 May 2002 (126 pp., Stroud: Sutton Publishing Ltd., ISBN-10: 750914009 & ISBN-13: 9780750914000) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

A forgotten romance, by Colin W. Field, published December 2003 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 15 no. 8, article, pp.370-373) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15249] & The Keep [LIB/508827] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

The love story of Samuel James Murray Griffith of Higham House, Winchelsea and Margaret Piggott who married on 17 August 1878 in St. Paul's Church, Hammersmith.

Excavations in Winchelsea, Sussex, edited by David Martin and David Rudling, published 15 December 2004 (UCL Field Archaeology Unit monograph, no.3, viii + 184 pp., King's Lynn: Heritage Marketing & Publications Ltd., ISBN-10: 095444566X & ISBN-13: 9780954445669) accessible at: British Library & East Sussex Libraries

New Winchelsea Sussex: A Medieval Port Town, by David Martin, published 31 December 2004 (222 pp., King's Lynn: Heritage Marketing & Publications Ltd., ISBN-10: 0954445651 & ISBN-13: 9780954445652) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/503100] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Winchelsea: The Tale of a Medieval Town Principally Telling the Story of the Ancient Town from the Earliest Times Until 1800, by Malcolm Pratt, published 2005 (288 pp., published by the author, ISBN-10: 0953241114 & ISBN-13: 9780953241118) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/503099] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Huguenots in Rye and Winchelsea, edited by Jo Kirkham, published 2006 (Rye Memories, 40 pp., Thomas Peacocke Community College, Local History Group, ISBN-10: 1870600266 & ISBN-13: 9781870600262) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries

A Winchelsea tragedy, by Michael J. Burchall, published September 2009 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 18 no. 7, article, pp.360-363) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15860] & The Keep [LIB/508974] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

By using a combination of local and national records it is often possible to reconstruct part of the dramatic and tragic stories connected with faceless people in the past. Such a story is that of John EAGLES who, according to his own testimony, first appears in Winchelsea about 1813 when he must have been aged about 22. He was a butcher by trade and may have just finished his apprenticeship although where he was born, brought up and apprenticed is not presently known, but he does not appear to have belonged to a local family or to have left Sussex descendants.

Winchelsea, St. Thomas - Church monuments, edited by Nigel Llewellyn, published 2011 in East Sussex Church Monuments, 1530-1830 (Sussex Record Society, vol. 93, pp.404-410, ISBN-10: 0854450750 & ISBN-13: 9780854450756) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 17926] & The Keep [LIB/500470][LIB/507876] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries   View Online

The Battle of Winchelsea, 1350, by Graham Cushway, published 19 May 2011 in Edward III and the War at Sea: The English Navy, 1327-1377 (pp.136-145, Boydell & Brewer, ISBN-10: 1843836211 & ISBN-13: 9781843836216)   View Online

Although Alfonso XI died of plague on 27 March the Castilian fleet continued their attacks on English merchant shipping. Edward's government feared the French might use them and a small knot of French vessels gathering at Leure to 'dominate the English Sea', in a spate of raids similar to those of the late 1330s. It was feared that they might land an invasion force, and rumours also abounded that they planned to intercept the annual English wine convoy. That the Spanish vessels were famously valuable tarets also influenced Edward and his commanders.

Winchelsea Poor Law Records, 1790-1841, edited by Malcolm Pratt, published 1 April 2013 (vol. 94, xxxvi + 380 pp., Sussex Record Society, ISBN-10: 0854450769 & ISBN-13: 9780854450763) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 18291] & The Keep [LIB/500471][Lib/507890] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries   View Online

"The poor are ever with us" is a common phrase, but one that usually evokes images of an amorphous, anonymous mass. Rarely do we get beyond grim registers yielding stark statistics on people, money, food and clothing. Yet through the use of an amazing and unusual collection of letters, this volume puts stories. faces and individual identities to the poor of Winchelsea of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In doing so, it also conjures up the life of this small town at that time, the work of its inhabitants and the duties of those in authority who took responsibility for the poor. In particular, it highlights the dedicated and highly efficient work of one man, Charles Arnett, the master of the workhouse and the only salaried official, as he struggled for five years to both care for the poor and balance the books. Here are stories for all times as people moved in and out of employment, suffered from rising food prices, coped with how life could suddenly be changed by ill-health, and the constant struggles of maintaining families - all against a backdrop of limited and inadequate housing. This volume yields a multi-faceted set of stories drawn not only from the points of view of those in authority and their various registers, but also from the heartrending letters of the poor.

In the popular imagination, by the 18th century little but fields of waving corn survived on the spot where once King Edward's burgesses of New Winchelsea had plied one of the country's foremost wine trades: the combined efforts of silting, French aggression and the rise of Rye had reduced it to a shadow of its former grandeur. But as ever, the reality is more complicated, and more nuanced. Life inevitably went on in Winchelsea after its decline but the more depressed it became, its status as both a parliamentary borough and an exempt jurisdiction, combined with an influx of troops during the Napoleonic Wars, paradoxically ensured the preservation of an archive, almost unparalleled in East Sussex, which chronicles the lives of its poorest inhabitants.
In 1683, the Poor Rate had produced a return of £20 3s 9d; even by 1782, the Overseers were prepared to spend £175 a year to outsource poor relief to a private contractor. It was the abandonment of that experiment in 1792 - a decade later the rate was required to produce £1229 - which gave rise to most of the documents edited by Malcolm Pratt in the excellent, if at times harrowing book.
The quantity and richness of the archive has determined the author to present his material not chronologically or thematically but by case, which makes the book one to be read, not merely consulted. The material ranges de alto in basso - from the story of the former parish overseer John Eagles, eventually hanged at Newgate for the theft of a banknote in 1827, to the demand of Edward Brignell of Ivychurch for appropriate clothing for Mary Relfe, taken on as a farm servant a month earlier at a shilling a week; 'otherwise I shall send her back again'.
Unlike Thomas Turner's diary, whose detailed narrative of his implementation of the Poor Law has so much to tell us about ordinary lives half a century before, these are not merely writings about the poor - many are penned by the poor themselves. As almost all the cases show, the line between literate prosperity and destitution was often a narrow one, over which whole families could be pushed in a matter of weeks by the unpredictable vagaries of unemployment, the weather and bad health.
The author has dedicated the volume to the memory of Roy Hunnisett, who continued to cultivate his Sussex roots as he rose to become one of the foremost scholar-archivists of his generation. His wise counsel as a member of council and latterly as a literary director, coupled with his own editorial endeavour, contributed to a renaissance in the quality of the Sussex Record Society's output. His role as mentor, acknowledged by the author, was also formative at the start of my own career almost 40 years ago, and one to which I am equally proud to pay tribute.
With this volume Malcolm Pratt, a former town clerk of Winchelsea with two histories of the Port of Stranded Pride to his name, has done more than credit to his outstanding material, and to the efforts of his predecessors to preserve it.

Winchelsea Historic Methodist Chapel: Including Some Early History of Winchelsea and Wesleyan Methodism in South-East Sussex, by Keith D. Foord, published 8 November 2013 (64 pp., Battle Methodist church, ISBN-10: 0956959725 & ISBN-13: 9780956959720) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/507819] & British Library & East Sussex Libraries

Recording and Analysis of Ship Graffiti in St Thomas' Church and Blackfriars Barn Undercroft in Winchelsea, East Sussex, UK, by Thomas Dhoop, Catriona Cooper and Penny Copeland, published September 2016 in International journal of Nautical Archaeology (vol. 45, no. 2, article, pp.296-309)

St Thomas Church, Winchelsea, by JLD, published (no date) (pamphlet) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 5011]

Winchelsea Churchwardens Accounts, by P., J.D.H, published (no date) (pamphlet) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 12823]