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A Long Family Holding [at Pevensey], by Rev. Walter Budgen, F.S.A., published February 1941 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. VIII no. 5, article, pp.132-136) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8865][Lib 2207] & The Keep [LIB/500210] & S.A.S. library

A Book for the Poor House, by Val Whitmarsh, published September 2013 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 20 no. 7, article, pp.311-324) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/508978] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.
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On 11 September 1747, two Justices of the Peace attached their seals to an order to remove Richard and Elizabeth PORTER from the parish of Trotton, and take them to Richard's 'last legal place of settlement', which was Harting. This was because Richard had 'intruded' himself into Trotton and the churchwardens and overseer of the poor had reported that he and Elizabeth were likely to become chargeable on the parish rates 'if not timely prevented'