1 S.G.H. Freeth, I.A. Mason, P.M.Wilkinson, A Catalogue of the
Horsham Museum MSS, (Chichester: West Sussex County Council, 1995),
19;. A. Butler, Steyning, Sussex: The history of Steyning and Its
church from 700-1913, (c.1913), 27: 'The old Session House or Town
Hall, which stood in the middle of High Street, and in which the Courts
of the Lords were held, was removed years ago…'; with thanks
to
Chris Tod, Curator of Steyning Museum, for making this book available -
the two copies that should be in Steyning Library have disappeared;
T.P. Hudson, The Victoria History of the County of Sussex, 6, pt 1,
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986), 238, f.n.13; 'Butler, Steyning, 27, incorrectly states that the town hall formerly stood in
the middle of High Street'. However, Butler was right, the town hall or
market-house (my italics) did stand in the middle of the High Street.
2 Horsham Museum (hereafter HM) Ms.126A. Incidentally, from
1291
'time immemorial' or 'time out of mind' was time beyond legal memory,
fixed as the period before the accession of Richard I in 1189.
3 R. Harris, (ed.), Weald & Downland Open Air Museum
Guidebook, (1988), 17.
4 WSRO, Add. MS. 37,522. Church Street (which should be
opposite 'A
Road up the Hill') has not been indicated, presumably because
the
map was drawn for consideration of a turnpike road through the town;
West Sussex Record Office (hereafter WSRO), Wiston Mss 6152-3; 6964,
6972-7: these rentals list a house on the north side of the High
Street 'on the north side of the Market-house'; WSRO, Add. Ms. 22,157
lists a house on the south side of the High Street in 1683 that is
'against the market-house there'. The word 'against' did not then mean
'next to' as nowadays, but 'directly opposite, facing, in front of, in
full view of'; J. Pennington, 'The Inns and Taverns of Western Sussex,
1550-1700: A Regional Study of Their Architectural and Social History,
(unpub. PhD, University of Southampton, 2003) p.16, table 4 (copy of
thesis in SAS Library).
5 Hudson, 234-5; E. W. Cox and F. Duke, In and Around Steyning:
A
Historical Survey Made In 1953, (Steyning: Wests, 1954), 85;
see
R. McKinley, The Surnames of Sussex, (Oxford: Leopard's Head Press,
1988), 164-5 for a history of the surname Veske; E. W. Cox, 'The
Steyning Burgesses 1278-1826', Steyning Parish Magazine, 115, (July,
1929), 2.
6 Harris, 17-18.
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