To the collections of the Sussex Archaeological Society I am greatly indebted; also to Mr.J.G.Bishop's _Peep into the Past_, and to Mr.W.D.Parish's _Dictionary of the Sussex Dialect_.

Many other works are mentioned in the text.
The history, archaeology, and natural history of the county have been thoroughly treated by various writers; but there are, I have noticed, fewer books than there should be upon Sussex men and women.

Carlyle's saying that every clergyman should write the history of his parish (which one might amend to the history of his parishioners) has borne too little fruit in our district; nor have lay observers arisen in any number to atone for the shortcoming.

And yet Sussex must be as rich in good character, pure, quaint, shrewd, humorous or noble, as any other division of England.

In the matter of honouring illustrious Sussex men and women, the late Mark Antony Lower played his part with _The Worthies of Sussex_, and Mr.Fleet with _Glimpses of Our Sussex Ancestors_; but the Sussex "Characters," where are they?
Who has set down their "little unremembered acts," their eccentricities, their sterling southern tenacities?
The Rev.A.D.Gordon wrote the history of Harting, and quite recently the Rev.C.N.Sutton has published his interesting _Historical Notes of Withyham, Hartfield, and Ashdown Forest_; and there may be other similar parish histories which I am forgetting.