If the reader would have it garnished and spiced he should turn to the pages of Ainsworth's _Ovingdean Grange_, where much that never happened is set forth as entertainingly (or so I thought when I read it as a boy) as if it were truth.
FOOTNOTE: [1] That is the story as the Amberley people like to have it, but another version makes him ride from Hambledon to Brighton in one day; in which case he may have avoided Amberley altogether..