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Mayfield - The Story of an Old Wealden Village by Elizabeth Margaretta Bell-Irving

published by William Clowes & Sons in 1903

Chapter Book cover       Frontispiece       Preface       Contents       List of Illustrations       Chapter I. The Village - The Parish - The Weald - Farmhouses - The Rivers - The Roads   1   Chapter II. Old Customs - Charms and superstitions - Dialect   15   Chapter III. Early History - St Dunstan and Mayfield Church - The Domesday Survey - Loxfield Hundred - The Palace   20   Chapter IV. Cade's Rebellion - Mayfield Manor   50   Chapter V. The Palace - Relics of St Dunstan   63   Chapter VI. The Church - The Monuments   71   Chapter VII. The Parish Registers - The Rev. John Maynard - The Churchyard   88   Chapter VIII. The Papers - Churchwarden's Accounts - The Charities - The Poor Laws   104   Chapter IX. The Apprentices - Overseer's Accounts - Vicars of Mayfield   117   Chapter X. The Rectory of Mayfield - Sir Edward North - Sit Thomas Gresham - The Mayfield Martyrs   141   Chapter XI. The Manor of Isenhurst - The Manor of Sharnden   153   Chapter XII. Later History of the Palace and Manor - Sir Henry Nevill - Sir Thomas May - John Baker - The Great Rebellion - Mayfield Tokens   159   Chapter XIII. Sussex Ironworks - Early Ordnance - Furnaces and Forges - Firebacks - Industries   166   Chapter XIV. The Charity School - John Gale and his Diary - The Palace dismantled - Visit of Princess Victoria - Modern Times   184   Index   199   Illustrations The Village       The Banqueting Hall, Mayfield Palace   41   Plan of Long's Farm, Mayfield - 1640   51   Mayfield Place   62   St Dunstan's Church   70   Ruins of Mayfield Palace   145   More about Mayfield

Index - A B C D E F G H I K L M N O P R S T V W Y Baker Family 77-82, 142-143, 161, 179, 195   Baker, John 162   Baker, Michael 110-111, 195   Baker, Thomas 110, 196   Baldock, Edward Holmes 111   Bells and bell-founders 85-87   Bibleham, or Bivelham 25-27   Bondland 19   Boniface, Archbishop of Canterbury 27   Borough-English 19   Bourchier, Thomas, Archbishop of Canterbury 55   Bridger, Edward 102   Burwash-Weald parish 103

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