PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
Chapter I. THE ROMANS AT BRIGHTON.
Chapter II. SITUATION, SOIL, GEOLOGY, AND CLIMATE OF BRIGHTON.
Chapter III. THE ETYMOLOGY AND EARLY HISTORY OF BRIGHTON.
Chapter IV. AFTER THE CONQUEST, TO 1513.
Chapter V. ANCIENT AND MODERN GOVERNMENT OF THE TOWN.
Chapter VI. THE BOOK OF ALL THE "AUNCIENT CUSTOMS."
Chapter VII. THE TENANTRY LANDS.
Chapter VIII. THE BARTHOLOMEWS.
Chapter IX. THE WORKHOUSE.
Chapter X. THE ATTACK ON BRIGHTHELMSTON BY THE FRENCH, IN 1545.
Chapter XI. FORTIFICATIONS OF THE TOWN.
Chapter XII. THE INCURSIONS OF THE SEA UPON THE TOWN.
Chapter XIII. THE DOWER OF ANN OF CLEVES.
Chapter XIV. THE PARISH CHURCH, ST. NICHOLAS.
Chapter XV. DR. VICESIMUS KNOX AND THE SURREY MILITIA.
Chapter XVI. THE OLD CHURCHYARDS.
Chapter XVII. MARTYRDOM OF DERYK [118b] CARVER.
Chapter XVIII. THE ESCAPE OF CHARLES II.
Chapter XIX. PERSECUTIONS FOR CONSCIENCE' SAKE.
Chapter XX. THE BIRDS AND THEIR HAUNTS IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF BRIGHTON.
Chapter XXI. THE WILD FLOWERS AND MOSSES ABOUT BRIGHTON.
Chapter XXII. BRIGHTON CAMP AND THE TRAGEDIES OF GOLDSTONE BOTTOM.
Chapter XXIII. THE STEINE AND ITS TRIBUTARIES.
Chapter XXIX. THE THEATRES.
Chapter XXV. BRIGHTON FROM ITS SIMPLICITY TO ITS PRESENT RENOWN.
Chapter XXVI. THE MARINE PAVILION AND ITS OCCUPANTS.
Chapter XXVII. ON AND ABOUT THE RACE-COURSE.
Chapter XXVIII. PAST AND PRESENT PASTIMES.
Chapter XXVIII. THE HISTORICAL STREET OF THE TOWN.
Chapter XXIX. THE PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS, CHARITIES, AND ENDOWMENTS.
Chapter XXX. THE CHURCHES AND CHAPELS.
Chapter XXXI. HOVE AND CLIFTONVILLE.
Chronological table of local events .
FOOTNOTES
By JOHN ACKERSON ERREDGE,
(Author of “The Students’ Hand Book,” &c.)
BRIGHTON:
PRINTED BY E. LEWIS, “OBSERVER” OFFICE, 52a, NORTH STREET.
1862.
