tioned in 1291, and rebuilt, in all likelihood, shortly before 1436 , when we find it referred to as the new Church ; and St. George, situated on St. George's, or the East Hill, which was destroyed previously to 1380, and never re built. To these three churches I would add the two enumerated by Mr. COOPER -- St. Leonards, near Winchelsea, still within our Corporation bounds; and St. George's, of Brede -- and these all within the precincts of the manor, I confidently believe are the five churches of the Domesday
Survey. It may be incidentally remarked , as pointing to the great antiquity of ironworks in this immediate neighbourhood, that with perhaps one exception, the only church
in Sussex dedicated to the patron Saint of Ironworkers, is our own St. Clements.
The Abbot's new town had 43 burgesses of sufficient importance to be rated , who would with their families amount to more than 200, and would necessitate the presence of a still larger number of dependents -- but it continued a mere suburb for three centuries. The manor appears to have contained an unusual supply of salt pans, corresponding almost exactly to the number of villeins : while it is singular that it should only have been able to maintain two pigs.
