to saw stage, &c. These accounts close with the entry of vs and vd paid " for a Wrytte and a Warrant for Jackson, the Carpenter."
Sussex has long been famous for its mines and manufacture of iron, and is said to have many pools of water, formed solely with the intention of driving the hammer mills, constructed at various periods. The mention of Robertsbridge points out the source whence this volume came amongst the Battle Abbey Papers. The Manor of Robertsbridge was possessed, in the time of Elizabeth by Sir Henry Sydney, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. The famous Sir Phillip Sydney his son, died seized of it 28th of her reign ; his da. and heiress Elizabeth, married Roger, Earl of Rutland. The manor was subsequently possessed by the Earls of Leicester, until 1720, when John, Earl of Leicester, sold it to John Sambroke, Esq., of whom, in 1725, Sir Thomas Webster purchased it. Rouse quoted a document of the year 1609, which described the Manor house, sometime called Elam, in the Parish of Salehurst, as then having various buildings for the steel makers, with eight steel forges, mill house ; the great East-gate employed as a store house for iron, &c.
