Adam's illustrated guide to Rye (with map) : Winchelsea, Northiam, Camben-on-Sea, and all places of interest in the neighbourhood . nd encouraged by their success,preyed on the channel trade indiscriminately. In KingEdward IV., they were accused of piracy and rebellionagainst the Crown, a Royal Pursuivant being sent down toorder the discontinuance thereof under penalty of hisdispleasure. They slit his nose in contempt of the King,who, in revenge, took the place, hanged burgesses, andhanded over their ships to Dartmouth. To this day, inFowey, the expression pussivantin is used, to signifyfussy
Adam's illustrated guide to Rye (with map) : Winchelsea, Northiam, Camben-on-Sea, and all places of interest in the neighbourhood . nd encouraged by their success,preyed on the channel trade indiscriminately. In KingEdward IV., they were accused of piracy and rebellionagainst the Crown, a Royal Pursuivant being sent down toorder the discontinuance thereof under penalty of hisdispleasure. They slit his nose in contempt of the King,who, in revenge, took the place, hanged burgesses, andhanded over their ships to Dartmouth. To this day, inFowey, the expression pussivantin is used, to signifyfussy ineffectual bustling about, in other words unproduc-tive result. (For which see Troy Town/ by Q., chapterxvii.). The School House. This building is situate in High Street, on the north side,facing the street which leads from the former to the was erected at the expense of Mr. Thomas Peacock, ajurat of the Corporation, in the year 1636, and endowed asa school by him two later, receiving a further endowmentunder the will of Mr. James Saunders, of Winchelsea, whodied in 1709. The edifice, taken altogether as a specimen. GUIDE TO yq of brickwork over two hundred and seventy years old, hasan effective appearance, standing as it does in the mostcentral part of the town. It has slightly projectingpilasters, and an arched dooiway leading into the school-room. The sun-dial presented by Colonel De Lacy Evans,when he was one of the Parliamentary Representativesof the town, bearing the motto— That solar shadow, as it measures life,If life resembles to — removed in 1887, and placed at the back of the TownHall. It is an interesting fact that Denis Duval, thehero of W. unfinished novel, is representedas attending this school. Owing to diminished revenues,mainly in consequence of agricultural depression, theemoluments of the teaching staff became very inadequate,and the Governors, a few years ago, sold the building to thelate Mrs. Brocket, who allowed the use o
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