. Sussex archaeological collections relating to the history and antiquities of the county. C. N. Sutton, as one personally well acquaintedwith the place, stated that itwas doubtful whether Thorpesplan was ever fully carried out, an opinion already formed]by Mr. West in 1857. Since then others have compared the plan with the;remains, but do not find that they correspond. Thetowers ground plan does not resemble any of those iniThorpes scheme. The devices on it seem to imply thatit was erected during Katherine of Arragons period, ,,between 1501—when she first came to England—and1536—the year
. Sussex archaeological collections relating to the history and antiquities of the county. C. N. Sutton, as one personally well acquaintedwith the place, stated that itwas doubtful whether Thorpesplan was ever fully carried out, an opinion already formed]by Mr. West in 1857. Since then others have compared the plan with the;remains, but do not find that they correspond. Thetowers ground plan does not resemble any of those iniThorpes scheme. The devices on it seem to imply thatit was erected during Katherine of Arragons period, ,,between 1501—when she first came to England—and1536—the year in which she died, and in which ThomasSackville was born. It seems unlikely that her pomegranate device would;have been placed upon a palace built by a Court officialof Queen Elizabeth—daughter of the lady who had]supplanted Katherine of Arragon—especially as ThomasSackvilles own relationship to Queen Anne Bullen con-stituted him a cousin of Queen Elizabeths, greatly to!the advantage of his official career. 3 Works of Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford (1798), Vol. III., p.
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