. A naval career during the old war : being a narrative of the life of Admiral John Markham, for Portsmouth for twenty-three years (lord of the admiralty, 1801-4 and 1806-7). d you are now themistress of all Ades. There were several reasonswhich led them to fix upon this place. It is in acharming country, forty-three miles to London byEast Grinstead, Godstone, and Croj^don; and Hammer-wood, where Mra. Markham^s sister lived, is onlythirteen miles off, near Grinstead. Ades is in the Weald of Sussex. The house, standing? 5. Warren Markham, born 1801. 6. Charles Markham, born 1803. 7. Laura
. A naval career during the old war : being a narrative of the life of Admiral John Markham, for Portsmouth for twenty-three years (lord of the admiralty, 1801-4 and 1806-7). d you are now themistress of all Ades. There were several reasonswhich led them to fix upon this place. It is in acharming country, forty-three miles to London byEast Grinstead, Godstone, and Croj^don; and Hammer-wood, where Mra. Markham^s sister lived, is onlythirteen miles off, near Grinstead. Ades is in the Weald of Sussex. The house, standing? 5. Warren Markham, born 1801. 6. Charles Markham, born 1803. 7. Laura ^larkham,born 1804; married Colonel Mure, of Caldivell. 8. Lucy Markham, born 1805 ; married H. L. Wickham, Esq. * Now at Morland. • Ades originally belonged to the Goring family. Gtxxrge Goiing,of Eades (as it was then spelt), died there in 1728, aged was sold to Eichard Bowchier, who was born in 1691, was in Indiafrom 1720 to 1760, and on returning bought the Ades estate, andbuilt the present house. He had been Governor of Bombay. Hodied at Ades on December 2nd, 1770, aged seventy-nine, and his sonsold the estate to Captain Markham in 1802. CucnwoodL-^ (. a 16 MILLS [Page 247. Ilomc. 247 on Inn^li land, was originally ))uilt in three stories withfive windows in each, and the door in the centre diithe north side. The walls were pebble-dashed, and theoffices were built out to the eastward in one storev. Tothe north a field slopes down to the little Cliay rividrt,a tributary of the Ouse, and there are some fine oldbeech and chestnut trees; while the pond at the bot-tom is fringed with yews. From the Chay northwardsthe ground rises in a steep ascent called Cinder Hill,from the scoriae of disused iron furnaces or cinders which have been found on the hill-side. Beyondthere are undulations, but with an ascent to the crestof Ashdown Forest, which forms the water-partingbetween the Ouse (flowing by Lewes to the sea atNewhaven), and the Med way. All this country to the
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