. Sussex archaeological collections relating to the history and antiquities of the county. ese two gentlemen, and on some of their Sussex connections, jwhich are to be learned from the mention made of them in jthese accounts. The elder Anthonie Stapley7s family consisted of himselfand his wife, who previous to her marriage was Jennie 1Stonestrete, and five children. Of these, Richard, whosediary I have given in Volume II., p. 102, was the secondson. His eldest son Anthonie, who succeeded his father j!in the Hickstead property, and whose wife was alsonamed Jane, but whose surname I have been un
. Sussex archaeological collections relating to the history and antiquities of the county. ese two gentlemen, and on some of their Sussex connections, jwhich are to be learned from the mention made of them in jthese accounts. The elder Anthonie Stapley7s family consisted of himselfand his wife, who previous to her marriage was Jennie 1Stonestrete, and five children. Of these, Richard, whosediary I have given in Volume II., p. 102, was the secondson. His eldest son Anthonie, who succeeded his father j!in the Hickstead property, and whose wife was alsonamed Jane, but whose surname I have been unable to dis-cover, consisted of himself and his wife and five children also,two of whom died young. The elder Anthonie, for reasonswhich I have already mentioned, was generally called u Stapley. He appears early in life so have studiedthe law; but as soon as he came into possession of the patri-monial estate he laid aside forensic pursuits, and entered !warmly into those of agriculture. This, the various accounts Iwhich he kept, and the memoranda of passing events which he j. THE MODE OF LIFE OF A SUSSEX GENT. 43 made, sufficiently manifest; and they further show that breedinghorses and fatting stock was his favourite employment, thelatter of which he seems to have carried out upon a largescale; and this the rich and well-watered pasture land, ofwhich a part of the estate consisted, would greatly facilitateand very naturally lead to. The house, in its present state, is the remains of a muchlarger residence, traces of which may stillbe seen in very dryweather to the south of it. In its external appearance it isa low, heavy uninteresting structure. Internally, however,it is different; much in it being worthy of the notice of thearchaeologist. It contains some of the purest and best exe-cuted specimens of Tudor oak carving to be found, perhaps,in the county; and as the present possessor of the propertyis a gentleman of singularly good taste and correct judgmentin everyt
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