. Sussex archaeological collections relating to the history and antiquities of the county. lliam Pennington Gorringe, Esq., of Kingston Housenear Shoreham, whose father, William Gorringe, was HighiSheriff in 1806, may now be considered the representative. The honoured name of Pelham stands third in Mr. Shirleyscategory, and requires no encomiums from me. The familyoriginated perhaps before the Norman Conquest, at one ofthe three manors called Pelham, in Hertfordshire. See these Collections, vol. iii., p. 212. So early, however, as the28th of Edw. I., they had migrated into Sussex, and Walterde
. Sussex archaeological collections relating to the history and antiquities of the county. lliam Pennington Gorringe, Esq., of Kingston Housenear Shoreham, whose father, William Gorringe, was HighiSheriff in 1806, may now be considered the representative. The honoured name of Pelham stands third in Mr. Shirleyscategory, and requires no encomiums from me. The familyoriginated perhaps before the Norman Conquest, at one ofthe three manors called Pelham, in Hertfordshire. See these Collections, vol. iii., p. 212. So early, however, as the28th of Edw. I., they had migrated into Sussex, and Walterde Pelham had a confirmation grant of lands in Hailsham,Horseye, near Pevensey, and other parts of the county. Fromthat date the Pelhams have been a most im-portant and influential Sussex family, pro-ducing many eminent personages. The storyof the Pelham Buckle I related years ago, inthe third volume of the Collections, but Imay remind the reader who does not possessthat book, that that well-known badge wasacquired by Sir John Pelham from the factof his having, in connection with another. 6 NOTES ON OLD SUSSEX FAMILIES. valiant Sussex knight (Sir Eoger la Warr, ancestor of thEarl de la Warr, of which family I shall speak hereafter)made mainprize of John, King of France, at the battle o;Poictiers, in 1356. The earliest considerable estate and residence of the famil}:was Laughton Place, which was acquired before the year 1403This is now a farm house, and with various alterations andretrenchments, still stands a good specimen of the ancienifortalice, and is adorned on its old brickwork with the honourec^elj^am buckle, and other allusions to the family achievementsMy paper, above referred to, and another by our lamentec|lfriend Mr. Blaauw, in vol. xii.,p. 64, give some account of thajancient abode. In the reign of Elizabeth the family built thesumptuous mansion of Halland, the rem^ains of which, now als(a farm house, stand on the borders of Laughton and EasHothlj, the boundary of the
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