[17] The oldest windmill on record in this country (I speak under correction) stood in this parish, and was given by Bishop Seffrid to the see of Chichester about the year 1199. The largest watermill ever constructed in Sussex was that of Mr. Catt. [18] Frightened, (I hear it was guessed in a gossiping newspaper,) by the Shipton accident, and disgusted afterwards by unexpected expenses. The ingenious British public cannot conceive of anybody’s estimating danger before accidents as well as after them, or amusing himself by driving from one place to another, instead of round the Park. There was some grain of truth in the important rumour, however. I have posted, in early days, up and down England (and some other countries) not once nor twice; and I grumbled, in Yorkshire, at being charged twenty-pence instead of eighteen-pence a mile. But the pace was good, where any trace of roads remained under casual outcasting of cinders and brickbats. [19] “Our Lady’s,” doubtless, once. [20] I include in my general term ‘mob,’ lords, squires, clergy, parish beadles, and all other states and conditions of men concerned in the proceedings described. [21] They are round at the end, but do not taper. [22] An Indian one, patiently investigated for me by Mr. Burgess, was fastened with glue which entirely defied cold water, and yielded only to the kettle. [23] She bites them round the edge roughly enough; but pushes them down with a tucked-up rim, quite tight, like the first covering of a pot of preserve. [24] Or in old wood. [25] He does not give the date. [26] See my first notice of it in the beginning of the Fors of August 1871; and further account of it in appendix to my Lecture on Glaciers, given at the London Institution this year. [27] Will the reader be kind enough, in the last two lines of page 128, to put, with his pen, a semicolon after “age”, a comma after “unclean,” and a semicolon after “use”? He will find the sentence thus take a different meaning. [28] Isaiah xxviii. 17 and 18. [29] The whole woodcut is given in facsimile in the fifth part of ‘Ariadne Florentina.’ [30] See ‘Munera Pulveris,’ pp. 99 to 103; and ‘Ariadne Florentina,’ Lecture VI. [31] “Narr. Fünftausend Kronen wären mir zu Handen. Meph. Zweibeiniger Schlauch, bist wieder auferstanden? Narr. Geschieht mir oft, doch nicht so gut als jetzt. Meph. Du freust dich so, dass dich’s in Schweiss versetzt. Narr. Da seht nur her, ist das wohl Geldes werth? Meph. Du hast dafür was Schlund und Bauch begehrt. Narr. Und kaufen kann ich Acker, Haus, und Vieh? Meph. Versteht sich! Biete nur, das fehlt dir nie! Narr. Und Schloss mit Wald und Jagd, und Fischbach? Meph. Traun! Ich möchte dich gestrengen Herrn wohl schaun.