And this is Cobbett's description, in the _Rural Rides_:--"At the place, of which I am now speaking, that is to say, by the side of this pleasant road to Brighton, and between Turner's Hill and Lindfield, there is a rock, which they call '_Big upon Little_,' that is to say, a rock upon another, having nothing else to rest upon, and the top one being longer and wider than the top of the one it lies on. This big rock is no trifling concern, being as big, perhaps, as a not very small house. How, then, _came_ this big upon little? What lifted up the big? It balances itself naturally enough; but what tossed it up? I do not like to _pay_ a parson for teaching me, while I have '_God's own Word_' to teach me; but if any parson will tell me _how_ big _came_ upon little, I do not know that I shall grudge him a trifle. And if he cannot tell me this; if he say, All that we have to do is to _admire_ and _adore_; then I tell him, that I can admire and adore without his _aid_, and that I will keep my money in my pocket." That is pure Cobbett. [Sidenote: WEST HOATHLY] West Hoathly is in the midst of some of the best of the inland country of Sussex and an excellent centre for the walker. Several places that we have already seen are within easy distance, such as Horsted Keynes, Worth and Worth Forest and Balcombe and Balcombe Forest. CHAPTER XXV HORSTED KEYNES TO LEWES The origin of "Keynes"--The Rev. Giles Moore's expenditure--Advice as to tithes--Lord Sheffield and cricket--The grave of Edward Gibbon--Fletching and English History--Newick and Chailey--The Battle of Lewes--John Dudeney and John Kimber--Leonard Mascall and the first English carp--Advice to fruit-growers--Malling Deanery and the assassins of Becket. The very pretty church of Horsted Keynes, which in its lowly position is the very antithesis of West Hoathly's hill-surmounting spire, is famous for the small recumbent figure of a knight in armour, with a lion at his feet, possibly a member of the Keynes family that gives its name to this Horsted (thus distinguishing it from Little Horsted, a few miles distant in the East): Keynes being an anglicisation of de Cahanges, a family which sent a representative to assist in the Norman Conquest. [Sidenote: ANCIENT ECONOMICS] Horsted Keynes, which is situated in very pleasant country, once took its spiritual instruction from the lips of the Rev. Giles Moore, extracts from whose journals and account books, 1656-1679, have been printed by the S.A.S. I quote a few passages: "I gave my wyfe 15_s._ to lay out at St. James faire at Lindfield, all which shee spent except 2_s._ 6_d._ which she never returned mee. "16th Sept. I bought of Edward Barrett at Lewis a clock, for which I payed _£_2 10, and for a new jack, at the same time, made and brought home, _£_1 5. For two prolongers [_i.e._ save-alls] and an extinguisher 2_d._, and a payr of bellowes 5_s._"