Between Hastings and Winchelsea are the villages of Guestling, Pett, and Icklesham, the last two on the edge of the Level. Of these, Icklesham is the most interesting, Guestling having recently lost its church by fire, and Pett church being new. Pett stands in a pleasant position at the end of the high ground, with nothing in the east but Pett Level, and the sea only a mile away. At very low tide the remains of a submerged forest were once discernible, and may still be. Icklesham also stands on the ridge further north, overlooking the Level and the sea, with Winchelsea not two miles distant in the east. The church is a very fine one, with a most interesting Norman tower in its midst. The churchwardens accounts contain some quaint entries: [Sidenote: CHURCHWARDENS' ACCOUNTS] 1732. Paid for ye Stokes [stocks] _£_4 10_s._ 8-3/4_d._ 1735. January ye 13 pd for a pint of wine and for eight pound of mutton for Good[man] Row and Good[man] Winch and Goody Sutors for their being with Goody in her fitts 3_s._ 1744. Fevery ye 29 paid Gudy Tayler for going to Winshelse for to give her Arthor Davy [affidavit] 1_s._ 6_d._ 1746. April 26 gave the Ringers for Rejoycing when ye Rebels was beat 15_s._ (This refers to Culloden. There are two sides in every battle; how do Burns's lines run?-- Drumossie moor--Drumossie day-- A waefu' day it was to me! For there I lost my father dear, My father dear, and brethren three.) One of the Icklesham gravestones, standing over the grave of James King, who died aged seventeen, has this complacent couplet: God takes the good--too good on earth to stay, And leaves the bad--too bad to take away. Two miles to the west of Icklesham, at Snaylham, close to the present railway, once stood the home of the Cheyneys, a family that maintained for many years a fierce feud with the Oxenbridges of Brede, whither we soon shall come. A party of Cheyneys once succeeded in catching an Oxenbridge asleep in his bed, and killed him. Old Place farm, a little north of Icklesham, between the village and the line, marks the site of Old Place, the mansion of the Fynches, earls of Winchelsea. [Sidenote: PLAYDEN AND IDEN]