29/09/2006
Transcribed by Stacey Gardner
Patching is a small parish, 4 miles north-west of Worthing, on the high road to Littlehampton, constituting a Hundred by itself, in the rape of Bramber. The population is 249, with 500 acres, assessed to the Income Tax at £1,598. The benefice is a rectory, a peculiar of Canterbury, value £274 per annum, in the patronage of the archbishop, and incumbency of the Rev. Edmund Tew, M.A.; this is an ancient possession of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Letters received through Arundel.
Gentry
Hunter Lady, Dulany House
Tew Rev. Edmund, rector
Traders
Henther Charles Henry, farmer
Snelling Clement, “Patching Pond”, & farmer
Wyatt William, farmer
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