Early Modern Sussex: An Exhibition

1. Early Modern Sussex: An Exhibition

2. Religious change in Sussex The economy of early modern Sussex Strange tales and literary Sussex County society and governance Sussex as point of entry and exit, and suspicion.

3. Chichester Cathedral

4. Barnard Panels I

5. Barnard Panels II

6. Barnard Panels III

7. Barnard’s other Sussex work

8. Robert Sherborn (1508 – 36)

9. Day (1543 – 51)Scory (1552 – 3)

10. Barlow (1559 – 68)King (1642 – 6, 1660 – 9)

11. John and William Cawley

12. Echoes

13. Boxgrove Priory

14. Boxgrove Priory

15. St. Botolph’sHardham • The temptation. Positioned inside the sanctuary along with further scenes from Genesis, including ‘Eve milking a strange beast’.

16. St.Mary’s West Chiltington

17. St. Mary’sWest Chiltington

18. St. Mary’s slit,West Chiltington

19. St. Margaret’sWest Hoathly

20. De La Warre chantrychapelBoxgrove

21. De La Warr chantry chapel Boxgrove

22. 18th century graffiti

23. Buried altar, St. Mary’sWest Chiltington

24. West Grinstead • Top: Relics of Francis Bell (executed 1643). • Possibly warning or sanctus bell. • Travelling chalice, base and cup unscrew to enable concealment and transport. Attributed to Bell. • 16th/17th century chalice • Altar stone, again, part of ‘kit’ for recusant priests travelling between communities.

25. West Grinstead ‘hide’

26. Font, Holy Trinity,Cuckfield

27. Cuckfield, wealth from iron

28. St. Margaret’sWest Hoathly

29. Iron wealth, West Hoathly

30. Iron

31. St. Swithun’s, East Grinstead

32. Firebacks, Priest’s House, West Hoathley • Left: Wealden Fireback. Three initials may suggest a couple, possibly to commemorate or celebrate a marriage. • Right: Flemish or Flemish-inspired 17th century fireback.

33. 16th century Wealden firebacks • Left: Scissors possibly indicates trade of owner or a re-usable pattern. • Right: Hand-imprint may be a mistake made during molding process.

34. More 16th century Wealden iron firebacks

35. Political or commemorative firebacks • Left: Commemoration of the defeat of the Armada (16th century). • Right: Suggestions that this 17th century piece is a protest against the Cromwell regime. (Anne of Cleves House)

36. More politics • Left: Charles I (English, 17th century). • Right: Two cavaliers holding pikes. Possibly based on German model (English, 17th century). (Anne of Cleves House)

37. Top left: Abraham and Isaac (Flemish or Dutch, 17th century)Top right: King David (Flemish or Dutch, 1667)Bottom left: Book of Esther (Germany, 17th century)Bottom right: Christ and the woman of Samaria (Flemish or Dutch, 17th – 18th c)

38. Religious firebacks • Possibly pre-Reformation fireback. • See also Hastings Museum and Art Gallery for ‘The Three Children’, scene from the Book of Daniel.

39. Martyrs Fireback

40. Acts and Monuments (1563, 1570) Probable imported woodblock, as with Farrar/Carver illustration, used in conjunction with two different narrative. In the 1563 and 1570 editions, it illustrates the deaths of Simon Miller and Elizabeth Cooper at Norwich. In the 1583 edition, it now illustrates the deaths of Gouch and Driver’s wife. There are no images of Miller and Cooper in the 1583 edition.

41. Left: Farrar’s death is illustrated with this image in the 1570, 1576 and 1583 editions, replacing the original image used in 1563.Right: Carver’s image, used in 1570, 1576 and 1583, is the same image as Farrar (obviously).

42. Left: Burning of 10 martyrs at Lewes (22nd June 1557, date of Woodman’s execution), found in 1570, 1576 and 1583 editions of Foxe.Right: The Martyrs Fireback

43. Peter Baude Philip Henslowe Charles I Margaret Henslowe Ashburnham Ralph Hogge Arthur Langsworth Edward Alleyn Anthony Browne, Viscount Montague Culpepper Constance Donne Richard Woodman Christopherson John Donne Alban Langdale Edmund Bonner Edmund Gage Bradford and Philpot Henry King Other Sussex Martyrs? Other Sussex Protestants? John Trewe European Protestantism?