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ON THE CITY OF ANDERIDA, OR ANDREDESCEASTER.

country, which must, in very early times, have been ahnost one impervious forest[1].

2. With regard to Arundel being the site of Andredecester, I am not aware that any claim has been advanced beyond that in a small pamphlet, published in 1843, without any name, but written by Mr. James Puttock[2] Argument this tract cannot boast, unless we admit as such a far-fetched attempt at deriving the names Anderida and Arundel from the same roots in the British language. The author's ex- pressions are — " the name of this river," the Arun, " I derive, &c. — I conclude," p. 17; "I confidently beheve," p. 18; "my impression is," p. 19; "I should think," p. 20; not- withstanding he " flatters himself he has solved the mystery" relating to " the site of Anderida," pref. ; and concludes thus, " in short, whoever seeks for Anderida at any other place than Arundel will lose his labour[3]."

In spite of this assertion, however, the generality perhaps of enquirers will venture to differ from the writer. That a castle existed at Arundel, as Mr. Puttock states, during the Saxon period, is freely acknowledged ; for the Domesday description of the place alludes to payments from the " castrum Harundel" in the time of King Edward the Confessor ; and that a Roman station of some kind might have stood there is probable, Arundel lying very nearly in a direct line from the Bignor villa to the sea. But actual proof of the existence of any such station depends upon the fact of Roman walls, or re- mains of them, being traceable in or around the present castle of Arundel ; in the absence of which marks, and with- out positive historical evidence, no claim to have been a Roman

  1. ↑ Since these observations were commenced I have seen an article in the Gentleman's Magazine for December, 1844, p. 577, by my friend the Rev. Beale Post, who takes the same view of the question as relating to Newenden, and finally draws the same conclusion with myself. Nevertheless I have persevered in my undertaking, because Mr. Post has noticed only two places, Newenden and Pevensey, and because he has adopted a somewhat different line of argument from mine. Upon one particular Mr. Post has, I conceive, fallen into a mistake. He alludes to a farm in the parish of Newenden, bearing a name with, in his opinion, a as there given, Arndred. Hereby he must, I imagine, mean a farm a mile from the church toward Sandhurst, lying south of the turnpike road; but which, in my time, was always called Heronden or Harnden. This farm however is in the parish of Sandhurst, (my native place); and al- though great part of the farm on the oppo- site side of the road is in Newenden, for this I never recollect hearing any other name than Lamberden.
  2. ↑ Anderida identified with Arundel, pp. 20. London, H. Hughes, 15, St. Martin's-le-Grand, 1843.
  3. ↑ As a friend justly observed after reading the pamphlet, the identification rests upon similar grounds with Fluellin's resemblance between Macedon and Monresemblance to that of Anderida, namely, mouth—
    "There is salmons in both."

    Shakspeare's Henry V.

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