Peasmarsh (St. Peter and St. Paul)

PEASMARSH (St. Peter and St. Paul), a parish, in the union and parliamentary borough of Rye, hundred of Goldspur, rape of Hastings, E. division of Sussex, 3¾ miles (N. W. by W.) from Rye; containing 902 inhabitants. The parish is bounded on the north by the river Rother, and the road from London to Rye passes through the village; the surface is pleasingly undulated, and from the higher grounds the views are very extensive and picturesque. Good building-stone is obtained. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king's books at £5. 9. 2.; net income, £261; patrons, the Master and Fellows of Sidney-Sussex College, Cambridge. The impropriation belongs to the families of Delves and Curteis, whose tithes have been commuted for £714. The church is in the early English style, and surmounted by a spire: the glebe-house has been rebuilt in the Elizabethan style, and is situated in a glebe of 3 acres. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans. Wm. Pattison, a poet of considerable genius, was born here in 1706.