Cowdray.
"Mary does not seem to have honoured Sussex with her
presence, and seeing the horrors that her reign brought upon
the county, in the martyr-burnings at Lewes and elsewhere,
she would hardly have been welcomed. Her Royal and
Protestant sister, Elizabeth, made amends. She visited both
East and West Sussex. She was at Rye for three days in 1573,
and went from thence to Winchelsea, seeing the renewed
prosperity of which (it had been destroyed by Edward I. for
the assistance its citizens gave to the Barons), she called it a
"little London." In 1591 she visited her faithful minister,
Sir Anthony Browne, Earl Montague, at his beautiful seat,
Cowdray, at Midhurst, and was, as her brother had been,
magnificently entertained."
Extract from "Glimpses of our Ancestors in Sussex" (Open Library)
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