" Besides money, the chest is said to have contained title-deeds of great value, which were never regained ."
The following is extracted from Vol. 14 of the Sussex Archaeological Collections : "The porter's lodge by which we enter the castle , forms the lower story of the great gateway tower, having immediately above it the room formerly designated the ' Drummer's Hall,' tradition having marked it out as the principal scene of the pranks of a ghostly drummer, by whom the slumbers of the inhabitants were wont to be disturbed. A recess in the wall on the left hand will be noticed, in which a chest is said to have been discovered, containing treasures to a vast amount, by which the families of a former steward, and others were enriched . With this chest the existence of the drummer seems to have been linked, and when the hoard over which, like the gryphon of old, he had been set to watch, had been ransacked , his occupation was gone, and his drum became for ever silent. "
Mr. Mark Antony Lower, in his History of Sussex, says : " Addison's Comedy, ' The Drummer, or the Haunted House,' is supposed to be based upon a tradition connected with this castle. The room immediately over the porter's lodge was known as the 'Drummer's Hall,' from the loud ' spirit-rapping ' formerly carried on there. The tradition is that the drummer, with his nightly tattoo, kept the country round in a state of alarm. The drummer was stated -
