which, though it differs in point of date with the former, yet agrees in the main point, of the town being drowned.
"Be it remembered, that in the year of our Lord 1287, in the even of St. Agath the Virgin, was the town of Winchelsea drowned, and all the lands between Climesden and the vocher of Hithe. The same year was such plenty of corn throughout all. the counties of England, Scotland, and Wales, that a quarter of wheat was sold for two shillings."
But this tremendous event, though at last sudden, appears to have given warning of its approach ; for we are not informed that the lives of the inhabitants were lost, or, perhaps, much of their moveable property. On the contrary, we are told that they formed a new settlement, and purchased part of the parish of Icklesham, most advantageously chosen to defend them from a like calamity.
This hill, on which the present town of Winchelsea stands, is about a mile and a half from the sea, and is supposed to have borne -
