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 | | Norman influence was already strong in Sussex before the Norman Conquest; the harbours of Hastings, Rye, Winchelsea and Steyning being in the power of the Norman abbey of Fécamp, while the Norman chaplain of Edward the Confessor,, afterwards bishop of Exeter, held the estate of Bosham. |
 | | Another peculiarity of the division of land in Sussex is that, apparently, each hide of land had eight instead of the usual four. |
 | | The glass-making industry, which had flourished at Chiddingfold in Surrey, and at, and Petworth in Sussex, was destroyed by the prohibition of the use of wood fuel in 1615. |
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