Sussex, a S. maritime county of England, fronts the English Channel between Hampshire (W.) and Kent (E.), with Surrey on its northern border; is traversed E. and W. by the South Downs, which afford splendid pasturage for half a million sheep, and terminates in Beachy Head; in the N. lies the wide, fertile, and richly-wooded plain of the Weald; chief rivers are the Arun, Adur, Ouse, and Rother, of no great size; is a fine agricultural county, more than two-thirds of its area being under cultivation; was the scene of Cæsar's landing (55 B.C.), of Ælla's, the leader of the South Saxons (whence the name Sussex), and of William the Conqueror's (1066); throughout the country are interesting antiquities; largest town, Brighton; county town, Lewes.
Population (circa 1900) given as 550,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Susquehanna * SutherlandSussex in Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase & Fable
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Addison, Lancelot
Alleyn, Edward
Asgill, John
Ayloffe, Sir Joseph
Bacon, Phanuel
Bagot, Lewis
Baker, Henry
Barret, Stephen
Barwick, John
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