connection between Sadlescomb, as the name is spelled, and Southwick, as intimated (Monast. VI, 820, Num. xix,) it may induce a suspicion, that the preceptory was not in the parish of Sedlescomb, near Battle, but at the place still called Saddlescomb, near Poynings, though actually in the parish of Newtimber. Compare the Note there.
221. Selmeston.—One of the few places where (D.B.) mentions "a priest."
222. Selsey.—Bede states, (Hist. Eccl. 1. 4, c. 13,) that Ædilvalch, king of the South Saxons, somewhat previous to A.D. 686, gave Bp. Wilfrid an estate, called "Seal Island,—vocabulo Selæseu, quod dicitur latine, Insula Vituli Marini." Here Wilfrid founded a monastery, where he resided till in 686 he was recalled to Northumberland. It is added, that, as the gift included all the rights and privileges attached to the property, the bishop received two hundred male and female slaves, on whom, after instruction and baptism, he bestowed liberty. Though Selsey had been so shortly before the seat of the bishoprick and its dependent monastic establishment, no church there is alluded to in ('D.B.)—The present church is supposed to have been erected by Bp. Will. Rede, who presided over the diocese from A.D. 1369 to 1385. The bishop's park extended over many acres on the south-east coast, but the whole, or nearly so, is now submerged. (Dallaway.)—A.D. 477 Ælli or Ella, with his three sons, Cymen, Wlencing, and Cissa, landed at a spot, called, afterwards, probably from that circumstance, Cymenes-ora, where they defeated and slaughtered the Britons, who opposed the invaders with signal courage indeed, but without concert or conduct. This spot is stated to be recognised in Keynor in Selsea from a charter by Ceadwalla, king of the South Saxons, of A.D. 673 (in Monast. Angl. t. VI, p. 1163; Thorpe's Lappenberg, I, 104). The following must be the words of the charter alluded to. "Ab introitu portus, qui appellatur Anglice Wyderynge" (Wittering) "post retractum mare in Cumeneshora." (Cod. Dipl. V, 33.) A document, professedly of A.D. 957, but marked by Mr. Kemble as suspicious, restores to the church, that is, to the cathedral establishment, of Selsey divers estates, of which it had been deprived by a certain Ælfsin, "when, as prelate of the Gewisi, that is, of the South Saxons, he seemed to be raised to the episcopal chair; quæ fraudulenter, per quendam Ælfsinum nomine, contra decreta sanctorum patrum Niceni consilii, ab aecclesia adempta fuerat, ubi Geuuisorum, id est
