A brief reference to some subsequent royal visits to Sussex may be here added:—
For an account of King Edward III's visit to Eye and Winchelsea in August, 1350, see Vol. IV, p. 118, Sussex Arch. Coll.
In August, 1355, King Edward and his sons Lionel and John (then in his 16th year) embarked in the Thames for Sandwich, where they remained till August 15, when they went to Winchelsea and Isle of Wight, after which they were again driven back to Winchelsea. (Rot. Parl. 2, 264.)
May, 1360, Edward III landed at Rve in the evening, and started immediately on horseback for London, where he arrived at 9 o'clock the next morning. (Fœd. iii, 490. Cooper's Winchelsea, p. 82.)
October 6, 1372, Edward III was at Winchelsea, and from thence adjourned Parliament to Nov. 8, after the defeat of the English fleet at La Rochelle. (Cooper's Winch, p. 84.)
1479. King Edward IV was at Chichester, when he constituted many Justices of the Peace. (Dallaway's Chichester, p. 21, note, from Lansdowne MS. in Brit. Mus.)
1487, King Henry VIII visited Rye. (Holloway's Rye, p. 604.)
1551, July 20-25, and 1554, Aug. 1, King Edward VI visited Petworth. Burnet's History Reform. See Sussex Arch. Coll. V, 185.
1573, Aug. 12, Queen Elizabeth was at Rye for three days, and from thence went to Winchelsea. (Holloway, p. 308; Cooper, p. 107; also Sussex Arch. Coll. V, 190.)
1673, King Charles II was at Rye, "when his royal navy lay in the bay, in sight of the town." (Holloway, p. 341.)
