Note 6.5

A report of this excavation appears in The Cemetery of St. Mary Magdalen, Bidlington by Geoffrey D Lewis, Sussex Archaelogical Collections Volume 102 (1964), published by the Sussex Archaelogical Society, Lewis. Mr Lewis also lists documentary evidence for the hospital, its associated church and the cemetery. It was common for lepers to beg at town, city or castle gates in medieval times. They appear to have done so by right and visitors who refused them alms were considered to have attracted ill-fortune to their business. This may have been the case at Bramber, since the hospital was located nearby.

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