Details of the complicated descent of the advowson will be found in
The
Victorian History of the County of Sussex, vol. 4 (1953), pp. 103, 104; the Duke
of Richmond and Gordon has been the patron since 1877 [See page 10 for a list
of patrons]. Of the clergy, mention may be made of Richard Batsworth, "
a man
of low stature, very violent for the rebels, and a plunderer of the royalists . . .
He had some learning, a great deal of chicanery, though seldom more than one
coat, which for some time he wore the wrong side out (its right side was seen
only on Sundays), till it was almost worn out . . .".