"...
But it is not so with Sussex, for our name is not a name to be used like
a label and tied on to common things, seeing that we were the first
place to be created when the world was made, and we shall certainly be
the last to remain, regal and at ease when all the rest is very
miserably perishing on the Day of Judgment by a horrible great rain of
fire from Heaven. Which will fall, if I am not mistaken,
upon the whole earth, and strike all round the edges of the county,
consuming Tonbridge, and Appledore (but not Rye), and Horley, and
Ockley, and Hazelmere, and very certainly Petersfield and Havant, and
there shall be an especial woe for Hayling Island; but not one hair of
the head of Sussex shall be singed, it has been so ordained from the
beginning, and that in spite of Burwash and those who dwell therein."
- The Four Men
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