FRAMFIELD, a parish in the hundred of LOXFIELD-DORSET, rape of PEVENSEY, county of SUSSEX, 1 mile (S.E.) from Uckfield, containing 1437 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, hi the peculiar jurisdiction of the Archbishop of Canterbury, rated in the king's books at £13. 6. 8., and in the patronage of the Rev. Mr. Cooper. The church, dedicated to St. Thomas a Becket, has portions in. the early and decorated styles of English architecture. In 1719, Robert Smith bequeathed £200, the interest of one moiety of which was to be applied to the education of poor children; and in 1764, this fund was increased with a bequest in land by the Rev. Thomas Wharton, now producing £ 50 a year: thirty children are instructed. There were formerly iron-works in the parish; and on the road side, near Stone bridge, was a famous mineral spring, which entirely disappeared a few years ago, upon the owner draining a piece of boggy ground between it and a fish pond below.