HAILSHAM, a market-town and parish, partly within the liberty of PEVENSEY (borough), but chiefly in the hundred of DILL, rape of PEVENSEY, county of SUSSEX, 52 miles (E.) from Chiche'ster, and 56 (S. S. E.) from London, containing 1278 inhabitants. This is a small town situated in a pleasant and fertile country, about eight miles from the sea. A market is held every alternate Wednesday; and there are fairs on April 6th and June 3rd. Hailsham is withih the duchy of Lancaster. The magistrates hold a meeting here, once a fortnight, on Wednesday. The living is a Vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Lewes, and diocese of Chichester, rated in the king's bdoks at £16. 6. 8., and in the patronage of E. W. Michell, Esq. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is principally in the later style of English architecture. There is a place of worship for Baptists. A National school for boys and girls, recently erected on a common adjoining the town, is supported by subscription. In the reign of Henry II., a monastery of Premonstratensian canons was founded here, which was afterwards removed to Bayham.