HEATHFIELD, a parish in the hundred of HAWKESBOROUGH, rape of HASTINGS, county of SUSSEX, 8 miles (N. byE.) from Haylsham, containing 1613 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Lewes, and diocese of Chichester, rated in the king's books at £10, and in the patronage of the Prebendary of Heathfield in the Cathedral Church of Chichester. The church, dedicated to All Saints, has recently received an addition of one hundred and twenty free sittings, towards defraying the expense of which the IncorporatedSociety for the enlargement of churches and chapels contributed £10: it has portions in the early, with insertions in the decorated, style of English architecture. In a part of this village, called Cadestreet, Jack Cade, the notorious rebel, was slain, by the sheriff of Kent, in 1450; a stone pedestal, with a tablet and inscription, has been erected by Mr. Newbery, to record the event.