MAYFIELD, a parish in the hundred of LOXFIELD-PELHAM, rape of PEVENSEY, county of SUSSEX, 5 miles (S. W.) from Wadhurst, containing 2698 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the peculiar jurisdiction of the Archbishop of Canterbury, rated in the king's books at £ 17 13. 4., and in the patronage of the Rev. John Kirby. The church, dedicated to St.Duiistan, is a handsome structure in the later English style. There is a place of worship for "Wesleyan Methodists. The river Rother runs through the parish, which contains iron-ore and some chalybeate springs, but the latter are neglected. A free school was founded and endowed by subscription among the inhabitants, in 1749, and several bequests having been since made, the annual income amounts to £40, which is paid for the instruction of about forty children in a National school established here, in which are about eighty others. Henry III. granted a charter for a market and two fairs to be held at Mayfield; the former has been long disused, the latter are on May 30th for pedlary, and November 13th for cattle and pedlary. There are fine remains of a mansion belonging to the Archbishops of Canterbury before the Reformation, consisting of the gatehouse, porter's lodge, a considerable portion of its magnificent hall, and a large room in that part of the building still habitable, termed Queen Elizabeth's room, which her Majesty occupied in 1573, during the entertainment given by Sir Thomas Gresham, then proprietor of the house, to the queen and her suite, in her progress through Kent. A great fire broke out at Mayfield, in 1389, which burned the church and the greater part of the village.