*BRAMBER, (Sussex) 45 m. from London, was, after the conquest, the Lp. of the Braeses, who built a castle here, in which they resided till one of them having offended K. John, had his estate seized, though part of it was restored to the family by the same K. and the whose by Henry III. It afterwards bel. to the Mowbrays, but on the attainder of John de Mowbray, D. of Norfolk, this castle and manor was given by K. Henry VII. to Tho. Ld. De la War, and his heirs. 'Tis an ancient bor. by prescription, under a constable, who is chose yearly by the jury at the Ld, of the manor's court-leet. Here is one ch. but no Mt. or Fair. 'Tis watered by a small r. which was once navigable by ships of burden. One half of the T. which is a very poor one, joins to Steyning, and is about half a m. from the other moiety, called Bramber-street, on the N. W. side of which are the remains of the old castle, and of a bridge; and the T. was also joined with Steyning in the same writ, for electing burgesses to Pt. from the 26th of Edward I. to the 12th of Edward IV. but ever since they have elected as two different bors. yet their customs are the very same. Most of the houses in the bor. bel. lately to the Ld. Windsor, but they are sorry structures.