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Jaime
Kaminski
Sussex Archaeological Society
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This article aims to explain how a Sussex clergyman of relatively humble birth came to acquire a considerable landed estate - and why, as a childless old man, he chose to build upon it a fine house that he probably knew he would not live in for long. The strange story of John Gyles throws light on economic, social and religious developments in eastern Sussex in the first half of the seventeenth century and may serve to modify a number of popular assumptions.