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Valmai Goodyear Old Sussex Carols with Shirley Collins (15) RE: Old Sussex Carols with Shirley Collins 23 Dec 13

Our last public performance this year will be on Sunday 29th. Decmeber at St. Michael's Church in Lewes High Street at 3.00 p.m. Admission is free with a retiring collection for the church restoration fund and refreshments will be served in the interval.

St. Michael's is a lovely old church close to the entrance to Lewes Castle. It contains a fine memorial to Sir Nicholas Pelham who died in 1599. He repelled an attack of French pirates on Seaford, and it's recorded in rhyming couplets on the memorial, finishing with:

'What time ye Fench sought to have sack't Seafoord,
This Pelham did repel them back aboord.'

Not only is this a frightful pun, but it shows you how to pronounce the name of Seaford properly.

Valmai (Lewes Saturday Folk Club)

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