By Carina Rosas, Senior Conservator Within the church court records of the Chichester Diocese, a series labelled as miscellaneous court papers, dated 1550’s to 1850’s, was suspected to contain a wealth of information on day-to-day life in West Sussex. It had suffered some damage in the past and the vulnerability of many documents meant cataloguing…

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