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  • By Beatrix his wife, sister and heir to John de Braose, or de Breus, of Wcst-Neston (now called Wiston), in Sussex, heir male of the ancient family of that nnme.

    Collins's Peerage of England; Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical 1812

  • As Smith describes, some other books of the period such as Mary Augusta Ward's Robert Elsmere, which influenced Sheldon, or Wiston Churchill's Inside of the Cup, depict books, especially books of biblical criticism, as a means of salvation from orthodox Christianity, destroying the faith of the orthodox but rebuilding them as social reformers and truer followers of Jesus (2007: 195-199).

    Sheldonism 2008

  • As Smith describes, some other books of the period such as Mary Augusta Ward's Robert Elsmere, which influenced Sheldon, or Wiston Churchill's Inside of the Cup, depict books, especially books of biblical criticism, as a means of salvation from orthodox Christianity, destroying the faith of the orthodox but rebuilding them as social reformers and truer followers of Jesus (2007: 195-199).

    Archive 2008-06-01 2008

  • The four-story, redbrick frat house stood next to a half-dozen other on-campus fraternities on Wiston Quad.

    American Legacy C. David Heymann 2007

  • The four-story, redbrick frat house stood next to a half-dozen other on-campus fraternities on Wiston Quad.

    American Legacy C. David Heymann 2007

  • I would like to see the book I guess as much as Wiston liked it and talked about that particularly.

    Oral History Interview with Nancy Kester Neale, August 6, 1983. Interview F-0036. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 1983

  • Chanctonbury's Ring, in 1760, was Mr. Charles Goring of Wiston, who wrote in extreme old age in 1828 the following lines: --

    Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas

  • Wiston church, which shelters under the eastern wall of the house, almost leaning against it, has some interesting tombs.

    Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas

  • Shurleys (connected only by marriage with the Shirleys of Wiston).

    Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas

  • The Goring family acquired Wiston by marriage with the Faggs, and a superb portrait of Sir John Fagg, in the manner of Vandyck with a fine flavour of

    Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas

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