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Strange Tales of Old Sussex: Silly Sussex

In days gone by, mocking persons used to refer to the denizens of our county as “Silly Sussex”. This was quite unjustified, as the word was actually “selig”, a Saxon word meaning “holy”. And to prove the point, Sussex has produced a goodly number of saints, some of them quite muscular in their applied Christianity. […]

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